A hidden gem
Jun 22, 2018
2 minutes
With barely 300 houses and a dozen buildings in the town, the community was able to sustain three breweries, but there were also educated and cultural colonists who sorely missed the intellectual pursuits of the mother country.
The colony resolved to form a Melbourne Mechanics’ Institute in 1839, with its stated purpose being ‘the
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