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Melton City Libraries
Newspaper, 'Call for new members or society maybe be history, 2003
Mary Tolhurst M&DHS - March 29th Dunvegan Willows Park Melton 1992 Ladies Oral History Day Graham Minns President Ray Radford MC Sound recording transfer to CD 2011 by Tom Wood Edited typescript by Wendy Barrie 2013 I was born in Rockbank, and when I was five years old moved to Toolern Vale and started and finished school there. Toolern Vale only consisted of the Store, Post Office and shop, where you could buy your fodder, and pollard supplies, the Hall, the little Church and the bluestone School. The School changed shape three times from the 1800s[1869] til the time I went there. There was four generations of my family that went there and it was destroyed by fire in 1965. Marjorie nee Myers Butler. Yes, I remember along with it your lovely Ronisch piano. Mary, quite true! Marj what you say about the Ronisch piano. When I came the age to learn music my mum and dad couldn’t really afford it, but still what parents do for their children. They had Marj go along with them and pick this lovely Ronisch piano. It was known round the district. Everyone commented about the loss that lovely piano. After leaving school it was war time, 1939, then it was work, When I was 7 year old I was put out into the cow yard. In 1940 when the soldiers were going away our milk was confiscated it had to go to Bacchus Marsh. It used to go the Sunbury to be brine cooled and then go to Melbourne. Then they took it then to the Lifeguard Milk Factory at Bacchus Marsh. It had to go as condensed milk to the soldiers. This year is 50 years of the Land Army. I was an unofficial Land Army but they still kept check on me. I went onto married life and I followed the cows right through [howls of laughter] and we went on until the 1965 fire. That’s when we got out of the cows. Marjorie asks, was Granny Watts your grandmother or great grandmother? Mary: She was my great grandmother, the midwife of Melton. The 1965 fire started ¾ of a mile above our place, Frank Ryan’s sheds were burnt and his house was saved, then it wiped the School out, the Hall, the Church the Post Office and Store and little house that was Charlie Charlton’s in the early days. Mrs Wilson’s place was saved by the Fire Brigade by pulling boards off the side, and from there it went over the hill and it was stopped at the Rockbank Railway Station. If it had of got over the railway they said it would have gone into Werribee. A lot was burnt out in that strip. Mary nee Nixon Collins: 18 houses burnt that day. Audience question, did Melton get burnt that day? Ray: No. It came down through the Toolern Vale road and cut across about a mile and a half from the cross roads at Toolern Vale from north westerly to the south east and cut through over the Keilor road. Mary: It came in across the creek at Funstons in Toolern, then through Jim Minns. Dorothy was it your place then [nee Knox Beaty] to Ken Beatty’s and from there it went through to Doug McIntosh’s and to Cockbills and the wind changed and it came across to the railway line, and that is where they stopped it. [the cause of the fire was controversial, they had been burning off the night before and there was some talk of someone starting it. It was very hot and very strong wind, it was a terrible day] Ray: When the fire went through McIntosh’s they had a haystack on the north side of their house and the haystack got caught and the fire burnt a hole through the side of the house and the boys pyjamas on the bed. The house was saved. It came through like and express train roaring at you, I was at McIntosh’s when it went roaring past. You couldn’t see, dust and ash and tremendous heat. The fire started about 12 o’clock Jack [husband] said to me, fire, I said where, where? Just up the road, what have I got to do? and he went out and he had gone to the fire and left me. I tried to get the animals and I put out buckets of water, putting the buckets of water out saved my life. Chas Jones and another friend of his came in and they picked up the buckets of water, I thought I had better get out because the fire was on the haystack up the paddock and when I went to go out through the north side of the house and couldn’t get out, I’ll go through the front gate so I went around the other side of the house. I got caught there and Chassy Jones and his friend came round carrying the bucket of water and I panicked. He threw the bucket of water over me. Well that is what saved my life because I was damp, whenever we tried to leave the ball of fire came over me and over my shoulder and my hair was scorched. Chassy