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Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood Coffee Palace
Black and white photograph of buildings.Several copies identifying Ringwood Coffee Palace dated 1912, Typed below one photograph, "Ringwood Coffee Palace (With Ringwood Post Office on left). Another with typing on the back "Post Office in the Main Street. This shows how the Coffee Palace was originally as two separate buildings. The grocery shop of A.E. Walker is in between. 1912." -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Old Maroondah Hwy Shops opposite station entrance to right of old Post Office (our second)
Black and white photograph of shops. To the left of photos is Frank V. Parker, Estate Agent then, Ellis & Coy. House and Land Agents and then the Coffee Palace. (2 copies)Typed below photograph, "Old Maroondah Hwy Shops opposite station entrance just to right of old Post Office (our second). Note telephone wires running along shop fronts". Written on back on one of the photos, "Whitehorse Road, Ringwood. Frank Parkers Estate Agent - was councillor later mayor. Ellis's Estate Agency. Entrance to Coffee Palace. Paul Legg - Later shifted over other side of road." -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Clocktower view overlooking Ringwood Street, Post Office, Coles Store and State Savings Bank, Maroondah Highway, Ringwood - 1969
Written below photograph, "Maroondah Highway 1969 showing old Post Office" Written on backing sheet, "Dec. 1969. Maroondah Highway, post office, Coles, S.S.B." -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Clocktower view towards Loughnan's Hill overlooking the telephone exchange in Ringwood Street, and the Post Office, Coles Store and State Savings Bank fronting Maroondah Highway, Ringwood - 1969
Black and white photograph of street showing old post office, Coles Stores and State Bank. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Post Office and commercial buildings, Maroondah Highway, Ringwood - c.1920
Written on backing sheet, "Main Street, Ringwood, second post office, Frank Parker's - later Mayor and Ellis agent". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Ringwood 1918 looking east
Black and white photograph of Maroondah Highway and shops. (2 copies, 1 small photograph and 2 enlargements).Typed below photograph, "Maroondah Highway Ringwood 1918 looking east - Opposite station entrance. Old Post Office to left." Written on back of smaller photograph, "c1920. Godbehear was brother to Rev. Godbehear who died 1945". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, The old Ringwood Post Office (our third) at the corner of Maroondah Highway and Ringwood Street, Ringwood - c. mid 1930s
Typed below photograph, "The old Ringwood Post Office (our third) at the corner of Maroondah Highway and Ringwood Street. Ringwood Market is now on the left behind the picket fence and the new telephone exchange is now just past where the picket fence is. Our second telephone exchange was just behind this Post Office. Note how bare Loughnans Hill was. c mid 1930s" -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, C of E jambed on bridge over Mullum Creek, W'dyte Rd. Ringwood 1924
... H'way to rear post office via Warrandyte Rd., Reynolds Av... office via Warrandyte Rd., Reynolds Av. and Ringwood Street." ...Written on back of photograph, "C of E jambed on bridge over Mullum Creek, W'dyte Rd. 1924." Typed below another copy: "Moving Church of England, Ringwood. Stuck on bridge over Mullum Creek in Warrandyte Rd. 1924". Written on backing sheet, "Church of England being moved from C/r Pratt Street and Maroondah H'way to rear post office via Warrandyte Rd., Reynolds Av. and Ringwood Street." -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood's first post office showing first postmistress, Miss M. Thompson. 1890
Typed below photograph, "Ringwood's first Post Office showing first Postmistress, Miss M. Thompson and her mother. 1890". (South side of Main Street (Maroondah Highway), approximately 300 meters west of Ringwood Railway Station). Writing on back of original photograph reads, "Grandma and Auntie Martha Thomson 1890". Stamps on back of photograph read, "Wall Bros. Photographers ... St. Kilda". Other stamp reads, "R.J.T. Futcher, Geelong, Victoria, Australia". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood's First Post Office ca1900
Black and white photograph of wooden building. Dog standing on veranda. Sign on roof of building reads, "Ringwood Post Office". A sepia original of the photograph is also in the sleeve together with two other small reproductions.Written on back of original photograph, "Dog 'Gip'". Typed below photograph (enlargement), "Ringwood's first post office (Situated opposite Guyatts new store - 1900". Written on back of one of the small copies, "Ringwood Post Office 1883-1911 in Main St. opposite 'Holeproof'. Demolished after war". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood Post Office in 1908/9. Maroondah Highway
