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President’s Report Melbourne Day What’s on HSVG report Heritage report Windows: Cathedral Arcade Bishop James Grant If trees talked Old Melbourne, not old Melburnians Books received and Bookshop Around the Societies
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Volunteerism is vital to Australian consideration in the knowledge that you and five on procedures and guidelines. society, which is replete with hundreds are not alone and will receive assistance There are twenty-six sample forms of thousands of organisations run largely from the RHSV. available too, covering the collection, or entirely by volunteers. The community Our RHSV website contains a plethora photographs, copyright, volunteers, history movement is at the forefront of of advice. Since the 1980s the RHSV OH & S, risk management and so forth. important organisations run by volunteers. has issued three versions of our ‘Guide Please consult this rich resource and as The protection of the stories of our past, to Managing Historical Societies’. It is Molly Meldrum always says: ‘do yourself which lays the basis for our identity and now in digital form on our website at this a favour!’ self-knowledge in the present, and the page. https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/ The Federation of Australian Historical pathways for the future, depends on societies/guide-to-managing-historical- Societies’ website has its own rich veins active local historical societies. In other societies/ to mine for assistance, at https://www. words, the history movement plays its part As you will see from a quick inspection history.org.au/ for social wellbeing. it contains over seventy very helpful Richard Broome Volunteering, while altruistic, also articles. For instance, under ‘Managing the has great benefits for the volunteers Organisation’ it has nine articles, including themselves. Those I talk to at the RHSV policies and procedures, tips on grant are passionate about the job(s) they are applications, and notes for treasurers and doing, whether it is sorting, cataloguing ideas for income generation. This article parts of the collection, compiling lists for is invaluable to overcome the hesitancy a database, working with images, archives to become a treasurer, outlining what and other materials, helping to mount a has to be done and how to do it. On collection, running tours and so forth. We income generation it suggests that ‘one have over a hundred volunteers giving or two major events held annually can their time and labour one day a week, bring considerable revenue directly into sometimes more, on projects. Others an organisation…. Such special events serve on our many committees, which include Book Sales, Annual or Themed manage our collections, publications, Dinners, Competition Nights (history events and exhibitions or make other should not be trivialised), and Dutch contributions. Auctions. The list is endless… care must However, voluntary organisations are not be taken in choice of event and placement Melbourne Day 2019, L to R always straight forward to run. I have some on the locality’s calendar’. Andrew Lemon, Tim Entwistle experience being on the RHSV Council Under the category ‘Involving People’ and Richard Broome since 2013 and being now president. But the Guide has fourteen articles’; under help is at hand, which I will outline below. ‘Developing a Significant Collection’ it So, if you are asked to step up and help at has eleven articles. Sample policies exist your local society as a committee member too, to avoid having to reinvent the wheel. Melbourne Day or an office bearer, please give it serious There are six articles on sample policies at the RHSV An attentive audience listened to Tim Entwistle, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), speak about the history History News of the Gardens, one of Melbourne’s gems, History News is the bi-monthly newsletter of the RHSV on Friday 30 August. His theme was that ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA INC. the RBG, one of 45 botanic gardens PRESIDENT Richard Broome History House in Victoria, was a symbiosis of Nature, EXECUTIVE OFFICER Rosemary Cameron 239 A’Beckett Street Melbourne 3000 Culture and Science. Tim outlined his ADMINISTRATION OFFICER Pankaj Sirwani Office & Library Hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm philosophy of the botanic garden as an COLLECTIONS MANAGER & VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR Jillian Hiscock Phone: 9326 9288 ongoing and changing project, a process EDITOR Sharon Betridge [email protected] Website: www.historyvictoria.org.au DESIGN & ARTWORK Centreforce Pty Ltd 5975 8600 Email: [email protected] to maintain relevance in the modern MARKETING CO-ORDINATOR Jessica Scott ABN 36 520 675 471 world. He outlined the RBG’s strategic PRINTED BY First Class Mailing 9555 9997 Registration No. A2529 plan for its immediate future, to create Items for publication should be sent to the Editor EMAIL [email protected] COVER a Nature-Science hub to compliment History News Copy closes 16th: January, March, May and July, September, Cathedral Arcade, Melbourne, Australia Melbourne’s Arts and Sports hubs to the November, unless in consultation with the editor, Sharon Betridge 14 February 2007, Mike Lehmann, Mike Switzerland Garden’s north-west and north-east. The RHSV welcomes submission of articles for inclusion in History News. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ RHSV’s Drill Hall can become Melbourne’s Publication and editing will be at the discretion of the editor and File:CathredalArcade_9943.jpg Publications Committee as directed by our Terms of Reference. History Hub further to the north. PRINT POST APPROVED PP336663/00011 ISSN 1326-269 Richard Broome
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Attendance at any and all RHSV events RHSV NEWS should be booked through our website: What’s www.historyvictoria.org.au/rhsv-events/ All events are held at RHSV, 239 A’Beckett St, Melbourne VIC 3000, unless otherwise stated. On Queries: [email protected] or (03) 9326 9288
WALKING TOUR: BATMANIA THE GENEALOGICAL LECTURE. FARMING THE MALLEE: Tuesday 15 October and Thursday 17 October, SOCIETY OF VISIONS AND REALITIES 1890-PRESENT 10-11am VICTORIA: AN Speaker Professor Katie Holmes INTRODUCTION From, The former Age building, Tuesday 12 November, 5.15- 7.00pm Friday 18 October, 655 Collins Street $10 / $20 1.00- 2.30pm RHSV researcher, Fiona Graham, has put RHSV Officers’ Mess Upstairs, 239 A’Beckett St Genealogical Society of Victoria, Level 6, together a new guided walking tour of the south- 85 Queen Street western corner of the CBD - today it is a slightly raffish, down-at-heel part of town but back in As part of History Week, the Genealogical 1835 it was where everything was unfolding. Society of Victoria is holding an information Come and learn something new about your city. session especially for RHSV members and friends. For anyone contemplating researching their family this event is key. It is also of great interest for those undertaking more general research as family research skills and BOOK LAUNCH, MALLEE resources can be used to create histories for COUNTRY: LAND, any characters, not just your family. PEOPLE, HISTORY Speaker Tom Griffiths, Emeritus Professor of CELEBRATION OF THE 90TH BIRTHDAY History, ANU OF PROFESSOR JOHN