Personal stories in this book come from letters and transcripts of interviews that are housed in the archives of the Whitehorse Historicfal Society Inc. (Victoria)Whitehorse Historical Society Inc. gratefully acknowledges the support of the Victorian Government and Public Record Office Victoria for making this this project possible. Thanks to Yvonne Fitzmaurice and Peter Simmernauer for proof reading, Rob Innes for bringing the photographs up to their clearest resolution, Keith Hancock for checking the names and places in the Mitcham stories and Kahren Richardson who designed the front cover.

The story of the township and its enlisted men during the Great War, by Valerie Polley, Warrandyte Historical Society.This book has been compiled from posters exhibited in the Warrandyte Historical Society's exhibition entitled War & Warrandyte 1914-18, made possible by a grant through the Anzac Centenary Community Grants (Veterans Fund) from the Victorian Government and the Victorian Veterans Council.

Selected extracts from the Whitehorse Historical Society's Newsletter, Mitcham, Victoria, between circa 1968-2013 edited by A.Y. Fitzmaurice.

History of the Scouting Movement in Heathmont written by Claire Edmanson who gave a talk to The Ringwood & District Historical Society in 2017.74 pages of printing and photos. Yellow front page and clear plastic cover. Black back cover. +Additional Keywords: Edmanson, Claire

Recollections of members held in the society's collections

Wombolano Park - City of Ringwood Proposed Master Plan - 1973

Comprehensive book giving illustration of plants and very specific, detailed descriptions.Colour photographs, illustrations, mapsindigenous plants, werribee river, mount evelyn, sunbury, mount eliza, botany, plant associations, park regeneration, propagation, weeds

Black and white photograph (2 copies- 1 large, 1 small)Typed below photograph: "Maroondah Highway looking east from old town hall - 1958". Image shows Clocktower to left, stationmaster's residence in centre.

Black and white photograph (3 copies- 2 large, 1 small postcard) Typed below one large copy: "Warrandyte Road, (formerly Andersons Creek Road.) Cnr. Maroondah Highway. Bamfords Timberyard in foreground later redeveloped as the site of Safeway's site and area beyond it now Eastland." Written on rear of backing sheet: "Bamford Bros. Timberyard - (later) Safeways C/r Whitehorse Rd. and Warrandyte Rd. Looking Nth along Warrandyte Rd. Loughnans Hill to left"

Black and white photograph (2 copies)Typed below one photograph: "View of buildings on Maroondah Highway taken overlooking railway yard from Station St. and Greenwood Ave. 1914". Written on rear of backing sheet: "View of township taken from near the Methodist Church showing railway yards, Ringwood Hall and Methodist Church Hall. Methodist Church closed 1915. Photo taken from new one (Cnr. Greenwood Ave.)".

Black and white photographImage shows businesses on south side of Highway, including John Salisbury Mowers, Repco, Maroondah Auto Electrics, Chemist, and Alan Coffey Motors used cars.

Black and white photograph (2 copies)Typed below photograph: "Ringwood Timber and Trading Co's original timber yard, Maroondah Highway, corner New St. - 1948. 1982 site Target Project."

Typed below photograph, "Capt. E.T. Miles, Mr. Trethowan (Supervisor of Works), W. Everard, M.P., A.T. Miles - At Maroondah Dam construction 1923-1924".

Written on back of photograph, "Maroondah Hospital Auxiliary handing over cheques. Mrs. Gladys Purdie, Loughnan Road on right". No other women are identified and the photograph is not dated.

Black and white photograph (2 copies)Typed below photograph, "Maroondah Highway from Heatherdale Rd. Circa 1920". Written on backing sheet, "Whitehorse Rd. coming into Ringwood from Heatherdale Rd."

Catalogue card reads, "Maroondah Dam construction 1923-24. Left to right: Capt.. E.T. Miles, Mr. Trethowan (in charge of work), W. Everard, and A.T. Miles".

Written on back of photograph SS0377b: "14.2.1987. Ringwood Arcade, 92 Maroondah Highway. To be wrecked and redeveloped.'ON back of SS0377a: "14/2/87. Rear entrance of Ringwood Arcade"

Black and white photograph (3 copies- 2 large, 1 small)Written below one photograph: "Ringwood Lake overflow pipe (under Maroondah Highway) - 1963". Typed below a similar image: "Overflow from Ringwood Lake- 1963."

Black and white photograph (3 copies- 2 large, 1 small sepia)Typed below large photograph: "Building Warrandyte Rd. subway 1923. Taken from Maroondah Highway." Written on rear of backing sheet: "Start of Pitt St. viaduct."

Black and white photograph (2 copies)Written on back of one photograph: "From Town Hall roof, Dec 1962. Image shows demolished site of Cool Stores on corner of Maroondah Highway and Wantirna Road.

Invitation from the Ringwood Council of the City of Ringwood on 22nd October 1974. From the Mayor Cr S Morris JP and the Councillors to Mrs G Horman. Official launch of the "Place of Many Eagles" by KAR Horn BA Mus B State Librarian at the Civic Centre, Maroondah Highway, Ringwood. All material is from Gwen Horman’s three albums that she owned.

Black and white photograph (2 images MHW0025a and MHW0025b)Image MHW0025a: (2 copies) Typed under one photograph: "Outside the Ringwood Market in Maroondah Hwy, 1925. Shop in centre now SEC site at cnr Ringwood St. S.S.B. building still on site shown to left." Image MHW0025b: (2 copies) Typed under one photograph: "Maroondah Highway looking East towards cnr Ringwood Street and Wantirna Rd. Ringwood market in centre.

