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Victoria Police Museum
Photograph (Victoria Police Group Exercise Photo), Police Officers group exercising on depot
... Handwritten: C 1925 Stamp: PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN // AT YOUR OWN... building on the back Handwritten: C 1925 Stamp: PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ...Black and white photograph mounted on light brown frame. Approximately 25 young police officers on physical training with Police Officer in uniform standing and watching. They are all in low squat position, holding sticks straight in front of them - wearing white shirt and dark trousers. Set on earth ground with a tree and big open brick building on the backHandwritten: C 1925 Stamp: PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN // AT YOUR OWN HOME // P. J. DWYER // Onr. Harding & Salisbury Sts. // COBURG // PHOTOGRAPHS COPIED // AND ENLARGEDpoulter, william, william arthur poulter, victoria police museum, dwyer, p. j., police officers, squats, police academy, police training -
St Patrick's Old Collegians Association (SPOCA)
Photograph - SPOCA, Presidents
... 1958-59 John C. Saunders (SPJC 1925-32)... melbourne SPOCA, Presidents Photograph 1958-59 John C. Saunders ... -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - PATRICIA COLES (NEE MCLEAN) COLLECTION: GOLDEN SQUARE COMMUNITY HALL FUNCTION C1925
... , date given as c.1925. Names given by the donor: Tom McLean... at a function/dance at the Golden Square Community Hall, date given as c ...Photograph. The Patricia Coles (nee McLean) collection. Copies of black and white photographs of her younger days, growing up in Golden Square, Bendigo. This photograph is of attendees at a function/dance at the Golden Square Community Hall, date given as c.1925. Names given by the donor: Tom McLean and Nellie McLean (hoteliers, United Kingdom Hotel, Golden Square), Alice Culhane (Nellie's sister) - all in centre front row.bendigo, entertainment, golden square community hall, mclean, thomas. mclean, nellie. culhane, alice. united kingdom hotel (golden square). -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Rose Family, 1920 - 1942
... ) Rose beside car c 1925. .02 - Hilda Annie Rose outside 168... beside car c 1925. .02 - Hilda Annie Rose outside 168 Ross ...Four sepia photographs copied from originals. .01 - Photograph of Roland Thomas Rose in car and son Frank William (Bill) Rose beside car c 1925. .02 - Hilda Annie Rose outside 168 Ross Street - R T Rose Licenced grocer c 1930 .03 - Brian Hanson (donor's uncle) and Bill Rose with unknown man outside wooden doors of 168 Ross Street c 1941 .04 Sadie Ford and Bill Rose c 1942 in backyard of 168 Ross Street (donor's father and great aunt)Names and dates on back of photosbuilt environment - commercial, business and traders - wine and spirits, roland thomas rose, frank william rose, bill rose, sadie ford, ross street, r t rose - licenced grocer, ballarat invalid stout, brian hansen -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - 1925 CHRISTIAN'S COMMERCIAL CALENDAR, 1925
... The Three C's, 1925 Christian's Commercial Calendar.with... Designed by Ace Ad Service, Sydney and Melbourne. The Three C's ...The Three C's, 1925 Christian's Commercial Calendar.with Compliments from A.Frigerio, Ironmonger and Wireworker,181 Mitchell Street, Bendigo. Guns, Ammunition and Fishing Tackle. In the centre is a 12 month calendar and surrounding it are 26 ''Alphabet'' Advertisements for different traders in Bendigo, A-Z. Designed by Ace Ad Service, Sydney and Melbourne. Copyright Reg. The Arcade Stores, H. Gittens, T Chamberlin, V. Broadway, William Dowel, Geo. Jalland, T.D.Cairns & Co., G.l.Bray, A. Frigerio, L.R.Hepworth, J.D.Kerr, Geo. Greaves, William Dowel, Paton's, B.T,Toy, H.Gittens, H.Greig, Warren's, Northern Seed Supply, W.Koska, P.Travenor, Frank Every, Warren's, Randall's, C.A.Waters, The Ace Ad Service. All of these traders had a small poem structured into their ad.Designed by Ace Ad Service, Sydney and Melbourne. -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Book, Australian Commonwealth Engineering Standards Association, "Electrical Performance of Traction Motors - Direct Current Series Wound", 1925
