Published quarterly since 1977, the newsletters of the Kew Historical Society contain significant research by members exploring relevant aspects of the Victorian and Australian Framework of Historical Themes. Frequently, articles on people, places and artefacts are the only source of information about an aspect of Kew, and Melbourne’s history.non-fictionThe Henty Collection [Significance Assessment] / Robert Baker p1. History News - Tributes: Alison Virginia Kemp (1947–2023), Kay Cole JP (1930–2023), Jane Mayo Carolan 1949–2023) ; New Members / p3-4. As it happened 100 years ago [Burke Road Bridge, Kew Primary School, Wilfred Kent Hughes] / David White (ed) / p4. City of Boroondara Triennial Operational Grant 2023–6 / p4. Berma Sellars 'Bib' Stilwell: entrepreneur, businessman, racing driver / Julie King p5-6. The Jellis Affair: make of it what you will [sexual violence, Victorian legal system, Kew Court of Petty Sessions] / Suzanne McWha p7-8. St Andrew's College: Mont Victor Road / Felicity Renowden p9-10. Good Neighbour "Mickey": Memories of the Kew Railway / James Foley p.11. Membership and Donations / p12.kew historical society (vic.) -- periodicals., kew historical society (vic.) -- newsletters, kew historical society (vic.) -- journals

A4 folders with individual pockets for each property in streets beginning with G located in Surrey Hills and Mont Albert. Folders are ordered by street name and then chronologically by property number. Each property has its own pocket. This may include multiple real estate advertisements collected from sales over time. It may also include copies of any research undertaken by Alan Holt and / or members of the SHNCHC team. These are augmented by cards in the Alan Holt index file and by his property registers of Surrey Hills and Mont Albert.gawler court, george street, gilbert street, gladstone street, glendale street, godfrey court, goodwood street, gordon street, grace court, graham street, grange street, griffin close, grovedale road, guildford road

A4 folders with individual pockets for each property in streets beginning with H located in Surrey Hills and Mont Albert. Folders are ordered by street name and then chronologically by property number. Each property has its own pocket. This may include multiple real estate advertisements collected from sales over time. It may also include copies of any research undertaken by Alan Holt and / or members of the SHNCHC team. These are augmented by cards in the Alan Holt index file and by his property registers of Surrey Hills and Mont Albert.hamilton street, harding street, harriett crescent, high street, hood street, hotham court, howell avenue, howson court

A4 folders with individual pockets for each property in streets beginning with N located in Surrey Hills and Mont Albert. Folders are ordered by street name and then chronologically by property number. Each property has its own pocket. This may include multiple real estate advertisements collected from sales over time. It may also include copies of any research undertaken by Alan Holt and / or members of the SHNCHC team. These are augmented by cards in the Alan Holt index file and by his property registers of Surrey Hills and Mont Albert.nangnak lane, neath street, new street, newton street, norlfok road, norris street, north court

A4 folders with individual pockets for each property in streets beginning with O located in Surrey Hills and Mont Albert. Folders are ordered by street name and then chronologically by property number. Each property has its own pocket. This may include multiple real estate advertisements collected from sales over time. It may also include copies of any research undertaken by Alan Holt and / or members of the SHNCHC team. These are augmented by cards in the Alan Holt index file and by his property registers of Surrey Hills and Mont Albert.oak street, olyve court

A4 folders with individual pockets for each property in streets beginning with S located in Surrey Hills and Mont Albert. Folders are ordered by street name and then chronologically by property number. Each property has its own pocket. This may include multiple real estate advertisements collected from sales over time. It may also include copies of any research undertaken by Alan Holt and / or members of the SHNCHC team. These are augmented by cards in the Alan Holt index file and by his property registers of Surrey Hills and Mont Albert.st georges avenue, st james avenue, salisbury avenue, scheele street, scottsdale street, serpentine street, shepherd street, shepreth street, sherwood road, shrimpton court, sir garnet road, smythe avenue, stanhope street, streeton court, suffolk road, sunbury crescent, surrey avenue, sydenham lane, sythney court

