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Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Digital photograph, Dorothy Wickham, Winter's Swamp, Ballarat, January to April 2014
Study of Winter's Swamp commissioned by BEN and completed by BHS. The swamp was named after one of the first European settlers in the district. Winter Swamp LAT -37 32 LONG 143 47, Parish of Dowling Forest, County of Grenville Winter Swamp, on the southwest corner of Ballarat West Town Common, was not included in the original proclamation of the Common in 1861. However, being marshland, it was not considered suitable for grazing, so was added to the Common soon after 1861. Winter Swamp is a large wetland with native and exotic pasture significant for wildlife. John Winter (Jock) was born in Berwickshire, Scotland. He married Janet Margaret Irving the daughter of Robert Irving, advocate, Bonshaw, Dumfries, Scotland. Winter died in Ballarat in 1875 and was buried at the Ballaarat Old Cemetery. He took up the run Bonshaw from 1841; Leigh River Buninyong 1842-46; Junction, Delatite, March 1851 to September 1862; with sons: Carag Carag and Corop, April 1857 to September 1872; Colbinabbin and Stewart’s Plains, April 1857 to December 1872; St Germains February 1867 to March 1871. (The name became Winter-Irving in 1890). Mr John Winter, who died on August 22 at the age of 72, was a man of some note it the mining community of Ballarat. He was a self-made man, and one of our oldest colonists, it being over a quarter of a century age since he took up county about Ballarat and settled at Bonshaw. He died very rich. It is calculated that if he had retained an interest in all his runs, his income must have been not less than £10,000 or £50,000 a year. Some eight or ten years ago he sold his Bonshaw pre-emption to the Bonshaw Gold mining Company for £20,000, and a few years later the ground belonging now to Winter's Freehold Company brought him £50,000 more, the payment being made at the requisition of the deceased in sovereigns. In these relations Mr. Winter has been closely identified with the mining industry at Ballarat. The deceased was a native of Lauder, in Berwickshire, and landed in Victoria several years before the gold discovery.The principle task of this project was the delivery of a report outlining the history of European settlement in the Skipton and Cardigan/Ballarat districts as pertinent to the use of and impact on the natural environment of the two reserves Skipton Common and Winter Swamp. The report was delivered in digital form only. The report, upon completion, was presented to the Network’s Committee in order to discuss the project. The report identified and described the uses of Skipton Common and Winter Swamp, and their impacts. In particular, this report examined farming/grazing (official and informal), mining, vegetation removal (including the removal of woodlands for timber, grasslands for pasture improvement) & use of riparian areas for access to water and timber removal. Recording the more benign and environmentally friendly uses such as picnicking, community activities, nature walks and the roles of organisations such as Field Naturalists’ and Bird Observers’ clubs, school and scout/guide groups will be relevant in helping to depict overall community attitudes towards the reserves; e.g.: has the Common generally been viewed as little more than a grazing paddock and fire hazard; has Winter Swamp always been the unknown natural asset that seems to have been its lot for at least the past 40 years? In this regard, the more contemporary history of actions surrounding the use and management of the reserves is of particular interest, in view of the extant evidence at both reserves; e.g. the actions of the Shire of Ballarat in the 1980s in establishing Winter Swamp as something of a competitor to Lake Wendouree but with a more environmental bent (although almost none of the plants used are indigenous species, but that is part of the story); the trotting track constructed on Skipton Common in the 1960s following representations to Premier Henry Bolte and the cropping of the western section of the Common to raise funds for the town’s new swimming pool, the fertilizing of the land putting an end to the native grassland vegetation. There are obviously multiple sources of information to source in preparing the report, however sources that the contractor is specifically requested to consult are the Skipton Historical Society, the former Skipton Common managers (specifically Graeme Pett), the Cardigan Windermere Landcare Group and the Learmonth Historical Society (believed to hold many of the former Shire of Ballarat’s records pertaining to the Council’s role as the Committee of Management for both Winter Swamp and the Ballarat West Town Common – Winter Swamp was split between 2 separate Crown Land tenures). The contractor is also encouraged but not required to utilise community newsletters, such as the Skipton Community Newsletter, to publicise and seek information about the project. Skipton Historical Society (Mary Bradshaw) contacted on Thursday 12 June 2.30pm. Mary lived on a farm out of Skipton but is currently living in the township. She remembers walking along the creek of the Common especially in spring and autumn in bare feet and that it was a very pretty place. There were a few snakes around the waterway in summer. People put cows and a couple of horses on the commonage to graze. Graeme Pett has always lived close to the Common and would know a lot about it. Other possible contacts would be Nicole Petress, Secretary of the Progress Association, and the Corangamite Council, Camperdown. Digital images of Winter's Swampwinter's swamp, ballarat, john winter, ballarat environmental network, mullawullah -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Foyer of Nunawading Arts & Entertainment Centre, 1988
