The Point Nepean National Park Draft Management Plan 2016 has been released.
Get both it, the Summary Brochure and details of upcoming Information Days – HERE.
To see the NHS Submission to Parks Victoria go – HERE
Author Archives: Nepean Historical Society
Sorrento Primary School Visit
“The best excursion in my years at school”
Excitement ran high among the two groups of Grade 1 / 2s from Sorrento Primary School who visited the Museum and Watts’ Cottage last month for our programme The Past in the Present.
Some of the Class 1/2s at Watts’ Cottage
One of the participants, aged six, announced at School Assembly that it was “the best excursion in my years at school”!
The pictures below tell the story.
Bergliot Dallas 4/12/2016
Craft Market – Point Nepean
We have a ‘Community’ Stall at the Craft Market – Sun 21st Jan at 9:00am – 2:00pm
Come and pay us a visit
Arthur Mackay Boxshall
Latest in our WWI series:
Monthly Meeting November 4th 2016
. . . In association with: 
The Nepean Conservation Group
Speaker: Alexandra Hill – Projects Manager at the National Trust
Alex gave us a terrific overview of the Trust’s work managing 300 heritage places including a volcano and Fern Gully in Red Hill. Advocacy work is a vital aspect of Trust efforts.
Alex’s special interest is Indigenous Heritage and she described the important research of the Boon wurrung currently being conducted on the Peninsula through McCrae family archives and Endeavour Fern Gully.
Peninsula School Visit
The students from Year 2 of the Peninsula School sent us appreciative letters after their visit to the Sorrento Museum on 12 August, 2016.
Annette Buckland, Bergliot Dallas, Jenny Griffiths and Rhonda Fitzjohn dress for School
Here is a selection of their comments:
Annual General Meeting Oct 7th 2016
Hugh Fraser with Jane Alexander at the AGM
Keynote Speaker: Jane Alexander Co-ordinator of Arts & Culture for the Mornington Shire and Director of Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Jane gave a fascinating presentation. By combining historic paintings of the Peninsula and the early 1900 road trip notes of her grandfather William Calder, who was Chairman and Chief Engineer of the Country Roads Board she took us on a journey through the Peninsula.
Miss Gymkhana, R.G. Menzies and Me
This has been reprinted by the NHS and will be relaunched as below:
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Monthly Meeting September 2nd 2016
8:00 pm at The Museum
Speakers: Four of The Sorrento Museum’s Volunteers
Topic: Some of the interesting current projects they are working on.
From Joy Kitch, NHS President
The wide range of interesting and important projects and tasks undertaken by NHS volunteers in the Archives Room often goes unnoticed and unacknowledged. This month we heard 4 accounts each very different from the other –
Bergliot Dallas described her research into the real designer of our electric ball (see resulting story from The Nepean of June 2016 HERE),
Doreen Parker how NHS records are now available for public access (See below),
Maggie Broadhead her management of the enormous maritime photo collection recently bequeathed (See below),
Janet South gave us an insight into the process involved in investigating the history of a local house (See below).
The audience learnt a lot and really appreciated the speakers and their work.
Monthly Meeting, Aug 5th 2016
8:00 pm at The Museum
Sorrento c.1929
Speaker: Dr. Ursula de Jong, of Deakin University’s School of Architecture
Topic: ‘The Dilemma of Planning and Conservation – a study of changes & development in Sorrento and Queenscliff’.
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