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Buninyong & District Historical Society
Photograph - Original B/W Photograph, Clive Brooks, Old Brewery, Buninyong, 6 Sep 1993
Part of series to record changes in BuninyongB/W photo old Buninyong Brewery, south east of Gong, formerly Sheppard's Brewerybuninyong, brewery, sheppard -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Equipment - Ship's Telegraph section, Chadburn & Sons, 1875-1898
This is the Bridge Section of a ship’s telegraph and is a Duplex Gong model, made by Chadburn & Son of Liverpool. This duplex gong model would sound two signals whenever the navigational commands were given by the ship’s pilot to change the speed or direction. The ship’s telegraph was installed on Flagstaff Hill’s exhibit of the 1909 Hobart, Tasmania, ferry “SS Rowitta” installed in 1975 and enjoyed for more than 40 years. Communication between the ship’s pilot and the engine room in the late 19th century to the mid-20th-century was made with a system called an Engine Order Telegraph (E.O.T.) or ship’s telegraph. The equipment has two parts, the Bridge Section and the Engine Room Section. The Bridge Section is usually mounted onto a pedestal, and the Engine Room Section is attached to a vertical surface. The standard marine commands are printed or stamped around the face of the dial and indicated by a pointer or arrow that is usually moved by a rotating brass section or handle. The ship’s pilot stationed on the Bridge of a vessel sends his Orders for speed and direction to the Engine Room with the E.O.T. He moves the lever or levers, depending on the number of engines the ship has, to change the indicator on the Bridge Section’s dial to point in the new direction and speed of travel. This change causes the Orders to be duplicated on the Engine Room Section’s dial and a bell or bells to signal the change at the same time. The engineer then adjusts the ship’s engines and steering equipment to follow the pilot’s Order. CHADBURN & SON, Liverpool- Chadburn Brothers, William and C.H., were joint inventors and well-established makers of optical and scientific instruments and marine gauges. The firm was granted the Prince Albert Royal Warrant in the late 19th century. In 1870 William Chadburn applied for a patent for his navigational communication device for use on ships. By 1875 Chadburn & Son was producing the brass Engine Order Telegraph in its plant at 71 Lord Street, Liverpool. In 1911 the ship RMS Titanic was launched, fitted with Chadburn & Sons E.O.T. The Chadburn Ship Telegraph Company Limited was registered in 1898 to take over Chadburn & Sons. In 1903 a large factory at Bootle, near Liverpool, and their products were being sold overseas. In 1920 electric-powered telegraphs were developed. In 1944 the name changed to Chadburn’s (Liverpool) Limited. In 1968 the company became Chadburn Bloctube Ltd. In 2000 the company, now Bloctube Marine Limited, was still manufacturing ship telegraphs. SS ROWITTA: - The 1909 steam ferry, SS Rowitta, was installed as an exhibit at Flagstaff Hill in 1975 and was enjoyed by many visitors for 40 years. Rowitta was a timber steam ferry built in Hobart in 1909 using planks of Huon and Karri wood. It was a favourite of sightseeing passengers along Tasmania’s Tamar and Derwent rivers for 30 years. Rowitta was also known as Tarkarri and Sorrento and had worked as a coastal trading vessel between Devonport and Melbourne, and Melbourne Queenscliff and Sorrento. In 1974 Rowitta was purchased by Flagstaff Hilt to convert into a representation of the Speculant, a historic and locally significant sailing ship listed on the Victorian Heritage Database. (The Speculant was built in Scotland in 1895 and traded timber between the United Kingdom and Russia. Warrnambool’s P J McGennan & Co. then bought the vessel to trade pine timber from New Zealand to Victorian ports and cargo to Melbourne. It was the largest ship registered with Warrnambool as her home port, playing a key role in the early 1900s in the Port of Warrnambool. In 1911, on her way to Melbourne, it was wrecked near Cape Otway. None of the nine crew lost their lives.) The promised funds for converting Rowitta into the Speculant were no longer available, so it was restored back to its original configuration. The vessel represented the importance of coastal traders