TALKING SHOP: BALLARAT IN BUSINESS AND CITY LIFE, historic photographs, advertisements and ephemera, exploring the shops and businesses of Ballarat’s past, and contemporary photographs from The … [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...]
Book fair this weekend 3-4 November 2018
THIS WEEKEND, 3MBS has a huge book sale at the Abootsford covent. The highly popular 3MBS Music & Book Fair is back! Over the weekend of 3-4 November, the Community Room at the Abbotsford … [Read more...]