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Aspects of Life

In the Southern Region of Melbourne 1850 - 2000

This website features a range of still photographs, video, and text documents, as well as a regional bibliography that provides entries for over five hundred resources that were originally published on the SIN On Disc CD-ROM in 1998

 

It brings together many significant materials of a cultural, historical, recreational and environmental nature; these items being documentary evidence of the development, growth and character of the region

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Our History

 An invaluable research tool for anyone interested in the southern suburbs of Melbourne if you want to discover: 

  • how people in the southern suburbs of Melbourne used the beaches, how the beach environment changed;

  • how people (both famous and not so famous people) looked, the clothes they wore, and what they did for work; 

  • what were the buildings they inhabited, made decisions in, or shopped in; 

  •  what forms of transport they used and how that transport changed; 

  • what schools they went to and what some of their schools and their school work looked like; 

  • what people did with their time, such as the sports they played, their artists and writers;

  • and where to find more information about the region.

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