THE storm of 1897

I am compiling a list of all the schools which have existed in this area, using the mighty tome Vision & realisation as the chief source of information.
When working through the different entries, I started coming across a couple mentioning the storm/cyclone/hurricane of 1897.
Curiosity got the better of me and I went off at a tangent to discover the magnitude of the storm damage across the area, and in particular where it was mentioned in relation to school buildings.
As most of each of the school entries are only a paragraph long, if the storm rated a mention in the book, it had to have been a fairly momentous event in their history - it may be that more schools were damaged, but that it wasn't recorded at state level. I then created a map of each site to grasp the extent and breadth of the storm.


View 1897 storm in a larger map
Each place marker indicates a school which suffered damage in the storm. You can zoom in or out using and Google tool in the top left corner, and click on the place markers to learn more about each site.
Other posts will detail the storm damage to Horsham and to Nhill.

Perfect pictures

"Caring for your Photos and Documents" - Nick Selenitsch, Special Projects Conservator, from The University of Melbourne's Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation will conduct a workshop discussing the factors involved in the deterioration of fragile items such as photographs and paper documents. He will provide advice on how best to preserve your valuable collections.

Participants are invited to bring in examples of photographs or paper documents from their own archives for specific conservation advice during this workshop (there will also be a tour of the PROV repository).

The workshop will be held at Victorian Archives Centre/Public Records Office, 99 Shiel Street in North Melbourne, on Wednesday 22nd  February 2012, from 11:00am to 1:30pm. 
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Going Mobile

I have just changed this blog's template. For those readers who use a mobile phone device to access these posts, it should now fit into an appropriate screen layout instead of the old desktop style.
If you wish to see or access the links in the Sidebar, just use the View web version option at the bottom of the posts.
For those who view it via a PC, it will still appear in the desktop version.
What do you think??