Interested in #Melbourne and regional #VictoriaAU built heritage? Then do check out @wragge's digital mapping of 1970s Committee for Urban Action (CUA) photographs from the #StateLibraryVIC collection. Currently includes inner Melbourne suburbs and goldfields towns. Zoom in, click on a street! #historicalMapping

https://slv.wraggelabs.com/cua/

On a walk in the Toolangi State Forest, east of Melbourne today, we saw lots of small holes in the ground on the path.

Does anyone know what would have made these holes?

#Melbourne #VictoriaAU #Environment #ToolangiForest

If you live in an Australian city, get out into the bush this weekend. It is Spring and the bush is full of growth and happy birds.

Today we did some short walks in the Toolangi State Forest and a drive on a dirt road out the back of Warbuton. It was glorious! There were explosions of yellow wattle throughout with luscious tree ferns at the base of magnificent Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans).

We heard kookaburras, saw rosellas and breathed in fresh, cool air.

#Melbourne #bush #VictoriaAU #ToolangiForest

Welcome to my project on arguably Australia's most recognisable colonial artist, Samuel Thomas Gill. It's a blend of #catalogueRaisonné, biography, historical narrative and map atlas. The scope is from Gill's arrival in #SouthAustralia in 1839 up to his early time at the Victorian gold diggings in 1852-53.

Project update: Six articles on the diggings are now complete except for pending visits to Sydney and Adelaide to check on some undigitised sources. Good progress on at least two articles for 1839-1844 gap.

Later this year I'll write some more reflective material and some of particular interest post 1853.

You can follow the hashtag #S_T_Gill for updates - you don't need to follow me.

#historyAU #1840s #1850s #VictoriaAU #colonialArtAU #historicalMapping #catalogueRaisonne #biography
https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill