Victoria’s Earliest Potteries

RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , Australia

We are delighted that Gregory Hill, a leading authority on both Australian Colonial Pottery and Australian Art Pottery, will be delivering a lunch-time lecture on Victoria’s Earliest Potteries. 

$10 – $20

Growing up in Burwood and Box Hill.

Bert Lewis Room, first floor, Box Hill Library 1040 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, Australia

Our speaker is internationally known architect Karl Fender OAM. Founding Partner of multiple award winning Fender Katsalidis Architects, Karl will share memories from his life in Burwood and Box Hill from the 50s to the 70s, from building play huts to building houses, from driving billy carts to driving horse drawn milk carts in the
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Gold coin donation

Alphonsus Vincent (Phonse) Tobin – Irish (and North Melbourne) to his core.

North Melbourne Library 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Talk by Des Tobin – ‘A. V. (Phonse) Tobin – Irish (and North Melbourne) to his core. Alphonsus Vincent Tobin (1905–1993), funeral director and football administrator, was born on 23 August 1905 in Melbourne, third of six surviving children of Irish-born Thomas Tobin, labourer, and his Victorian-born second wife Alice, née O’Dowd. Phonse’s twin brother,
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Museums Victoria Glen Eira Collection

Join via Zoom

Museums Victoria Senior Curator, Deborah Tout-Smith will share stories and photographs of the Glen Eira area, including rare photographs of the urban landscape, shops and businesses, sport and recreation, and key events such as WWI. She will also introduce treasures from the Museum’s clothing and textiles collection. This talk follows the AGM of Glen Eira
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gold coin donation

Photographic Display and Research Day

Box Hill Town Hall community hub 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, Australia

As part of Open House weekend, we will host a photographic display of Box Hill houses, showcasing many of the homes that no longer exist, as well as some outstanding examples of local landmarks. As well, our premises will be open for research, whether of a house, a family or a community group or business.
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Free

Secondhand & Collectables Book Sale

Box Hill Town Hall, lower hall 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, Australia

Our inaugural collectable and secondhand book sale will take place from 11am to 2pm on Sunday 28 July, in the lower hall of the Box Hill Town Hall. The Friends of Nunawading Libraries (FONL) will be joining us to create a large collection of books for readers to chose from, all at reasonable prices. Subjects
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Free

CORONERS, CONSTABULARY AND CRIME TOUR AT ST KILDA CEMETERY

St Kilda Cemetery Dandenong Road & Hotham Street, St Kilda East, Vic, Australia

Sunday 28 July 2019 at 2.00pm. Come and join the Friends of St Kilda Cemetery on this terrific walk around the cemetery for an insight into the work of police officers, coroners, unusual deaths and murders. Cost $15 including afternoon tea. Meet at main gates, Dandenong Road. Bookings email: info@foskc.org tel: 0422379053

$15

Sunday Talk with the La Trobe Society

Mueller Hall, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, Australia

'THE PARSON'S WIFE'': IN SEARCH OF HARRIET BEAN, DAUGHTER OF EMPIRE Speaker : Loreen Chambers, Vice-President of the C J La Trobe Society Harriet Battley was born to a military family in Jamaica which moved to the Cape Colony where she was orphaned at 6 years of age. She later shared the changing fortunes of
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$10

Annual General Meeting

Our AGM will be held at the Old Lilydale Court House, 3rd August 2019 at 1pm