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Main Title: Sunshine and District Historical Society: the Sunshine recorder
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Subject: Sunshine & District Historical Society (Vic.)
Historical societies - Periodicals
Sunshine (Vic.) (Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country)
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No.1 FEBRUARY 1974: The beginnings [founding meeting occurred on 11.12.1972] p1. 1973 meetings p2. Miss Edith Popp p2. Braybrook Primary School p2. H.V. McKay - the man [director of Science Museum] p2. The history of the "Albion Area" p3.

No.2 1974: Application for Grant [Edith Popp] p2(1?). Historical sites in the Sunshine area p2.

No.3 1974-5: Annual meeting August 1974 p1. Deer Park meeting [history of Deer Park Primary School] p2.

No.1 1978: Aims and objectives of the Society p1.

No.2 December 1978: Calling Sherlock Holmes! [barque "Annabella" 1834] p1. Tracks and roads of Sunshine / Olwen Ford p2.

No.3 MARCH 1979: William Nash - bakery 1907 p2. Do you remember? [biscuit factory in North Melbourne] p3.

No.4 JUNE 1979: Award for enterprise [Ernest Dawes] p1. Submission to Place Names Committee ["The Charles Grimes Bridge"] p2. "Glimpses of Early Sunshine" [book] p3.

No.5 SEPTEMBER 1979: Various history information p2.

No.6 MARCH 1980: Letter to members p1. Vale Mrs Marie Chaplin, Albert Thomas p3.

Series 2 no.1 APRIL 1993: Mr Sam Hasell [history about RAAF] p1. The Logo of No.1 Stores Depot Tottenham p1. H.V. McKay industrial site p2.

Series 2 no.2 JULY 1993: H.V.McKay industrial site p3. Helen Harris OAM p3. H.V.McKay Memorial Gardens Project p4. Railway history p4. Heritage panels p4. When did the Society begin? P5.

Series 2 no.3 NOVEMBER 1993: The Society Boundaries p4. Objectives of the Society p4. Office Bearers p5. Death of Mrs Vic. McKay p5. Construction of a Sunshine Heritage Centre p6. Frances Browne: Local history at the Sunshine Library p6. Microfilm reader [acquired] p7. Boyhood memories of Kororoit Creek / Bob Parsons p7. Building Tickets [introduced in 1860] p8.

Series 2 no.4 APRIL 1994: The Pioneers [1924, Women's organisations] p4. Works of the Sunshine Beautification Group in its early years / Anne Laverick p5. Memories of Sunshine / Bill Thom p7. A local family business - Parsons and Lweis Horse Hair Drawers and Curlers / Bob Parsons p13. Hume and Hovell Monument in Keilor p14. Notes on the hostory of Maribyrnong p15.

Series 2 no.5 AUGUST 1994: Heritage and plans for our municipality p3. In remembrance: Mrs Glad Crick p6. How did Sunshine get its name? p6. Industrial history - establishment of Nettlefolds in Sunshine [1924: British Firm purchased site] p8. Melbourne's living museum of the west p9. Sunshine rail smash - 20/04/1908 p10. The Sunshine disaster [E. Harrington] p11. History of I.C.I. at Deer Park p13. Mabo, Aborigines and Australia: A historical revolution p15. H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens project p18. Bob and Connie Parsons p18. Memories of the Sunshine harvester works p19.

Series 2 no.6 DECEMBER 1994: Memories of the Sunshine Harvester Factory p4. The Sunshine Railway Subway / Tom Rigg p5. Municipal boundaries p6. Peter Haffenden, Youth history mate - the work of a community museum in Melbourne's western suburbs, Melbourne's Living Museum of the West Incorporated, Maribyrnong, Victoria 1994 / Frank Ford p12. Prue McGoldrick: My Paddock [Sunshine immediately prior to the Second World War] / Norman Carlton p14. Football [Sunshine Club's Annual Report] p15. The depression in Sunshine [1930s] p15. Frank Hyett - A reflection of personal and public history / Frank Ford p18. Heritage panels p22.

