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Tag: Melba

January 2, 2021January 2, 2021History Out There

Cure for bleeding piles and tapeworm cysts

November 22, 2020November 22, 2020History Out There

Qantas history you don’t know

November 30, 2015September 8, 2018History Out There

Arthur’s scrapbooks

October 30, 2015December 13, 2019History Out There

The banker, squatter, and Dame Nellie Melba

June 24, 2015October 29, 2015History Out There

Melba’s church

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Eclectic day of time travel – three and a half hours on the track to climb the 300-million-year-old Mount Mitchell, followed by a 19th century blacksmithing lesson and lunch at the 121-year-old Royal Hotel.
If this mystery proves to be true then history will be re-written. Please read and share my story “Captain Cook’s cabin boy” by following the link on my profile.
Thanks to the members at Probus Club of Chapel Hill for being so engaged when I shared stories about Brisbane’s beautiful historic home ‘Dovercourt’, and especially for being so excited to buy my book of the same name. Anyone who missed out can get the book online by following the link on my profile.
When the Detectorist meets Jack Sim the Ghost Hunter wonderful things happen. Rendezvousing at his century old house, amongst the decaying bones, hearse, and morgue, up pop coins and relics that predate the house itself.
A femme fatale and her mother worked in this bakery and shop. Her presence appeared to be followed by a brawl, fatal accident, murder, and death on the front steps of Woolworths. Read the full story “Curse of Lover’s Lane” by following the link on my profile.
In 1948 this Ipswich hotel was buzzed by a UFO in a mysterious incident that has never been explained. Follow the link on my profile for the story, “Australia’s greatest UFO mystery.”

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