MAY 1999: Early Essendon: reminiscences of an old resident: extract from the Essendon Gazette, 18 Dec. 1913 (author possibly George Gregor Bishop) p3-4. Morton family of Flemington Hill (Ascot Vale) p5-7.

JUL 1999: 'Ngarveno', Ngarveno Street, Moonee Ponds p3-5. Mary Ann Merrifield JP p6-7.

SEP 1999: Robertson family and McCracken family p3-6.

NOV 1999: McNay family of Moonee Ponds p3-5. Colonel John Evans p6-7.

MAR 2000: William Kennedy Park - Essendon councillor p3-5. Saint Paul's Melodists alias Kranky Kentucky Koons p6-7.

MAY 2000: Nance Osborne - Soprano p3. Essendon Ladies' Benevolent Society p4-5.

JUL 2000: Lilian and Linda Rutherford p3-4. North Suburban Cycling Club p5-7. Rechabites index p7.

SEP 2000: John George Aikman (1858-1928) p3-6. History of William Arthur Way, builder p7.

NOV 2000: Ovens' Bakery, Moonee Ponds (Essendon) p3-5. William Rose of Ascot Vale p6-7.

MAR 2001: The Commonwealth Ladies Rifle Club p6-7.

MAY: Brunswick Ladies Rifle Club p3. Andrew Thomas Knight: teacher p6.

SEP 2001: Aberfeldie Stables p4. Essendon Historical Society: history p3.

NOV 2001: Robert and Susan Brinnand p3. Squatting in Strathmore p4. Ascot Vale reminiscences by John Williams p6.

MAR 2002: Saint (St) Aidan's Lane, Moonee Ponds p5. Squatting in Strathmore continued p6.

MAY 2002: Early history of Ascot Vale. Tilly Aston - leading the blind.

JUL 2002: Liberator crash landing p3. Tilly Aston continued p5.

SEP 2002: Board Cycle Track, Strathmore. Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group. Essendon and District UFS Medical Association and Dispensary. Jeff Coldrey and the South Pacific Star Music Publishing Company.

NOV 2002: Merle Smith, N. Walsh and T. Pyke, Essendon Rowing Club 1939 (photo) p1. Board Cycle Track, Talbot Street p2. Tweedside Estate and its historic residences p3. Biography: Violet Jean Hayes (nee Wisbey) 1916- p5.

MAR 2003: Dugald McPhail, the father of presbyterianism in Essendon p5. Biography of Jean Hayes continued p6.

MAY 2003: Photo: Roberts, Lavender, Hutchinson, Betty Green, Jill Green. Bertie Cecil Weare. Photo: Cyril and Stan Finlay. Wood family and the Essendon Hotel. John West, blacksmith 1807-1882.

JUL 2003: 815 Mount Road, Essendon (house) p3. School Boards of Advice p5.

SEP 2003: Bluebird Giftshop, 71 The Crescent, Ascot Vale p2. The Ascot Vale People's Association p3. William Allison Blair: early settler p6.

NOV 2003: Dog coursing track, Maribyrnong p2. Give the ladies a chance: female candidates for office, Essendon 1899 and 1902 p3. Who was Corker Graves? [Hancock family] p5. Essendon debutantes 1927 [photo]: May Adams, Flo Cardwell, Merle Coulthard, Lorna Gibson, Dot Gormon, Laurel Guinea, Dot Hinds, Olive Jackson, Rita McLaren, Iris Neal, May Neal, Merle Plummer, Lorna Rocke, Winnie Roland, Edna Williams, Gwen Williams p7 and p1.

MAR 2004: Alberton College pupils, 6 Bent Street, Moonee Ponds 1931 p2. Secret compositions in Essendon 1893 p3. Taylor family of Essendon p5. Chiko Roll celebrations p7.

MAY 2004: Hazzard family p3. Alfred Deakin - discovering the local member p4.

JUL 2004: Pioneer huts [retreats] in Moonee Valley p3. William Newland p6.

SEP 2004: Essendon Children's Court and probation officers 1907-1913 p3.

NOV 2004: Ascot Vale Uniting Church destroyed by fire [photo] p1. Muster rolls of a militia battalion, 1895-1910 p3. Place of deposit p7.

MAR 2005: Colonel John Evans at sea, 1916 (photo) p1. Margaret Muir and the maritime collision between the 'Coogee' and the 'Fortuna Figaro' Christmas Eve, 1903 p3. Keilor skull p5.

