Venue to be advised.

Our AGM will be held at the Yorkshire Stingo Hotel in Abbotsford on Tuesday 3 September, preceded by dinner. The guest speaker will be Emeritus Redmond Barry Professor Janet McCalman AC, talking about the history of slum clearances and public housing and the lessons that can be learned from history in relation to recent housing […]

Our next meeting will be held via Zoom. Members will be sent the agenda and the Zoom link a day or two before the meeting. If you are not a member but would like to attend, please email us from the Contact Us page and we will send you the information.

Our annual History Walk is held on the second Saturday in November and looks at a different area each year. This year it will be covering part of west Clifton Hill. The starting point is the bandstand in the Darling Gardens, Clifton Hill. While the Walk proper takes about two hours, we will retire to […]

Our first meeting for the year will be a practical session to report on activities, review issues such as planning processes and heritage protection in Yarra, and plan our projects for 2025. Members will be sent the agenda and other papers a few days prior to the date. Non-members are welcome to attend.

This ordinary meeting will be held online using Zoom. Members will receive the notice papers and Zoom link a few days prior to the meeting date. If you are not a member but would like to attend, please write to us from the Contact Us page, and we will then email you the papers.

Our next meeting will be held on Monday 16 June at 7:30 pm. Members will be sent a Zoom link prior to the meeting. If you are not a member but would like to attend, email us from the "Contact Us" page.

Our annual dinner and AGM, followed by a guest speaker, will be held at the Yorkshire Stingo Hotel on Tuesday 19 August. Our guest speaker will be Dr Bart Ziino from Deakin University on the topic: Enlisting and Resisting: Why did Australian men decline to enlist in the Great War? While more than three hundred […]

Our meeting will be held on Monday 20 October at 7:30 pm. at Collingwood Library, 11 Stanton Street Abbotsford. This is a working meeting to report on projects and activities and plan for future work. Non-members are welcome to attend.

Note we had to cancel due to the rainy windy weather. Some members and friends enjoyed a drink and a chat at the Park Hotel. The Walk will be re-scheduled, probably in March 2026. Our annual History Walk will be held on Saturday 8 November at 2 pm and will cover the area of Abbotsford […]