News And Meetings

Box Hill Town Hall; image taken 1981. Our Annual General Meeting will be held at 2pm, and will be followed by a presentation on our latest project - planning for a forthcoming Social History of the Box Hill Town Hall.  We will be showing some of the images we have of...

  As part of the 2026 Whitehorse Heritage Festival, which will run from Sunday 13th to Sunday 20th September, we will be holding our annual secondhand and collectibles book sale in the lower hall at the Box Hill Town Hall.  We have already received over 35 boxes of...

This publication, launched in August, is proving very popular, with the first print run sold out, and a second now available. The authors will be speaking again in 2026 on some of the interesting characters they uncovered in their research. Copies of the book can be...

The Society sought funds to enable a plaque to be placed on the unmarked grave of William Gillies, who died in 1925 and is buried in Box Hill cemetery.  He left the bulk of his estate, nearly £10,000, as a perpetual bequest to the schoolchildren of Victoria, to allow...