Forest Range & Lenswood Local History

16/06/2026

We have a large number of "event" photos. Do you remember Deb Balls? Were you ever in a deb ball - AND DO YOU HAVE PHOTOS? Play along with these two - can you identify anyone from these two deb ball photos, both very different photos?

09/06/2026

And a related second photo for the day. Can you place these buildings EXACTLY? Where do you think the photographer was standing?

09/06/2026

We have posted this image before but ... it is such a great photo we can't resist popping it up again for newer page followers. Do you know where it was and what family owned it first (pictured). Can't you just imagine being in this photo?

06/06/2026

Often families have stories written by family members of old. We recently shared one from the Mason family, Here is one from the wider Frost family. Although it doesn't talk about our district it does talk about life in a district close to us. We showed images of Mark and Fred Frost recently, lived Lobethal Road, Forest Range. Aunty Trix was a relative and the story is shared by Leanne, who has shared other Frost details. Enjoy your read about Aunty Trix's life. If anyone has relevant Frost photos for our district or any stories from ANY family please share with us.

03/06/2026

https://historylfr.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/membership/

Membership fees are due at 30 June each year. Our ordinary membership fee is just $30.   That fee will ensure your membership to 30 June next year.     Forest Ran…

01/06/2026

We send our congratulations to Dr Geoffrey Bishop who was awarded the History Council of SA Lifelong Historian 2026 award for decades of dedicated leadership, scholarship and volunteer service preserving South Australia’s community and institutional history. Geoffrey, being a descendant of our own John Brock Fry, has done a lot of work recording the history in our region and is always a great supporter of our history group. A well deserved award.

29/05/2026

As has been mentioned below Sarah and Sam Norton had 14 children. Who can find more? Click on the link below to go to our catalogue to read the list of children's names. Two of them were lost in World Wars.

Sarah Ann Norton (nee Stafford) [1874-1958] and Samuel Gascoyne Norton [1870-1948]. Sarah and Sam married on 20 February 1896 at Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide, South Australia. Sarah Ann Norton was born on 10 August 1874 and died age 83 on 8 January 1958. Sarah was the daughter of Caroline Stafford....

29/05/2026

We have a number of collections of photos from specific families which we have, for the most part, loaded to our catalogue. Have you seen your family? Have you given us your photos? Here is an example - this is the result of me simply searching the word EDWARDS on our catalogue. As I also get Edwards Hill Road that way I then limited that search result to the subject term EDWARDS to get just the family. Go into each record as it might contain more than the single photo you see on the list display.

28/05/2026

What large families some of our forebears had. Do you know how many children your gran or great-gran or great-great-gran had? Let us know - who can send in the largest number of kids born to parents in this district? Who can name all of the kids in that family?
Below is one local family to start with - can you name them and how many there were in that particular family. Where did they live?

28/05/2026

Have you thought about attending a history group meeting?
We try to keep our planning meetings short. These are mostly held each two months - see the next agenda here https://historymeetings.wordpress.com/ - click on this link to view our minutes and agenda.
This coming Thursday at 7.30 at the Forest Range hall meeting rooms we will be reviewing our ANZAC service. Feedback is welcome. We will also have a quick look at our tourist map which is in development.
We welcome everyone who wants give input/suggestions, wants to help and wants to learn. In particular we are looking for research help, data entry and anyone who can help with Facebook or webpage tasks.

The Forest Range and Lenswood History Group Inc.