to transport, trade and communication in Australia times before rail and motor vehicles. Sadly, in 2015 the time had come to demolish the Rowitta due to her excessive deterioration and the high cost of ongoing repairs. The vessel had given over 100 years of service and pleasure to those who knew her. This Bridge section of a ship’s Engine Order Telegraph, used with an Engine Room section, represents late-19th century change and progress in communication and navigation at sea. This type of equipment was still in use in the mid-20th century. The object is significant for its association with its maker, Chadburn & Son, of Liverpool, a well-known marine instrument maker whose work was recognised by English Royalty, and whose products were selected to supply similar equipment for use on the RMS Titanic. This ship’s telegraph is connected to the history of the Rowitta, which was a large exhibit on display at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village from the museum’s early beginnings until the vessel’s end of life 40 years later. The display was used as an aid to maritime education. The Rowitta represents the importance of coastal traders to transport, trade and communication along the coast of Victoria, between states, and in Australia before rail and motor vehicles. The vessel was an example of a ferry built in the early 20th century that served many different roles over its lifetime of over 100 years. Bridge section of a Ship’s Telegraph or Engine Order Telegraph (E.O.T.). The round double-sided, painted glass dial is contained within a brass case behind glass. It is fitted onto an outward tapering brass pedestal with a round base. The brass indicator arrows between the handles point simultaneously to both sides of the dial when moved. An oval brass maker’s plate is attached to the top of the case. The dial’s faces have inscriptions that indicate speed and direction, and the front face and plate include the maker’s details. A serial number is stamped on the collar where the dial is fitted to the pedestal. The ship’s telegraph is a Duplex Gong model, made by Chadburn & Son of Liverpool. Dial, maker’s details: “PATENT “DUPLEX GONG” TELEGRAPH / CHADBURN & SON / TELEGRAPH WORKS / PATENTEES & MANUFACTURERS / 11 WATERLOO ROAD / LIVERPOOL” LONDON / 105 FENCHURCH STREET” “NEWCASTLE / 85 QUAY + SIDE” “GLASGOW / 69 ANDERSON QUAY” “PATENT” Dial instructions: “FULL / HALF/ SLOW / FINISHED WITH ENGINES / STOP STAND BY / SLOW / HALF / FULL / ASTERN / AHEAD” Maker’s plate: “CHADBURN / & SON / PATENT / LIVERPOOL” Serial number: “22073”flagstaff hill, warrnambool, maritime village, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, great ocean road, engine order telegraph, e.o.t., navigational instrument, communication device, ship’s telegraph, engine room section, bridge section, rms titanic, chadburn & son, chadburn brothers, william chadburn, chadburn ship telegraph company, chadburns, duplex gong, liverpool, ss rowitta, navigation, marine technology, pilot’s orders, steam power, hobart, tasmania, devonport, tasmanian-built, ferry, steam ferry, steamer, 1909, early 20th century vessel, passenger vessel, tamar trading company, launceston, george town, sorrento, tarkarri, speculant, peter mcgennan, p j mcgennan & co. port phillip ferries pty ltd, melbourne, coastal trader, timber steamer, huon, karri, freighter, supply ship, charter ferry, floating restaurant, prawn boat, lakes entrance -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Bell
Bell, chrome coated with hard wound rope attached to gong, with a bracket used to attach bell to wall.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia
Iron Triangle Gong purchased from Magdala Mine when mine closed by Mr Garnet Hatelystawell -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph, Frank Wright at Gong Gong Reservoir, 06/06/1922