Coloured photo of Final Plans for Bicentennial Leadlight Mural for Nunawading Arts & Entertainment Centre.nunawading arts centre, bicentenary leadlight mural, arrowsmith, ted -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
legal record (item) - Register Receipts, Circa 1972
The receipts are dated from the 26th of August 1972 to the 1st of February 1975. They document some of the information needed on the actual marriage certificate, such as the date and location, bride, bridegroom and celebrant's names, as well as the date the each certificate was sent to registering authority.Part of the record of weddings performed at the Mission to Seafarers between 1972 to 1975.Printed on front cover: COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA / CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE. The Australian crest is printed above this.marriage, wedding, register, receipt, 1972-1975, mission-to-seafarers, port-melbourne, marriages, dio-marriages, st peter chapel, st andrew chapel -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph, Cr S Baird 1867-68,1868-69,1870-71
Councillor Samuel Baird’s residence was the property known as ‘Warrong Station” north of Kirkstall. During the last year of his presidency he played an important part in obtaining the severance of the Shire of Minhamite from the Belfast Shire. Councillor Baird was the first president of the Minhamite Shire.Black and white portrait president, portrait, government, shire, municipal, local-government, minhamite shire, shire of belfast -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Photograph - Image, The Argus
Girl Guide troop shown is probably one led by Florence Iggsten.Black and white photograph of a group of Girl Guides on an excursion next to a river. Some of them are in a boat.On back of photo: a rubber stamp saying "Please acknowledge 'The Argus', Melbourne Australia. Copyright Photograph. Negative No. E149 Reference No. ____"girl guides, camping -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, Lakes Post Newspaper, 7/06/1992 12:00:00 AM
Also a black and white photograph taken at the masked ball of Brad Kelly and Callvade number 04096.1 size 10 x 12 cmBlack and white photograph showing Jenny Toye and Genevieve Kelly at Art Network Masked Ballarts, exhibition -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Bristol Siddeley Repair Machine processes Vol 2
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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - BENDIGO ADVERTISER COLLECTION: BOXING
3 Black and white photographs, boxing, photograph of two boys in boxing clothes standing side by the side of an old man. Bendigo Advertiser description: nonerecreations, sports, boxing -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Legal record - Conditions of Sale (C.E.Carter), Ringwood , Lot 57 on Plan of Subdivision 8198, Mr E.R.Givers to Mr C.N.Wilson, 1940
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Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, McKittrick David
Blackwood Ward. City of Nunawading - Mayor 1992 to 1993Coloured photograph of David McKittrick. Wearing a dark suit with a burgundy tie with yellow dots. Grey hair and wearing glasses.mckittrick david, councillor nunawading & whitehorse, whitehorse council -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - Aerial Photograph, Federation University Lecture Theatre in Y Building, Mount Helen Campus, 09/07/2013
Colour photograph of Federation University Y Building LEcture Theatrebuildings, mount helen campus, lecture theatre, y building, mount helen -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Miss Sue Slater is is Miss Stawell at Agricultural Show 1967
Show Girl Miss Stawell Sue Slater. Stawell Agricultural Show 1967stawell -
Bialik College
Photograph (item) - Students, Carlton, 1945
Photograph of teachers and students at the Bialik Kindergarten, Drummond Street, Carlton, 1945. Photocopy includes some marked names of individuals. Please contact [email protected] to request access to this record.elc, 1940s -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Scouts at Jamboree 1955 - 1956
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Ballarat Tramway Museum
Plan, South Pacific Electric Railway, SPER Museum Area, 9/09/1960 12:00:00 AM
A blueprint of drawing 01 of the South Pacific Electric Railway showing 1960 proposal for the layout of the SPER Museum area, scale 1" = 32'. Drawing No. 01, Shows NSWGR railway. Scan added and entry updated 19-8-13trams, tramways, sper, loftus, museum plan -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell High School Form 2B -- Named 1967
Stawell High School - 1967stawell education -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - WEDDING GROUP OF FIVE, 1920's
Sepia photo of wedding group. Five adults. Three men, one seated and two standing. Men are wearing three piece suits, white shirts, butterfly collard and bowties, buttonholes and carrying gloves. Bride's bouquet has long trailing asparagus fern. Dress-length veil and headdress, spectacles. Other woman wears wide-brimmed hat. Flowers in vase on small table. Palms just visible left and right. Inscriptions: on cardboard - 'Croxton 831 High St Northcote Studio'.Croxton Studio, 831 High Street, Northcoteperson, group, wedding, see also 2001.323.01 -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway West, Ringwood- The last remaining naturally grown gum tree on the Maroondah Highway between Ringwood and the city, cut down 1959. before it was cut down from out the front of Bill Patterson Motors in 1959 - a yellow box tree 60 feet high and 75 years old
Black and white photograph (2 copies)Typed below one photograph: "The last remaining naturally grown gum tree on the Maroondah Highway between Ringwood and the city before it was cut down from out the front of Bill Patterson Motors in 1959. Was a yellow box tree 60 feet high and 75 years old." -
