The Central Highlands Historical Association (CHHA)
THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL JOURNALS
The History Journals are published by the CHHA so that opportunities are available for local historians and historical societies to contribute to the recorded history of our region.
VOLUME 1, 32 pp, published 1993
Contents:
- James Meek and Ballarat's First Home - Peter Butters
- The School of Forestry and its Early Principals - Jean Baker
- A Scarsdale Link with CJ Dennis - Joan E Hunt
- Humffray Street Primary School - Its Beginnings - Keith Moore
- Ballarat Temperance Society - Peter Mansfield
- Everylady's Journal 1916 - Annie S Evans
- Careers for Young Ladies - Anne Beggs Sunter
- Famous Son of Clunes: Sir John Longstaff - Anne Beggs Sunter
- Henry and Alice - a mystery trip in 1887 - Peter Mansfield
VOLUME 2, 60pp, published 1994
Contents:
- The Flaming Beacon - Barcroft Capel Boake - Peter Parsons
- Summer of 1952 - Gretta Beveridge
- Helen Hart - Pioneer Suffragist - Helen D. Harris OAM
- The Diary of John Mugridge May An Extraordinary Welshman - Carrin Greenbank
- The Beaufort Scandal - Robert Wilkinson
- Railways - Claudette and Geoff Crick
- Mother Gonzaga Barry - Pioneering Educationalist - Bro. H. Breech
- Daniel Brophy - John Ruyg
- Harrison's Eucalyptus Distillery, Enfield. - Dorothy M Letcher
VOLUME 3, 92 pp, published 1995
Contents: (This volume contains oral histories of the Second World War).
- Ballarat during WW2 - Jock Burns Lt Col
- David Baird - soldier -Prisoner of the Japanese
- Lorraine Bell - school girl
- Diana Eaton - factory worker
- Jack Ellis - sailor
- Nancy Haydon -Women's Australian Auxiliary Air Force [WAAAF]
- Norm Harvey - RAAF photographer
- Tom Hornsby - soldier- Prisoner of the Germans
- Nan McCallum - shop assistant
- The Ballarat Tramway's War -- Alan Bradley
- Jack Morris - butcher with the Merchant Navy
- Bill Owen - soldier - parachutist
- Doris Owen - housewife
- Frank Partridge - VC winner
- Norman Reither - soldier in New Guinea
- Kathleen Ryan - Land Army
- Dierdre Webb - Australian Women's Army Service [AWAS]
- Jean Willis - AWAS - soldier and bride
- Ray Willis - RAAF
- WW2 HONOR ROLL FOR BALLARAT DISTRICT [ 1st edition]
VOLUME 4, 60 pp, published 1996
CONTENTS:
- Government Assisted Emigration - Florence Chuk
- Main Road and Golden Point - Peter Mansfield
- Bill Moore - an "Australia Remembers" - interview
- A Caring Community - Creswick Hospital - Dot Wickham
- Larry Downes -39th Battalion-an "Australia Remembers" interview
- The Great Depression in Victoria - Geoff Palmer
- The Flight of the Wallaby - Tom Evans
- Municipal Amalgamations - David Endacott
VOLUME 5, 60 pp,
CONTENTS:
- Becoming Australian - Susan Priestly
- Beth Fry - WAAAF - an "Australia Remembers" interview
- Norm Nunn - CCC & Army -an "Australia Remembers" interview
- "And may Gold Almighty have mercy on your soul…- "Dot Wickham
- Law and Order on the Trams - Alan Bradley
- Conrad Egidius ten Brink - Robert Ashley
- Industrial Unrest on the Murray River Railway - Geoff Palmer
Copies of the Central Highlands Historical Journals can be obtained from the CHHA at PO Box W139 Ballarat West.
Prices are as follows : (THESE PRICES ARE SUPER SPECIAL !!)
- Volume 1 - $4.00
- Volume 2 - $5.00
- Volume 3 - $6.00
- Volume 4 - $5.00
- Volume 5 - $6.00
- FULL SET $20.00
Packing & Postage - $2.00 per book or $5.00 for a set
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