Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society

09/08/2026

We have just had this Princess sash from the 1982 Potato Festival donated to us. There were a number of Princesses each year; for instance in 1981 there were 16 Princesses, of which one was crowned the Queen of the Festival. Thus the sash could have belonged to any of them them. The sash was found in the hard rubbish at Frankston, so there must be a story there. Thank you, Jason, for rescuing it for us.

31/07/2026

What's on at the Wattle Theatre in August. Adverts from the Koo Wee Rup Sun in 1946.

30/07/2026

St Johns School is turning 90.

We are excited to be celebrating 90 years of St John the Baptist Primary School in the coming weeks.

Families, past staff & students and parishioners are invited to attend our Mass, Morning Tea & Memorabilia, details below.

Please respond via the QR code or link below to allow for catering:

https://forms.gle/4jaHjw7bLbUtTh176

25/07/2026

Subscriber Trunk Dialling (S.T.D.) came to Koo Wee Rup on Sunday June 24, 1973, so you no longer had to ring an operator to have a call put through to another exchange or interstate. An interim telephone directory was published with these instructions on how to use an automatic telephone.

24/07/2026

Pumping the water out of the cellar of the Royal Hotel with a Fordson tractor, probably after the 1934 flood. Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society image.

10/07/2026

Interesting video on the Railway line across the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

Cranbourne to Nyora (The Lost 60kms)The Great Southern Railway wa...

04/07/2026

50 years ago - The Royal Hotel home delivers! They still have the same phone number. Koo Wee Rup Sun, July 7 1976.

28/06/2026

Cranbourne Shire Historical Society Annual Luncheon - Sunday, July 12 at 12 noon. All the details are on the flyer.

19/06/2026

Part of an 1874 map of the County of Mornington (a land administration area) showing the Koo Wee Rup Swamp and surrounds and some of the squatting runs such as Yallock, Mt Ararat, I.Y.U, St Germains and Balla Balla. See the entire map, published by F.E. Hiscocks, at the State Library of Victoria https://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/119519