Blackwood History and Pioneers, Victoria.

25/02/2026

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06/02/2026

Blackwood miners and their families at Easter Monday mine, Simmons Reef, Blackwood in 1890’s , colorised by Margot Hitchcock, Historian for the Blackwood and district historical society.

06/02/2026

Miners of Blackwood

04/02/2026

Bushfires near Blackwood and Bacchus March.

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03/02/2026

Bush fire alert at O’Briens Crossing

ℹ️ DOWNGRADED TO ADVICE - Bullengarook, Greendale, Lerderderg ℹ️

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📷 Bushfire near Mirranatwa, December 2024. Vic State Control Centre

03/02/2026

Peter Duncan and his son Tom Duncan sluicing for gold in the Lerderderg River at the Blackwood Mineral Springs, courtesy of Margot Hitchcock, Historian for the Blackwood and district historical society.

27/01/2026

Cheryl Nelson, here is the photo I took of you and your horse and Corgi dogs in the Blackwood Easter Parade in 2013, from Margot Hitchcock.

23/01/2026

Many happy days spent at Blackwood at our family holiday house as a teenager, with myself second from the right with my older sister Jill on the right and younger sister on the left and my parents. 1953. That rose bush my grandparents planted is still growing there on the chimney. Colorised and thanks from Margot Hitchcock….

10/01/2026

Captain Moonlight (Moonlite) (Andrew George Scott) the notoriously famous Bushranger who frequented Blackwood and held up the manager of the Egerton bank and was involved in a gang of busrangers and shot and killed a policeman and was hung in Sydney . Read all about him in an article I wrote for the Blackwood Times Magazine available from outlets in Blackwood and the Blackwood historical society. Or see my website - www.blackwoodpublishing.com Thanks from Margot Hitchcock.

08/01/2026

Worth a look at this museum…..

Explore the Blackwood Historical Society. Discover 1908 murder mysteries and gold rush artifacts at our historic museum. Visit us today!

08/01/2026

Good morning from my Respite Care in Arcare Croydon, photo of me at Blackwood with my 3rd book I published - ‘The Billy Pincombe Tragedy - The Tragic Shootings of a Minister and Billy Pincombe at Blackwood, Victoria 1908.’
Available from the Blackwood and District Historical Society and Paul Kukiel for payment and postage. From Margot Hitchcock. Historian for the Society.

02/01/2026

Good morning Blackwood from my respite care in Croydon after my fall. A photo of me to make you smile, of me in my shower at Blackwood before the shower was installed in our new bathroom after water was brought to Blackwood from the new reservoir in Barrys Reef.. !!! Thanks from Margot Hitchcock.