RIDDOCH Performer Gavin Somers, LECTURE: KEY POYNTER AO a Butchulla, Gubbi Gubbi folk roots singer-songwriter EVENTS IN THE Friday 8 November, LIFE OF GEORGE 11.00am-1.00pm Saturday 16 November, HIGINBOTHAM RHSV, Ground Floor, 4.00pm for 4.30-6:00pm Speaker 239 A’Beckett Street, RHSV, Gallery Downstairs, 239 A’Beckett Street Geraldine Moore Melbourne The Royal Historical Society of Victoria and Tuesday 15 October The Royal Historical Monash University Publishing are delighted 15, 5.15pm for 6-7pm Society of Victoria is to invite you to the launch of Mallee Country: $10 / $20 hosting a sparkling Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor and Katie Officers’ Mess Upstairs morning tea to celebrate the 90th Holmes. Mallee Country will be launched by George Higinbotham birthday of Professor John Riddoch Poynter. Tom Griffiths. With a special performance by was a highly influential politician in colonial We invite the family, friends, colleagues and Gavin Somers who is based in Melbourne Victoria. One of his contemporaries described students of Professor Poynter. him as a man of ‘dash and daring’ who ‘won from privilege and class ground that they BOOK FAIR have never since been able to recover.’ Even Sat 5 Oct 10am - 4pm today debate rages about his character and Gallery Downstairs his legacy. Some see him as a visionary who fought for responsible government free of Colonial Office interference and obstruction by an undemocratically elected Legislative Council. Others see him as a flawed character… Join us at 5.15pm for drinks followed by Enhance your next book with an Index lecture at 6pm. by Terri Mackenzie EXHIBITION, ISAAC SELBY: LECTURER, HISTORIAN, ASSASSIN Until 20 December, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm Drill Hall, 239 A’Beckett St, Melbourne Professional Back of Book Indexer Member of Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Honorary Victorian Historical Journal Indexer [email protected]
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In the month of August HVSG conducted sent your survey back, please do so, there pleasure to meet with enthusiastic and an online survey of societies in an is still time. interested members of this society who endeavour to gain an overall concept During the past two months, there have wanted to widen their insight into how to of how societies operate. It has been been follow-up visits by groups who catalogue a collection. Their collection pleasing to see so many societies take attended the Castlemaine ‘Storage of had been partially catalogued in the past. the time to return their surveys. We need Archives’ workshop earlier this year, which We discussed many matters relating to to understand the current position of included sessions on digitising archives the acquisition of items and artefacts, societies and appreciate their individual and photographs. Both David Langdon how and why to record the provenance situations before well informed decisions and Alan Reynolds, the presenters, of donations, and the descriptions of can be made by the RHSV on the future have spent time with individual groups objects in preparation for cataloguing. direction of HVSG. The survey replies imparting their practical knowledge on Finally, we spoke about the issues relating will be collated, analysed and circulated these important topics. to supervision, storage and access of later in the year. The results will assist collections. HVSG members are willing to I had an especially rewarding visit to HVSG to plan the 2020 activities which assist any group with collection policies Romsey Lancefield and Districts Historical hopefully will be of the utmost benefit to and procedures. Society in early September. It was a all societies. However, if you still haven’t Representing HVSG, Sue Thompson, Lilydale Historical Society, and I undertook separate road trips to Mildura and Natimuk, located near Horsham on the 20, 21 and 22 September. We visited as many history and heritage groups as could be done in a very limited time frame. Due to the deadline for this edition of History News, a full report will be disseminated in the next edition. Alleyne Hockley Convenor HVSG (RHSV)
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Over , items of Victorian Overand 30,000 interstat eitems history, ofresou Victorianrces for and interstatefamily history history, and much moresourcesre available for loan. for family history and much more available ww forw.pmi.net.a loan. u St Edmonds Road, Prahran 9510 3393 www.pmi.net.au 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran TOP: Noreen Yorke, President, Romsey Lancefield and Districts Historical Society with Alleyne Hockley HVSG Co-ordinator 6 September 2019 BOTTOM: Attendees at the Romsey and Lancefield Districts Historical Society Rooms. 6 September 2019
4 RHSV NEWS OCTOBER 2019 RHSV NEWS 5 OCTOBER 2019 OCTOBER NEWS RHSV The secret of the Corkman Hotel— The secret of the in 2016—is that illegally demolished only by a Heritage it was covered not So while we a DDO. Overlay but also by protected, in fact it all thought that it was development.was earmarked for intense era Victorian pub, This classic gold-rush Overlay Heritage a had 1857, from dating but that wouldn’t have protected it. The DDO prescribed demolishing much of the hotel to build a forty metre (twelve twelve storeys, set back six storey) tower, metres, so only the facade and six metres of the hotel would have survived even if the developers had acted lawfully. the best has been Wynne Richard but still the Planning Minister this century, Ministry pushes for development at the cost of heritage and the Minister himself Boroondara intervened to weaken heritage protection efforts. Council’s There is room for improvement. The Ministry should work to ensure that Heritage Overlays are integrated into the planning scheme so that heritage is protected. The RHSV has made representations through the Heritage Council and we are hopeful of being heard. As it stands, DDOs can and do of cost the at development prescribe historic buildings covered by Heritage Overlays. Charles Sowerwine, Committee RHSV Heritage Chair, Planning amendment C191 would C191 would Planning amendment Street, on Swan have similar effects in this case the new Richmond, although be five storeys and development could new development the setback of the (ten metres on awould be only six metres side of Swan the south section of limited protect views of the Dimmeys to Street Heritage Committee Member Ball Tower). Ian Wight made a detailed submission on behalf of the RHSV that all the main roof of each shop be preserved. Heritage ProfessorAssociate Member Committee Judith Smart presented a strong case to C191 of consideration defer to Council published its until the Planning Panel findings on C231. Nevertheless, on 10 voted Council Yarra September 2019, Brigid in favour of C231. One councillor, Socialist, moved deferral as O’Brien, we had requested and recommended councillors attend a site inspection, but not one councillor seconded her motion. Planning Amendments (or Design and Development Orders or DDOs) are furthering development at the expense reported (Age, Clay Lucas of heritage. Corkman 7 September) that the 2019, developers got their fine cut to $1 million on appeal. They bought the hotel for empty site is million in 2015. The $4.7 now worth $8–10 million. The judge pointed out that they ‘made a commercial The Corkman is another calculation’. was protection heritage where instance by planning. I wrote in the weakened March 2019 issue of History News: 368 Auburn Road, Hawthorn, being demolished under Planning Amendment Hawthorn, being demolished under Planning Amendment Road, 368 Auburn C299 (photo courtesy Liz Burton, Camberwell Historical Society)
