Meetings

On the fourth Saturday of each month the society holds either a meeting, with guest speaker, or an excursion to places of interest. Currently the meetings are held from 10.30am to 12.30pm in the Marrickville Library Pavilion, Marrickville Road, Marrickville.


Saturday 25 October 2025: The Squatters’ Grab: a talk by Wal Walker

Saturday 27 September 2025: Taronga Zoo : a guided history walk

Saturday 26 July 2025: A Louisa Lawson walk with Michelle Tucker and Sue Castrique

Saturday 24 May 2025: The Brick Mile -Sydney Park Brickworks

Saturday 26 April 2025: The Ladies Velocipede Races of 1869

Thursday 27 March 2025: A Garden Island tour

Saturday 22 February 2025: The life and deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard

Saturday 23 November 2024: Mascot’s Miracle: the 1971 airline collision that nearly took 240 lives

Saturday 28 September 2024: A Petersham walk

Saturday 24 August 2024: Sydney Park brick kilns: renewal works

Saturday 27 July 2024: A guided tour of the Chau Chak Wing Museum

Saturday 22 June 2024: Annual General Meeting

Thursday 23 May 2024: A visit to Lydham Hall hosted by St George Historical Society

Saturday 27 April 2024: Kathleen Muriel Butler and the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Saturday 23 March 2024: A Cook’s River walk with Ian Tyrell

Saturday 24 February 2024: Reds, reformers & ratbags: New Theatre’s radical Past – a presentation by Lyn Collingwood and Kim Knuckey

Saturday 25 November 2023: The future of heritage – managing change at the Opera House – a talk by Alan Croker

Saturday 28 October, 2023: The Shipwreck, the true story of the ‘Dunbar’- a talk by Larry Writer

Saturday 26 August, 2023: George Foster and his blueprints– a talk by Ron Ringer