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Kew Historical Society Inc
Painting, Park Street [Adeney Avenue] Kew, c. 1896
‘Adeney Avenue’ was the title given to this painting following its donation to the Kew Historical Society, yet the work’s origins predate the naming of Adeney Avenue in 1907 [originally gazetted as ‘Park Street’ (1865) and ‘Park Street South’ (1875).] Park Street ran between High Street and Parkhill Road beside what was later to become ‘Victoria Park’. This area was described in 1851 as “…a dense forest of gums and wattles which were to be largely cleared by 1888 after the naming of a recreation reserve”. The Reserve was still bisected by an unnamed creek in 1896, when the area was surveyed by the MMBW. The panoramic vista selected by the artist would appear to include ‘Eborensis’ (c.1895) on the corner of Parkhill Road and what was then Park Street, with views across cleared land towards the distant ranges. In the 19th century, north Kew was largely undeveloped farms stretching down to the Yarra. Oil on canvas by an unidentified artist of a panoramic view depicting what is now known as East Kew with mountains on the horizon. In the foreground is a two storey brick residence - Eborensis - located on the northeast corner of Parkhill Road and what is now Adeney Avenue. The view of the landscape and its rolling hills resulted from farming practices adopted following colonisation and settlement. Trees in the foreground and in the distance include remnant Eucalypts and introduced exotics.Label on rear of frame states "House on corner of Adeney Ave & Parkhill. [Regd. 254"]. Otherwise unsigned and undatedadeney avenue (kew), eborensis, park street (kew) -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book - Report, Koonung - Mullum Forestway, c1975
The Koonung-Mullum Freeway : a plan for action. A Report prepared for the Mullum Valley Freeway Action Group and Koonung Valley Action Group, under a grant from the Department of Environment by Ronald Champion Conservation Planning Environment Consultants and Paul Thompson, Rob Paul Landscapes ca1975mullum valley freeway action group, koonung valley action group, champion, randall, thompson, paul, rob paul landscapes, victoria. department of the environment, mullum mullum creek, koonung creek, eastern freeway, forest conservation, parks and reserves -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Parkview Court Forest Hill, 2014
Interview with Rita Tonge and Erika Knott.Interview with Rita Tonge and Erika Knott, residents of Parkview Court Housing Commission estate for the elderly. Interviewer Peter Simmenauer. With copies of documents about life in the estate and about former residents. Tape at NP4037Interview with Rita Tonge and Erika Knott. parkview court forest hill, tonge, rita, knott, erika, housing commission victoria, simmenauer, peter -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Joan Hornabrook
Life Governorship Certificate for Joan Hornabrook, from the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria, 29 June 1978.Life Governorship Certificate for Joan Hornabrook, from the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria, 29 June 1978. With letter from Meg Hornabrook outlining Joan Hornabrook's association with the Forest Hill Residential Kindergarten, and a plan of the Kindergarten's vegetable garden.Life Governorship Certificate for Joan Hornabrook, from the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria, 29 June 1978. forest hill residential kindergarten, hornabrook, joan, free kindergarten union of victoria -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Joyce's career is a 90-year stretch, 2009
Joyce Clark, a 90 year old Forest Hill resident, is Victoria' s oldest registered calisthenics student (photo).Joyce Clark, a 90 year old Forest Hill resident, is Victoria' s oldest registered calisthenics student (photo).Joyce Clark, a 90 year old Forest Hill resident, is Victoria' s oldest registered calisthenics student (photo).calisthenics, clarke, joyce -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Craft - Ship Model, Peter Payne, Early 1930s to 1960s
Half-hull ship models were an important step in the process of building a vessel. Shipwrights or designers would construct a half-hull scale model of a ship before the vessel was built. They used it to ensure that the dimensions would work together and that the ship look balanced. They would often mount the half hull onto a board in their workshop. The half-hull ship models were also used to show prospective buyers how the design would work and look. Given the plywood construction of the model, it is believed to have been made around the 1930s as plywood construction had started in earnest in Queensland around this time and soon became the centre of the industry because of Queensland's attractive rain forest woods used which also included red cedar, silver ash, black bean, Queensland maple and silky oak. It is also believed the model was