MAY 2005: Findlay family,1914 [photo] p1. Sydney William Harold (Cid) Ellwood p3. A daughter of the goldrush [Elizabeth Margaret Dunstan] p6.

JUL 2005: Autograph books p3. W.T. Quinton and the Methodist Church, Flemington p5. Calisthenics: a unique Australian sport p6.

SEP 2005: Ramsay family, Clydebank p3. Margaret Glassenbury (nee Smith) p5. Saint Salvador Alfred Case and his tapestry p6.

NOV 2005: Hugh Ramsay, artist p1,6. Moonee Ponds West State School, Grade 2B 1950 [photo] p2. Clarinda Park 1845-2005 p3. Maribyrnong Park memories by Christine Osborne p7.

MAR 2006: Essendon War Widows Homes League p3.

MAY 2006: Essendon Town Council Band 1903 [photo] p1. Hyde family p3. Walker family p5. C.R. Walker and Sons [distribution business] p5. McCracken family 7.

JUL 2006: Union Road, Ascot Vale, c1905 (photo) p1. Essendon Women's Christian Temperance Union 1905-11 p3. George Holmes: saint of swindler? p6. Aberfeldie Primary School, Grade 6B, 1954 (photo) p7.

SEP 2006: Louisa and Stanhope O'Connor of 'Belmont' [house, Puckle St] p3. What happened to the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) piano? p6.

NOV 2006: Rose Shankland Vallins p3. Sarah Early of Glen Ord p6.

MAR 2007: Attempt to change the name of Moonee Ponds to Kaleno 1879 p3. Private circulating libraries p6.

MAY 2007: Mooponds [Moonee Ponds Baptist Church?] (photo 1930s) p1. Rothwell Alexander Gordon: an officer of the 1st and 2nd AIF p3. Church sales: Gladstone Street Uniting (formerly Methodist); St Paul's Anglican, Ascot Vale; North Essendon Uniting Church (formerly Methodist) p8.

JUL 2007: Edna Guinea (photo) p1. Miss Grace Evans 1892-1981: pupil of Dame Nellie Melba p3. Guinea family: collection of photos p6.

SEP 2007: Florence Gordon, 1882-1950: empire vocalist / Marjorie Conning p3. The Thistle Social Club / Jan Kershaw p6.

NOV 2007: Grace Evans cont. / Marilyn Kenny p3. Recollections of childhood / Mac Nicoll p6.

FEB-MAR 2008: Ist Moonee Ponds Boy Scouts Bugle Band 1918 (photo) p1. A history of the Alexander Smith Memorial Church / Bob Chalmers p3. Brylcreem: 'a little dab'll do you' / Brian J. Watson p4. Street names: politicians / Betty Knight p5.

No. 193 MAY 2008: A letter from an Anzac [Rothwell Gordon] / Marjorie Conning p3. An air-raid shelter in Essendon [19 Thompson Street] / Karin Derkley p5.

No. 194 JULY 2008: Doutta Galla Girls' Gym 1955 (photo) p1. Major George Newsom and Myross / Bob Chalmers p3. An old Essendon boy [reminiscences of Essendon Technical School 1950] / Ted Thomasson p5.

No. 195 SEPTEMBER 2008: Moonee Ponds Methodists 1914 [football team] (group portrait) p1. The Red Coat - Jack Pemberton / Edna Pemberton assisted by Marilyn Kenny p3. The Pioneer Rugby Car Club / Betty Knight p5. Living on Essendon Aerodrome [airport]: the American soldiers and us / Allan Shaw as told to his daughter Anne McLeish p6.

No. 196 NOVEMBER 2008: Flemington Girls' School 1949 (group portrait) p1. Three nashos [conscription] / Jan Kershaw p3. Mary Eleanor Hobbs / Marilyn Kenny p5.

No. 197 FEB-MAR 2009: Kaleno (renaming of Moonee Ponds): who did it? / Marilyn Kenny p3. 38 Browing Street, 1960-1962 / Jane Richards p5.

No. 198 APR-MAY 2009: The Macaulay crash 1943 / Peter Willoughby p3. Dead man’s penny cont. p7.

No. 199 JUN-JUL 2009: Violin maker: William Whinfield Dods / John Dods p3-4. Essendon Village settlements - Bullarto 1893 and Colbinabbin 1895 / Marilyn Kenny p5-7.

