Hawthorn Historical Society in Hawthorn, Victoria | Community organisation

Hawthorn Historical Society

Locality: Hawthorn, Victoria

Phone: +61 451 830 136

Address: Mailbox 8, Hawthorn Community Precinct, 584 Glenferrie Road 3122 Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

Website: http://hawthornhistoricalsociety.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Three items from Lindsay Paterson relating to St James Park and Hawthorn City Band's amazing contribution to community life over multiple decades. 1917 to 1975 and still going strong.

25.01.2022 1924 Homebush Estate with frontages to Burwood Road, Victoria Road, Langham Place, Nicholson and Homebish Crescent - it must have been a beautiful estate. Once Edward Tyson's "Thornfield", by the 1920s it belonged to Daniel T Bedggood of the bootmaking family Bedggood Co. Images State Library of Victoria and the Argus 1 Nov 1924.

24.01.2022 Something to cheer up Hawthorn residents coping with Covid. This May Gibbs health poster commissioned during the Spanish Flu 100 years ago,(Australian National Archives) and Spoonville seen in Hill Street Hawthorn recently.

24.01.2022 The bridge to Hawthorn and Kew at Victoria Street. State Library of Victoria image.

23.01.2022 Kids on bikes in LE Bray Park in 1980s. HHS Image 2020.15.30 donated by Sandra Torpey.

22.01.2022 Aren't we fortunate to have the Fritsch Holzer reserve - hard to believe it was once a brickyard and then tip.

20.01.2022 Jim Love at Boroondara Cemetery, 30th October 2020

19.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/124477247718523/posts/1858429100989987/

19.01.2022 Hawthorn Bridge. Some earlier photos.

18.01.2022 Wendy Evans has sent these photos of the Hawthorn Rifle Club trophy won by her grandfather Charles Cuzens in 1925-26. A report in the Argus in 1926 comments on this young and promising marksman.

16.01.2022 Where am I? How well do you know Hawthorn?

14.01.2022 Some of Hawthorn's fine young footballers of 110 years ago in article talking about the origins of the cricket and football clubs, The Age 6th January 1934.

12.01.2022 Teresa Hinde who lived briefly in Hawthorn during her childhood is looking for photos of Wakefield Street around 1967/68 and class photos from that time of Glenferrie Primary. She says: "If memory serves me right I think I was in grade 1 (1967 Miss Hessler?) then grade 2 (1968 Miss Lawson?)"

10.01.2022 The stolen flag? I came across this article in the Herald Sun from 1991. Was the Hawks' flag ever found? I laughed when I read it had been stolen from a Church.

03.01.2022 Hawthorn West Preschool. Photo from the 1970s and one from more recent times. The kinder suffered from a fire in the 1950s and was rebuilt.

01.01.2022 Children in St James Park. April 1950. HHS Image 2020.15.40 donated by Sandra Torpey