Irvine Green

Irvine Green was a co-founder of the Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society in 1967 and held many positions within the Society until his death in 1997. In addition to President and photographer, he edited and printed that newsletter for many years. He was also Secretary for some time, Chairman of the Schramm's Cottage Preservation Committee and a member of the Heritage Committee and actively involved in so many areas of the Society's endeavours.

Irvine Green's portrait hangs on the wall of the schoolroom in Schramm's Cottage. Here are some other photos of him in some of his DTHS roles and a photo of the plaque at the entrance to the Irvine Green Memorial Garden established in the grounds of the Schramm's Cottage Complex in 2001.

Irvine died in 1997 aged 84 years (see  Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust )

Girl Guide presenting the key to Schramm's Cottage to the Chairman of the Schramm's Cottage Preservation Committee, Irvine Green, at the official opening of Schramm's Cottage. 1976 DTHS dp0558



Irvine Green on the left with the printing press used for printing our early newsletters. 1987. Private collection.

DTHS Heritage Committee. L-R: Irvine Green, Judith Leaney, Ken Smith, ? and Eric Collyer. Undated. Private collection

Photograph of the plaque at the entrance of the Irvine Green Memorial Garden. The garden was dedicated on the 28th April 2001 to the memory of Irvine Green by the Mayor of the City of Manningham, Cr. Eisenbeise.  2001 Photographer: Valerie McLaine. DTHS  dp0789a


Kay Mack writing on DTHS Facebook page May 10 2017

Irvine Green, DTHS President

One important task in the recording of history is the collection of photographs. Our Society is most fortunate to have the help of an expert in this regard, in the person of its President, Irvine Green, A.I.A.P.

During the past three years, he has been busy photographing buildings and points of interest in the district, as well as making copies of old photographs, with the result that his collection now numbers several hundred. He prepared seventy slides for his talk on Doncaster Road , and a further hundred for the talk "Pioneer Women", given by his wife, Mrs. Muriel Green. He is now engaged in completing file prints for the Society.

Irvine is a professional photographer in Collins Street, Melbourne, and was earlier a member of the Melbourne Camera Club. He was once Secretary of the Commercial Group of the Institute of Victorian Photographers and has, among many awards, an Empire Medal awarded for photographs in a London Exhibition. He is at present a member of the Photographic Group of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), and has just completed photographs of the Exhibition and Treasury Buildings for the Trust's next publication - Historic Public Buildings of Australia.

1970 04 DTHS Newsletter

Publications by Irvine Green in the National Library:

  • Schramms cottage complex : including Schramms cottage, Fingers Barn, the Orchard Museum, Waldau Cemetery, the Box Hill - Doncaster Tram, the Gazebo from Templestowe Cemetery,... by Green, Irvine 1993
  • The orchards of Doncaster Templestowe / by Irvine Green by Green, Irvine 1985
  • History of the Doncaster Rotary Club / by Irvine Green by Green, Irvine : Rotary Club of Doncaster, 1993
  • Petticoats in the orchard / Irvine Green by Green, Irvine 1987
  • Aborigines of Bulleen : the history of the Aborigines of the Wurundjeri tribe who inhabited the area which became the city of Doncaster and Templestowe / Irvine Green by Green, Irvine 1989
  • Early days : a geographical history of Doncaster - Templestowe / by Irvine Green by Green, Irvine 1980
  • Templestowe : the story of Templestowe and Bulleen / written and illustrated by Irvine Green by Green, Irvine 1982
  • Park Orchards : a short history / by Irvine Green and Beatty Beavis by Green, Irvine 1983
  • Victorian splendour : Australian interior decorations, 1837-1901 / Suzanne Forge ; photographs by Irvine Green by Forge, Suzanne. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1981
  • Doncaster : a short history / by Eric Collyer ; designed and illustrated by Irvine Green by Collyer, Eric c1994
  • Waldau cemetery register / compiled by Eric Collyer and Irvine Green by Collyer, Eric c1988
  • Doncaster : a short history / by Eric Collyer and Ken Smith ; illustrated by Irvine Green by Collyer, Eric 1981
  • Tails up [Melbourne] : Comment Publications, [ca. 1943]
  • The Tower and tram at Doncaster 1980
Source: National Library of Australia

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