History Sub-Committee
The History Sub-committee seeks to collect, document and share photos, film, oral histories, reports and ephemera relating to Williamstown Botanic Gardens.
Our projects include:
Our projects include:
- Voicing our Gardens is our oral history project done to support our ongoing work.
- The Trove Project seeks to locate any articles or stories in the National Library Archive (Trove) and correct the digitised versions to make the articles about our gardens more accessible to researchers.
Would you like to contribute to the story of our Gardens?
We urge you to dig into your memories and search your cupboards for any photos, invitations to garden parties, postcards and other memorabilia that will enrich our knowledge and understanding of what our Gardens mean in the lives of all who experience and enjoy them.
We are chatting to people to record their memories and experiences of the Gardens. These, before now, unrecorded stories have already proven to be a rich source of recollections and stories – the hessian shoes on the horses pulling the mower, the compost heap that reached the sky, the vigilant Curator Billy Crowe, Curator Ernie Anderson ringing the bell to warn that the gates close at sunset every day, buying a billy of hot water for your picnic cup of tea, playing on the cannons. Would you like to know who pushed her sister into the pond? All of this and more can be found in our oral history archive.
We would love to hear from anyone who would like to share their photos and memorabilia with us. We will convert them for digital use and return the original promptly to you.
Please contact us via this web site or our facebook page.
You can follow the progress of our collection via this link on the Victorian Collections website.
We urge you to dig into your memories and search your cupboards for any photos, invitations to garden parties, postcards and other memorabilia that will enrich our knowledge and understanding of what our Gardens mean in the lives of all who experience and enjoy them.
We are chatting to people to record their memories and experiences of the Gardens. These, before now, unrecorded stories have already proven to be a rich source of recollections and stories – the hessian shoes on the horses pulling the mower, the compost heap that reached the sky, the vigilant Curator Billy Crowe, Curator Ernie Anderson ringing the bell to warn that the gates close at sunset every day, buying a billy of hot water for your picnic cup of tea, playing on the cannons. Would you like to know who pushed her sister into the pond? All of this and more can be found in our oral history archive.
We would love to hear from anyone who would like to share their photos and memorabilia with us. We will convert them for digital use and return the original promptly to you.
Please contact us via this web site or our facebook page.
You can follow the progress of our collection via this link on the Victorian Collections website.