Series 2 no.7 OCTOBER 1995: In remembrance: Miss Grace Neyland p7. Heritage Centre? [H.V. McKay transferred Sunshine Harvester Works from Ballarat to Braybrook Junction 1904-1906] p7. Recalling Australia's part in Boer War p9. Inventory of Outdoor Sculpture and Monuments p9. Proposed Amendment L75 p9. Older houses in Sunshine p9. Life in Western Suburbs of Melbourne 1939-1945 p10. Lasseter's Reef p10. Heritage panels p10. Historic Buildings Council Hearings p10. From Weekly Notice no.14, April 5, 1926 / Tom Rigg p11. The National Trust: launch of Inner West Branch of Jack's Magazine p11. Jack's Magazine p12. Railway timetable December 1865 p14. The standard gauge p15. The University of Melbourne p16. The University in 1858 [gates styles] p17. William Hebb: Memories of early Sunshine p20.

Series 2 no.8 JULY 1996: L.E.A.P. notes on the scheme [training program for young unemployed people] p5. Award of Merit to Bob Parsons p6. Vale Mrs Shilston p9. Brief notes histories] p9. Ward names p14. Interpretive Centre [new library] p15.

Series 3 no.1 AUGUST 2003: What's the future of Expolsives Factory Maribyrnong? / Owen Ford p1. Mary's Memories / Mary Harrison (nee Paul) p2. Grimes aniiversary tour [Charles Grimes discovered Maribyrnong River in 1803] / Bob McDonald p3. On the rails [commemoration of accident on Sunshine Railway Station in 1908] / Tom Rigg p4. Women of Sunshine and district: Sarah McKay / Olwen Ford p5.

Series 3 no.2 MAY 2004: Eric Wegener passes [committee member] / Norman Carlton p1. A memorial plaque to workers in munitions [Black Power Mill built in 1942] / Olwen Ford p1. Sunshine Technical School, Class of '67 reunion / Linda Pongracic p2. Sir Hubert Opperman's last race from Melbourne to Albury] / Wally O'Brien p3. The Sunshiners [1989 [Jim and Reg Hogan, Jack Crooks, Pat and Tom Dalling] / John Willaton p4. Sunshine's own Minstrels [1920s] / John Willaton p4. On the Rails [The Ghan] / Tom Rigg p5.

Series 3 no.3 AUGUST 2004: Sunshine Railway Station / Tom Rigg p3. Sunshine Technical School, remembering The Old School Song / John Willaton p4. A Cameo: former Sunshine residents, Constable & Mrs Charlie Cummings / Vi Cummings p4. Sunshine Rifle Club / John Willaton p6.Wally's Corner [Wilhelm Karl Moritz] / Wally O'Brein p6.

Series 3 no.4 NOVEMBER 2004: The Sunshine Orchid, Sunshine's own floral emblem / John Willaton p3. Sunshine Railway disaster [20 April 1908] / Tom Rigg p4. Committee profile: Don Webster / Anne Best p4. These memories were donated to the society in 1989. Memories of Peter Ingram ex Ridley Street, Sunshine as told to John Wollaton, part 1 p6. On the rails [150 anniversary of the Opening Train to Sandridge] / Tom Rigg p7.

Series 3 no.5 AUGUST 2005: Founder of "Sunshine Advocate" Clarence Gibson Carlton / Ray and Norman Carlton p3. Vale Isobel McKay / John Willaton p7. Sunshine Railway Statin Railway disaster part 3 p8. The way we were" Peter Ingram ex Ridley Street, part 2 / John Willaton p9.

Series 5 no.3 SEPTEMBER 2007: Sunshine Presbyterian Church Centenary celebration / Owen Ford p1. Operation Snail [1948, shortage of Victorian Railways staff, pre-cut houses, recruitment from Britain] p2. Derham family in Australia / Owen Ford p2. STS ex-student debut [1946, Sunshine Technical School Ex-Students' Association] p3. Council re-enactment 13.5.1907 p4. Council re-enactment 23/5/1957 p4. What's in a name [settlement of Albion/North Sunshine, Braybrook, Thomas deWitt Talmage, "The Sunshine Harvester", Hugh Victor McKay, Talmage Street] / John Williaton p5.