No. 200 AUG-SEP 2009: A local lass: Madge Titheradge / Jan Kershaw p1,3,7. The road to success [letter of a traveller to the goldfields 1851] / Betty Knight p4. Cobb and Co. / Betty Knight p4-5. Kaleno: what's in a name? [proposal to change the name of Moonee Ponds to Kaleno and speculations on the origins of the name 'Kaleno'] / Marilyn Kenny p6-7.

No. 201 OCT-NOV 2009: Christmas at Binmores [photo of Binmore's fruit and vegetable shop in Maribyrnong Road, with window decked out for Christmas] p1. Brabazon and Henrietta Purcell / Lenore Frost p3-7.

No. 202 FEBRUARY 2010: Presidents report p2-3.

No. 203 APRIL 2010: President's message / Bob Chalmers p1. Burke and Wills expedition p2-4. Dairies of Essendon p5-6.

No. 204 JUNE 2010: Vale: Jan Kershaw p2. Resignation of Lenore Frost p3. Essendon connections / Marilyn Kenny p4. Early surveys of Doutta Galla / Bob Chalmers p5. Eugene Bellairs p6. Annie Lister and Philip Sydney Watson / Norman C. Hutchinson p7.

No. 205 AUGUST 2010: Looking back forty years: what was happening in the City of Essendon in 1970 p6. Marj Conning: 91st birthday p7.

No. 206 OCTOBER 2010: Moonee Ponds Railway Station c2006 (photo) p1. Vale: Ron Lambert 1922-2010 p3. Brian Watson memories p4. Landells family / Marilyn Kenny p5. Essendon Railway p6.

No. 207 FEBRUARY 2011: Eleanor Barber of Rosebank / Marilyn Kenny p3. William Samuel Cox and the Moonee Vallery Racecourse / Bob Chalmers p4. Reflections of our district in the post war years / Brian Watson p5. 150 years of local government p6.

No. 208 APRIL 2011: 58th Battalin Monument / Bob Chalmers p3. The Akubra story / Brian Watson p3. A brief history of Ascot Vale State (Primary) School no. 2608 p4. The Farmers Arms Hotel p6.

No. 209 JUNE 2011: Grace Uren p3. Royal Melbourne Hospital: who built it? p4. My memories of the Rose Street shopping strip in the 1930s / Eric Glassenbury p5.

No. 210 AUGUST 2011: Remuera Mansion (photo) p1. George and Annis Bills and Bills water troughs p4. Clarinda Park p6. E.S.&A. Bank, cnr Mount Alexander Road and Bank Street p8. Jacobson collection donated p8.

No. 211 OCTOBER 2011: The Essendon Hotel, Mount Alexander Road, North Essendon c1920 (photo) p1. A tragic tale [Flemington State School, Major Peter Robin, William Hulme, 1910] p4. Napier Park, Strathmore p6.

No. 212 FEBRUARY 2012: Vale: John Barrett p3. Peter Sommerville receives recognition p3. Before the borough [includes photo of Edward Byam Wight] p4. Unveiling the Burke and Wills plaque p6.

No. 213 APRIL 2012: The Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator in Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds (photo) p1. The Essendon War Memorial / Bob Chalmers p2. Anzac 1915 (poem) p3. Bosisto's Parrot Brand Eucalyptus Oil / Brian Watson p5. Howard Okey: an Essendon legend p6. The birth of junior football p6.

No. 214 JUNE 2012: Ballroom of the Essendon Town Hall (photo) p1. Douglas Thomas Kilburn: a Crown grantee p4. Our parks and gardens no.4: Queen's Park p6. The Incinerator p7.

No. 215 AUGUST 2012: Kirk's Bazaar and Kirk family p4. Our parks and gardens no. 5: Woodlands Park p7.

No. 216 OCTOBER 2012: No harm done [story set in the sand caves of West Essendon] / Jan Jolly p3. The re-naming of the river [Salt Water River (Saltwater) to Maribyrnong River] p4. The saga of the Queen's Park cannons / Bob Chalmers p5. Our parks and gardens no.6: Salmon Reserve [and Frederick William Salmon] p6.

No. 217 NOVEMBER 2012: Memories of my first hairdresser, Mr Bert Scott / Eric Glassenbury p4. 'Vartry': a boy from Eureka lived here [Timothy Hayes Jnr] / Peter Willoughby p4. Bye Bye Belfast [memories of immigration] / Eve Park p5. Our parks and gardens no.7: Lincoln Park p6.

