Coming Events
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Please note: Social distancing and other precautions will be observed at all events in accordance with the government regulations in force at the time
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2021
FEBRUARY EVENTS:
Wed 17th February: General Meeting
7 pm, Anglican Hall
Stirling Terrace, Toodyay
Feature Speaker: Milton Baxter, on himself
Fri 26 February: Dinner, Wendourie Tea-Rooms
MARCH EVENTS:
Wed 17th March: General Meeting
7 pm, Anglican Hall
Stirling Terrace, Toodyay
Feature Speaker: Karen Wilson, on herself
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Research Enquiries
Still Operating via mail, email & telephone
Submit research enquiries via the usual email address:
research@toodyayhistoricalsociety.org.au
Other Activities
Drummond House Stirling Terrace
Now Open to the public, Saturdays, 10am-noon. Come in and chat, or leave an information request for our archives section.
Donegan's Cottage Research Centre
in Tooodyay Showgrounds:
Not Open to the public on Thursdays until further notice, due to building maintenance activities.
(Appointments may be arranged at suitable
times if members are available)
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Previous years
Some of our favourite events
1980-2020
THS 40TH ANNIVERSARY
Historic Connor's Mill
THS members enjoying Beth's lively stories of the Connor's Mill building during its period as the Powerhouse generating Toodyay's electricity in the first half of the 20th Century.
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The Edison Phonograph returns to Toodyay
Richard Rennie entertained a capacity crowd in the Toodyay Library, speaking on Professor Archibald's remarkable demonstration of the Edison Phonograph in the Newcastle Mechanics' Institute on Sept 3 1891. Richard also demonstrated a genuine cylinder being played on an Edison Phonograph.
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E.L. Mitchell: the photographer who shaped Australia
Joanna Sassoon, special guest at our AGM in April, gave a fascinating talk on her recent book about E.L.Mitchell, the boy from Yorkshire who became a commercial photographer, much in demand.
Mitchell moved to W.A. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work was often published in Western Mail features and the Battye Library holds large numbers of his works, which have tremendous value now for historians.
He was a superb photographer. Toodyay Historical Society has obtained copies of 19 wonderful images of Toodyay and surrounds, c.1920, believed to be the work of Mitchell.
These included iconic local buildings such as Masonic Lodge, Gaol and St Stephen's,St Philip's Church and rare shots of what were probably Yock Lunn's orchard and Coondle School.