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Melbourne Legacy
Certificate - Document, certificate, The Australian National Flag Association, 1984
A framed certificate that acknowledges that Melbourne Legacy was a member of The Australian National Flag Association (ANFA) in 1984. The ANFA is an association that promotes and defends the use of the flag of Australia.A record that the ANFA recognised Legacy's work as a positive contribution to preserving the Australian Flag.Glass, black wooden frame, mottled off white paper, picture wire, white tape and compressed timber backing. Top centre:- The Australian Flag. Centre:- The Australian National Flag Association, Victorian Division This is to certify that The Legacy Club of Melbourne is a Corporate member of The Australian National Flag Association, Victorian Division Bottom:- Date 6th June 1984. signed Bruce Ruxton Chairman. A. Harnel.Hon Secretary australian flag, membership -
Melbourne Legacy
Photograph - Photo, The Australian National Flag Association, 1984
A certificate showing that the Legacy Club of Melbourne was a corporate member of the Australian National Flag Association (ANFA) in 1984. ANFA was founded in 1983 to promote the importance and significance of our national symbol – the Australian National Flag. The certificate was signed by Bruce Ruxton who was chairman of ANFA at the time. He spoke at Legacy luncheons a few times.Legacy was founded by returned servicemen and the Australian flag would have been important to them as a symbol of their service.Certificate of membership on white card in a black wooden frame under glass. -
Lakes Entrance Historical Society
Photograph - Barke's Store, 1900c
This is the before paired photograph used in the 150 year, Lakes Entrance 1858-2008 display.|The after paired photograph number is 01402.1|Also one 12 x 16 framed photograph used in room display.Black and white photograph of Barkes Store. Store was built in 1893, opposite the Post Office on Esplanade. Photo shows a large weatherboard building, hipped iron roof, imitation gables and timber frieze decorate the veranda roof. Building has many signs advertising various goods, products and services. A four-horse drawn wagon and crowd of people at front of the store, on ground-level wooden veranda floor. Lakes Entrance VictoriaLakes Entrance Cunninghame Gippsland, Victoriatransport, township, retail trade, room display -
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
FCV presentation plaque and mould
... it could be used to cast a solid replica. The wooden mould ...The wooden mould was originally made in the early 1980s by one of the crew in his spare time in East Gippsland (Bairnsdale maybe). It was passed it on to Ian Long and then Barrie Marsden at Altona. It was not made for any particular purpose other than just a copy of the iconic FCV logo. It sat in the office at Altona for a little while until one day Barry thought it could be used to cast a solid replica. The wooden mould was taken to a foundry in North Melbourne and three bronze replicas were cast and polished. One was used when the Chief Fire Officer, Bary Johnson, was retiring More were cast in brass and the plaques became a standard presentation item for retiring FCV personnel. The wooden mould eventually cracked and can no longer be used. Hand madeWooden mould and presentation plaqueforests commission victoria (fcv), forest signs -
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Forestry House Sign
... ) Forest Signs Large wooden sigh from outside Forestry House at 601 ...Forestry House was the fist time that Forests Commission Head office staff had been housed in a purpose built building in Melbourne 601 Bourke street is on the corner of Bourke and King streets The building opened in the late 1970s but staff relocated in the late 1980s after the formation of the Department of Conservation Forests and Lands (CFL)Large wooden sigh from outside Forestry House at 601 Bourke Streetforests commission victoria (fcv), forest signs -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Print, Mary Macqueen, Nullabor 1-1-83, 1983
