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Main Title: Whitehorse Historical Society: newsletter 2012-
Author: Whitehorse Historical Society (Vic.)
Collation: Periodicals in box.
Subject: Schwerkolt Cottage and Museum, Mitcham.
Whitehorse Historical Society (Vic.)
Historical societies - Periodicals
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Series 20 no.1 JANUARY 2012: 150 years of sewing machines p1. Our city, what's in a name? [changes of name of local area] p5. The Whitehorse Hotel p5.

Series 20 no.2 MARCH 2012: Whitehorse on an austerity shoestring [wartime restrictions] p1.

Series 20 no.3 MAY 2012: Excerpts from the diary of Jabez Edwards on a journey from England to Melbourne on the ship 'Northumberland' 1877 p1.

Series 20 no.4 JULY 2012: Ten pound Pom / Joyce Suto p1. We learn more about William Cook p4. Excerpts from a traveller's diary part 2 [Jabez Edwards, March 1877 on the ship 'Northumberland' to Australia] p5.

Series 20 no.5 SEPTEMBER 2012: Remembering Dorothy Meagher OAM p4. Excerpts from a traveller's diary part 3 [Jabez Edwards] p5.

Series 20 no.6 NOVEMBER 2012: History of the Tally Ho Boys Home p1. Collecting old clothes / Anne Dixon p3. Fred Auden p4.

Series 21 no. 1 JANUARY 2013: Op shops [opportunity shops] and one in particular [Rotary Op-Shop, Blackburn South from talk by Irene Lewis] / A.Y. Fitzmaurice p1. Vale: Marie Jack 1920-2012 p4.

Series 21 no.2 MARCH 2013: 1919: 'I was eleven when we came to Mitcham' from the recollection of Linda Petty p1.

Series 21 no.3 MAY 2013: Living with clay [brick making, potteries] / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p1. Emma Scott, artist p5. Earth building [mud brick buildings] / Jim Connor p5.

Series 21 no.4 JULY 2013: Ivy in a league of her own [Ivy Lavinia Weber (nee Filchie), first woman elected to the Victorian Parliament] p1. Exploring Sale Museum / Vicki Jones-Evans p3. A trip to Nethercote Orchard, Healesville Freeway Reservation community day, 26 May 2013 p6. History of handkerchiefs / Valerie Marshall p7.

Series 21 no.5 SEPTEMBER 2013: 50 years of local and strip shopping centres / Gerry Robinson p3. Vermont: field day at orchard [of Mr F.G. Beet, Railway Road] 1935 p5. The history of Weston Favell [142 Boronia Road, Vermont] / Tim Shambrook p6.

Series 21 no.6 NOVEMBER 2013: Sixty years an athlete: Bob Gardiner p1. Talk on theatres by John Payne / Valerie Marshall p3. Remembering Wandinong Sanctuary p4. Washing day p6.

Series 22 no.1 JANUARY 2014: Early film 'the story of the Kelly Gang' / Norman Campbell (written 1930) p1. Antonio family of Antonio Park p4.

Series 22 no.2 MARCH 2014: Lest we forget: William Lionel Schwerkolt, soldier, World War One p1. Aborigines in the Yarra Valley / Paula Herlihy p3. The Gallipoli Medallion confusion p6.

Series 22 no.3 MAY 2014: The Wheel' (film) p3. Daniel Harvey of Daniel Harvey Ltd, Box Hill, the father of power farming in Australia p4. Vale: Frances Warren p7.

Series 22 no.4 JULY 2014: Herbs / Judith Fry p3.

Series 22 no.5 SEPTEMBER 2014: City of Whitehorse / Sharon Ellis p3. Shropshire (ship): a Schwerkolt connection p4. Telephone for Ferntree Gully p5. Mitcham [Railway] Station: a fond memory / Shirley Jones (nee Bawden) p6. Fisherites: our homegrown sect [James Cowley Morgan Fisher (1832-1913), the Nunawading 'Messiah'] p7.

