For those who’ve been reading this blog for the last few months, you will have been following a day by day account from a Mr Whelan’s journal as he sailed from England to Australia 140 years ago aboard the iron clipper ‘Hesperides’ . After 93 days at sea, on the 28th December 1878 he landed at Williamstown Pier, Melbourne, Victoria and two days later took a buggy up through Richmond to a cottage where he and his family were to start their new life.
The 6th January, being the 12th day of Christmas, marks the end of the festive season, and …
the exciting new year starts in earnest!
