Hall Museum 2025 News Archive

February 2025

James McDonald's Volume III of the history of Canberra is published - James McDonald has been working on his five-volume history of Canberra for the past decade. Volume I. From Antiquity to Invasion and Volume II. Colonization (1824-61) have been published and are available at the centre for viewing and/or purchase....
Reminiscing in the 1911 bush school - Last Thursday, 16th February, we had a visit from a former Hall school pupil. Alma Haycox lived in Hall with her family in the 1940s and 50s and attended Hall Public School. They lived in the old Morris Bootmaker's shop in Victoria Street,...
National Trust walk around the village - More than 30 participants meandered around the village this morning, Sunday 23rd February, following a trail that is listed in the Hall self-guided heritage tour booklet - one of a series produced for the ACT government by the National Trust...

Melba Men's Shed visit - Friday 28th February saw another community group visit the Hall Heritage Centre for morning tea, heritage talk and tour of the campus. The Men's Shed from Melba had previously visited our local Men's Shed and had expressed an interest in spending...

UNEARTHED - ACT Heritage Festival 2025 - The theme of this year's ACT Heritage Festival is UNEARTHED. We have three displays linked to this theme: a very moving story of a WWl veteran with Hall Village connections. His story and family artefacts from the time have been 'uneathed'...
National Trust (ACT) Open Day - The National Trust (ACT) Open Day is an annual event which is held during the ACT Heritage Festival. A local heritage location is identified each year to host the event and this year it was the Tuggeranong Homestead in Richardson. The homestead...
Lyall Gillespie - book launch - This year's ACT Heritage Festival event was a very convivial community get-together to launch two Lyall Gillespie books. The first was in fact a facsimile edition of 'Ginninderra: Forerunner to Canberra', one of the most popular of Lyall's...

The first ten years of the Gillespie Collection - The Yass Valley History Centre hosts presentations from local museums, heritage centres and like-minded individuals focussing on local heritage. On Monday 2nd June Ken Heffernan, a volunteer with the Hall Heritage Centre, gave a presentation...

Mark Butz - Annual Address - The Hall Heritage Centre's annual address will be presented this year by Mark Butz. The address will be at the Centre on Thursday 28th August at 11.30 am. Mark Butz is an environmental science graduate, emphasising earth sciences and ecology,...

Annual Address enjoyed by all - Mark Butz delivered the Centre's annual address on Thursday 28th August to a large and appreciative audience. The initial address, to the foundation meeting of the Friends of Hall School Museum, was delivered in 2011 by Dr Malcolm Beazley -...
Chev 4 vintage cars on show - The centre hosted an influx of cherished and beautifully presented Chev 4 vehicles on Sunday 28th September. Most had arrived in Queanbeyan on trailers and then made the run from there to Hall, although one vehicle was driven all the way from...

National Trust walk around the village - We had a full compliment of walkers on Sunday 12th October for the second walk of the year. Tony Morris, Phil Robson & Rosemary Blemmings led the group, stopping off at the many heritage sites the village still has to offer, offering expert...