Series 5 no.5 MARCH 2008: The Roar of the Lions [1953, Bill Harvey, Lions Club of Sunshine] p1. Norman Harrison Carlton 1923-2008 p2. Another Kamarooka / John Willaton p4. On your bike [1948, forming of cycling club] / Peter Ingram p5.

Series 5 no.6 JUNE 2008: Sunshine Rail smash centenary [1908] p2. Farewell Roc Kirby 1918-2008 / John Willaton p3. Our Lady's 80 years young [Church] p4.

Series 5 no.7 SEPTEMBER 2008: Albion located and relocated [locality name of Sunshine] p2. Memories of Sunshine Football Club from interview of Frank Simpson / Shaun Crosbie p3.

Series 5 no.8 DECEMBER 2008: And the band played on 1928-2008 / John Wallaton p3. Mente et Manibus [Sunshine Tech Class of '67 reunion] / Linda Pongracic p5.

Series 5 no.9 MARCH 2009: Gateways ["land boom", 1890s] p2. Anzac spirit / Linda Pongracic p3. Memories of early Sunshine [Gilbert Bell] p4.

Series 5 no.10 JUNE 2009: Victorian railway sesquicentenary p2. The Derham of Braybrook and Sunshine [Thomas Burge] p3. Sunshine's Big Ben Chimes again - McKay's Clock p4. More than just horseshoes [village blacksmith] p5.

Series 5 no.11 SEPTEMBER 2009: From Milliton (Somerset) to Millaton (Sunshine), 150 years in Australia / John Willatorn p3. Everybody had one - Mechanics' Institute p5.

Series 5 no.12 DECEMBER 2009: The Pied Pipers of Flinders Street, 1925 p2. 90 not out - Wally O'Brien p4. From the past [Ray Barnes] p5. H.V. McKay Sunshine Harvester Works Pipe Band turns 100 p6.

Series 5 no.13 MARCH 2010: Old Vic railways had a farm [1925] p2. The Slouch Hat ["hat-khaki fur felt", part of the Australian uniform in 1885] / John Willaton p3. H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens Centenary p3. Sunshine's Russian connection (the Learmonth and Lermontov families] p4. Wartime memories [of Peter Ingram] / John Willaton p5.

Series 5 no.14 JUNE 2010: Romance on the High Seas leads to Sunshine [Forrest Street recollections of John Powell, Endal family] p1. Sunshine's Quarter Mile Bridge p2.

Series 5 no.15 SEPTEMBER 2010: Sunshine Uniting Church Centenary 1910-2010 p1. Welcome to the workforce A.R.C. Engineering / Ian Teague p3. Eleven-Eleven-Eleven [Remembrance Day aka Armistice Day, journalist Edward George Honey] p7. The End of an Era ["Sunshine Advocate"] p7.

Series 5 no.16 DECEMBER 2010: Happy 150th Sunshine / John Wilaton p1. Miles from Melbourne, how far? [foundation stone for Melbourne's GPO, measurement of the distances] p2. Sunshine West High School Golden Anniversary celebrations 1960-2010 / Isobel Bell p3. When Jingle Bells rang in Albion [Joseph Pax Neville - Father Christmas] p3. From Highlands to Downunder - the Paton family p5.
Series 5 no.17 MARCH 2011: Melbourne's iconic Princes Bridge p1. Station West [Albion-Darlington, St Albans (North), St Albans (South), White City, Maidstone, Holden] p2. The first Anzac Day [1915] p3. Don Henderson [1918-2010] p4. The bicycle built for three [Ed Stan, John - "Sunshine's Three Musketeers"] / John Willaton p5.

Series 5 no.18 JUNE 2011: Oh how we danced [Sunshine Masonic Hall] / Prue McGoldrick p1. The Sunshine Rail smash - the facts [20th April 1908] p2. Sunshine Tech remembered [Technical School] p3. Ronald Frederick Stewart Crosbie [1925-2011] / Olwen Ford p4. The camera never lies or does it? [confessions of photographic retoucher] / Alma Leamonth p5.

Series 5 no.19 SEPTEMBER 2011: Alma's journey [Alma Mavis Trickey] / John Willaton p2. Richard and Liz and Sunshine [Burton and Taylor] / John Willaton p3. Holy Apostles Anglican Church / Linda Pongracic p7.

