Current Issue
Issue #235 – Aug 2017
- History Matters by Jim Connor
- 9th August Meeting – The Shallards of Montmorency
- Heritage Excursion – Saturday 2nd September – An Eltham South Ramble
- Montmorency Guiding Memories by Jean Ryan
- Percy Leason: An Artist’s Life by Margot Tasca – Book review by Russell Yeoman
- Eltham District Historical Society: Russell Yeoman by Jim Connor
- 40 Years of Environmental Living by Janet Mattiske
- Membership Subscriptions
- Wellers Hotel of Kangaroo Ground – Part 1 by Jim Allen
- Morrison Kleeman Real Estate
- Our Sponsors
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Past Issues
Issue #234 – Jun 2017
- A Hotel or two! by Jim Connor
- 14th June Meeting – Walter Withers in Eltham
- Heritage Excursion – Saturday 1st July – Eltham Lower Park – Walk and Talk
- Some Important Changes – Please Note
- Whatever happened to Jailhouse Rock? by Maureen Jones
- Support from Eltham Rotary
- Eltham District Historical Society: Alistair Knox by Jim Connor
- Round the Bend Conservation Co-operative Ltd (The Co-op.)
- Not Far Away
- Subscriptions
- Office Bearers 2017-2018
- One Hundred Years Ago: Eltham and District – January-December 2017 by Liz Pidgeon
- Victorian Collections
- Our Sponsors
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #233 – Apr 2017
- With a little help from our friends by Jim Connor
- Annual General Meeting – Wednesday 12th April 2017
- May Excursion – Eltham South Ramble
- Don’t Forget
- Audrey Josephine Cahn by Richard Pinn
- Eltham District Historical Society: Stanley Simpson Addison
- . . . . the story continues! by Jim Connor
- The Christmas Hills Motorcycle Scramble Track by Jim Allen
- What Were They Like? by Joan Castledine
- Annual General Meeting (Notice and Agenda)
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #232 – Feb 2017
- 1967 – A Year of Change by Jim Connor
- Our Next Meeting – Wednesday 8th February (Trivia Night)
- Open Day at Our Local History Centre – Saturday 4th March
- The Shillinglaw Legacy by Russell Yeoman
- Eltham District Historical Society by Jim Connor
- Eltham Racecourse by Brian Membrey
- The Eltham Report 1856
- 2017 Program
- Victorian Collections
- … and also
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #231 – Dec 2016
- Our Past, Present and Future by Jim Connor
- A Peal of Bells by Mal Harrop
- Eltham’s First Policeman by Jim Allen
- Eltham NSW – Railway Cottage by Richard Pinn
- Our Christmas Function
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #230 – Oct 2016
- Our History by Jim Connor
- Our Next Meeting – Wednesday 12th October
- Heritage Excursion – Kileavey Walk and Talk – Saturday 5th November
- The Festive Reason by Mal Harrop
- History of Maroondah Aqueduct Pipe Bridge over the Plenty River at Greensborough by Anne Paul
- One Hundred Years Ago: Eltham and District – July-December 1916 by Liz Pidgeon
- From the Hurstbridge Advertiser 2 March 1923
- Refurbishment of our Local History Centre
- … and also
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #229 – Aug 2016
- The Society’s 50th Anniversary 2017 by Russell Yeoman
- Our Next Meeting – Wednesday 10th August; ‘Creators, Makers and Shakers’
- Heritage Excursion – Maroondah Aqueduct Walk – Saturday 3rd September
- Eltham District’s Early History
- The Eltham Barrel by Jim Allen
- Eltham Taps Run Dry
- A Footnote on Shoestring
- Membership Subscriptions
- The Little Church in St Helena by Maureen Smith
- St Katherine’s Church in St Helena
- Beauty Spots
- … and also
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #228 – Jun 2016
- ‘Shoestring’ by Jim Connor
- Our Next Meeting – Wednesday 8th June
- Heritage Excursion – Back-track walk to Fitzsimons Lane – Saturday 2nd July
- Crossing the Yarra at Eltham by Russell Yeoman
- One Hundred Years Ago: Eltham and District – January-June 1916 by Liz Pidgeon
- Recent Book Releases
- Subscriptions
- Office Bearer 2016-2017
- … and also
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #227 – Apr 2016
