Kyneton Historical Society
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Museum spruce up
Kyneton Museum is getting a spruce up! The museum will close temporarily on December 12 to prepare for restoration works planned from mid-January 2023. Kyneton Museum is in the former Bank of New South Wales building in Piper Street, built in 1856. It houses changing exhibitions in the original banking chamber downstairs, while upstairs the…
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Mid-20th century Kyneton captured in calendar
Life in mid-20th century Kyneton features in the Midland Express 2021 ‘The Way We Were’ Kyneton calendar, now available from our office at 3 Market Street Kyneton or from the Kyneton branch of the Bendigo Bank for just $2. Inside you’ll find faces, places and events from Kyneton in times past, in images kindly provided…
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Kyneton street name tarnished with blood
A Kyneton resident who believes his street name is tarnished with the blood of slaughtered Indigenous people has begun a campaign to have it changed. Harry Byass, 21, has lived in Hutton Street his whole life but recently learned the street was named after Charles Hutton, a station owner in the Campaspe region in the…