Frank Wright was a renown resident of Smeaton, where he was born. He lived at Laura Villa, and attended Smeaton State School. His father William was a gold miner and his mother's name was Sarah. Their family won many singing and instrumental awards. Frank was tutored by Percy Code and became the Australian Open Cornet Champion by the age of eighteen. A year later, Frank conducted the City of Ballarat Band, and later the Ballarat Soldiers’ Memorial Band. He formed the Frank Wright Frisco Band and Frank Wright and his Coliseum Orchestra. These bands won many South Street awards, and Frank as conductor won many awards in the Australian Band Championship contest. In 1933 Frank Wright sailed to England to conduct the famous St Hilda’s Band and was later appointed Musical Director of the London County Council, where he organized many amazing concerts in parks, in and around the London district. He was made Professor of Brass and Military Band Scoring and conducted at the Guildhall of Music and Drama. Frank was often invited to adjudicate Brass Band Championships around Europe, in Australia, including South Street and in New Zealand. The Frank Wright Medal at the Royal South Street competition is awarded to an individual recognized as making an outstanding contribution to brass music in Australia.A small black and white photograph of a man in a suit and hat seated on a rock. In front leaning against the rock is a bicycle and in the background is water with a timbered hill on the far side.Written in pen - (20) F.W. taken at Gong (near Ballarat), 6/6/22, by V.H.frank wright, gong gong reservoir, bicycle -
Buninyong & District Historical Society
Photograph - B/W photograph, Gong and Gardens, Cornish St., Buninyong, with horse and cart, unknown
One of a series of large photos of Buninyong scenes. 1980s copy of original photo.Historically significant streetscape of the Gong and Gardens, looking to the Butter Factory and Warden's OfficeBlack and white photo (undated) of the Buninyong Gardens and Gong, with a horse and cart in the foreground. Taken looking south along Cornish St. 1980s copy.MAbuninyong, buninyong gardens, the gong, horse, cart, cornish st. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - Article, Lady Brooks to 'Gong-in' festival, 4/10/1967
Article on Chinese temple gong used in opening of 1967 Nunawading Arts Festival. Copy from Jessie Williams, Nunawading Gazette 4 October 1967.chinese temple gong, nunawading arts festival, williams, jessie, sutherland, leslie j, kathy -
Lorne Historical Society
Tool - Mallet
This mallet was used to strike the gong to indicate meal times at Kalimna Guesthouse in Lorne . A wooden mallet, with metal tips on the ends of the striking headkalimna guesthouse, guesthouses, kalimna -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Digital photograph, Fellmonger's Township
Fellmonger's Township was on the outskirts of Ballarat East near Gong Gong. Martin Hosking, Dennis Kinnane, Quinns, O'Deas, and Nestors lived in this location. Hewitt's soap works were located on the banks of the Yarrowee Creek on the Daylesford - Ballarat road and were obviously near a fellmongering operation from which the area derives its name.Black and white photograph of the town of Fellmongers, near Ballarat.fellmongers, ballarat east, gong gong -
Federation University Historical Collection
Postcard - Images, Views of Ballarat, c1920
Six small black and white postcards depicting views of Ballarat. .1) Sturt Street Gardens Ballarat, c1920 .2) Gong Gong Reservoir, Ballarat, c1920 .3) Sturt Street, Ballarat, c1920 .4) Sturt Street, Ballarat, c1920 .5) Sturt Street Looking Towards Mount Warrenheip, Ballarat, c1920 .6) Ballarat Arch of Victory, Ballarat, c1920. This view shows newly planted trees in the Ballarat Avenue of Hunour. ballarat, sturt street, sturt street gardens, mt warrenheip, trams, gong gong reservoir, ballarat arch of victory, gallaway memorial, galloway fountain, ballarat avenue of honour, harry davies, arch of victory, harry davies and co, ballaarat mechanics' institute, st andrew's kirk -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - PHYLLIS TOY COLLECTION: BENDIGO POTTERY INVOICE ISSUED TO PHYLLIS TOY
Bendigo Pottery cash sale receipt No. 256 issued to Phyllis Toy 3 Beebe Street, Bendigo for purchase of plate gong and baton No. 26 - 3 for $75. Plate made by Judy Lorraine Potter. -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Postcard - 6 Views of Ballarat, c1908
