One copy of Bendigo Sub-branch R.S.S.A.I.L.A. Annual Victory Ball held at the Town Hall, Bendigo on August 21st, 1951. Guests of Honour were Lt. Gen. H. Wells, C.B.E., D.S.O. AND Mrs Wells. Card is cream with gold print on the front and a gold RLS badge. Other printing is blue. The inside of the tri-fold has a Dance Program of 28 dances and a space for Autographs. The other side has the Debutantes: Marion White, Ivy Derby, Heather Pettersen, Cherris Collier, Joan Ryan, Margaret Hawkes, Mavis Thomas, Olive Knox, Norma Scott, Maureen McGregor, Beverley McGhie, Norma Hinton, Joyce Boyd, Dorothy Cutting, Bonnie Jobe and Shirley Jobe. Trained by Miss E. Liddell. Chaperone: Mrs J W Swatton. Page and His Lady: June Egglestone, Janette Brady. Partners: Ian Shadforth, Max Cowling, Neil Ross, Noel Evans, Len Ermel, Len Rutherford, Des McKenna, Maurice Reed, Brian Owins, Ian Stevenson, John Wild, Bill Ross, Wallie Reed, Noel Bradley, Trevor Milikins and Cliff Swatton. President Bendigo Branch R.S.L.: Col Sir George V Lansell. Chairman Ball Committee: Mr F E Jackson. Hon. Sec. Ball Committee: Mr J W Swatton. MC: Mr R Wright. Printed by Hocking & Sloan Print.Hosking & Sloan Print Bendigoevent, social, victory ball, r.s.l. bendigo collection - annual victory ball 1951, lt-gen h wells, mrs wells, marion white, ivy derby, heather pettersen, cherris collier, joan ryan, margaret hawkes, mavis thomas, olive knox, norma scott, maureen mcgregor, beverley mcghie, norma hinton, joyce boyd, dorothy cutting, bonnie jobe, shirley jobe, miss e liddell, mrs j w swatton, june egglestone, janette brady, hocking & sloan print, ian shadforth, max cowling, neil ross, noel evans, len ermel, len rutherford, des mckenna, maurice reed, brian owins, ian stevenson, john wild, bill ross, wallie reed, noel bradley, trevor milikins, cliff swatton, col sir george v lansell, mr f e jackson, mr j w swatton, mr r wright

Photo: black and white photo of bakers oven, appears that building has been demolished and wall left standing with oven mostly intact. In front of photo: piles of timber. Appended notes state that photo was ' identified by Mrs. White, Phillips St. as Jenkins Baker Shop'cottage, miners, jenkins baker shop, bakery, brick, bakers oven.

The house was owned by Mrs. Jessie White 4, Melbourne St. on the corner of Miles Ave. now both lost in the development of Eastland Shopping Centre.Details include map reference, dimensions of land and living space, picture of house, details of local services. Owner/Occupier Mr. Whiter. Agent J.B. Thomson & Co., 129 Springvale Road, Nunawading.

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH MRS HOLMANlocal history, photography, photographs, early citizens

Stephen Henty married Jane Pace in Fremantle April 1836; four sons and six daughters were the issue of the marriage. Mrs. Stephen Henty was born in Yorkshire on 14 April 1812, and she died in Hamilton on 02 February 1906. She was the first white woman to settle permanently in Western Victoria, arriving in Portland on 18 December 1836. From a small booklet "Old Memories," written by Jane Henty on her 84th birthday. 'My husband and I arrived at Portland Bay in 1836, though he had made some trips there previously. It was on a Sunday night we landed by moonlight. I was carried on shore through the surf by a sailor. On reaching the homestead, a comfortable dwelling composed of four rooms, kitchen and dairy, a bright log fire was burning, table spread with a large pot loaf, piles of eggs and tea. Edward had not travelled inland, but my husband never rested until he had gone all through the interior, cut a track through 15 miles of forest land with two men and a dray, and arrived on the banks of the Wannon. He used to be absent for weeks at a time, causing me great anxiety. The natives were not to be trusted, so he usually took with him an expiree from Tasmania. Stephen Henty fixed all three of the first stations -Muntham, Merino Downs, and Sandford. In July 1837 Stephen sent some fine flocks of merino sheep to Muntham, having previously had a hut built for the men, and yards for the sheep; his two brothers, John and Frank, took charge of the sheep on the road. "On August 3, 1837, my son Richmond was born the very day the sheep arrived at Muntham. Edward was in Tasmania at the time, and arrived three weeks after the birth of my son, with his brother James and his son... My husband and Edward were in partnership, Edward managing Muntham, and Stephen the mercantile part at Portland Bay. John managed Sandford and Frank Merino Downs... My husband was the first white man who stood on the border of the Blue Lake at Mt. Gambier. He said he would never forget the feeling of awe he felt on coming suddenly on the blue water in the wilderness.("The Portland Bay Settlement", by Noel Learmonth, 1934)Black and white image Mrs Stephen Henty.stephen henty, portland, pioneer, women, jane henty, jane pace, merino downs

