Take a walk through your neighbourhood and go back in time

Once again, we find ourselves spending more time at home and many of us are getting re-acquainted with our local streets on our daily walks.

If you’ve walked the same path every day and are looking for a way to change up your walks around your neighbourhood, we’ve got you covered! Your local Community Heritage librarians have put together self-guided history walks for four neighbourhoods in Moonee Valley, which you can access through our library catalogue. The walks include a stroll along the river in Aberfeldie, through Queens Park in Moonee Ponds, and around the streets of Niddrie and Strathmore. If these areas fall within your 5km radius, we invite you to take a (safe and socially distant) winter walk and visit points of historical interest in your area- you might even learn some fun local trivia tidbits!

The Moonee Ponds Creek flooding in 1963 near Wallace Crescent in Strathmore. This view looks east towards Pascoe Vale South. (Photograph courtesy of Moonee Valley Libraries)

Follow the links below to the Self-Guided Walk PDFs, and either print them, or follow them on-screen on your phone or tablet. The PDFs also contain links to photographs, newspaper articles, websites and items in the Moonee Valley Libraries catalogue, so you can look further into the interesting history of these areas in your own time.


We look forward to running these walks in person again, but in the meantime, we hope you enjoy your self-guided walks. You might learn something new, and have a chance to look at a familiar part of Moonee Valley through a historical lens!

Before undertaking these self-guided walks, please be sure to check current restrictions regarding COVID-19.

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