Series 5 no.20 DECEMBER 2012: Remembrance Day November 11 - we remember Arch Noble p2. Sinshine's kick-start for "Linfox" [Lindsay Fox] / John Willaton p3. Jack Clarke / David Foster p3. Vic Weaver was also a butcher / John Willaton p4. Sunshine's Squash Master [Peter Wright] / John Willaton p5.

Series 5 no.21 MARCH 2012: 1946 - beginning The Lodge of St Mark / John Willaton p1. Sandy joins the Anzac [horse] p2. My years at Albion state School / Nonie straus (Affleck0 p3. My Sunshine childhood, part one / Prue McGoldrick (nee Hyett) p4. Bill (Wicky) Clayton p5.

Series 5 no.22 JUNE 2012: A Sunshine Luminary - The Lord Mayor [Frank Beaurepaire] / John Wilaton p1. Les (Frosty0 Trickey p3. Wally O'Brien / John Wilaton p3. Pollard Gardens [Reginald Thomas Pollard] p5. Music is a shared culture [Sunshine's Maltese own band] p7.

Series 5 no.23 SEPTEMBER 2012: Dicing with death [Flight Lieutenant Robert Barkla] p3. Enlisting a talent-Ray Carlton joins up p3. The tech ten tenure [Harold Blair] p4. Vale Melva Trickey p4. In the shoemaker's shop with Ray Kutcher / John Willaton p5.

Series 5 no.24 DECEMBER 2012: Dodging Cinders in Maribyrnong [speedway racing track] / John Willaton p1. Vale Elaine Kemys Hardman p2. Dorothy Willaton, nee Millington 1936-2012 p3. The Christmas Cracker [devised in 1847, Bon Bons, "Silver Fulminante - a discovery in 1802 by Dottore Luigi Valentino 1761-1818] p3. Forty years ago: the first meeting of S&DHS [born in December 1972] p6. Listen to the beat ["The Little Drummer Boy" - Ken Warhurst] p7.

Series 5 no.25 MARCH 2013: A tank engine not named Thomas [engine "Steve 34", line "Paddy Doyle", H.V. McKay] p2. Anzac 98th anniversary / John Willaton p3. Mavis's marvellous memories / Mavis Rohner (nee King) p4. Albion Tennis Club 75th anniversary p7.

Series 5 no.26 JUNE 2013: Sunshine Technical School centenary 2013 p1. Sunshine coronation Belles [St Marks Debutant Ball 1953 - coronation of Queen Elizabeth 2nd] / John Willaton p2. Beryl Crosbie nee Clifton 1926-2013 / Olwen Ford p3. Milling around with Bill Turner [William Levi Turner] p4.



No. 27 SEPTEMBER 2013: Style hairdresser passes [death of Ern Davis] / John Willaton p1. Wally Peeler VC in Sunshine / John Willaton based on research by Frank Noonan and Anthony Staunton p2. Constance (Connie) Duthoit Parsons (nee Bell) 1922-2013 / Olwen Ford p3. From one heritage home to another [Raymond John Clayton, Bonnie Doone (house), Clayton family, Tarleton family] / as told to John Willaton by Carole Clayton p4. Sunshine's twin champions [James and Christopher Gowans] / John Willaton p5. Sunshine showtime 1937 [Sunshine Amateur Dramatic Society] / Gilbert Bell p7.

No. 28 DECEMBER 2013: Sunshine Technical School centenary / Linda Pongracic p2. Head to head with Headlie's Header: the genesis of the Sunshine Header according to Headlie S. Taylor p3. Vale: Beverley Ann Hickey (nee Bult) 1934-2013 p5. Vale: James Ingram p5. Greyhound racing p7.

No. 29 MARCH 2014: Sunshine Railway Station pedestrian underpass closed p1. Vale: Joyce Mousley / John Willaton p3. Sunshine ex-servicmen no.1: Ian Teague / John Willaton p3. Sunshine ex-servicemen no.2: Jim Gaylor, Sunshine's iron man / John Willaton p5.

