Williams Family Collection. Probably filled out at Tarnagulla Post Office. Phillip Masters was a Tarnagulla carpenter and undertaker. A postal money order for funds (five pounds) sent from Phillip Masters to Cooke & Richards, Melbourne. tarnagulla

Black and white photographic copy of PMA photo of rebuilding of Station Pier 1927transport - shipping, piers and wharves - station pier

Two scrapbooks, thick red covers, 43 pages. Contains many photos, mostly labelled; of social events, factories, productsbuilt environment - industrial, industry - manufacturing, social activities, societies clubs unions and other organisations, sport - australian rules football, myttons ltd, rodd cutlery, grovenor cutler), allbrite cutlery, reginald h mytton, eric g redwood, colin mackay, l f harrison, l w (wal) johnson, dev mytton, russell flack - director of myttons, john donaldson - director of myttons, lance powell, horrie farrow, syd svensson, tom fahey, tommy lahiff, arthur steele, jean hopkins, dennis mackinlay, lorraine robertson, douglas robertson

Found in soil under floor of Excelsior Hall during excavations in 2003.Port Melbourne Excelsior Club's Hall Entertainment tickets. .01- Monday June 27, 1887. In aid of the Maskell & McNabb Memorial Fund .02 - Monday evening December 8, 1886 .03 - Monday evening December 5th .04 - 8 packets of torn tickets - various dates .05 - 5 Diggers F.C. highest and lowest tickets Small card tickets. Excelsior tickets yellow and white. Diggers F.C. blue/greenexcelsior hall, social activities, sport - australian rules football, arts and entertainment - dance and theatre, memorials, societies clubs unions and other organisations, frederick w maskell, james mcnabb, excelsior lads, excelsior club

Examples of 'art deco' buildings and motifs around Port Melbourne were drawn from David Thompson's existing collection and augmented by shots taken in August 1998.From series of 'deco' detailing and buildings taken by David Thompson for use in PMH&PS 1999 calendar, taken in August 1998: Ventilator cover - detail of ASTA building, Fishermen's BendDetails in pen on backarchitecture, built environment - industrial, david thompson, asta

Captain John Mason came from Stirling in Scotland, arriving at Port Fairy in 1844. One year after James Atkinson obtained his Special Survey of the area. Thus his life covers all the history of Port Fairy when it was known as Belfast. He married Jane Murray in Portland in 1846 and they had 5 children, Jane died in 1855 and ten years later he married Ann Brown widow of Abijah Brown. They had no children and she died in 1887. In due course he became known as Captain Mason, he was not a sea captain, but captain of the Belfast Volunteers, a Rifle Corps formed in 1859 as a consequence of the Crimean War, and later reconstituted as the Belfast Volunteer Corps. For 40 years he displayed a remarkable versatility in his various occupations. Starting as an Innkeeper - he took over the Stag Inn from Captain Saunders in 1852, for 3 years. He then became a carpenter, stonemason, architect, estate agent honorary technical advisor to the Borough and treasurer to the Shire, and Savings Bank Secretary. They thought so well of John mason in Belfast that they elected him to the first Roads Board in 1853 and to the first Municipal Council in 1856. He was Chairman four times and with Councillors David Talbot and Joseph Whitehead designed the Council's Common Seal and the Motto "Commune Bonum".He was the first Mayor of the Borough in 1863 for a period of 7 weeks. He was responsible for the design, supervision or construction of many of the buildings in the town; most still standing today. He built the Rosebrook Bridge in 1855 and the first official Post Office ( a timber structure in Bank Street) in 1857, replacing it with a stone office in 1865. he built the Court house in 1859 and completed the breakwater between Rabbit Island and Griffith Island started by James Atkinson and John Griffith in 1849, also the first bridge over the Moyne river which connected with Battery Lane and the Bay. Among the many buildings associated with John Mason are Gobles Mill, Tynemouth Villa, 10-12 Princes Street, the Mechanics Institute, the Commercial Hotel, Yambuk and Mickey Bourke's Pub in Koroit. However, he did not build "Riverdale" in Gipps Street as is thought. He had a store and workshop on this site but sold the property in 1872 before the house was built. After an almost uninterrupted term as Councillor starting with the Municipality in 1856, John resigned from the Council in 1873. He well deserved the illuminated address they gave to him and the toast that they drank in the Bank Hotel champagne. Within the year he was working for the Borough as its engineer., surveyor, general supervisor and advisor of public works, simply as the man to whom all difficult problems were referred and at very little expense. John Mason was a great worker for his town and devoted himself unsparingly to the community. That his work was appreciated was shown by the way in which people rallied to his aid when, in the end, he found himself in financial difficulties and his reputation was challenge; arrested for embezzling from the Savings Bank of which he was the actuary in 1882. The money was repaid and the charges found not proven at his trial. He was an early member of the Loyal Prince Albert Lodge, and a founding member of the smaller Loyal Belfast Lodge in 1863. He was also a member of the Horticultural Society. Captain John Mason Died on the 14th of October 1891 (see also 62-04-046 photo)Sepia photograph on heavy carddefence, captain, mason, carpenter, councillor, mayor

Mitchell Sisters – Joan (McIntyre) at her wedding with sister Patricia (West)stawell

View towards Lily Ponds.Labelled, "View from gate."lily ponds, mrs. jessep, alexander william jessep, principal, a.w. jessep

Series 1: March-April 1942Path to Stables. Genista aetnensis.path, stables, flowers, james leslie provan, j.l. provan