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BOOKSHOP
Updated 23 Oct 2007

Book orders should be directed to "Book sales", Essendon Historical Society, 768 Mt Alexander Rd, Moonee Ponds 3039, and cheques made payable to the Essendon Historical Society Inc.


Title
Author
Price
Postage
The Stopover that stayed:  a history of Essendon (c 1979)
Special price  
Grant Aldous
$10
$8.00
Essence of Essendon (1994)    Special price  
Oral histories of the area  taken during the Bicentenary.  Personal  recollections  of old Moonee Ponds, Essendon and Ascot Vale.
ed. Lenore Frost
$3.00
$3.00
Essendon in the Depression (1995)   Judy Maddigan
$2.00 $1.50
A Hospital for Essendon (1995)  
Judy Maddigan $2.00 $1.50
Moonee Ponds Courthouse (1995) 
Judy Maddigan $2.00 $1.50
Maribyrnong Record:  past images of the River (1995)
Contains a series of rarely seen historical photos taken along the Maribyrnong River.
Judy Maddigan & Lenore Frost
$10.00
$3.00
Murder and Misfortune on the Mount Alexander Road:  Essendon, Moonee Ponds, Ascot Vale and Flemington 1840-1866 (1995)    Eyewitness accounts of events in the early days of settlement, based on Coronial inquests.
Lenore Frost
$15.00
post free
Sam Merrifield's House Names Index:  Essendon & District (1996) 
Details about house names extracted from the Essendon Gazette.   This is not an exhaustive list of all the house names in the  district, but it is a good start.
ed. Lenore Frost
$6.00
$1.50
Annals of Essendon, 1850s to 1924: Vol 1 (1998)
Extracts from the Essendon Gazette and other published material.  Great for locating material about local organisations and people.  
Bob Chalmers
$20.00
$8.00
Annals of Essendon, 1925 to 1962: Vol 11 (1998) 
Bob Chalmers
$25.00
$8.00
Riverview Tea Gardens (1999)
A short history of Hicks' Tea Gardens
Bob Mackay
$3.00
$8.50
"Always out for fun!"  The Lizards Club, 1909-1978 (1999)
A history of the social club which began in Ascot Vale.  Contains a list of all known Lizards.
Lorraine Rogers
$5.00
$8.50
Follow the Gleam: a History of Essendon Primary School, 1850-2000" (2000)
This book received a Victorian Community History Award in 2001 for the Best Print /Publication 
Adrian Jones
$20.00 $8.00
House names of Essendon and District, Volume 2  (2000)
Over 4,000 local housenames
Bob Chalmers
$10.00
$3.00
Annals of Essendon, 1963 to 1985: Vol 3 (2000) 
Bob Chalmers
$25.00
$8.00
Essendon and the Boer War, with letters from the Veldt, 1899-1902 (2002)
Includes previously unpublished photos of troops leaving Melbourne and Flemington for Cape Town.
Lenore Frost
$25.00
$5.00
School and Church and other histories:
Strathmore Primary School
Ascot Vale Uniting Church
100 Years at Bank Street



$4.00
$4.00
$7.00


$1.50
$1.50
$3.50
Curator's Cottage card stationery
Andrew Park
$8 pack of 10

Old Moonee Ponds Courthouse card stationery  (2004) Andrew Park $8 pack of 10

Trooping to the Middle East, 1916:  the trooping journals of Colonel John Evans: Themistocles, Argyllshire, Aeneas & Port Sydney  (2005)    Marilyn Kenny
$25
$3.50
Essendon Police Court Report, 1888-1891: a colourful look at past cases at the courthouse  (2005)
Lenore Frost
15 shillings ($1.50)
5 shillings
(50 cents)
Beneath the long brown grass: a history of the Keilor Cemetery, from 1854 (2005)
Christine Laskowski
$10
$1.50
Annals of Essendon, 1986-2000, Volume  4  (2005)
Bob Chalmers
$30
$8.00
Street names of Essendon, Ascot Vale, Moonee Ponds, Strathmore, Travancore & Aberfeldie (2006)
Lenore Frost (ed)
$10
$1.50
Essendon River League, 1906-1966  (2006)
Marilyn Kenny
$10
$2.00
Chasing Leather: a history of the St John's Presbyterian (Uniting) Cricket Club (Essendon), 1900-2007 (2007)
Bob Chalmers
$15
$8.00




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