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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps MuseumTool - Wood Plane, 1940's
Made by internees at camp 3, using wood sourced from under the barracks ie : stumps. Wood Plane, for wood working. Has a handle at the front for pushing it through wood. Also has metal blade kazenwadel, blacksmith, wood, tools camp 3, metal, woodworking -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps MuseumTool - Wood Plane, 1940's
Made by internees at camp 3, using wood sourced from under the barracks ie : stumps. Wood Plane, for wood working. Has a handle at the front for pushing it through wood. Also has metal blade kazenwadel, blacksmith, wood, tools camp 3, metal, woodworking -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps MuseumTool - Wood Plane, 1940's
Made by internees at camp 3, using wood sourced from under the barracks ie : stumps. Plane used for plaining window frames.Made from block of wood with metal blade inserted on angle through wood.kazenwadel, blacksmith, wood, tools camp 3, metal, woodworking -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps MuseumTool - Chisel, 1940's
Made by internees at camp 3, using wood sourced from under the barracks ie : stumps. Used for wood workingMetal chisel on a wooden handle, with a metal ferrule at each end of the handle. kazenwadel, blacksmith, wood, tools camp 3, metal, wood working -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps MuseumTool - Wooden Mallet, 1940's
Made by internees at camp 3, using wood sourced from under the barracks ie : stumps. Used for wood workingWooden mallet made in one piece with a curve halfway along it`s length, handle at one endkazenwadel, blacksmith, wood, tools camp 3, chisels, mallets -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps MuseumTool - Metal Wedge, 1940's
Made by internees at camp 3, using wood sourced from under the barracks ie : stumps. Used for wood workingMetal Wedge long and tapered at one end, worn and flattened at top end ( maybe from being struck with a hammer )kazenwadel, blacksmith, wood, tools camp 3, chisels, mallets -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps MuseumTool - Metal Wedge, 1940's
Made by internees at camp 3, using wood sourced from under the barracks ie : stumps. Used for wood workingMetal Wedge long and tapered at one end, worn and flattened at top end ( maybe from being struck with a hammer )kazenwadel, blacksmith, wood, tools camp 3, chisels, mallets -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps MuseumTool - Awl, 1940's
Made by internees at camp 3, using wood sourced from under the barracks ie : stumps. Used for wood workingAwl and wooden handle with metal ferrule at end, thin metal shaft , slightly bent coming to a sharp point. Spare handle in a light wood with a brass ferrule.kazenwadel, blacksmith, wood, tools camp 3, chisels, mallets -
Linton and District Historical Society IncCard - Memorial Card, The Australian Memorial Card Company, Memorial Card, John Graham, 1905, 1905
Thick brown memorial card with extensive gold embossing, Images of an angel and doves.Text: ' In Loving Remembrance / John Graham / Who died March 23, 1905 / Aged 69 years. 'john graham, blacksmith, memorial card, mourning, death, mines -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.Document - LANSELL COLLECTION: POSTER ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL FORTUNA 1981
Cream poster, colourfull text, describing Arts and Crafts Festival to be held at Fortuna , Chum Street, Bendigo in aid of Miss Australia Quest 1981. Activities include an 'Art Exhibition by top Australian Artists', glassblowing, a farrier, blacksmithing, potting and a flower arrangement. Held 29th and 30th August 1981. Entry $2.00 adults.bendigo, entertainment, arts and craft festival -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.Document - MCCOLL, RANKIN AND STANISTREET COLLECTION: CENTRAL DEBORAH GOLD MINE NL: GUIDE TO MINE, 1985
