News And Meetings

. Heritage Week this year is full of interesting events. The Society has displays in both Box Hill and Nunawading Libraries, will be unveiling a plaque on the grave of William Gillies, is conducting a tour of Box Hill cemetery, as well as two street tours, and is...

  We will be holding our annual secondhand and collectibles book sale in the lower hall at the Box Hill Town Hall, from 10am to 3pm.  We have received over 40 boxes of donated books, covering a wide range of topics,  including Art, Australiana, Biographies, Cooking,...

As well as our online walking tours - see link above - we are conducting two walking tours of Box Hill during Heritage Week, in the north and in the south. On Thursday 17 September there is a tour commencing at Tassell's Park, Woodhouse Grove at 10am. Bookings are...

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...