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Footscray Historical Society

Locality: Footscray, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9689 3820

Address: 66 Napier Street - Ercildoune 3011 Footscray, VIC, Australia

Website: https://footscrayhistoricalsociety.org.au

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24.01.2022 This article about Bruno Bazec by Simone Fox Koob may be of interest to residents of Yarraville. https://www.theage.com.au//a-kind-soul-and-humble-bruno-ba

24.01.2022 We accept Donations of this coin and others......This will help us to show our communities and beyond our very rich culture and history....

23.01.2022 We acknowledge the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation. We acknowledge the people of the Kulin nation as traditional custodians of the lands on which the City of Maribyrnong is located and where we conduct our business. We pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present. We are committed to honouring Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to society.

21.01.2022 Zach Hope's article published in today's Age mentions Mrs E Newton of Yarraville and her initiative to help contain the Spanish flu epidemic in 1919.

20.01.2022 https://blog.myheritage.com//how-to-interview-a-relative-/

19.01.2022 Remembering a tragedy that devastated so many from the western suburbs.

19.01.2022 The Sun Bookshop has copies of Warren Kirk's latest book 'Northside'. During pandemic restrictions, the Sun's contactless deliveries to local area are second to none. https://scribepublications.com.au/books-aut/books/northside

17.01.2022 Hyde Street Youth Band Footscray

17.01.2022 This re-enactment 17 years ago.......of the Robbins and Grimes Re-enactment 2003

17.01.2022 This article by Kirsten Wright and Antonina Lewis may be of interest to you, especially if you attended Footscray Tech in the 1950s. //prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/provenance-journal/provenance-2010/where-fire-risks-are-great

16.01.2022 So many Unique historical places from the old City of Footscray have been lost in recent years! How could this one be saved? Yarraville Pigeon Racing Club

16.01.2022 Our ultimate aim at FHS - Footscray Historical Society is to aspire to a Digitisation process that follows the processing standards of the SLV - State Library of Victoria, RHSV - Royal Historical Society of Victoria, FAHS - Federation of Australian Historical Societies, PROV - Public Records Office of Victoria, and of a consistent standard that 'will simply dovetail into these libraries'......

14.01.2022 Thanks to Dan Willis of Old Australian Photos+Pinterest+Walking Melbourne-for finding+sharing this great photo of some of the Local Butchers of Nicholson St Footscray in 1910......

13.01.2022 Fresh in my inbox is an invitation from the National Trust of Australia to delve into World War II history online. Among the 18 sites on the WWII webpage is the Explosives Factory Maribyrnong. I'm sure you'll enjoy artist Sybil Craig's documentation of women employed in this hive of activity. https://wwiiathome.com.au/efm.html

11.01.2022 Bell hangers and nightmen, leech merchants and lightermen - these are just some of the 19th-century characters you may find lurking within the pages of a Sands ...& McDougall directory. Explore the buildings, people and occupations recorded in these directories through time on our blog: blogs.slv.vic.gov.au//time-travelling-with-sands-mcdougall/

11.01.2022 From the National Library of Australia - NLA Just a reminder that, if you missed it live, our Family History For Beginners webinar is now available for budding genealogists to watch at your leisure. Link via our YouTube: https://bit.ly/35LvO4F

10.01.2022 A Seat is Reserved for you

09.01.2022 Congratulations Warren Kirk. We can only guess at how much time and effort has gone into your publication 'Northside: A Time and Place'. This week's edition of The Age, Spectrum magazine allows us to sample the work of an artist the west can proudly claims as its own. Christos Tsiolkas has just the right words to introduce Kirk's collection of truly captivating photographs. I'm pretty confident the Sun Bookshop will have copies for sale from Tuesday. https://www.theage.com.au//the-beauty-in-melbourne-s-north

08.01.2022 Simone Fox Koob pays her respects to Ann Elizabeth Holmes of Yarraville (The Age, 28 Sept 2020). Note that The Age invites its readers to contribute stories along these lines for its 'Loved & Lost' segment.

07.01.2022 Yarraville Gardens - looking good...

07.01.2022 Come take a tour of Ercildoune as part of Open House Melbourne. Scroll down Footscray Town Hall page to Ercildoune tour.

04.01.2022 Vacuum Oil was located at the mouth of Stony Creek. - photo courtesy Carmel TAIG (taken at Evandale Market)

03.01.2022 Footscray-Yarraville City Band

03.01.2022 I've just done the virtual tour of the Public Records Office Victoria. It may be of interest to you too. https://www.youtube.com/watch