Typed below one copy, "Ringwood Post Office in 1909. Maroondah Highway - Opposite present Holeproof site". Other copy of same photograph reads, "Ringwood original Post Office opposite Guyatts new store - 1908". Backing sheet states, "Ringwood P.O. Weekly Times 4 July 1908". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Original Ringwood Post Office in use as refreshment rooms 1915
Typed below photograph, "Original Ringwood Post Office in use as refreshment rooms 1915 (opposite Guyatts new store)". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, "New" Ringwood Post Office 1908
Writing on backing sheet reads, "New P.O. W.T. 4 July 1908". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood East Post Office, Railway Avenue cnr Laurence Grove, 1973
Ringwood East Post Office, Railway Avenue cnr Laurence Grove, 1973. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, New Post Office, Ringwood St (undated)
Black and white photograph of brick post office building. Two Norfolk Island pines stand outside.Typed below photograph, "The new post office in Ringwood Street. Telephone exchange can be seen on its left." -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood first Post Office - 1906
Typed inscription below photograph reads, "Ringwood first Post Office - 1906. Note "E.R." for Edward". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood's second Post Office on Maroondah Highway 1906
Typed below photograph, "Ringwood's second Post Office on Maroondah Highway nearly opposite the station entrance. Later also became telephone exchange. Note the resident Dr. Craig's surgery on left - 1906". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood Post Office 1890
Black and white photograph of wooden building. Picket fence around veranda. Unusual wooden seat on veranda and black cow standing to right of photograph. (2 copies, 1 original small sepia photograph and 1 enlargement).Typed below photograph, "Ringwood Post Office, Whitehorse Road, opposite Holeproof 1890." Written on back of small photograph, "Opposite Holeproof, cow 'Flora'". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, East Ringwood Post Office, 1986
Written on back of photograph, "East Ringwood Post Office, 1986". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Skerrett's Store and Post Office, 1923. Diagonally opposite from Club Hotel in Mount Dandenong Road
Catalogue card reads, "Skerrett's Store and Post Office, 1923. Diagonally opposite from Club Hotel." -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, City of Ringwood celebrations, 1960
Catalogue card reads, 'City of Ringwood celebrations, 1960. Spectators outside Post Office on Whitehorse Road'. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Postcard, Ringwood Post Office No.2 - 1924
Sepia photograph on front of Postcard"Written on back of Postcard" No.2 Post Office Ringwood. Similar photograph -Mhc 0109 located in NWD 02-09-06. Photograph shows the Coffee Palace to left of Post Office. (Coffee Palace built 1912) -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood Post Office No.1- Circa 1920
Sepia photograph"Written on back of photograph" House and Post Office next to Kenworthy Garage -Whitehorse Road. Circa 1920 -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Slab hut, Warrandyte, Warrandyte Mystery Tour, 29 May 1994, 29/05/1994
[article by Bettina Woodburn in EDHS Newsletter No. 97, July 1994:] THE WARRANDYTE MYSTERY TOUR MAY 29TH 1994 - Members of the Eltham Historical Society met at the Old Post Office, now converted into the Warrandyte Historical Museum, for a picnic lunch on the sunny back verandah overlooking the shimmering Yarra River. Interesting photographs and artefacts filled various rooms outlining the history of this area, and told tales of Aboriginal and more recent neighbours of the Eltham Shire. The weather was calm, cloudy mostly with only occasional sunny patches, but it wasn't cold, although the autumnal leaf colours had changed to wintry brown. "All Aboard" and we set off in the Warrandyte Community Bus (with the School Bus sign displayed at the rear) to learn about local places of "Pride and Joy” from Bruce our guide and Tom the driver. Almost directly opposite we entered Whipstick Gully to explore the first of the district's hidden treasures - the Victory, one of the largest of the six or so major mines, past the old quarry now used for abseiling practice. By torchlight we entered the rocky hillside and saw the seams of quartz the miners had followed in their search for gold. Stamping batteries, and there was one in this gully, converted discarded rock into 'road metal'. Warrandyte is proud to be the first declared Goldfield in 1851, and one of the longest surviving, into the 1920s. A pleasant drive across the Bridge and along Bradley's Lane to Norman's Reserve brought us to see another Tunnel at Pound Bend through which the Yarra was diverted to allow about three miles of river-bed to be used for prospecting for alluvial gold. Still on this side of the river we visited the Old Slab Hut in Castles Road. This remnant of miners' housing is preserved because it had been incorporated into a weatherboard house, and saved from the bulldozers - a last minute reprieve, for preservation, by the National Trust. Devastating bush fires have destroyed other old cottages built of wattle and daub, with bark roofs and stone fire-places. The Cairn