BOOKS & BOOKLETS

A variety of books and booklets on local history and people.

To purchase please click here and fill out the order form, from which the committee will follow up on your order

Postage & handling $15.00 - Overseas and bulk orders to be advised

BOOKS: Retail Price as Marked

BOOKLETS: Are all $12 unless marked otherwise. Postage & handling $10.00

  • The Story of the Board - The Pioneer Board researched over decades by many to record the chequered history of this invaluable community artefact. $35
  • Yalla-Y-Poora on the Fiery Creek. This book details the experiences of the twenty-four returned soldiers and their families in setting up their farms and developing a community.  $30
  •  Light Work - Elizabeth O'Callaghan has carefully documented the many lighthouse keepers who worked at the Warrnambool lighthouse. $12
  • Natural History of the 19th Century Warrnambool District. Rob Wallis has collected together articles from the 19th century relating to natural history of the Warrnambool District.
  • From Tents & Tin Huts to Timber Houses & Tiger Snakes - James Affleck. Cost $30 plus ph up to 2 books $13  4-5 books $16

SERIES

People who passed this way - booklets

  1. Port Personalities
  2. Men of Yesteryear
  3. Women of the West
  4. Colourful Characters
  5. Pioneer Parade

Hotels - booklets

  1. Share of Public Patronage: Otway & Olive Branch hotel
  2. Best Ales, Wines and Spirits: Union hotel, W'bool/Wall's family/Marine hotel
  3. First Class Accommodation and Stabling: Red lion/Stprk/Princess Royal,Flying Buck/Farmers' Arms/Turf Club
  4. Civility to Customers: Hopkins Ferry/Hopkins Hotel, Royal Exchange, Royal Exchange (Liebig St) (Banyan St)
  5. Every Attention Paid: Royal Hotel (Kelp St), Royal Archer, Hibernian/Globe
  6. Charges Strictly Moderate: Pieter Both, Terminus/Railway Terminus/Railway, Hopkins
  7. Commodious Premises: W'bool Club/Union Club, Prince of Wales, Ferrell's/Raglan Parade/Hennessy's/O'Mealey's
  8. Every Convenience to Visitors: Anglers'Rest/Rising Sun, National, Rob Roy/Victorian Market
  9. Good Cuisine: Bren Boiroimhe, Limerick, Plogh & Harrow, Punt Inn/Queensferry, Hotel Mansions
  10. Excellent Remunerative Trade: Bush Inn (Wangoom) Union/Junction (Bushfield) Southern Cross, Yangery Prince Hotel
  11. Superior Quality of Liquors: Allansford, Crown, Cudgee, Eagle Tavern (Purnim Rd) Globe Hotel (Purnim Rd) Grasmere
  12. Due Regard for Comfort: Brefney Framlingham) Bridge Inn (Caramut Rd) Halfway (Mortlake Rd) Panmure, Purnim, Royal Oak (Purnim Rd)
  13. A Lucrative Business: Commercial (Panmure) Cooleys/Taylors/Eckers Hotel, Fox & Hound (Winslow) Lady of the Lake (Winslow) Mailors Flat, Royal Archer (Coroit St) Winslow Inn/Hotel
  14. An Artistic Triumph: Ozone Coffee Palace / Ozone Hotel / Hotel Mansions
  15. A well Managed House:

BBM Bruce Morris (Former editor of W'bool Standard) - booklets

  1. BBM One: Twenty five articles about Warrnambool
  2. BBM Two: Twenty articles about Warrnambool

Helpman - booklets

  1. Aboard the Beagle: Extracts from diaries of Lt Frank Helpman 1839, 1840, 1851
  2. Captain Helpman: His years in Warrnambool 1858. Harbour Master 1859-1869

Warrnimble - booklets

  1. Warrnimble One: 5 articles on aspects of early W'bool
  2. Warrnimble Two: 5 articles on aspects of early W'bool

Henry Worland - booklets

  1. Fifteen Pen Portraits: Brief biography of W'bool historians
  2. Worland on Warrnambool: Fourteen radion talks by Henri Worland 1940's
  3. Worland Writes: Ten lectures. Articles on historical aspects of W'bool institutions

MONOGRAPHS - booklets

  • Alien to Us: 19th Century Indian labour in Warrnambool district
  • Bank Notes: Early banks in Warrnambool
  • Cultured Man: The life and times of Joseph Archibald
  • Cart del Visite: Warrnambools Photographers from 1850s - mid 20thc
  • Days of their Lives: Some amusing and colourful excerpts from 19thc  W'bool newspapers
  • Lance Patent Pan Co. Letterbook: George Lance, company correspondence
  • Nobby: The story of W.F.G Nettleton
  • Old Dob: Joseph Dobson. Also Father Patrick Scanlan
  • Ornament to the Town: Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute
  • Pride of the South: Anthology of poetry written about the local area by early poets
  • Second to None: Warrnambool National School 1849-1876
  • Shake Rattle and Roll: Two earthquakes 1903 - From the Standard
  • Trips and Treks: Reports of trips made east of Warrnambool c19th
  • Warrnambool and Federation: W'bool's part in Federation
  • Warrnambool Timeline: And short history of Warrnambool 1835-2011
  • Warrnambool's Historians and Historical Societies
  • Wreck of the Loch Ard: As reported in the Warrnambool Gardian 1878

BOOKS

  • Silent Lives: Women of Warrnambool and District 1840 to 1910. Written by Elizabeth O'Callaghan $30
  • Fields of War: Soldiers letters home $30
  • For King & Country: 2nd edition. WW1 Enlistments from W'bool & District $30
  • From Tents & Tin Huts to Timber & Tiger Snakes - James Affleck $30 pa up to 2 books $13

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  • Streets Ahead: Street Names of Warrnambool. Origin of their names $15
  • Bullock Teams and Bullockies  $10
  • Dawn of Woodford  $15
  • Exploring Shipwrecks of Western Victoria $10
  • Great Warrnambool Exhibition   $10
  • Jones Girls' Bounty   $40 softcover
  • Leading Lights $10
  • Many Tenants of Liebig Street   $30
  • Nature of Warrnambool   $10
  • Sans Peur: the origins and history of the Glare family $5
  • Warrnambool Pioneers' Register Vol. 1 & 2 $20 set
  • Formanagh Heritage $20
  • Dysons Ford (Early Woodford) $45.00
  • Leatherwood Honey for Gall $5

 

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