Boroondara Council took decisive took decisive Boroondara Council The Council appliedaction on heritage. for interim to the Planning Minister on 466 properties heritage protection 725 properties in in Canterbury and Heritage permanent so Camberwell considered. The Overlays could be but weakened Minister granted protection it with a Planning Scheme Amendment (C299) which overrides the Interim Heritage Overlay if the owner had already obtained a demolition permit. Several homes have been demolished as a result. ‘‘Irrevocably wrecked’: (Carolyn Webb, Age, Fury as another old house razed’, to Inner Shopping Strips Shopping Inner to From Boroondara Mansions Mansions Boroondara From 1 September 2019). Now it may be that Boroondara should have started on these Heritage Overlays but it seems perverse to sooner, undermine interim protection. Councils andstudies heritage initiate to often fail apply for Heritage Overlays. Often, we assume that a loved building is protected; only when a developer moves in do The point of we discover that it isn’t. interim protection is to save buildings while an investigation is carried out. The interim Minister argued that the Council’s protection raised ‘issues of natural justice (Boroondara and fairness for landowners’ Planning Scheme Amendment C299 What about justice Explanatory Report). and fairness for future generations to enjoy our heritage? Boroondara sought to protect its heritage. Council has passed two planning Yarra historic the gut would which amendments thought fabric of its shopping strips. We Overlays, Heritage by covered were these but planning amendment C231 would Queens the of development prescribe has C231 Fitzroy. North in strip Parade now been subject to a Planning Panel result the awaiting are we and Review C231form, current its In with trepidation. prescribes saving the front eight metres of shops and demolishing everything four-storey developmentfor behind that (originally it would save only six metres of heritage buildings and prescribe six- storey development, but community in which the RHSV was active, pressure, led to some improvement). Either way, this would mean that the shops would no longer have space for toilets or kitchens and that they would lose rear access for thus becoming kiosques only. delivery, Threatened Local Heritage: Heritage: Local Threatened RHSV NEWS 6 »» history ofSt Paul’s Cathedralandahistory including ahistoryofTrinity College, a Geoffrey Serle. Hewrotefourotherbooks with noted Victorian historian Professor entitled theMelbourneScene,1803-1956 historian compilingabookofdocuments, the RHSVsince1973.Hewasapractising diocese, JamesGrantwasamemberof in ruraldiocesesandtheMelbourne Besides adistinguishedsixty-yearcareer enriched itsmusicallife. he restoredtheCathedral’s organand of St Pauls (1985-1999),duringwhichtime Anglican BishopofMelbourneandDean ministry androsetobecomeanAssistant the UniversityofMelbourne, enteredthe education atGeelongHighSchooland Cliffs nearMildurain1931andafteran 2019 aged87. HewasborninRed James GrantpassedawayinearlyJuly James Grant Vale Bishop P enFolk
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! RHSV NEWS 7 I where he had come to deliver and OCTOBER 2019 OCTOBER NEWS RHSV The old pear tree today in the Second Division, first AIF. On one in the Second Division, first AIF. side was an informal photograph of seven all Bill’s soldiers of the Great War, Australian neathis in wrote, Bill ‘Dear Mabel’, mates. generous hand, ‘It won’t be very long now before I will be back at my old game again, Hope the old pear tree is still “Mail man”. there to act as a seat.’ Moyarra his from away miles thousand Ten home and after three and a half years of his thoughts had indescribable horror, flown back to the ‘old’ pear tree at ‘The Pines’ collect the mail. ‘Hoping you are all in the best of health. With heaps of am in tip top shape myself. love to you, I remain your aff [affectionate] friend, Bill’. Billwhen there still pear tree was old The The tree remains 1919. returned in August today providing ‘pleasant and useful’ fruit ‘acting’still branch outstretched an with as a seat. A silent yet telling witness to decades of human settlement. and society. Moyarra Jillian Durance, pears, first prize, W. Rainbow. pears, first prize, The hard brown pears our larger tree The hard brown pears our larger tree those been have may produces still and prizewinners. They are great keepers But the tree produces best eaten cooked. a large crop every year regardless of seasonal variations in heat and moisture. A postcard dated February 1919 and sent that the Havre in France suggests from Le to the original in its location next pear tree, front gate provided a handy meeting place for catching up on local news. The card was sent to Miss Mabel Rainbow, whose from Bill McLean then aged 19, farm was further down the hill on the Foster Creek. Bill had enlisted in 1915, and served as a driver of artillery horses we found the fruit when they came into came they when fruit the found we bearing’. ‘The Pines’ at the author’ s home, Nearby, pear remnant two are there Moyarra, at trees of that pioneering era. While the current weatherboard homestead was built the trees may in 1897, by William Rainbow have been established a decade before selector oforiginal John Gannon, the by of in the Parish 50 Crown Allotment No. manywhere Moyarra at It was Jumbunna. 1914and 1913 in gathered pioneers the of to organise the collection of their stories for . ContemporaryThe Land of the Lyrebird photos of these gatherings depict mature pear trees in the background. Domestic details feature little in the against the of the struggle grander epic Great Forest, but the significance of fruit trees and their ‘useful’ role can be found in other sources. A report from the Great Southern Advocate on the local Kongwak Agricultural Show in 1906 announced: Bottling
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Pioneer gathering at ‘The Pines, 1914, pear orchard in the background Pioneer gathering at ‘The Pines, 1914, by pack-horse. Two years later after our Two by pack-horse. arrival they were removed to another site [near Bena], and very pleasant and useful Every now and then you will see them: old seeminglyfruit trees in bare paddocks, Deep in the in the middle of nowhere. of South Gippsland, fruit Ranges Strzelecki and elms marktrees, as well as pines, oaks homesteads.pioneer old of location the While many buildings have succumbed to the rigours of a moist, cold and windy pear, of apple, hardy specimens climate, cherry plum, walnut, hawthorn and feijoa have survived for well over a century. In the early days of selection, under the of 1869 and 1884, an orchard Acts Land time same the at established often was of scrub as the obligatory ‘improvements’ clearing, fencing and sowing of ‘English’ grasses for dairy cows. Men, after taking up land in the densely forested areas around often and Kongwak, Moyarra Jumbunna, They lived in tents on a diet of damper. to bring their wives and childrenwere keen home. to a place that felt a little more like while they built cabins of logs with aSo, roof of shingles and an outside fireplace, they also dug patches for vegetables, flowers and fruit trees. recorded her pioneering Fuller, Mrs. R.J. , in The Land of the Lyrebird experiences an iconic account of settlement in South had She 1880s. early the in Gippsland husband her but learn’, to ‘everything the year before she arrived, had brought down some fruit trees whose ‘experience was varied on the journey. They started by coach from the Albion Hotel in Bourke Melbourne, to Grantville, then byStreet, A.R. bullock team and horse drays to Mr. Smith’s
