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Booklet - Collection of Local History Booklets, Rosemary Boyes B.E.M

  • Violet Grange Leneva and some Memories

    1. Violet Grange Leneva

  • Albury - Murray River to Botanic Gardens

    2. Albury - Murray River to Botanic Gardens

  • The Hume Highway - A potpourri of Stories and Scenes

    3. The Hume Highway

  • The Hume Monument - Albury NSW

    4. The Hume Monument - Albury NSW

  • 5. Remembering Robert Brown - Founder of the Crossing Place Village

    5. Remembering Robert Brown

  • Violet Grange Leneva and some Memories
  • Albury - Murray River to Botanic Gardens
  • The Hume Highway - A potpourri of Stories and Scenes
  • The Hume Monument - Albury NSW
  • 5. Remembering Robert Brown - Founder of the Crossing Place Village

Physical description

A collection of small paper back booklets on a range of topics related to Albury and Wodonga history. Their titles are:-
1. "Violet Grange Leneva" and its History
2. Albury - Murray River to Botanic Gardens
3. The Hume Highway - A potpourri of Stories and Scenes, Today and Yesterday
4. The Hume Monument - Albury NSW
5. Remembering Robert Brown

Summary

In 1976 Rosemary Boyes was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to Australian History. She was the author of more than 20 publications about local and national historical events. From 1970 to 1981, writing as Mrs Frank Boyes, she contributed a regular column to the Wodonga/Albury Express newspaper. Rosemary was a Founder Member of the Albury & District Historical Society in 1961, a Life Member of Wodonga & District Historical Society and also a Life Member of the Wodonga RSL Sub-Branch. She and her husband, Frank, a veteran of the Kokoda Trail, farmed at Leneva before moving to Albury and then to Frankston. Rosemary Boyes died in September 1991.

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