Document: 2 copies of complimentary guide to the Central Deborah Gold Mine. Details information about poppet legs and shaft, change room, drying room, first aid room, ore bins, boiler, stoke hold, winding engine, boiler feed pump, electric compressor, dteam driven compressor and blacksmith's shop.Central Deborah Gold Mine NLorganization, business, central deborah gold mine, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet collection: central deborah gold mine nl, goldmining -
Linton and District Historical Society IncPhotograph, Timber Stack for Charcoal Burning
It is not known where this photograph was taken. James(?) Scarf who lived at Madden's Flat was said to be a charcoal burner (Source - Bill Grigg Snr in interview with Max Standish - typescript in Grigg family file.)Black and white copy of original photograph which shows a more or less circular stack of timber. The stack appears to have been made from the thinner branches of trees. It is understood that the timber may have been stacked in this way prior to being burnt for charcoal, which was the main source of fuel used in blacksmith's forges.timber stack, burning pile, charcoal burning, wood -
Orbost & District Historical Societyfarm implement
This is a very common 'farm' style of old swinglebar. Blacksmiths and agricultural machinery suppliers made them by the thousands. They were used most commonly on heavy vehicles pulled by horses. This one would have been used on a farming property on the Orbost district.This item is an example of an early farming implement used in the Orbost district. It also demonstrates the improvisation skills of the agricultural community.Four pieces of wood connected by iron fittings. Two pieces have iron loops at both ends. The two straight pieces appear to be newer. There are two swingle trees. It appears to be a 2-horse set of swinglebars with a double-bar. which has been added to and repaired.agricultural-implement horses farming swinglebar -
Greensborough Historical SocietyDVD, 2 Road Films, Homefront: a new kind of war memorial, 2019_
Description of the people, stories and signiificance behind the new sculptures in Greensborough War Memorial Park, including chainsaw artists Hikaru Kodama, Leigh Conkie and John Brady and blacksmith Roland Dannenhauer. Director: Michael Wilkins, Producer/Designer: Amanda Gibson.Colour DVD; with Councillors notes at special documentary screening, publicity leaflet and ticket for screening held 15 May 2019greensborough park, war memorials victoria, homefront project -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.Photograph, Schwerkolt Cottage
The Blacksmith's shop or 'Smithy' was erected from timbers found in a paddock in the Dandenong Ranges by Mr George Cox which were transported to the Cottage site and re-erected in 1970 on a part of the site where remains of a previous building had been found.Black and white photo of Smokehouse and Smithy at Schwerkolt Cottageschwerkolt cottage, smokehouse, smithy, blacksmith forge -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.Container - Jewellery Box
Emma Thomas Collection: Items were owned by Emma Courtis, nee Thomas. Family lived in Hamelin St, White Hills. Emma's family include Elizabeth Penrose (mother), Solomon Thomas (father), and Richard Courtis, a blacksmith (her husband).Black rectangular box with mother of pearl inlay on lid. Keyhole located on one side. Box interior lined with patterned paper. Light engravings on lid show leaf motifs.mother of pearl, emma thomas, emma courtis, jewellery box -
Eltham District Historical Society IncEquipment, Handcuffs
Typical of the late 1800s era for Police use, these particular handcuffs were salvaged from the rear of the abandoned Wanarring Police Station, part of the Bourke Police District, 194 miles northwest of Bourke. Most likely made by a local blacksmith to a standard design Metal handcuffs and key with surface rust110 on keyhandcuffs, police -
Emerald Museum & Nobelius Heritage ParkPhotograph, Emerald Motors, Early 1950s?
