No. 155 AUTUMN 2011: The Brighton cyclone 1918 p5. A brief history of Billilla [house] p7. Robert Wright (who once owned Billilla) p8. Corporal Raymond George Durston 1899-2002 / Elizabeth Paine p11. Historic houses of Brighton: Thyra: from gothic fantasy to dream motel / Sandra Lanteri p12. Vale: Sue Kelly p13.

No. 156 WINTER 2011: Behind the Berlin Wall [Anna Funder] / Sandra Lanteri p5. (Ada) Doris Hayball (1892-1973) / Sandra Lanteri p7. Ada Cambridge (1844-1926): novelist, poet, memoirist and journalist [from the Brighton Cemetery] / notes Elizabeth Paine, source Sandra Lanteri p9. Errol Broome (1937-) / Faye Coates p10. Charles Laing [architect] and Blairgowrie Court: is there a link? / Malcolm Fredman p12. The Brighton Horticultural Society [demise of] / Di Reidie p14.

No. 157 SPRING 2011: Historic homes of Brighton: Biwa, 60 North Road (demolished 1997) p5. Cadby family of Brighton p7. Violet Scarlett (Mrs Peebles) of Cadby Street / Barbara Brewer p8. Septimus Miller, Victorian Racing Club Chairman 1895-1907 p12.

No. 158 SUMMER 2011: Brighton's first policeman [Constable Ambrose Draper] / Paul Cook p5. Brighton Police Station: a brief history / Tracy Tulloch p7. Buxton's 150 years [Buxton's Estate Agency] / Malcolm Fredman p8. Historic homes of Brighton: Brighton Lodge, another landmark lost / Sandra Lanteri p10. From choir boy to munitions expert: Robert Ernest Summers / Jane Mayo Carolan p12. Historic happenings at St Andrew's Graveyard [cemetery] / Heather Sanderson p13.

No. 159 AUTUMN 2012: I grew up in wartime England / Marjorie Pinder p5. From the Brighton Cemetery: Doris Downes p10. Halcyon [Residential Village] / Peggy Stansby p11. Calder Edkins Oliver 1855-1939 / Malcolm Fredman p13.

No. 160 WINTER 2012: Royal visits to Brighton. When Edward the 'Digger Prince' came to Brighton (1920) p5. Royal visit to Brighton by the Duke of York (1927) p8. Tragic air accident mars the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Melbourne (1927) p10. Desailly family of Church Street p12.

No. 161 SPRING 2012: Professor Weston Bate and 'A history of Brighton' 50th anniversary / Jane Mayo Carolan p5. The notorious O'Farrell brothers [royal visit of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 1867] / Kirra Minton p7. From the Brighton Cemetery: Jessie Lavington Evans 1860-1943, painter / Sandra Lanteri p10. Barry and Heather Ross / Tracy Tulloch p11. One of the last furriers [Jon Jackson of 'Linda Black Furs'] / Di Reidie p13. Death: John Souter p15. Wedding gown exhibition p16.

No. 162 SUMMER 2012: St Andrew's [Anglican Church]: 170 years of history / Jo Jenkinson p5. From the Brighton Cemetery: Guy Boyd 1923-1988 / Sandra Lanteri p9. Vale: Valda Trenberth p9. Dr Arthur Bridges Webb / Malcolm Fredman p10. Farleigh (house) / Tracy Tulloch p11. 150 years of wedding gowns: wedding gown parade and exhibition / Di Reidie p13. Pat Jean retires p15.

No. 163 AUTUMN 2013: Maurice Vincent Buckley VC DCM: a deserter who became a decorated war hero! / Jane Mayo Carolan p5. Weston Bate p7. Margaret Shorland: recollections of her childhood during World War Two / Elizabeth Paine p8. Brighton Benevolent Society Inc.: celebrating 150 years of service to the community / Sandra Lanteri p10. From the Brighton Cemetery: Marion Knowles (1865-1949), teacher, author, journalist / Elizabeth Paine p13.

No. 164 WINTER 2013: Seats and stairs: remembering the Prince George Theatre / Di Reidie p5. The Prince George Theatre restoration project / Ken Short p6. Vale: Malcolm Fredman 1934-2013 / Di Reidie p8. History and theatre: the last manned railway gates / Jo Jenkinson p9. The protest / Di Reidie p10. Preserving our history: setting up the Brighton Historical Society / Jo Jenkinson p11. Introducing James H. Taylor OBE: Brighton's Town Clerk extraordinaire, forty five years of municipal service / Sandra Lanteri p12. Vale: Marjorie Cash p13. Higinbotham Hall, 104 Bay Street (photo) p14.