Print Council of Australia Members' Print Commission, 1983Abstracted views of a desert scene. A central road intersects image at a vertical diagonal. Faint outlines of houses and a WaterTower are scattered throughout the image. To the lefthand side a building can be seen with a veranda and several seating areas. To the righthand side there is another building and the numerals '1983' can be seen to the side of it. A railway crossing sign is positioned lower centre, at beginning of road. Kangaroos and trees can also be seen in the image. Dominant colour is a pinky red, with blue accents and grey shadows. Mounted in grey matt, in wooden frame. Front: Nullarbor (lower left of image) (ink) 35/100 (lower left) Nullarbor 1-1-83 (lower centre) Mary Macqueen 83 (lower right) (pencil) Back: (no inscriptions)nullabor, desert scene, female artists, female artist, abstract -
Buninyong Visitor Information Centre
Document - Share Certificates, Bishop's Gold Mining Co., Buninyong Share Certificates
Interesting record of commercial gold mining activity in Buninyong in the 1930s depression era.Three gold mining share certificates, set in a wooden edged frame. Two are for Bishop's Gold (Buninyong) and one for Buninyong Rand Mines. Dated from 1936-1938. Each of the certificates were issued to different investors and signed by A. E. Llewellyn as Manager. Signed by W. Llewellyngold mining, buninyong, share certificates, gold, great depression -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Information Panel: Will Longstaff's "Menin Gate at Midnight"
In April 2002, illustrative panels were set in place at Kangaroo Ground War Memorial Park designed to inform visitors about significant aspects of the reserve and its tower. One of these deals with its indigenous story, another portrays its original 1920 memorial, a third has upon it Will Longstaff’s famous war painting, “Midnight at Menin Gate.” This sign establishes a connection with the First World War by way of the painting "Menin Gate at Midnight". (NL 144) The artist William Longstaff lived in Eltham; his son attended school at Kangaroo Ground. The orignal of his painting is on permanent display in the Australian War Memorial. Since this photograph was taken (date unknown) the information panel has been restored and re-erected by staff of the Shire of Nillumbik who replicated the wooden side frame pieces with the same wood-turn design as seen here in the original. Colour photographMENIN GATE AT MIDNIGHT Will Longstaff, 1927 Oil on canvas, Size 135cm high x 254cm wide Collection: Australian War Memorial The artist Will Longstaff was born in in Ballarat in 1879 and died at Littlehampton, Sussex, UK, 1953. Will Longstaff for many years lived in Eltham, his son Tommy, attending school at Kangaroo Ground. As an Official War Artist, will Longstaff depicted in his alegorical painting the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. The Memorial unveiled on 24th July 1927 honours by name over 50, 000 allied soldiers who fell in the Great War and have no known graves. The names of 6,208 men of the first Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) are listed within the Memorial on stone tablets. The painting held huge emotional appeal to Australians when it arrived from England in 1928, attracting an estimated one million viewers, many of whom interpreted the field of red poppies in the foreground as the spirits of the dead rising from their unknown graves. The painting is to be found in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.menin gate at midnight, william longstaff, kangaroo ground memorial, information panel, shire of eltham war memorial -
The 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victoria Regiment Historical Collection
Document - Commander's Commendation to LT Ian Lowen from General Wavell, Commanders Commendation from General Wavell
Commanders Commendation presented to Brig Lowen (LT Lowen at the time), signed by General WavellCommanders Commendation issued to LT Ian Lowen by General Wavell, it contains the wet signature of General WavellCommanders Commendation in wooden class frame contains the Commanders CommendationCommanders Commendation present to Brid Lowen (LT Lowen at the time)5/6 rvr, bhq, brig lowen, 2/5th bn, lt lowen -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Sign - ADVERTISING SIGN BOARDS PAINTED GLASS RAYMOND V KELLY. SIGNED BY N. LEVES