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It is easy to walk straight past Melbourne’s it a ‘Modern Skyscraper’ at 132 feet shopping experience from Buckley & Cathedral Arcade. (maximum height allowable under Nunn or King’s Walk in Bourke Street to Tucked into the centre of the Nicholas the city’s regulations) and ‘another suburban arcades, such as Treadways Building on the corner of Swanston milestone… in the progress of Melbourne in Collingwood or the Colosseum at Street and Flinders Lane, it is only when towards a city of modern shopping and Prahran. one glances sideways that the quiet office buildings’. With street facades tiled Cathedral Arcade was designed as the elegance of the promenade is revealed, with terracotta faience to be lit at night, central spine of the shopping areas. It and the barrel vaulting of the glass elevators that travelled at 600 feet per runs in an L shape linking the two street ceiling demands a second look, inviting minute, and dadoes lined with specially frontages with shops fronted by plate- the visitor to pass under the gilded glass produced silver lustre Delft tiling all glass windows and showcases along its ‘Cathedral Arcade’ lettering to explore its added glamour to the concrete-encased full length. Melbourne’s Herald (12 March interior spaces. steel and bluestone structure and 1926 p 16) reported: proclaimed its Chicago-style modernity. Cathedral Arcade marks the two main ‘…The ground floor arcade has a entrances to the Nicholas Building, Arcade shopping was once again suspended ceiling glazed with Luxfer designed by Collins Street architect, in vogue. After years of depression, glass, the predominating colours being Harry A. Norris in the 1920s for owners, recovery and war, the 1920s heralded a a white foreground, with blue and Nicholas Pty Ltd. It replaced the not-so- mild economic upturn that was marked amber decorations. This ceiling can old five-storey Monaghan’s Building at by new building construction in the city. be indirectly lighted. About 34,500 a cost (according to press reports) of The new arcades may not have aspired candlepower lamps are being installed.’ to the grandeur of the 1880s, when £200,000. The grand opening on 12 ‘Luxfer’ glazing was a relatively new promenading through The Block or March 1926 received wide coverage process, whereby the flexible lead cames Royal Arcade was the height of fashion, in Melbourne papers, which labelled that separated the pieces of glass in but they provided the up-to-date city
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leadlights were replaced with a rigid steel Today, as the Building Association’s and/or plated zinc framework. The Luxfer website proclaims, the ‘vertical arts structure was less flexible than leadlight precinct’ ‘holds an eclectic mix of small and, although it appeared delicate, its fire businesses and attractions including art The Wizard rating was much higher than its leadlight galleries, unique boutiques & stores, Tree: equivalent. To designers and builders fashion designers, jewellers, artist & of public and commercial premises design studios, musicians & recording Healesville increasingly concerned about fire safety studios, architects, food development, risks, it was a logical choice for theatres, small start-ups, video games & technology Does anyone know about the so-called banks - even the Public Library, where it innovators’. Wizard Tree? Apparently until five or can be seen today. The vibrant activity is not repeated six years ago it stood majestically in The L-junction of the Luxfer ceiling was outside as it is now the only building Donnelly’s Weir Park. Now only its stump designed as a shallow pendentive dome, along this Swanston Street block except and the fallen trunk, enveloped by rough reiterating the pared-back colouring with Young & Jackson’s pub on the Flinders scrub, remain. However, before it was repetition of spider-web and urn motifs in Street corner. Its southern wall now bare, felled photographs recorded its unusual the two barrel-vaulted arms, the arches is exposed to the tunnelling, noise and feature: a poem written on one side of the above shop entrances and decorative vibrations of the new underground rail trunk and a representation of ‘The Wizard’ hampers across the wide plate glass link, and one fears for its future viability on another. The poem reads as follows: shopfronts on the ground and first floors. as a rich venue for creative industry. If your alone at Donnelly’s Weir The Melbourne firm, Brooks, Robinson & Maybe, when the dust settles and this be sure to notice the Wood Wizard here Co, which manufactured Luxfer glazing area of the streetscape reinvents itself, it – so be gone by night under licence from its English patent is not too fanciful to imagine the second- for the gate shuts tight floor restaurant with its long balcony holders, also made all shopfronts, fittings, and the wizard of wood, overlooking Swanston Street could be basement glass bricks and leadlights with his hungry owls, for the Nicholas Building, most of which reinstated. Although ‘glimpses of the will cut your throat remains in place today. It is worthwhile river, trees, Alexandra Gardens and and remove your bowels. taking a tour through the building to Government House’ may be less visible, discover these glass gems, and even the restaurant and balcony could still And by the morn, a new tree grows searching for the skylights to basements remind us of the building’s past. This wish – and only he the Wizard knows. outside, set into the Flinders Lane may not be granted, but there is always There’s DNA in new wood here, pavement. The elegant results suited the tiny hole-in-the wall coffee shop right this haunted place this Donnelly’s Weir. in the arcade’s heart, a place to enjoy a the austerity of the Inter-War 1920s, but Not a fantasy it seems good coffee while gazing up the curve of it also provides a perfect backdrop to the for the locals here have heard the its elegant decorative ceiling. colourful businesses and characters that screams have enlivened the building ever since. Bronwyn Hughes and the trees they groan from the hunger pains PREVIOUS PAGE: as they sway and lust for choice remains. Stained Glass Somebody having fun, it seems, but Department at it constitutes quite an effort to do such Brooks Robinson writing on the & Co, Melbourne, trunk of a tree. Victoria - circa 1910. Image Artist’s We are not aware of who the writer was impression of or when it was done. For the historical Cathedral Arcade record, we would like to know more before it opened about it. Herald, 19 August 1925, p.4 Elizabeth Bacon, RIGHT: Detail of Secretary Healesville and District arched entrances Historical Society, and hampers, first [email protected] floor, Cathedral Arcade, 2019
