Nurseries

From some 17,000 years ago when Aborigines arrived in this place, they named the local plants and farmed it for the fruits and other edible

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Christmas

Christmas in Beecroft and Cheltenham As a community, Christmas has been noted in Beecroft since at least the coming of the churches with their celebrations

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Reeve, Mary Jo

Mary Jo Reeve was a formidable activist and supporter of the communities of Beecroft and Cheltenham. [1] She was raised in a Catholic orphanage where

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Boer War

While there was much public celebration of colonial involvement in what we now call the Boer War, no public activity to celebrate sending a young

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Vernon, Mary

Adeline Mary Gordon (‘Mary’) Vernon was born in Beecroft on 4 February 1923 the eldest child of Harry Gordon Vernon and Millie (nee Rogers). Her

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Vicars, Violet

Violet Halliday Vicars was born in Scone to James Little and his wife Mary Ann (nee McLaughlin). Her father was an accountant. She married Robert

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Lancaster, Henry

Oliver Henry Lancaster, (Oliver) [1] AO, FAA, MB BS, BA, Phd, MD, DSc was born on 1 February 1913 to Llewellyn Bentley Lancaster (1871-1921) and

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