commemorating the disclosure of Gold Discovery at Warrandyte on June 30th 1851 beside Anderson's Creek Road was our next point of historical interest. We drove on to South Warrandyte and circled back to above the ford on Anderson's Creek to the entrance of the 4th Hill Mine. Again we crept along with our torches, careful of the low roof-rock, and side shafts. At a junction in a large cavity we were able to stand, look up a long air-vent which some 'cavers' climb down, and marvel at, and experience an aspect of a miner's life. Outside we heard the same bird songs, the trills and bell-pealing, saw the same straggly eucalypts, and a silver leafed wattle in flower, native grasses and ferns, and the neat present day houses, often of Warrandyte stone, perhaps veneered only. The day ended pleasantly, seeing more of the Yarra from Everard Drive, and the water rushing out of the Tunnel at Pound Bend, before returning to afternoon tea or coffee at the Museum. A great day for all concerned - many thanks to the Organisers.Colour photographslab hut, warrandyte, "warrandyte miner's cottage" -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Pound Bend tunnel, Warrandyte, Warrandyte Mystery Tour, 29 May 1994, 29/05/1994
[article by Bettina Woodburn in EDHS Newsletter No. 97, July 1994:] THE WARRANDYTE MYSTERY TOUR MAY 29TH 1994 - Members of the Eltham Historical Society met at the Old Post Office, now converted into the Warrandyte Historical Museum, for a picnic lunch on the sunny back verandah overlooking the shimmering Yarra River. Interesting photographs and artefacts filled various rooms outlining the history of this area, and told tales of Aboriginal and more recent neighbours of the Eltham Shire. The weather was calm, cloudy mostly with only occasional sunny patches, but it wasn't cold, although the autumnal leaf colours had changed to wintry brown. "All Aboard" and we set off in the Warrandyte Community Bus (with the School Bus sign displayed at the rear) to learn about local places of "Pride and Joy” from Bruce our guide and Tom the driver. Almost directly opposite we entered Whipstick Gully to explore the first of the district's hidden treasures - the Victory, one of the largest of the six or so major mines, past the old quarry now used for abseiling practice. By torchlight we entered the rocky hillside and saw the seams of quartz the miners had followed in their search for gold. Stamping batteries, and there was one in this gully, converted discarded rock into 'road metal'. Warrandyte is proud to be the first declared Goldfield in 1851, and one of the longest surviving, into the 1920s. A pleasant drive across the Bridge and along Bradley's Lane to Norman's Reserve brought us to see another Tunnel at Pound Bend through which the Yarra was diverted to allow about three miles of river-bed to be used for prospecting for alluvial gold. Still on this side of the river we visited the Old Slab Hut in Castles Road. This remnant of miners' housing is preserved because it had been incorporated into a weatherboard house, and saved from the bulldozers - a last minute reprieve, for preservation, by the National Trust. Devastating bush fires have destroyed other old cottages built of wattle and daub, with bark roofs and stone fire-places. The Cairn commemorating the disclosure of Gold Discovery at Warrandyte on June 30th 1851 beside Anderson's Creek Road was our next point of historical interest. We drove on to South Warrandyte and circled back to above the ford on Anderson's Creek to the entrance of the 4th Hill Mine. Again we crept along with our torches, careful of the low roof-rock, and side shafts. At a junction in a large cavity we were able to stand, look up a long air-vent which some 'cavers' climb down, and marvel at, and experience an aspect of a miner's life. Outside we heard the same bird songs, the trills and bell-pealing, saw the same straggly eucalypts, and a silver leafed wattle in flower, native grasses and ferns, and the neat present day houses, often of Warrandyte stone, perhaps veneered only. The day ended pleasantly, seeing more of the Yarra from Everard Drive, and the water rushing out of the Tunnel at Pound Bend, before returning to afternoon tea or coffee at the Museum. A great day for all concerned - many thanks to the Organisers.Two colour photographswarrandyte, activities, pound bend -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Hand drawn picture by Eric Thake dated 1954 depicting Milne's Post Office and Store on the south-east corner of Oban Road and Warrandyte Road, North Ringwood
Typed below picture, "Mr. K. Milnes store. Corner Oban Rd. and Warrandyte Rd. 1954. Now demolished". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper, Scrapbook Clipping, Library Collection, Ringwood, Victoria, `
``Newspaper clipping from "The Post" 4 -5 - 94 NO COUNCIL ELECTIONSThe annual Ringwood Council elections due in August have been deferred until at least March next year because Ringwood is about to be reviewed by the Local Government Board (LGB). The nine Ringwood councillors could be out out of office and replaced by a State Government appointed commissioner as early aas mid September if changes to Ringwood are proposed.`