No. 30 JUNE 2014: Memories of Sunshine / Doug Caddick p1. Arlene: satisfying a model ambition / Arlene Andrewartha p3. Vale: Dorothy Carlton (nee Neyland) p4. Vale: Jessie Parks (nee McKay) p5. St Mark's Debutante Ball 1954 / John Willaton p5.

No. 31 SEPTEMBER 2014: Navigating into history [S.S. Warrimoo (ship)] / John Willaton p1. Sunshine's test cricketer reunion [Joan Schmidt, Myrtle Bayliss and Lorraine Kutcher] / John Willaton p2. From St Marks to the Olympics: Ken Doubleday / John Willaton with thanks to Margaret Spratling (nee Doubleday) p4. Sunshine's longest serving Town Clerk [Thomas William Deutschmann] / John Willaton p4. John R. Kirby AM p5. When H.V. McKay lit up Sunshine [electricity] / John Willaton (courtesy of Ken Porter) p7.

No. 32 DECEMBER 2014: A century innings for a Sunshine cricket lover [Joseph Wise] / John Willaton p1. Phillips family history / Colin Phillips Jnr p2. Vale: Judith Wright (nee Powell) p3. Sunshine Harvester Works trains / Mel Bajada p4. Sunshine's stained glass window [at City of Sunshine Municipal Offices and Council Chamber] p4. H.V. McKay honoured again / John Willaton p5. Growing up in Sunshine / Ian Teague p7.

No. 33 MARCH 2015: Find of original radiator for a H.V. McKay 'Sunshine A model' tractor p2. Sunshine's gentle giant of the ring [Al Basten] / John Willaton courtesy of Alex O'Brien p3. Joyce and Charlie [Skidmore] celebrate 60 years / John Willaton p3. All round good sport: Tommy Laffan / John Willaton p4. Sunshine's own picture palace [The Roxy, Ballarat Road, Maidstone] / John Willaton p5. Sunshine shone in Argentina [harvesters, soccer] / John Willaton p7.

No. 34 JUNE 2015: A job for life: Roy Day p3. Sunshine's supreme sports administrator: Col Utber p4. Report of working party on community grant for commemoration ceremony to dedicate the Sunshine Avenue of Honour and Sunshine RSL Memorial Gardens stage 1 p7.

No. 35 SEPTEMBER 2015: Peter Wright OAM / John Willaton p1. Remembering Sunshine's first chain store [O. Gilpin, Hampshire Road] / John Willaton p3. Vale: Mary Elizabeth Harrison 1923-2015 p4. Avenue of Honour / John Willaton p4. Vale: Vida May Caddick (nee Mousley) 1927-2015 p5.

No. 36 DECEMBER 2015: Hill Street hues: as told to John Willaton by Virginia Rae Potter (nee Cordy) and Lois Lowe (nee Cordy) [Verna Cordy, artist, 16 Hill Street, Sunshine] p1. Ye olde village blacksmith: compiled by former member, the late Eric Wegener p2. Connor Shea according to Tom Dealy / by John Willaton, from the 1988 memories of Tom Dealy courtesy of Maree (nee Dealy) and Robert Howie p3. The Cinderella Gardens / John Willaton p5.

No. 37 MARCH 2016: Gentlemen start your engines [Braybrook Motor Cycle Club] / John Willaton p1. Connor Shea according to Tom Dealy / John Willaton p3. The ANZAC dawn service [ Reverend Arthur Ernest White] p6.

No.38 JUNE 2016: H.V McKay anniversary / John Willaton p1. From humble beginnings to the heights- the Jack Williams story / John Willaton p2. Connor Shea according to Tom Dealy / John Willaton p3. Gwen Goedecke 28/03-1922-14/05/2016 / Olwen Ford p4. Renate Haehnsen [Vale] / Olwen Ford p5.

No. 39 SEPTEMBER 2016: Kenny's dad-In the beginning [Ron Jacobson] / John Willaton p3. Frank Ford 17 April 1927-12 July 2016 p2. Isabel Grace Bell 24 January 1928-13 July 2016 p4. Ruth Winifred Evans 17 April 1921-20 August 2016 p4. From humble beginnings to the heights: the Jack Williams story / John Willaton p5. ARC Sunshine: saving the memories 22nd May 2016 / Shaun Crosbie p6. John Kelly: artist [Man lifting a cow sculpture on Hampshire road.] p6.

