Woodend and District Heritage Society, Woodend, Victoria

Zona de identificação

Identificador

daa/399

Forma autorizada do nome

Forma(s) paralela(s) de nome

Outra(s) forma(s) do nome

Tipo

Community

Zona de contacto

Tipo

Endereço

Old Woodend Courthouse, Forest Street, Woodend
Postal address: PO Box 124, Woodend, Victoria 3442

Localidade

Região

Victoria

Nome do país

Código Postal

3442

Telefone

03 5427 1283 (Wednesdays only: February-November)

Fax

Email

Email form at: http://woodendhistory.com/contact/

URL

http://woodendhistory.com/

Nota

área de descrição

história

The Woodend and District Heritage Society was formed in 1977. The society began computer indexing in 1985 and developed its own software, Heritage I. Also in 1985, the first edition of Heritage News, the Society’s newsletter, was published.

The Woodend Court House was officially handed over to the society as its headquarters in 1989 and in 1993, the society’s collection was moved into the Court House. After a fundraising campaign, and with a grant from Heritage Victoria, in 1997 an extension to the Court House was built to house the growing archive.

contexto cultural e geográfico

Woodend is a small town in Victoria, in the Shire of Macedon Ranges local government area and is located about halfway between Melbourne and Bendigo.

Mandatos/Fontes de autoridade

estrutura administrativa

Políticas de gestão e entrada de documentos

The collection and restoration/ preservation of materials generated within the previous shire of Newham and Woodend, relating to the history of the area.

Prédios

Acervos documentais

The archive contains documents, maps, newspapers and photographs from the district that once formed the Shire of Newham and Woodend (including Ashbourne, Hesket, Campaspe and, until 1886, Rochford). Copies of local newspapers, including the Woodend Star from 1888-1970 have been digitised. Photographs are held of people and places relating to Newham and Woodend dating from the 1870s.

Items held include:

Cemetery records
Newspapers
District maps
Church records
Rate books
Photographs and postcards
Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages
Early Shire correspondence
Detailed family histories
Oral history tapes and transcripts
Minute books
School records and roll books
Real estate records

Instrumentos de pesquisa, guias e publicações

Much of the collection has been catalogued, allowing you to look up documents quickly and easily on our computer database.

área de acesso

horário de funcionamento

Wednesdays, 10am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-4pm (February-November).

Condição de acesso e uso

Acessibilidade

área de serviços

serviços de pesquisa

You can search the archive in person or via the society's research service. For further information on steps to take and charges involved, see http://woodendhistory.com/start-here/ and http://woodendhistory.com/research/