WELCOME TO THE BOX HILL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Where Are We?
Suite 7, Town Hall Hub,
27 Bank Street, Box Hill,
Rear of Town Hall
The Society’s Local History Room will RE-OPEN on:
TUESDAY 27th APRIL 2021
From 11am to 4pm.
Please observe Covid precautions by scanning the QR code at the entrance to the Town Hall Hub and using the hand sanitisers available.
Telephone: (03) 9285 4808
Email: boxhillhistory@gmail.com
Or write to P.O. Box 268, Box Hill 3128.
Meetings are usually held from 2pm on the 3rd Sunday in the month, in the Bert Lewis Meeting Room of Box Hill Library, which is just east of the Town Hall, at 1040 Whitehorse Road Box Hill, but because of the pandemic, all meetings for 2020 were cancelled. Details of the 2021 meetings and speakers will be found under the News section of this website.
Search Our Collection
MAIN CATALOGUE: We hold mainly paper based records, with some small artefacts. Our main catalogue lists items such as photographs, manuscripts, books, ephemera and loose newspaper cuttings.
It is accessed through the Whitehorse Manningham Regional Library website, is updated quarterly, and is combined with the catalogue of the Doncaster & Templestowe, Warrandyte and Whitehorse historical societies. Click the link below to access this database.
To view our RATEBOOKS and NEWSPAPER SCRAPBOOKS and other indexes please Click Here.
Join Us
The Box Hill Historical Society was formed in 1963. Since then volunteers have worked to collect, preserve and share the unique history of the suburbs of Box Hill, Box Hill North and South, Mont Albert, Mont Albert North, Burwood and that part of Surrey Hills which was formerly located in the City of Box Hill.
The Box Hill Historical Society is affiliated with the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and is a member of the Association of Eastern Historical Societies.
Membership of the society offers many benefits, as well as helping to preserve and maintain our local history.
To join, download the membership form below.
Where Are We?
Suite 7, Town Hall Hub,
27 Bank Street, Box Hill,
Rear of Town Hall View Map
The Society’s Local History Room is open:
Tuesday 11.00 am – 4.00 pm
Other times by appointment
Telephone: (03) 9285 4808
Email: boxhillhistory@gmail.com
Our meetings are usually held at Strabane Chapel, Strabane Avenue Box Hill North, commencing at 8pm. View MapFor the winter months of 2017, they will be held in the Meeting Room of Box Hill Library, which is next to the Town Hall. Details of the meetings and speakers can be found under the News section of this website.
Search Our Collection
MAIN CATALOGUE: We hold mainly paper based records, with some small artefacts. Our main catalogue lists items such as photographs, manuscripts, books, ephemera and loose newspaper cuttings.
It is accessed through the Whitehorse Manningham Regional Library website, is updated quarterly, and is combined with the catalogue of the Doncaster & Templestowe, Warrandyte and Whitehorse historical societies. Click the link below to access this database.
To view our RATEBOOKS and NEWSPAPER SCRAPBOOKS collections please Click Here.
Join Us
The Box Hill Historical Society was formed in 1963. Since then volunteers have worked to collect, preserve and share the unique history of the suburbs of Box Hill, Box Hill North and South, Mont Albert, Mont Albert North, Burwood and that part of Surrey Hills which was formerly located in the City of Box Hill.
The Box Hill Historical Society is affiliated with the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and is a member of the Association of Eastern Historical Societies.
Membership of the society offers many benefits, as well as helping to preserve and maintain our local history.
To join, download the membership form below.
UPCOMING NEWS & EVENTS
April talk – From Box Hill to palaeontology
Our April meeting will have as guest speaker Dr Stephen Poropat. Stephen is a Box...
May meeting – The history of the Box Hill/Burwood Rotary Club
As 2021 is the centenary of the formation of Rotary in Australia, it is fitting to hear...
Sketches of Box Hill and Burwood Properties
The Society has recently been gifted a wonderful collection of pen and ink sketches of...
June Meeting: ‘Up the (Gardiners) Creek: a brief history of Kooyong Koot’.
Near Gardiner's Creek, 1876 Dr Gary Presland, FRHSV, and President of the Society, has...