a design for a clinker-built barge to be built by Peter Payne who operated a boat building works on the Mordialloc Creek, Victoria going out of business in 1973. Records show Peter Paynes' first craft launched in 1962 and the last in 1973 from Mordialloc Creek works. However, he was one of the most prolific builders from the 1930s and produced many more vessels than the records currently show. There is at this point no further record of the subject model or whether a full version was ever built and for whom is not known at this time.A model that demonstrates the boat-building process is believed to have been made by Peter Payne or someone who worked in his yard. P Payne was a very well-known boating personality, vessel captain and boat builder throughout most of the 20th century. Model barge half hull on wooden of plywood laminated construction. Marked "AUXILIARY BARGE 80'x16'x6' 315 TONS 4" - 1 FOOT" "P and H PAYNE?" "22/E/26" flagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, ship model half hull, ship half model, shipbuilding, shipwright, ship design, peter payne, boat builder victoria, clinker design, barge -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Map - Coloured
Background on Bridle Path up Stony Creek Gorge Pre 1840 C. B. Hall, squatter on Mokepilly Run 1841-1842, first European to discover the Fyans Creek valley, the entrance of which became known as Hall's Gap. He later recorded that he followed a number of tracks which he assumed had been made by the Aboriginies and described one as "leading up a wild romantic glen and over on to the source of the Glenelg River". This could well have been the route taken up Stony Creek gorge by the first timber-cutters in this part of the Grampians to the saddle between the Wonderland and Mt. Difficult ranges known as Valley Gap 1850s/60s Timber cutters and shingle splitters were reported to be moving into the eastern side of the Grampians and by the mid 1860s there were a number of families connected to the supplying of timber to Pleasant Creek living in the "Hall's Gap ranges". John Wakeham, the first store owner in Pleasant Creek in 1854, established a timer-mill in upper Stony Creek Gorge in the late 1850s. Wakeham is credited for the clearing and levelling of the first bridle-path up the gorge. 1870s By the mid 1870s the track had been extended over Valley Gap to the Victoria Forest (the upper region of the Victoria Valley). McKeon's bullock team was known to have hauled red gum from the Valley to Stawell in the late 1870s and the 1880s. 1880s In 1887 an article in the Pleasant Creek news describes the Stony Creek Gorge track as "being a ledge alongside the mountain range, formed in the early days with the aid of earth and timber, along which the bullock teams used to travel to Horsham and plains of the Wimmera beyond." 1890s Gold was discovered in the catchment area of Stony Creek and by the end of the 1890s a new track was built from "near the junction of Fyan's and Stony Creeks, up the gorge to the diggings settlement. The mining Department had paid L300 for its construction and, when completed, the track was "three miles and 30 chains in length, the side cuttings at the narrowest part being 10 feet between" and "the watercourses which cross the track at various points" having been "filled up with rocks rolled down the sides of the hills, and consequently there can be no damage caused by bushfires which destroyed the former wooden bridges erected on the old track to Wakeham's saw-mill, the remains of which are still to be seen at the side of the diggings" The article goes on to further describe the track as one which "can with ease travel with a two horse conveyance either up or down" and that the workmen engaged in the construction of the track would be attending "a ball that night at McKeon's farm near the mouth of the gap to celebrate the successful completion of the undertaking". 1900s At what time the bridle path was extended beyond Valley Gap to the Wartook basin on the Mt. Difficult Range has not yet been determined. However, it is known that, by the turn of the century, people were travelling between Halls Gap and the caretakers' residence at Wartook Reservoir along what was now known as the "Bluff Road. Wartook's embankment had been constructed in 1887 and at that time there was already a track from Rosebrook Station homestead (near the present day Wartook Pottery) to the reservoir. Philip Rose owned both Rosebrook and Wartook Stations from the mid 1840s to the late 1850s and had regularly leased the Wartook basin to Cobb & Co. to rest horses there. 1920s Following the war of 1914-1918, tourism really took off in the Grampians, and Halls Gap rapidly grew. People would travel as far as they could on the many tracks then hike to the many lookouts being discovered by local tour guides. This led to the need for access across the range so that horse riders and the increasing number of vehicles could travel between Horsham and Halls Gap. To this end, the Bluff Road was improved and extended on 1929 and at its opening in March, 1930, by Lady Somers it was renamed the Mt. Victory Road.Map of Mt Victory Road and othersaccess routes, mt victory rd, bridle path, roads -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph
Photo depicts Fyans Valley. The road is The Grampians/ Dunkeld Road, leading to Dunkeld towards the right or Halls Gap travelling towards the left. Fyans Creek is visible in parts at the foot of the range (middle of Photo). Photo appears to have been taken from Bellfield Pk area. Photo is typical of those taken by Forests Commission of Victoria in the 1960sPhoto shows a mountain range in the background with a valley. The Valley has a band of a mostly cleared grassy section (middle of photo) with a fairly dense treed area in the foreground. A road and some buildings can be seen where the cleared land meets the treed area.scenery, fyans valley -
Orbost & District Historical Society
certificate, July 3, 1858
This is a certificate of indenture, a legal agreement, between George Beattie of Forest Creek, near Castlemaine in the colony of Victoria, and Peter Christian Smith of the same place. Both were miners. Beattie was the vendor and Smith paid twenty-five pounds for a land parcel. The contract was witnessed by John Hedderwick, a law clerk in Castlemaine. There is a record in the Mount Alexander Mail, dated Wed. 22 April 1857, of George Beattie purchasing land for three pounds, sixteen and sixpence in Castlemaine and that it was withdrawn. Records also show that a Peter and Thomas Smith farmed in Sandon near Castlemaine.This item is a useful research tool as it a hand-written record of part of the history of the gold fields region of Victoria.A white paper certificate of conveyance with black print and hand-written details from George Beattie to Peter Smith. There is a wax seal on the second page.beattie-george smith-peter-christian castlemaine-certificate-conveyance -
Federation University Historical Collection
Reports, Big Cat sightings (dates), 1989
Research of dated sightngs of Big cats in Victoria from 1868-1989. australian mythical animals collection, david waldron, dse, big cats, panthers pumas, nuggety, gippsland, black cats, tasmanian tiger, marysville, wood's point, thylacine, south gippsland, felid, gippsland big cat, kelvin healey, peter hall, sherbrooke forest, woodside, walaces flat, mountain lion, heyfield, mt taylor, walhalla, mt selma, warrnambool, kyneton, korumburra, canadian forest, grampians, panton hill, beaconsfield, apollo bay, forrest, victoria valley, rapanyup, dargo, inglewood, doncaster east, tidal river, cape bridgewater, walkerville, dooen, st arnaud, lake bung bong, mitta mitta, moliagul, emerald, kinglake, cape otway, dereel, leonard's hill, daylesford, korweinguboora, lal lal, noojee, eltham, lancefield, trentham, daisy hill, tanjil south, wonthaggi, cockatoo, warrenheip, greendale, howqua, lake buchan, melville caves, portland, mt elephant, morwell, navarre, yarram, yandoit, moonambel, maryborough, taravale, coghill's creek, trentham, carisbrook, inglewood, warrenmang, yarragon, creswick, emerald, stawel, clunes, majorca, heathcote, talbot, daylesford, newham, broadford, peter chapple -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Map, Shire of Blackburn and Mitcham, 1938
Plan of Shire of Blackburn and Mitcham showing sections and lot numbers. Scale 8 chains to 1 inch.Plan of Shire of Blackburn and Mitcham showing sections and lot numbers. Scale 8 chains to 1 inch.Plan of Shire of Blackburn and Mitcham showing sections and lot numbers. Scale 8 chains to 1 inch.shire of blackburn and mitcham, blackburn, blackburn north, blackburn south, burwood east, forest hill, mitcham, nunawading, vermont, vermont south -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Springvale Road tops accident list, 2004
An interview with Ken Ogden of the RACV identifies Springvale Road as the road most likely to have car accidents in Melbourne.An interview with Ken Ogden of the RACV identifies Springvale Road as the road most likely to have car accidents in Melbourne. Included in the worst five corners are those with Whitehorse Road and Canterbury Road.An interview with Ken Ogden of the RACV identifies Springvale Road as the road most likely to have car accidents in Melbourne. road accidents, royal automobile club of victoria, whitehorse road, nunawading, springvale road, nunawading, springvale road, forest hill, canterbury road, forest hill -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Battle to ground land grabs, 2004
The Municipal Association of Victoria is fighting for exemption from laws that allow council owned land to be acquired by adverse possession.The Municipal Association of Victoria is fighting for exemption from laws that allow council owned land to be acquired by adverse possession. Like other councils Whitehorse has spent thousands fighting such claims. In 2000 the council lost a part of Forest Hill serve.The Municipal Association of Victoria is fighting for exemption from laws that allow council owned land to be acquired by adverse possession. city of whitehorse, mccallum, jessie, forest hill reserve, parks and reserves, lanes, municipal association of victoria -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Map, Aerial photographs Nunawading, 1976
Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Melbourne, 1976 Project.Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Melbourne, 1976 Project. Runs 29 - 33 City of Nunawading. Frames numbered from South to North boundaries, each strip numbered from West to East. No index map. Sheets 30/8 and 30/9 missing.non-fictionDepartment of Crown Lands and Survey, Melbourne, 1976 Project. victoria. department of crown lands and survey, aerial photographs, nunawading, mitcham, blackburn, blackburn north, blackburn south, forest hill, vermont, vermont south, burwood east, box hill, ringwood -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Resource Centre opens its doors, 1993
The new Nunawading Resource Centre at Forest Hill Chase will be home for several community groups.The new Nunawading Resource Centre at Forest Hill Chase will be home for several community groups. Photo: Manager, Forest Hill Chase: Tony Caljow, Resource Chairman: Keith Rooney.The new Nunawading Resource Centre at Forest Hill Chase will be home for several community groups.city of nunawading, nunawading resource centre, forest hill chase, cooper, les, caljow, tony, rooney, keith, maternal and child health centres, adult day activity and support service, lao women's association of victoria inc, nunawading community chest, nunawading older persons' action group, the communities council on ethnic issues, u3a nunawading, youth adult bureau, the iranian society of victoria, lions club of victoria -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Lodge opens, 1991
The Governor of Victoria, Dr Davis McCaughey, will officially open Forest Hill's Strathdon Lodge, a 24 bed hostel to care for people with dementia this Sunday.The Governor of Victoria, Dr Davis McCaughey, will officially open Forest Hill's Strathdon Lodge, a 24 bed hostel to care for people with dementia this Sunday.The Governor of Victoria, Dr Davis McCaughey, will officially open Forest Hill's Strathdon Lodge, a 24 bed hostel to care for people with dementia this Sunday.strathdon community, aged people, nursing homes, alzheimers disease -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Plan, Routes to the Victoria Diggings, 1852
Black and white line drawing of the route to the major Central Victorian Diggings, including Ballarat, Bendigo, Jim Crow (Daylesford), Kyneton, Carlshrue, Mount Macedon, Kilmore, Jackson's Creek, Keilor, Bacchus Marsh, Gregory, Black Forest, Geelong, Flemington, Melbourne, Mount Buninyong, Port Phillip. ballarat, bendigo, jim crow, daylesford, kyneton, carlshrue,, mount macedon, kilmore, jackson's creek, keilor, bacchus marsh, gregory, black forest, geelong, flemington, melbourne, mount buninyong, port phillip, diggings, thomas ham, goldfields -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Document, Gary Vines, The Historical Archaeology of Forest Based Sawmilling in Victoria 1855-1940, 1985
Masters thesissawmilling, industrial heritage, d=forestry, hall's whiskey creek mill, wombat forest, comet mill, mount disapointment, new asa mill, upper yarra forest, mill construction -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Koalas on the move, 14/01/1986 12:00:00 AM
Article from 'The Post' 14 January 1986 about relocation of koalas by the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands.Article from 'The Post' 14 January 1986 about relocation of koalas by the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands.Article from 'The Post' 14 January 1986 about relocation of koalas by the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands.wildlife, koalas, victoria. department of conservation forests and lands -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Forest under threat, 13/09/1986 12:00:00 AM
An article in the Nunawading Gazette, naturalist John Reid has asked Council to commission a survey of flora and fauna of Antonio Park, Mitcham before this significant bushland remnant is impossible to save.native plants, antonio park, mitcham, reid, john, robinson, randall, victoria. department of conservation forests and lands -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Review of Station's hours, 2016
Forest Hill police station's operating hours are still under review while Burwood station is not 'fit for occupation'.police, police stations, victoria police force, forest hill police complex -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Conservationists to urge weed management plan, 5/04/1989 12:00:00 AM
