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Women’s Cricket 150th Anniversary Match

Good Friday 29 March 2024 at 2.00 p.m. at the QEO.

T20 Women’s Match between a Bendigo Representative Team and a Ballarat Representative Team.

Free Entry.

The first organized Australian Women’s Cricket Match was held in Bendigo at the Bendigo Easter Fair in 1874.

BOOK SALE

History House, 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo

Saturday March 9 and Sunday March 10     10.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Whatever your reading or research interests are, we may have a book for you: directories, tourist publications, brochures maps, calendars, school histories, church histories, photos, posters, local histories, family histories, children’s books, Annals of Bendigo, manuals, reference books, text books, mining publications.

Credit or debit cards preferred.

Items are available because they are duplicate copies of existing collection items, do not meet selection criteria for the BHS Collection, or are excess items from private collections donated prior to 1999. No large maps just a few small ones. Prices from $2.00, $5.00, $10.00 plus a few rarer books individually priced.

Some new stock also available.

BYO bags or baskets.

Members and Friends Meeting

Friday 8 March 2.00 p.m.

La Trobe Art Institute

121 View Street Bendigo

Free event, everyone welcome

What happened? How the Bendigo Advertiser unearths history

Journalist Tom O’Callaghan finds tales from the dead centre of Victoria and brings them back to life in the pages of the Bendigo Advertiser. He has delved into his hometown’s past to better understand the present. From mining magnates stinking the city out to spirits possessing people at seances, Tom looks for the strange stories that shed light on the hidden tales that help us understand this remarkable place called Bendigo.

Join him to learn more about ways the Addy retells this city’s past, and what these stories can tell us about the here-and-now.

Walk Into History

Sunday 3 March 2024

10.00 a.m.

Not Ghosts but Ghost Signs

Discover the history of Bendigo through its faded advertising signs

Tour leader: Felicity Woodward

Meet: steps of the Capital Theatre, View St.

Members $5.00. Non-members $10.00.

Sunday 4 February 2024 10.00 a.m.

“Walks into History” 2024

Sunday 4 February 2024       10.00 a.m.

‘Let’s not get sloshed!’  Pubs, breweries and beer shops.

Join James Lerk on our first Walk into History for 2024. He will lead us as we wander through the neighbourhood between View and Arnold Streets to tell us the stories of pubs and breweries dotted throughout the area in the early days of Bendigo.

Meet at the Anne Caudle Centre gates in Barnard Street.

Members $5.00. Non-members $10.00.

History House open Tuesdays and Thursdays from January 30.

First “Walk into History”

Sunday 4 February 2024, 10.00 a.m.

‘Let’s not get sloshed!’ – pubs, breweries and beer shops.

Join James Lerk on our first Walks into History for 2024. He will lead us as we wander through the neighbourhood between View and Arnold Streets to tell us the stories of pubs and breweries dotted throughout the area in the early days of Bendigo.

Meet at the Anne Caudle Centre gates in Barnard Street.

Members $5.00. Non-members $10.00.

Community museum at History House open to the public Tuesday 2 April 2024

Our first exhibition is: ‘Frisky matrons and forward spinsters’ –

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first Australian women’s cricket match, played in Bendigo, 1874.

Museum volunteers needed

We need volunteers to be on duty in customer service roles to welcome visitors to our community museum.

The museum will be open over four days each week: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday from

10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m.

Two shifts are available: 10.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. and 12.30 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.

All volunteers will receive training in being ‘front of house’ hosts at History House.

Contact secretary@bendigohistory.com

History House Closed Dec. 4 – Feb. 1.

History House at 11 Mackenzie Street will be closed to the Public from Monday December 4 until February 2024. It will reopen to the Public on Tuesday February 1 from 9.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m.

Building works will be undertaken during this time to construct a Community Museum in preparation for the first exhibition to be opened by Easter 2024.

This exhibition will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first recorded Australian women’s cricket match that was played in Bendigo in 1874.

Our Research service will be unavailable during this time.

President, Secretary and Treasurer email contacts will still be available.

Walk into History Sacred Heart Cathedral

Sacred Heart Cathedral – Bendigo’s English Gothic Revival marvel 
Sunday 3 December at 2.00 p.m. 
NOTE CHANGE OF TIME
Meet: Sacred Heart Cathedral, 66 Short Street, Bendigo

$5 members, $10 non-members

From gargoyles and flying buttresses to marbled floors with angels soaring high above, Sacred Heart Cathedral is not only a sacred space and architectural marvel, but also a gallery of artistry and craftsmanship: stonemasonry, gold and metalcraft, sculpture, painting, woodcarving, tapestry, stained glass, and mosaics, as well as the stupendous pipe organ. Across the pontificates of seven Popes, and eighty years of construction, the Cathedral was finished in 1977 when the main spire was completed to grace and dominate the Bendigo skyline.
Don’t miss out on experiencing this wonderful pre-Christmas history tour.
Hope to see you there

Movie Night Ford v Holden

Thursday 9 November 7.00 p.m. Star Cinema, Eaglehawk

Book now.

A fundraiser for our museum with plenty of great old film footage from the times when car rivalry was king, this film will shine a light on passions of car culture in Australia. From the early days of the automobile industry to the present, Ford v Holden delves into the history, technology, and culture of these rival companies and their impact on the Australian psyche and automotive landscape.

Walks into History Bendigo Chinese Precinct, Bridge Street Bendigo

Sunday 5 November, 10.00 a.m. meet at the Lotus Flower

$5.00 members – $10.00 non-members

In this tour Leigh McKinnon will explore the history and personalities of the old Bridge Street Chinatown, from the first Chinese businesses which were established there in the 1850s, its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its decline and near complete demise in the mid 20th century through to its subsequent revitalization with the construction of the Golden Dragon Museum, the Yi Yuan Gardens and Guan Yin Temple, and the completion of the Dai Gum San Precinct.

The tour will also include the rare opportunity to enter the Bendigo Chinese Association Elders’ Room which is part of the only surviving building of the original Chinatown.