Since printed media began, publishers have recognised the appetite of their readers for advice about health and for solutions to their health problems. Holloway’s Pills and Ointment were thought to be effective in relieving kidney problems and Connell’s East India Remedies focussed on the liver, gout and rheumatism.
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Hidden away on Spring Creek in the Hepburn Mineral Springs Reserve is the unique Hepburn Pool built in the early 1930s by the Zelman family, who ran the Bellinzona Guest House. It was of Olympic size and hosted many swimming competitions including the Victorian Swimming Championships.
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In 1869, the Daylesford Mercury and Express provided advice on how to determine the authenticity of a diamond. Unfortunately, the method does not treat fake stones kindly.
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133 years ago in Daylesford, From the Argus, 31 May 1892 On Saturday evening between 5 and 6...
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The Central Victorian Indigenous Film Festival runs from Tuesday, May 27 to Tuesday, June 3 2025 as part of Reconciliation Week. Award winning film “Contact”, to screen at Yandoit Cultural, is constructed around one of the most extraordinary pieces of footage in Australian history: the moment when a group of Martu women and children walked in from their nomadic existence of millennia into the universe of European modernity.
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A groundbreaking discovery by Daylesford-based paleontologist Professor John Long is making waves in the scientific community around the world. Published this week in the prestigious journal Nature, the research pushes back the evolutionary timeline for the emergence of reptiles by more than 35 million years and suggests that the roots of all land-dwelling vertebrates may lie in ancient Australia.
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Many people are not aware that the block of land now being developed for The Block TV was once the property of W. E. Stanbridge, a wealthy local squatter and philanthropist who contributed greatly to the early development of Dyalesford.
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Victor Szwed Many Chinese immigrants came to Australia during the Gold Rush, and the Goldfields...
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Yet another famous resident of Connells Gully was Benjamin Burman, father of one of the Three Lost Children, who arrived in the area by a circuitous route after serving a fourteen year sentence in Van Diemen’s Land for deserting his regiment in Canada.
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The Daylesford Cenotaph was unveiled on November 11, 1929, but the opening was not without controversy as it pitted local Protestants against Catholics.
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Three members of Daylesford’s Tatti family enlisted and served overseas during the First World War. Only one of them returned. Their stories profoundly illustrate the horrors of war.
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Readers will be familiar with troublesome potholes on many of the roads around Daylesford. But perhaps our current difficulties are not as great as troubles suffered by some travellers in1864.
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