No. 218 FEBRUARY 2013: Thomas Buckland Newsagency, Mount Alexander Rd, Flemington c1900 (photo) p1,4. Lenore Frost awarded life membership p2. Launch of Moonee Ponds Courthouse Museum Restoration Fund p3. Scott family / letter from Don Mountain p5. Maribyrnong River: celebrating 100 years 17th March p6. Essendon High School 100th anniversary celebrations March 15th, 22-24th p6.

No. 219 APRIL 2013: Lenore Frost made life member p2. Dorothy King turns 99 p3. What might have been no.2: Puckle Park, a native garden at no. 1 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds p4. History of the Bahia Castillo affair p4. Our parks and gardens no.8: Aberfeldie Reserve p6. Early bus services / Ross White p8. Facebook and twitter / Kelsey Collins p8. Congratulations Kelsey Collins p9. Essendon High School centenary p10.

No. 220 JUNE 2013: What might have been Essendon Tech [Technical School] at Ormond Park? / Marilyn Kenny p4. Betty Sommerville (1921-2008) p5. Vale: Mary Robertson 1912-2013 p6. The Tighe family and the Lincoln Park Dairy p6. Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group to celebrate 60 years p7. James and Janet McWalter of 'Maxwelton' p8. Buckley Park to celebrate 50th p9. East Keilor book launch p10.

No. 221 SEPTEMBER 2013: Vale: Valerie (Val) Barnett p3. Keilor Heights Primary School golden jubilee p4. What might have been: proposal to widen Mt Alexander Road from Flemington to The Junction / Marilyn Kenny p5. The 3AR radio transmitter at North Essendon / Peter Willoughby p8. A visit to the village of Essendon, Hertfordshire, England / Bob Chalmers p10. Horse-drawn omnibuses / Brian Weedon (notes by Mary Cahill) p12.

No. 222 NOVEMBER 2013: Barbara Budge 1933-2013 p2. Spirit of Moonee Valley Awards p3. Essendon Sons of Soldiers Football Club p4. Local school reunions: Buckley Park High School; Keilor Heights Primary School p4. The digitorium / Max Tsiavos p5. The ninetieth anniversary of the Essendon and District Churches' Tennis Association / Jan McLean p6. Berry Street Church of Christ by Charles Daniel Pratt (1892-1968), photographer p7. What might have been: the library in Queens Park? Puckle St? Leake St? Pascoe Vale Rd? [Essendon and Flemington Mechanics' Institute] / M. Kenny p8. Lady (Winifred) Betty Lush 1912-2013 / Marilyn Kenny p9. Book launch: 'The Grand mansions of Essendon and district 1880-1892' p10. Information required: Sylvia Miller School of Dancing Jubilee Players p10.

No. 223 FEBRUARY 2014: William Clifford Trench Kelly, mayor of Town of Essendon / Marilyn Kenny p4.

No. 224 APRIL 2014: Clydebank' (Ave Maria College), 14-22 Vida Street, Aberfeldie p1,9. Vale: Don Cornish p3. John Goldsworthy, Mayor of the City of Essendon p4. The North Essendon Fire Station p6. Dorothy King turns 100 p7. Street names commemorate local Great War families: Rutherford; Jones; Galbraith; Colclough p8. The Moonee Valley Festival p10.

No. 225 JUNE 2014: William Llewelllyn Lewellin, digger mayor of Essendon p5. The Southern Cross Theatre p7. Our parks and gardens no.9: Allison Reserve p8. The Newmarket Railway Station p9.

No. 226 AUGUST 2014: The Essendon Junction showing Atwood's Chemist Shop on the corner of Mount Alexander Road and Fletcher Street (known as Atwood's Corner) circa 1955 (photo) p1. Mary Cahill made life member p2. Henry William Cousins: thrice Mayor of Essendon / Marilyn Kenny p5. Aerial photographs taken of West Essendon in the 1940s p8. Essendon Rate Books p9. Symons Parish Centre p11.

No. 227 OCTOBER 2014: Leo Patrick Cahill: a centenary mayor / Marilyn Kenny p4. The story of a milk cart p5. Anzac centenary p6. Squatter John Mooney: a sad tale of riches to rags / Bob Chalmers p7. 58th Battalion luncheon p10.

