Historical information

Donated by Gwen Mousley

Physical description

A thick bundle of papers. Many newspaper cuttings and some photographs.

(Some cuttings are on general history.)

Minutes of AGM, Sushine & District Historical Society 1976 included the following:-

* Harry Dempster had donated to the Society Sands & McDougall directories for 1882, 1897, and 1928 + an 1879 map

of Albion-South Braybrook

* Election of office-bearers (1976):-

President: R.E. Parsons

Vice-President: Cr Hollingworth

Secretary: J.K. Hebb

Assistant Secretary: Mrs Audrey Liersch

Research Historian: Mrs Olwen Ford

Teasurer: Mrs Connie Parsons

* Membership fees

Full rate: $2.00 p.a.

Concession for pensioners and students: $1.00

* Motion re historical park in Sunshine: 'That the proposed historical park in Sunshine be kept on the books'.

* Edith Popp's book 'Glimpses of Early Sunshine' [to be] published

*Committee approves spending $25.00 for mounted slides of the Sunshine Railway Disaster (1977)

*Old bluestone buildings at Hume Pipes works, Maribyrnong: possibility that they would be acquired by Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW), 1979.

* Hearings by the Historic Buildings Council on the two remaining harvester factory buildings.

*Historic Buildings Council decided that the Woolworths company could demolish the power station but must keep the Bulk Store and contribute a set amount for an interpretive centre and some panels (1994-1995)

Change in municipal boundaries with the larger part of the former City of Sunshine amalgamated with the larger part of the former City of Keilor to form a municipality called 'Brimbank'.

The President of S&DHS, Bob Parsons, made an approach to the new council calling on the municipality to preserve historical records and memorabilia of the former City of Sunshine (1994-1995)