A new memoir has been added to the local history collection in Ivanhoe Library. A Tribe of Angels: coming of age in Melbourne by Russell Beedles is an "evocation of daily life in Melbourne during the 1940s and 1950s". Part one of this autobiographical memoir centres on his childhood in Ivanhoe. Photos from the Beedles Family collection living in Ivanhoe are in the collection of . . . more »

The Next meeting of the Heidelberg Historical Society is a talk entititled Finding Fairy Hills: Using local records for Historical Research by Susan Reidy on Tuesday 8th June 2010, 8pm Uniting Church Community Centre, Seddon St, Ivanhoe. Fairy Hills is a small residential place in the south-western corner of Ivanhoe. The name referes to just a few streets above the junction of the Yarra River . . . more »