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Maffra and District History

Locality: Maffra, Victoria

Phone: +61 437 296 925

Address: McMahon Drive 3860 Maffra, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.maffra.net.au/

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28.01.2022 Red Cross Ball at Maffra Mechanics Hall 1947 left front debutant Ina Worseldine (she made her own dress) Thank you, Christina Williams. Dorothy Egan has kindly supplied following names:... Front Row Ina Mills, ? Goergie Cameron, Jean Little, Betty Ronalds, Mrs Cliff Dunstan, maybe Muriel Kingscott, ? Middle Row, ? Joan Clark, ? ? Melva Falls Back Row Ina Rautmen ? ? ? Maureen Sheehan ? ? ? do not know page boy or flower girl See more

25.01.2022 Gippsland Heritage Journals We have received some back issues for sale. Please see original post for full details. :)

25.01.2022 Anyone want to have a go at dating the second photo? Thanks Martin Gallagher. :)

25.01.2022 Maffra Dairy Factory Precinct, early 1950s Willsmere/Commonwealth at front left, MAFFCO back left, Nestle back right. Maffra and District Historical Society photo 04811. Photographer possibly AIRSPY.

25.01.2022 Heyfield Railway Station Heyfield and Districts Museum are posting photographs of their Railway Station on their page. Lots there, but there may be someone here who has one they have not seen. Some time after the line closed, the station was unfortunately burnt down, and nothing remains of if today. Here is an aerial from about 1952, from a Victorian Railways photograph, for them

24.01.2022 Grade 4 at Maffra in 1933. Does anyone recognise anyone?

22.01.2022 Lost Country Victorias Maffra Album. Ive looked at a few sugarbeet photos in my time, but not sure I have seen that first photo before. or at least an original. Want to see more Sugarbeet photos? Try https://www.facebook.com/pg/MaffraHistSoc/photos/?tab=album&album_id=687802038040946

22.01.2022 Maffras dairy factories relied heavily first on horsepower and then on trucks, to bring in cream and then whole milk. The railway, especially from Briagolong, also played a part. This is just a small sample of some of the photographs of Milk Trucks held by the Society. We have a larger collection available as: Maffra Milk Trucks and Tankers... High quality, single-sided printouts of 70 photographs of Maffra Milk Trucks and Milk Tankers from our collection. 70 pages, comb bound. $24.00 plus postage (please enquire - heavy book!) It can also be purchased from the Museum, the Gippsland Vehicle Collection and the Court House/Information Centre. All photos in this album, apart from one at Willsmere, are from MAFFCO and Nestles. Many of the photographs are from the collection of Charlie Geary, with identifications by Doc Doherty, Ross Smith and others.

19.01.2022 This is a recently-discovered photo of Edward Bennett of Briagolong, who died in 1942 aged 108 years. He was 100 years old when this was taken, shaking hands with the Duke of Gloucester outside the Maffra Shire Offices in 1934. Thanks Janne Blacker.

19.01.2022 NEWRY Some interesting posts happening in this group. :)

19.01.2022 No PMI visit Due to staff shortages, Prahran Mechanics Institute Library will NOT visit Sale Library tomorrow. Books which have been ordered can still be colle...cted from Sale Library - just check with the library staff. Our apologies and seasons greetings, but look out for the new years program when we hope to have special guest speakers from PMI partner organisations. See more

18.01.2022 World War I Honour Roll for Maffra Shire Now in the Maffra Library (former RSL Rooms) Plaques to Louie Riggall, died of illness in France, 1918, and Rene Singleton, died as a Japanese Prisoner of War on Banka Island, 1945. Lest We Forget.... The main roll includes most, but not all of the men lost from the shire in WWI. For those where there are known photographs, you can see them here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/MaffraHistSoc/photos/?tab=album&album_id=769774486510367

18.01.2022 Now we have the Cheese-making process at the Boisdale Butter and Cheese Factory, 1912.

17.01.2022 What do you see as the Seven Historic Wonders of Wellington Shire? This is a History Month poll, and there are several nominations in and around Maffra. Vote at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1755971574632862/permalink/2919639041599437/

16.01.2022 Who knew there was an attempt to grow Sugarbeet in the Carrum Swamp in 1869? t did not happen except on an experimental basis.

16.01.2022 Interesting report of a government inspection to Licola and beyond in 1950.

16.01.2022 Sometimes called "Maffras first dairy factory", this was actually a creamery. The Melbourne Fresh Food and Frozen Storage Company opened it in Maffra in 1891, on the small triangle that is now part of the Saputo car park. It closed in 1896, due to competition from Maffra Concentrated Milk, and appears to have later become a cordial factory. Cream went to Melbourne to make butter, and FF&FS also operated creameries at various times at Newry, Glenmaggie, Valencia Creek and Briagolong. The factory building remained on site as a cordial factory for many years, well into at least the 1940s.

15.01.2022 Vale Flo Pearce Maffra & District Historical Society is saddened to announce the death last night, in Stretton Park in Maffra of Florence Amey Pearce. Flo was 101. So much of the Society today is her work - she was inaugural president, and held the role for many years. She led the fight to save Maffras verandahs. Which was won.... And Flo wrote. There is so much she recorded and made available. She is shown here in 1980, with Foster Crooke on her right and Roy Powell on her left, at the launch of her book on Boisdale. This was her major work, and Boisdale was always her major love. But Flo also published books on the Presbyterian Church at Newry, the streets of Maffra, a monograph on Alan McLean (seen here keeping an eye on her) and of artificial breeding at Maffra. Flo also republished an early photograph booklet by H.B. Hammond. And drove the publication of many more. Whenever anyone wanted to know something, Flo knew the answer. And she kept notes. Which many years ago she ensured were lodged in Maffra library so everyone would have access to them. Vale Flo - we will not see your like again.