Coloured Postcard with a set of 6 views of Ballarat - Sturt St with a double deck horse tram behind an ESCo tramcar, Central Median strip, Ballarat Post Office with an ESCo tram in the foreground, Gardens, Sturt St and Gong Gong Reservoir. Has a handwritten letter to a person near Newcastle and dated 28-12-1908(?). The stamp has been removed. Also has Ken Magor's hand stamp on the rear. No details of publisher. Demonstrates a multi view coloured postcard.Postcard - coloured - 6 panel views of Ballarat - divided back, used.See image i2 for letter and posting details.sturt street, post office, ballarat, tramways, lydiard st, esco, gong gong reservoir, gardens, botanical gardens -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Functional object - Artefact, Kew Bowling Club Dinner Gong, 1950-1970
Sports Clubs in Kew in the final decades of the 19th century and in the early 20th century were often umbrella organisations with facilities for a number of sports. Typically in Kew, this included teams in lawn bowls, tennis and croquet. The Kew Bowling Club was formed in 1880 while the privately owned Auburn Heights Recreation Club was opened in 1904. By 1998, the two Clubs decided to amalgamate at the Auburn Heights site in Barkers Road, forming the Kew Heights Sports Club. The combined club was itself taken over by the Melbourne Cricket Club in 2012 becoming MCC Kew Sports Club. In 2017 MCC Kew closed and its landholding was subsequently sold to Carey Baptist Grammar School. Both the Kew and Auburn Heights Clubs assembled important collections. These historically significant and large collections were donated to the Society in 2020. The collections include manuscripts, pictures, trophies, plans, honour boards etc. References Barnard FGA 1910, 'Sports and Pastimes' in Jubilee History of Kew Victoria: Its origin & progress 1803-1910. Nixon NV 1980, The History of the Kew Bowling Club 1880-1980. Reeve S 2012, City of Boroondara: Thematic Environmental History, p.216.The combined collections of the four sporting clubs making up the collection number hundreds of items that are historically significant locally. They are also significant to the sporting history of the greater Melbourne area and to the sports of lawn bowls and tennis in Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection illuminates two of the Victorian historic themes - 'Building community life' through forming community organisations and 'Shaping cultural and creative life' by participating in sport and recreation.Small brass dinner gong with two strikers, believed to have been used in the Kew Bowling Club. [The item is part of the large historic Kew Bowling Club collection (1880-1988) gifted to the Kew Historical Society in 2020].kew bowling club - wellington street - kew (vic), clubs - lawn bowls - kew (vic), dinner gongs -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Map, General Accident Fire and Life Assurance, "Sketch Map of Ballaarat including Ballaarat East and Sebastopol", c1940
Yields information about Ballarat c1940 and how the area was rate for insurance purposes.Map - paper mounted onto a heavy card backing titled "Sketch Map of Ballaarat including Ballaarat East and Sebastopol" with a printed label "General Accident Fire and Life Assurance" pasted to the top of the title. Drawn at 30chains to the inch. Map shows the boundaries between the carious insurance classifications in the district, which relates partly to the local government areas at the time. Shows the Yarrowee, Gong Gong Creeks, rail lines, stations, Black Hill and some other features. Includes the Explosives factory area. Does not show the tram lines.trams, tramways, ballarat, maps, insurance, sebastopol -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Illustration, "Lydiard and Sturt Streets", c1900
Illustration titled "Lydiard and Sturt Streets" - Centre of Ballarat, showing Post Office. In the bottom left-hand corner is a single-deck horse tram with a Havelock Tobacco advert on the roof. The illustration gives a sweeping wide angle view of the intersection with the Post Office marked with the words "Post Office". There are several horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians in the view. The image has the initials "HJS" and "PS&Co" on both photos in the bottom corners. On the rear is a photo of the Gong Gong Reservoir with a note about its size and construction - built 1877.Yields information about a single deck horse tram and the intersection of Sturt and Lydiard StreetsIllustration cut from a magazine or publicationballarat, illustrations, sturt st, lydiard st, post office, horse trams, single deck horse tram, gong gong reservoir -
Learmonth and District Historical Society Inc.
