Tour of Larnangurrak

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Larnangurrak (our place) Dja Dja Wurrung Corporate and Community Centre The Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation (trading as DJAARA) and its enterprises have moved to our new Corporate and […]

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 […]

Elcon Myer Bendigo

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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

BHS Collection Item 1402.4 Postcard addressed to Freddie Binks

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 […]

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 […]

Walk into History Event Wine Bank On View

Details of July Walk into History Event

Wine Bank History Walk Join us for out latest Walk into History at Wine Bank. Wine Bank owner, Mark Coffey will lead a tour into the bank chambers on Sunday […]

Patrick Cooper’s Clock

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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 […]

Clock presented to Gertrude Perry

Mantle Clock. 1940s 8-day time & strike clock. Veneered case with chrome bezel, silvered hands and numeral and a Cathedral gong. Chimes once on half hour and the number of […]