Series 22 no.6 NOVEMBER 2014: Schwerkolt Cottage: Rosalie remembers / Rosalie Whalen p4. Les Smith p8. Dr L.L. Smith p8. Historical society information services p9.

Series 23 no.1 JANUARY 2015: Kodak film and the Mitcham Post Office.

Series 23 no.2 MARCH 2015: Alwyn Till: a postscript p4. Local World War One soldiers: Alfred Ernest Johnston; Alfred Marcus Chalmers p6.

Series 23 no.3 MAY 2015: Divided loyalty' display p1.Mitcham RSL: the beginning and the end / Peter McPhee p3. Remembering Valerie [Marshall] p6.

Series 23 no.4 JULY 2015: The Seydlitz story: the ship that brought Mary and Emil together. Bill shares a life on film [Bill McAuley] p3.

Series 23 no.5 SEPTEMBER 2015: Grand Carnival 1928 and 1929 p4.

Series 23 no.6 NOVEMBER 2015: Gerry Robinson launches history [book on history of the Whitehorse Historical Society 'Fifty years of history'] p1. In memorium: Margaret Eklund; Jean Webster p7.

Series 24 no.1 JANUARY 2016: Ducking out on Dimlings [Dimlings Restaurant, Pittsburgh; Mary Schwerkolt] p1. Growing up in '62 or: The Naughty Boys and Girls Club p4. A tale of a road: Canterbury Road p6.

Series 24 no.2 MARCH 2016: Peter Simmenauer p2. What's in a name [Campbells Croft, Bruce and Daisy Campbell] / Gerry Robinson p3. Vermont Primary School: the first 100 years p4. Margaret Skey p7.

Series 24 no.3 MAY-JUNE 2016: When Blackburn North hit the "Biggs" time [Ronnie Biggs] / Vicki Jones-Evans p1. Growing up with Vermont [Shambrook Family in Vermont] / Judith Fry p3. The sad tale of Harriet Slater / Vicki Jones-Evans p4. From the Blackburn and Mitcham Reporter [1932] p5. Farewell Valda Arrowsmith p6. The Religious bus [bus used by Charles Hemming for Sunday school after World War II] p7. Motor Cycle Nuisance [motorcycles Central Road 1928] p7.

Series 24 no.4 JULY-AUGUST 2016: June Meeting Report: The Redoutable "Pompey" [Pompey Elliott] / Judith Fry p.3 Oldest Victorian Native [John Howard, Henry Kettle and Edward Stephens] p4. From the Blackburn and Mitcham Reporter: Friday 5 August 1932 p5.

Series 24 no.5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2016: A Mitcham childhood [Joyce Williams nee Burton] p4. From the Blackburn and Mitcham Reporter Friday 7th October 1932 p5.

Series 24 no.6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2016: The Eastbridge story p1. Your fine lady doesn't do here any more [1850s needlework in Victoria] / Chris Gray p3. From the Blackburn and Mitcham Reporter: Volume 25 number 49 Friday, 9 December 1932 p5. Ladies advice regarding sea travel, (1881) an excerpt / Lynn Coleman p7.

Series 25 no1. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2017: Growing fruit in WWII / A Y Fitzmaurice p1. Vale Molly Bettina Stevenson / Chris Gray p2. Olympic memories [Bob and Bert Gardiner] p3. From the Blackthorn and Mitcham Reporter [February 8 1935] p5.

Series 25 no.2 MARCH APRIL 2017: Lest we forget Alwyn [Alwyn Terence Till] / A Y Fitzmaurice p1. History at twenty-four frames a second [the Story of the Kelly Gang] / Chris Gray p3. From the Blackburn and Mitcham Reporter [Friday 19 April 1935] p5.

Series 25.no.3 MAY-JUNE 2017:A look into history [St. John's Mitcham] p1. April meeting report [Box Hill Cemetery] p3. From the Blackburn and Mitcham Reporter: volume 48 number 23 Friday 7 June 1935 p5. Daring burglary at Blackburn [the house of stationmaster Mr. Minahan] (from the Box Hill Reporter 14 March 1890) p7.