Mantle Clock, "circa 1910"
Founded in1903 when William E.Sessions and some of his family took over E.N.Welch Co. in Forestville. E.N.Welch Manufacturing Company used a local foundry to produce their castings. The foundry owner's son,William E.Sessions, took an interest in horology and ,along with other Sessions family members, bought controlling interest in the E.N.Welch Company., which was a joint stock corporation formed July 6th 1864 to succeed an older private firm who made clocks under the name of E.N.Welch. Elisha N. Welch (1809-1887),had been making clocks at a factory on East Main Street Forestville Conneticut after taking over J.C.Browns bankrupt business around 1856.Under William Sessions management the firm produced all components of their clocks including movements,cases,dials,artworks and castings.In 1930 the company expanded to produce electric clocks,timers for radios,televisions and other devices as well as their traditional brass mechanicial movements.In 1956 Sessions was absorbed by another company while retaining the name and in 1969 the business went into liquidation.Clock is made of black wood with Corinthian style columns,three set on each front corner. These are black metal, and show remains of gilt paint on top of columns.On the base of the clock is carved decoration with similar carvings on each of the four corners of square around clock face.Dial is cream with Roman numerals. the hands are set in gilt centre piece.Below the 12 is the name WELCH.The glass dial cover is edged in gilt. It is spring wound and has settings-day/night,1/2 hour strike(hour on gong -1/2 0n bell), Cathederal Gong, turn back hands. THE SESSIONS CLOCK COMPANY. Successors to the E.N.WELCH MANUFACTURING COMPANY.Forestville.Conneticut.United States of America.mantle clock, the sessions clock company, forestville conneticut united states of america -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, Albert E. Stohr, Curriculum Vitae of A.E.Stohr, 1970, 19/01/1970
Albert E. Stohr was a member of the Council of the Ballarat School of Mines for 24 years, a member of the Council of the Ballarat grammar School for 24 years, represented all Provincial Sewerage Authorities in Victoria on the Plumbers and gasfitters registration Board of Victoria for 25 years, member of the Institution of Engineers (Australia) for 46 years, member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Australia for 22 years, and chairman of the Ballarat Group of the Association . Member of the Rotary Club of Ballarat for 24 years, and many other organisational.Five foolscap pages relating to the education and career of Albert Edward Stohr. Work places include: Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd; Victorian Railways Construction Branch; Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works; Sewerage and Main Drainage Branch; Water Supply Branch; United States Army Services of Supply; Department of the Australian Army; Ballarat Water Commissioners; Ballarat Sewerage Authority. His projects include the White Swan Reservoir, Gong Gong Reservoir Spillway Channel; Installation of Venturi Meters at Brown Hill; Sewerage treatment Works; Nightsoil Dumping and Pan Washing Depot. stohr, bert stohr, a.e. stohr, white swan reservoir, engineering alumni, engineer, ballarat school of mines. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - CORRESPONDENCE: SIEKEW (OR SIAKEW) FAMILY, 8th January, 2012
Correspondence (8/12/2012) re Siekew (or Siakew) family requesting further information re family history. Mention of Willie Gong Moon; Thomas Job? Garrett as husbands of Myrtle May Siakew. No recorded response (form BHS?). Filed under S.Claere Bagdyperson, family, siekew family -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Book, RAAF Saga - The RAAF at War, 1944
This volume is like a veteran 'gong' - winner with years of tough going and breathless incidents to draw from. The service and the blokes in it have been able to dig into this pile of gen. and present some amazing stories, pictures, poems, graphics and cartoons.Personal recounts from RAAF service personnel by way of stories, poems, cartoons, illustrations and portraitsRAAF Saga - The RAAF at War, blue hardcover front, back and spine with black Text of title and a black silhouette picture on front cover showing aircraft. Front and back inside cover is a blue sepia background with the RAAF insignia and a range of bombers being maintained.Message from Air Vice Marshall Chief of air staff C Jonesraaf, wwii, beaufighters, waafs, partisans, parachute, middle east squadron, kitty hawk, flying nurses, medical air evacuation unit, wewak, new guinea, jungle diary, the p24 -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Book, Soldiering On - The Australian Army at Home and Overseas, 1942
