November is Local History month at Yarra Plenty Regional Library. Special events are running at most branches. Please check our events calandar and @Your Library brochure for more details. Eltham Library Eltham - Then and Now Thursday 3 November 6.30pm-7.30pm. Jim Connor from Eltham District Historical Society will be looking at the changes in Eltham over the last 150 years through the use of early . . . more »

Join Eltham District Historical Society members on their next local heritage walk. The predominant feature of this walk in the Bonds Roadarea, Lower Plenty is the large number of magnificent old River Red Gums that line the route. The walk also includes parts of the historic Cleveland Estate and Henry Stooke’s “Rosehill” homestead as described in the separate historical article in this Newsletter. From the . . . more »

In partnership with the 2011 Banyule Senior’s Festival - Saturday 29 - 30 October Saturday is Show and Tell – discover the treasures of Greensborough with photographs, stories and artefacs. Sunday – Join the popular historical walk in Greensborough and along the Plenty River finding out who lived where and what they got up to back in the 1800s. It’s not always pleasant! Followed by . . . more »

In partnership with the 2011 Banyule Senior’s Festival Saturday is Show and Tell – discover the treasures of Greensborough with photographs, stories and artefacs. Sunday – Join the popular historical walk in Greensborough and along the Plenty River finding out who lived where and what they got up to back in the 1800s. It’s not always pleasant! Followed by afternoon tea and music by local . . . more »

Eltham Library St Margaret’s Anglican Church, Eltham: celebrating 150 years by Goeffrey A SandyThe author will give insight into the life and times of St Margaret’s Church and reveal why the first vicar was forced out of office, and will reveal the Church’s treasures at Eltham Library on Thursday 17 November 10.30 am as part of Local History Month. Illuminations: The Alan Marshall Short story . . . more »

This is a terrific effort by a local and family historian who offers free photographs of headstones for mostly country cemeteries in her database of Victorian cemeteries. These cemeteries are listed on her website together with the names on the headstones. The latest addition to this is the Kangaroo Ground Cemetery Other local cemeteries include Donnybrook Epping Greensborough Old Heidelberg Queenstown Thomastown Lutheran Yan Yean . . . more »