by gehs | Aug 25, 2021 | News & Events
Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp Through the years of the Great Depression and beyond, the wetlands, rubbish tips and shanties of Dudley Flats, a neglected zone hidden in plain sight just a stone’s throw away from central...
by gehs | Aug 14, 2021 | History
From sand, swamp and heath…A history of Caulfield, Peter R Murray and John C Wells, (City of Caulfield, 1980) Street and Road names.pdf
by gehs | Jun 17, 2021 | News & Events
A New Look at the History of the Caulfield Racecourse Presented by Historian Andrew Lemon Register here for Zoom meeting In this talk, racing historian Andrew Lemon – author of the three volume The History of Australian Thoroughbred Racing – will look at...
by gehs | Apr 15, 2021 | News & Events
From sanatoria to urban bushland: An environmental history of Melbourne’s former sites of tuberculosis treatment. A talk by Environmental Historian, Rebecca Le Get. Location: This event will now be presented on Zoom. Please email gehs@optusnet.com.au and we will send...
by gehs | Feb 19, 2021 | History
84-86 Orrong Road, Elsternwick https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/428 The first meetings of what was to become the Caulfield Union Church began in July 1856 in the home of Mr Thomas Watts. These were the first religious meetings of any denomination to be...
