Alice Blanch Chehovski was born in Queensland to a Russian mother and Polish father. When her father died leaving three small children to bring up on her own, her Mother took them back to Russia to visit her own parents. In the following fateful year, Stalin came into power and the family was trapped by Russia closing its borders. At the age of twenty three, 1944, Alice entered Moscow's Institute of Decorative Arts and Applied Arts to study ceramics. Neither the subject of ceramics nor the academic drawing in fine pencil inspired her. At that time Moscow was surrounded by German troops, Russian culture was inhibited by the war and generally speaking it was not the time for arts. Alice said 'My soul and my hands were needed as a volunteer, to help the wounded soldiers survive'. Alice struggled through a lifetime of hardship and triumph before returning to her native land of Australia in 1981 at the age of 60. This lithographic print is one of a set of ten produced at Dunmoochin.Lithographic print in black and white depicting Gate # 1 at Dunmoochin. Bottom left of print: ed. no. '4/10' and work title. Bottom right of print: artist signature 'Alice Blanch '04'chehovski, dunmoochin, pugh, gate 1, lithograph

Colour Photograph showing the entrance to the Grampians Gate Caravan Park

Colour Photograph . Close up of the Entrance of the Grampians Gate Caravan Park

cast iron, hand tooled, with movement up and down. Originally had a strike plate. Possibly from the Athenaeum front gate when the Athenaeum was fenced. A 1930's photograph shows a picket fence with a front gate.Handmade cast iron with markings of tooling.

Colour Photograph of the Playground at Grampians Gate Caravan Park, with 6 children and one adult.

Grampians Gate Caravan Park. New entrance gates 1970/1971stawell

In April 2002, illustrative panels were set in place at Kangaroo Ground War Memorial Park designed to inform visitors about significant aspects of the reserve and its tower. One of these deals with its indigenous story, another portrays its original 1920 memorial, a third has upon it Will Longstaff’s famous war painting, “Midnight at Menin Gate.” This sign establishes a connection with the First World War by way of the painting "Menin Gate at Midnight". (NL 144) The artist William Longstaff lived in Eltham; his son attended school at Kangaroo Ground. The orignal of his painting is on permanent display in the Australian War Memorial. Since this photograph was taken (date unknown) the information panel has been restored and re-erected by staff of the Shire of Nillumbik who replicated the wooden side frame pieces with the same wood-turn design as seen here in the original. Colour photographMENIN GATE AT MIDNIGHT Will Longstaff, 1927 Oil on canvas, Size 135cm high x 254cm wide Collection: Australian War Memorial The artist Will Longstaff was born in in Ballarat in 1879 and died at Littlehampton, Sussex, UK, 1953. Will Longstaff for many years lived in Eltham, his son Tommy, attending school at Kangaroo Ground. As an Official War Artist, will Longstaff depicted in his alegorical painting the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. The Memorial unveiled on 24th July 1927 honours by name over 50, 000 allied soldiers who fell in the Great War and have no known graves. The names of 6,208 men of the first Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) are listed within the Memorial on stone tablets. The painting held huge emotional appeal to Australians when it arrived from England in 1928, attracting an estimated one million viewers, many of whom interpreted the field of red poppies in the foreground as the spirits of the dead rising from their unknown graves. The painting is to be found in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.menin gate at midnight, william longstaff, kangaroo ground memorial, information panel, shire of eltham war memorial

T. Ready Gates erected by Roy Ready, son of T. Ready. The gates were removed in the late 1950s. After being missing for some years, the gates were located in the Council depot, refurbished by Ian Stones, and in 2017 were placed on display in the Museum.Black and White photo of Memorial Gates that were once the Murray Street entrance to the Rutherglen Park. The plaque on the gate dedicates them to the Pioneers of Rutherglen.On back of photo: "Entrance to Park, behind Rutherglen Hotel" On separate document: "This Plaque was attached to the Memorial Gates which were at the Murray St Entrance to the Rutherglen Park. The Gates were created in Memory of the Pioneers of the Rutherglen District. To Date it is not known when the Gates were erected buy they were removed in the early 1950s"rutherglen park, rutherglen memorial park, rutherglen pioneers, memorial gates

Murray Comrie Collection. Monochrome photograph depicting a gate post at the Church of England in Tarnagulla This photograph was probably taken in the late 1960s. tarnagulla, churches, church of england, religion, buildings

Photo showing gate inscribed "Returned Soldiers and Sailors Memorial" G.O.R. and car with a man near the toll house. g.o.r. toll house: toll gate: memorial arch 1929

Photographs of the toll gate tree sited in the front yard of 286 Grimshaw Street Greensborough. As road traffic increased, a Toll Gate was set up here to collect the cost of maintaining the roads. A history of the toll gates by Alan Partington may be found at Item 967.Digital copy of colour photographsgrimshaw street greensborough, greensborough toll gates

Black and White Photograph {1 original, 1 copy}Typed on back of one copy, "Heatherdale Road railway crossing, approx. 1924. Miss Condon, Gate-keeper".

Photograph showing Mrs Wright the toll keeper and two children outside the new toll gate at Shelly Beach 1929toll gate, tollgate keeper, mrs. wright 2 children

set of 9 pencil on paper student's technical drawings .1 - .2) Boom gate .3 - .9) Potters wheelmechanical engineering, technical drawing, peter ian kilpatrick

Historic BuildingsB/W Photo Arch and gate RSL Memorial Park, SW corner Warrenheip And Learmonth Streets in 1980'sbuninyong, warrenheip st, learmonth street, anzac park, memorial park, rsl

Australian Tour party at Menin Gate. The man in the red tie is Senator Michael Ronaldson, the woman in the striped shirt is Ann Gervasoni.menin gate, world war one, michael ronaldson, ann gervasoni

Ballarat History35mm B&W Kodak Panatomic X Filmballarat, ballaraat, cast-iron, gate, errard st sth

Wooden gate on Home Walker Street (Henderson)stawell

Grampians Gate Caravan Park Playground c1940stawell halls gap

Grampians Gate Caravan Park with caravans 1940'sstawell halls gap

Grampians Gate Caravan Park showing four cabinsstawell

Grampians Gate Caravan Park. Park entrance c1960stawell

Grampians Gate Caravan Park 1977 Facilities were improvedstawell

Grampians Gate Caravan Park Opening of Wadsworth Cabin March 1976On Reverse At the Caravan Park R.N. Wadsworth Cabin 4 L to R M Robson - Prog Assoc K. Hallam - Mayor Mrs Wadsworth - Donor W. Holmes - Prog Assoc 1976?stawell

Grampians Gate Caravan Park. Entrance c1966/1970 - 1970/75stawell

Grampians Gate Caravan Park. Park entrance with toilet block c1960stawell