A Murrumbeena Scrapbook

Cover of 'A Murrumbeena Scrapbook' by Colin Smith, featuring a historic photograph of Murrumbeena's main street with early 20th-century shopfronts.

Published in 2025, this is a 294-page soft cover and thread-bound book, printed by Inscope Books in Sydney. It has approximately 200 photographs and other images of Murrumbeena’s past, many which have not been published before.

A Murrumbeena Scrapbook is set out in chapters which include Murrumbeena Village, Murrumbeena Railway Station and Taxi Service, The Outer Circle Railway and Murrumbeena Creek, David Livingstone Muntz (an early photographer of Murrumbeena), Murrumbeena Market Gardens, Murrumbeena Woodyard, Murrumbeena Newsagency, the Omama and Springthorpe estates, Murrumbeena Hall, and The Boyds. Included in each chapter is a discussion of these aspects of Murrumbeena and the recollections of former Murrumbeena residents.

The book is for sale for $30.00 and is available through the author and in-store in Murrumbeena from 'The Little Village Grocer' at 463 Neerim Road, and in Carnegie from 'Cards of Wonder' at 137 Koornang Road. It's also available at Beaumaris Books at 24 S. Concourse, Beaumaris.