Widening the Five Mile Creek bridge
Woodend’s Five Mile Creek bridge was once “narrow and dangerous”. After it was widened in 1958, however, the Woodend Star reckoned motorists had “no excuse whatever should collisions occur”.
The lure of the Hanging Rock races
"The Hanging Rock Racecourse possesses a magnetism all its own," said a journalist from Melbourne after attending the New Year’s Day Races in January 1916.
The Woodend bread carts
For decades, the horse-drawn Woodend bread cart was a much-loved sight around the district.
Meet the enterprising Thomas Fitzsimmons
Our latest book tells story of Thomas and Eliza, the family they raise and the enterprises they create to survive and prosper. He is a blacksmith, a publican, a timber miller and a farmer. Above all, his hotel, the “Sydney”, and land investments are …