The site of H A ("Herbie") Sherriff's business, Emerald Motors, was a former blacksmith's shop on the corner of Main Road and Kilvington Road. The sign over the shop bears the word "PLUME": This was a "motor spirit" (fuel) produced by Standard Oils and sold in Australia 1916-1954.The signage and the two cars visible (one late model and one early) establish the time the photograph was taken. Black and white photograph of shopfront of H A Sherriff's Emerald Motors business. White car (Austin?) visible in workshop entrance, dark older car in profile on right. Sign over garage shows Mobil "Pegasus" logo and word "PLUME" . Five men and a dog standing around casually, a sixth man (Herbie Sherriff?) posing next to white car. emerald motors, herbie sherriff -
Federation University Historical Collection
Booklet - Booklet - Prospectus, McCarron, Bird and Co. Printers, Collins Street, Melbourne Junior Technical School, Prospectus, 1917, 1917
Used at Ballarat School of Mines and Industries. The Melbourne Junior Technical School opened in 1912. It was a School for Junior Technical Work in Science, Art and Trade.` Information about aim of school, constitution, council, day courses, scholarships, holidays, evening courses, regulations, rules, sports, staff, students and syllabus. The first page is a Roll of Honor. Teachers and students who have enlisted in the A I F - First World War - are named. Those who have been killed in action, died or wounded are identified. Teachers - Maj. G M Nicholas (killed in action), R Hudspeth, E Harris, K B Nelson. Students - Lieut. H D Harvey (wounded), C Ash, A Addicoate (died), W H Barkley, H A Barker, L A Baker, R B Brisbane, W Berryman, G T R Cooper (wounded), D Clarke, A H Cheetham, A Ferguson, N L Ferguson, L Falconer, J A Fontaine, E A Geach, V E Hall, A J T Hamilton, I J Lang, C Leith, T R Lydster, R Morley, Gordon W Morrison, H K McNeill, N McCormick, W McConnochie, G F Nicholson, A L Nixon, T Nesbitt ( killed in action), E S Pugh, H P Philpott, R Quirk, R Shaw, J V Shelton, G W Stevens, W H Suttie, J Stewart (died), E Sharp, F W Schultz, D N Turpie, J Tyson, H Turner (died), A Woodgate, W R White, A G Wilson, H R York. Brown soft covered booklet with crest with information on teachers, students, aim of the school, compulsory drill, council, courses, fees, hours, holidays, map of the school, roll of honor and subjects. It includes photographs of the day school students, experimental science, sheet-metal work, woodwork, science workshop, modelling, blacksmithing and a drawing of the Working Men's Collegemelbourne, melbourne junior technical school, prospectus, principal, p mccormick, senior master, w bruce, trades, c greenhill, e harris, r kinross, c juncken, a dunstan, w hudspeth, e willison, a lawson, c blacker, r dannatt, mathematics, d j morris, g w irving, miss r m lewis, english, a j hauser, g a taylor, miss k e lamrock, i taylor, science, r a white, h carr, j connellan, t e kilshaw, a thomas, art, w gilmore, j n rowell, f g blachshaw, physical culture, lieut w hudspeth -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.Photograph - GOLDEN DAYS HISTORICAL EXHIBITION COLLECITON: BLACKSMITH'S ANVIL
Black and white photograph: blacksmith's anvil. Written on back of photo in blue pen 'Golden Days Historical Exhibition' 12 to 17 August, 1960. Reputed to be the anvil on which The Welcome Stranger (210 lbs) nugget was cut up on Dunolly 1869. Present owned (1960) Mr. Noel Gray, Backhaus Street, Long Gully, Bgo.bendigo, history, golden days historical exhibition -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: PLOUGHING
Bendigo Advertiser "The way we were" from Saturday, April 9, 2005. Ploughing: a 1928 Detroit model Fordson tractor pulls a four-furrow plough with a cut of exactly one metre. This Plough was made in Bendigo by the Ironbark firm of Golden City Machinery. The old foundry still stands in Ironbark as a tribute to the blacksmiths and workers.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Ringwood and District Historical SocietyPhotograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Demolition of Coffee Palace, Main St. 1966
Black and white photograph (2 copies- 1 large, 1 small)Typed below large photograph: "Demolition of Coffee Palace - Main St. 1966". Written on back of smaller duplicate photograph: "Demolishing Coffee Palace & shops cnr. Maroondah Hwy. & Adelaide St. (west cnr.) 1966. Portion of house on right - This was home of T. Grant, Blacksmith, 1883". -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation SocietyMachine - W & A PENTLAND Wheel Hub, c.1950
William PENTLAND arrived in Sandrisge in 1864 and set up his own coach building business in 1880.The firm was located between Ingles & Raglan Streets on the east side of Crockford Street. As well as coach building - and later motor body building - the firm were wheelwrights and blacksmiths.Round brass wheel hub cap from W & A PENTLAND, Port MelbourneW & A Pentland Port Melbourne Buildersw & a pentland, business & traders - manufacturing, william pentland -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.Photograph - LANSELL'S BIG 180 MINE WORKERS, c.1870's - 1880's
