Michael Gawenda
Download the Transcript: FHS-Michael-Gawenda-2016 Michael Gawenda, a journalist and former editor of The Age, spent his early childhood in Gore Street, where his parents owned a corner store. He particularly remembered the freedom allowed the children, with all...Menka Simmonds
Download the Transcript: FHS-Menka-Simmonds-2015 Menka Simmonds arrived in Australia in 1948 from Macedonia and due to the need for her mother to work, left school after only two and a half years to look after her little sister. One of her early employments...Laurie O’Brien
Download the Transcript: FHS-Laurie-OBrien-2015 Laurie O’Brien lived at 35 Hanover Street from 1957 to 2002. Laurie is a foundation member of the Fitzroy History Society. The architecturally significant House at 35 Hanover Street with a National Trust Heritage...Ivy Dawson
Download the Transcript: FHS-Ivy-Dawson-2016 Ivy Dawson has lived in Fitzroy for 74 years, moving into 62 Gore Street at the age of 12 (a house which she and her husband eventually bought for £1500). She left school at 12 and kept house for her father and by 14...Dorothy McInroy
Download the Transcript: FHS-Dorothy-McInroy-2015 Dorothy McInroy’s mother left an unhappy marriage in the country and moved with her six children into Argyle Street, Fitzroy when Dot was eleven. She tells of her family, her schooldays and her working and...fitzroyhistorysociety.org.au fitzroyhistorysociety.org.au fitzroyhistorysociety.org.au fitzroyhistorysociety.org.au
March 2024 FHS newsletter out now
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Beating the Bounds" (or boundaries) is a ceremony of great antiquity from England and Europe. It also occurred in Fitzroy....
Back in 1906 postcards from Fitzroy existed. Here is a collection of ten....
Hidden Melbourne has published a virtual tour of one of Fitzroy's most interesting streets – Fitzroy Street....
The Brotherhood of St Laurence has digitised three fascinating films they made between 1946 and 1950....
The March 2024 issue of the FHS newsletter is out now.