We’d like to invite our members and friends to an old-fashioned slide night!

Our Publications Committee, volunteers and staff have been working hard on producing a new edition of Weston Bate’s immensely popular 1994 publication, Essential but Unplanned, The Story of Melbourne’s Lanes. It is an exciting project which has already delivered to the RHSV some major serendipitous benefits which we want to celebrate and share with our members although the book itself will be released in 2024.

Richard Broome has been working with the U3A Hawthorn Camera Club to update some of the laneway images for the new edition and through this connection we’ve been offered some extraordinary collections of contemporary images of Melbourne’s lanes.

In an evening hosted by our President, Richard Broome, three different curated collections of CBD images will be presented on the night:

• The U3A Hawthorn Camera Club is donating their 2,000 digital images of laneways to the RHSV for the new lanes book and also for our collection. They will present a selection of their best photos;
• Peter Grimm, an avid photographer, has been been documenting Melbourne’s CBD and especially its laneway street art since 2007. Peter is donating some 8,000 digital images of contemporary Melbourne to the RHSV. Peter too has the unenviable task of selecting the best of his 8,000! Peter will talk too about the creation of this stunning collection;
• And finally, Dr Roland Burke, senior lecturer in World History at La Trobe University has been creating 3-D photographs of Melbourne’s lanes and he will present some of his images and talk about this process.

Join us for refreshments, to meet the photographers and to enjoy a small sample of these massive new collections generously donated to the RHSV.