No. 40 DECEMBER 2016: The tradition of the gold whip [winning jockey of the Melbourne Cup receiving a gold whip] / John Willaton p1. Raymond Gibson Carlton: 28-02-1922 to 22-11-2016 p2. Kenny's Dad-In the beginning [Ron Jacobson] / John Willaton p3. Douglas Leonard Caddick 20/06/1928-29/11/2016 p4. Memories of Deer Park Carols / Anne Best p6. A champion recognised [Shaun Crosbie best and fairest 1964] / John Willaton p6. Albion Primary School turns 90 p7.

No. 41 MARCH 2017: Vale Beryl Jean Rigg p2. Tom's vision realised [Tom Rigg and St Alban's station] p2. Vale Mick James p3. Standing the test [John Richard Collins and cricket] / John Willaton p3. H.V McKay's legacy never-ending / John Willaton and Clive Patter p4. Scouts and guides: A rich history / John Willaton p5. Finding Sunshine [house that Tracee Hutchinson bought, built in 1928] / Tracee Hutchinson p5.

No. 42 JUNE 2017: Vale Jim Cannon p2. Finding Sunshine / Tracee Hutchinson p2. Vale Tom Rigg p3. Vale Brian O'Reilly p4. Sunshine old boys [Sunshine and Districts Old Boys Association] / John Wilanton p5. We like Ike [Ike Barber] / Jim Learmonth p6.

No. 43 SEPTEMBER 2017: Sunshine's history in 50 objects p1. The barber of Sun Crescent [Frank Hayden] / John Willaton and Pat Pemberton (nee Hayden) p3. Vale: Lyn Learmonth: 12 November 1923-22 April 2017 / John Willaton p4. Vale Tim Hogan: 1918-2017 p4. Keeping your cool [coolgardie safe] / John Willaton p5. A close shave [rolls razor] / John Willaton p6. The mini series [Sunshine tv series 2017] p6.

No.44 DECEMBER 2017: Play ball: Sunshine Baseball Club / John Willaton p2. Vale Alma Frances Learmonth 17 November 1929-9 Nov 2017 p4.Vale Elsie Jean "Skeeta" Deveson 12 May 1929 - 4 August 2017 p5. Historic objects - show and tell [Victor Richardson's cricket bat] p6.

No. 45 MARCH 2018: Sunshine's Tarax bar / John Willaton p1. Vale Wally Zielinski / Alan Dash p2. Casting far and wide [Sunshine Fly Fishing Club] / John Wilaton p4. Mr Derrimut / John Willaton p6.

No.46 JUNE 2018: Legally yours: J.E Sievers / John Willaton p1. Vale Norma Learmonth 11 March 1929-20 April 2018 p2. Memories of Sunshine businesses and industries [Parsons and Lewis Horsehair Factory, Leo Fisher's butcher's shop] p3. A generous philanthropist-"The Reichstein Foundation" / John Willaton p4. A Sunshine royal occasion: crowning of queens [Queen of Sport] / John Willaton p5.

No 47 SEPTEMBER 2018: Remembrance day p1. To Doctor Gary Ayton OAM p2. To the late Ken Missen (JP) OAM p2. Smithy update p4. Helen Keller's Sunshine visit / John Willaton p5.

No.48 DECEMBER 2018: Another Sunshine inventor: Alan Mitchell p1. Duty nobly done: recognition for Ivy [Ivy Rule] / Jim Learmonth p2. The David Darcy story / John Willaton p3. Vale Arlene Andrewartha p5. Dave Cameron's Albion / Jim Learmonth p6. Before baristas [tea and Turban and Bushells coffee and chicory essence] p6. He came out fighting: Frank Flannery / John Willaton p7. Watch the doughnut not the hole [Downyflake restaurants and the American Doughnut Machine] p8.

No.49 MARCH 2019: The strength of ARC, Sunshine [Australian Reinforced Concrete Engineering] / John Willaton p2. The Keith Miller connection / John Willaton p3. Before Braybrook junction / John Willaton p4. Flying Doctor sponsored by H.V McKay / John Willaton p5. Making the diamond sparkle [Sunshine District Women's Softball Association] / John Willaton p6.