Jones lost his truck and Keith Watt his big truck because he had the water tank on it and they couldn’t get out of the yard. Granny Watt’s house, the first private hospital had condemned and Jack and I pulled it down and had it moved up to Toolern and had it in the yard a fortnight and it was all burnt and we didn’t get the shed we wanted. Every 13 years right up until Ash Wednesday fires, there has always been fire close at hand. The 1952 fire went down the back of the house, the 1965 fire took the house, and the house that I live in now, it is the third house that has been on that spot. When the Hunters owned it, Mrs Hunter was nearly burnt in her bed. They had a 13 roomed house. In 1924 the house burnt down, and there was another house was built there and that was the one that burnt down. Edna: So Mary built a brick veneer house. Marjorie: like the three little pigs [laughter] Mary Tolhurst member of the Melton & District Historical Society in the Melton and Moorabool Leader local identities, local special interest groups -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Pamphlet - Real estate sale, T M Burke, "New Suburban line - Darling to Glen Waverley", July 1926
Pamphlet advising potential land purchasers of the recommendation to extend the railway line from Darling to Glen Waverley, extracted from The Age 26/6/1926. Advises that the land and losses would be paid for by the residents through their rates. Gives costs of the proposed new line. Has a plan showing the estates for sale along the line, the Ashburton line (later extended to Alamein) and Burwood Road. Published by T M Burke Pty Ltd. Demonstrates the style of land sale pamphlet including the proposed availability of train services to prospective purchasers.Pamphlet - single quarto sheet with map on rear - printed.sale of land, real estate, railways, glen waverley, suburban railways -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. LIFE OF THE SELECTORS, c1888
Diggers & mining. Life Of The Selectors. Building appears to be a shed, there are 2 men and a bull at the shed. In the foreground is a woman with an apron on. Markings; Life Of The Selectors 1860-1890. Set 432 No.4. A Free Selector's Home - ''Victoria and its Metropolis,'' 1888. Vol. 1, p444. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centreeducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Slide, Robin Boyd, 1956-1957
Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Autumn foliage, USAMade in USA / Patentedmit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - NEWSPAPER COLLECTION: POOL POLITICS NOTHING NEW
Bendigo Advertiser, Saturday, November 25, 2017. Two pages article titled: pool politics, nothing new by Mark Kearney. On the controversy about the naming of the Kangaroo Flat's new pool.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, pool -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: TOP FIGURES
Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2001. Top figures: members of the school of business administration. Date unknown. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: BELLE OF THE BALL
Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from Tuesday, March 25, 2003. Belle of the ball: on July 11, 1946, these women took part in a debutante ball at the Inglewood town Hall. From left to right, they are: (back row) Jean Stagg, Phyllis Wodetzki, Theresa Daniel, Marie Bourke, Claire Wilson, Merle Ashworth, Betty Sanderson, Lily Smith, Mavis Johns. Front row: Jean Bradley, Dorothy Howard, Laura di Nuzzo (chaperone) the mayoress Mrs Rochester, Edna Wilson and Rita Mooney. Seated at the front are flower girls Joan and Val Scanlon. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Newspaper, The Age, "Australia Day strike cuts trams by 25pc", 25/01/1994 12:00:00 AM
Newspaper clipping from The Age,25/1/1994, titled, "Australia Day strike cuts trams by 25pc" about a strike by staff at two depots over Sunday rosters. Item written by John Mangan. PTC commented that it was a "pay grab" Quotes CEO of the PTC Ian Dobbs, Lou Di Gregoria of the Union. Gives a list of the proposed tram services cancelled.trams, tramways, unions, ptc, strike, wages, rosters -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper, Ringwood East CWA 40th birthday celebration in February 1989
Kindly scanned from Ringwood Branch archival collection -
Clunes Museum
Newspaper - MAGAZINE, THE LOCAL
MAGAZINE THE LOCAL. PAGE 4 AND 5 STORY ABOUT THE FILMING OF THE TV SERIES "BLOOM" IN FRASER STREET, CLUNES PUBLISHED ON SET. 10 2018the local, bloom -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: FLOOD