Series 25 no.4 JULY-AUGUST 2017: Vale Bill Gray / Valda Arrowsmith p1. Launching an amazing life [The Amazing life of Mary Schwerkolt] /Chris Gray p3. From the Blackburn and Mitcham Reporter: volume 48 number 31 Friday 2 August 1935 p5.

Series 25 no.5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2017: Vale Judith Fry p1. A history to cherish [Peter McPhee and Australian history] / Chris Gray and Pat Richardson p3. Frank Fisher 1898-1970: a remarkable life p4. From the Blackburn and Mitcham Reporter : Friday, 4 October 1935 p5.

Series 25 no.6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2017: We go digital [digitising the Whitehorse Historical Society collection] p1. October meeting report: Wandinong / Chris Gray p3. Fleeing and felony in 1921 to 1924 (Blackburn, Mitcham, Nunawading and Tunstall) p4. From the Blackburn and Mitcham reporter: Volume 48 number 51, Friday, 20 December 1935 p5. The Walker saga: part one: Henry and Henry Christopher / Ken Barelli p7.

Series 26 no.1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018: Before the divorce [Nunawading before it split from Box Hill] p1. The Walker saga: part two: Henry Ivanhoe Walker 1897-1916 p4. From the Nunawading Reporter: volume 66 number 7 Friday, 6 February 1953 p5. The tin kettling experience p6.

Series 26 no.2 MARCH-APRIL 2018: Vale Arthur Schwerkolt 11 March 1936-2 November 2017 / Rosalie Whalen p1. Great grand daughters of August Schwerkolt visit from USA / Rosalie Whalen p2. The Walker saga: part three: the Walker children / Ken Barelli p4. From the Nunawading Reporter: Volume 66 number 12 Thursday 2 April 1953 p5. Is this where you live? [Goodwin Street Blackburn] / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p7.

Series 26 no.3 MAY-JUNE 2018: Schwerkolt family visit p4. From the Nunadwading Reporter: volume 66 number 21 Friday June 5 1953 [celebrations and bonfire for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth] p5. Is this where you live? Cochrane Street Mitcham p7.

Series 26. no.5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2018: A "fine" romance [heritage open day 2018] p1. A tangled wed [history and variety of lacemaking] / Chris Gray p3. From the Nunawading Reporter [W.E.R Sinclair Churchill fined, Heatherdale and Middleborough rail stations] p5. Is this where you live? [Sheehans Road and Sheehan's Lane] / A.Y Fitzmaurice p7.

Series 26. no.6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2018: Finding yourself: an historical journey [Margaret Graham and her adoption] p1. The mystery of Fairyland / Chris Gray p3. From the Nunawading Reporter p5. Married 60 years [Barb and Bob Gardiner] p6. 1918-2018: remembering the armistice p7.

Series 27. no.1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2019: A pedagogue's progress [1915 rules for teachers] p1. Walking the Bay [Graham Patterson walking around the bay] / Chris Gray p3. Large bush fires near Melbourne [Mitcham on fire] (Table Talk 16 February 1905) p4.

Series 27 no.2 MARCH-APRIL 2019: On a personal note [personal section in newspapers] p1. Flaming history [history of fires in Victoria] / Chris Gray p3. The Mitcham post office 1924-1957 p4. The personal journey part one [Bertha Jane Cruse and Patrick Joseph Markham] p44

Series 27 no.3 MAY-JUNE 2019: Story prompts response [wedding of Mr H.A Wilkins and Hannah Lillian Kempy in 1905] p1. Vale Dorethy Margaret Skey 28 May 1920- 3 April 2019 / Vicki Jones-Evans p2. Women in local government [talk by Helen Harris] / Meg Innes p3. The Mitcham Post Office 1924-1957: a personal journey part 2 / Brian Millane p4. Deakin Street, Mitcham / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p6.

