As part of the Whitehorse Healthy Heritage Week, the Box Hill and Surrey Hills Historical Societies are conducting a bus tour of the sites of former and current medical services in the Box Hill/Surrey Hills area. The tour includes a visit and refreshments at Hethersett, a former WW1 rehabilitation hospital, now part of the PLC
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Visit our exhibition, be entertained and informed by our speakers, and check out our databases. See historic items loaned by Bolton Clarke (the Royal District Nursing Service), Box Hill Hospital, Red Cross, St John Ambulance and Kew Historical Society. Were any of your family members struck down with influenza in 1919? Historian Mary Sheehan will
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Visit our exhibition, be entertained and informed by our speakers, and check out our databases. See historic items loaned by Bolton Clarke (the Royal District Nursing Service), Box Hill Hospital, Red Cross, St John Ambulance and Kew Historical Society. Were any of your family members struck down with an infectious disease in the past? Diphtheria,
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As part of the Whitehorse Heritage Week, the Box Hill and Surrey Hills Historical Societies are conducting a tour of the Box Hill Cemetery. Visit the graves of one of the first osteopaths in Australia; learn about a victim of the 1919 flu epidemic; hear about some well-loved doctors and nurses, and the details of
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Test the health of your brain cells and the extent of your trivia knowledge with our quiz master Rev Shane Hubner, and help raise funds for the digitization of the Box Hill Reporter so all can read it online at Trove, the National Library’s website. Team and individual prizes to be won. This event is
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Dr Edward Brentnall OAM joined Box Hill Hospital in 1975 and was a major player in the evolution of emergency medicine following the introduction of Medicare and an increased demand for hospital services. This talk is part of the Whitehorse Heritage Week activities organised by the Box Hill Historical Society. No booking necessary.

To coincide with the beginning of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day in March, our tour will focus on women in Box Hill cemetery. We will visit the graves of a variety of women, from nurses, teachers and artists to pioneers of women’s organisations. Come along and learn about the part that some women
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As 2021 is the centenary of the formation of Rotary in Australia, it is fitting to hear about the history of the organisation, both nationally and in our local area. Our guest speaker, Robert Leach, is currently the treasurer of the Club and has had a long involvement with it, having formerly served as both
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Dr Gary Presland, FRHSV, and President of the Society, has done a particular study of the natural history of the Melbourne area. He will speak about one of the prime examples in Melbourne of the way in which natural streams have been amended by European settlement.

Box Hill Historical Society kicks off 2024 with a talk by prominent literary critic, journalist and author Helen Elliott. Helen spent some time working in the Box Hill Library, commencing in 1965. She will speak of her memories of Box Hill. Copies of her memoir, Eleven Letters to You, will be available for sale at
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