Events for 2010

Sunday 11 July

Gertrude St History Walk

meet Cnr Smith and Gertrude streets 3.00pm Sunday 11 July 2010.
Join Chris Friday as she conducts a history walking tour along Melbourne’s earliest street. Learn the fascinating history behind the building and pubs of “dirty gertie”, then linger on at dusk while the Gertrude St Projection Festival screens free outdoor projections the length of the street.  

Gold coin donation

 

Saturday 31 July

Celebrating 150 years of North Fitzroy
"Fitzroy's Northern Renaissance"
A talk by Miles Lewis
 
 
11.00am  Victorian Archives Centre in North Melbourne.
99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne

The joint reading room of Public Record Office Victoria and the National Archives of Australia Victorian State Office.
See map at http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/contact.asp
Miles will speak about the creation of North Fitzroy and its relation to South Fitzroy and the inner suburbs generally. A central theme will be the links whereby people like John Falconer started in South Fitzroy then shifted their focus to the north. 

26 August

Annual General Meeting
7.00pm
Reading Room of Fitzroy Library, Napier Street

with guest speaker, Carole Woods on ‘Alfred Deakin in Fitzroy’ 7.30pm  

The Annual General Meeting will be held prior to the Guest Speaker. All members are welcome. Carole has been a long time member of the Fitzroy History Society and through her work has generously made possible a number of significant documents in the local collection. These include the history of the library and two Newtown Papers.

 


2010 Fitzroy History Society Committee Meetings,

7.00pm at the Meeting room, Fitzroy Library.
  • Tue 2 Feb
  • Tue 23 Feb
  • Tue 23 March
  • Tue 27 April
  • Tue 25 May
  • Tue 22 June
  • Tue 27 July
  • Tue 24 August
  • Tue 28 September
  • Tue 26 October
  • Tue 23 November