No.50 JUNE 2019: Taking flight in Sunshine [Learmonth family and flying in Sunshine] / Ann Kilby p1. Better Henry nee Montgomery 18.9.1935-21.3.2019 p2. John Robert Stainer 3.2.1920-17.5.2019 p3. A pearler of a curler: Parsons & Lewis [Ted Parsons and Richard Lewis] / John Willaton p4. World first surgery by ex Deer Park resident [Dr Robert Love] / John Willaton p4. Sunshine's royal visitor [Prince Phillip of Greece (now Duke of Edinburgh) visited Sunshine in 1945) / John Willaton p6.

No.51 SEPTEMBER 2019: Remember when… fireman take your seat [firemen in cinemas and Francis Ormston] / John Willaton p1. Betty Foxcroft nee Cunningham 07/05/1922-03/08/2019 p2. Bob Henderson 27/01/1934-08/06/2019 p2. Approaching remembrance day [George Stephenson Wallce and Just A Brown Slouch Hat With The Side Turned Up] / John Willaton p3. Sunshine Porcelain Potteries Pty Ltd / John Willaton p4. We could have danced all night (at Hampshire House) / John Willaton p5. Don't come home without one [dorothy bags] p6.

No.52 DECEMBER 2019: Jim Learmonth 29 April 1926-31 October 2019 p2. Every bloke had one [Gladstone bag] / John Willaton p2. The shed that grew: Deer Park Engineering / John Willaton p4. Memories of Deer Park / Margaret Broadhead p3. Harmonious harmonica history [Lindsay Luscombe, Ernie Weybury and the Yarraville Mouth Organ Band] p5. World War Two remembered / Peter Ingram p6.

No.53 MARCH 2020: Tex's touring troupe [Tex Morton's Travelling Rodeo and Wild West Show] p1. Vale Gilbert John Bell p2. Vale Ron Dorre p3. Quarter Mile Bridge / John Willaton p3. Val Beachley: Sunshine's popular performer / John Willaton p4. All welcome at UFS [United Friendly Societies] p4. Juke Box Saturday at Holmwood's / John Willaton p5. Wallace Anderson: modelling history / John Willaton p6.

No.54 JUNE 2020: When steam ruled the rails / John Willaton p1. 100 years of blood and fire [Salvation Army Sunshine Corps] / John Willaton p2. Remember the telegram boy? / John Willaton p3. Why; why; why [the penny farthing bike] / John Willaton p3. Deer Park international airport, so close / John Willaton p4. End of an era [Headlie Shipard Taylor] / Jim Learmonth p5. Popular performer passes [death of Dorothy Baker] / John Willaton p6.

No. 56 DECEMBER 2020: From the President [COVID] / John Pardy p1. John Kentek [Obituary] / Kerry Hewson & John Willaton p2. The Spanish 'Flu and Sunshine / Olwen Ford p3. A centenarian athlete: Charlie Booth / Courtesy of John Willaton p4. The Ballad of "Lennie the Legend" and Ginger Mick (Lennie Gwyther and his pony] p5. Sunshine Hospital: From village to city / by John Willaton p6.

No.57 MARCH 2021: The Walers: standing by the ANZACS (horses in WWI) p1. Vale Donald James Webster 1933 – 2021 p2. Unsung heroes: pigeons in WWI / John Willaton p3. Vale John James Perrett 1934 – 2020 Alex Dickson: 50 years on / John Willaton p6.

No. 58 JUNE 2021: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip [death of Prince Philip] p1. Our local Hume and Hovell monuments / John Willaton p2. Historic day for the colony [the provision of the Sunbury rail line] / John Willaton, researched by railway historian, the late Tom Rigg p3. Sunshine’s changing landscape / Kerry Hewson p3. M.B Lynch memorial gardens / Kerry Hewson [Martin Baird Lynch 1882 - 1962] p5.