No. 165 SPRING 2013: School days, dear old golden rule days [early schools of Brighton] / adapted by Di Reidie p6. Rosalind Landells OAM and Wallace Charles Landells: a formidable Brighton partnership / Sandra Lanteri p8. Parading our costumes / Di Reidie p12. Vale: Betty Hayes p16.

No. 166 SUMMER 2013: History on record: an interview with Rosalind Landells p5. Trinity Uniting Church [formerly Brighton Congregational Church]: celebrating 160 years / Elizabeth Paine and Di Reidie p12. Hilary Anne Bullock 1926-2001 / Sandra Lanteri p14.


No. 167 AUTUMN 2014: Native plants of Brighton / J.H. Willis [assistant Government Botanist, originally published as a supplement to BHS newsletter no. 9 Dec 1965] p4. Dr James Hamlyn Willis AM (1910-1995), 'the only successor to the great Baron Von Mueller' / Sandra Lanteri p8. Brighton Beach Gardens / Jo Jenkinson p10. The Brighton Dunes / Elizabeth McQuire p13.

No. 168 WINTER 2014: Celebrating a centenary: the people who made St Leonard's College p5. From the Brighton Cemetery: Marjory Crawford 1911-22 p10. Introducing Agnes Emmeline (Dot) Iredell 1887-1969 p11. Vale: Peggy Peterson 1920-2014 p14.

No. 169 SPRING 2014: Di Reidie receives Award of Merit from ARHS p5. The Red Cross: 100 years in Brighton / Jess Curtain p6. Anzac Hostel [Kamesburgh] p7. Claire Hilton: 100 years of memories p9. From the Brighton Cemetery: Major George Argo Turner (1857-1939), Red Cross Commissioner / Elizabeth Paine p12. Vale: Ken Short p14. The final chapter in the Prince George caper: Robert Ward p14.

No. 170 SUMMER 2014: Brighton by accident [memories of Brighton] / Weston Bate p5. Memories of Brighton: Mavis Allison Kinsman (nee Symes) p7. The birds of Brighton, Victoria / Roy Wheeler p10.

No. 171 AUTUMN 2015: From Brighton to Anzac Cove: Brighton soldiers in Gallipoli [Captain William Hoggart; Irving Flett; Gordon Mathison; Humphrey Moule; Richard Linton] / Jess Curtain p5. Brighton's war memorial: the cenotaph at Green Point p9. A soldier's story [Haughton Forrest (Tod) Nicholson] p10. From the Brighton Cemetery: Elly Lukas 1924-1999 p12. Westwood Merry-Go-Round update p14.

No. 172 WINTER 2015: Art deco in Brighton (pictorial cover). Norman John Ried: memories of a paper boy from Gardenvale / Sandra Lanteri p5. Brighton's air ace: Air Commodore Cobby [Arthur Henry 'Harry'] / Jo Jenkinson p10. A soldier's story: Haughton Forest 'Tod' Nicholson [letters, World War One] p13. Ghost signs: uncovering Melbourne's past through the traces of hand-painted advertising signs p15.

No. 173 SPRING 2015: A soldier's story [third in a series of letters written by Haughton 'Tod' Nicholson during army service at Gallipoli during World War One] p5. Vale: Marjorie Menzies 1923-2015 p7. The Mayfair Cinema, Gardenvale 1925-1960 / Vern Deutsher, introduction by Sandra Lanteri p8. Memories of a projectionist: the Prince George and Dendy Cinemas [personal memories of Ian McLeod] p11. Signs of another time [ghost signs, Lewis and Skinner Signwriters, Dr Stefan Schutt] p13.

No. 174 SUMMER 2015: The real story behind 'The lure of the beach' [new book] / Di Reidie p5. The Grant family of Brighton p7. The wearer of the Queen's Scarf: Trooper Alfred Henry Dufrayer: from the Brighton Grammar School Archives / Jane Mayo Carolan p11. Finding Haughton 'Tod' Forrest Nicholson / Ruth Irving p13. The Brighton Icebergers and the Middle Brighton Baths / Charles Lyne p14.