... Australian Standard C.2 - 1925, "Electrical Performance of Traction... Standard C.2 - 1925, "Electrical Performance of Traction Motors ...Book - 24 pages + grey covers, side stapled, issued by the Australian Commonwealth Engineering Standards Association, Tentative Australian Standard C.2 - 1925, "Electrical Performance of Traction Motors - Direct Current Series Wound". Dated Dec. 1925. Provides an index and information about enclosures, ratings, testing and information to be supplied.On top right hand corner has stamp of the "The Electric Supply Co. of Victoria Ltd Ballarat" and date "17 April 1934".trams, tramways, tramways, electrical equipment, motors -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Postcard, 1922 c
... with visitors on verandah 1925 c 05266.1 Added is back of 05266.2... of Claremont House with visitors on verandah 1925 c 05266.1 Added ...Also three postcards showing two views of Claremont House with visitors on verandah 1925 c 05266.1 Added is back of 05266.2 is a message to Aunt Lizzie and 5266.3Faded black and white postcard of front view of Roadknights Claremont House Lakes Entrance VictoriaMalcolm Fallshaw 462 Canterbury Rd Punchbowl on backboats and boating -
St Kilda Historical Society
Photograph, Fitzroy Streetscape, c.1891-1925
... Hotel in Distance. H3 Fitzroy, Somewhere between 1891 and 1925...c.1891-1925... in Distance. H3 Fitzroy, Somewhere between 1891 and 1925. C 159 ...black and white photograph, copy, unmounted, poor condition. Inscription Street Scene - St Kilda. Fitzroy St. - George Hotel in Distance. H3 Fitzroy, Somewhere between 1891 and 1925. C 159 -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Cabinet Photograph, Eden, Society Studios, Possibly Albert Key, c.1896
... If indeeed Colin Key, photo would have been taken c.1925. The fashion... taken c.1925. The fashion is more indicative of late 1890s - c ...Photo is identified on rear as ? Colin Key. Colin Hutchinson Key (1907-1939) was the son of Albert Key (1872-1921) and Isabella Roberts (1875-1940) and the grandson of Frederick Key (1842-1908) and Jane Key (nee Dalrymple 1845-1931) Suspect the photo is misidentified and is actually Albert Key, Colin Key's father. Cabinet Photo Eden, Society Studios Photographer If indeeed Colin Key, photo would have been taken c.1925. The fashion is more indicative of late 1890s - c.1896 [Cataloguing Note: Identification of individual does not fit the time period for the photographer by about 15 to 20 years - possibly misidentified. Eden Studios was big in Sydney from 1895 through 1927+ but only appears to have operated in Melbourne at 284 Collins Street from 1896-1900 and 149 Swanston Street 1904-1906. These individuals were Melbourne based so unlikely to be the Sydney studios. Further, does not look like the same person when compared to other photographs on Ancestry family trees]On back in pencil ? Colin Keycolin key, eden society studios photographer, colin hutchinson key, albert key, pam thoonen (nee ingram) collection -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Cabinet Photograph, Eden, Society Studios, Possibly Albert Key
... If indeeed Robbie Key, photo would have been taken c.1925... taken c.1925. The fashion is more indicative of late 1890s - c ...Photo is identified on rear as ? Robbie Key. Robert Dalrymple Key (1905-1972) was the son of Albert Key (1872-1921) and Isabella Roberts (1875-1940) and the grandson of Frederick Key (1842-1908) and Jane Key (nee Dalrymple 1845-1931) Suspect the photo is misidentified and is actually Albert Key, Robbie Key's father. Cabinet Photo Eden, Society Studios Photographer If indeeed Robbie Key, photo would have been taken c.1925. The fashion is more indicative of late 1890s - c.1898 [Cataloguing Note: Identification of individual does not fit the time period for the photographer by about 15 to 20 years - possibly misidentified. Eden Studios was big in Sydney from 1895 through 1927+ but only appears to have operated in Melbourne at 284 Collins Street from 1896-1900 and 149 Swanston Street 1904-1906. These individuals were Melbourne based so unlikely to be the Sydney studios. Further, does not look like the same person when compared to other photographs on Ancestry family trees]On back in pencil ? Robbie Keyeden society studios photographer, robbie key, robert dalrymple key, albert key, pam thoonen (nee ingram) collection -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - black and white, Man in a Landscape, c 1925
... c 1925 ...Black and White photograph of a man sitting on grass, with a post and rail fence in the backgroundchatham family archive, -
Bendigo Military Museum
Magazine - MAGAZINE SIGNALS WW1, The Arrow Printery, c.1925-35