RHSV NEWS OCTOBER 2019 9 RHSV NEWS 10 printed on silk, commemorating a world printed onsilk,commemoratingaworld and awonderfulschoolcricket scorecard and otherparaphernalia,oldrowingoars, old schooluniforms,includingboaters team, houseandschoolphotographs, the museum items - which ranged from students spent our lunchtimes cataloguing Gordon Sargood.Thisverysmallbandof master: MrCharlesHowlettandlater be renamedtheSchoolArchives,ledbya of theMuseumSchoolRecords, laterto Grammar, Ibecame acommittee member But in 1954, in year 10 at Melbourne and otherEuropeanevents. and factsrelatingtotheSevenYears’ War become animatedlearningendlessdates andmind-numbingly boring. I could not subject ofHistorytobestupefying years 9and10Ifoundthecompulsory Australian History was inauspicious. In My introductiontothedisciplineof Not Old Melburnians! Old Melbourne 1889, Sears’ Studios, State Library Victoria Flinders Street Station, ElizabethStreet entrance, RHSV NEWS OCTOBER 2019 but werelabelled‘Old Melbourne’! Too boxes were not labelled ‘Old Melburnians’ ‘Melbourne Grammar’;however, theother negatives. Mostboxes werelabelled glass platediapositivesand containing large-scalenegatives,prints, boxes ofphotographsdulyarrived association, TheOldMelburnians.Many relevant totheschoolanditsoldboys’ Melbourne Grammaroldphotographs a nominalamounttheywereofferingto vast collectionofphotographs;andfor and whowerenowdisposingoftheir a number of schools for many years, had beentheofficialphotographersfor photographs fromSears’ Studios, who School Records receivedanofferofold One dayinmid-1955,theMuseumof love ofhistory. extra-curricular activitiesnurturedinmea record scoreheldbyaschoolboy. These Victoria 1889 photograph :gelatinsilver. State Library Flinders Street Station, ElizabethStreet entrance, fish-market-c-1890/ corner. CBDNewshttps://cbdnews.com.au/ Flinders andSwanston streetssouth-west the MelbourneFishMarket occupiedthe Fish Market c.1890Between1865and1892, Greg Eccleston and 1880s. of lifeinMelbournethe1860s,1870s time inbooks illustratingvariousaspects these photographs pop up from time to sent to the City of Melbourne. Since then, Library ofVictoria;perhapssomewere photographs wereforwardedtotheState and stations to the ARHS; the rest of the photographs oftrainsandrailwayviaducts agreed withmysuggestiontopassthe Society (ARHS),sothemaster-in-charge in theAustralian Railway Historical I hadafriendwhowasveryactive diapositives andglassplatenegatives. treasure troveofOldMelbourneglass We studentsquicklysortedoutthe they wereours! late! Theschoolhadpaidforthem,so RHSVSOCIETIES NEWS 11 Silent Lives: women of of women Lives: Silent Political battle: Victorian battle: Victorian Political parliamentarians visited in 1898 to Warrnambool play a game of cricket against the Allansford Forget-me-nots. Picture: and District Warrnambool Historical Society OCTOBER 2019 OCTOBER NEWS RHSV (c.1868-1901). I wanted to sample the to sample the I wanted (c.1868-1901). prepared by repasts’ 1860s ‘sumptuous Catherine Dooley at wife, the licensee’s stood once which Hotel, Telegraph the I to where I live today. in the block next to have bought for £1 would have liked three andcurtains, Hornsby’s one of Eliza a half yards in length, hand-knitted in the feather and fan pattern and made under the candlelight in the little wooden cottage the six-year- I can picture in Nullawarre. receiving her prize at old Bessie Worland Hohenlohe College ‘for always doing her best’ as a solemn, chubby little girl with I have wide eyes and brown plaits. Would tried to help poor Sophia Charlesworth solutionfinal the to resorted she before to her alcoholism by throwing herself off the Hopkins River bridge? Silent Lives records the names of over four hundred local women. These They were farmers were real people. and barmaids and factory workers, breadwinners, nuns and novelists, wives and widows, scholars and Sunday School teachers, seamstresses and straw-hat But they hostesses and harlots. makers, were all wonderful and deserve to be remembered today. February 2019. Elizabeth O’Callaghan, of Author Warrnambool and District, 1840-1910
was asked: ‘What do you have on the do you have on the ‘What was asked: This produced tree?’ women in your family – copies of many gems, some unexpected book prizes and school original artworks, letters, photographsbadges, bundles of and even items of of women at work clothing and nineteenth century women’s accessories. Soon I was absorbed in the daily lives of these people and marvelled at their I would have resilience and courage. all. I would to have known them liked of have enjoyed the ‘brilliant success’ singing in her Orderly Sarah Welchman in 1873 and I would have concert Room with interest the fine sewing of examined prizewinning ‘best-made Martha Wright’s that twelve’ of a girl for dress washing Work at the 1907 Women’s was exhibited have I would Exhibition in Melbourne. the local courtstood up and cheered in William room when the lawyer rebuked know Rutledge for declaring he didn’t anyone called Miss Brennan but he had a maid called Bridget; as said the lawyer, she had as much right as anyone else to I would have told Florinda be called ‘Miss’. may be the Battarbee that her brother Rex Battarbee artist remembered today but I think that her art work was just as good, if not better than his. books hundred five the over pored I in the library of the sub-editor of the Warrnambool Echo, Marie Hassett
My inspiration My Silent lives: lives: Silent I have been writing about the history ofhistory the about writing been have I and district for over 20 years Warrnambool always wanted to write about I’ve now. I notedwomen and their achievements. women in the 19ththe struggle of ordinary opportunities andcentury to have equal labours, a campaignrecognition for their that was still being waged strongly in my own formative years. As a teacher I didn’t get the same pay as a male teacher until time every Warrnambool, In 1960s. the past our magnificent Pioneer I walked Honour Board with its portraits of 204 male pioneers my resolve to record some lives was strengthened. local women’s But, the writing of Silent Lives presented The primary source a particular challenge. History material on women in our Local Society collection was very sparse and the newspaper reports and advertisements of the day mainly featured Councillors, businessmen and large property owners the collection Therefore, – all male. of the material took several years as I combed the old newspapers for the smallest references to women. Many of these brought up more questions than answers – which Miss Duncan had written a novel and where was it? Had Mrs photographs at Johnson actually taken 1860s studio or did she just her husband’s Being the Historical manage the office? twelve Officer for Research Society’s Every enquirer years was a great help. SOCIETIESRHSV NEWS 12 near PrungleLakes. away. Mitchellneverventuredanywhere at Lake BogainVictoria, ahugedistance Stapylton’s journalconfirmedthatitwas east ofPrungleLakes in NSW, whereas Charles Darwin. Baker put it a little to the first tektitescientificallydescribedby members of Mitchell’s party, of the world’s location ofthediscovery, byAboriginal Baker madeawildestimate ofthe The scientistandtektiteauthorityGeorge the modernLoddon atEddington. at Newstead,asaresultofthedog-legin alignment withthemodernLoddon River Avoca