by gehs | Sep 25, 2024 | History, News & Events
Here are some events of interest including our own Caulfield’s Racecourse exhibition: Caulfield’s Racecourse exhibition, Glen Eira Council Gallery, Gallery Two 3-27 October 2024...
by gehs | Mar 27, 2024 | History, News & Events
50 Glass Slides digitised In 1910 The Jesters played at Arcadia on the Esplanade, St Kilda A collection of 50 gelatin coated plate glass negatives were donated to us over 30 years ago, by Brian Gales who at the time was caretaker and trustee of the Brighton Cemetery....
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 | 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...
by admin | Jul 31, 2020 | History
By J. O’Donnell, B.A., B.Ed. The history of most of eastern part of the City of Caulfield is as old as that of the west, and is less obvious to the beholder as few large mansions were erected in the area. Probably the best-known and most ‘romantic’ aspect of its past...
by admin | Jul 31, 2020 | History
By J. O’Donnell, B.A., B.Ed. One of the Glen Eira’s largest old mansions, ‘Myoora’, stands in Alma Road near its intersection with Hawthorn and Dandenong Roads. Like ‘Craigellachie’ in Orrong Road, it is the result of its owner’s good fortune on the goldfields. In...