Beaufort Historical Society
Photograph, Neil St Beaufort c 1930
Neil St Beaufort Looking East from corner of Livingstone Street c 1930. Wotherspoons stores on left.Black & White Photograph of Neil St beaufort, historic beaufort streetscape -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Camp 1 German girls attending mothercraft classes, 1940
German girls attending mothercraft nursing classes in camp 3Black and white photograph of approx. 25 pupils and teachers. 3 girls right of photo have distinct gingham check dresses.camp 3, internees, mothercraft nursing classes -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - MYER
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Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1970c
Colour photograph showing tourist launch at jetty tall trees in foreground Fishermans Landing Lake Tyers Victoriaboats and boating, forest, waterways -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - WORKING BEE MIA MIA CAMP
DVD. Working Bee Mia Mia Camp 6. Burke and Wills 22.8.2010. Disc made by Ted Evans. Photos taken by Barbara E Evans, Eldelane Farm PO Box 116 Eaglehawk 3556, 54467736 Copyright waived. -
Bendigo Military Museum
Administrative record - LEAVE PASS WW2, 1942
Leave Pass A.A.F., A. 96, paper, black print, hand written in pencil."No 11102 Rank: GNR (Gunner) Eldon RA (A9) Unit: M7 TT9 Absent: 1630 2.10.42 - 0730 5.10.42 To: Bendigo Signature: MAJOR A F MACARTHUR (2.10.42)"documents - licences, military history, leave, passchendaele barracks trust -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (Item) - CSIRO Radiophysics Transistor DME Airborne Set
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Malmsbury Historical Society
Photograph (Item), "J H Slee & Sons Butcher, Malmsbury Van", Malmsbury
Associated with - J H Slee & Sons Buildings - Van House People - "Slee, Josiah Henry" -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph - Group, Ringwood Technical School 1988 Year 11.8, c 1988
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Kew Historical Society Inc
Plan - Camberwell Panorama Estate, 1923
Subdivision plans and real estate flyers/brochures reveal a number of aspects of urban development and history. The Kew Historical Society's collection of these plans, as well as advertisements extracted from magazines, cover key aspects of community development and architectural history of Kew and Kew Eat as well as surrounding suburbs. While most of the plans in the collection were gifted to the Society by the former City of Kew, a number of other plans and advertisements have been donated by individuals, of which this is an example.Promotional brochure for the Camberwell Panorama Estate. The four page bifold handout advertises 216 home sites bounded by Bulleen Road, The Nook, Fortuna Avenue, and Doncaster Road. Other streets in the subdivision include: Sunburst Avenue, The Moor, and Macedon Avenue. The brochure has been damaged at some time in the past and so masking tape obscures the tram on page 1. Page 2 includes the plan of the subdivision, page 3 information about the site and a locality plan, while page 4 includes photographs and terms of sale. subdivision plans -- balwyn north (vic.), camberwell panorama estate -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Olympic Torch Relay Stawell - Halls Gap
Olympic Torch relay in Stawell AreaPhoto Album red cover with black spine, Photgraph of lighting the cauldron in stawell for the 2000 Olympic torch relay 10 - Colour Photographs of various people carrying Olympic Torch in the Torch relay. 7041 Male Standing on road with Olympic Torch. People in Background 7041-1 Male Running with Olypic Torch, accompanied by a girl in blue, followed by a red car with a light bar and campervan. 7041-2 Two males lighting a torch from another, both dressed in white with blue patten on one side and two blue stripes on shorts. Policeman on motorcycle to leftwith red car and campervan in background. 7041-3 Two People running carryong a torch with a policeman on motorcycle beside them, followed by a car and a campervan. 7041-4 Two men light a torch, with two girls one on each side. With red car and campervan in background ( Different angle to 7041-2) 7041--5 Man holding The Olympic torch dressed in torch bearers uniform, standing on road People and vehicle in backkground 7041-6 Stella Young carrrying the Olympic torch 7041-7 Stella Young carrying the Olympic torch for her streach of the relay. 7041-8 Lighting the cauldron at entral Park Stawell 7041-9 International flags awaiting the torch at Halls Gap 7041-10 Aboriginal dance in front of Olympic torch with watching crowd.On Spine Olympic Torch Relay Stawell Halls Gap 2000 Photo Album 9 on a blue sticker on a white sticker 9A -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Photograph
Denis Gibbons (1937 – 2011) Trained with the Australian Army, before travelling to Vietnam in January 1966, Denis stayed with the 1st Australian Task Force in Nui Dat working as a photographer. For almost five years Gibbons toured with nine Australian infantry battalions, posting compelling war images from within many combat zones before being flown out in late November 1970 after sustaining injuries. The images held within the National Vietnam Veterans Museum make up the Gibbons Collection.A black and white photograph of a Gunner at the 1st Australian Task Force Base, Nui Dat, Phuoc Tuy Province, throws a 105mm shell casing, returned from Fire Support Base Discovery into its correct pile. The casings were then packed into their relevant types and returned to Australia. (Circa November 1969)photograph, 1st atf base, nui dat, phuoc tuy province, 105mm cartridge, fire support base discovery, gunner, gibbons collection catalogue, photographer, vietnam war, denis gibbons