River, atKooreh happenstobein Mitchell’s Loddon River, thatistoday’s explain whythispersonwasconfused. second incommandtoMajorMitchellI Granville Stapylton: Australia Felix1836, claiming that he was many miles out. In he crossedtheLoddon andAvoca Rivers, condemned Mitchell’s locationofwhere unfairly. Someyearsago, ahistorian was criticisedbynon-surveyors,usually Occasionally Mitchell’s spatial acuity a commainMitchell’s account! confusion arosethroughtheabsenceof climbs treeslike the‘opossum’. The that theyhadindeedcollectedaratwhich compiling aninventoryofthingscollected, assertion onthe18September, whilst Rostron andKanya vindicatedMitchell’s rat wascaughton11Julybetweentoday’s Stapylton’s disclosure thatagreyrabbit tree-climbing rat-built stick nests. But, criticised Mitchellforimplyingthatthe discoveries. Forinstance, writershave times, datesandlocationsofcertain certain contentiousissuesregarding Not onlythat,Stapylton’s journalclarified in Mitchell’s recordoftheexpedition. realised, wouldhelpmefillinafewgaps Stapylton’s truejournalsof1836which,I was hisassistant.Mybookisbasedon central Victoriain1836.GranvilleStapylton Wales and,whatisnow, westernand Sydney through western New South who ledanexploratory expedition from included SurveyorGeneral Major Mitchell, achievements ofearlysurveyors.This interests wereintheoften-unsung As ayounglandsurveyor, myearly RHSV NEWS OCTOBER 2019 Book My Stapylton my published book was also requested. my publishedbookwasalsorequested. reasonable fee. Inafewcasescopyof agreeing tomyrequestsonpayment ofa copyright holderswerevery obliging, copyright holders.Inmostcases the historical figuresfromtheappropriate landscape paintings,andportraitsof relevant plantsandindigenousanimals, requested high-resolutionimagesof In preparingmybookonStapylton, I expedition’s party? learnt itfromoneoftheconvictsin School andOxfordUniversity, had Stapylton, educated at Westminster the underworld’formoon!Perhaps Historical Slang:itis‘secret speechof Oliver inTheRoutledge to body. EventuallyIfounda reference Obviously, itseemed tobeacelestial Another curious entry was to ‘Oliver’. Gnaphalium. of cudweedoriginallythegenus concluded wasareferencetospecies not findinOxley’s journalsbuteventually reference to‘NaofOxley’, whichIcould journal tobechallenging:onewashis I found some comments in Stapylton’s on anotherriver, theCampaspeRiver. distance away arethe Barfold Gorge Falls, are stilleasily identified (VHJ79,1). Some River, andallofitsindividuallargerocks are today’s ColibanFalls,onthe totally incorrect.Mitchell’s ‘FallofCobaw’ over thepast170years’ (VHJ78,1). Thisis markedly alteredthebasaltformations ‘regular rock-falls andwatererosionhave today’s BarfoldGorgeFalls,notingthat ‘Fall ofCobaw’depictedbyMitchellare so longagothelocalsbelievedthat Even localscanbecomeconfused.Not in mythesis(1991)andrecentbook. unfair denunciationofMitchellisrefuted Eyre’s deathin1838.Onceagain,this the MurrayRiver, therebyalmostcausing thinking thattheWimmeraRiverreached overlanders; suchasEdwardEyreinto was responsibleformisleadingtheearly of theMurrayRiver, claimedthatMitchell in Lake Hindmarsh,ahundredmilesshort to theWimmeraRiverwhichpetersout The geographerJulietBird,inreferring Dictionary of Stapylton, Chichester, UK. Courtesy ofMrHenryP. Chetwynd- field bookno. 6. the insidefrontcoverofStapylton’s using hiscameralucida–appearson drawn byMajorThomasMitchell Granville Stapylton, andprobably Vignette ofayoungman,probably Evandale publishing,Malvern in command to Major Mitchell. (2018) Stapylton: Australia Felix1836,second Greg Eccleston,authorof Granville that wassent. Queen getsachancetoreadthefirstcopy unable tobesold.Ionlyhopethatthe the bookisnowsomewhatbumpedand plane ontheparcel’s returntrip, although explosive, andnoharmwasdonetothe Australia! Fortunately, theparcelwasnot suspicious, andhaddecidedtoreturnit at the front gate had deemed the parcel On enquiringwhy, Iwastoldthatsecurity second bookwasreturned,unopened. Trust. Imagine my surprise when the book, separately, totheRoyal Collection published, Idulysenttwocopiesofthe I didasinstructed:afterthebookwas free ofchargetoRCTuponpublication’. of thepublicationmustbeprovided I was advised that ‘at least two copies asked topay£89.50 fortheimageand York Palace, Iwas House, St. James’s Smith, heldbytheRoyal CollectionTrust, In thecaseofportraitSirSidney BOOKS 13
OCTOBER 2019 OCTOBER NEWS RHSV An Ungodly Generation: The Irish NationalAn Ungodly Generation: 1848-1866. Australia Schools Era in Colonial Melbourne Melbourne Books, Max Waugh, 9781925556452. ISBN pp.1-262, 2019, was education state compulsory Before introduced in Victoria in 1872, there was a mixture of secular national schools, based on the Irish system established in 1831, and denominational and other private schools. The national schools were introduced into the colony of New South of Port in 1848, spreading to the district Wales While in Ireland denominational rifts wouldPhillip. eventually scuttle the system, the antipodean model more closely followed the ideals of its founders and laid solid foundations for a secular system of state education in the eastern colonies. The role of Irish-born NSW Governor Sir Richard system was in promoting the national Bourke successors his to left was It although pivotal, Sir George Gipps to continue the quest and Sir Charles Fitzroy to implement it. In Victoria, national schools struggled for want of funding before opposition denominational faced and morphing into common schools in 1862. Even so, the “free, argues they paved the way for Waugh a introduced system compulsory” and secular decade later. Brian Maldon: A New History 1853-1928. Brian Bendigo Australia, History Exploring Rhule, i-382, ISBN 9780646802343. pp. 2019, Maldon is perhaps best known as Australia’s based on its intact 19th “first notable town”, owes It structures. and streetscapes century its origins and early prosperity to gold. The field would in time prove rich in Tarrangower industry mining a sustain and deposits reef from the early 1850s until well into the 20th The marriage of labour and capital century. in pursuit of deep lead mining meant that generated wealth considerable the of much Bendigoin investors to dividends as town left (Not so the effluvium and and Melbourne. fumes that accompanied life in a noxious itsestablish to yet town mining century 19th heritage credentials.) This study is a work of had its genesis which considerable scholarship, in the Masters thesis of lawyer turned historian It delves deeply into the lives Brian Rhule. and structures of a rural-industrial community ofbe will It bust. and boom of cycles through to Maldoninterest not just to those with links but others focused on the social, political and economic impacts of gold mining in Victoria. Authors, publishers and Historical Societies are invited Societies Historical and publishers Authors, library and for the RHSV for the to books to contribute Received. in Books for inclusion consideration Please note: these books listed are not necessarily offered to offered listed are not necessarily these books Please note: shop catalogue. please check the by authors, the bookshop Outcasts, Mists & Shadows: a short Shadows: a short Outcasts, Mists & care around history of institutional Colin Briton, self- Bend, Melbourne. Yarra i-118, ISBN 2018, pp. published, Melbourne 9780648022312. This is a revised edition