On Time - Seminar on the national timetable collection of the Australian Timetable Association DON'T BE LATE DON'T MISS OUT TIME IS OF THE … [Read more...]
Souvenir Exhibition – South Australia
Greetings from… The Power of Souvenirs An exhibition at the Migration Museum, Adelaide celebrates the power of souvenirs, from the poignant to the marvelouslly kitsch and eccentric. Souvenirs are … [Read more...]
Busy Bees in Heidelberg
Unique 19th Century signature quilt now on display Sundays 2pm-5pm until end of November. This large, rare quilt with distinctive lace insertions was made by a local group to help raise funds in the … [Read more...]
Valuation Day – Hawthorn Vic.
VALUATION DAY, Sunday August 25, 2019, 1-4pm. The Boroondara Historical Societies present a valuation day: Please check your cupboards and bring along a piece or two to be valued. Richard … [Read more...]
Vintage cookery booklets
FREE TALK AT 11 AM ON 19 MAY 2019, CAMBERWELL LIBRARY MEETING ROOMS, hear and see part of a wonderful collection about food donated to the State Library of Victoria. Our speaker is Richard Overell … [Read more...]
Show & tell
NEXT FRIDAY, 14 FEBRUARY, @6 PM, we will be starting the collecting year in Melbourne with a Show & Tell gathering. Why might you come? Do you like looking at and talking about collecting? Do … [Read more...]
Still thinking about Australia Day
Extract from the Wangaratta chronicle 31 July 1915: Yesterday was celebrated as Australia Day. In Wangaratta a number of ladies were busy selling flags, buttons, badges, and other mementoes and … [Read more...]
Australia Day – background
Geoffrey Potter Local History Librarian Central Coast Libraries advises Australia Day began as a recruitment drive in WWI in the wake of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli. Towns all over Australia … [Read more...]
Coasting to collecting
WE ALL HAVE OUR AREAS OF INTEREST IN COLLECTING. And we can all be led astray. How divine are this selection of Air-India coaster? I bought these not at the fair but at a swap meet held by the ESA … [Read more...]