Bendigo Advertiser "the way we were" from 1999. Flood: a train crosses the flooded Campaspe river at Axedale in the 1930s.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Diamond Valley Railway, Eltham Lower Park, c.Nov. 2001
Part of a slide show presentation "A Trip Down the Diamond Creek" by Russell Yeoman to the Eltham District Historical Society meeting of 14 Nov. 200135mm colour positive transparency Mount - Black and Whiteeltham lower park, diamond valley railway -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: WORKING BEES
Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2001. Working bees: the staff of the Beehive, circa 1935. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DUDLEY HOUSE COLLECTION: DIGITAL IMAGES, 1974-2013
Four digital images of newspaper articles about Dudley House. a. Bendigo Advertiser 4.8.1974 Announcement that the Bendigo Branch of the RHSV is to occupy Dudley House. b. Bendigo Advertiser 9.9.2003. Article ''Our Institution's includes information on Dudley House. c. Bendigo Advertiser 17.2.2006. Article about Richard Larritt - first surveyor written by Jim Evans. d. Bendigo Advertiser 7.11.2013. ''History Lives''. ""Notices Shed New Light" - exploring the origins of the name "Dudley House'' written by Jim Evans.slide, bendigo, bendigo advertiser images -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper - Newspaper Clipping, Paul Gurry, Living life to the fullest, by Fr. Paul Gurry, 08/04/1992
An Easter message from Father Paul Gurry, of St Bernadette's Church, West IvanhoeArticle, text with photographpaul gurry, easter observances -
Park Orchards Community House
Newspaper, Bonsai classes at the Park Orchards Community House, with leacturer Ken Sargeant. Doncaster and Templestowe News 24 September 1985
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Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Courier Ballarat, "Tram carries Ballarat message to City Circle", 24/02/1996 12:00:00 AM
Article from the front page of The Courier, Saturday 24/2//1996 written by Ian Haberfield with photo by Herman Ruyg of BTM W4 671 leaving the depot loaded on a truck the previous day end route to Melbourne to run on the city Circle tram route. Tram has "City Circle" showing in destination box. Notes comments by Peter Hiscock about the tram itself, the BTM works, and that Alan Brown, Public Transport Minister has granted permission for the tram to run on the City Circle.trams, tramways, btm, city circle, ballarat city tramway, ballarat revival -
Bendigo Military Museum
Newspaper - NEWSPAPER 1944, Guinea Gold, 26th February 1944
Newspaper with general information of the Second World War including stories of various campaigns and political articles. There is a racing guide for the Flemington races.Yellowing newspaper, four pages, small photo on front page"Special New Britain Edition" "Guinea Gold" "Vol.2. No. 100 In The Field, Saturday, Febuary 26, 1944" "NOT FOR SALE"newspaper, headlines, photo -
Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute (BMI Ballarat)
Slide - Photograph by Herb Richmond, Ballarat Listers, ca??
This photograph is from the Herb Richmond collection held in the Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute Audio Visual Collection. Please contact BMI for all print and usage inquiries.Plastic mount 35mm slide, brand of film unknownballarat, ballaarat, listers -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide, Finnigan Street, Research, May 1983
One of a series of images of roads and infrastructure taken by Eltham Shire Council Planning and Engineering officers, May 1983 specifically looking at road conditions and drainage in Research (Vic.) around Thompson Crescent.35 mm colour positive transparency (1 of 11) Mount - Kodak Kodachrome Cardroads, infrastructure, research (vic.), finnigan street, morelle street -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - ALLAN BUDGE COLLECTION: SLIDE BANCROFT STREET, 1988
Slide, ALLAN BUDGE COLLECTION, Polychome Brickwork, Bancroft Street. Light and shade and polychrome.house, public, allan budge collection, allan budge collection -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Age, "Reimagining the Australian dream may be a gold mine for growing city", 10-10-2023
One of a series of articles from The Age at the time about Albury-Wodonga, Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong - the four largest regional cities. Both the Ballarat and Bendigo items featured images of the historical trams. Item looks at Ballarat, housing, employment and its future development including the possibility of a light rail system. Quotes John Hearsch of the Rail Futures Institute and Des Hudson, Ballarat Mayor. Looks at the issue of a cycle lane in Sturt St.Yields information about the possibilities of future development directions for Ballarat.Newspaper cutting from The Age 10-10-2023ballarat, the age, light rail, development -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: LITTLE CHAMPIONS
Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2003. Little champions: the Violet Street state school football team, circa 1963. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, Ballarat Tramway Museum (BTM), Use Electricity sparingly, Oct.. 1995
Demonstrates the work done by the BTM/BTPS to celebrate the 50 years since the end of the Second World War and the documents prepared for the CHHA Exhibition in 1995.Six items illustrating operations of tramways in Ballarat during WWII, used in "Ballarat Trammies at War Exhibition" - Oct. to Dec. 1995. 254.1 - Part copy of page of Ballarat Courier with SEC ad to save electricity and War bonds - photocopied, laminated with 4 Velcro dots on rear. 254.2 - part copy of page of Ballarat Courier 2/7/1942 - re growth of tram traffic - as above. 254.3 - part copy of page of Ballarat Courier 14/2/1042 - re trams are black out - as above. 254.4 - retyped item of .2 on plastic film with orange paper glued to rear, used for pointer to .2 item with two Velcro dots. 254.5 - Note re item to be sent to overseas used in .3, as for .4, but on yellow paper. 254.6 - retyped item of .3 as for .4, but green paper. Images added 19/10/2013.trams, tramways, secv, ballarat tramways, world war ii -
Peterborough History Group
Newspaper, London Bridge Falls Down, 16th January 1990
The collapse of one arch of the London Bridge rock formation on January 15th 1990 was a significant event for Peterborough residents.London Bridge is a major local tourist attraction. Prior to the collapse tourists could walk across the arches onto the rock platform and it was a regular fishing spot. The collapse of the arch was a significant event for the town. The site is still an important tourist stop. The rockfall occurred after two recent events - a helicopter hit the arch and crashed, no one injured; and the earthquake in Newcastle NSW.Two full page articles about the rock formation London Bridge falling down, and the people who were stranded on the rock platformlondon bridge, london bridge rock formation, rock collapse, great ocean road, peterborough -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Sign, "Glen Huntly tram depot - 100 years", 26-8-2023
Produced for the Glen Huntly tram depot celebrations of 100 years of operation - 26-8-2023.Demonstrates an item made to celebrate 100 years of Glen Huntly tram depot.Digital image of the Welcome sign used at Glen Huntly tram depot.badges, tramways, depots, glen huntly, 100 years -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper, Scrapbook Clipping, Library Collection, Ringwood, Victoria, `
``Newspaper clipping from "The Post" 18-5-94 P9 Ringwood Mayor's Column. Cr Margaret Cheevers.Cr. Cheevers hosted a "thank you" function for many volunteers . The Ringwood Blues football team, a team of intellectually disabled people had a member, Damien Kilner, represent Victoria in a state match in Adelaide. A member of the Ringwood Professional Athletic Club, Rodney Lewis, won the 1994 Stawell Gift. Cr Cheevers also thanked many more Ringwood volunteers in all different areas.` -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Pamphlet, Morack Public Golf Course, c1985
Pamphlet describing the Morack Public Golf Course in Vermont South.Pamphlet describing the Morack Public Golf Course in Vermont South. Its history is outlined and its proposed development. Course maintenance and watering systems are described. The verso is a detailed plan of the course.Pamphlet describing the Morack Public Golf Course in Vermont South. morack golf course, dandenong valley metropolitan park -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - No 48 Bramble Street Bendigo
No 48 Bramble Street Bendigohistory, bendigo, national trust collection bendigo, 48 bramble street bendigo -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Newspaper, The Age, "Out on the track and she looks a winner", 27/08/1973 12:00:00 AM
Newspaper clipping, from The Age 27/8/1973, titled "Out on the track and she looks a winner" reporting of the launch of PCC car 104 (East Preston Route 89). Alongside is W7 1029 (City Route 96). Story by Richard Goodwin, photo by John Lamb of the tram Has comments from officials and passengers - Ken Hall MMTB, Mr Meagher (Minister for Transport), Jack Stranger (AETA) and Conductor Sam Armstrongtrams, tramways, pcc class, new trams, bourke st, launch, route 88, tram 1041, tram 1029