Opened in 1891, the bridge formed part of the Maroondah Aqueduct carrying water from Watts River near Healesville to the reservoir at Preston where it joined Melbourne's metropolitan water system. Covered under Heritage Overlay, Nillumbik Planning Scheme. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then /​ Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p99 Built to supply thirsty Melbourne in the late 19th century, the siphon bridge spanning the Plenty River off Leischa Court, Greensborough, was part of an engineering masterpiece. Opened in 1891, the bridge formed part of the Maroondah Aqueduct carrying water from the Watts River near Healesville to the reservoir at Preston where it joined the metropolitan distribution system. A major link in Melbourne’s water supply, it also had a huge impact on communities, which mushroomed along its route. Named after the Aboriginal word for the area around the Maroondah Reservoir, the Maroondah Aqueduct was fully operational until the 1970s. Since the 1980s the land along parts of the aqueduct have been used for walking and bicycle riding, shaded in places by Monterey Pine trees planted to stabilise the surrounding ground. From 1857 the Yan Yean Reservoir supplied Melbourne’s water but the growing city needed additional catchments.1 In 1886 work began on a weir on the Watts River to enable the aqueduct to carry most of the river water 41 miles (66km) to Melbourne. The aqueduct, built by the Board of Works, is the oldest remaining aqueduct near Melbourne and was probably the first built with concrete.2 Although the aqueduct is now only used between the Maroondah and Sugarloaf Reservoirs, it can still be traced across the Shire. It extends from the Maroondah Reservoir through Christmas Hills, Kangaroo Ground, Research, Eltham, St Helena and then previously wound west through Greensborough to Reservoir.3 Built by horse and manpower the aqueduct gravity fed 25 million gallons (113.6ML) of water a day to Melbourne along a gradient of one foot to the mile. It included 25 miles (41km) of open concrete and brick channel, six miles (10km) of tunnels, and nine miles (15km) of 14 inverted siphons of riveted wrought-iron across creeks. Bricks for the aqueduct were made from clay found near the sites and remains of several kilns can still be found between Kangaroo Ground and Christmas Hills. Building the aqueduct transformed local communities. An abattoir was established at Christmas Hills. Grog shanties and labourers’ camps sprang up and local courts dealt with cases of ‘petty pilfering and boisterous behaviour’.4 The Kangaroo Ground school population jumped to 91, crammed into a room with one teacher. Miners who built the tunnels camped just north of Churinga in Greensborough – then called Tunnel Hill Camp – and adjacent to the Evelyn Arms Hotel. The miners’ high spirits were sometimes quenched in horse troughs or by a ‘welt under the ear and kick on the behind’ as the local constable calmed them down rather than lock them up.5 But the growing city of Melbourne needed more water, so the O’Shannassy catchment, east of Warburton, was added to the system in 1914. In 1920 work began on the present concrete Maroondah Dam one mile (1.6km) from the weir on the Watts River. The aqueduct capacity was thus doubled to 50 million gallons (227ML) a day.6 Intense land development threatened to pollute the open water supply, so channel sections were replaced with large pipes. In the late 1960s a large water main was built from the tunnel outlet at Research and extended through St Helena and Greensborough, so this section of the aqueduct was taken out of use. Long sections of the unused open channels in Greensborough and Bundoora were destroyed, but the old channel in Research and Eltham North remained largely intact. In the 1970s, the Sugarloaf Reservoir was constructed, inundating 445 hectares of land in Christmas Hills. Sugarloaf was officially opened in 1980 and serves as a water storage and treatment plant supplying Melbourne. In the early 1980s pipes replaced the section from Sugarloaf Reservoir to the tunnel entrance at Kangaroo Ground. The Research-Kangaroo Ground tunnel operates as part of the pipeline system.This collection of almost 130 photos about places and people within the Shire of Nillumbik, an urban and rural municipality in Melbourne's north, contributes to an understanding of the history of the Shire. Published in 2008 immediately prior to the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009, it documents sites that were impacted, and in some cases destroyed by the fires. It includes photographs taken especially for the publication, creating a unique time capsule representing the Shire in the early 21st century. It remains the most recent comprehenesive publication devoted to the Shire's history connecting local residents to the past. nillumbik now and then (marshall-king) collection, maroondah aqueduct, pipe bridge, siphon bridge

Black and white photographWritten beneath photograph, "1965 - Looking east to old cool store site." Written on rear of backing sheet, "1965. Cool store site, corner Maroondah Highway and Wantirna Road".

Black and white photographImage shows excavator digging trench for water main on Main Road (Maroondah Highway. Towards the north-east, near the corner of Warrandyte Road. Bently's timber yard and Pratt's butcher.

Black and white photograph (2 copies)Typed below one photograph: "Maroondah Highway Ringwood. Shops opposite station entrance, c1925. Image shows people standing on pavement at front of Beilby Stores, and horse and cart on road.

Typed below photograph, "Warrandyte Rd. looking towards Maroondah Highway - 1966". Backing sheet reads, "Warrandyte Rd. bridge over Mullum Ck. Church of England now on left - 1966".

2 copies of photograph ( 1 large black and white, 1 small sepia postcard).Typed below large photograph: "Old Mechanics Institute on Maroondah Hwy. on opening day 1909. Was Cnr. Melbourne St. Written on back of postcard: "Mechanics Institute 1909. Later Ringwood Hall."