No. 176 [175?] AUTUMN 2016: Smoking ceremony and handover of stone axe head p3. Jane Mayo Carolan awarded OAM p4. Vale: Ray Austin Crooke AM 1922-2015 [artist] / Sandra Lanteri p4. Archibald McMillan 1769-1863: from penniless immigrant to Brighton's foremost farmer / Sandra Lanteri p5. Brighton's hidden gem: Landcox Park / Jo Jenkinson p7. Henry Dendy / Rosalind Landells p10. Making sense of history: the Rigby / Weir [family] photographs p12. Vale: Judy Joy Davies p15.

No. 176 WINTER 2016 Brighton Community Hospital / Jessica Curtain p4. A Beloved Brighton Identity: Keith Leslie Chambers (1899-1983) / Dr. Jane Mayo Carolan p7. Postscript on Landcox Park p9. Dr William Macansh: Private Practitioner, Public Health Officer and Mayor of Brighton / Jo Jenkinson p10. Elanora: A home by the sea for the blind and visually impaired / Sandra Lanteri p13.

No. 177 SPRING 2016: A visit to Chatsworth Nursery 1897 p6. Brighton historical society in eight lessons / Di Reidie p10. Vivian Kenney, clockmaker extraordinaire p12. Who came calling on the ladies of Brighton / Gwenneth Secomb p13.

No. 178 SUMMER 2016: Brighton's earliest settlers in the beginning: Following in Dendy's footsteps [Henry Dendy] / Sandra Lanteri p4. About local people: Charlotte Hewittt p6. A boy's own adventure [Andrew Keith Jack and Lionel George Hook] / Jane Mayo Carolan] p9. Jacqui Cooper, aerial skier and motivational speaker / Elizabeth Paine p11. From the Brighton General Cemetery: Joseph Ostler, alias C. Frusher Howard (1827-1905) / Elizabeth Pine p12. Mrs Diane Fisher / Jo Jenkinson p13.

No. 179 AUTUMN 2017: Memories of 1920s Church Street p4. Were Street Village [early shops in Brighton] / Jo Jenkinson p6. Vale Lisleen Dale Mason p8. The Brighton Button Shop / Sadra Lanteri p9. The Macphersons in Church Street / Jessica Curtain p10. Temme's Drapery Store / Elizabeth Paine p13. Audley Lilly: Brighton Grammar School Identity / Dr Jane Mayo Carolan p14. The old Brighton courthouse / Jo Jenkinson p15.

No. 180 WINTER 2017: The St Kilda-Brighton railway tram p4. Brighton Beach railway station / Sandra Lanteri p6. Gardenvale: the Cinderella of stations / Jessica Curtain p7. Getting around in Brighton: early bus lines / Jo Jenkinson p10. Vale Paula Noelle Berry AM 27 December 1928-1 May 2017 p13. Fifty years of the Dendy Organ: a celebration / Jo Jenkinson p14.

No.181 SPRING 2017: Early Brighton: a resident's impression [George and Harriet Porter 1843] p3. William Meek: Melbourne's first lawyer p4. James and Charles Webb / Sandra Lanteri p7. Memories of Brighton 'Tech', 1943-1945 / Valda Tibbits p9. Post-script on Church Street / Peter Demaine p10. Recording our past: Brighton in photographs / Robyn Vincin p11.

No.182 SUMMER 2017: Vale to our esteemed leader Professor Weston Arthur Bate 1924-2017 / Jane Mayo Carolan p3. Brighton Cricket Club: celebrating 175 years / Jo Jenkinson p4. The biggest party ever in Brighton- the return of Captain Robert Grieve VC on Sunday 26 May 1918 p7. The Moule family: lawyers, cricketers and servicemen p8. Black Thursday: the day the colony burned / Jessica Curtain p9.

No.183 AUTUMN 2018: Remembering Gwen Bowles / Jane Patrick p3. St Leonard's Uniting Church: three anniversaries / Jo Jenkinson p5. The Brighton cyclone: a century on / Catherine Wallace p7. Vale Rosemary Barton / Di Reidie p11.

No.184 WINTER 2018: History from a Real Estate Agent [property dealings June 1906 - October 1921] / Trevor Cater p3. Memories of a Brighton childhood / Dennis Belcher p7. The Sewering of Brighton / Jessica Curtain p9.

