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Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation – BOOK LAUNCH

PRESENTED BY THE BENDIGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY and LANGLEY ESTATE

Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation

by Ross McMullin

Langley Hall    484 Napier St, White Hills Vic.

Wednesday 25 October 2023     5.30 p.m.-7.00 p.m.

Refreshments, book sales and signings by author.

Free event. Bookings essential

 https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1123161  

Further information https://www.bendigohistory.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=68&action=elementor

 

Tour of Langley Hall

Sunday 1 October, 10.00 a.m.

Tour of Langley Hall, a goldfields landmark since 1904.

Tour leaders: Thomas and Simone Heywood.

Meet: Langley Hall, 484 Napier Street White Hills, Bendigo.

Tour and morning tea $25.00. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL. 0472975068

 

Image from State Library Victoria.

Walk cancelled Sunday Sept 3.

The Walk Into History (Coliban Water System) scheduled for Sunday September 3 has been cancelled  due to the  unavailability of Coliban Water Staff to lead the tour. We are hoping to re schedule this tour in 2024.

Monthly Meeting September 1

Friday 1 September

2 p.m.  History rescued from a rubbish skip – James Lerk

La Trobe Art Institute, 121 View Street Bendigo

Guest speaker James Lerk, Bendigo historian, will tell how he rescued legal papers from a waste bin following a fire in 2003. Many of the papers offer a valuable insight into the range of clients and the nature of a notable Bendigo legal business between the 1880s and 1920s. Free event.

Red Ribbon Agitation

Sunday 27 August 11 a.m.

Red Ribbon Agitation – 170th anniversary – outdoor event. Red-Ribbon-Agitation
Meet at the Bendigo Piazza, View Point Rosalind Park.
Come and enjoy a performance by the Bendigo Theatre Company telling the story of 1853 when thousands of miners demanded a fair license fee.
Free event
Dress like a miner and wear a red ribbon.

Image from State Library Victoria. On Bendigo Creek S.T.Gill

Events in August

Annual General Meeting

Friday 4 August, 2.00 p.m.

La Trobe Art Institute, 121 View St. Bendigo.

Walk into History

Sunday 6 August, 10.00 a.m.

Carpenter Without a Hammer.

Tour leader: James Lerk explores Thomas Carpenter’s influence on Bendigo.

Meet: Alexandra Fountain, View Point, Bendigo.

Events in July 2023

3 Diary dates for more BHS events & significant fundraising launch.

Saturday 1 July, 11am -12.00
Fundraising Appeal Launch – all welcome
History House, 11 MacKenzie Street Bendigo

Bendigo is getting a community museum. Join us as The Hon. Maree Edwards, MP and City of Greater Bendigo Mayor Andrea Metcalf, help us launch the Community Museum Fundraising Campaign.
Refreshments provided.

BHS President, Euan McGillivray said, “with financial support, the Bendigo Historical Society can develop and deliver a new attraction for Bendigo that will add to the rich fabric of history and heritage which makes Bendigo a premiere cultural tourism destination and a great place to live. Developing the History House Museum represents a collective commitment to a community in the present and for the future”.

More details will be posted on BHS website closer to the launch.

Sunday 2 July, 2023, 10.00am Note: The tour of the Shamrock Hotel has been cancelled
Walks Into History – all welcome
Bendigo’s City Edge
Meet at the corner of Mundy Street and Mollison Street.
Join us as we explore the area surrounded by Mundy, Mollison, Mitchell and McLaren Streets. Listen to stories about some of the residents of this area, for example, McLaren Street resident Ernst Mueller and family. He came to Bendigo when it was no more than a diggers camp and grew to be one of its wealthiest citizens. Apart from being a successful gold trader and investor, Ernst brokered the sale of Lansell’s holdings to the Ballerstedt’s – the largest mining deal in Bendigo history.
Members $5.00. Non-members $10.00.

Friday 7 July, 2pm. La Trobe Art Institute
Members & Friends Event – all welcome
Topic: Contemporary Art’s Connections to History
Guest speaker: Bala Starr, Director, La Trobe Art Institute

Local history collections reflect on the people, places and events that are important to us. Like local history, contemporary art also strives to be part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual themes such as identity, family, community, and nationality.  Free event, no booking required.

 

Walk into History Sunday March 5

Sunday 5 March, 10.00 a.m.  Bendigo Women, a celebration of International Women’s Day.
Tour leaders, Pip Johanson and Heather McNeill
Meet at the Tourist Information Centre, Pall Mall, Bendigo

The International Women’s Day 2023 campaign theme is: #EmbraceEquity. During this walk you will be introduced, or learn more about only a few of the remarkable women who lived and worked in Bendigo. The tour leaders recognise that there are so many unexplored stories of the lives of Bendigo women. The saying, ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’ has led to a greater enthusiasm to embrace equality. However, in her book Celebrating Bendigo’s Women, Brenda Stevens-Chambers commented – ‘None of us (women) want to lead our mothers’ lives, every thought we have isfocussed on the quality of our own lives and our kin, yet as pointed out by Marilyn Lake and Germaine Greer, doing so is still fraught with obstacles’.

Highlighted on the walk will be Margaret Kennedy, the joint discoverer in 1851 of gold in the Bendigo Creek, Virginia Trioli, two times Walkley Award winning ABC journalist, as well as Anna Brennan, Amy Castles (picture above), Agnes Goodsir, Faith Leach and Kay Thurlow.

History House reopening January 31.

The BHS Collection has been relocated to History House at 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo.                                                             

The new location is now open to the public on Tuesdays and  Thursdays from  9.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m.                                                                                                 

Phone 03 5442 1005 during these hours.

“Walks into History” February and March 2023

Cost: Non members $10.00  Members $5.00 (unless otherwise specified).

Sunday 5 February 2023, 10.00 a.m.  

A new perspective from the Bendigo Creek.

Tour leader: Peter Cox, President, National Trust Bendigo Branch

A walk from Golden Square Fire Station to Lake Weeroona along the cobblestones of the Bendigo Creek with commentary on various sites.

Sturdy walking shoes required for 1-2 hour walk.

Please make arrangements for your return to starting point at completion of the tour – car pool or pre parked car at end of walk.

Cost $10.00 (Members $5.00).

Meet: Opposite Golden Square Fire Station, High Street Bendigo, walk to Lake Weeroona.

 

Sunday 5 March 2023, 10.00 a.m.  

Bendigo Women. A Celebration of International Women’s Day.           

Tour leaders: Heather McNeil and Pip Johanson.

Meet: Tourist Information Centre, Pall Mall, Bendigo

Cost $10.00 (Members $5.00).