Moonee Valley Family & Local History Blog

Do you remember milk being delivered by horse and cart? If you've lived in Essendon awhile, it's not unlikely that you do. Remarkably, the Tighe family who ran the Lincoln Park Dairy, were still making milk deliveries in Essendon with a Clydesdale driven cart until 1987, decades after horse-drawn deliveries had ended in most suburbs! The National Museum are now preparing an exhibition about horses in Australia that will feature the Tighe's yellow cart. And Essendon Historical Society members provided information and memories about the Tighe family milk delivery service that Museum staff found so fascinating they decided to make a documentary featuring them which will be part of the show. Painting of Princess and Pat Tighe delivering milk in Essendon, by Susan Dowling, ( from the Magic1278 blog ). You can read more about this story, and see a wonderful image of the Tighe's horse and cart, in the Moonee Valley Leader of 27th January 2014 (page 11). Congratulat...

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia features works by ten contemporary artists that have a fascination with the passing of time. Some draw on personal histories, while others explore the past through collective or cultural memories.  Works range from large scale installations, sculptures and video art, to photographs, prints and watercolours.

'Photographer Unknown' is a new exhibition of photography that explores anonymous images and film footage. Patrick Pound has collected hundreds of old family snaps and pinned them to a wall in ordered rows. The images have been found on eBay, in second-hand shops, on YouTube, in family albums and deceased estates. This exhibition may interest anyone who has ever been left with photos from the family estate and wondered about the images and have tried to trace their relationship to the people, activities and places in the images; also public libraries and museums who receive donations of photos that then need to be identified and stored for the future. The exhibition is at Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton campus 16th September - 28th November, 2009, Curator Dr Kyla McFarlane. For a review of this exhibition go to 'Memories, with loose moorings'

Hisham Attia continues his very popular digital story-telling workshops. Hisham is a local multi-media artist who uses digital techniques to tell personal and family stories. He will be running a free workshop to introduce these concepts and encourage you to tell your own story using digital technologies. The event will be at the Sam Merrifield Library on Saturday November 7th at 2pm. Free but bookings necessary. Call 8325 1950.