Aspects of Life
In the Southern Region of Melbourne 1850 - 2000
This website features a range of still photographs, video, and text documents, as well as a regional bibliography that provides entries for over five hundred resources that were originally published on the SIN On Disc CD-ROM in 1998
It brings together many significant materials of a cultural, historical, recreational and environmental nature; these items being documentary evidence of the development, growth and character of the region
Our History
An invaluable research tool for anyone interested in the southern suburbs of Melbourne if you want to discover:
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how people in the southern suburbs of Melbourne used the beaches, how the beach environment changed;
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how people (both famous and not so famous people) looked, the clothes they wore, and what they did for work;
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what were the buildings they inhabited, made decisions in, or shopped in;
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what forms of transport they used and how that transport changed;
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what schools they went to and what some of their schools and their school work looked like;
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what people did with their time, such as the sports they played, their artists and writers;
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and where to find more information about the region.