Getting It Right

Facebook has become an important vehicle for communication between people. Many of these sites focus on local history and authors share their knowledge and seek greater understanding of events and connections between people. Sometimes the answers are misinformed or contain unsubstantiated judgements.

Recently a correspondent answering a question about Chelsea noted that the Kingston Historical Website

is very self-centred. The old City of Chelsea is not well represented in Historical matters.

This is incorrect but gives the chance to note 108 stories related to the former city.

Chelsea Related Stories on Webpage.

• How Chelsea Grew up: A Short History
• Fighting for a Library at Chelsea
• Battle for a Hotel Licence at Chelsea
• Chelsea Versus the Umpire in 1920
• Chronology of Chelsea 1802‐1952
• Scurrilous Attack on Chelsea
• Bookmobile for Mordialloc-Chelsea Regional Library
• Chelsea Youth Celebration and Joyce Davis MBE
• Naming the Town and City of Chelsea
• Fred Frewin: Chelsea Community Worker and Musician
• Two War Memorials in Kingston
• Bicentennial Park, Chelsea
• Murderer Sought at Chelsea
• Chelsea Clock Tower
• Chelsea Hotel Debate
• The Howard's of Chelsea
• Louisa Dodd: Eccentric Chelsea Pioneer and First Lady Cabbie
• The Chelsea Court House
• Volunteer Fire Brigades: Chelsea and District
• Changing Street Names in Chelsea
• Frank McGuire: Sportsman and Local Historian
• Memorial Hall at Chelsea
• Extending the Suburban Radius to Carrum
• Maurice Portingale: A Legend of Our Time
• George Roy Acaster Beardsworth: Councillor and Activist
• Beginnings of Mordialloc-Chelsea High School
• Undesirables at the Beach Give a Town a Bad Name
• Certificate of Thanks
• Pedestrian Bridge Across Mordialloc Creek
• Second Hand Houses at Chelsea and Edithvale
• William and Annie Black
• Encroachment of Land on the Chelsea Beachfront
• Early Days with Victorian Railways
• Circle Mission Church in Mordialloc
• Bitter Quarrels Among Carrum's Early Councillors
• Blowing a Storm in 1934
• Nola Barber: Mayor and Councillor
• Stolen Mayoral Chain
• Mordialloc Chelsea News Pictorial
• Mordialloc Chelsea Standard News Pictorial
• Ripples of Death on Life
• The Joss House
• Profile of an Older Australian: Bruce Kyberd
• Re-enactment of Charles Grimes Exploration
• Snippets of History: the Mordialloc Frankston Railway
• Houses of God
• Sensational Bayside Fire: 1913
• The Day the Prime Minister of Australia Visited.
• A Railway Station at Bondi
• Dancing on Good Friday at Bayview Tearooms
• Erosion and Dredging of Patterson River
• Carnage and Courage at Caulfield
• War Damage Insurance
• We were Standing in It in 1934
• Caulfield Tragedy: Trauma for the Railway Men
• Constable Gilding: Strict but Fair.
• The Spirit of the Community
• Sustenance in the 1930s
• Racing and Death at Aspendale
• Naming the New Borough
• John Maddox: Hermit
• Aspendale Racecourse's Demise
• Carrum Downs: Yesterday and Today
• It Rained Frogs
• The Establishment of Aspendale Technical School
• Wandering Dogs
• Robert Graham Carey: Aviator
• Aspendale Park Racecourse
• Nudity and Bathing
• Bruce (Scoop) Dinan: Photographer
• Edward Brine: Citizen, Bandmaster and Teacher
• Bathing Boxes
• The Muddy Creek
• James Nixon: Tailor and Carrum Swamp Selector
• Earning a Crust
• The Beginnings of Patterson Lakes
• Carrum Carrum Swamp: Swamped with History
• Search for Missing Body at Carrum
• Big Night Out
• Poliomyelitis: Infantile Paralysis
• Scrap Rubber for War Purposes
• Smacka and the Fitzgibbon Dynasty: From Aspendale to the Bright Lights
• Seaside Camps: Mingling of the Sexes
• The Battle of Mordialloc
• Tough Times in the 1920s
• Tough Conditions on the Carrum Swamp
• George Whitehead: Carrum Swamp Selector
• Scouting in Kingston
• Richard Goff Bloxsidge: Publican, Councillor, and Sportsman
• Patterson River Bridge
• Tragic Times
• William Coleman: Publican and Councillor
• The Floods of the 1920s
• Schooldays: Dear Old Golden Rule Days!
• The Carrum Swamp Outlet: Becomes the Patterson River
• Regents Park
• Establishing a Railway Line to Mordialloc
• Nathaniel Levi: Politician and Businessman
• Carrum Irrigation Trust
• Moorabbin-Mordialloc Farmers' Common ‐ Conflict
• Hugh Brown: A Pioneer's Story
• Selling the Farmers' Common
• Mark Young: Publican, Councillor and Farmer
• Henry Comport: Councillor, Market Gardener, Selector
• The Tragedy of the Bunurong People: The Mordialloc Connection
• The Chelsea ‘Gut’ Factory