After some delay Public Records Office Victoria have announced the successful applicants in the most recent Local History Grants Program 2010-2011 Local groups have been successful. Congratulations to Whittlesea Historical Society (City of Whittlesea) for their Whittlesea Township walking tour project and St Andrews/Queenstown Historical Society (Shire of Nillumbik) for their Computer Database project. . . . more »

Whittlesea Historical Society cordially invites you to a talk by Lindsay Mann entiteld "Tales of Old Melbourne Town!" Wednesday 14 April 2010 at 8 pm Christ Church Hall, Wallan Road, Whittlesea (behind the Church) What was Melbourne first called? Not what you might think. Which official had to beg, for a departmental dunny door? Where was Melbourne's magnificent manure heap situated? Which condemned men rode . . . more »