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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Document - Title History, Title History of Lot 55 Plan of Subdivision No 4315 Wonga Park
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Document - Title History, Title History of Lot 56 Plan of Subdivision No 4315 Wonga Park
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Wooden Butter Churn, Wooden Butter Churn, butter pats and glass covered dish
Local orchardists generally had their own cow and were milked daily. They would seperate the cream from the milk in a seperator and then churn the cream that had not been used into butter using the butter churn The butter pats were then used to roll the butter into small balls or cylindrical shapes called bats. Wooden butter churn and internal photo Wooden butter pats -
Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Fruit Grading Rings, Six rings to size fruit for packing, unknown
Used by R & J.M. Hooper of Homestead Road, Wonga Park on their Orchard Used in early orcharding to size fruit before packing. There are several different types of rings, but they all do the same thing, the numbers are inches of diameter, if the fruit sits on that ring and doesn’t drop through that is it’s size. Fruit of all the same diameter would be packed into a box in a pattern that didn’t move around. With apples and pears that was about 70 pieces of 3 inch fruit per bushel down to about 170 fruit of 2 inch fruit per box. The Trayrude 2 -
Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Fruit Case Labels, Labels from R &J.M.Hooper Wonga Park, 1980
Boxes of fruit were labelled so that buyers knew who grew the fruit, the size of the fruit and the area where it was grown.Cardboard Labelled with Orchardists name and type of fruit. Label printed with " Grown and Packed by R. & J.M.Hooper, Wonga Park". Fruit being Peaches. Grade being Fancy also had Count for the number of Peaches and a Date. -
Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Coins, 6 Australian pre decimal, ie pre 1966
1946 Two shillings, 1952 One shilling, 1946 sixpence, 1951 threepence, 1961 penny and 1961 halfpenny, mounted on a card and labelled -
Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Commemorative Tea towel, Wonga Park Primary School Centenary 1895 - 1995, 1995
Memento to celebrate the Wonga Park Primary School centenary.Rectangular cream coloured linen tea towel with green printed title and stylized drawing of the original school building.Wonga Park P.S Centenary 1895 - 1995 -
Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Mug, Wonga Park Primary School Centenary, 1995
Commemorative item produced as memorabilia for the centenary of Wonga Park Primary School.White china mug with gold rim and a green printed inscription on one side.Wonga Park P.S. Centenary 1895 - 1995 printed around a stylized drawing of the original school. -
Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Tie Pin, Wonga Park Primary School Centenary 1895 - 1995, 1995
Item one of several made to commemorate Centenary of Wonga Park Primary School in 1995.Small gold coloured, stick format tie pin with circular emblem words around the outside and drawing in the centre denoting the occasion.Wonga Park P.S. Centenary 1895 - 199. stylized drawing of original school. -
Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Document, Wonga Park Telephone Listing possibly 1956, Believed to be 1956
Paper document with phone numbers for Whittlesea, Wonga Park and Yan Yean -
Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
photograph, dam making, c 1940 for 1003 c1960 for 1003-1
Ernie Kear and his son Bruce were local excavators and involved in many projects around Wonga Park requiring bull dozing, in particular clearing land for orchards, building dams etcEarly history of Wonga Park orchard growing district. Early dams were built by horse and scoop on the back which was handled by the orchardist, or the dam builder but later replaced by bulldozersErnie Kear excavating a dam in Wonga Park c 1940 no hard copy electronic only -
Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Scarf, Green and White Scarf commemorating Pan-Pacific Jamboree Yarra Brae Victoria
Triangular green and white cotton scouting scarf with Pan-Pacific Jamboree Yarra Brae Victoria emblem -
Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
History Book, Discover Wonga Park Past and Present, 1984
34 page soft cover bookletNational Library of Australia card and ISBN Number ISBN O 9590801 0 4 -
Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Shire of Lillydale History Book, Border Country Episodes and Recollections of Mooroolbark & Wonga Park by G.F.James, 1984
Hard cover book of 96 pages with a loose leaf coverWritten and Printed for Shire of Lillydale -
Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Card, Pan-Pacific Jamboree Headquarters Meal ticket Wonga Park probably 1948-9
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Woven cloth name tag Wonga Park 1948, 1948-Pan-Pacific Jamboree, Yarra Brae, Victoria-1949
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association AGM Minutes 11 May 1990 and Annual Report
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Monthly Meeting Minutes 11 May 1990
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Monthly Meeting Minutes 8 June 1990
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Monthly Meeting Minutes 13 July 1990
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Monthly Meeting Minutes 10 August 1990
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Monthly Meeting Minutes 14 September 1990
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Monthly Meeting Minutes 12 October 1990 and 9 November 1990
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Monthly Meeting Minutes 8 February 1991
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Annual General Meeting Minutes 12 April 1991
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Monthly Meeting Minutes 8 November 1991
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Monthly Meeting Minutes 13 December 1991
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Monthly Meeting Minutes 10 June 1994
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Monthly Meeting Minutes 8 July 1994
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Wonga Park Community Cottage History Group
Minutes, Wonga Park & District Residents' Association Monthly Meeting Minutes 11 November 1994