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This attempt at a portrayal of Lola and her dance presents an actress who obviously knew little about either.--and who actually appears to be a blonde. Her skirts were no shorter than those of other dancers of the day, and contemporary accounts assure us that many found her dancing quite acceptable.
He did paint track side while he was here, in between Jolimont and Richmond, he also painted next to the MCG but very sadly it has all been painted over..
Terrific. One point though. In your reading of his accounts Matthew Flinders called Port Philip by its correct name, Port Philip. You called it Port Philip Bay on more than one occasion. It is Port Philip. Sorry for being a pedant but it must be said. If this stuff is not called out we will be calling places Reservore when they are really Reservoir. We do not call Port Jackson Port Jackson Bay, why does Port Philip get cruelled so?
The greatest mistake anyone could ever make was to upset extremely capable Go Fast Guru Harry Firth. The Aust branch of the Ford Motor Company made this exact mistake when they dismissed Harry & replaced him with American Al Turner to run their GT Falcon racing program after Harry had diligently delivered for Ford for several years. Harry immediately signed on with Holden & got busy belting Ford severely with the HDT HT350 GTS Monaro at the annual pinnacle Bathurst event in 1969. Not satisfied that that pounding was enough of a humiliation for Ford, Harry took on Holden's Torana GTR XU-1 racing program & developed the Torana into an angry hornet compact Bathurst weapon of mass destruction in time for the big Bathurst shindig of 1972. The Harry Firth developed LJ Torana GTR XU-1 with a highly tweaked but comparatively tiny 202 cubic inch Holden six & soon to attain legendary status; Peter Brock outgunned a potent armada of massively powerful Ford - 351 Cleveland - TopLoader 4 Speed - 9 Inch Diff - GTHO Falcons at Bathurst. Beating Ford's factory team at Bathurst with a dinky little Holden six was about as brutal as you could get. Typical Harry on a mission of: Here, cop this! On that fateful day, Harry stuck it up his former employers so severely, nothing else can ever compare. Harry was the magician of making cars go fast. No matter what you had or what had been previously done to it, Harry would inevitably make it go faster. Once he got onboard with Holden & his good friend Moffat got into bed with Ford Australia in 1969, a bizarre arms race ensued. These two extremely talented & crafty characters fighting against each other all over Australian Touring Car Racing caused rapid improvement in Aust built high performance cars like nothing before or since. Harry's contribution to our local racing heritage is so immense, it simply cannot ever be completely calculated. He made everything go faster. He had a gift. He demonstrated that gift. There'll never be another Harry Firth.
What about the huge amount of artefacts that are currently being respected and cared for by current caretakers in private residences and the artefacts that are just there in private hands. Can they contact aca in relation to start the handing back process to the right people and not just a general sort of representative of right people?
I happened upon a copy in a book exchange. It is a remarkable piece of work. Joseph's diary dispels many of the myths we are taught about early Australia, the currency lads and lasses and the supposed greatness of our forebears. The image I formed was of a collection of, short sighted and greedy individualists and or religious fanatics who were too ignorant to either build a well for water security or have the common sense to manure the barren land. Jospeh tried in both newspaper articles and in person to educate the people, but all of his efforts seemed to fall on willfully deaf ears. I was so impressed by the man and his diaries that my youngest son has Joseph as his middle name. This work should be mandatory reading in all Australian history courses however it is so contradictory to the narrative, I'm not surprised that it is still relegated to obscurity.
IT WAS GREAT TO SEE HARRY, HE LIVED IN MY STREET, HILLTOP AVE, ALSO WORKED FOR MY FATHER AT A.F HOLLINS WE WERE A MOTOR RACING STREET, INCLUDING ME. 5 PEOPLE.
The Chinese Knew how to get around Government and Tax compare to westerners, They where excellent at forgery, and to the official all Chinese look the same. they only commerce between Chinese with they own currency. They pay no Gold tax because they keep all the gold they found and never cash it in. Only when back in china where gold was excepted currency. Say they buy a horse they pay gold. think about today how people elude tax well the Chinese where the best at it. This got up the noses of the elite and the elite would start rumour and stir up the gold field egging on by the elite. Like calls of they take our jobs the use our women. You knew the drill. other wise they got on well with the diggers. Read about the 1860,s buggery charge on a Chinese in Darlinhurst courts, Man caught a Chinese with his Chinese mate horse and told his Chinese mate who report him the the police. The Chinese was found not guilty because no penetration could be proved. LOL it a great read.
Vale, Gerry Gill. Such a passionate and thoughtful, eloquent historian, who managed to bring much of our regional history to life through interesting perspectives.
I am a kid from Moomba I was born to it The family and life was fabulas I got to help with the fire works and in ticket box etc from 1971 I was born in 1970 to 1979 and I went every year just to visit Tom Wittingslow Des Snr Moomba is amazing And the public make the event fabulas.
