Below is a series of speeches given at the recent Council Meeting where the development plans for the Old Orphanage Site were discussed. These are speeches, are by Deborah Findlay, Phillis Read, Brett Edgington, Erin McCuskey, and Belinda Coates. From Deborah Findlay Forgotten Australian & Ex-resident: “Would like to welcome everybody here this evening and […]
More news about the development planning for the old Orphanage site. A video has also been released about the rally and you can find it here: https://vimeo.com/album/2012532/video/45563586 The city is holding a meeting about the site for anyone who is interested, and I suggest that EVERYONE in Ballarat East should be interested in the biggest […]
FIRST TREE PLANTING CEREMONY FOR THE AVENUE OF HONOUR, NEAR THE CALEDONIAN BRIDGE. (image at left Museum Victoria) Ballarat’s Avenue of Honour is justly famous, but did you know that there were (at last count) NINE Avenues in and around Ballarat including one at Sebastopol? 1. Lucas’s Ballarat Avenue of Honour 2. Ballarat North Avenue […]
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED… WE’LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN WE KNOW… Rediscovery of the Arthur Kenny Avenue of Honour. At 2.30pm on Friday August 3rd 2012 there will be an official ceremony at Fussell St, Mt Xavier. Followed by Afternoon tea at the Mt Xavier Golf Club. Warm clothes recommended for […]
Today well over 150 people marched from the Old Alexander’s Babies Home to the Old Orphanage in Victoria St… The Rally was to show support for Forgotten Australians and that any development on the site should take into account the cultural, historical and social significance of the existence of the Orphanage over 120 years (the […]
Recently Deb Findlay, Forgotten Australian, received this newsletter regarding the old orphanage site. She and other ex-residents of the home were justifiably unhappy that it was called the Old Damascus site (its last ten years), rather than the Old Orphanage site to reflect the importance of the site, and the fact it was an orphanage […]