Series 27 no.4 JULY-AUGUST 2019: Vale Raymond Victor Meagher 22 January 1927-6 June 2019 p2. Back to the 60s [George Cox speaking about his time on City Council in the 1960s] p3. Horrible outrage in Mitcham: a swagman treated with great inhumanity (Evelyn Observer November 11 1857) p4. Backing sought for probe on board [Board of Works inquiry] (Nunawading Gazette August 4 1976) p5.

Series 27 no.5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2019: The boy bushranger [William Parsons] (Australian News for Home Readers Wednesday 20 March 1867) p4.

Series 27 no.6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2019: Economics of the aboriginal society p3. Victoria police gazette police records in 1921-1924 p4. Cooks road, Mitcham p6.

Series 28 no.1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2020: Climate concern not a new thing [Rodney & Otamatea Times 14 August 1912] p4. The Reporter 4 January 1901 [Camberwell, Surrey Hills and Box Hill news] p5. Is this where you live?: a young Charles Husband [background and biography of the namesake of Husband Road in Forest Hill] p6. Safety precautions against bombing in Melbourne and Sydney during Second World War p7.

Series 28 no.2 MARCH-APRIL 2020: Oral history: Blackburn clinic / Louise Williams p1. Sheep feeding in Nunawading (WHS Newsletter 1978 Anon) p4. Camberwell, Surrey Hills and Box Hill News [Doncaster and Box Hill first annual show, federal elections, Shire of Nunawading] (The Reporter March 21 1901) p5. Is this where you live? [Fellows Street named for Thomas Howard Fellows] / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p6.

Series 28 no.3 MAY-JUNE 2020: Looking back 100 years [influenza] p1. A road not lived in [Barkly Terrace] / AY Fitzmaurice p3. Vale Gary Cooper OAM p3. Fore! [Morack Public Golf Course] A.Y Fitzmaurice p4. Camberwell, Surrey Hills and Box Hill News [Corporal Shanks, municipal elections, winter entertainment] (The Reporter June 28 1901) p5. Is this where you live: Ferguson Street, Mitcham [Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson] / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p6. There's gold near that lake [old gold mine site in Blackburn] (Eastern Times September) p7.

Series 28 no.4 JULY-AUGUST 2020: The rebirth of Strathdon p1. A post office in Forest Hill p3. Lost films and a conundrum [Nunawading, city of contrasts] p4. Camberwell, Surrey Hills and Box Hill News: The Reporter Friday August 16 1901 p5. Is this where you live? [Foster Street Mitcham] / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p6.

Series 28 no.5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2020: Vale Ted Arrowsmith [Edward 'Ted' Ernest Arrowsmith] p1. The good olde days [summary of British Royal Flying Corp pilot accidents from December 1917] p3. From the bowels of Box Hill Town Hall [photographs found in Town Hall] p4.

Series 28 no 6. NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2020: The Winlaton story [Joseph Thornton Tweddle (1865-1943), Winlaton Youth Training Centre] / Jenny Walker p1. Remembering Dorothy [Dorothy Meagher, Guiding movement, Friends of the Lake Committee] / Boswell p3. The trams beats Bravo 1889 [electric tramway between Box Hill and Doncaster, extract from The Reporter, 8th November 1889] / Raine Biancalt p4.Front page of The Reporter, Friday 29 November 1901 [railway facilities for Surrey and Box Hill, Sunday trains for Mitcham, review for play Our Boys] p5. Haines Street, Mitcham [William Clark Haines (1810-1866)] / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p6. George VI died [memories of King George VI’s death] p7.

Series 29 no.1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2021: Sarah Bernhardt in Box Hill p1. Kitty Windsor and the railways gates p3. Vale Barbara Keene / Valda Arrowsmith p4. Anyone for a Darwin Award [St Vincent's hospital] p4. From the Blackburn and Mitcham Reporter [Mitcham, Somers Camp, Fish and Bird Society] p5. Hopetoun Street Mitcham p6.