Painted Glass, Hinged, Wooden Framed, advertising boards. All seem to be from the same location. 'Raymond V Kelly' studio. Two panels have been signed by N. Leves, Nth. Melb. All panels in quite good condition. 'Incorporating Raymond V. Kelly Studio' x 1 'High Art' x 3 (N. Leves N. Melb) in Bottom LH 'Portraiture' x 1 'Photographers' x 2 (one signed N Leves, N. Melbourne) Approx 1200 x 30cm 'Photographers' x 1 small LEVES. - On the 14th inst., at his residence, 117 Queensberry-street, North Melbourne, N. Leves, art decorator and glass embosser, late of Garratt- house, Surrey, England, and of Rothesay, Dunedin, aged 43 years. Ref: Family Notices. (1890, March 17). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.: 1848 - 1957), page 1. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8595014 DSC_0310 renamed to 7280.1 Item catalogued as 7230.1 stored in Box 301 Others to be catalogued as 7280.2 - 7280.5 s -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Short modular passenger shelter on Toorak Rd
This photograph shows empty shorter version of modular passenger shelter with tram stop sign 24 route 8 in foreground, older style wooden and concrete seat adjacent, and parkland in background.Yields information about roadside facilities for travellersBlack and white photograph with texta note on rearModulartram, passenger shelter, modular, toorak rd, route 8 -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Furniture - School Teacher's Desk, Early 20th century
This is a teacher's desk which came from Woodford State School. The school began in 1854 in a private dwelling with a new building constructed in 1874. The school still operates today.This is a very fine example of an early 20th century school teacher's desk. As it comes from one of the earliest schools in the district, it is of considerable significance.This is a wooden desk, now varnished, with a lift up, slanted lid with brass hinges and a brass key hole. On the top right hand side is a brass insert with a porcelain ink well. The desk has four turned legs with end struts. The desk lid may be made of pine but the rest of the desk seems to be made of a different wood. There are signs of old borer on the left hand front and the curved part on that side is missing.woodford state school, teachers desk, wooden teachers desk -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Painting, Jessie Shevill, The Lonely House, 1894
CEMA Art Collection Previously located in History HouseA house set amongst trees with a small body of water in front. The house has smoke rising from the chimney. Pinkish sky. On the water is a small wooden boat, and to the right of the house stands a person. In the background is a green hill with buildings set in the foothills. The hill and trees of the foreground are set against an orange/pink sky. The work has a gilded ornate frame with no mounts and exposed canvas. Signed front of painting bottom rightFront: Jessie Shevill 1894 Plaque attached to frame: The Lonely House Back: (no inscriptions)european painting, 1800s, country -
Vision Australia
Equipment - Object, Mayhew music indicator, c. 1968
This device assists blind music teachers to teach music notation to the sighted, by using a braille dial. Created by Percival Mayhew in the 1920-1930's, it consists of a wooden frame with a window, behind which is a sliding list of 63 staff notations and 17 sol-fa tones. To use, the teacher sits behind the indicator (to align the Braille scale of signs) whilst the student sits in front of the window and views the printed version. Black vinyl carry case has been created for transporting device.Wooden board with window for visual display and two double-sided paper cards and black vinyl carry case'The Mayhew Music Indicator' on front.adaptive devices, music teaching -
Vision Australia
Equipment - Object, Braille hand frame
