Balnarring & District Historical Society

Preserving Balnarring & District local history

Our collection covers Balnarring, Balnarring Beach, Bittern, Merricks, Merricks Beach and Merricks North and Somers.

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We shares stories and memories of our district through our quarterly newsletter Snippets and bi-monthly contributions to The Bridge.

February / March 2026 – The Bridge – The Cave
February 2026 – Snippets
October / November 2025 – The Bridge – The Cave
November 2025 – Snippets
August / September 2025 – The Bridge – The New Road
June / July 2025 – The Bridge – Who? When? Where? Vern Stone

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Our collection is extensive, we have 3,000 digitised photographs and a library of about 200 books, journals, indexed articles, maps and a number of objects which relate to the history of our region.

MERRICKS – Haymaking on the Joyner farm. c.1912
BALNARRING – The Smithy c. 1930
BALNARRING BEACH – General Store and Café c. 1945
SOMERS – Swing bridge nd

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Publications

We research and publish books and articles on our local history, which can be purchased from our office at Balnarring Hall.

All Our Somers
Bert the Blacksmith
Balnarring Byways and Memories
Bright Eyed and Bushy Tailed
What life was like at Coolart – for young readers
War Time Letters of the Myers Family

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Preserving Balnarring & District local history

Collections research

Featured images from the collection

Publications

If you are interested in membership or have a research question, contact us or drop in to the History Room at Balnarring Hall.