Article from Nunawading Gazette dated 5 April 1989 about a weed management plan in the City of Nunawading.environment, weeds, victoria. department of conservation, forests and lands., native plants, edwards, margaret, meagher, dorothy, witherspoon, cameron, david -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
document - Map, Melbourne Metro, 1978
Collection of reproductions issued by the Public Record Office in 1978. Comprises: Allotments in the Black Forest, 1857; Township of Dandenong, 1856; Township and suburban allotments, Gisborne, 1857; Storing Yard allotments near the Melbourne Wharf, 1854; Town lots near the Railway Terminus, Melbourne, 1863; Parish of Prahran, 1853; Township of Sandridge, 1855; Township of Sunbury, 1857; River Yarra Yarra at the Queens Wharf, 1860.victoria. public record office, black forest, victoria, dandenong, gisborne, melbourne wharf, railway terminus, spencer street, melbourne, prahran, sandridge, sunbury, queens wharf -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Gold, 8/12/1971 12:00:00 AM
Article about Mr L.J. Blake (1971) who is a Nunawading author who has written a book titled 'Gold Escort' .Article about Mr L.J. Blake (1971) who is a Nunawading author who has written a book titled 'Gold Escort' which tells the story of a group of troopers who conveyed millions of dollars worth of gold from Forest Creek diggings to Adelaide. He did 6 years of research on the book. He was a teacher and past president of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and honorary historian for the Shire of Wimmera.Article about Mr L.J. Blake (1971) who is a Nunawading author who has written a book titled 'Gold Escort' . gold rush, blake, j. l., forest creek diggings, adelaide, shire of wimmera, gold escorts -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centre, 1994
The Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centre is amongst the oldest shipping centres in Victoria, opening on the 30th June 1964 as an outdoor strip shopping centre before being developed over the years into its current three-level form. Further redevelopment has also occurred between 2007 to 2010.Coloured photograph of the interior of the Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centre in 1994. Shows three levels and glass roof dome.shopping centres, forest hill chase shopping centre -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Archibald McArthur`
Archibold McArthur originally owned 6 acres and produced flowers which were sold at the Victoria Market, and vegetables which were sold at a roadside stall outside his property in Canterbury Road , Forest Hill.Eastside Plants established a plant nursery as p[art of the property in 1979 and later added 'Archies Cafe' in 1987. In 2007 the nursery closed its doors and in 2008 units were built on the property.Sepia photo of Archibald McArthur and one other tilling land on his property in Canterbury Forest Hillmcarthur archibald, forest hill, plant nurseries, eastside plants, archies cafe -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, State Cabinet Meeting - City of Nunawading, 9/02/1981 12:00:00 AM
Black and white photograph of attendees at the State Cabinet Meeting held at City of Nunawading on 9th February 1981.|L - R: Don McKinnon, MLA, Member of Box Hill| The Mayor - Cr W.B. Renfrey| The Premier - The Hon. R.T. Hamer, ED, MP| John Richardson, MLA, Member for Forest Hillvictoria. state cabinet, mckinnon, don, renfrey, will b., hamer, rupert j. sir, richardson, john -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Lions club has a home at last, 1993
Creation of the first Lions Club Head Office in Forest Hill.Creation of the first Lions Club Head Office in Forest Hill. Councillor for the Lions Foundation, Ron Bromley, says the office, in the Council's Community Resource Centre will co-ordinate Lions Clubs' activities throughout Victoria.Creation of the first Lions Club Head Office in Forest Hill. clubs and associations, lions clubs, bromley, ron -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Letter - Correspondence, Kindergarten Training College, 12/04/1956 12:00:00 AM
Letter from Country Roads Board to Mrs K.A. Tenny advising erection of new fence for Kindergarten Holiday Home.Letter from Country Roads Board to Mrs K.A. Tenny advising erection of new fence for Kindergarten Holiday Home.Letter from Country Roads Board to Mrs K.A. Tenny advising erection of new fence for Kindergarten Holiday Home.preschools, forest hill residential kindergarten, victoria. country roads board, tenny, k.a. (mrs), neville, w.h. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Letter - Correspondence, Acquisition by Country Roads Board, 10/04/1956 12:00:00 AM
Letter from Country Roads Board to Mrs K.A. Tenny advising erection of new fence for KindergartenLetter from Mrs K.A. Tenny to Country Roads Board informing Board old fence replaced on Kindergarten Holiday Home, Canterbury Road, Forest Hill.Letter from Country Roads Board to Mrs K.A. Tenny advising erection of new fence for Kindergartenpreschools, forest hill residential kindergarten, victoria. country roads board, tenny, k.a. (mrs)