No. 228 DECEMBER 2014: Our avenue of Canary Island date palms p3. Index of Strathmore rate books p4. Ducks crossing p6. Our parks and gardens no.10: Buckley Park p7. 'Nai-Kele-Kele', 82 Richardson Street, Essendon / Bob Chalmers p8. Kirk's Bazaar, North Essendon: its early history / Bob Chalmers p10. October meeting: The Essendon Incinerator and modernistic ideals: form ever follows function / Richard Ennis p11. November meeting: the story of Dick Reynolds / Dan and Renee Eddy and Noel Allanson p11.

No. 229 FEBRUARY 2015: Georgina Rachel Bingham: an energetic worker p5. Conversations with my dad [Malcolm Macaffer] / Jenny Macaffer p7. Heritage walks: North Essendon village; Travancore p8. Elaine Brogan receives OAM p8. Essendon Church of Christ celebrates its centenary p9.

No. 230 APRIL 2015: Vale: Dorothy King 1914-2015 p3. The Ascot Pony Track / Brian Watson p4. Deaths of local identities: Barry Keam, Real Estate Agent 2014 p5. Warwick Poynton, Nurseryman 2015 p5. Ray Carter, Ray's Plum Puddings 2015 p6. Stanley James Ireland, Puckle Street Florist 2015 p6. Margaret Ivy Scorer, Essendon Elocutionist / Marilyn Kenny p6. Restoration of Courthouse p9. Parks and gardens no.11: Victory Park, Ascot Vale / Bob Chalmers p10. A visit to St Columba's College 23rd June 2015 p11.

No. 231 JUNE 2015: Michela Capicchiano 1862-1945: a pioneer / M. Kenny p4. Vale: Jack Simpson p6. A brief history of Roselyn Court / Bob Chalmers p8.

No. 232 AUGUST 2015: Ethel Lillian Holmes: the woman candidate / Marilyn Kenny p6. The passing of two prominent Essendonians: Joan Kirner 1938-2015; Ronald William ‘Ron’ Clarke AO, MBE 1937-2015 p8. Memory Lane Garden / Mary Cahill p10.

No. 233 OCTOBER 2015: Going, going … gone! [Gardenhurst Receptions; Lorimer Fison's 'Nai-Kele-Kele', 82 Richardson Street, North Essendon; Former site of the Lincoln Park Dairy, Lincoln Road, Essendon; The weatherboard cottage, 1070 Mount Alexander Road, Essendon; Brickmakers Arms Hotel; Collins and Queen; South end of Napier Street p6-9.

No. 234 FEBRUARY 2016: Strathmore Railway Crossing in 1963 before the overpass was built (photo p1, story p10). Courthouse restoration report p4. Memory Lane Garden / Bob Chalmers p8. The weatherboard cottage saved p9. New superstop [tram stop] for the Moonee Ponds Junction p9. Baronor [Essendon Private] Hospital closes p10.

No. 235 APRIL 2016: Tennis in Moonee Valley / Eric Glassenbury p4. Important relics of the past [District Court Letter Book covering the late 1850s; brass plaque placed in the Moonee Ponds Courthouse in 1897 relating to a tree that was planted outside the building to commemorate the jubilee anniversary of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria] / Bob Chalmersp5. A tribute to John Grant / Bob Chalmers p6. Heritage street signs: Chauvel Street, Ascot Vale; Elliott Street, Ascot Vale; Monash Street, Ascot Vale; Victory Parade, Ascot Vale / John Hills p8. Other street names connected to World War One: Birdwood Street, Essendon; Jacka Street, Essendon; Blamey Street, Ascot Vale; Churchill Avenue, Ascot Vale; Dunlop Avenue, Ascot Vale; Savige Street, Ascot Vale; Vasey Street, Ascot Vale; Wingate Avenue, Ascot Vale p8. Memory Lane Garden update / Julie Scott p9. John and Quintin Dick, Scottish pioneers / Bob Chalmers p10.

No. 236 JUNE 2016: Public Tennis Courts in Moonee Valley / Peter Willoughby p5. Moonee Valley Residents Honoured [Queen's Birthday Honours: Sheila Byard, Bob Semple and John Stanhope] p5. The Civic Leaders Garden [garden with the names of Essendon's mayors] p8. St. Helen's Hospital sold at auction [includes history of St Helen's] p9. The Rotary Club Fountain site what is its future [history and future of the Rotary Club Fountain] p10.

No. 237 SEPTEMBER 2016: Courthouse restoration [restoration of the Moonee pond courthouse, which houses the Essendon Historical Society and which burnt down partly] p4.

