1915 – 2015 WE REMEMBER
Visit the NHS tribute to local Sorrento and Portsea WW 1 servicemen and women at the museum. See the new large panel funded by an ANZAC Centenary Grant and the special ‘dead man’s penny’ and its sad tale of a father and son who both served.
OPEN ANZAC DAY and Saturdays and Sundays 1.30 til 4.30pm
Note later date due to Easter
8:00 pm at the Sorrento Museum
Speaker: Graham Patterson – Author of ‘Coastal Guide to Nature & History Port Phillip’ and ‘Guide to Western Port Bay, Phillip Island and French Island.’
‘Coastal Guide to Nature & History Port Phillip’ is available for purchase from The Bookshop
Topic: ‘Forty years walking the Victorian shoreline.‘
8:00 pm at the Sorrento Museum
Speaker: Frank Hindley, Chair, NHS Heritage and Planning Group
Topic: ‘Heritage and Planning issues in the Southern Nepean Peninsula’
8:00 pm at the Sorrento Museum
Speaker: Mark Ryan, Southern Ocean Exploration
Topic: ‘Project Long Shot – the search for the First Shot fired in WW 1 from Pt. Nepean’
A Public Treasure
We want to ensure that you are kept up to date with what is happening with the discussions re the future of The Quarantine Station.
Following a briefing from the State Government Frank Hindley, Chairperson of NHS’s Heritage and Planning group, reported that subdivision will be expressly prohibited in the lease agreement but the length of the lease will not be known until after the signing.
Please find HERE a statement on the Quarantine Station issue, approved by the NHS Executive.
Joy Kitch
President NHS
The earlier detailed joint submission from the Nepean Community groups to the State Government is HERE
To learn more about the rich history of The Quarantine Station go HERE
8:00 pm at the Sorrento Museum Joint meeting with Nepean Conservation Group
Speaker: Dale Kelly, Shire Heritage Planner
Topic: ‘Recollections of a wandering heritage architect/advisor’
8:00 pm at the Sorrento Museum
NHS Annual Report of Committee 2013-2014
Speaker: Peter Munro, professional tour guide & amateur historian
Topic: ‘A Few Melbourne Stories: anecdotes behind some of Melbourne’s icons’
8:00 pm at the Sorrento Museum
Speaker: Associate Professor Don Garden, President, Royal Historical Society of Victoria
Topic: ‘Loved, Neglected and Exploited: Port Phillip in our History’
Map of Port Phillip & Surrounds, August 1836
Click on photo to go to official First Shot Website
First Shot Video with MAJ Bernie Gaynor of the First Shot Committee
Joint meeting with the Nepean Conservation Group.
Note VENUE : At 8:00 pm at the Sorrento Portsea Senior Citizens Centre
(corner of Melbourne Road and Queens Road – next door to the Sorrento Museum)
Speaker: Richard Cotter
Topic: ‘James Tuckey: First Lieutenant on the Calcutta’
Copies of Richard Cotter’s book on Tuckey will be available for sale.
Join us for dinner at Buckley’s Chance at 6.15pm prior to the meetings.
Book on 5984 2888 and ask to join the NHS table.
(Dale Kelly, the Shire Heritage Planner, will now talk at the November meeting).
Nepean Historical Society 