Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of 35mm contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of 35mm contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities, potters

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of 35mm contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities, potters

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of 35mm contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities, potters

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of 35mm contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of 35mm contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of 35mm contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of 35mm contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of 35mm contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities, music

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of 35mm contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities, music

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of 35mm contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities, music

Two black and white photographs (from proof sheet of 35mm contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities, music

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities

Black and white photograph (from proof sheet of contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities

Two black and white photographs (from proof sheet of contact prints)eltham living and learning centre, activities

Tracey Naughton was the former Shire of Eltham Community Arts Officer and was responsible for developing the 'As We Are' project which encouraged a number of local community groups to develop banners. The Society was keen to be involved and the project was kicked off following a talk to the Society's members by Tracey in April 1986. The banner was completed and displayed with a number of other banners at the Eltham Community Centre in October 1986. It was then carried proudly for the first time in front of the Society's Parade Float in the 1986 Eltham Community Festival Parade and subsequent parades through to 1990. In December 1994 the Shire of Eltham ceased to exist and following council amalgamation and the establishment of the new Shire of Nillumbik, the Society's name (Shire of Eltham Historical Society) had become somewhat irrelevant and it was revised in 1995 to Eltham District Historical Society. The immediate downstream impact of this change was the rendering of the Society's Banner to history after only eight years of use. The banner now hangs proudly in our Local History Centre. The Historical Society Banner: Jud Degan worked with this group. The banner was designed by a male member and sewed by women. Sewing the banner renewed the group's knowledge of the area in an innovative way and, in turn, this has renewed the energy of the members to participate in the Society. The emphasis in this banner was to create a work of high standard which would last as part of the area's future heritage. The women particularly gained a sense of the history of their craft skills, enjoying the combination of hand embroidery and new machine embroidery skills shared by Jud. (The banner habits of the Eltham tribes : Eltham Shire "as we are" Community Banner Project report /​ by Jacky Talbot, Shire of Eltham, Feb. 1987, p49)Colour photographactivities, banner project, local history centre

Black and white photographeltham living and learning centre, activities, serendipity group 1987, betty dixon

Black and white photographeltham living and learning centre, activities, serendipity group 1987, betty dixon

Black and white photographeltham living and learning centre, activities, serendipity group 1987

Black and white photographeltham living and learning centre, activities, serendipity group 1987

Black and white photographeltham living and learning centre, activities, serendipity group 1987

Colour photographeltham living and learning centre, activities, serendipity group 1987

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 2 stripsKodak GA 100 5095eltham living and learning centre, classroom activities

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 2 stripsKodak GA 100 5095eltham living and learning centre, classroom activities

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 2 stripsKodak GA 100 5095eltham living and learning centre, classroom activities

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 2 stripsKodak GA 100 5095eltham living and learning centre, classroom activities