... c.1925-35 ...Items belonged to Benjamin Thomas Roy Chadd No's 10594, VX20311, 1st and 2nd AIF. Refer Cat No 2039 for service history also 2034P.Cream printed 16 page magazine "The Helio' Vol 1 No 1. Official magazine of 3rd Division Signals complied edited by C H Chong Sat.books-magazines, military history-army, hello, 3rd div -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Brass Plate, The Samuel Carson Childrens' Ward, C 1925
... C 1925 ...Samuel Carson was a local farmer who in the late 1800's acquired land to the West of Warrnambool in the Farnham park estate and towards Tower Hill near Gorman's lane. By the time of his death on may 23, 1920 he left an amount of 11666 pounds. apart from amounts left to individuals, he bequeathed one hundred pounds each to ten different orphanages, and homes for neglected children and the blind and leaving the remainder to charitable organisations at the discretion of his trustees.The donation of 3500 pounds in August 1922 was in the latter category. This plaque commemorates Samuel Carson's generosity to the newly refurbished Warrnambool base hospital. he left a son William who farmed at Yangery at the time of his father's death This item is significant in that it links a local identity through his generous donation to the local hospital. It therefore has strong social,historical and interpretative value.Heavy rectangular cast brass plate with raised edge and text in capitals. Corners have rounded cutouts and there is a hole in each corner for attachment. The Samuel Carson Childrens' Ward.warrnambool, warrnambool base hospital, samuel carson, samuel carson warrnambool, childrens' ward warrnambool 1928 -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Plan, School of Primary Agriculture & Horticulture - Burnley, c. 1925-1926
... c. 1925-1926 ...Copy of plan photographed at the Public Records Office Victoria. Central Administration Correspondence Files 1912-1939 ITEM. VPRS 10163/P0003/2. Accomodation Burnley School Part 1. Traced from M.M.B.W. Plan No. 42. Scale 160 ft=1 in. Level Datum L.M.N. Hobson's Bay. Traced by C.E.B.W. 16.02.1926. Additional matter in red and green inserted by F.E.T.C. 09.02.1926. Note by J.J. Rae (Principal). Lists W.C.s (toilets). Shows 1891 Flood Line. Possibly dates from 1925.prov, school of primary agriculture and horticulture, burnely, j.j. rae -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph - copy, Tatura Bowling Club, c.1925
... c.1925 ...Borrowed from Bowling Club. Tatura Bowling Club members mid 1920s. Peter Mactier; Murphy; Jim Ponting; Bill Ponting; John D. Love -
Bayside Gallery - Bayside City Council Art & Heritage Collection
Photograph - sepia photograph, The Sandringham Studio, Councillor F.N. Gibbs, J.P., Mayor of Sandringham 1924-1925, c. 1925
... c. 1925 ...Francis Norman Gibbs (1864-1938) was one of the first nine councillors of the new municipality of Sandringham in 1917. He was Mayor of Sandringham in 1924-25 and retired from office in 1932.councillor, sandringham, local government, municipality, mayor, justice of the peace, mayoral robes, portrait, cr. f.n. gibbs, francis norman gibbs, mayor of sandringham -
Buda Historic Home & Garden Castlemaine
Linocut print, Hydrangeas, c 1925
... c 1925 ...Acquired by Kate Leviny. The Leviny daughters were friends with Ursula Ridley Walker. The Leviny women at Buda in Castlemaine were keen collectors of artworks by women printmakers from the early twentieth century.Ursula Ridley Walker is a little know Australian woman artist who was working in many artistic fields during the first part of the twentieth century. Buda holds the largest public collection of Walker's work in Australia.Print by Tasmanian woman artist, Ursula Ridley Walker, depicting blue hydrangeas in a dark blue jug with a green octagonal plate in the background. Mounted and framedLower left: 'Hydrangeas' Lower centre: '- Coloured Lino Cut -'. Lower right: 'Ridley Walker 5/50'.ridley walker, linocut print, australian women printmakers, hydrangeas, leviny collection, buda, castlemaine, 1925, ursula ridley walker, tasmanian artist -
Benalla Art Gallery
Painting, Clarice BECKETT, Spring morning, c. 1925
... c. 1925 ...Born: Casterton, Victoria, Australia 1887; Died: 1935TonalismLedger Gift, 1988Urban landscape with view of partial house, trees and figures. Gold brushed wooden frame.Recto: Signed "C.Beckett" in red paint l.l.c of composition; Not dated; Not titledlandscape, house, figures, trees, australian art -
National Wool Museum
Functional object - Typewriter, Remington Typewriter Company, c.1925