No. 238 NOVEMBER 2016: Dance halls in and around Moonee Ponds / Malcolm Macaffer p4. The big clean up [cleaning up after the fire] p6. Courthouse recovery progress report / Mary Cahill p9.

No. 239 FEBRUARY 2017: The notorious Buckley Street railway crossing [image] p1. Courthouse recovery updates / Mary Cahill p2. North Essendon in the early days / Allan Bull p7. The steam train experience [steam train trips from Essendon in November 2016] p9. Two members pass away [Margaret Glassenbury and Julienne Tolksdorff] p10. Travancore heritage walk p10.

No. 240 APRIL 2017: Courthouse recovery update / Mary Cahill p4. The Moonee Valley festival turns 40 p5 .The WWI memorial hall p6. Centenary anniversary of the maternal child health services p7. News from Essendon Keilor College p7. Developers at work in Moonee Ponds [Caydon property Group] p9.

No.241 JUNE 2017: Courthouse recovery update p4. Walking over water (a pedestrian bridge in Strathmore) / Peter Willoughby p6. On the road to the goldfields / Brian Watson p7. Centenary of the maternal and child health service p8. The bird-life of Queen's Park p9.

No.242 AUGUST 2017: Courthouse recovery update p4. A warbird Pascoe Vale Road [ex Royal Australian Air Force Wirra aircraft displayed outside the Starth Vale Motors] / Peter Willoughby p6. The Caydon development p7. Pioneer physicians of our district p8. It's show time [orgins of the Royal Melbourne Show] p9. Our visit to Penleigh p12.

No.243 OCTOBER 2017: Courthouse restoration report p4. Zelma Riddell: our latest life member p5. Settlers cottage to be re-located p6. Presentation to Danny Pearson p6. "Buckley Hollow" how you have changed p7. A history of the Merrifield family p9. Lincoln Park gets a facelift p9. Our visit to "Wahgunyah" p10. The 99th remembrance day p11.

No.244 FEBRUARY 2018: Restoration works [courthouse recovery] / Mary Cahill p4. Dr Sam Merrifield / Virginia Noonan p5. Our giant neighbour: the gasholder in Moreland Road, Pascoe Vale South / Peter Willoughby p8.

No.245 APRIL 2018: The Moonee Ponds Development p1. Vale Marjorie Conning p3. Courthouse restoration update / Mary Cahill p4. Rise and demise of the gordon lodge masonic hall / Lorraine Rogers p7. Ben Henshall - boot repairing / Eric Glassenbury p9.

No.246 JUNE 2018: The Royal Hotel (Jennings' Hotel) p1. Courthouse restoration update: state 2 begins p4. The Buckley Street level crossing p4. The changing face of the Moonee Ponds Junction p5. Local libraries celebrate milestone [Flemington Library, Sam Merrifield Library, Niddrie Library] p7. Travancore centenary approaches p9. The Moonee Ponds market what a site it is!!! p10. drastic alterations to old residence [Napperby] p11.

No.247 AUGUST 2018: ANZAC centenary Moonee Valley p3. Unveiling of story boards at Heinze Bridge p3. Vale Mary Costigan p4. Death of Rosemary Henderson p4. Essendon station level crossing removal: 1888 / Peter Willoughby p5. Oh the irony of it all: Buckley Street railway crossing (Essendon Gazette 1927) p8. Courthouse restoration report / Mary Cahill p8. Essendon celebrated the arrival of RDNS 1967 [Royal District Nursing Service] p9. The pick of the bunch: A history of the Rotary Club of Essendon p11.

No.248 OCTOBER 2018: Centenary of remembrance day p3. The Brass Tavern originally a Gilbertson home / Bob Chalmers p5. Courthouse restoration report / Mary Cahill p6. The singing crystal bowls p8. Recent activities at Queens Park p8. The Buckley Street railway crossing / Bob Chalmers p10.

No.249 FEBRUARY 2019: Old postcards-a good discovery [Moonee Ponds Town Hall and the Waterloo Cup Hotel] p3. Courthouse restoration report / Mary Cahill p4. Hugh Anderson: publisher, folklorist, fellow of the RHSV, poet and journalist / Bob Chalmers p6. The Brass Tavern p7. Other developments in Pascoe Vale Road [173-175 Pascoe Vale Road, 179 Pascoe Vale Road] p8. The new look of Napperby / Bob Chalmers p9. Laurison and Necton: two of the oldest homes on the Tweedside Estate p9. St Thomas' Anglican Church 160th anniversary p10. New school buildings for Essendon-Keilor College Niddrie campus/ Bob Chalmers p10. Fairbairn Park improvements / Bob Chalmers p11.

