Joseph Greathead's Journal of the Collingwood Flat District

Carolyn also gave me a link to a Manuscript: City of Melbourne Missionary Society: Joseph Greathead's Journal of the Collingwood Flat District - Pages 57-63

A public meeting was called in Melbourne in August 1854 to establish a City Mission to bring spiritual enlightenment to the ‘sabbath breakers, the thoughtless, the profligate and the infidel’. Joseph Greathead was employed by the Mission to converse with every person or family in Melbourne concerning salvation, the consequences of sin and the necessity of repentence.

One of Joseph Greathead's duties was to maintain a daily journal of his visits. This journal, of 460 pages, covers the period October 1854 to June 1856, after which time the Mission was terminated through lack of funds. During these two years, Greathead witnessed and recorded the depressed social conditions experienced by Melbourne's working class poor

The manuscript follows in a similar vein as his diary of the trip aboard the ship Diana.