Exhibition: Bendigo With Love
Bendigo with Love: An exhibition of Photographs of the 50s and 60s by Allan Doney This Easter, the Bendigo Historical Society invites the community to step back in time with a new exhibition celebrating the work of one of Bendigo’s most remarkable photographers. “Bendigo with Love: Photographs of the 50s and 60s by Allan Doney” […]
Elcon Myer Bendigo
Elcon Baevski Myer By Rob Upson Bendigo Historical Society Member Elcon Baevski Myer, Photo supplied by author, Marunari, Vol 50, Issue 5, July 2024 In reading about the life of Sidney Myer (originally Simcha Baevski) I came across one of his brothers named Elcon Baevski who had played no small part in the establishment of […]
Binks Family Bendigo
Frederick (Freddie) Lawrence Binks By Rob Upson Bendigo Historical Society Member Freddie Binks was born in Ballarat in 1856 to the Rev. William Lawrence Binks and Sarah Green Binks (nee Howse). He is well known for being the first student to be enrolled in the newly established Wesley College, St Kilda Road, Melbourne in 1866. […]
The swinging lass clock
Meet you outside the swinging lass! The story of the quote “Until 1939 (in Bendigo) the local constabulary wore helmets like their counterparts in London. There would always be a constable walking the main block and if you stopped to talk he would say ‘Move along please’. You could talk to friends and relatives as […]
Tyson Brothers
On 25 April 1808, Isabella Tyson was tried at York, West Riding Quarter Sessions and convicted of the theft of linen and sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia. Isabella’s family, husband William (Snr) and their infant son William (Jnr) aged 19 months, came as free emigrants on the same transport. William Tyson (Jnr) had three […]
James and Hannah Brierley
James and Hannah Brierley left Manchester as assisted migrants, in 1844 and arrived in Sydney on the Elizabeth three and a half months later with the hope of finding a better life for themselves. They completed their required twelve months’ work agreements in the Hunter Valley before travelling to Adelaide by 1848 where James purchased […]
Specimen Cottage – 178 Hargreaves Street, Bendigo
Specimen Cottage is architecturally significant as the oldest original house in Bendigo, built by stonemason James Brierley. The 1856 section of the building has a front façade of local coursed sandstone rubble, with dressed quoins and dressings to openings; the side walls are rubble: the rear and internal walls are of red brick. It has […]
A Few of Our Favourite Things
“A Few of Our Favourite Things” Exhibition at the Bendigo Library from March 1, 2019. Volunteers working at Nolan Street have chosen favourite items from the BHS Collection. They have researched the stories unearthed through the cataloguing and preservation of the many treasures donated to the Bendigo Historical Society. On Tuesday May 7 10.30 am […]