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Current Issue

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

Past Issues

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