No.185 SPRING 2018: Dendy's Brighton plan: questions, conjectures and insights [Henry Dendy] / Mike Scott p2. The houses that made a school [Firbank Grammar School: Gawsworth, Meanyet, Alywin family home, Maroola, Pen-y-Bryn, Seagrove] / Jo Jenkinson p6.

No.186 SUMMER 2018: The armistice of 11 November 1918 / Jane Mayo Carolan p2. Bringing them home: Kamesburgh (ANZAC Hostel) / Jo Jenkinson p3. How the artist Jessie Triall and one French village celebrated the armistice / Sandra Lanteri p6. A helping hand: the Brighton Society for the Re-adaptation of Returned Soldiers / Jessica Curtain p9.

No.187 AUTUMN 2019: Maritima, Marchwood and their seven acres that became Kostka Hall p3. Sir Frederick McCoy, owner of Maritima p6. The Holloways of Brighton Beach / Jo Jenkinson p8. A snapshot of Brighton: our pictorial history [Brighton Historical Society] p11. Graham Kinross Morris 21.11.1`942-18.2.2019 p11.

No.188 WINTER 2019: The Cochrane Family / Jo Jenkinson p3. A North Brighton icon: Dockendorff's IGA Supermarket and Liquor / Elizabeth Paine p7. The history on our walls [history of the Brighton Historical Society collection] / Sandra Lanteri p9. Trinity Uniting Church, Black Street: some historic milestones p9. James Butler Cooper and the Vagabond p10.

No.189 SPRING 2019: A woman of significance: an interview with Di Reidie / Annabel Butler p2. From our costume collection [Pelaco] / Sandra Lanteri p6. From the archives: Clem de Garis, Town Clerk of Brighton / Jo Jenkinson p7. Otley: charm and history / Elizabeth Paine and Jo Jenkinson p9. A night on the town [Brighton night life over time] / Jessica Curtain p11.

No.190 SUMMER 2019: Vale Di Reidie / Elizabeth Paine p3. Ada of California / Jessica Curtain p3. Introducing cartoonist Alex Gurney and his maters, Bluey and Curley / Sandra Lanteri p7. Mary Margaret Crombie 1883-1971 / Elizabeth Paine p9. Cochrane family: a correction [Cochrane Street was originally called McMillan Street] p11.

No.191 AUTUMN 2020: Cousin Nellie [Lillian Eleanor Price] / Catherine Wallace p3. Margaret Ellen Crook 1898-1963 / Elizabeth Paine p5. I remember Mrs Burlinson / Gwen Seacomb p6. A slow turning wheel: Victorian women's right to vote / Sandra Lanteri p9.

No.192 WINTER 2020: Adam Lindsay Gordon / Catherine Walker p2. Memories of Star of the Sea / Margaret Bullock p5. Who was Captain Nave / Jo Jenkinson p9.

No.193 SPRING 2020: From the president [COVID] p2. The Brighton connections of John Robert Murphy (1806-1891) / by Robyn Vincin p2. The Moule family of Brighton / by Jo Jenkinson p5. While we were sleeping [Questions sent to historical society regarding: Brighton Hotel/Royal Hotel, Lennon family, Dan Murphy's building on Nepean Highway, Billilla property, house called Koolgarra in Moule Avenue, parapet for the Commercial Bank Building on Bridge Street, Plaque at site of death of A.L. Gordon, house on 18 Montclair Avenue, property owned by Robert & Jane Craig, Hector Street History, home of Hugh Ronald Reid on Murphy Street, Warrangle Reserve location, Hampton Street/'Ampton Street, Higgins Dairy Farm, 6 Normanby St Brighton, naming of Brighton] p7.

No.194 SUMMER 2020: News from the society [COVID safe plan] p1. Dame Jean Macnamara and the polio virus [Annie Jean Macnamara, 1889-1968, medical scientist] / Jo Jenkinson and Elizabeth Paine p3. While we are sleeping: part two [history of 166 Martin Street, 14 Hodder Street, 139 Marriage Road, Brighton, Karella on Sussex Street, Craig Hall on 2 South Road, 106 Church Street] p6. Vale[Nola Jennings, Brian O’Callaghan] p9. Elizabeth Paine retires [retirement of Brighton Historical Society’s secretary] / Sandra Lanteri p10.