Series 29 no.2 MARCH-APRIL 2021: The black cape: fascination and preservation [Schwerkolt Cottage black lace shawl] / Margaret Graham p1. The Edgerton story: part one: early life to Mayor of Hawthorn [Charles Edgerton] / Anne Jones p4. Front page of the Blackburn & Mitcham Reporter: Friday May 21st, 1937 p5. Is this where you live? Nicholson Street, Nunawading [William Nicholson 1816-1865] / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p6.

Series 29 no.3 MAY-JUNE 2021: The Edgerton Story: part two: moving to Mitcham [Charles Edgerton, Carl Benno Schwerkolt] / Anne Jones p4. O’Shanassay Street, Nunawading [John O’Shanassay] p6.

Series 29 no.4 JULY-AUGUST 2021: Congratulations Peter {Vice President Peter McPhee awarded a Member AM Order of Australia] p1. Remembering Hethersett p3. A grave story [Markers for grave of Wilhelmina Scherkolt in Pittsburgh US] / Rosalie Whalen p4. From the Blackburn and Mitcham reporter July 16 1937 p5. Page street Mitcham [named after Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page Australian politician] / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p6.

Series 29 no.4 JULY-AUGUST 2021: Congratulations Peter! [vice-president Peter McPhee awarded AM in Queen’s birthday honours] p1. Remembering Hethersett [Hethersett Private Repatriation Hospital, Burwood, Vic.] p3. Is this where you live? Page Street, Mitcham / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p6.

Series 29 No. 5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2021: Vivat 1950's [schoolboy memories of the 1950's] / Brian Millane p1. From the president's desk / Vicki Jones Evans p2. Life story of the late Alf Bloom [from local Advertiser 06/02/1963 p3. hello again [wildflower study tour in WA in 1994] / Rosalie Whalen p4. from the Blackburn and Mitcham Reporter 1927 p5.

Series 29 no. 6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021: A Schwerkolt christmas poem p1. From the president's desk / Vicki Jones Evans p2. Three score years and one- facts and fables of Mitcham and district p3. Joyce Carol Suto 1924-2021 (obituary) p4. On show with MRG [history of Mitcham repertory group] / Giselda Bannister p6. Is this where you live? [Denham street, Mitcham] / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p7.

Series 30 no.1 JANUARY – FEBUARY 2022: Our first settler arrived in 1850 [article from Nunawading Gazette, Wednesday 11th March 1964] / Denice Moorhouse p1. Cycling in your 70s and beyond / Margaret Graham p6. Is this where you live? [Dudley Street, Mitcham, Governor General William Humble Ward Dudley (1867-1932)] / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p7.

Series 29 No. 6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021: A Schwerkolt Christmas poem [Mike, 1957] p1. Three score years and one: facts and fables of Mitcham and district p3. Vale Joyce Caroline Suto [long-time member] p4. On show with MRG [Mitcham Repertory Group] p6. Denman Street Mitcham [3rd Baron Thomas Denman p7.

Series 30 no.2 March-April 2022: A Schwerkoit World War 1 Story p1. From the president's desk / Vickie Jones Evans p2. From Cards to Computers [transfer or history indexes] / Rob Innes p3. Repeating History [Waverley forklift company history by Brendan Moloney] p4. Blackburn & Mitcham Reporter [police court, the shepherd's dog] p5. From the collection [Audio - Crystal set] p6.Is this where you live [Talbot street, Mitcham] p7.

Series 30 no.3 MAY-JUNE 2022: The Virgoe camera [Kodak folding Vest Pocket Camera - VPK, Percy Ernest Virgoe] / John Howell p3. The Great Buggy Move [Schwerkolt Cottage, Thomas Craine of Kilmore] / Kathy Innes p4. From Blackburn & Mitcham Reporter [New Town Hall.Box Hill, Camberwell Court] p5. Daphne Powell: a leading light of Mitcham Rep [Max Grant, Frances Daphne Cunnington] / Giselda Bannister p6. Gillies Street, Mitcham [Duncan Gilles] / Yvonne Fitzmaurice p7.

