MELBOURNE HISTORICAL RESEARCH GROUP

In the 1750s, the Robinson family were growing quicksetts (hawthorn) and the overlap between Nurserymen and Market Gardeners persisted into the 19th century. The Group's investigations cover:

The early Industry and its peak in the 1850s; The families involved, their home and working life. How did they help to shape the character of Melbourne? Who were Snockles, Spratty, Winkie, Necky, Nocky, Nutty, Tippy, Clutch and Bingy? The Market Gardening Landscape; New Inventions; Packaging, Transport and the Market; Market Gardeners, Politics and Religion; The decline of the Industry in the 1960s and '70s.