Sepia photograph. Twenty nine mine workers posed in three lines. High stone retaining wall behind. Timber and iron buildings behind. Some men holding tools - blacksmiths with leather aprons holding hammers. One man holding a shovel, one man holding a saw. Inscriptions: on board in front of men 'Lansell's Big 180'person, group, mining -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.Photograph - PITTOCK COLLECTION: FOUR FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS
Fiur Pittock family photographs: 1. Early photo of "R. Rowe Blacksmith & Wheelwright". Ten staff and customers, one child, one dog, buggy and horse. 2. Pittock family, Annie & Albert Pittock with sons Albert Jnr and Clarence Roy. 3. Undetailed elderly couple 4. Coloured photograph of garden and front brick and iron fence. -
Orbost & District Historical Societybuggy wheel lifter, 1910 -1920
This item was made by John Russell Senior, a blacksmith, wheelwright, farmer and later chairman of the Orbost Butter Factory, makers of Sunny South Butter (today part of Murray Goulburn Co Ltd). The buggy lifter was handed down to George Henry Russell (Doug), the second son between 1970 and 1973.Blacksmiths played an essential part in the regional parts of Victoria and were required to use their ingenuity and skills to design and make tools needed on local farms. This item is an example of a tool specifically designed for a horse-drawn wagon. Horse-drawn wagons are an important part of Australia’s agricultural history. Light buggies were popular with farmers for trips into town before the common use of motorised vehicles.A metal buggy wheel lifter. It has two hooks connected at the top by a bolt and a shackle. The hooks fit under the rim to enable the wheel to be lifted with a pulley / crane system operated by a man or a horse.tool buggy-lifter russell-john blacksmith wheelwright -
Orbost & District Historical Societybullock bell, late 19th century
Livestock bells were once used extensively throughout the Australian countryside. The first ones were imported from England and America, but gradually local blacksmiths started turning out their own bells. These bells were used on a leader in a bullock team or on other stock so they could be easily located.A very corroded metal bullock bell with a handle and a small round gong.bullock-bell rural-industry livestock -
Orbost & District Historical Societybullock bell
Livestock bells were once used extensively throughout the Australian countryside. The first ones were imported from England and America, but gradually local blacksmiths started turning out their own bells. These bells were used on a leader in a bullock team or on other stock so they could be easily locatedAn iron bullock bell with handle and a large clapper inside.bullock-bell rural-industry livestock -
Orbost & District Historical Societybedspread, Tinkler, Susan Mary, 1908
Susan Mary Tinkler was one of thirteen children born to Christina Simpson (born Scroggie in 1859) and Henry Robert Simpson (born 1852). His occupation was Blacksmith & Wheelright in the Balranald & Moulamein districts. This bedspread was knitted by Susan Mary Tinkler of Balranald in 1908 and was used by her family throughout the years. This item is an example of a handcrafted item and reflects the needlework skills of women in the families of early settlers.Abedspread, hand-knitted in pink cotton. It has a intricate design and is edged with a fringe.hand-knitted bedspread linen handcraft -
Upper Yarra MuseumNegative Photographic Reproduction, Smithy Workshop Millgrove
The Smithy job is very important in any town or settlement, horses need shoeing reguarly, and drays, carts and jinkers need their Tires replaced or tightened, also their are many other jobs that they perform.Negative Black white Scanned at 600 dpi. "Smithy Workshop Millgrove" In the immediate and far background is the bush, central to this is the Smithys Workshop, it has a pailing roof and walls, there is a door left front, to the left above the dray wheel is a young man milking a brown and white cow, front left is the dray, with a young boy standing between the dray shafts holding a horse, next is a young Mother with a little girl, next to her is Dad with a hat and apron, he is the Smithy, he is holding a horse still with its yoke on, next is an older man wearing a suit and hat, holding a horse still yoked and harnessed, behind them is another horse near the workshop door, next is a horse yoked and harnessed to another horse and behind that is a sawn load of timber, next to the last horse is a man holding it, he is dressed with a vest and shirt sleeves and hat, at the end of the workshop is a lean-to shed which is probably the dunny, behind the load of timber there is a building with a 4 pane window and making an L shape another building, they appear to be on stumps , roof line is not distinguishable, the horses all seem like "Clydsdales".blacksmith, horses, millgrove, smithy, workshop, shed, cart sandy ross
