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.

• Early Abbotsford (2022)
  • 2022 post-walk long notes
  • 2022 walk pre-walk handout notes
  • 2022 walk photos

• Alexandra Parade (2021)
  • 2021 walk notes

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)
  • 2020 walk notes
  • 2020 walk photos

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)
  • 2019 Walk Detailed Notes
  • Flickr Photos of the Abbotsford Heritage 2019 Walk

• Queens Parade, Clifton Hill (2018)
  • 2018 Walk Detailed Notes
  • Flickr Photos of the Clifton Hill 2018 Walk
• Johnston, Smith, Otter, Bedford and Perry Streets (2017)
  • 2017 Walk Short Handout
  • 2017 Walk Detailed Notes
• Southwest Abbotsford (2016)
  • Flickr photos of the Southwest Abbotsford Walk
• Clifton Hill (2015)
  • Flickr photos of the Clifton Hill Walk
• The Collingwood Slope (2014)
  • Flickr photos of the Collingwood Slope
• Alexandra Parade Walk (2013)
  • Flickr photos of the Alexandra Parade Walk.
  • Some additional photos of the Alexandra Parade walk.
• From Skipping Girl to Abbotsford Cool (2012)
  • Flickr photos of the Skipping girl to Abbotsford Cool Walk
• Gold Street Precinct (2011)
  • Flickr photos of the Gold Street Walk
• Yarra River Walk (2010)

Tours

• Collingwood Town Hall Tours (2014)

Talks

Streets, Parks and Lanes of Collingwood

An illustrated lecture about the history of our streets is available on Youtube at this link:

https://youtu.be/D9YUU0sxZ3k

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.

https://researchrepository.rmit.edu.au/esploro/outputs/graduate/From-acclimatisation-towards-ecology-the-influence/9921861376501341?institution=61RMIT_INST