Text: Jackie Mussared
Images: Jackie Mussared
A selection of new items added to our archive during October 2025
WW1 Recruiting Poster
Printed by S T Leigh & Co Ltd Lithographic Printers
No: 4754001
Opening of the Heysen Tunnels
Highway to the Hills – 5 Mar 1999, a page from The Courier, showing members of the public walking through the Heysen Tunnel.
No: 4754019
Jill Ahlberg; Citizen of the Year
Jill Ahlberg is Stirling’s Citizen of the Year for her contribution to the history of the area. She is presented with the award on 26 Jan 1999.
No: 4754002
Bullock Dray Re-enactment
No: 4754015
Leawood Gardens Wooden Eggs
24 wooden eggs made by woodturner Len Harrison. At the time of the building of the South-Eastern Freeway, he made the 24 eggs from 24 different trees in Leawood Gardens.
No: 4760001 & 4760002
Draper’s Hall
’Draper’s Hall’, a book by Geoffrey Graham
No: 4773001
Thorngrove Manor
Thorngrove Manor article in “Country Style’ magazine. The article was written by Vivienne Goldie with the photographs by Greg Norton
No: 4780001
Rebekah Sharkie’s Office Items
Items from Rebekah Sharkie’s office including calendars, shopping pads and fridge magnets
No: 4784001
Australian Constitution
3 booklets on the Australian Constitution
No: 4785001
Do you have any further knowledge of the items shown which have been recently acquired by the Society? Or do you know something about the people or places that are depicted?
We welcome your contributions to:
mldhsgateways@mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au
or drop into the History Centre at the Coventry Library, 63 Mount Barker Road, Stirling.
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