Our member Phil Tyson will update the meeting on our joint project with Hobart FM Community Radio. There has been a lot of interest in the project from members, many of whom have contributed. By March the history vignettes who have been broadcast for a…
We will go outside with Ross MacKenzie who will explain the southern sky to us. So bring your beanie and gloves!!
Some of the convicts who came to Van Diemens Land were highly skilled artists, silversmiths, needleworkers, furniture-makers and builders. Rosie and Mike Severs will dicuss and illustrates some of their works.
On the centennial of the closing the of the Bellerive to Sorell Railway John Houghton will discuss its history. Also the video "Bellerive to sorell Railway Walks" will be shown. The video covers a walk along the tracks by members of the Bellerive Historical Society…
Our August meeting will be a tribute to our past Patron John Sargent. We will hold the 2026 AGM. This will followed by a 42 minute video “From Isolation to Fulfillment” made in 2017 by Peter Oldham in which John and his wife Sue talk…
Peter Marmion is a well known conservationist and photographer. He has spent over 50 years exploring Port Davy and Bathurst Harbour, on the south west coast of Tasmania, starting out as a crayfishing boat deckhand in the 1970's. He has learned a lot about the…
Retired Detective and BHS member Fiona Howard will tell us about a real case she investigated in which she found a missing person had been murdered.
BHS member, John Hay, has a long family association with Bellerive. In the 1870s his grandfather, an entertainer, appeared at the Bellerive Institute. His father had the "The Gem" Milk Bar & Delicatessen built in the 1950s. And John attended the old Bellerive State School…