This volume is like a veteran 'gong' - winner with years of tough going and breathless incidents to draw from. The service and the blokes in it have been able to dig into this pile of gen. and present some amazing stories, pictures, poems, graphics and cartoons.Personal recounts from RAAF service personnel by way of stories, poems, cartoons, illustrations and portraitsSoldiering On - The Australian Army at Home and Overseas. Red hardback front and back with light coloured text of title. The rising sun badge, with text under it - The Australian Army at home and overseas. Inside front and back cover show illustrations of RAAF personnel dressed in the uniform which depicts their job i.e. females in nurse uniforms. raaf,, wwii, new guinea, malaya, middle east, bethlehem, south west pacific, bab-el-mandeb, doughboy, royal womens army service, syria, cairo, singapore battle, jungle ambush -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Book, Soldiering On - The Australian Army at Home and Overseas, 1942
This volume is like a veteran 'gong' - winner with years of tough going and breathless incidents to draw from. The service and the blokes in it have been able to dig into this pile of gen. and present some amazing stories, pictures, poems, graphics and cartoons.Personal recounts from RAAF service personnel by way of stories, poems, cartoons, illustrations and portraitsSoldiering On - The Australian Army at Home and Overseas. Red hardback front and back with light coloured text of title. The rising sun badge, with text under it - The Australian Army at home and overseas. Inside front and back cover show illustrations of RAAF personnel dressed in the uniform which depicts their job i.e. females in nurse uniforms. raaf,, wwii, new guinea, malaya, middle east, bethlehem, south west pacific, bab-el-mandeb, doughboy, royal womens army service, syria, cairo, singapore battle, jungle ambush -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Book, Soldiering On - The Australian Army at Home and Overseas, 1952
This volume is like a veteran 'gong' - winner with years of tough going and breathless incidents to draw from. The service and the blokes in it have been able to dig into this pile of gen. and present some amazing stories, pictures, poems, graphics and cartoons.Personal recounts from RAAF service personnel by way of stories, poems, cartoons, illustrations and portraitsSoldiering On - The Australian Army at Home and Overseas. Green hardback front and back with light coloured text of title. The rising sun badge, with text under it - The Australian Army at home and overseas. Inside front and back cover show illustrations of RAAF personnel dressed in the uniform which depicts their job i.e. females in nurse uniforms. raaf,, wwii, new guinea, malaya, middle east, bethlehem, south west pacific, bab-el-mandeb, doughboy, royal womens army service, syria, cairo, singapore battle, jungle ambush -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Hard Cover book, Soldiering On, The Australian Army at Home and Overseas, 1942
This volume is like a veteran 'gong' - winner with years of tough going and breathless incidents to draw from. The service and the blokes in it have been able to dig into this pile of gen. and present some amazing stories, pictures, poems, graphics and cartoons. Personal recounts from RAAF service personnel by way of stories, poems, cartoons, illustrations and portraits Soldiering On - The Australian Army at Home and Overseas. Red hardback front and back with light coloured text of title. The rising sun badge, with text under it - The Australian Army at home and overseas. Inside front and back cover show illustrations of RAAF personnel dressed in the uniform which depicts their job i.e. females in nurse uniforms. -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Book, Soldiering On - The Australian Army at Home and Overseas, 1942
This volume is like a veteran 'gong' - winner with years of tough going and breathless incidents to draw from. The service and the blokes in it have been able to dig into this pile of gen. and present some amazing stories, pictures, poems, graphics and cartoons.Personal recounts from RAAF service personnel by way of stories, poems, cartoons, illustrations and portraitsSoldiering On - The Australian Army at Home and Overseas. Red hardback front and back with light coloured text of title. The rising sun badge, with text under it - The Australian Army at home and overseas. Inside front and back cover show illustrations of RAAF personnel dressed in the uniform which depicts their job i.e. females in nurse uniforms. raaf,, wwii, new guinea, malaya, middle east, bethlehem, south west pacific, bab-el-mandeb, doughboy, royal womens army service, syria, cairo, singapore battle, jungle ambush -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Book, RAAF Saga - The RAAF at War, 1944
This volume is like a veteran 'gong' - winner with years of tough going and breathless incidents to draw from. The service and the blokes in it have been able to dig into this pile of gen. and present some amazing stories, pictures, poems, graphics and cartoons.Personal recounts from RAAF service personnel by way of stories, poems, cartoons, illustrations and portraitsRAAF Saga - The RAAF at War, green hardcover front, back and spine with black Text of title and a black silhouette picture on front cover showing aircraft. Front and back inside cover is a green sepia background with the RAAF insignia and a range of bombers being maintained.Message from Air Vice Marshall Chief of air staff C Jonesraaf, wwii, beaufighters, waafs, partisans, parachute, middle east squadron, kitty hawk, flying nurses, medical air evacuation unit, wewak, new guinea, jungle diary, the p24 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional Object - Tower Truck, Bedford and NSW Government Tramways, 1952
