Margaret Picken, 411 Elgar Road 1990. Courtesy Surrey Hills Historical Society.
Margaret Picken, 411 Elgar Road 1990. Courtesy Surrey Hills Historical Society.
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Back in 2020, Surrey Hills Historical Society received a donation of over 500 sketches in black ink on polyester drafting film of local homes from Margaret Picken, whose career began as a cartographic draftsman in the mining industry. Later she transferred her skills to the real estate industry, a career that lasted 22 years from 1983-2005. In the Mont Albert-Surrey Hills area she largely worked for Woodards or Fletchers. Margaret’s sketches became the images on real estate flyers and ads in newspapers and today have become significant as important historic records of our built heritage.
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Heritage Week
Find the street where you live amongst these land auction posters on display from across Whitehorse. See suburban dreams reproduced through bold illustrations.
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- Art Exhibition
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Do you remember when milk, bread and ice were delivered to houses? When people drove Beetles and Kombi Vans? Come along to this display, a nostalgic look back at days long gone.
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A display curated from the Whitehorse Art Collection and paired with archival documents from the Box Hill Historical Society.
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- Art Exhibition
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A display by Box Hill Historical Society, of people's memories of their house and the local street in which they lived. Find this display also at the annual Books Galore...and more!
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