Walks
Collingwood Historical Society conducts a local walk every November.
The following links provide the routes, background notes and photos with the most recent walk shown first.
- Clifton Hill West (2024)
- A Collingwood Corner (2023)
- Early Abbotsford (2022)
- Alexandra Parade (2021)
Please note – A group walk will not be conducted in 2021, due to COVID-19. A self guided walk has been prepared so people can do it themselves.
- Victoria and Wellington – disappearing views (2020)
Please note – A group walk was not conducted in 2020, due to COVID-19.
A self guided walk was prepared so people could do it themselves.
- Abbotsford Heritage (2019)
- Queens Parade, Clifton Hill (2018)
- Johnston, Smith, Otter, Bedford and Perry Streets (2017)
- Southwest Abbotsford (2016)
- Clifton Hill (2015)
- The Collingwood Slope (2014)
- Alexandra Parade Walk (2013)
- From Skipping Girl to Abbotsford Cool (2012)
- Gold Street Precinct (2011)
- Yarra River Walk (2010)
Tours
Talks
Streets, Parks and Lanes of Collingwood
An illustrated lecture about the history of our streets is available on Youtube at this link:
Clement Hodgkinson, Naturalist and Landscape Gardener
At our 2009 AGM our guest speaker, Georgina Whitehead, delivered a very interesting talk on Clement Hodgkinson.
Georgina Whitehead is a landscape architect and is the author of Civilising the city: a history of Melbourne’s parks and gardens. Clement Hodgkinson rose to prominence in nineteenth century Melbourne as a senior figure in the Surveyor-General’s Department and the Board of Crown Lands and Survey. His local connections include surveying and mapping Collingwood in the 1850s, and acting as honorary consulting engineer for the early municipality of East Collingwood.
Clement Hodgkinson Talk ( 154kb pdf file)
Footnotes and references are not included, but if you want to follow these up, click on the link to Georgina’s thesis.