A4 folders with individual pockets for each property in streets beginning with W located in Surrey Hills and Mont Albert. Folders are ordered by street name and then chronologically by property number. Each property has its own pocket. This may include multiple real estate advertisements collected from sales over time. It may also include copies of any research undertaken by Alan Holt and / or members of the SHNCHC team. These are augmented by cards in the Alan Holt index file and by his property registers of Surrey Hills and Mont Albert.wandsworth road, warrigal road, warwick avenue, warwick court, wellesley street, wells street, west street, weybridge street, wharton street, whitehorse road, whyte grvoe, willcyrus street, wilson street, windsor crescent, windsor lane, wolseley street, wolseley close

A file previously held in the collection of the Supreme Court of Victoria and now in Public Record Office Victoria contains records of the annulment of the marriage of Florence Cox in 1919. As the earliest known record of a person with intersex variations in Victorian history, Cox’s story – and this record – are of unique historical significance to the LGBTIQ+ history of the State. Florence Cox (1887–1950) had a middle-class upbringing in Melbourne. In 1914 she travelled to Bengal to marry her fiancé Frank Paice and to join him in his missionary work for the Baptist church. The couple returned to Melbourne in 1918 and the following year the Supreme Court of Victoria, at Paice’s request, annulled their marriage. The Supreme Court file reveals that Paice declared he had been unable to consummate the marriage, due to ‘a malformation frigidity or other defect of the parts of generation’ of his wife. Both Paice and Cox were subject to medical examination, which established that Cox had what is recognised today as the intersex condition complete androgen insensitivity syndrome. The court determined that marital intercourse, as it was understood at the time, was impossible for Paice and Cox, and granted the request for an annulment. Paice remarried, fathered children and led a successful professional and civic life, serving a period as Mayor of Nunawading, in the middle- class eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Cox’s life was very different. It is unlikely that anyone in her life would have known what had prompted the end of the marriage, but gossip would certainly have focussed on her part in it. She never remarried and, although she remained connected to her family, her story was rarely discussed. Cox was admitted to Mont Park Mental Hospital in Melbourne’s northern suburbs in 1945, where she died five years later. The Supreme Court file preserves one of the most detailed medical descriptions of a person with intersex variations from that period. It is particularly striking that following the court case, the file was closed ‘forever’. This indicates how seriously the court took the case, and its determination to protect Cox and Paice from public scrutiny. It speaks loudly to the thinking of the time on a matter that was rarely, if ever, raised in public. In 1997, Cox’s great-nephew Ian Richardson set out to investigate the secrecy surrounding his great-aunt Florrie. Following a relentless, two-year campaign by Richardson and other descendants of Cox and Paice, the Supreme Court file was finally opened to the public. Richardson’s book, God’s Triangle, recounts his quest and brings Cox’s story out of the archives and into the light. Quoted from "A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects" by Graham Willett, Angela Bailey, Timothy W. Jones and Sarah Rood.

Holy Trinity originally held their first organised services during 1885 in the recreation hall in Albany Crescent, Surrey Hills with the Reverend H E Taylor, then Vicar of St Barnabas, Balwyn, conducting the services. Mr E D Dyer donated the land for a church on the corner of Mont Albert Road and St George's Road, Mont Albert with the foundation stone being laid on 17 July 1886. The first church service was held on Sunday, January 30, 1887 with eighty people present. A new site on Union Road, Surrey Hills was acquired (lots 3 & 4) and a wooden church was erected and opened in 1907 on lot 4. It became known as Holy Trinity Surrey Hills. In November 1939 two tennis courts and a pavilion were erected on land acquired by the parish in a lane off Balmoral Crescent. The Holy Trinity Tennis Club had 80 years of distinguished success in match play until it closed in 2014. That land was sold in 2015 and the parish's real estate holdings diversified.Black and white photo of 9 ladies, in tennis dresses and shoes, and 8 men, also in tennis attire. They are posed next to a light coloured building on the right and a paling fence along the back left side. There are 5 men standing at back, 6 ladies and 1 man standing in the next row, 4 ladies sitting in front and 2 men sitting on the ground. Three ladies sitting are holding tennis racquets. There are trees behind the paling fence. Black and white photo mounted on card; photo measures W 11.1 cm x H 6.7 cm.sporting clubs, sports people, tennis, holy trinity anglican church, 1940 - 1949, mrs mary clucas