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Please see below the MDHS Event Calendar
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| Coffee Morning – A Narrative: The Mornington Peninsula 10:30 am Coffee Morning – A Narrative: The Mornington Peninsula @ Meeting Room, Mornington Fire Brigade Nov 8 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Our guest speaker is Jane Alexander MPSC’s Arts and Culture Mananger. Jane will give her perspective of history on our Peninsula. Local Historical Societies are part of her job description. All welcome to join us[...] | ||||||
Our guest speaker is Jane Alexander MPSC’s Arts and Culture Mananger. Jane will give her perspective of history on our Peninsula. Local Historical Societies are part of her job description. All welcome to join us for an informative and entertaining couple of hours for only $5.00 including a cup of tea (or coffee).
Mornington & District Historical Society will conduct Historical Walks from the Old Post Office Museum located at the corner of Main Street and Esplanade Mornington on Australia Day Thursday 26th January 2017. Both the Main Street Walk and the Esplanade Walk will depart from the Museum at 10.30 am. the cost is $5.00 per person. Please be at the Museum 15 minutes before the start. Bookings are not required – enquiries to
Vicky 0412 989 749.
The Old Post Office Museum will be open on both Cruise Ship visiting days, February 5th and 11th 2017, from 9.00 am. Closing time is dependant on ship sailing time but probably 3.30 pm.
See previous event entry for details.
Robert Austin will again be our guest speaker, this time on the subject of Aboriginal Art.
The Society’s next coffee morning is on Tuesday March 14th in the Meeting Room, Mornington Fire Brigade, Nepean Highway, corner of Separation Street, at 10.30am. Cost is $5.00 per person and all are welcome to join us for friendly tea or coffee. Our guest speaker is Keith White who has agreed to step in at short notice to give one of his splendid historical talks. Well worth coming.
Our next coffee morning on Tuesday may 9th in the Meeting Room, Mornington Fire Brigade, Nepean Highway, Mornington (cnr. Separation Street) will feature guest speaker Ian Armstrong. Ian is a well known local collector and archivist and will talk about his collection or at least some of it. Usual entrance of $5.00 per person, so come long and join us for a sociable tea or coffee in congenial surroundings.
On 21st May 1892, 15 young footballers from the Mornington Football Club lost their lives in a sudden squal on the journey home from a football match at Mordialloc by boat. All on board the boat were lost and only four bodies recovered. On Sunday May 21st 2017, Mornington & District Historical Society will hold a Commemoration Event at the Footballers Memorial, corner Esplanade & Schnapper Point Drive, Mornington. The memorial is opposite the Old Court House. It was raised the following year by public subscription. After, a short walk to the Uniting Church in Barkly Street will bring you to the site of a Memorial Plaque also in honour of the lost players.
Our next coffee morning will be on August 8th at 10.30 am in the usual room at the Fire Brigade. Our speaker will be ABC Sports Journalist Paul Kennedy author of the recently published book “Fifteen Young Men” about the Mornington Football Disaster 125 years ago.
All welocome to join us for a great morning for the princely fee of &5.00 per person.
The Annual General Meeting of the Mornington & District Historical Society will be held in the Meeting Room of The Mornington Fire Brigade, Nepean Highway, Mornington at 10.30 am on September 12th 2017. Tea or Coffee will be available after the business bit. All welcome to come hear what the
Society has been doing over the past year. You may even consider volunteering with us.