John is the only Australian Car driver to have won Australia’s two most prestigious races – the Bathurst 1000 (twice) and the Australian Grand Prix...
On the Sunday prior to Australia Day 2022, the Hobart Mercury carried a story on evolution of the current Australian Pledge of Allegiance...
Before his death in August 2018, Alan O’Rourke, one of seven brothers, six of whom attended St Virgil’s College as boarders, handed the Archivist an eighteen page overview of the family.
Archivist Graeme Rainbow was pleased to be loaned a copy of David Hammond’s biography “The Man on Mount Wellington” recently.
From a potential boarding school and sports fields to the finest of contemporary educational facilities.
John Galvin was born in 1908 and was one of seven children whose father was an odd-jobs man at His Majesty’s Theatre which was located in the upper end of Liverpool St between Murray and Harrington Streets.
