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Purchase one of our local history publications

The following local history publications are available for online purchase. The cost includes postage within Australia. They are also  available for collection, minus postage charges, by prior arrangement at our Heritage Centre.   We are open every Tuesday from 11am to 4pm.

The Society is very grateful to two authors who have donated copies of their books for resale by us. They are Robert Green, who wrote the history of the pioneering Box Hill to Doncaster tramway, and the late Life Member Marjorie Morgan, co-author of Prelude to Heidelberg, the history of the Box Hill Artists Camp.

The Society itself has published many of its photographs in a 3-volume series; each volume is 84 pages, with an introduction and comments by Eleanor Finlay and Marjorie Morgan.

The First Electric Road.

A history of the Box Hill and Doncaster Tramway

A limited number only of this book have been kindly donated by the author.

$20.90

(includes postage)


Prelude To Heidelberg

The Artists’ Camp at Box Hill.

$34.90

(includes postage)


The Days Before Yesterday

A picture book of early Box Hill

$20.90

(includes postage)

Those Were The Days

Box Hill in pictures 1930-1960

$20.90

(includes postage)

The Days We Remember

Box Hill in Pictures 1960-1994

$20.90

(includes postage)

The Days Trilogy

Includes: The days before yesterday, Those were the days & The days we remember

$39.90

(includes postage)

Box Hill

A definitive history of the Box Hill region (Andrew Lemon; 1978) – 270 pages in hardback.

$15.90

(includes postage)

The Whitehorse Landscape

The Whitehorse landscape as seen by the first settlers (Gary Presland; 2011) a reconstruction of the natural history of the area at the time of European settlement.

$15.90

(includes postage)

Box Hill Sketchbook

Box Hill sketchbook (Julie Morant & O.S. Green; 1978) – Charming sketches and stories of some Box Hill landmarks and lesser-known places

$20.90

(includes postage)


Suburban Heartland

A History of the City of Whitehorse (hardback edition).

$54.90

(includes postage)

Suburban Heartland

A History of the City of Whitehorse (softback edition).

$44.90

(includes postage)