Almost a year after our first Open Day,
Open 10:00–3:00 Mondays, or by appointment
A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BETWEEN SURREY HILLS AND BOX HILL HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, THE CARTER FAMILY, FILM HISTORIANS CHRIS LONG AND MIKE TRICKETT Who was Norman Carter? Why is his work important? Norman was born in 1899 in Fitzroy, the youngest of eleven children, and came to Surrey Hills with his family in 1918. They were keen […]
On 6 June 2025 an evening was held in the Chandler Room of the Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre to celebrate the final upload of over 4394 photos taken as part of the ‘Street where you live project’. These photos were taken by volunteer photographers during 2013 and 2014 to document the built fabric of Mont […]
Contributors and descendants of local WW1 service personnel were invited to attend the launch of Sandra Dexter’s book at Holy Trinity Hall, 177 Union Road, on Remembrance Day, 11 November. Researched and edited by Sandra Dexter, a former Surrey Hills resident and a member of the Society, this is a 650+ page book, which acknowledges […]
‘My life and a suitcase’ The first formal exhibition at the Maling Heritage Centre used suitcases and trunks to tell stories of migration, travel, work, education and hobbies. All were connected with people in Boroondara in some way. John Butler Maling’s tool chest was the oldest item displayed, but it was a brown Globite case – […]