View looking northeast along Main Street. The Greensborough Methodist Church stood at the present-day entrance to Greensborough Plaza shopping centre at 25 Main Street, Greensborough. It was opened in 1873. The Main Street Church served the congregation well, but by the 1960s it was decided to sell the old building and invest in a new home. The land at 37 Grimshaw Street for the current Uniting church was purchased in 1962 from the estate of Mrs White. Construction commenced on 31 July 1965 and the new church was opened on February 5, 1966. (https://www.churchhistories.net.au/church-catalog/greensborough-vic-uniting)Digital file only Postcards scanned from the collection of Michael Aitken on loan to EDHS, 2 Sep. 2022michael aitken collection, postcards, greensborough, main street, methodist church

Mrs Walker and Mrs Mealing using their white canes as they walk along a sloping footpath.B/W photograph of two women with white canesMobility - historicalroyal blind society of nsw, white cane day, mrs mealing, mrs walker

Greasy Johnstson’s hut (with Ted Silver & Mrs Miller) Negative Black white. Scanned at 600 dpigreasy johntons hut

BALL HELD FOR GOLD CENTENARY IN CLUNES ATTENDET BY JOAN EASEY, MISS VICTORIA WHO STAYED WITH COUNCILLOR A. C. McLENNAN AND FAMILY.ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF GOLD CENTENARY BALL AT THE CLUNES TOWN HALL.FRONT ROW L. TO R. MRS. C. HUNT, MRS. KELLER, MRS A. McLENNAN, MISS VICTORIA & PARTNER, MR. PEAKE, MRS. RUSS WHITE, M.L.A. MRS. C.FENTON, MRS.DOWNES, MR. DOWNES, [STATE BANK] MRS. EBERHARDT, MR. EBERHARDT.local history, photography, photographs, events and celebrations, gold centenary ball 1950

Back Row: Janet Tyler, Joan White, Paula White or Patty Barnett, Lois Denholm, Mary Wilson. Front Row: Jessie Clark, Mrs Agnes Wilson, Mrs CCaptain Denholm, Elieen Esky, Thelma White, Mrs Gwen Reeve.Two rows of eleven Girls & Women holding Tambourines in front of weatherboard House wall.Timbrel Bigade Opening of Wimmera Street Quartersreligion

BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPH MRS. IMELDA McGRATH, STAR OF THE EVENING WITH TOM EVANS M.L.A. AT A JAMES ESMOND BALL.REVERSE SIDE PHOGRAPH. IMELDA McGRATH TOM EVANS MLA.local history, photography, photographs, events and celebrations, james esmond festival ball.

Yields information about the farewell dinner for SEC Tramway employees in Ballarat following the closure of the SEC tramway system in 1971 and quotes the Union official about trammies.Newspaper clipping from the Courier, titled "Tributes paid to Tram Service", 21/9/1971 with two photos of the farewell dinner at the Wendouree Memorial Hall, Monday 20/9/1971. The official table - SEC Chairman N. White and Mrs White, SEC Branch manager - Mr I Pellas and Mrs Pellas and the Mayor Cr. Chisholm and Mrs Chisholm. Quotes Mr Whites speech and Cr. Donald of Sebastopol The second photo of the general hall. News items continued onto a second page, and quotes the Mr. Courtney about the loss of the tramways, headed "A wake", says Union Official, with some good quotes about being a trammie. In ink on the bottom of the second photo "DCKT and GMC" marked (back of heads)sec, dinner, closure, unions, trammies

Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2003. Prim and proper: a team of bowlers from the Bendigo region pictured in 1952. Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2003. Identified: the women are picture at a Bendigo and District Ladies Bowls Association Champion of Champions event on March 3, 1952. They are Miss Okey (Kangaroo Flat) Mrs. Wallace (white Hills), Mrs. Jenkins (South Bendigo), Mrs. Olive Body (East Bendigo) and Mrs. Strode (Golden Square). The winner of the Champions of Champion was Mrs. Jenkins. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

