Sharing experiences of Black Saturday

During the next couple of weeks local libraries will be collecting stories of Black Saturday to be preserved on Wikinorthia

Jim recently shared his story of loosing his beloved horse Henry.

For more information about recording your story on Wikinorthia visit the website or your local library.

Photo Preservation Workshop

Learn how to preserve your precious photographs for generations to come. Do those old photos in your collection need special attention? Come along to the Photo Preservation Workshop and join Detlev Lueth, a conservation industry and leading photo and paper conservator, for an informative afternoon and learn how to preserve those precious memories. People are encouraged to bring their family photographs for a conservation assessment.

Date and time: Saturday 11th July 2009, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Cost: Free. All welcome. Places limited, Bookings Essential.
Location: Mill Park Library, 394 Plenty Road, MILL PARK
Melway: Map 10 C2
Contact: Cultural Heritage Officer 9217 2377
Email: events@whittlesea.vic.gov.au

Did you Know?
That the three major contributors to fading of photographic prints are ozone in the air, fluorescent light and water all of which are abundantly available in the atmosphere.

Heritage Walk along Plenty River

As part of Eltham & District Historical Society's regular series of heritage walks, the July walk will be along the Plenty River. It will include sites of historic interest along the river at Lower Plenty, Viewbank and Yallambie.

The walk will be on Saturday 4th July and will commence at 2pm on the western side of the old main road bridge in Old Lower Plenty Road, Viewbank (Melway Ref. 20 K9). Anyone wanting transport from Eltham should meet at the Eltham Local History Centre at 1.45pm. The walk will take about two hours. The distance will be between 3 and 4kilometres, going first downstream to the locality of the original ford, then upstream to view “Yallambie” homestead, both from the street and the river parkland at the rear.

Anne Paul and members of the Friends of the Lower Plenty River will also be attendance to add their insight. The walk is open to Society members and the public. There is no charge.

Ring Russell on 9439 9717 to advise if you are coming or for further information. The phone number for contact on the day is 0409 021 063.

Heritage Victoria twitters

The internet certainly opens up the way people can connect with the past. Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and more makes it enjoyable and fun and enables you to connect with people and information you are also interested in. There has been a lot of comments about Twitter recently. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Heritage Victoria provides news from its website and any other news that comes to hand. Visit it here.

Do you twitter? Would you like Local History and Family History services at YPRL to communicate in this way?