14.01.2022 It is still Dairy Factories over at Gippsland History - with a discovery that at least two local factories, Boisdale and Upper Maffra, were designed by Robert Kerr. He was a very prolific architect of Dairy Factories.

14.01.2022 Eileen Finlay Many older readers (probably all female), will remember Eileen Finlays "A Caravan Passes". But did they know she was born in Maffra?

14.01.2022 This Sunday (1 March) is our regular open day at the Sugar Beet Museum, McMahon Drive, Maffra. Open 10 am - 1 pm and we still have the fascinating photographic display of the construction of Glenmaggie Weir from 100 years ago.

14.01.2022 Come and see historical picture display at Glenmaggie 100 celebrations at weir wall today. Great weather, music, food and kids entertainment too!!

13.01.2022 Jack Newton of Riverdale. Does anyone know any more of his story? (We are looking)

13.01.2022 Lyle Percival McGaw was my fathers step brother...his mother was Mary (May) Thorley (my grandmother), who together with my grandfather Thomas Allan Thorley eit...her owner or managed cordial factories at Lithgow, Warragul & Traralgon, St Arnaud, and Deniliquin (not all at the same time). The Warragul and Traralgon bottles are really ornate. They are very rare and fetch premium prices in the thousands of dollars. Lyles bottles are not in as much demand but you can see they are interesting shapes sizes and colours! Any info about Lyle and his factory, or the Thorleys and their factories might make this post more interesting! See more

12.01.2022 A special gathering at Valencia for the 1965 fires. More details to come.

12.01.2022 Helen Writes: MACHINERY Not all these photos of the Maffra sugar beet factory have machines in them, but I thought I would keep them together.... They are stereo pairs, taken by Arthur John Waugh, thought to be c.1910-20. Source: Waugh - SLV - http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/375546

10.01.2022 The photographic display on the construction of Glenmaggie Weir, prepared for the December 2019 Southern Rural Water open day marking the centenary of the start of construction, will be on display at the Sugar Beet Museum at its monthly open day on Sunday from 10 am - 1 pm. Most of the photographs, such as this one of precariously perched workers crossing to the worksite, are by local photographer Harry Beaumont Hammond, who prepared an album on the construction now held by Maffra and District Historical Society.

09.01.2022 Susan Ryan of the Maffra Spectator

09.01.2022 Max Rowley Thanks to Peter McMahon for this link. :) http://www.aussievelos.net/max-rowley/?

08.01.2022 The Upper Maffra Dairy Factory near Newry - and the two factories that preceded it.

07.01.2022 Some wonderful photos from out at Slaugterhouse Lane, Newry. Thanks Terry Hore

06.01.2022 History of the Maffra Police Station - see end for details of availability of the books so far written for Johnson Street.

06.01.2022 BRIAGOLONG and THE HEART CHEESE FACTORIES These two factories make up one post, as they were both mainly supplier-owned, became quite substantial, but then failed to transition into modern times.

06.01.2022 Are you a Newry / Upper Maffra person? Terry Hore now has a new group up and running. Enjoy https://www.facebook.com/groups/497655590931492/

05.01.2022 Time to vote in the final poll for Gippsland's Historical Wonders - see https://www.facebook.com/groups/1755971574632862/permalink/2946943955535612/

03.01.2022 So many will have special memories of Des. Our love to Trish and family.

02.01.2022 From Terry Hennessy - thank you! Queen carnival Maffra Parish September 1929. Center Ita LEE, winning queen. Maids of honour. LHS Katie LONG. RHS Tess OBRIEN.(my mother) Itas cousins. Photographer unknown. Terry Hennessy.

02.01.2022 Lovely obituary for Flo Pearce just published in the Age. It is a rather good photo as well. One to save.

01.01.2022 Check out the general, local and war history sections at The Book Shoppe, 55 Johnson Street, Maffra, including Maffra and District Historical Society publications and some Gippsland Heritage Journals. Open 9.30am - noon Saturdays and 10am - 3 pm Weds - Fri. Great Iso reading The Book Shoppe

29.12.2021 http://www.aussievelos.net/max-rowley/ Shared from aussievelos.net Summer Sports - Maffra Cycling

19.12.2021 The original surveyor for the Township of Maffra was George Hastings. There is much interesting discussion on three-chain roads in the comments on the original post.

03.12.2021 Great piece by Janet Scarfe on Sister Mary Genevieve (Vieve’s) Dwyer (best known locally for her involvement with St David's Private Hospital) now up on the Virtual War Memorial website, see https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/264648

28.11.2021 Presentation to John Carpenter. Can anyone see any relatives signing in the signatures? A report in the Maffra Spectator is in the links - if I post it here it throws out the photos.

18.11.2021 Many will be familiar with this little Crowflight plinth in Johnson Street. Does anyone know where the plinth and plaque have gone, probably removed in recent streetworks. It is not at the Depot.

04.11.2021 Maffra can thank Martin McMahon for its street trees. And probably a lot more besides.