... c.1925 ...This Remington No.12 typewriter is of the typebar, front-strike class. It was made by the Remington Typewriter Company of Ilion, New York, U.S.A. in about 1925. The Model No. 12 was introduced in 1922 and was one of the first 'visible writer' machines, in which the typed characters were visible to the operator. Previous models were of the upstrike class in which the characters were typed on the underside of the platen. To see what had been typed the operator had to raise the platen, meaning the typist was typing blind much of the time. This machine was used by Margaret Ganly née Burn in the 1930s. It was purchased for her by one of the sons of William Pride, a famous saddle maker in Geelong, William was Margaret’s grandfather. The typewriter was donated with original sales receipt and servicing tools. Margaret worked at Dennys for 7 years during the 1930s. The typewriter is accompanied with a story written by Margaret about her time working at the company. Margret married Jack Ganly, a fellow employee of Dennys. The Ganly name was well known within Dennys, with three generations of the Ganly family working at the company. WORKING CONDITIONS & OFFICE WORK DUTIES. Written by Margaret Burn in 2021. Worked at Dennys Lascelles in the 1930s. In the 1930s coming out of the Depression, jobs were hard to come by and had to be clung to by efficiency and subserviency. There was no union to protect workers – bosses could be tough and rough. Dennys Lascelles revolved around fortnightly wool sales in the “season” – September to May. Sale day was always a day of suppressed excitement. Preparation from a clerical point of view was complete and we now awaited the aftermath of the actual wool auction. The building teemed with people. There were country people down to see their wool sold, buyers of many nationalities, or from the big cities, who were coming in and out of the building all day. Their role was to inspect the acres of wool bales displayed on the show floors; however, caterers were present to feed clients, and there was plenty of social interactions on top of business. The office staff did not go home but waited until the first figures came back from the wool sales and the machines went in to action, both human and mechanical, preparing the invoices for the buyers’ firms. This comprised of lists of lot numbers, weights, prices per lb., and the total prices paid. A lot of this was done by old-school typewriters, making this work a big, heavy, tiring job. Before the finished lists could be dispatched, they were collated on an “abstract”. The lists had to balance with the catalogue from which the invoices had been prepared. This never happened automatically. All the paperwork had to be split up amongst pairs of workers and checked until discrepancies were found. This would happen until midnight but occasionally went until 2 or 3 am. Once complete, the invoices could then be rushed off to the buyers’ firms usually in Melbourne, and hire cars took the staff home. It was back on the job the next morning, usually around 8.30. The office hours varied according to the size of the sale and work involved. Some days started as early as 8 and could finish around 5.30. The second phase of work began with the account sales to be prepared for the sellers of the wool. These detailed all the weights, descriptions of wool, brands, and prices. One Sales account could have multitudes of lot numbers, all needing to be individually described. Various charges needed to be deducted such as finance for woolpacks, extra stock, or farmers who were given a loan to live on during the season. Details of how payment was to be made was also noted, whether the seller was to be paid by cheque, to a bank, or credited to their account with the company (which often left the seller still in debt). For a couple of months in the winter, things were quieter when staff took holidays and were sometimes given afternoons off. But there were still weekly skin sales and stock sales around the state. The annual end of June figures to be prepared for a big company like Dennys with branches all around the state also kept the staff busy. In good years there was sometimes a bonus. On sale days there was a bar open for the clients and wool buyers. This added to the excitement for the young girls, who were strictly barred from using it, but somehow managed to sneak a gin and tonic. This is how I had my first ever, before the evening meal. There was also the romantic notion in some minds, with all the influx of males, that some of us might end up on a wealthy station, or be noticed by an exotic buyer. To my knowledge, this never happened at Dennys Lascelles Limited. Group staff photo at Dennys Lascelles Limited. Margaret Burn. Age 18 or 19. Jack Ganly (Margaret’s future husband). 