Red Hill Community Market History
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A Market for Red Hill
by Dick & Sue Thompson We heard about the proposed market for Red Hill and thought that it sounded like a really good idea so we had a head scratching session about what we might sell. The upshot was that Dick built some wooden flower boxes which Sue planted out, some with flowers (petunias) and…
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To Market, To Market
by Pat Hawkins, Newspaper Article Red Hill’s market celebrates its 10th birthday next Saturday, October 5. From 8 a.m., cars are expected to be bumper-to-bumper on the roads leading to Red Hill Showgrounds as people try to get there before the best things have been sold. The market stays open until about midday. The market…
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The History of the Red Hill Community Market
RED HILL COMMUNITY MARKET sprung from ideas of a tudor style market to cater to the many and varied crafts people who had chosen Red Hill as their home. Also the orchards offered great produce and many people were looking for the “alternate lifestyle”on their few acres.growing plants vegetables sheep for their wool and many…
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A Customer Newsletter
4 August, 1995 Maybe the last time you visited Red Hill Market was in a baby stroller 20 years ago. Isn’t it time to visit again and see the market at a different level? The Red Hill Market is still as fresh as the early morning that it greets on the first Saturday of the…
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A Reflection
by Betty Heywood Make it Bake it Grow it Breed it are the rules all stallholders keep Their craft is made of wood or steel, cane, lace or wool Fine jewellery in copper or silver Paintings large and small in bark or oil Pottery, preserves, hats and scarves Pullovers and coats and nanny goats Boxes…
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First Year of the Red Hill Community Market
May 1976 With this market we conclude our first year of operation: before a winter recess. The Red Hill Community Market began last September in the Red Hill Hall, with perhaps romantic notions of a small group gathering each month to trade and purchase locally produced goods. It was obvious from the first market that…
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A Song About the Red Hill Market
Sung to the tune of Wild Colonial Boy (written by one of the stallholders’ mother) Come to Red Hill once a monthOur market sure is greatThe hub of the PeninsulaThe best in all the State. You’ll have to get there early,It’s hard to park your car.The Lions Club they pack you in,The cars from near…
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Stallholder Newsletter
7 August 1986, Red Hill Community Market We hope our second decade will be even better than the first ten years. We welcome new stallholders and hope Welcome to our eleventh season. that old hands will give them any help or advice they may require. Last season everyone, in true Red Hill Market fashion, took…
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Red Hill Community Market. 1975 – 2005
On the 30th birthday of the Red Hill Community Market we would like to acknowledge all of you who have supported our market concept. Many have contributed to its success in different areas. Stallholders, customers, people who have helped park cars and those who have maintained the ground. We appreciate that a successful market is…
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My Favourite Market
by Martin & Meredith Foster Meredith and I first heard about the Red Hill Market from the person who interviewed us at Aus House, London, in 1975, before we left the UK to settle on the Mornington Peninsula. Our first Red Hill Market was in February, 1977. I drove off down the Nepean Highway in…