No.59 SEPTEMBER 2021: From the president [COVID-19] / Dr John Pardy p1. 70 years - Salute to a city [Sunshine] / John Willaton p2. The tradition of the last post [Armistice Day] / John Willaton p3. Condolence letter regarding Robert Alexander O'Brien p4. Sunshine Golden Age Centenary Show [and history of flower shows held in Sunshine] / by Grazyna Krezlewska p4. Vale [Neil (Ned) Kelly, Laurence Clement (Laurie) Simpson, John Richard (Jack) Collins] / by Kerry Hewson, John Wilaton, with a special thanks to Kathy Wale p7. Nelson Bros. of Devonshire Road / by John Willaton p9. Vale: Frank Saliba / with thanks to Stan Henry p10.

No.60 MARCH 2022: SDHS celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2022 p2. Daughter of Sunshine' Prue McGoldrick (nee Hyett) 26 July 1925-11 February 2022 [researcher] p4. History of Anzac Day p4. Jillian Yvonne Hitchcock 17.01.1946-02.09.2021 [landscaper] p5. Trevor Frederick Jury 30/04/1947-28.12.2021 [Neighbourhood Watch] p6. The late Graheme Alfred Missen p8. Braybrook Junction remembered - memories of Bill Hebb p5. Who waltzed Matilda - Australia's special song p10.

No.61 JUNE 2022: Joseph Zbigniew Wlodarczyk 1947-2022 [volunteer] p2. Talmage Street tragedy - the sad story of Selwyn McKay [Hubert Selwyn McKay] / John Willaton p3. Deer Park - Hamlet, town, suburb [in the beginning, the town begins, comes the suburb, summing up, was Deer Park] / David Meale p4. Genisis - the naming of Sunshine [Hugh Victor McKay] p5.

No.62 SEPTEMBER 2022: The first Anzac day [Gisborne Gazette, 22 April 1927] / Captain C.E.W. Bean p2. Celebrating 150 years of State schooling and 1872 Education Act / Dr John Pardy p3. The Education Act of 1872 p4.

No.63 DECEMBER 2022: Alan George Crick 1936-2022 [teacher] p4. G. John 'GJ' Jennison 1943-2022 [mechanical engineer] p6. Jack's Magazine [Saltwater River Gunpowder Magazine] p7. John "Jack" Edgar Kent 1927-2022 p8. Queen Elizabeth II p9.

No.64 MARCH 2023: Friends of The Black Powder Mill - beginning / Olwen Ford p2. Vale Lawrence Mottin 1932-2022 / John Harvey p3. HMAS Voyager collision close to home [with HMAS Melbourne on 10 February 1964] / Kerry Hewson p4. Sunshine West High School and the establishment of their alumni the "Thistle Club" / Kerry Hewson p5.

No.65 JUNE 2023: Harold O'Brien 1930-2013 [local identity] p2. For Whom the Bells Tolled [the Demise of Mr Whippy, ice-cream] /John Wilaton p3. Harry Ferguson: the Ferguson of Massey Ferguson ["Manufacturing Centre of Sunshine"] / John Wilaton p4. Family business: The Simmies of Simmie & Co and Harpsdale [constructions] / Andrew Kilsby p4. Industry was the Heart of Braybrook (Braybrook 1871-1951) / John Wilaton p6. Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley [grand slam single title at the French Open in 1971] p6.

No.66 SEPTEMBER 2023: Remembering our history: the Newland family with a spotlight on Mrs Dorothy Carlton / Kerry Hewson p3. Ardeer Wetlands Remediation project / Kerry Hewson p5. 99-years young - Mrs Jean Clark (nee Anderson) p6. Sunshine RSL: A lasting legacy [Returned Services League of Australia] p7. Walter (Wally) Peeler [93 Devonshire Road, Captain of the East Sunshine Cricket team] p8. Avenue of Honour [Kevin Wheelahan Gardens] /John Willaton p10.

Series 5 no.67 DECEMBER 2023: The Dad's association [Arthur and Rhonda Richardson] / Kerry Hewson p2. Miss Australia had a ball at our Lady's [Margaret Hughes, Shirley James] / John Willaton p3. Memories of the Sunshine Methodist Church p4.



Result Collection Location Shelf No Status Notes
Electronic Resources Library Computers Periodicals folder Available Held electronically only from 1974-1996 and from 2023 onwards
Periodicals Main Library P 994.51 SUNS REC Available Not for loan