22.The typewriter has a black painted metal frame. The top section of the typewriter consists of a cylindrical platen on a carriage featuring plated metal fittings. A curved folding paper guide sits behind the platen and moves on the horizontal axis when the user types on the keyboard. A horizontal semicircular type basket with typebar links the top section to the lower keyboard. The ink ribbon is carried between two spools on a horizontal axis, one on each side of the type-basket. At the rear, a paper tray features gold lettering which reads ‘Remington’. At the front, a four-row QWERTY keyboard is found with 42-character keys total. 'SHIFT LOCK' and 'SHIFT KEY' are to the left of the keyboard, 'BACK SPACER' and 'SHIFT KEY' to the right. All keys are circular, white with black lettering. At the top of the keyboard are five circular red keys with the numbers 1-5 displayed behind their respective keys. A Spacebar is found along the front of the keyboard. The typewriter is accompanied by a cardboard box. This box contains the original sales receipt, on blue paper with grey lead handwriting. It also contains spare parts, a spare ribbon stretched between two spools, and cleaning tools such as brushes of differing sizes. Serial Number. Engraved. "LX45395" Gold lettering. Paper tray. “Remington” Gold Lettering. Behind keyboard. “Made in Ilion, New York, U.S.A. Gold Lettering. Mirrored both sides of type-basket. “12”remington, dennys lascelles ltd, worker conditions 1930s -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Kodak Australia, Landsborough Court House 1925, C 1925
... C 1925 ...Weatherboard building corrugated iron roof decorative awnings on windows. Landsborough Court House 1925. Picket fence in foreground. Courthouse top left. Court-House bottom centre in white. -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, c.1925
... c.1925 ...Sepia photo mounted on photographer's board. -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph, c. 1925
... c. 1925 ...Black and white aerial of Martins Point Moyne River showing dredge. The original signed by R. W. Golding.Black and white landscapelocal history, photography, photographs, slides, film, aerial, martins point, moyne river, dredge -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph, C. 1925
... C. 1925 ...Black and white arial photograph of the Moyne river entrance, the original signed by R.W.Golding.Black and white aerial photograph of Griffith island showing the lighthouse keeper’s compound, the large flagstaff and the river training walls in the foregroundHand written on the back "Port Fairy Moyne River Entrance R. W. Golding Handwritten on the back of the copy "Port Fairyb Harbour 1925"local history, photography, photographs, slides, film, arial, moyne river -
Brighton Historical Society
Cloak, c.1925
... c.1925 ...Orange bouclé wool coat woven with velvet stripes; brown fur collar and deep hem.1920s, cloak, cape -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Photograph, C. 1925
... C. 1925 ...Mr. and Mrs. Lynex were Home Missionaries. Mr. Lynex was known as a ‘Circuit Builder’. Mrs. Lynex was a fully accredited preacher.Matte, black and white, head and shoulders photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Lynex on board.lynex, home missionary, dimboola, methodist -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Deep Rock Swimming Pool and Clubrooms on the Yarra, c.1925
... c.1925 ...The former Deep Rock Swimming Pool was about 500 yards [457 metres] above Dight’s Falls. It was there that the Deep Rock Swimming Club was established in 1906. This initial club was expanded in 1916 to incorporate a life-saving club. In 1918, John Wren, the president of the club offered the club £1000, and undertook to sponsor a patriotic carnival in March 1918, at which swimming champions would take part. The ‘pool’ was to achieve fame as the venue for a world record-breaking ‘swallow dive’ of 205 feet 9 inches [63 metres] by ‘Prince Wickyama’, [aka Alec Wickham], a Solomon Islander. The dive from a special platform on the west side of the Yarra was reputedly viewed by between 50,000-100,000 spectators, with funds going to the State