No.250 APRIL 2019: Repairs to our horse trough [Annis and George Bills horse trough] p2. Courthouse restoration report / Mary Cahill p4. Demolition of "The New Ascot" p6. Preparing for our 50th anniversary p7. Wanalta Terrace / Ray Stamp p8. 100 years of electrification of Melbourne's railway system / Bob Chalmers p9. Dr John A Sutherland (1847-1906) / Bob Chalmers p10. The settlers cottage p12.

No.251 JULY 2019: Courthouse restoration report p4. The burning ground bridges in Essendon West / Peter Willoughby p6. A century of Dr Dennersteins in Essendon / Dr Graeme Dennerstein p9. The Macaffer story 815 Mount Alexander Road / Jenny Macaffer p10. Vale Joan Sach p11.

No.252 OCTOBER 2019: A new life for a humble dwelling [news about relocation of Settler's Cottage and its history] / Bob Chalmers p5. Thomas Smith Cooper: another early resident of the North Essendon area p6. Ascot house to change hands [Reception Venue, Ascot House and history] p7. A friend of the working horse [Bill's horse trough] / Peter Willoughby p8. Temperance Township and the Ascot Vale Temperance Hall / Bob Chalmers p10.

No.253 JANUARY 2020: Courthouse restoration report [celebration time] / Mary Cahill p4. Our opening exhibition: history reclaimed p6. A popular supermarket closes its doors [Boundy's IGA] p8. Development plans for North Park p9. Development in West Essendon [Vida Street, Ave Maria College] p10. My childhood recollections of the Aberfeldie area / Bob Chalmers p11.

No.254 APRIL 2020: 50th year celebrations p3. Another local business closes [Williamsons Mensware] p3. Court house restoration report / Mary Cahill p4.The great toilet paper debate [history of perforated toilet paper] / Peter Willoughby p6. The 1918-1919 pandemic: the Spanish Flu outbreak / Bob Chalmers p7. More high rise for Moonee Ponds [687 Mount Alexander Road and 4 Homer Street] / Bob Chalmers p11.

No.255 JULY 2020: A message from the President [COVID] p2. Hawdon T.A.A's first airplane / Nancy Blitz p3. One hundred years of education: the centenary of the North Essendon S.S p3. Court House restoration report / Mary Cahill p4. Stamp out the Jap! The penny-a-plane campaign WWII / Peter Willoughby p5. Memories of Moncur's Meswear (1908-1997) / Lorraine Rogers p7. Patrick Phelan and Owen Connor / Judy Maddigan p9. The story of Sandy: Australian WWI horses (walers) / Julie Scott p11.

No.256 OCTOBER 2020: A message from the President [COVID] p2. Farewell to Zelma Riddell p2. Court house restoration report / Mary Cahill p4. Napier Park: where the best dogs go: Greyhouse racing at North Essendon-Strathmore / Peter Willoughby p5. Passing of Cr John Williams p8. North Park development plans p9. The Connor Family in Essendon (five generations from 1857 to 2020) / Bob Chalmers p10. Activity at Woodlands Park p11.

No.257 JANUARY 2021: Court house restoration report / Mary Cahill p4. The City of Moonee Valleys' new look council p5. 1939 Essendon's Art Deco year / Ian Williams p6. Recording the history of Essenon and dsitrct / Bob Chalmers p8. The EHS newsletter 1971-2021 p9. The changing face of Moonee Ponds / Bob Chalmers p10. The Moonee Ponds Market p11. A prominent warehouse [George Eels, Tye & Co, Brotherhood of St Laurence] p11.

No.258 APRIL-JUNE 2021: John Williams 16th August 1938 – 16th August 2020 [former Mayor of Essendon] / Julia Scott p6. Street names of Moonee Valley Victorian governors / Ian Williams p8.

No.259 JULY-AUGUST 2021: North Essendon street names that reflect our colonial past [Oshannassy Street, Mcculloch Street, Duffy Street, Kerferd Street, Berry Street, Service Street, Gillies Street] / by Ian Williams p4. A factory in Aberfeldie / by Bob Chalmers p8. Friendly societies - The Independent Order of Rachabites [abstinence society] / by Bob Chalmers p10.

