Greensborough Historical Society Open Day and Book Launch

Members of the community are invited to the Greensborough Historical Society's Heritage Day 2017 to be held Saturday 28th October.  This will include a walk through the Yandell Reserve at 1.00pm to be followed by the launch of their latest book: "Do you Recall?" at 2.00pm at Greenhills Neighbourhood House, Community Drive, Greensborough.  Enjoy afternoon tea following the formalities.

This new book is a second volume to the hugely successful As I recall featuring 26 stories of life in the Greensborough District over the years which was published in 2013.

All welcome.

Further details at: Greensborough Historical Society.

Greensborough Pioneer Robert Whatmough

Greensborough Pioneer Robert Whatmough will be the subject of the next meeting of the Greensborough Historical Society to be held on Saturday 24th June 2017, at 1:15 pm at Greenhills Neighbourhood House, Community Drive, Greensborough.

Jacinta Crealy will be speaking on the life and times of her Great-great-great grandfather Robert Whatmough, whose name is the source of Greensborough’s most popular sporting venue, Whatmough Park.  She has recently written a book on her family history and copies will be available for purchase.

On the following day, Sunday 25th The Society will conduct a walk along the Plenty River highlighting venues associated with Robert Whatmough. Contact the Society for details.
Robert’s obituary appeared in The Leader 8th Oct 1887.

Queen’s Honour to Greensborough historian

The Order of Australia in the General Division was recently awarded in the Queen's Birthday Honour list to Mrs Valerie Wilson. Val now a resident of Mornington has a long time connection to the Greensborough area and has been active in the Greensborough Historical Society, especially in its establishment period during 2010. She has also been involved in other local heritage activities. Visit the It's an Honour Website. Congratulations Val.

Image: Methodist Church, Main Street, Greensborough. Site of new shopping complex before construction in 1983. The Church was built in 1872. Date of photograph unknown.

Diamond Valley Local History Digitisation Project (Yarra Plenty Regional Library)

Preserving and sharing local history

Local organizations will reap the benefits from successful applications via the Local History Grants Program announced today by the Minister of the Arts Heidi Victoria.

 Congratulations to Shire of Nillumbik for its Nillumbik Heritage Boioklet update project and the Greensborough Historical Society for the production of a website.

Springthorpe Owners Corporation based in Bundoora on the border of Banyule and Darebin has also received successful funding for their heritage project.

More information on the successful organisations and their projects can be found on the Premier's website.

New Local History Titles

New additions to the local history collections at Yarra Plenty Regional Library recently include:

As I recall: a collection of stories country to suburbia published by theGreensborough Historical Society.  Stories from long term residents ofGreensborough, Watsonia, Macleod, Bundoora, Grace Park, Montmorency and Briar Hill have been gathered together and reflect the development of the area over the years. 

Copies for loan are also available.  You can also purchase a copy direct from the Greensborough Historical Society

Whittlesea U3A have produced a publication to honour its tenth anniversary Now, then & in between  

Find it in the Mill Park Library local history collection.

The Nillumbik Historical Society have updated two of their publications including:

Pub Crawl: around Diamond Creek’ s historic pubs which was first published in 2001 and

Then came gold: a history of the Diamond Creek Gold Mine first published in 2001.  Find these titles in the local history collection at Diamond Valley Library.

Little bloody Jimmy: the ripples of my childhood by Jim Poulter who recounts his childhood growing up in Ivanhoe. Loan copies available

Greensborough on Victorian Collections

Greensborough Historical Society were recently acknowledged by Museum Victoria as the most prolific contributor to Victorian Collections by a volunteer group. The event held at ACMI was attended by the Minster for Arts Heidi Victoria. On accepting the award the Society’s President Mr Noel Withers said:
" It is with great pleasure that I accept this award on behalf of the Greensborough Historical Society. Though I am merely the person who shouts words of encouragement, our Archivist Sue Ballantyne couldn't be here tonight due to a prior commitment but it is Sue who with a dedicated band of workers each Thursday allocate numbers, photograph, scan and then key relevant details of our ever expanding collection into Victorian Collections.
We are probably the youngest group represented here tonight having formed 3 years ago which allowed us to use the Victorian Collection from its earliest days.
It is important to us that we get local history out to the wider community and now along with our talks to schools, local community groups and our guided walks we now have another avenue to do this, via "Victorian collections".
To all those associated with Museum Victoria especially Victorian Collection I say keep up the good work and I thank you."
Congratulations to all involved at the Greensborough Historical Society. Visit their collection at Victorian Collections
GHS is one of many active volunteer groups in our community collecting and preserving local history and its stories. To locate local history in Yarra Plenty’s region see this list.

Swimming in Greensborough

Were you one of the thousands of people who learned to swim at the Greensborough outdoor swimming pool?  Greensborough Historical Society recently set up a new display on the history of swimming in the district at Diamond Valley Library at the rear of the Local History collection cabinet. 

The display includes photographs and historical newspaper articles from  the days of swimming in the Plenty River to the opening of the new WaterMarc facility.

Greensborough Historical Society Inc.

Heritage Forum

Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th October

from 12.30 to 4.30pm

in conjunction with the

Diamond Valley Learning Centre

Greensborough Park

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Saturday is an Information Day with displays and a talk about our diverse and interesting past.

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Sunday will be a walk up along the Plenty River finding out who lived where and there roll in Greensborough's Development

Followed by afternoon tea and live music

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Bookings Essential for the walk

 Ring 9435 4513 or DVLC 9435 9060

Lower Plenty River Walk

Greensborough Historical Society presents a Lower Plenty River Walk
Date: Sunday - 1st May 2011 at 1:00pm
Meeting place: Old Lower Plenty River bridge
Duration: 2 to 2½ hours
Cost: Gold coin donation would be appreciated
Recommended footwear: Good walking shoes
Bookings not required. A courtesy email to say you will be there would be appreciated to info@greensboroughhistoricalsociety.org.au.

Society committee member and local historian, Ann Paul, will conduct an informative walk along the lower reaches of the Plenty River at Lower Plenty. Ann has for many years extensively researched the early history of this part of the river and township and has conducted a number of similar walks over the years.

Ann has prepared informative notes for the walking trail which will be available on the day. The walk will cover indigenous and European colonial history.

Greensborough Historical Society

The Greensborough Historical Society is running one of their Heritage Forums again this Saturday. Speakers include local teacher and historian Felicity Williams who has researched the WW1 diggers of Greensborough. For more information on the Greensborough War Memorial check out the Wikinorthia article. There will also be a speaker on using family history resources. More details at the Greensborough Historical Society blog

Greensborough Historical Society

Congratulations to the newly formed Greensborough Historical Society. Though not wanting to put boundaries on history it is envisaged that the society would cover Greensborough, Briar Hill, St Helena, Watsonia and parts of Bundoora.