A Short History of Templestowe published in 1982

Small handmade booklet. A geographical history of Doncaster - Templestowe, Victoria, Australia.

Park Orchards - A Short History +Additional Keywords: Green, I / Beavis, B

History of Maroondah Social & Community Health Centre 1973-1994

History of Box Hill & surrounding districts published in 1956

Montrose Settlement in the Foothills - A History

History of Red Cross in Croydon From 1915 to 2007

Croydon Football Club history from 1906 to 2006

The Maroondah Water Supply System History 18 February 1891.

The Muriel McGivern Story 1904 - 2000

History of more than a 100 years from the earliest days of the discovery of gold and the setting up of a mining camp through to the transition of becoming a thriving township

Hardcover book outlining the earlier history of the Shire of Lillydale (Victoria).

History of Ringwood East Red Cross Transport 1958-2007 plus Histories of Red Cross in Maroondah area - 45 pages

This book was produced in 1961 as a souvenir of Croydon's breakaway from Shire of Lilydale

This book is primarily handles the history of the Shire of Croydon from 1961 to 1967

This book covers 1967 - 1987 including the change from Shire of Croydon to City of Croydon

Revised and enlarged from an earlier Warrandyte Historical Society document

History of the development of cricket in Lilydale, Croydon, Ferntree Gully Districts and Ringwood and District Cricket Association

History of Box Hill & Doncaster Tramways

Healesville - History in the Hills published 1982

Pictorial history of Lilydale Compiled by Sue Thompson and Myrna McBain for the Lilydale and District Historical Society

History of Warrandyte's Licenced Premises

Discovering history in Melbourne Ash Range

History of the Memorial Clock Tower of Ringwood November 2001

History of Mitcham Primary School 1888-1988

Moses and Francis Dickson were orchardists in Ringwood in the early 1900s and were connected to other early families such as the Knee, Hardidge and Sargeant families.Photographic history of Moses and Frances Dickson. Booklet with white front cover with framed black and white photo and the Dickson Family printed on it. Picture of street on back - North Ringwood Shopping Strip c.1960s.

non-fictionHistory of The Maroondah Singers

Soft cover red and yellow book titled Celebrating Mooroolbark - Mooroolbark Community Centre and Festivals compiled by the Mooroolbark History Group IncForeword by Shire of Lillydale West Riding Councillors, 1979-1980 - Kevin Lonergan, Alan Smith, Allister Lee Archer, Robyn Barker, and Yarra Ranges Councillors for Mooroolbark, 2012 - Terry Avery, Len Cox, Richard Higgins.

Image of a Charles Conder painting on front of soft covered book titled The Artists' Camps: Plein Air Painting In Melbourne 1885-1898. FOREWORD by Margaret Plant - Department of Visual Arts, Monash University. The paintings of the 'Heidelberg school" are the best loved group of works in Australian art. The affection is linked in the national mind with a recognition that the authentic Australian landscape had been discovered and colonial bonds broken. The painting activity of the 1880s and 1890s was by no means confined to Heidelberg. Helen Topliss painstakingly presents the variety of sites around Melbourne, in the bush and on the coast, reconstructing their original character and the history of their accessibility. The major figures are well known — Roberts, McCubbin, Streeton and Conder — but there were a number of 'minor' artists associated with the various painting spots that have been too long neglected. A research programme is here initiated in the hope that some of these figures might be more fully returned to us. The restoration of the sites provokes a more extensive roll-call of artists involved in the plein air phenomenon. Various expressions of nationalism in the late nineteenth century have been accorded attention: the painters contributed in varying degrees. But it is, finally, the quality of the painting, the freshness, the particularity of nuance, the calculated aesthetic angles that have governed response and inspired affection. The elegant relaxation themes of many of the paintings have in fact been overlooked in the intellectualization of the quest for 'national identity'. The orchards and the beaches, the ladies promenading a la mode on the beach at Mentone or in the grasses of Box Hill are as important to our artistic tradition and social history as the shearers of rams.

To the Editor of the Ringwood Mail Dear Sir, would you please publish in your widely read paper the following letter for the information of the residents of the City of Ringwood- Re the passing of my brother Mr. J.P. Howship, who was an ANZAC one of the pioneer family of Howship of Ringwood which name is connected with the early history of Ringwood or more particularly Ringwood East as the late J.P. Howship and myself purchased the Nursery of Mr. John Hill around the year 1912 and after a couple of years my late brother Bert was taken into partnership and we bought the adjoining nursery of Mr. Will Hill and traded under name Howship Bros. Rosedale Nursery and the name of one street in the old property Howship Avenue is named after the old firm as well as Rosedale Crescent. The move for the establishment of the Ringwood East station started with myself and in a meeting up with a Mr .T. Birkitt who I felt was the man I needed as he was a sub Estate Agent .A meeting was called and held in our packing shed at the end of Federal Road which at that time ended at Mr. Charlie Burdens property and abbuted (sic) on our property. This meeting was attended by about sixty residents and the late Mr. C. Wedge was elected as the first President of the Ringwood East Railway League and Progress Assoc. with Mr. T. Birkitt as Secretary and myself as assist. Secretary. This League raised the sum of about 1,600 from residents and land owners for the erection of the Ringwood East Railway Station & after the station was erected and paid for the League part was canceled and the Progress Assoc. carried on. The present Ringwood East Cricket Club was formed at meeting and the Prog .......and my three brothers Bert, Mervyn and played cricket in the Ringwood district for many years and most of us were members of the Ringwood at first and then the Ringwood East Football clubs and followed the teams for years a few names of the old players came to mind in E. Thomas , C. Weil, T. Homewood, the Pratt family and others. I might mention for the benefit of the City of Ringwood residents my eldest brother Laurie late of New Street and now living at Blairgowrie was with what was then known as Coopers Mills and designed and helped to build some of the first buildings in that property now known as Ringwood Timber & Trading Co .Also that myself and others namely the Reidy Brothers, Mr. Taylor, & L .Cleary & voluntary labour formed the tennis courts at East Ringwood with the help of our young Ladies of the time, those courts I'm pleased to say are well established and two more are added and provide good activities for the young people of the district. Also with the aid of C .Thomas, Norm Blood and others we formed the Methodist courts. From the Ringwood East Progress Association came the move to have a Health Centre for Ringwood. This was established by a good deal of enthusiastic work by some mothers after spending nearly fifty years in Ringwood watching it grow from town surrounded by orchards to a City and I must congratulate the Civic Fathers and their staff in the growth of Ringwood and the fine roads, Parks, Elderly Citizens Club and have all done a good job but why oh why have you neglected mines Road Ringwood east. Why has this road not been made the drainage there is something to be seen to be believed in such a city .The only solution is making and curbing this road & I would ask those responsible why the curbing was put down Dublin Road where there are no residents this curbing could well have solved the problem in Mines Road if used there. I recently spent a weekend with my Daughter, Mrs. Munro at the corner of Maroondah highway and Mines Road and was disgusted at the condition of Mines Road and drainage and had to air my views and suggest a trip to Mines Road by the Civic Fathers led by the Health Inspector I am yours sincerely H.C. Howship Sheila Street, Rye. (copied here verbatim)3 pages of hand written letter detailing the early history of the East Ringwood Railway and Progress Association, football, cricket and tennis clubs.. Written as a draft in 1963.