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.

• Abbotsford Heritage (2019)
  • 2019 Walk Detailed Notes (Coming Soon)
  • 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

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.
http://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/view/rmit:9794