War Council. The Herald, 25 March 1918, claimed that the wide area occupied by spectators made more precise estimates impossible. In the 1980s, the construction of the Eastern Freeway, and the consequent re-routing of the Yarra River led to the site of the Deep Rock Pool being obliterated. A small cairn and plaque on the Fairfield side of the river now marks its former site.Very rare early photograph off the Deep Rock swimming pool. The pool and its built structures are historically and socially important to the people of Collingwood, Fairfield and Kew. Small, faded, Gelatin Silver print positive photograph of the Deep Rock Swimming Pool situated on the Yarra at Collingwood and Fairfield. The famous diving tower is at the right of the photo. The built structures were constructed for the Deep Rock Swimming and Life Saving Club. People are sitting on the terraces above the river. "Bathing Club. Deep Rock on the Yarra. Studley Park Melbourne. Please credit E.J. Thomasson Collection"deep rock swimming pool, deep rock swimming club, deep rock lifesaving club, swimming -- river yarra, river yarra -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Community celebration, c.1925
... c.1925 ...Monted black and white print positive. Men, women and children in an illuminated unidentified hall. Outfits worn would indicate that it is a community dance.dances, balls, halls -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Clothing - Crepe de chine, chiffon and sequin evening dress, c. 1925-29
... c. 1925-29 ...An item forming part of a collection of costumes, photographs and documents relating to the Weir family who lived in a mansion, originally named Illapa, at 84 Princess Street, Kew, from c.1917 to 1950. This historically significant collection includes items relating to both George Weir (1866-1937), his wife Edith Mary Weir (1867-1948) and their children. George Weir attained national prominence in the mining industry, becoming General Manager of the North Broken Hill Silver Mining Company in 1903 (later renamed North Broken Hill Mining Company 1905-12, and North Broken Hill Ltd 1912-1988), and subsequently President of the Mine Owners Association. He was to remain General Manager of North Broken Hill Ltd until his retirement in 1926.This garment is part of a collection of women’s clothing, owned and worn by Edith Mary Weir (nee Betteridge) - born in Clare, South Australia 1867, died Kew 1948 - and also by her daughter. The garments date from the 1880s to the 1930s. The collection includes day dresses, evening dresses, evening coats, capes, and undergarments. As the wife and daughter of a mine manager, the collection includes representative examples of clothing worn by upper middle class Australian women in domestic circumstances, and at social and civic events. A number of the costumes from the 1920s to the 1930s are of a particularly fine quality, being both rare, representative and intact examples of Australian fashion of the period. The garments in the Weir Collection were donated to the Kew Historical Society by a granddaughter of Edith Weir in 2017.Very fine, silk short-sleeved evening dress, comprised of a shift of silk crepe de chine covered by a layer of chiffon, heavily embroidered with pink sequins. While one or two strands of sequins have come adrift, the overall structure is intact and in excellent condition. flapper dresses, evening wear, dance frocks, weir collection -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Plan - Subdivision Plan, Oswinia Estate, East Kew, c.1925
... c.1925 ...Prue Sanderson, in her groundbreaking ‘City of Kew Urban Conservation Study : Volume 2 - Development History’ (1988), summarised the periods of urban development and subdivisions of land in Kew. The periods that she identified included 1845-1880, 1880-1893, 1893-1921, 1921-1933, 1933-1943, and Post-War Development. These periods were selected as they represented periods of rapid growth or decline in urban development. An obvious starting point for Sanderson’s groupings involved population growth and the associated economic cycles. These cycles also highlighted urban expansion onto land that was predominantly rural, although in other cases it represented the decline and breakup of large estates. A number of the plans in the Kew Historical Society’s collection can also be found in other collections, such as those of the State Library of Victoria and the Boroondara Library Service. A number are however unique to the collection.Subdivision