Local History Collection

Building Registers

The Building Registers contain summary details of applications to erect or alter buildings within the municipa…

Municipal or Local Government electoral rolls list rate paying residents of a municipal district. These are of…

The Ephemera Files contain invitations, programs, promotional materials, newspaper clippings and correspondenc…

Discover a collection of local newspapers on microfilm, dating back to 1858.

The Lost Soldiers of South Melbourne lists World War 1 soldiers who didn’t return home.

Comprising contemporary and historic art, heritage furniture, photographs, maps and plans, monuments, public a…

The Heritage Review is the main heritage reference document for Council. The Heritage Review provides a munici…

A valuable resource for local and family history research, rate books list all the rateable properties in the…

Was your South Melbourne house built before 1900? If so, it may have originally had a different number.

This correspondence contains some of our earliest letters and documents, from 1857 to the early 20th century.

See the original plans of St Kilda surveyed and compiled by J.E.S. Vardy in 1873.