No.260 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2021: Essay on Travancore [demolished Mansion and Estate owned by Henry Madden] / by Ruth Madden in 1914 p4. When street directories were used [author exploring history of the Moonee Valley area through a 1929 Collins Street Directory] / by Ian Williams p6. Local street names influenced by 19th Century education [Browning, Byron, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Dickens] / by Ian Williams p7. How it all began [letter from Essendon Historical Society life member Eve Park written near the 30th anniversary of the historical society] / Eve Park p8. Grand Opening of the Court House Sunday, 25 October 1981 p9. Early memories of Ascot Vale [buildings mentioned - The Grand National Tower Hotel, Angler's Hotel, Spong's Hotel, Malakoff Castle] / by Ted Smith p10.

Vol.261 JANUARY-MARCH 2022: Monarchs and Wars remembered in Queens Park [Moonee Ponds Reserve] / Ian Williams p4. The City of Moonee Valley celebrates twenty-five years p7. Mayors of Moonee Valley [list] p8. Home of the Rabbit King ["Karoonda, Jack McCraith, Rabbit Exporting business] p10.

No.262 APRIL-JUNE 2022: Edward William Cole 1823-1918 / Ian Williams p4. William Cattanach [Town Clerk of Essendon] p7. Rudolpf Steel [lithographic artist] p7.

Vol.263 JULY-SEPTEMBER 2022: The remarkable Ramsays ["Clydebank" / Ian Williams p5. The Laurel Hotel / Peter Willoughby p6. Centenary of school building [Essendon State School] p7. Centenary of Glenbervile Railway Station p8. City of Mooney Valley's Indigenous plaques [Ash Firebrace] p9. Our beautiful river the Maribyrnong [Charles Grimes, "Saltwater River", The Ladies' Rowing Club, The Essendon Angling Club, Essendon River League] p10. The Boulevard Avenue of honour p10. The river in flood [Maribyrnong river floods] p11.

Vol.264 OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2022: The Jaycee Movement [Henry Giessenbier] p4. The Essendon Jaycees / Alan Murphy OAM p4. The Essendon Squash Club celebrated fifty years p5. Alan Murohy's community service p5. The disastrous floods 1974 p6. The Glenbervie Railway Station centenary p9. St Columbas 125th anniversary opening of the Heritage Room p9. Centenary of St Theresa's Parish p10.

Vol.265 JANUARY-APRIL 2023: The Aberfeldie Athletic Track [Essendon Herriers, 50 years old] / Ian Williamson p4. Floods in Kensington in 1933 p6. The Essendon Post Office / Bob Chalmers p8. Robert George Cook [district pioneer, born 1839] / Anne Hiller p9. Death of ex-Mayor of Essendon Cr. Ian Bruce Blair OAM p10.

Vol.266 MAY-SEPTEMBER 2023: The Keilor Road Service Reservoirs [William Thwaites, Louis Tobias Thompson] / Peter Willoughby p4. Aberfeldie - now a suburb [James Robertson, Maurice Quinlan, Douglas McPhail] / Ian Williams p6. Cataloguing now on eHive [cloud-based] p7. The Essendon & Flemington Chronicle [commenced on 3 March 1882] p8. The Essendon Gazette [commenced on 23 August 1888] p8. "Minus His Head and Hooves" [Sandy - docile horse, O'Donnell family, World War 1] / Elaine V. Brogan OAM p9. The launch of "Flemington House: Travancore - Built with Wealth for Status" /Alex Bragiola p9. The Caroline Chisholm Shelter Shed site [former headquarters of the Royal District Nursing Service] p11.

Vol.267 OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2023: The naming of Essendon [William Essington King, Richard Green, William Pomeroy Greene, Robert Gascoyne Cecil, Eugene Bellairs] p4. The Essendon shakedown [Caroline Chisholm Shelter Shed] / Anne Hillier p8. Ascot Vale's Temperance township / Ian Williams p10. An interesting sidelight [The Waterloo Cup Hotel, The Union Hotel, The Grand National Tower Hotel] / Bob Chalmers p10. Moonee Pond's road disaster [petrol tanker overturned on 20 March 1963] / Bob Chalmers p11.

Vol.268 FEBRUARY-APRIL 2024: Centenary of North Essendon Uniting Church / Bob Chalmers p3. Gold in Essendon / Dr Anne Black p4. Youthful pursuits [Toy Display] / Anne Hillier p8. Our new picture theatre [Puckle Street] p10. Changing the boundaries [the structure of the Cty of Moonee Valley altered] p11.