plans are historically important documents used as evidence of the growth of suburbs in Australia. They frequently provide information about when the land was sold on which a built structure was subsequently constructed as well as evidence relating to surveyors and real estate and financial agents. The numerous subdivision plans in the Kew Historical Society's collection represent working documents, ranging from the initial sketches made in planning a subdivision to printed plans on which auctioneers or agents listed the prices for which individual lots were sold. In a number of cases, the reverse of a subdivision plan in the collection includes a photograph of a house that was also for sale by the agent. These photographs provide significant heritage information relating house design and decoration, fencing and household gardens.The ‘Oswinia Estate’ subdivision in East Kew was planned and auctioned in the first half of the 1920s. 169 allotments were created in the triangular section of land bordered by High Street, Burke Road and the Government Boulevard (later Kilby Road). The only piece of land excluded was that where the previous Kew Pound had been located at the east tip of the triangle. Allotments were created fronting Glass, High, Namur, Oswin Streets, Irymple Avenue, and the Government Boulevard. The name for the Estate was derived from Oswin’s farm, which had been one of the largest landholdings in East Kew. The selling agents annotated the plan in our collection with crosses indicating those lots that had been sold. The inset locality plan is particularly interesting as it shows the route and stations of the Outer Circle Railway. When the subdivision plan was created, it included the proposed bridge over the Yarra at Burke Road. The bridge was to be officially opened in 1926.subdivision plans - east kew, oswinia estate, high street, glass street, namur street, government boulevard - kilby road, irymple street, oswin street -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Plan - Subdivision Plan, Jas R Mathers Son & McMillan, Macartney Estate, East Kew, c. 1925
... c. 1925 ...Pru Sanderson, in her groundbreaking ‘City of Kew Urban Conservation Study : Volume 2 - Development History’ (1988), summarised the periods of urban development and subdivisions of land in Kew. The periods that she identified included 1845-1880, 1880-1893, 1893-1921, 1921-1933, 1933-1943, and Post-War Development. These periods were selected as they represented periods of rapid growth or decline in urban development. An obvious starting point for Sanderson’s groupings involved population growth and the associated economic cycles. These cycles also highlighted urban expansion onto land that was predominantly rural, although in other cases it represented the decline and breakup of large estates. A number of the plans in the Kew Historical Society’s collection can also be found in other collections, such as those of the State Library of Victoria and the Boroondara Library Service. A number are however unique to the collection.Subdivision plans are historically important documents used as evidence of the growth of suburbs in Australia. They frequently provide information about when the land was sold on which a built structure was subsequently constructed as well as evidence relating to surveyors and real estate and financial agents. The numerous subdivision plans in the Kew Historical Society's collection represent working documents, ranging from the initial sketches made in planning a subdivision to printed plans on which auctioneers or agents listed the prices for which individual lots were sold. In a number of cases, the reverse of a subdivision plan in the collection includes a photograph of a house that was also for sale by the agent. These photographs provide significant heritage information relating house design and decoration, fencing and household gardens.The Macartney Estate subdivision advertised 21 lots for sale on either side of Macartney Street (now Macartney Avenue) and Evans Road in what was then designated as East Kew. Most of the houses shown on the south side of Macartney Street then, as now, have rear entrances on Mount Street, however a number of these blocks have since been further subdivided to allow for the building of new houses on the rear of a block. Brougham Place is marked on the plan but is now called Daniell Place."C"subdivision plans - east kew, macartney estate, macartney street, mount street, evans road, brougham place