- Eltham District – Early History
- Annual General Meeting – Laughing Waters
Road: Art, Landscape and Memory in Eltham with Jane Woollard - Heritage Excursion – Eltham War Memorials Walk – Saturday 7th May
- An Interesting Little Historical Exercise by Michael Aitken
- Eltham’s Inclined Railway by Richard Pinn
- 50th Anniversary Commemorations by Jim Connor
- Kenneth Francis Pitts by Wendy Pitts-Butler
- Notice of Annual General Meeting
- The Evelyn Observer
- Kangaroo Ground War Memorial Tower
- … and also
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #226 – Feb 2016
- Every building has a history by Jim Connor
- February Meeting – Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photo Collection
- Heritage Excursion – Saturday 5th March – Eltham Cemetery
- The Australian Blue Book by Jim Connor
- Old Postcards of Eltham by Michael Aitken
- Rob Roy by Jim Allen
- Cranky Jimmy’s Ghost
- 2016 Program
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #225 – Nov 2015
- 1970 in Retrospect by Jim Connor
- November Meeting – A Virtual Eltham Literary Tour
- ANZAC Centenary interpretive signage
- November Excursion – Panorama Heights Walk
- Young History
- Book Review – Montmorency – The Farm on the Plenty by Jim Connor
- Our new banner and the Eltham Festival
- A Lively Researcher from Research by Adrian Jones
- Our Christmas Function
- ….and also
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #224 – Sep 2015
- A Currawong Takes Flight
- September Meeting – Nillumbik Tales: Voices of our Elders
- September Excursion – Research Aqueduct Walk
- The Wackett Brothers by Jim Allen
- Picnic at Wattle Glen by Richard Pinn
- Murray’s Land
- ….and also
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #223 – Jul 2015
- The Eltham Racing Club
- July Meeting
- July Excursion – Montmorency – the farm on the Plenty
- Building and Completion of Saint Margaret’s Church 1860-2014 by Geoff Sandy
- Miss Bessie Wingrove – that Queer Creature Called a Land Lover by Maureen Jones
- Eltham Avenue of Honour – Launch of New Markers by Jim Connor
- Membership Subscriptions
- ….and also
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #222 – May 2015
- The Eltham Rural Group by Jim Connor
- May Meeting – Eltham Libraries
- May Excursion – Murray’s Farm, Eltham North
- Farming in the Shire of Eltham by Ross Macmillan
- The Tower of Remembrance – Kangaroo Ground Memorial Park
- Diana Bassett Smith – Life Membership
- Annual General Meeting
- ….and also
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #221 – Mar 2015
- Benjamin Wallis and The Eltham Hotel by Russell Yeoman
- March Meeting – Annual General Meeting
- March Excursion – Belle Vue Farm Walk
- Walter Frederick Beard by Jim Allen
- Ellis Cottage Celebrates 150 Years
- More on the Movies by Maureen Jones
- Annual General Meeting – Agenda
- Our new online presence
- …..and also
- Contacts for the Eltham District Historical Society
Issue #220 – Jan 2015
- Big Pond by Liz Pidgeon
- February Meeting
- News from Eltham UK
- A Trip to Balee by Richard Pinn
- Fishing for a Name by Maureen Jones
- 2015 Program
- Book Review – Montsalvat by Sigmund Jorgensen
Issue #219 – Nov 2014
- Remembering The Shire Of Eltham – 20 Years On by Russell Yeoman
- November Meeting
- November Excursions
- Madam Pietzcker by Jim Allen
- Nillumbik Tales – Voices of our Elders
- Local History Centre, 728 Main Road, Eltham
- At the Movies by Maureen Jones
- Kangaroo Ground Tower of Remembrance by Amy Shaw
- Can you identify this Building?
- Nillumbik ANZAC Book Project
- Our Christmas Function
Issue #218 – Sep 2014
- Eltham Living and Learning Centre
- September Meeting
- September Excursion – East of Eltham Walk
- Have you discovered Trove? by Liz Pidgeon
- Fabbro Farm Art Project
- Eltham Library – 20th Anniversary Celebration
- Henry Gilbert Jones: an early Eltham settler……..and an amazing coincidence by Michael Aitken
- Street by Street
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