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Annual General Meeting
16-07-2010 
To be held at the Retreat Hotel, Nicholson St, Abbotsford, Wednesday 8 September at 7.45 pm. Guest speaker Ian Harold.

1850s-1980s Collingwood Maps Now Online
29-01-2010 
There are now seven maps online. These were chosen to provide an overview of the City of Collingwood's development from the 1850s to the 1980s.

Clement Hodgkinson talk
21-09-2009 
Georgina Whitehead talked about Hodgkinson at the AGM. If you missed it, or want to read it at your leisure, go to the page headed "Hodgkinson".

Schools maps now online
26-08-2009 
Maps showing the locations of Collingwood's 176 schools are now accessible on the website.

Victorian Community History Awards 2009
18-05-2009 
Collingwood Historical Society a winner two years in a row.

Schools of Collingwood
31-01-2009 
Our latest publication, Bitter roots, sweet fruit: a history of schools in Collingwood, Abbotsford and Clifton Hill was officially launched by Caroline Hogg.


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Publications

Collingwood Historical Society has published a number of books about Abbotsford, Clifton Hill and Collingwood, and others have been published by community organizations or by Yarra-Melbourne Libraries. All the titles listed below are available for sale at Collingwood Library. Collection can be arranged at other branches of the City of Yarra library service. Books may also be purchased by mail; to download an order form click on: http://www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/Library/Local%20%20History

Many titles are also on sale at Information Victoria, 505 Little Collins St, Melbourne. Tel: 1300 366356. Mail orders: http://www.bookshop.vic.gov.au/
 


LATEST BOOK ...

Bitter roots, sweet fruit:
a history of schools in
Collingwood,
Abbotsford and
Clifton Hill
 
Karen T Cummings
  $22 

Brimstone to Bunyip: churches of Collingwood, Clifton Hill and Abbotsford

Richard Peterson

$16.50

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Unavailable

Dancing in the kitchen: portraits of Collingwood's older women

Andrew Lindsay

$11

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Unavailable

In those days: Collingwood remembered (3rd ed.)

$11


'I should be glad if a few elms and oaks were included': the Darling Gardens, Clifton Hill

Tina Meyer and Graeme Loughlin

$11


Life in Collingwood today

$6.60


A short history of Collingwood

G.M. Hibbins

$13.20


Twenties child: a childhood recollection

Ivy Arney

$11

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Unavailable

When fish had feathers: portraits of Collingwood's older men

Andrew Lindsay

$11

The following publications are currently out of print, but may be consulted at Collingwood Library:


Hotels of Collingwood

Streets of Collingwood






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