by Karen Cummings | 7 Nov, 2025
Our History Walk scheduled for Saturday 8 November will not go ahead due to the inclement weather forecast. The Walk leaders will go to the Park Hotel in Nicholson st at 2:15, so if you want to join us for a drink and a chat, you are most welcome. We will be there...
by oztwowheel | 29 Oct, 2025
You can download the pre-walk notes for our 2025 walk at https://collingwoodhs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Walk-handout-for-public-Nov-2025.pdf
by Karen Cummings | 21 Aug, 2025
Our AGM was held on 19 August at the Yorkshire Stingo Hotel in Abbotsford. Guest speaker was 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 thousand...
by Karen Cummings | 13 Jun, 2025
From the 1850s the Yarra in Abbotsford attracted a number of industries which needed a water supply and a drainage channel. We have added four new Notable entries describing enterprising industrialists who contributed to local prosperity and employment while creating...
by Karen Cummings | 19 May, 2025
To mark of the 50th anniversary of Vietnamese migrants arriving in Australia, Yarra has commemorated 13 notable sites in Yarra’s Vietnamese heart, Victoria Street. The first generation of Vietnamese refugees began arriving in Australia in the mid-1970s as a result of...