Series 30 no.4 JULY-AUGUST 2022: A childhood in Vermont [1940s] p3. Blackburn & Mitcham Reporter p5. The Cherry story [Edward Henry (Harry) Pearce, orchardist in 1907] p6. Nicholson Street Nunawading [William Nicholson 1916-1865] p7.

Series 30 no.5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2022: Three score years and one: facts and fables of Mitcham and district, part 2 [Robert Backett, Lou Barelli] p2. Blackburn & Mitcham Reporter October 1934 [First prize for ugliness, Charlie Chan dies, sustenance labour, Box Hill Band] p5. Original street names to present day, part one p7.

Series 30 no.6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2022: Goodbye Barb 1933-2022 [Barb Gardiner] p1. Our favourite Germans and how they got here / Rosalie Whalen p3. The acting bug [Ossie Mazwell Joffre Grant] p4. Isabella Macdonald Alden 1841-1930 p6.

Series 31 no.1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023: Canterbury Road trip [changes from 1890] / Gerry Robinson p4. NA5116 an ubiquitous crowbar p6. Australian Tessellated Tile company's excursion [1902] p6. Original street names to present p7.

Series 31 no.2 MARCH-APRIL 2023: A cottage addition [wooden dresser from Ernest Schwerkolt] p1. Schwerkolt family business 50th celebration [ winery and quarry] p1. Behind the curtain [the story of the 1812 Theatre, Upper Ferntree Gully] p3. Three score years and two- facts and fables of Mitcham and district p6.

Series 31 no.3 MAY-JUNE 2023: The story of nurse Maggs [Marry Ann/Marrianne Maggs nee Hardidge - midwife in Mitcham area 1860-1941, James Maggs] /Yvonne Fitzmaurice p4. Three score years and two facts and fables of Mitcham and District School [1962] / Denise Moorhouse p6. Ronald Street, Mitcham [Sergeant Ronald Moseley Peake - Royal Australian Air Force, 1921-1941] / Yvonne Fitzmaurice & Chris Gray p9.

Series 31 no.4 JULY-AUGUST 2023: Two Drakes and an Armstrong [first Real Estate Agency 1914] / Giselda Bannister p4. Three score years and two facts and fables of Mitcham and district, 1962 p6. NA5223 The Egg Bird p7. Hopetoun street, Mitcham [Lord Hopetoun] p9.

Series 31 no.5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2023: Three score years and two [Harry Alderton and the Tesselated Tiles, agricultural pipes, paving] p6. The Morning and Evening Angels [tiles from Tessellated Tiles] p7. Errors of omission: Drake's Real Estate office [1923] p8. One of the early settlers [C.E. Husband, 1894] p9.

Series 31 no.6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2023: History of a Property Illustrator 1983-2005 p1. From The Reporter [1902] p5. Norman Armstrong: 'Visionary' & First Mayor of Nunawading p6. Bedford Strett, Box Hill [Charles Bedford] p7. What is this? ["Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria" part III French price 2/6] p8.

Series 32 no.1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023: The war years at school [1940, State School] / Wilma (Findlay) Scoble p1. Raleigh Armstrong: a quiet life of service p6. What is it? [the hair found in the bottom of donated box] p7. Owen Street, Mitcham [Gunner Owen Spencer Loftus] p9.

Series 32 no.2 MARCH-APRIL 2024: Revival of a wedding dress [dress from 1950s] / Vivki Jones-Evans p1. Witt Street Mitcham [Will Witt MLA - first president of Nunawading Shire 1873-1879] p7. Anzac commemoration [29 Arpil 1938] p9.

Result Collection Location Shelf No Status Notes
Electronic Resources Library Computers Periodicals folder Available Held electronically from 2023
Periodicals Main Library P 994.51 WHIT WHI Available Not for loan