Overhead Maintenance motor truck with hydraulic elevating and rotating platform on a 1952 Bedford Chassis. Engine no. KM 237540, with purpose built platform, lockers, cupboards and elevating platform, ladders, hand rails and a gong. Fitted with turn indicators and flashing lights by BTPS and vice. In MMTB cream paint.mmtb, overhead, support vehicle -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Functional object - Toy, Yarra Trams, "Look Listen, be alert around trams / Yarra Trams", c2014
Yellow moulded rubber soft or flexile toy Rhino with words "Look Listen, be alert around trams / Yarra Trams" on one side and "A tram weighs as much as 30 Rhinos". On the underside has a grey button when pushed makes the sound of an "electronic tram" gong - twice. Two copies held.trams, tramways, yarra trams, safety, rhinos -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Book, Ballarat Litho & Printing Co, "The Picturesque Folio of Ballarat - 'The Modern Athens", 1904
Forty two page book with red covers, titled "The Picturesque Folio of Ballarat - 'The Modern Athens". Sheets have been individually printed both sides, stapled and then glued to the covers. Cover - gives title and printer details First sheet - with a greetings sheet for Good wishes and seasons greetings. Has a printed date of 1905. See Inscriptions. Dated 22/11/1904. Pages 3 - 10 - a historical sketch of Ballarat, compiled by Lieut-Colonel R. W. Williams V.D. Pages 12 - 41 - photos of Ballarat and district - such as: Sturt St The Lakes Post Office - note the trams clock board - taken at corner of Lydiard and Sturt Streets, looking east. The Gardens Queen Victoria Square Lydiard and Sturt St with a horse tram in the photo Victoria Park Eureka Monument The Statues Botanical Gardens Benevolent Asylum Hospital The City Oval - Richards & Co Photograph Fairy Land - the Lake Railway Station with a D class loco waiting for a signal, 3 post home before the level crossing. Has Irwin's Provincial hotel in view. Gong Gong Lake School of Mines and Methodist Church Lake Fountain A Ballarat view - 1853 - 54. View Point Gong Gong reservoir embankment South Star Mine Lal Lal Falls Band & Loch Mine On last page has the logo for the printers - Ballarat Litho & Printing Co, successors to F. W. Niven & Co. 56 and 58 Lydiard St. Ballarat. PDF scan of book added 21/9/2019 as btm3326i.pdfOn first page in black ink " to Chorus? Dodds, from Robert Dodds, and dated 22 Nov 1904.trams, tramways, ballarat, horse trams, sturt st, gardens, railway station, hospital -
Yarrawonga and Mulwala Pioneer Museum
Decorative object - Sessions mantle clock, After 1903 and before 1935
Purchased in Bendigo in 1973. Previous history unknown. Provided with laminated account of Sessions clock Co history. Mantle clock black wooden casing with embossed "flourishes" on front base and around the clock face. Fancy gold painted face featuring numbers. Black hands. Detachable back reveals the mechanism. Has key attached inside . In working orderMade in USA on face. Labelled on back, eight day, half hour, cathedral gong, turn back. The Sessions Clock Co successors to the E. N. Welch MFG Co, Forrestville, Conn, USA -
Rye RSL Sub Branch
Dinner Gong
Hand theatre made "trench art", utilising used artillery brass shell casings, of various calibres, hand made with such "tools" as were available at the time. They have been decoratively trimmed at the mouth of each with a "scalloped" pattern, the shallowest casing mounted on small arms casings as "feet" and the large casing inverted engraved and embossed with a depiction of the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces "Rising Sun" badge.This "Dinner Gong" and "Striker" are significant Historically and Socially, as it is believed to be the only example of a dinner gong and striker made in theatre as contemporary "trench art" by serving members of this group. Around the top of the main part of the Gong are stamped the initials of the Australian members of the Royal Flying Corps at the time, it is of possible National historical significance, as they were such a small group at best, and a highly vulnerable group, quite likely to not survive the conflict. This group and their desendants went on to be a part of the formation of the Australian Flying Corps, the beginings of the Royal Australian Air Force. It relates to the embrionic stages of a part of the now Australian Defence Force.A commemorative Dinner Gong construted from Artillery Shell Casings of various sizes. The largest cut short at the bottom, mounted on rifle or machine gun casings cut short as 'feet'. A slightly smaller diameter inverted as the 'gong' with decorative engravings depicting, a Rising Sun emblem on a decorated back ground, 'AFC' (Australian Flying Corps) crowned wings, on the same decorated back ground. The open ends of these larger casings is 'scalloped' and decorated beautifully, while the closed ends have a 'pie crust effect around the flanged edge. There is a biforcated mount at the top to hold the 'striker' made from white metal ballastered rod with a wooden eliptical knob. On the top around the striker mount are stamped the initials of those believed to be the first Australian Aviators in the then AFC.