“Walks into History” and other Events and Programs will be announced on the Website, Facebook, Instagram, e-blasts to members and Marunari.

Public presentation

Friday 1st November             2.00 p.m.

The gold mines of Bendigo – A treasure trove of documents.

La Trobe Art Institute, 121 View Street Bendigo.  All welcome, free entry.

Join mining collection experts Kay MacGregor and Baden Coakley as they discuss and explain the range and significance of over 10,000 gold mining documents from 1860s to 1950s – including from the Mining Warden, Department of Mines, various Mine Legal Managers, shareholder and minute books from the Bendigo legal offices of McColl, Rankin and Stanistreet.

Walks into History

Sunday 3rd November 2024             10.00 a.m.

Quirky Pall Mall, all the strange things you didn’t know about Pall Mall.

Meet at St Kilian’s Church

Join tour leader Pip Johanson as she takes you on a walk along Pall Mall Bendigo. There are lots of strange and quirky stories to discover! Pall Mall, often called ‘the spine’ of the city, it runs in parallel with the Bendigo Creek where gold was discovered. The Mall soon became the hub of commercial and social activity with many stories, some obvious, some hidden.

Bookings essential – all welcome

https://events.humanitix.com/walk-into-history-quirky-pall-mall

Film Night Fundraiser “Aquarius”

7.00 p.m.      Thursday 21st November 2024           Star Cinema, Eaglehawk.

Aquarius is a film about the people and the power of change, of unintended consequences and the radical wisdom that reaches down through generations today. In May 1973, 10,000 artists, activists, hippies, radical students, gurus and visionaries descended on a small dairy town in NSW for 10 days of social and cultural exploration that changed a generation.

Bookings essential.

https://www.starcinema.org.au/movie/bendigo-historical-society-fundraiser-aquarius

Phone bookings may be made between 11.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. Monday to Friday on 5446 2025.

Walks into History

Sunday 1st December 2024        10.00 a.m.

Long Gully Uniting Church, built on the 1857 site.

Meet at 14-26 Wilson St, Long Gully

Join us on a tour of the church and discover the story of this Vahland and Getzschmann gem. The former Methodist Church and Sunday School were erected in two stages: the School in 1865 and the Church in 1877. Come and see the long run of clerestory windows and slender cast iron columns as well as the zebra polychrome window decoration. Marvel at the Alfred Fuller organ once described as ‘our best local example of a nineteenth-century organ’ 

Bookings essential – all welcome

https://events.humanitix.com/walk-into-history-long-gully-uniting-church