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Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Wooden darning tool
... Elsie Doris Whitten (Grandmother of Parice Jennings) ...Wooden mushroom used for darning may be gloves from Patrice Jennings' grandmother's collection.Small wooden mushroom used for darning small items such as gloves.darning, wood, jennings patrice, elsie doris whitten -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Confectionery Store 1915, C. 1915
... jennings ...Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont', P. 32.|Mrs. Jennings also pr0vided school lunches, hot soup could be eaten on a closed verandah. She also sold haberdashery items in a small enclosed room of the shop.Black and white photo of Mrs Jennings' Confectionery Store, 1915, in Boronia Road, Vermont.shambrook, tim, jennings, mrs -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, BIOGRAPHY WW2, C.O. Jennings (Captain "Mick" Jennings R.E.), "An Ocean Without Shores", 1950
... C.O. Jennings (Captain "Mick" Jennings R.E.) ..."AN OCEAN WITHOUT SHORES" Tale of the adventures which befell two British soldiers in their attempt to escape from Singapore and the enemy.Hard cover book. Cover - cardboard, light brown colour buckram with dark blue print on spine and on front cover illustration - sketch of sailing dinghy. 223 pages - cut, plain, off white paper. Illustrated black and white photographs and maps. Owner's stamp - front end paper, title page and throughout pages. Front end paper/ Title page - owner's stamp - blue ink "RETURNED & SERVICES LEAGUE/MEMORIAL HALL BENDIGO" Pages throughout book - owner's stamp, black ink "TUBERCULAR SOLDIER'S AID SOCIETY/ INORPORATED".books, military history, ww2, biography -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, E.J. Barker, Malcolm Jennings letter regardng studies at School of Mines, 15th September 1971
... Malcolm Jennings letter regardng studies at School of Mines. ...School of Mines Ballarat is a predecessor of Federation UniversityTyped letter on white paper, black typing with red underlining.malcolm jennings, e.j. barker, school of mines ballarat, sheetmetal, apprenticeship -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Folder, H. Jennings, 1851
... H. Jennings ...Folder of information on H Jenningas, Eltham 1851h jennings -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Former Mayor, Margaret Jennings addresses the crowd, Save Community Reserves Rally, Main Road, Eltham, 4 March 2018, 4/3/2018
... Former Mayor, Margaret Jennings addresses the crowd, Save ...Protest rally against Nillumbik Shire Councillors' proposal to sell off 17 community reserves. Held at the site of the former Shire of Eltham offices, at 895 Main Road, which were demolished in August 1996, followed by a march along Main Road finishing at the Eltham Railway Station car park at Luck Street. Estimated attendance was approximately 3,000.Born digital image (8)nillumbik shire council, parks, save community reserves, protest rally -
Linton and District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Dr. Donaldson on his Rounds with Bill Jennings
... Dr. Donaldson on his Rounds with Bill Jennings ...Black and white copy of original photograph showing two men sitting in a gig, covered with a knee rug, with two dark horses in front. There is a house and picket fence in the background.dr. donaldson, william (bill) jennings, horse and gig, transport -
Linton and District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Garry Jennings and Valma Preston in Costume
... Garry Jennings and Valma Preston in Costume ...Small black and white photograph of two children wearing fancy dress.valma preston, garry jennings -
Linton and District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Reg Jennings
... Reg Jennings ...Black and white copy of original photograph showing a man wearing a suit and tie, standing in front of a house, bush in foreground.reg jennings -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Curette, Late 19th - early 20th century