of what is on one level a guidebook, but on another an intriguing short history of the institutional edge of town. Sub- titled ‘a short history of institutional care around there is a brief but rich Bend, Melbourne’ Yarra of assortment the around stories of collection medical, psychiatric and penal facilities that were dotted around this most beautiful part of the Certain of the facilities present waterway. Yarra a challenging past and this is very much part of are other surprises on this There the story here. such as the brief account “walk around the bend”, Saving Life and Swimming Rock Deep the of Club 1906-1940s. While some of the institutions detailedmentioned here have their own more written histories, this is a good primer. The Days That Are No More. John Henwood,The Days That Are No More. ISBN self-published, 2018, pp.vii-289, 97806469933423. story the tells saga pastoral illustrated finely This inStation Thologolong family of Sutherland of the the Victorian Upper Murray district. The property it passedwhich in the 1830s, after alienated was through a number of owners and lessees before and Jack being purchased by cousins Peter Sutherland and a brash American named Joshua and thenCushing in 1885. The latter went broke so it was the Sutherlanddied within a decade, the family who would build up a rural dynasty, property and its well-managed and extensive thenotable place as an Angus cattle stud. In time, herd was strengthened through cross breeding with Shorthorns and the Murray Grey breed was born. This sweeping story spans rural life in local and agricultural politics, acolonial Australia, ininvolvement tragic family’s the and nation new In the 1930s the property would the Great War. largely disappear when it was acquired for the giant Hume Dam project, with portions not John Henwood required sold back to the family. – who many will recall from his long career as an ABC rural reporter – is a Sutherland descendant and this book has been both a lifelong interest and a labour of love. Heather Sheard and Heather Sheard and By John John Schauble By Books Books Received Samantha Samantha The Secret Art of Poisoning. pp. 2019, Adelaide Self-published, Battams, 1-221, ISBN 978064372813. This is the second account of the notorious Richmond poisoner Martha Needle to appear in recent months, testimony if nothing else genre, to the fascination of the “true crime” both contemporary and historical. One initial premise of this account is to draw a link Lee, Alexander and Needle Martha between childrenhis of three and his wife murdered who more than a by poisoning in the Clare Valley quarter of a century after Needle was hanged was Martha for similar crimes in Victoria. Lee of 31. age the at died Both nephew. Needle’s suffered both that prospect the from Aside mental illness, there the connections end. The balance of the work traverses similar territory to infamous Needle’s Marthas of accounts other drawing on a range of contemporary story, newspaper accounts and archival material. Ruth Lee, Ebury Press, North Sydney 2019, pp. 2019, Ebury Press, North Sydney Ruth Lee, vii-305, ISBN 9780143794707. female doctors Australian least twenty-six At served in WW1, most of them in front line locations across Europe and the Middle East. Considering there were only one hundred and twenty-nine women registered as medical at the outbreak of the practitioners in Australia statistic. But having this is an extraordinary war, overcome the many routine barriers put in their way to qualify in and practice medicine Entrenched not. is it perhaps time, that at female against military the within discrimination practitioners continued even as the demand for their services became more acute as the war dragged on. It also accounts for why there are Heather Sheardso few records of their service. and PhDs around have both written Ruth Lee individual doctors from this cohort and have come together to write about the group as a whole. a unique from This is the story of the Great War whowomen of the eyes through told perspective, to the worst of its ravages, often were exposed in the most grueling of conditions and mostly without recognition. The individual biographical notes of each doctor add to a fascinating story. Women to the Front. Front. the to Women History Victoria Bookshop New Books in store for October 2019 BOOKS
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We welcome Societies to submit an article/event of around 50 words, or email your Around the Newsletter to us and we will write up around 50 words for you around twice per year. Societies FOR THE DECEMBER 2019 ISSUE please send details to Prepared by volunteer Glenda Beckley on [email protected] behalf of the History Victoria Support Group. by 8th November 2019.
AMERICAN EX-SERVICEMEN: A social refreshments provided. the Hawthorn Road Gate, near the corner of organisation of American veterans living in Sheffield St. This is a walk of a difference with Victoria. We meet monthly (except November, BALWYN: On Thursday 10 October at a Boyd family member who will talk about the December and January) on the first Sunday at 8pm, Dr Ros Otzen will speak about Hester amazing Boyd Dynasty and their connection Caulfield RSL, 4 St Georges Road, Elsternwick. Hornbrook, one of the founders of the to other artists who are also buried at the We have lunch at noon, followed by a Melbourne City Mission, which was set up in Brighton Cemetery. With this walk being part meeting around 1pm. We commemorate both 1854 to assist the poor and those in need. She of the Seniors month the cost will be at a very Australian and American holidays and events. managed the Mission from 1856 to 1862. She special price of $5 person. Bookings www. More information can be found at also founded nine Ragged Schools for the trybooking.com/BDZJAs children of the poor in Melbourne between http://www.bartosh.com/amexsvc/index.php 1859 and her death in 1862. On Thursday 14 BUNGAREE: Monday 21 October at 7.30 pm November at 8pm Pete Smith OAM presents, – Guest speaker Graeme Reynolds on doing AUSTRALIAN LEBANESE: The ALHSV has ‘From vaudeville to radio, TV and beyond’. family research. Monday 18 November at been active this year in planning another Pete Smith has had a long and illustrious 6.30pm will be our annual ‘This Is Your Life community seminar. We will be hearing from career on radio and television. He is well and Christmas tea’. three Lebanese food entrepreneurs about the known for his work as announcer, compere, growth of, interest in, and access to Lebanese quiz program host and comedian. Meetings Australia Day will be on us before we know food and flavours across restaurants, bistros are held at the Balwyn Evergreen Centre, 45 it, so if anyone would like to place a plaque and cafes in Victoria: Joseph Abboud (Rumi, Talbot Avenue, Balwyn. on our heritage wall please get in touch at The Moor’s Head, Bar Saracen), Linda Jones [email protected], so that details may (Alimentari), and George Choueri (Soufra Email: [email protected] be sent to the monumental mason before the Foods). We look forward to seeing you at end of November. this event on Sunday 6 October at 2pm website: www.vicnet.net.au/~balwynhs CINEMA AND THEATRE: ‘Back to the Flicks’, for 2.30-4.30 pm at The Rooftop Room at BRIGHTON CEMETORIANS: ‘Boyd Family the Northcote Town Hall. Light Lebanese Saturday 19 October at 2pm. A nostalgic of Artist Walk’, October 20 at 2pm. Meet at look at the history of cinema and the growth
