Published on Tuesday, 24 June 2025 at 8:00:00 AM
Welcome to #TimeWarpTuesday and our celebration of the recent 2025 Local History Awards. Over the coming weeks we will take a look at the entries and the winners in each of the four categories of the Awards, but first a peek into the Presentation Night and the subsequent Exhibition.
Friday, 23 May, saw over 50 invited entrants and guests attend the presentation of the 2025 Local History Awards which was held at the Victoria Park Centre for the Arts at 12 Kent Street, East Victoria Park.
Fifty-five items were displayed in the Exhibition and included photographs, poems, original research and personal memoirs. The photographs exhibited were a mix of those entered in their own right in the Photographic Memories category of the Awards, and also of those included in the written entries of the Awards.
PH00341-18 Title Sign for the 2025 Local History Awards Exhibition
Town of Victoria Park Library Service.
PH00341-20 The venue for the 2025 Local History Awards Exhibition.
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
These Awards are held every two years and have been running since 1998. Over the years, the Local History Collection at the Victoria Park Library has received, through these Awards, many wonderful photographs, poems, anecdotes, stories and original research.
The Entries have covered many humorous, fascinating and intriguing aspects of our Town’s history and this year’s entries were no exception. Visitors to the exhibition were taken on a journey through school days, tales of treats, both sticky and sweet, and fishing adventures with bloodworms, crabs and other residents of the Swan River.
Those who saw the Exhibition were able to look through the eyes of a child migrating with her family to Australia as a ‘Ten Pound Pom’. Hilary, one of our entrant’s, recounts that as a young girl she and her brother were helping their Dad to build the family home in Planet Street, Carlisle, when as Hilary recounts in her Personal Memoir entry:
“…the plumbing, including the septic tank sinking was overseen by one Mick Lee who worked from a plumbing business at the corner of Mars and Oats St. My job [says Hilary,] was to dig sand out at the bottom of the hole, into the bucket, as the tank slid slowly down into the wet sand. Each bucket was hauled up by Mick, and other stronger bodies, till the job was deemed completed. Not bad, playing with the future Lord Mayor in the sand at aged about eight”.
Journeying through the Exhibition, viewers were taken to playgrounds filled with the cacophony of sound created by children playing and daring the giant metal slippery dips of old.
Viewers of the Exhibition were invited to drill with your fellow class mates, and practice heading for the air-raid trenches, but don’t dare eat your emergency barley sugar or piece of chocolate before the drill, as if your kits are not all present and accounted for upon inspection, it’s trouble you’ll be in!
Viewers were invited to attend weddings, take a swim in the Swan River, ride in the side car of a motorbike, and pose for your school photo with your classmates. Viewers explored a car yard, restored an old classic weatherboard house and rhymed along their way as they walked the ‘Hallowed Halls of Flatulence’ as discovered or perchance remembered the little-shared social history that is the experience of the quintessential outside ‘dunny’.
PH00341-22 Guests viewing the exhibits at the Presentation Night of the 2025 Local History Awards
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-17 View of the 2025 Local History Awards Exhibition – Main Gallery
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-21 View of the 2025 Local History Awards Exhibition – Front Room
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-13 View of the 2025 Local History Awards Exhibition – Main Gallery
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-10 Kate Reserve-A Hidden Gem – Madeleine Tingey’s Entry into the 2025 Local History Awards
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-01 Entrants and Guests at the Presentation Night of the 2025 Local History Awards
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-40 Guests viewing the exhibits at the Presentation Night of the 2025 Local History Awards
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-44 Entrants and guests enjoying refreshments at the Presentation Night of the 2025 Local History Awards
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-80 Deputy Mayor, Bronwen Ife officiating at the Presentation Night of the 2025 Local History Awards
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
The Awards were big success, and we would like to acknowledge by name all those who entered the 2025 Local History Awards and to say thank you to the following people for your time and talent, but most of all your very valuable gift in recording the history of our wonderful Victoria Park. Those who entered were then called by name and invited to come forward and accept a floral tribute:
- Renay Carey;
- Graham Carpenter;
- Helen Creed;
- Margaret Lievense (Margaret was unable to attend on the night and her flowers were accepted by her daughter, Carole Rutter;
- Norma Lyons (Norma was also unable to attend on the night, so her flowers were accepted by her daughter Margaret Hall);
- Sharon Mitchell;
- Glen Morgan;
- Pat Saunders;
- Leslie Stevens;
- Madeleine Tingey;
- and Hilary Williams
We also thanked our two wonderful judges, Kris Bizacca and Heather Campbell.
PH00341-52 Renae Carey accepting her floral tribute from Councillors at the Presentation Night of the 2025 Local History Awards
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-53 Graham Carpenter accepting his floral tribute from Councillors at the Presentation Night of the 2025 Local History Awards
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-54 Helen Creed accepting her floral tribute from Councillors at the Presentation Night of the 2025 Local History Awards
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-55 Carole Rutter accepting her mother, Margaret Lievense’s floral tribute from Councillors
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-56 Margaret Hall accepting her mother, Norma Lyon’s floral tribute from Councillors
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-57 Sharon Mitchell accepting her floral tribute from Councillors at the Presentation Night of the 2025 Local History Awards.
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-58 Glen Morgan accepting his floral tribute from Councillors at the Presentation Night of the 2025 Local History Awards
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-59 Leslie Stevens accepting his floral tribute from Councillors at the Presentation Night of the 2025 Local History Awards
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-60 Madeleine Tingey accepting her floral tribute from Councillors at the Presentation Night of the 2025 Local History Awards
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-62 Heather Campbell, one of the Judges of the 2025 Local Histy Awards, accepting her thank you gifts.
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
PH00341-100 Deputy Mayor Bronwen Ife in conversation with Savannah Mitchell at the 2025 Local History Awards Exhibition
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
Over the coming weeks we will share, and tell you more about, all the entries into the Awards. We hope you enjoy this celebration of Local History, and the work of those who have taken the time, talent and energy to submit entries into the 2025 Local History Awards and thus helped us record our stories for the benefit of all those to come. We can tell the stories, because you care and have shared with us in the first place.
#LoveVicPark
PH00341-87 Winners and family with Councillors in the Main Gallery of the 2025 Local History Awards Exhibition
Photographed by Derrin Kee, Town of Victoria Park Multimedia Officer.
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