... J.T. Jennings Ltd. ...This curette was donated to Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village by the family of Doctor William Roy Angus, Surgeon and Oculist. It is part of the “W.R. Angus Collection” that includes historical medical equipment, surgical instruments and material once belonging to Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Thomas Francis Ryan, (both of Nhill, Victoria) as well as Dr Angus’ own belongings. The Collection’s history spans the medical practices of the two Doctors Ryan, from 1885-1926 plus that of Dr Angus, up until 1969. ABOUT THE “W.R.ANGUS COLLECTION” Doctor William Roy Angus M.B., B.S., Adel., 1923, F.R.C.S. Edin.,1928 (also known as Dr Roy Angus) was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria in 1901 and lived until 1970. He qualified as a doctor in 1923 at University of Adelaide, was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924 and for a period was house surgeon to Sir (then Mr.) Henry Simpson Newland. Dr Angus was briefly an Assistant to Dr Riddell of Kapunda, then commenced private practice at Curramulka, Yorke Peninsula, SA, where he was physician, surgeon and chemist. In 1926, he was appointed as new Medical Assistant to Dr Thomas Francis Ryan (T.F. Ryan, or Tom), in Nhill, Victoria, where his experiences included radiology and pharmacy. In 1927 he was Acting House Surgeon in Dr Tom Ryan’s absence. Dr Angus had become engaged to Gladys Forsyth and they decided he would take time to further his studies overseas in the UK in 1927. He studied at London University College Hospital and at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in 1928, was awarded FRCS (Fellow from the Royal College of Surgeons), Edinburgh. He worked his passage back to Australia as a Ship’s Surgeon on the on the Australian Commonwealth Line’s T.S.S. Largs Bay. Dr Angus married Gladys in 1929, in Ballarat. (They went on to have one son (Graham 1932, born in SA) and two daughters (Helen (died 12/07/1996) and Berenice (Berry), both born at Mira, Nhill ) Dr Angus was a ‘flying doctor’ for the A.I.M. (Australian Inland Ministry) Aerial Medical Service in 1928 . The organisation began in South Australia through the Presbyterian Church in that year, with its first station being in the remote town of Oodnadatta, where Dr Angus was stationed. He was locum tenens there on North-South Railway at 21 Mile Camp. He took up this ‘flying doctor’ position in response to a call from Dr John Flynn; the organisation was later known as the Flying Doctor Service, then the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A lot of his work during this time involved dental surgery also. Between 1928-1932 he was surgeon at the Curramulka Hospital, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. In 1933 Dr Angus returned to Nhill where he’d previously worked as Medical Assistant and purchased a share of the Nelson Street practice and Mira hospital from Dr Les Middleton one of the Middleton Brothers, the current owners of what was once Dr Tom Ryan’s practice. Dr L Middleton was House Surgeon to the Nhill Hospital 1926-1933, when he resigned. [Dr Tom Ryan’s practice had originally belonged to his older brother Dr Edward Ryan, who came to Nhill in 1885. Dr Edward saw patients at his rooms, firstly in Victoria Street and in 1886 in Nelson Street, until 1901. The Nelson Street practice also had a 2 bed ward, called Mira Private Hospital ). Dr Edward Ryan was House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1884-1902 . He also had occasions where he successfully performed veterinary surgery for the local farmers too. Dr Tom Ryan then purchased the practice from his brother in 1901. Both Dr Edward and Dr Tom Ryan work as surgeons included eye surgery. Dr Tom Ryan performed many of his operations in the Mira private hospital on his premises. He too was House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1902-1926. Dr Tom Ryan had one of the only two pieces of radiology equipment in Victoria during his practicing years – The Royal Melbourne Hospital had the other one. Over the years Dr Tom Ryan gradually set up what was effectively a training school for country general-practitioner-surgeons. Each patient was carefully examined, including using the X-ray machine, and any surgery was discussed and planned with Dr Ryan’s assistants several days in advance. Dr Angus gained experience in using the X-ray machine there during his time as assistant to Dr Ryan. Dr Tom Ryan moved from Nhill in 1926. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1927, soon after its formation, a rare accolade for a doctor outside any of the major cities. He remained a bachelor and died suddenly on 7th Dec 1955, aged 91, at his home in Ararat. Scholarships and prizes are still awarded to medical students in the honour of Dr T.F. Ryan and his father, Dr Michael Ryan, and brother, John Patrick Ryan. ] When Dr Angus bought into the Nelson Street premises in Nhill he was also appointed as the Nhill Hospital’s Honorary House Surgeon 1933-1938. His practitioner’s plate from his Nhill surgery states “HOURS Daily, except Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturday afternoons, 9-10am, 2-4pm, 7-8pm. Sundays by appointment”. This plate is now mounted on the doorway to the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Tom Ryan had an extensive collection of historical medical equipment and materials spanning 1884-1926 and