The photographs depict the "Back to Natimuk Celebrations" organised between 28 February and 4 March 1924 in Natimuk. From top to bottom, left to right: - Welcome sign in the main road. - Locals in the school titled "Back to school" - "Group of comebacks at lake" (Natimuk) - Band procession on main road - Start of motor ? - Swimming carnival at Natimuk lake - Evolution of farm implements - Group taken on the site of Mrs Scudasore's old home: Mr A.W. Lockwood (secretary), Mrs Scudasore (first white woman resident in district), Mr G. Graham (president), Mrs J. Russell (first white child born in district-daughter of Mrs Scudasore), Mr John Russell. - Group of cars at Mount Arapiles. Significant as it depicts first settlers.9 black and white photographs set in inscribed board and wooden frameBack to Natimuk Celebrations. Feb 28th to March 4th 1924natimuk, festivities, mount arapiles, lake natimuk, a.w. lockwood, mrs scudasore, g.t. graham, john russell, mrs john russell, swimming carnival

Murray Comrie Collection. A monochrome photograph, image depicting a family group. This is a fairly dark copy of an older original. Copy probably made by Murray Comrie in the 1960s.Note on reverse identifies subjects as: L to R Back row: Mrs Geo. White (nee Flo Crossley, Jack & Tut's daughter) (3rd Gen), Sylvia, Jack & Florence Crossley (2nd Gen) Front row: Elderly couple are M and Mrs Joseph Crossley (1st Gen), children are Valerie and Graeme White (4th Gen)newbridge, people, children, crossley, white

Group of Salvation Army Songsters 1966, photograph taken pre-Perth & Adelaide trip. In October 1966 the group travelled to Perth and Adelaide many miles were covered by the Songsters in the course of their mission of bring blessing and enjoyment per medium of music. Since 1960 when a visit was made to Hawthorn and Melbourne Spring Festival, over 5,500 miles have been travelled by this group. After the Perth trip a further 4,000 miles covered. Personnel of the Stawell Citadel Songster Brigade. Songster leader: L.G. Brown. Men: left to right - J. White, G. Watson, C. Jocob. C. Bailey (Capt.), A. Perry, D. Reeve, P. Tyler (Absent), L. Brown (S.L.). Women: 2nd row - Mrs. J. White, Mrs. D. Reeve, Miss B. Reeve, Miss D. Tyler, Miss H. Bastick, Mrs. L. Brown, Mrs. Capt. Bailey, Miss M. Reeve (Absent). Mrs. D. Symes (Absent). Women: Front row - Mrs. A. Perry, Miss A. Brown, Mrs. G. Watson, Miss B. Crute, Mrs. A. Folkes, Miss E. Crute, Mrs. A. Collins, Mrs. T. Collins. Black and white photograph of a group of people, male & females in uniform. They are standing on steps in front of a tree with a building in background.Songsters 1966. Ern McLean Studios Horsham (from notes in folder)stawell religion

Conditions of sale by private contract dated 18th December, 1941 between Mrs. F.E. White (seller) and D.G. Thain (buyer) for land situate corner Echuca and Rodney Streets, Bendigo, at present unoccupied, being part of Crown allotment 17 section 100C described in certificate of title volume 6137 folio 1227385, together with 5-roomed weatherboard dwelling and all sundry. Price 290 pounds.organization, business, h.a. & s.r wilkinson real estate

Black and white photograph of Mrs Hambridge dressed in white dress, white cardigan and white club hat with band showing Kangaroo Flat. Inscriptions: Mrs Hambridge, Champion of Champions, 1961.Herald Sunperson, group, sports team

Photograph - black and white. Sitting - Mrs Doyle (Treas.), Mrs Johanson (Sec.), Sister Nicholas, Mrs Sayers (Pres.), Mrs Perry, Mrs Jones. Standing - Mrs Medwell, Mrs Williams, Mrs Swatton.Herald & Weekly Times Ltd. Melbourne.organization, public utility, health centre auxilary., health centre auxilary. bendigo.

