other Kelly Gang related sites

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The Ned Kelly Trail  Take a tour through Victoria's Kelly country and visit the towns where one of Australia's most famous bushrangers spent his short life.
We start the Ned Kelly Trail by driving north from Melbourne to Beveridge, Avenal, Kyneton, Euroa, Mansfield, Stringybark Ck, Benalla, Glenrowan, Beechworth, Greta, Powers Lookout, and Jerilderie in NSW.


Here are two Ned Kelly touring information sites aimed to lead you through Kelly Country. While the upper Ned Kelly Trail site offers the basic story line and on the ground maps, the N.K.Touring Route site serves more as a Tourist Information brochure that can also be picked up at the various destinations in Kelly country. However, study these websites before you leave, not when you return.


The Ned Kelly Touring Route Is a joint initiative between the municipalities of the Rural City of Wangaratta, Benalla, Mansfield, Strathbogie, Indigo and Jerilderie (NSW) Shire Councils, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding.  The Old Melbourne Gaol is also a strategic partner in the project which is also strongly supported by Tourism Victoria.  




Kelly Gang Educational Services www.kellygangeducational.com 
Paul O'Keefe is directly related to the Kelly Gang. His Great great Grandmother's brother was Kelly Gang member Steve Hart.  Paul's G. G. Grandmother, Ettie Hart was actually Ned Kelly's girlfriend. He is also related to Ned Kelly by marriage. Paul has put together a unique performance for NSW schools telling the historically accurate story of the Kelly Gang using state of the art multi-media presentation, role play and hands on historical props to tell the story. Students will learn all aspects of the Kelly Gang from their childhoods to their deaths, and the reasons why they now have iconic status in Australian folklore and history.


Burnt to a Cinder was I, - a controversy that won't go away till someone proves who James Ryan was, - some say he was Dan Kelly ! According to Jack Allen -
" I have told this story just as it was told to me when I met him -- the outlaw never died in that fire at the hotel in Glenrowan Australia, and all those reports about his charred body being found are not correct. That body belonged to someone else." Jack Allen's grandson Vince Allen hits back at the critics of his new book.

 

Glenrowan 1880
www.glenrowan1880.com Dave White tells the Kelly story as a good starting point for all readers . Every angle of events leading up to and beyond the siege at Glenrowan 1880. Check out the time line, or how relics of the events were eagerly sought by all who were there, establishing legendary hero status of the already famous Ned Kelly even before his end.  This is the site where you can get the Glenrowan end of the Kelly story right to the present day.  Well done Dave.

Treasures of the State Library of Victoria
The Jerilderie letter can be viewed page by page plus much more. The State Library of Victoria is custodian of many Kelly relics including Ned Kelly's suit of  armour, documents of great importance, and they are proud of it. You will need to type Ned Kelly in their search window and find the links, (internal sites now).

 

Miscellaneous sites;
 

The Kelly Gang,  An enthralling and original Kelly recording featuring some of the most recognisable voices in the Australian music industry - Daryl J Melbourne has written an exciting homage to this important piece of Australian history. This 15 song 'musical masterpiece' is now available in a special 3 part series that will only be offered for purchase through this web-site Part 1 is a limited offer Special Edition release of 600 numbered copies, personally signed by the author, and will go on sale from July 1 2006 As an added bonus, purchasers will have their names printed along with a tribute message, in a special booklet titled. The Sympathisers to be released with Part 2 of the series. Eureka Smith Singer Songwriter Story Teller www.eurekasmith.com Eureka presents a poetic look at the life, times, exploits and consequences of Australia's greatest folk hero, Edward (Ned) Kelly. His new CD, BLOOD ON THE GROUND, is a unique collection of original works brought together with a narrative connection, to help introduce the setting of each song, and in turn, tell the audience of the artist's interpretation and view of what was The Kelly Story. Neil Higgins Singer / Songwriter and Solo Performer Neil's playing style is cutting the genera of folk / Australiana /& rock balladeer, and in performance, he delivers a song with a caring nature that sometimes and often, combs through some social issues displaying an opportunity of change. Neil's recent songs about Eureka and the Kelly outbreak are great and need to be heard. Festival events in NSW, Victoria and South Australia, are to culminate in intermittent tours.

The Rutherglen Forge & Anvil
http://www.wroughtironproducts.com
Blacksmith Nick Hawtin is the man at the Rutherglen Forge & Anvil. His workshop is at Rutherglen Victoria, 151 Main Street . Here he operates his award winning business making quality wrought iron items. His works are a blend of traditional methods of forge and anvil with a touch of modernism. Each piece is an individual because he cannot make the same piece by hand exactly the same each time. This in itself gives each piece a character all its own and it is just that characteristic that makes his work all the more enjoyable to own.  Not only is Nick a poet, he is true blue and makes Ironicons too.


Kelly Art - Mick Guthrie born in County Galway, Ireland and Nicole Kennedy, born in Australia, formed Druid Design. Their products consists of hand painted ceramic wares.  Mick and Nicole are currently experimenting with carved clay pieces and hand formed clay sculpture. The Ned Kelly range of clay art introduced recently has been very well received. Other designs and products consists of ceramic wares and a hand printed table and bed linen range, all with Celtic designs. Their wares are on sale at the Rocks and Paddington Markets in Sydney every Saturday.


THE GAME NED KELLY_®  Read the book? Seen the Movie? Just play the game.
This great strategy board game for two players is based upon the legendary Siege of Glenrowan in 1880 and an ancient Viking game called Hnefetafl circa 400AD.
In the game, Ned still has a chance to escape to one of his hideouts before the Police capture him. The more you understand the vast choice of tactics, the more complex the play becomes. Suitable for smart kids from eight to eighty years old.

      
Australian History

Arms Collectors Guild of Victoria. Victoria's largest Antique Arms collecting organisation dedicated to preservation, research and interpretation of antique and historically significant arms, accoutrements and ephemera. Find out how the current amnesty effects you, and what the Guild is doing to ensure fairness for Victorian collectors, press releases and published articles.


Australian History Promotions
www.australianhistorypromotions.com
Brian McDonald has taken on a new role of publishing. It began with the Ned Kelly bibliography 'What they said about Ned ! - highlighting every publication ever produced numbering close to 800. Brian has moved into reproducing rare and hard to find books and publications on various aspects of Australian History ...


Mansfield Historical Society. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~manshs/mansfield.htm
The present Mansfield Historical Society was established in 1983. In 1992  was established into the old library building in Ailsa Street. The society has an active following and rich history. In the centre of town is the monument to the three police that were killed by the Kelly gang 1878.  A prosperous country town at the cross roads to the snow fields and north to Kelly country of NE. Victoria Australia.
 

 

The naming of Australia  http://www.namingofaustralia.com.au/chart Contrary to common belief, 2004 should be the 200th anniversary of an emotional moment in our history, the first time Australia was ever used on a map, so says Bill Fairbanks who tracked down the original map at the British Hydrographic Office. The chart was completed by Matthew Flinders in 1804 while he was a prisoner in Mauritius following the termination in the previous year of his—and history’s first—circumnavigation of the great south land, known at that time as New Holland and New South Wales, and frequently referred to as Terra Australis. The chart contains the first known use by Flinders or any other navigator of the name ‘Australia’ for the island continent as we know it today. Flinders wrote. “I call the whole island Australia or Terra Australis...”   Thanks to Bill Fairbanks.  Footnote; The Age 25/3/05, a 16th century German astronomers map shows the name Australia as printed by a wood cut 259 years before Flinders. This story goes to show how even 457 years later, history can still be corrected.                                                            See replica model of Ned Kelly's iron helmet for sale

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