when Dr Angus took up practice in their old premises he obtained this collection, a large part of which is now on display at the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool. During his time in Nhill Dr Angus was involved in the merging of the Mira Hospital and Nhill Public Hospital into one public hospital and the property titles passed on to Nhill Hospital in 1939. In 1939 Dr Angus and his family moved to Warrnambool where he purchased “Birchwood,” the 1852 home and medical practice of Dr John Hunter Henderson, at 214 Koroit Street. (This property was sold in1965 to the State Government and is now the site of the Warrnambool Police Station. ). The Angus family was able to afford gardeners, cooks and maids; their home was a popular place for visiting dignitaries to stay whilst visiting Warrnambool. Dr Angus had his own silk worm farm at home in a Mulberry tree. His young daughter used his centrifuge for spinning the silk. Dr Angus was appointed on a part-time basis as Port Medical Officer (Health Officer) in Warrnambool and held this position until the 1940’s when the government no longer required the service of a Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool; he was thus Warrnambool’s last serving Port Medical Officer. (The duties of a Port Medical Officer were outlined by the Colonial Secretary on 21st June, 1839 under the terms of the Quarantine Act. Masters of immigrant ships arriving in port reported incidents of diseases, illness and death and the Port Medical Officer made a decision on whether the ship required Quarantine and for how long, in this way preventing contagious illness from spreading from new immigrants to the residents already in the colony.) Dr Angus was a member of the Australian Medical Association, for 35 years and surgeon at the Warrnambool Base Hospital 1939-1942, He served as a Surgeon Captain during WWII1942-45, in Ballarat, Victoria, and in Bonegilla, N.S.W., completing his service just before the end of the war due to suffering from a heart attack. During his convalescence he carved an intricate and ‘most artistic’ chess set from the material that dentures were made from. He then studied ophthalmology at the Royal Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital and created cosmetically superior artificial eyes by pioneering using the intrascleral cartilage. Angus received accolades from the Ophthalmological Society of Australasia for this work. He returned to Warrnambool to commence practice as an ophthalmologist, pioneering in artificial eye improvements. He was Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist to Warrnambool Base Hospital for 31 years. He made monthly visits to Portland as a visiting surgeon, to perform eye surgery. He represented the Victorian South-West subdivision of the Australian Medical Association as its secretary between 1949 and 1956 and as chairman from 1956 to 1958. In 1968 Dr Angus was elected member of Spain’s Barraquer Institute of Barcelona after his research work in Intrasclearal cartilage grafting, becoming one of the few Australian ophthalmologists to receive this honour, and in the following year presented his final paper on Living Intrasclearal Cartilage Implants at the Inaugural Meeting of the Australian College of Ophthalmologists in Melbourne In his personal life Dr Angus was a Presbyterian and treated Sunday as a Sabbath, a day of rest. He would visit 3 or 4 country patients on a Sunday, taking his children along ‘for the ride’ and to visit with him. Sunday evenings he would play the pianola and sing Scottish songs to his family. One of Dr Angus’ patients was Margaret MacKenzie, author of a book on local shipwrecks that she’d seen as an eye witness from the late 1880’s in Peterborough, Victoria. In the early 1950’s Dr Angus, painted a picture of a shipwreck for the cover jacket of Margaret’s book, Shipwrecks and More Shipwrecks. She was blind in later life and her daughter wrote the actual book for her. Dr Angus and his wife Gladys were very involved in Warrnambool’s society with a strong interest in civic affairs. Their interests included organisations such as Red Cross, Rostrum, Warrnambool and District Historical Society (founding members), Wine and Food Society, Steering Committee for Tertiary Education in Warrnambool, Local National Trust, Good Neighbour Council, Housing Commission Advisory Board, United Services Institute, Legion of Ex-Servicemen, Olympic Pool Committee, Food for Britain Organisation, Warrnambool Hospital, Anti-Cancer Council, Boys’ Club, Charitable Council, National Fitness Council and Air Raid Precautions Group. He was also a member of the Steam Preservation Society and derived much pleasure from a steam traction engine on his farm. He had