Day centre participants enjoy an Easter Bonnet tea party. Ballarat 019 - Mrs Muir (blue flowers) and Miss Stoke (red trimmed sun hat) Ballarat 020 - Mr Joe Dean (tall orange and blue and green hat) Ballarat 021 - Mrs Blake (rabbit on hat) Ballarat 022 - Mrs Bennett (blue pinafore) and Mrs Joan Perry (white, yellow, pink flowers) Ballarat 025 - Mrs Davis (Daisy hat) Ballarat 026 - Mr Norm Batten (sun hat with yellow streamers)6 x col. photographs1981association for the blind, kelaston home (ballarat)

“Acme” Ladies Cricket Team 1905 Newspaper article attached. The Sun News-Pictorial Thursday, June 20, 1935Two very similar photographs of group of ladies standing on and in front of House verandah. Two ladies have cricket bats and lady at centre has white dress. Plus newspaper clipping including clipped copy of first photo. First photo has 13 ladies in it second has 17 ladies.Women who played cricket in Stawell 30 years ago. Thirty years ago the Acme Ladies Cricket team flourished at Stawell. How many of them play cricket now? Members shown are Misses Adelene MacPherson, Flo Marshall, Mab Naylor, Ellie Troutbeck, Eth. Childe, Emm. Childe. Sis. Menzies. Bess Childe, Rube Allingham; Mrs. Marshall White, president; Misses Bel Dawson, Allie Matthews and Gertie Whiteside. stawell sport

James Tiller married Grace Stewart in 1921Photocopy of James Tiler and wife standing together in front of house. James is wearing shirt, buttoned vest, jacket, trousers and has a piece of leather across his hand, moustache. Mrs Tilley has white collar, white buttoned dark coloured dress with belt and round buckle, has light coloured jacket, hair is pinned back and wearing glasses.

MR. AND MRS. WEICKHARDT ARE OLD CLUNES IDENTITESSEPIA PHOTOGRAPH OF J. FRANZ WEICKHARDT D. 1942 AND HIS WIFE FLORENCE - NEE MATHEWS, TAKEN 1898 - MRS. WEICKHARDT WEARING A WHITE HIGH NECK BLOUSE OVER A DARK COSTUME HOLDING A ROSE. MR. WEICKHARDT WEARING A DARK SUIT AND WHITE COLLAR SHIRT.photographs, weickhardt, franz weickhardt, florence weickhardt

Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2001. Serving it up: some of the staff at the Deli Café situated under Moran and Cato's in Hargreaves Street (now Wooz surf and street wear in Pall Mall) in the early 1940s. From left Vi Lambert, Ethel Murdoch, Silvia Doyle, Valda Hilson, Elsie Hogg, Molly White, Mrs Dudley (Dud) and Ruby Lenten (Stevens). The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

