Article originally titled: Murder of Henry Hurst by Burke the Bushranger At about 8 o’clock in the morning of Thursday 4th October 1866, a stranger with a poncho on his arm was seen walking towards the house at Hurst’s station on the Diamond Creek. He was the bushranger Robert Burke who on the previous Tuesday […]
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Bear’s Castle
Sphinx-like, its story it would hide as anchored fast in time’s own tide, it stands above the northern shore of Melbourne’s oldest reservoir. Is it a folly born of a chance remark, an ornament in a rich man’s park a flippant thing, its history insignificant, at best an egotistic monument? Or, could it be, a […]