Talk: A Curator’s Perspective: Bendigo with Love
Talk: A Curator’s Perspective: Bendigo with Love Bendigo in the 1950s & 60s – photographic exhibition by Allan Doney New free event – all welcome Join former senior curator of […]
Rosalind Park Fernery
The Fernery in Rosalind Park: A Garden Feature of Nineteenth-Century Bendigo Hidden beneath the shade of towering River Red Gums in Rosalind Park lies one of Bendigo’s most distinctive historic […]
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 […]
Bendigo Church Organs April 2026
Bendigo Church Organs April 2026 A walking tour with Thomas Heywood Welcome to our special Australian Heritage Festival Event for 2026 Join the internationally acclaimed organ virtuoso Thomas Heywood on […]
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 […]
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 […]
Allan Doney Collection welcomed to BHS
Allan Doney Collection Event The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) has gifted the The Allan Doney Collection to Bendigo Historical Society (BHS). We formally welcomed The Allan Doney Collection into […]
Bendigo Advertiser rebuilds after devastating fire
Celebrating the new Pall Mall Building Recently David, one of our team of dedicated volunteers, was tasked with cataloguing the ‘Bendigo Advertiser Reconstruction Supplement printed in February 1963. This eight-page […]
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 […]
Patrick Cooper’s Clock
Black wooden mantle clock with pendulum bob made in the U.S.A by the Sessions Clock Company. Mounted on ornate metal feet and decorated with four columns supporting Gothic arches with […]