View to south-east from Shire of Eltham Soldiers' Memorial Park showing the carriageway from the road to top of Memorial Park. Accompanying notes state that the entry gate was put in place in May 1921. Eltham and Whittlesea Shire Advertiser and Diamond Creek Valley Advocate Fri 21 May 1920 p 2 reported: Kangaroo Ground Memorial Park "It was decided to arrange for a working bee on Saturday, 29th inst., for the purpose of forming and gravelling the track leading to the Park, and of carrying out other necessary works." A history summary of the Shire of Eltham Soldiers’ Memorial Park • The summit at Garden Hill was a popular tourist lookout and picnic spot from the 1880s. Virtually the entire Shire of Eltham and beyond could be viewed from this location. • A local farmer, Mr Walter A. D. Wippell is credited as being the first to propose the idea of a war memorial park and offered £50 towards the purchase of the land. • The earliest public reference to this project is to be found in the local Advertiser newspaper edition of August 9th, 1918. A report of the August Council meeting records the Eltham Shire President, Cr. Robert White, saying: "some time back it was proposed that the Council obtain and place on an Honour Board in the Council Chamber [at Kangaroo Ground] containing names of the lads who had enlisted. Just recently however, it had been suggested that a more fitting memorial would be the obtaining of a piece of land on the summit of Garden Hill, Kangaroo Ground, and the formation of a memorial park in which a monument could be erected to represent the whole of Shire. If a couple of acres could be obtained a gentleman had promised to donate 50 pounds, and another one would fence it, and other contributions, he was sure, could be obtained." • Councillors were favourable of the proposal and the President, Shire Secretary and Shire Engineer were deputised to wait on Messrs Mess Bros. (the owners of the Garden Hill farm) and ascertain if they would gratuitously give the land. The Mess Bros. land adjoined the farm/stud of Mrs Fanny White (Cr Robert White’s mother), daughter of Andrew Harkness who established their property on Garden Hill around 1846. • Access to the land came in February 1919 when several Councillors and the Shire Engineer surveyed the actual two acres of '5 chains along the road and 4 chains deep'. The Engineer volunteered his services free to do this task. The Mess brothers however demanded £100 per acre but eventually agreed to take £50 per acre. • Entry from the Kangaroo Ground-Yarra Glen road was seen to be a problem and Mrs. White, who owned the land beside the park, was asked to donated a triangle of her property to allow this access. • By September 1919 returned soldiers were employed by the Shire and volunteers were called to clear the hilltop by ploughing up the rocks and clearing the area, the fencing was put into place and in May 1921 the Council erected three gates, within an archway, at the entrance to the drive and pathway to the summit. • Public subscriptions were sought through the Advertiser newspaper to beautify the site. The views of the Curator of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens were sought as to the ‘class of ornamental trees most suitable for planting in the Park area”. • The Memorial Park or Shire of Eltham Soldiers’ Memorial Park was officially opened by Mr. W.H. Everard, M.L.A., 3 September 1921. • In 1922 plans were made to place a War Memorial in the Park. Funds were donated by the Council of £250 and a challenge to the community, to match this money with contributions was met. • On Anzac Day 1923, 1,000 people gathered on the summit in the park for a memorial service. A much smaller group of about 50 people gathered around a newly constructed cairn and flagstaff in the afternoon of Anzac Day 1924 amidst rain and a squally southerly wind, the morning service being cancelled. • A meeting for those interested in establishing a War Memorial monument within the park was held in January 1924 and the Eltham Shire War Memorial League was formed and a design competition decided upon. • The Shire of Eltham War Memorial tower was built in 1926 at a cost of £1,023 and 5 shillings with locally quarried stone donated by Dr Ethel and Professor William Osborne. It was formally known as the ‘Shire of Eltham War Memorial’ and was unveiled on 11 November 1926. The large bronze inscription above the entrance to the tower states: SHIRE OF ELTHAM WAR MEMORIAL THESE MEN DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY 1914 IN REMEMBRANCE THIS TOWER WAS BUILT 1918 • The Caretaker’s hut was built in 1927 with left over from the tower construction. • A returned soldier was appointed to act as caretaker for the memorials. Tiny Carrol, a huge man, was the first caretaker and lived in the stone hut. There was a push to have alterations made at one stage to provide additional rooms for a married caretaker but was rejected. • A new Caretaker Cottage was built in 1951 at a cost £2,500. The cottage had been subjected to raids by thieves three times during construction until a guard from the Returned Servicemen’s League was posted until its opening. • The War Memorial tower was re-dedicated by Sir Dallas Brooks on 8 November 1951, unveiling new bronze plaques containing the names of those who fell during the Second World War. Sir Dallas also officiated the opening of the new Caretaker’s Cottage. • A toilet block was built in 1965. • A further dedication of the Shire of Eltham War Memorial tower took place 11 November 2001 to recognise the men who fell in subsequent campaigns up to and including Vietnam. • Four land titles are involved: o The purchase of the two acres from owners Ruth Gosling, Alexander Mess, James Johnson Mess and Joseph Mess is recorded in two actions, the first being the payment of £100 for the two acres, the second showing that the Shire of Eltham did not get a transfer of title until 14th January 1952. o The access land donated by Mrs. Fanny White is dated 26 February 1924. A further need to widen the entry came after the deepening of the road cutting and another land donation was given by Sir Herbert Gepp, title dated 15th May 1952. This would have been about the time he sold off the former White ‘Garden Hill’ property. o The land reserve to increase the area and possibly allow a circuit road to be put in place on the western side of the park was purchased by the Shire of Eltham, title dated 16th February 1973. Rare photograph of the entrance to the Shire's Memorial Park during early stages of development prior to the erection of the Shire of Eltham War MemorialSepia photograph printed with white border with slight crack lower left hand corner and three significant vertical cracks fanning from lower centre edge to upper edge Digitally enhanced version to minimise impact of crackseltham-yarra glen road, entrance gate, garden hill, kangaroo ground, shire of eltham memorial park, shire of eltham war memorial, kangaroo ground war memorial park

Black and white photo - photo has been cut from larger image. Image shows Alfred Deakin sitting at a desk, writing with a pen ( quill ? ) He is wearing a three piece suit, stand-up collar, tie. On back of photo ' P678' in pencil (frontispiece) Alfred Deakin 1907. In black pen ' this photograph. The one Mrs. Alfred Deakin always kept before her on her writing desk was presented to me by her daughter Mrs. Vera Deakin White 12/XI/35 as a memento of her father who was a beloved friend of mine as was Mrs. Deakin his wife' Signed ' Arthur T. Woodward 'person, government, alfred deakin, deakin, woodward