Wentworth Oaks Day – 1990
It’s Spring Racing Carnival time and to help celebrate, we’ve discovered a colourful Oaks Day news story from 1990. The cameras catch up with a couple of fashion winners from the day and reporter Caroline Davey seeks out the opinions of some hardened race goers on the success of the event.
Motorcycle Grand Prix 1950’s
Here’s some rare footage from the 1950s of the Australian Motor Cycle Grand Prix which was held in Sunraysia from 1954 – 1956. Club president at the time Ron Olsen shot this film which was found in his collection of sporting and family films. In this clip we’ll hear some details of the race from […]
The Great Paddle Boat Race – 1992
The PV Rothbury once again took the prize when a number of boats lined up for the challenge in 1992. Captain Pointon had skippered the Rothbury to victory in two previous races as well in 1988 and 1990 and this event saw around 8,000 people line the banks to witness the event and help raise […]
The Coomealla 500 – 1993
Here’s some Desert Rally action from north of the Murray River – the Coomealla 500 held in 1993. This event has gone through some transformations over the years and is now known as the Pooncarie Desert Dash conducted by the Sunraysia Motor Sports Club.
The Chicken Train & The Show
Here’s two 1980’s news stories from a couple of locations that we’re all very familiar with. In the first, Llyod Beasy outlines the reasons behind a new addition to his poultry farm attractions, The Chicken Train. Humpty Dumpty had been purchased a number of years earlier by Llyod from the Egg Board who had used […]
McLeod Medal Count – 1982
t’s football finals time and earlier this week the McLeod medal was presented to this years best and fairest player in the SFNL. Here’s a recently discovered news story on the same event in 1982. The time-honoured McLeod Medal award was created in memory of the late Gregor Drummond McLeod who died while serving his […]
Printing the Paper
Here’s a wonderfully detailed look at how the Sunraysia Daily was created, with commentary by well known journalist Alan Erskine. Taken for granted and easily accessed by us all, behind the scenes our broadsheet newspaper was created by a team of professionals, which this news footage from the early 1970’s clearly shows.
Investing in the Future
Here’s another informative video clip produced by the Sunraysia Horticultural Centre Video Unit in 1994. Innovation is the focus of this clip as fruit from the area is distributed to the many industries that use it.. Make sure you watch until the end where you’ll see quite a few familiar names of people involved in […]
News footage – 1970’s
Here’s a collection of News footage shot about 1970 that takes us to a number of familiar locations around town. Firstly to the Mildura Wharf, where Cpt Pointon can be seen ushering passengers aboard the PS Melbourne. The cost for an adult at that time was only $2.50. Next we take a quick drive past […]
Marching Girls
Marching Girls have featured on Lost Mildura and Sunraysia in the past week and here’s some STV 8 News Reel footage to match. Taken in 1969 or 1970, we see a number of teams putting on a display at No 1 oval, no doubt as part of the annual competition across the Queens Birthday long […]