Current projects

The Mount Gambier History Group is currently working on a number of projects.

If you believe you have information or photographs that may contribute to expanding the following projects we would love to hear from.

Our current projects include:

– Over the last fifty years, Mount Gambier and the towns in the surrounding area have lost many businesses which employed a substantial number of employees. These industries include but are not limited to the Dairy, Meat, Textile, Timber and Government agencies (eg. Railways and Electricity). The History Group would like to create a database of employees who worked in these businesses. In some businesses, several Generations of the same family were employed there.

If you would like to help, please email as much information as you can (eg.Name, Nickname, Employed at, Section, Position, Length of time). Any information is better than no information.

If your family owned or operated a business in Mount Gambier and surrounding areas, we are seeking family members to write a history on the business. The history doesn’t have to be long but should include the name of the business and its owners/operators, the location of the business, number of employees, type of business and the period it operated.

If you would like to participate in this project please email mountgambierhistorygroup@gmail,com

– Cataloguing and Scanning donated photos and negatives.

– The Group has had many donations of war records spanning several wars which it is the process of sorting and cataloging.

– Cataloging YMCA Photographs.

– Scanning YMCA and CWA Minute Books

– Members are cataloguing books and magazines that are gradually being added to the database.

Our past projects include:

– Walks and Drives books and brochures

– Lake Terrace Cemetery headstone were transcribed and put into a database.

– History talks and Walks

– Pioneer Park Cemetery – Sorrowful Spot (Book produced)

– Postcard series

– Conservation Workshop

– Fidler and Webb exhibition – 150 Years of History

– 2017 Senior Citizen Recreation Award – presented by the Lions Club of Mount Gambier and the City of Mount Gambier in recognition of the outstanding contribution made to our community by researcher Aileen Clarke, Margaret Brown, Jim Lightbody and Kerry Deverell with other History Group volunteers, in developing and presenting the Fidler and Webb exhibition.

– 2018 Australia Day Community Event of the Year for the Fidler and Webb Exhibition – 150 Years of History.

– 150th Birthday Celebrations of the Lake Terrace Cemetery.

– 2018 – Rook Walk – Community event in conjunction with the City of Mount Gambier – 100 years anniversary