Believed to have been owned originally by Alice and Arthur Fisher who had a 16 acre property in Mullum Mullum Road, Ringwood. The house was called Greenhill and was located at the highest point, now no. 28. They had a mixed farm including an orchard of fruit and nut trees, and a dairy cow. Alice milked the cow much to the amusement of her English family, who delighted in visiting. When the property was sold the butter churn went to Red Hill on the Mornington Peninsula. Arthur Lunt, donor has memories of its use in Red Hill, where his parents had a mixed farm. That property was sold c. 1950, and the butter Churn returned to the Ringwood Croydon area where it has remained unused for the last 65 years.|The butter churn has been in Croydon and Ringwood since 1952; it is typical of manually operated equipment in use on small properties 100 years ago.Cylindrical container, brown, mounted on board with handle underneath. To one side is a wooden handle and drive gears to spin cylinder. Cylinder has tight fitting lid and makers metal label on the side; opposite side has direction arrow embossed. Mounted on wooden base. Cream was put into churn, handle turned to spin drum until butter was produced. Five parts to the Churn.SVENSKA STOCKHOLM SWEDEN CENTRIFUGA,B.DAHLIA N0:0 SLATER PATENTdomestic items, food preparation

Lidded wooden box with metal turning handle on outside. Inside has a curved bottom and a paddle wheel turned by the metal handle.E. Cherry - Maker - Gisborne Improved Patentdomestic items, food preparation

Solid square glass jar with metal top and gear wheel, wooden handle and wooden paddle.domestic items, food preparation, food technology, dairying

Lidded wooden box, curved at the bottom with a four blade wooden churn in it. This was turned by an exterior metal handle.Cherry + Sons Gisborne Vic.domestic items, food preparation

Large lidded wooden box with metal turning handle on outside. Inside it has a curved bottom and a paddle wheel tuned by the metal handle.TIfood technology, dairying, rural industry, livestock

Piece of home churned butter was placed between the paddles and rolled into a ball for serving.Set of wooden butter pats, bat shaped, smooth on back - grooved on frontkitchen, food production, butter

Many butter churns were brought to Australia when people immigrated. German butter churns usually have the hand hold and the large gear in the same place, and are usually embossed on the base with the litre size. They usually came with a paper label and did not have embossing on the sides of the jar.large glass jar with lid-mounted geared churning mechanism with rotating paddle and wooden handle.Germany' pressed into lid, 'W 3' cast into inside of turning handle, '2 L.' embossed into bottom of glass containerfood technology, food processing, butter, milk, churn, kitchen, processing, germany, glass

Cast iron and tinplate whisk/mixer/butter churn with glass jar. Hand-cranked with wooden knob on handle.'Modelle Bepose'butter churns, whisks

Many butter churns were brought to Australia when people immigrated.A tall glass butter churn with a metal screw top lid, a metal handle to hold it steady and a turning mechanism on the top. There is a wooden paddle inside the churn which is rotated by a wooden handle attached to the mechanism on the top of the churn. German butter churns usually appeared like this.butter churns, churns, food processing equipment, butter, milk, kitchen equipmnet

Two wooden butter pats, one larger than the other. Flat, rectangular-shaped, grooved on one side. Wooden paddles used to work/shape butter after it had been churned.butter pats

Matching wooden butter pats. Flat, rectangular-shaped, grooved on one side. Wooden paddles used to work/shape butter after it had been churned.butter pats