Avoca & District Historical Society Inc

08/05/2026

Continuing the Avoca Walking Tour with Edmund Snell's store and home

This month’s blog posts concern places on the Avoca Walking Tour, a brochure published by the Pyrenees Tourism Association. An online transcription is available here.    33  “Rutherf…

06/05/2026

Continuing looking at places on the Avoca walking tour

This month’s blog posts concern places on the Avoca Walking Tour, a brochure published by the Pyrenees Tourism Association. An online transcription is available here.    22 Lalor’s Pharma…

05/05/2026

Continuing to research the buildings and the people behind the buildings on the Avoca Walking Tour : Mr Henry Power's bakery from 1860

This month’s blog posts concern places on the Avoca Walking Tour, a brochure published by the Pyrenees Tourism Association. An online transcription is available here.   42 Bakery and Tea …

04/05/2026

Continuing the Avoca walking tour. Edwin Mackereth was a notable early vigneron of the district.

This month’s blog posts will look at places on the Avoca Walking Tour, a brochure published by the Pyrenees Tourism Association. An online transcription is available here.  Mackereth’s Shop c1…

02/05/2026

I have just published a list of all the blog posts published for easier navigation. You can find it under the "Blog" menu item on the right hand side of the website. https://avocahistory.net.au/list-of-blog-posts/

01/05/2026

A new series of posts looking at stops on the Avoca Walking Tour. 1st stop Watford House near the river

This month’s blog posts will look at places on the Avoca Walking Tour, a brochure published by the Pyrenees Tourism Association. An online transcription is available here. 13.: Watford House,…

24/04/2026

Remembering Charles Willmott who was killed in the Anzac landings

Charles Jonathan Willmott (1888-1915) was born in Avoca, the son of Charles Willmott and Kate nee Sedery. He was educated at the Avoca State School. On 17 August 1914 Charles willmott enlisted in t…

22/04/2026

Remembering Dave Summers who fought at Gallipoli from the landing to the final evacuation. He was killed at Fromelles on 19 July 1916. https://avocahistory.net.au/.../22/dave-summers-1893-1916/

16/04/2026

A distinguished WW2 flying officer from the Avoca district

On 20 December 1944 nine year old Avoca school boy Neville Astbury wrote to the Melbourne Argus newspaper claiming his “Daddy is the Best Bomb-Aimer in the World”. Avoca Dec 20 1944 The Edito…

15/04/2026

This month I am participating in the April A to Z blogging challenge. Today I wrote about mining licences.

The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves with others claimed to have discovered payable gold near Orange, New South Wales, at a site called Ophir. Hargre…

14/04/2026

This year I am again participating in the A to Z blogging challenge. My theme is the Victorian gold rushes of the nineteenth century. Today I wrote about Lamplough.

In 1987 Denis Strangman, a member of the Avoca and District Historical Society, published an article in the Familia Ulster Genealogical Review about a goldrush to Lamplough near Avoca in 1859-1860.…