About Ashgrove Historical Society Inc.
- Details
- Written by Administrator
Ashgrove Historical Society Inc.
(ABN: 85 369 822 992)
Patron
:
Manfred Cross
"Welcome to the Ashgrove Historical Society's website. Ashgrove is an inner suburb of Brisbane (Australia). We hope have a wonderful time exploring Ashgrove's past through the resources you will find here. If you would like to add to the Society's collection, please contact our archivist. We are able to scan documents and images and return originals to you promptly. We welcome visitors to our monthly presentations and hope you will consider becoming a member of this vibrant society."
Lindy Sugars - President
The Ashgrove Historical Society Inc. was incorporated as the Ashgrove-The Gap Heritage Association Inc. in 1999. It was re-launched as the Ashgrove Historical Society Inc. in May 2003 with new objects reflecting its changed role and focus.
Membership is open to all those people who have an interest in ensuring the history of Ashgrove and its historic features are not lost to time. The Society’s vision is broad, reflecting the full range of interests of its members from serious to social, all set within the context of preserving and recording the suburb’s history.
The Society aims to research, record, preserve, inform and generally entertain and entrance all those who join its ranks. Applicants for membership are welcome whether they bring nothing more than an interest in its aims, or those particular skills and experience that will allow its historical goals to be well met. It is a member of History Queensland Inc.
Ashgrove Historical Society News
Display outside Woolworths Ashgrove
Our photo display and stall will be outside Woolworths Ashgrove from 10.00am - 5:30pm on the following dates:
Friday 17 May 2019
We will be selling our publications including our new book, 'Lost Ashgrove' ($25.00), the updated 'Ashgrove 150 Timeline' booklet ($6.00) and the Anniversary & Birthday Calendar ($7.00).
Ashgrove 150 Timeline Booklet Publication
The Society has recently produced the booklet Ashgrove 150 Timeline: Enoggera Creek Bikeway, Ashgrove Sportsground. This publication is an update of the Ashgrove 150 Plaques booklet published in 2013.
The 32 page publication documents the history behind each of the plaques, covering 150 years from 1856 - 2006, laid on the bike path around the Ashgrove Sportsground.
Each page represents one of the plaques in order and contains a related photograph or map and a summary of the significance of the event or year represented on the plaque.
Visit one of our displays or a monthly meeting to purchase a copy.
MEETINGS and DISPLAYS
MONTHLY MEETINGS - 2019
1st Saturday of each month
10:00 am to 12 noon
Ashgrove Library
87 Amarina Avenue
2/02/2019 – Waterworks Road: people and places: by Peter Eedy
2/03/2019 - Brisbane Tramway Museum visit
6/04/2019 – Reminiscences of Nursing, Matron EM Paten: by Katrina Paten
4/05/2019 – Under the Lino: the mystery - the history - the community: by Caylie Jeffery
1/06/2019 – The Queensland Caesar: Sir Thomas McIlwraith, the visionary premier: by Denver Beanland
6/07/2019 – Origins of Organised Football in Brisbane: by Peter Eedy
3/08/2019 - Brisbane's Early Roller Skating Rinks: by Andrew Darbyshire
7/09/2019 – Robert Wishart, draper, Red Hill: by Alan McNaughton
5/10/2019 – The Sweet History of Lollies: Toni Risson
2/11/2019 – City in Masks: how Brisbane fought the Spanish flu: Andrew Wengert
7/12/2019 – Evan Gwyther, Bletchley Circle and the Aussie codebreakers: by Ross Gwyther
NEXT DISPLAY STALL
Ashgrove Market Place, Woolworths forecourt
Friday 17 May 2019
10AM - 5:30PM
For more information contact the Secretary, Julie, ahs.secretary@bigpond.com
Address
Ashgrove Historical Society Inc.
PO Box 355,
Ashgrove,
Qld 4060
Email: ahs.secretary@bigpond.com
ABN 85 369 822 992
www.ashgrovehistoricalsociety.org