an interest in people and the community He and his wife Gladys were both involved in the creation of Flagstaff Hill, including the layout of the gardens. After his death (28th March 1970) his family requested his practitioner’s plate, medical instruments and some personal belongings be displayed in the Port Medical Office surgery at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, and be called the “W. R. Angus Collection”. The W.R. Angus Collection is significant for still being located at the site it is connected with, Doctor Angus being the last Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool. The collection of medical instruments and other equipment is culturally significant, being an historical example of medicine from late 19th to mid-20th century. Dr Angus assisted Dr Tom Ryan, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and in ocular surgery. Ear curette, from the W.R. Angus Collection. Stamped "STAINLESS" & "JOHN. T. JENNINGS.LTD" & "SYDNEY"Stamped "STAINLESS" & "JOHN. T. JENNINGS.LTD" & "SYDNEY"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, dr w r angus, dr ryan, surgical instrument, ent ear nose throat surgery, t.s.s. largs bay, warrnambool base hospital, nhill base hospital, mira hospital, flying doctor, medical treatment, curette -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Jill Barnard et al, Welcome and Farewell: The Story of Station Pier, 2004
... Sonia Jennings ...This book is about those who arrived in the hope of a new life and new opportunities. Those who departed to homelands and foreign shores, and they who represented us and were never to return to loved ones. We look at the people who worked on the Pier, its custodians and protectors of its heritage value. Finally, the passing visitors and those who came to simply enjoy and reminisce.Illustrated large-format book with 224 pagesnon-fictionThis book is about those who arrived in the hope of a new life and new opportunities. Those who departed to homelands and foreign shores, and they who represented us and were never to return to loved ones. We look at the people who worked on the Pier, its custodians and protectors of its heritage value. Finally, the passing visitors and those who came to simply enjoy and reminisce.immigration, station pier, port melbourne, shipping -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Jill Barnard et al, Welcome and Farewell: The Story of Station Pier, 2004
... Sonia Jennings ...In the mid-nineteenth century, Victoria’s primitive maritime infrastructure was not coping with the volume of passenger and cargo traffic arriving in and departing from the burgeoning gold-fevered colony. However, the opening of Railway Pier at Port Melbourne in 1854 greatly improved the situation. Railway Pier serviced the steamships, which plied Port Phillip Bay and the Victorian coastal waters beyond, and also offered berths for vessels on the regular runs to other Australian colonies and to overseas destinations. However, as the larger and more powerful steamships of the early twentieth century found berthing increasingly difficult at Railway Pier, the need for a more modern pier became apparent. By 1930, the new Station Pier had replaced its predecessor. Itself extended and upgraded several times including during the past decade, Station pier still offers every contemporary convenience to shipping services using its busy facilities, just as did its predecessor Railway Pier, 150 years ago. The Victorian Government commissioned Welcome & Farewell to celebrate the 150 years since the opening of the Railway Pier. In doing so, it was mindful that the story of the site is not limited to its contribution to national and state economies, or to its physical development. The Government wanted a history that would also speak to ordinary Victorians, and other Australians, of their own experiences of this significant place. For indeed the Station Pier site has played its part in almost every milestone or phase in our history: at moments of celebration and commemoration, during economic booms and depressions, during times of war and peace. It has also won a place in the hearts of ordinary individuals affected by the welcomes and farewells they have experienced there: those for visiting royalty and celebrities, for servicemen and medical personnel off to war or returning home, for migrants from distant countries and refugees from war zones, for friends and family travelling for personal, professional or cultural reasons. Welcome & Farewell thoughtfully examines Station Pier’s significance and offers a splendid visual panorama of the experiences lived out there between 1854 and 2004.Illustrated large-format book with 224 pages [36] p. of plates. : ill., maps, ports.Bibliography: p. 199-201non-fictionIn the mid-nineteenth century, Victoria’s primitive maritime infrastructure was not coping with the volume of passenger and cargo traffic arriving in and departing from the burgeoning gold-fevered colony. However, the opening of Railway Pier at Port Melbourne in 1854 greatly improved the situation. Railway Pier serviced the steamships, which plied Port Phillip Bay and the Victorian coastal waters beyond, and also offered berths for vessels on the regular runs to other Australian colonies and to overseas destinations. However, as the larger and more powerful steamships of the early twentieth century found berthing increasingly difficult at Railway Pier, the need for a more modern pier became apparent. By 1930, the new Station Pier had replaced its predecessor. Itself extended and upgraded several times including during the past decade, Station pier still offers every contemporary convenience to shipping services using its busy facilities, just as did its predecessor Railway Pier, 150 years ago. The Victorian Government commissioned Welcome & Farewell to celebrate the 150 years since the opening of the Railway Pier. In doing so, it was mindful that the story of the site is not limited to its contribution to national and state economies, or to its physical development. The Government wanted a history that would also speak to ordinary Victorians, and other Australians, of their own experiences of this significant place. For indeed the Station Pier site has played its part in almost every milestone or phase in our history: at moments of celebration and commemoration, during economic booms and depressions, during times of war and peace. It has also won a place in the hearts of ordinary individuals affected by the welcomes and farewells they have experienced there: those for visiting royalty and celebrities, for servicemen and medical personnel off to war or returning home, for migrants from distant countries and refugees from war zones, for friends and family travelling for personal, professional or cultural reasons. Welcome & Farewell thoughtfully examines Station Pier’s significance and offers a splendid visual panorama of the experiences lived out there between 1854 and 2004.port melbourne, station pier -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Pamphlet, Barnard, Jill and Jennings Sonia, People and Parliament, 2006
... Barnard, Jill and Jennings Sonia ...A 24 page booklet of landmark decisions by the Victorian Government between 1855 - 2006 was published to celebrate their 150th anniversary.24 pp, A4non-fictionA 24 page booklet of landmark decisions by the Victorian Government between 1855 - 2006 was published to celebrate their 150th anniversary. aborigines, coranderrk, victorian government, suffrage, land settlement, farming, water, gardening, land use -
Surrey Hills Historical Society Collection
Book, City of Boroondara Library Service et al, Telling lives: locating and mapping the cultural heritage of Boroondara, 2002
... Sonia Jennings ...Includes: cultural setting and context (part one)|Biographical notes (part two)|Index by art form Charts cultural heritage of Boroondara since Australia's Federation in 1901. Reviews and record the past cultural achievements of Boroondara's local people from 1880s to 1920s.Charts cultural heritage of Boroondara since Australia's Federation in 1901. Reviews and record the past cultural achievements of Boroondara's local people from 1880s to 1920s.boroondara history, artists - boroondara, cultural events and activities, events and activities, entertainers - boroondara, authors- boroondara, people associated with culture, palace theatre, zelman family, (mr) garnet walch, (mr) robert sparrow smythe, (ms) dorothy roxburgh, (mr) walter murdoch, (mr) percival (percy) lindsay, j. w lindt, (mr) john longstaff, (mr) george marshall-hall, montgomery family, (mr) max meldrum, (mr) frederick mccubbin -
Kilmore Historical Society
Readings From American Authors, 1884
... John A. Jennings, M.A. ...Selected readings from American authors., "humorous and pathetic".Yellow board cover, worn, loss of colour, torn spine. Foxing throughout. 256 pp. plus advertisements. Fair condition.label on front cover, 'VICTORIAN RAILWAYS BOOKSTALLS./W.M.BAIRD Lessee'. Inside front cover, '1134' underlined.american literature -
Camberwell Historical Society
Book, Sonia Jennings et al, Clubhouse: A Celebration of Local Sport in Boroondara, 2006
... Sonia Jennings ...Book published in 2006 on the history of sport in the City of Boroondara dating back to the mid-nineteenth centurycamberwell, boroondara, sport -
Victorian Railway History Library
Book, Jennings, Reece, Line Clear 100 Years of Train Working Adelaide-Serviceton, 1964
