Bark Huts to Better Times -
"Bark Huts to Better Times - A History of Schools in the Lockington District 1874 - 2003" written by Margaret O'Brien
and edited by Louise Ross was launched at the celebration to mark the 50th Anniversary of the
Gazettal of Lockington Consolidated School on November 29 2003.
Price: $20.00
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"Endurance and Movivation Survives" - Lockington History
Book by Frank Dullard
Price: $10.00 per
copy
A History of Lockington & District compiled for the Lockington & District 'Back To' in April 1997.
A sequel to the 1967 Lockington history book "Then The Water Wheel Turned" by Fae Stevens and Elizabeth O'Brien.
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"A Soldier to the Last - Biography of Major General Rankin"
This book sells @ $10.00 per
copy, and makes interesting reading, particularly for those
who knew the Major General.
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"Recollections of Squatting in Victoria" - Edward M. Curr
Another book that our readers
might enjoy, especially those with an interest in local and
environmental history, is Recollections of Squatting in
Victoria, the memoirs of Edward Curr. This book was first
published more than a century ago and has been difficult to
access for many years now. Last year, the Shire of Campaspe
published a high quality new edition, which is on sale @
$30.00 per copy (plus postage) from the Tangled Garden Bookshop, Echuca.
Edward Curr, then aged in his
early twenties, came to Victoria from Tasmania in about
1840, and took up pastoral holdings on his father's
behalf. The Curr sheep runs covered what now seems an
enormous amount of country, near Kilmore, near Heathcote,
around Colbinabbin and CoragCorag, and, to a larger extent,
on the banks of the Goulburn River near Tongala and
northward across the Murray. Edward Curr came to know the
colony very well as he rode between the properties, visited
neighbours as far away as Swan Hill and equally distant to
the east, made business trips to Melbourne, searched for
wandering stock, or set off into unoccupied country to hunt
or just to sight-see. He writes about the Aboriginal
people, the flora and fauna of the area, and about the
European settlers of that time and the conditions they
encountered.
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