News & Events

Please note that the Annual General Meeting of the Mt. Lofty Districts Historical Society, previously scheduled for Friday 3rd March, has been deferred until Friday 24th March.

All other details remain the same and we look forward to Chris Chardon presenting the history of Australian Rules Football in the district.

Please note that our History Centre and Archive will be closed for a short break over Christmas and the New Year as below.

Songs and Stories of Christmas – Our popular Final Event for the Year

Note that RSVPs are thru EventBrite

You are invited to our next event which includes a visit to the Macclesfield ANZAC Memorial Garden, Lunch and a talk at the local RSL.

If you have not seen this memorial before, it has a very diverse and picturesque layout with all sorts of interesting memorial items scattered through an attractive native garden.

Please RSVP as indicated in the flyer below.

Unfortunately our planned event with Chris McCabe – travel writer and garden author, is not able to proceed at present….. but we now offer:

Please RSVP as requested above.

The previously highly anticipated presentation by Dr Anthony Stimson, which was postponed due to COVID-19, is now back on our calendar in early August. Real-life drama in our own neighbourhood, now mostly forgotten but set to be revived at this year’s Frank Hurren Memorial presentation.

This will be a popular event and RSVPs are essential

All details in the flyer below.

Our next event, on Friday 1st July, considers the period of Modernist Architecture (1950 – 1965) in Adelaide and the Hills, presented by Dr. James Curry.

All details are on the flyer below.

Please RSVP as requested.

For many years it has been a goal of the Society to make our collection available on-line to reach a world-wide audience. Our facebook page and website have gone a small way towards achieving this goal, but we are limited by a lack of volunteers to assist in digitising what is at present a very non-digital collection.

We would welcome assistance in this task. Volunteer

Nevertheless, progress continues and today we can announce that the earliest of the society’s newsletters, from 1978, are now available on our website and we hope to add many more in the future. Look for the “Publications” menu on our home page and choose “Past Issues of the Flinders Column”, or simply click or tap here

Financial members of the Society will continue to receive regular printed issues of the current Flinders Column, as part of their membership subscription and we will only be publishing bygone issues on-line.

We all have stories within our families of travel in trucks and buses over the years and within the Hills community many memories revolve around those day to day activities from the past. Come and enjoy our presentation and join the discussion that is bound to ensue.

Our May event will be another popular evening so please RSVP as shown in the flyer below.

Please see the details below of our special ANZAC commemoration for this year.

Note that RSVPs are essential and that COVID rules applying to the Coventry Library at the time must be observed.