... Jennings, Reece ...A history of the South Australian Government Railways southern railway from Adelaide to Serviceton across the Victorian border .ill, maps, p.80.non-fictionA history of the South Australian Government Railways southern railway from Adelaide to Serviceton across the Victorian border .railroad operations - south australia - history, railroad construction - south australia - history -
Victorian Railway History Library
Book, Reece Jennings, Some historically insoluble railway problems in South Australia, 1980
... Reece Jennings ...A history of problems building the railways in South Australia.bib, ill, maps, p.49.non-fictionA history of problems building the railways in South Australia.railway construction - south australia - history, railway construction - australia -
Victorian Railway History Library
Book, Jennings, John et al, Seymour A Railway Town, 2004
... Jennings, John ...A history of the railway town of Seymour Victoria.index, ill, maps, p.75.non-fictionA history of the railway town of Seymour Victoria.railroad trains -- australia -- history -- pictorial works., railroads -- australia -- victoria -- history. -
Victorian Railway History Library
Book, Jennings, R.I, W.A. Webb South Australian Railways Commissioner 1922-30, 1973
... Jennings, R.I. ...A political, economic and social biography of the South Australian Government Railways Chief Mechanical Engineer W.A. Webb.index, ill, maps, p.213.non-fiction A political, economic and social biography of the South Australian Government Railways Chief Mechanical Engineer W.A. Webb.locomotives - australia - drawings - biography, steam engines - australia - design - biography -
Alfred Hospital Nurses League - Nursing Archive
Book, Grace Jennings Carmichael, Hospital Children: sketches of life and character in the Children's Hospital Melbourne, 1891
... Grace Jennings Carmichael ...A touching story of the Melbourne Hospital for Sick Children (now the Royal Children's Hospital) [ca.1990] one of the most poignant books of Melbourne's early social historyBook with maroon cover, title, authors name and publisher's mark printed in gilt on spine. Dust jacket has a black and white photo of a children's hospital ward as background, with title and author's name printed in maroon on front and spineA touching story of the Melbourne Hospital for Sick Children (now the Royal Children's Hospital) [ca.1990] one of the most poignant books of Melbourne's early social historyroyal children's hospital (melbourne-vic)-anecdotes, paediatric nursing-victoria-history -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Decorative object - Embroidered flower motif, Unknown
... Elsie Doris Whitten (Grandmother of Parice Jennings) ...Sample of Embroidered flower motif.- Small Embroidered flower motif with leaves - Colours, pink & green leaves.Nilembroidary, flower motif -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Decorative object - Motif
... Elsie Doris Whitten (Grandmother of Parice Jennings) ...Sample of sequin decoration.Black jet sequins stitched onto a black netting.black sequin, black netting, elsie doris whitten -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Craft - Beaded sample on netting
... Elsie Doris Whitten (Grandmother of Parice Jennings) ...A sample of beaded workA strip of lace made of beads made of dotted stripe along each edge with design resembling bee hives and plants with palm shapped leaves. - Bronze seed beads - Some silver/bronze beads - Some pearl beads - On beige nylon netting beaded lace border, bronze neads, elsie doris whitten, patrice jennigs -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Pottery sold, 1973
... jennings ...Purchase by A.V. Jennings of Geal Bros Pottery at NunawadingPurchase by A.V. Jennings of Geal Bros Pottery at NunawadingPurchase by A.V. Jennings of Geal Bros Pottery at Nunawadingjennings, a.v. industry (aust), geal bros, potteries, geal, albert -
Orbost & District Historical Society
letters, 1910
These letters were received by Henry James of Orbost. Henry James (1860-1932) was a well-known identity in the Orbost district. He was a stock agent and auctioneer who helped to establish the seed bean industry in Orbost. He was the second secretary of the Snowy River Shipping Co. as well as a shire councillor and prominent member of MUIOOF. They concern a fund established to raise money to bring the three sons of Jennings Carmichael to Australia. A committee established by Henry Gyles Turner, a a notable Australian banker and historian, was formed to raise funds to bring the boys to Australia. Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael (1867-1904), poet and nurse, was born on 24 February 1867 at Ballarat, Victoria, daughter of Archibald Carmichael, a miner from Perthshire, Scotland, and his wife Margaret Jennings, née Clark, from Cornwall, England. . She was educated at Melbourne and while still a child went to live on a station at Orbost, and grew up close to the bush she came to love so much. In 1888 she went to Melbourne to be trained as a nurse at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, and in 1891 published a small volume of prose sketches, Hospital Children. Having qualified she obtained a position on a station near Geelong, and subsequently married Francis Mullis. She contributed verse to the Australasian, and in 1895 Poems by Jennings Carmichael was published. She lived for a time in South Australia and then went to London, where she died in poor circumstances in 1904. Her husband, Henry Mullis, was last recorded in the workhouse in Woolrich, but then disappeared leaving the three children- Geoffrey 7 yrs, (Thomas) Clive 5 yrs & 4 year old (Archibald) Keith and one year old (Rupert) Wyatt, destitute & were sent to the Northampton workhouse, (Thomas ) Clive dying in 1906. In 1910, a group of Carmichael's admirers, discovered the whereabouts of her children, where a public fund was established to bring the children to Australia, the Victorian Government giving them free passage, arriving in Victoria in October of 1910. The children were placed in private homes and took on their mother's single name of Carmichael. In 1910 a small selection of her poems was published, in 1937 a plaque to her memory was unveiled at Orbost in the Mechanics Institute ( reg. 554), and a year later a replica was placed in the public library at Ballarat. Two of Jennings Carmichael's sons were present at the ceremony.Jennings Carmichael, a leading Australian poet spent much of her childhood in Orbost.Several letter written to H. James concerning the Jennings Carmichael Children's Fund. Stapled to one letter is a typed article about the Jennings Carmichael Children's Fund written by Frank a. Russell. The other letter is a three page stapled handwritten letter from St Oswald's, Ormond College, seeking information about Jennings Carmichael.james-henry jennings-carmichael correspondence -
Orbost & District Historical Society
book, Ballantyne, Hanson & Co, Poems, 1895
Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael (1867-1904), poet and nurse, was born on 24 February 1867 at Ballarat, Victoria, daughter of Archibald Carmichael, a miner from Perthshire, Scotland, and his wife Margaret Jennings, née Clark, from Cornwall, England. . About 1880 the family moved to Gippsland where Henderson managed a station near Orbost. Grace learned to love the Gippsland forest. She began to express in verse her understanding of the sights, scents and sounds of the bush, often writing in some remote clearing, her manuscripts stored for privacy in a hollow trunk. The Bairnsdale Advertiser published her first story, and the Weekly Times an early poem; then on 28 November 1885 her poem 'The Old Maid' was published in the Australasian under her pen name Jennings Carmichael. Encouraged by its editor, David Watterston, Grace sent nearly all her subsequent verse to that newspaper. (Read more by Lindsay Gardiner in Australian Dictionary of Biography.) This is a useful collection of the poetry of Jennings Carmichael, a leading Australian poet who spent much of her childhood in Orbost.A 212 pp cloth bound book with a dark purple cover and gold print on the spine and front - "Poems by Jennings Carmichael".Inside cover.carmichael-jennings literature poetry -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Mrs Jenning's Sweet Shop, C.1950s
... jennings ...Black and white photo of Mrs Jenning's Sweet Shop in group shops on west side of Boronia Road and south of Canterbury Road, Vermont.jennings, mrs., sweet shops -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Shire Hall 1866
Stawell Shire Hall with 15 men standing outside the building. The photo is taken from an illuminated address presented to Cr. George Jennings. The original illumination is held by the Kinsella Family.Photograph taken from illuminated address presented to Cr. George Jennings. The photograph shows 15 people standing outside the Stawell Shire Hall. stawell -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph - Bryden Stron, Matt Jennings, Katherine Brew and Bree Waters, Lakes Post Newspaper, 1/11/1995 12:00:00 AM
Bryden Stron, Matt Jennings, Katherine Brew and Bree Waters on Rowe Street tennis court, Football ground in background Lakes Entrance VictoriaBlack and white photograph of Junior tennis players Bryden Stron, Matt Jennings, Katherine Brew and Bree Waters on Rowe Street tennis court, Football ground in background Lakes Entrance Victoriasports, tennis, clubs, recreation