Friday 8:00 pm at The Museum
Speaker: Ian Thomson, Engineer/Historian
Topic: The Bay Paddle Steamers
Category Archives: Monthly Meetings
Monthly Meeting July 5th 2019
Friday 8:00 pm at The Museum
Speaker: Bob Marmion, Historian/Author
Topic: Murder at the Fort
Monthly Meeting Mar 1st 2019
8:00 pm at The Museum
Trish at work in The Museum
Speaker: Trish Bourke – Artist in Residence at Police Point
Topic: Trish is an established water colourist and botanical artist.
We will discover the artist’s path to the creation of her fascinating pieces.
Monthly Meeting Nov 9th 2018
7:00 pm at The Museum (Note earlier time)
Speaker: Michael Veitch
Topic: Hell Ship – The Journey of The Ticonderoga
Monthly Meeting Sep 7th 2018
8:00 pm at The Museum
Susan Spunner Window St. John’s Sorrento
Speaker: Suzanne Spunner (NHS Member)
Topic: The Will of Susan Spunner: Sorrento’s First Feminist
(Suzanne’s great great grandmother)
Monthly Meeting Aug 3rd 2018
2:00 pm at The Museum – NOTE earlier time
Speaker: David Dallas (NHS Member)
Topic: From Traitor to Triumph – The Story of Nelson Mandela
Monthly Meeting June 1st 2018
8:00 pm at The Museum 
Speakers: NHS member, Wayne Bastow, former Leading Seaman Weapons Mechanic on HMAS Hobart II
Topic: The HMAS Hobart II Incident – 17 June 1968: An untold story of the Vietnam War
Public Meeting March 2nd 2018
8:00 pm at The Museum
Speaker: Frank Hindley – Convener Heritage & Planning Group NHS
Topic: The Point Nepean Master Plan
To download a copy of the plan see HERE
Monthly Meeting Nov 3rd 2017
8:00 pm at The Museum
Speaker: Carol Rosenhain, a Melbourne writer and historian
Topic: “The Man Who Carried the Nation’s Grief” which describes the extraordinary work of James Lean MBE . . . See a review HERE
Annual General Meeting Oct 6th 2017
. . . and celebrating 50 years of The Sorrento Museum
8:00 pm at The Sorrento Museum
. . . . come and celebrate with cake and champagne . . . 50 years since the opening of the Museum in 1967 and the contributions made by Don Ewart.
Joy & Clive cut a cake to celebrate 50 years of ‘The Sorrento Museum’
Suzanne and Mark Ewart join the 50th celebration after Joy’s tribute to Don
Nepean Historical Society 