Old Hartwell: The Life and Times of the Village That Lost Its Name by Volkhard Wehner

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, with all corners now protected with book tape. Marks on foredges.

In Boroondara, Melbourne, in the 1860s, two villages existed side by side: Camberwell and Hartwell, each with 150 denizens. But over time, Camberwell swallowed Hartwell, and today the latter is merely a neighbourhood.

Old Hartwell was the kind of place that many travellers passed by and barely noticed, but Volkhard Wehner, in his painstaking research, has reconstructed its daily life as the patchwork of paddocks was slowly subdivided into building blocks.

Hartwell's name lives on in buildings and groups such as the Hartwell Players -- Melbourne's oldest amateur theatre group -- and even the Hartwell Motorcycle Club, one of the state's oldest and largest. These tidbits and more can be found in this book.

Foreword by Geoffrey Blainey with original drawings by Brian Cleveland.