Sepia photograph showing several houses along a dirt road open area with some trees, footbridge on RHS. Shire Engineer's house (formerly house owned by Hubert Adams, newspaper proprietor) is on corner of road to Devil's Kitchen. Glimpse of Murrell's Victoria Hotel in distance."Esther Cluff Linton".buildings, houses, shire of grenville engineer's house

The Furphy Water Cart, made in Shepparton is an iconic part of Australian manufacturing history. Troops gathered around these sturdy carts during WW1 to have a drink of water, to swap stories, and embellish them a bit along the way. This led eventually to the term 'furphy' entering the Australian vernacular, meaning a rumour, gossip or fake news. Many people have probably heard ... “GOOD, BETTER, BEST - NEVER LET IT REST - TILL YOUR GOOD IS BETTER - AND YOUR BETTER, BEST." But the random squiggles across the centre of a Furphy water tank are not Arabic writing as many believe but Pitman Shorthand that translates as … “WATER IS THE GIFT OF GOD, BUT BEER AND WHISKY ARE CONCOCTIONS OF THE DEVIL, COME AND HAVE A DRINK OF WATER”. Several versions evolved over the decades and this 1942 cart also has an illustration of a stork holding a baby with more squiggles underneath, also in shorthand, which is a quote often first attributed to the WW1 Prime Minister Billy Hughes ... "PRODUCE AND POPULATE OR PERISH”. The Forests Commission owned lots of Furphy water tanks and Rocky Marsden managed to rescue and restore two of them which are at the North Altona workshops.Two Furphy water tanks forests commission victoria (fcv), fire pump, bushfire

Organisation-Club/society-sportA long rectangular receipt book consisting of 150 receipt pages of which 49 have been used. Cover is a green colour with a blue coloured spine. The initials DOCC written on the front. inside the front and back covers is a stamp for W. Welch, Stationer, binder and printer.Dates, amounts received and from whom are written in black ink. images shows identification number as 3767.2 but it was changed later to 3767.3docc, devils own cricket club, sandhurst, w. welch