Black and white photograph taken during the installation pipework for the new greens for the Bowls Club following the removal of the old green. Lakes Entrance Victoriaclubs, construction, sporting facilities

number in album 03582.01Black and white photograph Metung Bowls Club season opening, Glad Round and Bill Ould, who bowled the first kitty and the first bowl. Lakes Entrance Victoriabowls club, sports

number in album 03582.02Black and white photograph Metung Bowls Club member George Fail at season opening. Lakes Entrance Victoriabowls club, sports

Black and white photograph taken at season opening at Bairnsdale Bowls Club, visiting bowlers Astrid Schofield of Bairnsdale, Bernie Whiteside of Bruthen, and Ted Maxwell of Metung. Lakes Entrance Victoriabowls club, sports

Black and white photograph Ellen Davies delivering the first bowl of the Metung Bowls Club season. Lakes Entrance Victoriabowls club, sports

The VRI was an important institute across Victorian communities in the first half of the twentieth century. This trophy was presented to each member of the winning bowls team at Donald in north west Victoria.donald, victorian railway institute, green bowls, michael taffe, station master

Black and white postcard of Woodbine House and bowling green during a competition Lakes Entrance VictoriaWoodbine House Lakes Entrance Victoriaaccommodation, sporting facilities, bowls club

Date made August 2008Colour photograph showing bowlers on the green with the clubrooms in the background. The bowls club is situated on what was the Woodbine House Guesthouse. Lakes Entrance Victoriaguesthouses, sports, room display

This concretion of tobacco pipes is one of a group of artefacts in the McCulloch Collection. It was recovered from the shipwreck of the Victoria Tower. The pipes may have been amongst the ship's cargo but could have been included in a passenger’s personal effects. The object is now one of the shipwreck artefacts in Flagstaff Hill’s Mc Culloch Collection, which includes items recovered from the wrecks of the Victoria Tower (wrecked in 1869) and Loch Ard (wrecked in 1878). They were salvaged by a diver in the early 1970s from the southwest coast of Victoria. Advanced marine technology had enabled divers to explore the depths of the ocean and gather its treasures before protective legislation was introduced by the Government. The artefacts were donated to Queensland’s Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (EHP) by a passionate shipwreck lover and their locations were verified by Bruce McCulloch. In 2017 the Department repatriated them to Flagstaff Hill where they joined our vast collection of artefacts from Victoria’s Shipwreck Coast. The Victoria Tower: - The three-masted iron clipper ship was built in 1869 in Liverpool, England, as a passenger and cargo ship for the Australian trade. She was named after one of the two towers of the British Houses of Parliament and owned by the White Star line. The Victoria Tower sailed under the command of Captain Kerr from Liverpool towards Melbourne on her maiden voyage. She carried 34 passengers and 16 crew plus a general cargo including bottled beer, slates, iron pipes and hardware. She was almost at her destination when she was wrecked on 17th October 1869 at Point Impossible, west of Thompsons Creek, Breamlea. The shipwreck is a very popular dive site.The artefact is an example of cargo or personal items on board a ship in 1869. It provides a reference point for classifying and dating similar items. The artefact is significant for its association with the clipper ship Victoria Tower, which is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register as S698. The Victoria Tower is recorded as the most intact historic shipwreck accessible between Point Lonsdale and Cape Otway. The Victoria Tower is one of only seven shipwrecks in Victoria that have had more than 100 objects recovered from them reported as a result of the Commonwealth Amnesty held in 1993-94.Concretion of clay tobacco pipes. Bowls and stems of several broken orange tobacco pipes are joined together in ac irregularly shaped clump of concretion from the sea. The concretion also contains stones, shells, sand and particles of seaweed. It was recovered wreck of the ship Victoria Tower.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, maritime village, maritime museum, flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, shipwreck coast, great ocean road, shipwreck artefact, wreck dive, mcculloch collection, bruce mcculloch, white star line, victorian heritage register, clipper ship, victoria tower, captain kerr, shipwreck victoria tower, migrant ship 1869, cargo ship 1869, iron clipper, british clipper ship, 1869, cargo imported to australia, pipe cluster, concretion of pipes, pipe, ceramic pipes, tobacco pipes, smoker's pipes

Colour photograph of Mike Kelly of Lakes Entrance Bowls Club presenting 1000 dollar cheque to Deanna Carsons McKendry and Ian Overall of Skyshow Committee 2002 at the bowling greens Lakes Entrance Victoriaclubs, bowls club

Colour photograph of Lakes Entrance Bowls Club President Linsay Wangman presenting LERHS President Marie Fish with cheque for $500 from the Wrong Bias account with Wendy Price and Trevor Jackson in photograph at Bowls Clubrooms Rowe Street Lakes Entrance Victoriahistorical society, bowls club, donation

cheque was $2140Colour photograph showing Geoff Rohde from Bowls Club, presenting surf life saving equipment on main beach to Ron Stott, Stuart Mawley and Greg Townsend members Surf Life Saving Club Lakes Entrance Victoriasurf lifesaving, volunteering