No.195 AUTUMN 2021: 2019-2020 Annual Report of the Brighton Historical Society [exhibitions and COVID] p2. The Lawrence Family of Brighton / Ephorus p3. Delving into the archives [Margaret Amess who lived at Tynefield, St James School, Christian Chapel, Thalatta, Bristol and Orritti] p9. Resignation of committee member Sandra Lanteri p10. Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards 2020 p11.

No. 196 WINTER 2021: Brighton’s Marine Hotel [Adam Lindsay Gordon] / Robyn Vincin p3. Growing Brighton’s gardens: J.H. Lees & Sons Nursery, 1926-2017 / Jo Jenkinson from notes and records provided by Jan Rigby, granddaughter of Jim and Vera Lees p5. Growing up in Brighton: part 1 domestic life / edited extracts from notes handwritten by Pauline McLean (Law) in June 1990 p8.

No. 197 SPRING 2021: From the president / Liz Gay p2. Growing up in Brighton: Part 2 [Outdoors and beyond] / Pauline McLean (Law) p3. St Ninian's: home of the Ward Cole family / Catherine Wallace p6. A Bay street gem [historic home at 74 Bay street] / Jo Jenkinson p8. The Brighton town hall clock / Robyn Vincin p10.

No. 198 SUMMER 2021: From the president / Liz Gay p2. George Higinbotham [Victorian Legislative Assembly, Higinbotham Hall, Brighton Free Library] / Jo Jenkinson p3. Henry Dendy's emigrants: Shaky beginnings [James Boxshall, Mark and Stephen Lindsey, Daniel Carpenter, William and Sarah Hodder] / Robyn Vincin p6. New Street [Elsternwick Park, Elster Creek, Marine Hotel, St Andrew's Anglican Church, Brighton Grammar School, Percy Grainger] / Catherine Wallace p9.


No.199 AUTUMN 2022: Ann Stuckey and Thomas Male's Will / Kay McCullough p4. A brief history of Billilla [William Weatherly] p6. Richard Hale Budd / Catherine Wallace p9.

No.200 WINTER 2022: Celebrating 200 issues of the Brighton Historical Society Journal: the first ten years p3. Moorabbin House: the Home of J.B. Were p8.

No.201 SPRING 2022: The Elms, St Kilda Street Brighton [John and George Whittibgham] p3. Golf in early Brighton p5. The Peter Hurlstone story p8. Brighton in the spotlight: who do you think you are? [Dolean Gilmore, Jess Curtain] p10.

No.202 SUMMER 2022: Brighton dual roads [notice from 1841] p3. Entertainment at the Brighton Drill Room p4. Kuring-gai [3-storey villa] / Jessica Curtain p8. A new style of architecture [1920] p9. The whole picture: a historic look at Bay Street p11

No.203 AUTUMN 2023: The Church Street Shops: Memories from the 1930s and 1940s / Gwen Secomb p3. Memories of Brighton [Vera- Rigby] p6. Samuel Pond Simmonds [resident] p7. Vale William (Bill) Meares, Melba Victoria Meehan, Di Lopez OAM] p9.

No.204 WINTER 2023: What can we do with the Merry-go-round? [history, donation from Peggy Peterson] p3. Home-grown footy: the story of the Brighton Football Club p4. The car in Brighton [Bail Brothers Garage] /Gwen Secomb p8. The Church of England Children's Home, Wilson Street Brighton / Catherine Wallace p9.

No.205 SPRING 2023: A lady of many talents: Dorothy Tonkin / Jo Jenkinson p3. Memories of early Brighton / Judge W.H. Maule p6. Mr. W.E. Herring, the occasional fisherman / Joanne Hammonds p8. Our Merry-Go-Round: a new home at Flemington / Elizabeth Paine p11.

No.206 SUMMER 2023: Flak, Barber Wire, Sailing and Lawn Bowls: Gordon Stoke, World War II Bomber Pilot / Don Tibbits p5. Brighton Historical Society 60th anniversary speech: past, present, future and congratulations / Dr Rosalie Triolo p7.

No.207 AUTUMN 2024: Fashion on the Goldfields / Laura Jocic p3. Our journals through the 1970s / Robyn Vincic p5. Vale Dr Jane Mayo Carolan OAM 1949-2023 [President 2016-2019] p8. Stories stitched in fabric exhibition at Kinross Art Centre / Jessica Curtain p9. Hats off in the Library [Hats display] / Joan Hammonds p11.