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of ‘picture palaces’ of the yesteryear in have assistance from someone with a Enigmatic Mr Deakin, brings Deakin’s public the leafy eastern suburbs of Melbourne, proven record of preparing and publishing political, inner religious and private domestic many having disappeared with the impact documents, and have the ability and time to roles to life. Deakin developed the property at of television. Presented by Tony Tibballs. work with the Society and agreed timetable. Point Lonsdale both as a place of relaxation Prahran Mechanics Institute, Victorian History If you or someone you know have the and contemplation. It was intended to be a Library, 39 St Edmonds Rd, Prahran. Free skills and interest to assist us, we would place of retreat. At the Uniting Church Hall, event, but bookings are essential. www.pmi. welcome your enquiry. Please email us at cnr Hesse and Stokes Sts Queenscliff, at 10am net.au/events phone: 9510 3393 [email protected] with your for a 10.30am start. Prices: $7 Non-members, expression of interest and experience. $5 Members, includes tea and coffee. CORNISH ASSOCIATION: ‘Separation, Gold and Prosperity: Victoria after the Gold MONASH: ‘Oakleigh-Carnegie RSL 1919- WANDONG: ‘RU Ready? 10 Years On’ is Rush’ presented by Dr Fay Woodhouse on 2019: A Century Honouring and Supporting a collaboration with the Wandong CFA to Saturday 19 October. ‘Cornish Language Veterans’ is an exhibition commemorating increase awareness of local bushfire history Group’, Saturday 16 November. We meet one hundred years of the Oakleigh-Carnegie and community preparedness through at the Oakleigh Baptist Church Hall, at the RSL. A collection of oral histories, as well delivery of photographic display, Emergency corner of Warrigal Road and Moorookyle Ave, as interesting documents and artefacts Kits. This is a community connectedness Oakleigh. More information is available on that depict the important work of the RSL event at the Wandong Memorial Park on our CAV website: http://www.cornishvic.org. in honouring and supporting our soldiers Saturday 19 October commencing at 11.00am. au/ and Facebook page Cornish Downunder following their service in the many conflicts since World War One. Open 10.00am-5.00pm The event is designed to raise our ECHUCA: ‘Fishing the Murray River: Tuesdays and Thursdays until the end of community’s awareness and preparedness Photographs, stories and memorabilia’ is December, Monash Federation Centre, 3 for the upcoming bushfire season and for an exhibition that looks at the history of the Atherton Road, Oakleigh. any future emergency events. As part of that Murray River fishing, from Aboriginal fish preparedness, the Wandong CFA will provide traps to today’s commercial industry and NARRE WARREN FAMILY: The group, in information and advice around ‘Knowing Your recreational fishing. Includes photographs conjunction with the South Eastern Historical Risk’ along with fun activities for all as part of of the ‘Big One’. 1 Dickson Street, Echuca. Society, are holding a free seminar on Sunday their Fire Action Week. Sunday 6 October – 31 January 2020. Open 13 October 13: ‘Cemeteries: Bringing History daily from 10am-2pm. to Life’. Guest speakers include: Jan Rigby The Wandong History Group will, as part of and Lois Comeadow (Brighton Cemetorians), their History Week activities, stage a Post FRIENDS OF GULF STATION: On Saturday Friends of cemeteries groups and Brighton Bushfire Recovery Photographic Exhibition 12 October, 10am-4pm Gulf Station will be Cemetorians, Val Wilson (Mornington & to showcase the community’s resilience as hosting the Victorian Working Draught Horse District HS), Mornington Cemetery and its well as screening our 2019 Commemorative Association (VWDHA). Tour the homestead, website, Libby Skidmore (Bass Valley HS), DVD and unveiling a whole of Wandong garden and outbuildings and watch the Mourning Customs, Jane Rivett-Carnac Primary School artwork. We hope you will working horses in action. There will also (NW&DFHG). You can learn a lot in a cemetery: come along to this special day and would be other displays such as blacksmiths, craft dead men do tell tales, Dr Celestina Sagazio appreciate your RSVP by 16 October to: demonstrations, basket makers, spinners and (SMCT) Interesting cemetery tales and [email protected] weavers, leather makers, bush bands, bush humorous epitaphs. Venue: Cranbourne WARRNAMBOOL FAMILY HISTORY: poetry and food on offer. Tickets: Adult $12, Complex Meeting Room (Casey Radio Station Concession $10, Child $7, Family (2 adults & Cemetery walks 2020. Planning is underway entrance) 1/65 Berwick-Cranbourne Road, for the walks to be conducted next January. 2 children) $35. National Trust members enter Cranbourne East. Reserve your place at: free. 1029 Melba Highway Yarra Glen. The chosen theme is ‘One Hundred Years https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ Ago’. If you know of someone who had a HEIDELBERG: The society is conducting a cemeteries-bringing-history-to-life-tickets- significant event (birth, marriage, death, ‘Mount Eagle Walk’ around the curved streets 62554661677?aff=ebdshpsearchautocom new business, arrival in Australia, etc.) in and hidden parks atop Mount Eagle. It will plete 1920, please let a member of the Committee include information about the aboriginal know about it. The person must, of course, canoe trees, the Eaglemont Estate Company, PORT FAIRY: A new exhibition at the Museum be buried in Warrnambool Cemetery and the ‘Heidelberg School’ of Australian to coincide with The Vintage Weekend in preferably have a headstone. Impressionists, Desbrowe Annear and Walter the town: ‘Port Fairy in the Fifties’. Including Burley Griffin. Cost: $20 per person (includes fashion and accessories, there are items a 24 page booklet). You can pay on the day. worn by our residents in the 1950s, 1950s Dates: two dates to choose from. Saturday streetscapes and scenes featuring the Lillian 5 October at 2.00pm or Sunday 6 October Powling Collection. There are some great 10.00am. fashions on display as well as games and toys, the books we read and the music we Meet at the corner of The Eyrie and Summit listened to and played. Adults $5.00; Children Drive Eaglemont. The walk will take 90- 12 to 18 years $1.00; Children under 12 free. 120 minutes, and some streets are steep. Drop in and see what Port Fairy was like in Booking: please email heidelberg.historical. the 1950’s. Museum opening times: Saturdays [email protected] indicating which day you and Wednesday 2-5 pm, Sundays 10.30am- prefer and the number attending. 12.30pm MALMSBURY: Can you help? The society QUEENSCLIFF: Sunday 20 October, Lynne is planning an update of its publication Leonhardt author of Step Up Mrs Dugdale and ‘Historic Malmsbury: A self-guided tour’. descendant of Henrietta Augusta Dugdale, Due to technical and software difficulties we is launching her book in Queenscliff. This are unable to edit our original publication is an unforgettable portrait of a pioneering and the document will need to be prepared suffragist, a hero for women and a trailblazer from scratch. We have edited text and for her time. On 28 November Professor maps ready to use and we would like to Judith Brett, historian and author of The
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