Braille hand frames and styluses were the primary way to produce Braille for over a century. The stylus was used to make a separate indentation for each dot, and the hand frame to keep dots within the same cell. Braille rows are produced from right to left. The process was very time consuming. Volunteer transcribers for the library could take an average of ½ hour to produce one page of Braille using this method. For example: “Oliver Twist” required approximately 600 sheets equating to 300 hours of work! This wooden slate, which was used to make the system portable, served as a firm base needed to sustain puncture pressure. The frame can also be slotted into both sides of the slate, thereby ensuring that the lines of Braille were straight across the page. The metal clasp at the top of the frame held the wooden which kept paper from slipping. Sometimes the board was labelled with organisational labels. In this example, the Rules of Membership for the Victorian Association of Braille Writers was attached, which included the costs of being a transcribing member and the length of the loan period. It is signed by Millicent Ritchie (Hon. Secretary) and Minnie H Crabb (Asst Sec and Librarian) at the base of the sheet.Brown rectangular wooden board with hinged paper clamp and metal hinged guideFree Lending Library for the Blind label is attached to boardbraille equipment, victorian association of braille writers -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Drawing, MELISSA BOAG, Gannets at Point Danger, 2015
Four pen and wash sketches - Gannets at Point Danger. Sketches mounted one beneath the other. Sketches have a white background, black ink, several different colour washes, double white mat board, blonde wooden frame, reflective glass, wire hanger on back. Images from top to bottom: Single Gannet / 7 gannets / Gannets sitting, one at the back looks to be in flight / Gannets on the shore, sea behind and an islandFront: Each image is signed 'M. Boag July 2015'. black ink, lower right cornergannets, portland wildlife, birds, point danger -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, Wal Jack, No. 3 Ripon St - Ballarat A, 16/03/1935
A photograph of ESCO Ballarat No. 3 in Ripon St. Shows tram with blinds drawn, and covers over the wooden slats beneath the blinds to prevent people from standing on them at either end of the tram, Has "Enter Front Entrance" sign. The tram has the destination of "City". This tram began its life as a Sydney C class tram, possibly No. 14. In the background are the cooling towers of the Ballarat A Power station. See Notes for various copy history. Yields information about Ballarat ESCo. No. 3 in a modified form and the nature of the modifications.Black and white photograph, and copy negativeRay Pearson's captions included in the scanned images., .2 - Wal Jack's notes are "Ballarat 'old type' No. 3, Ripon St 16-3-1935, (1905 - 1935). W. Jack T2"trams, tramways, esco, ballarat, tram 3, ripon st, ballarat a power station -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Artwork, other, Untitled (Jockey and Horse), n.d
Cut out image in thick carboard. Jockey leading a horse. The jockey holds the horse by the reigns as he stands by the horse's head. He holds a riding crop. There is a low brick wall and bushes. Above the horse is a sign which reads - H.L. Vivian, Saddler. The cutout is painted in silver. It is framed in a wooden frame, cream mountboard.Front: 'H.L. VIVIAN SADDLER' Back: Holland's Picture Framing stampadvertising, saddler, portland business, vivian, horse -
Clunes Museum
Photograph, 1869
UNION BANK - LATER A.N.Z. NOW PRIVATE RESIDENCE. CORNER OF TEMPLETON ST. NEXT TO C. OF E. - NOW SUNDAY SCHOOL. NEXT TO PRESENT C. OF E. NOTE BELL ON BUILDING NEXT TO RED BOOT WAS A SCHOOL.- TWO CHURCHES ON TOP OF NORTH CLUNES HILL. ONE OF THESE BECAME THE ASSEMBLY HALL AT TOWN HALL. SIGNS ON BUILDINGS, KENT EDWARD DART HOTEL, PITCHER BROS, PORT PHILLIP BAKERY R. HARVEY, C. WILES WASHINGTON HOTEL, R. MORRISON AGE OFFICE NEWS, BULL & MOUTH COACH OFFICE J. H. DALTON.1 PHOTOGRAPH OF A PORTION OF A LITHOGRAPH OF LOWER FRASER STREET, CLUNES. WOODEN BUILDINGS IN FOREGROUND, CRESWICK CREEK BEHIND BUILDINGS. HILL IN BACK GROUND. .2 .3 BLACK AND WHITE COPIES OF THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH PRINTED ON GLOSS PAPERshops, red boot palace, clunes township -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Sign - VINCENT KELLY COLLECTION: NAMEPLATES: PHOTOGRAPHERS
Vincent Kelly (1877-1958) was a photographer in Mitchell Street, operating from 1904 until his death in 1958. As well as general photography he was renowned for war-time portraits of soldiers. A sketch of his photograph of underground miners was used on the reverse side of the 1913 1 pound note.Nameplate from Vincent Kelly Photographers, Bendigo. Glass namepplate with bevelled edge with silver lettering on black glass in wooden frame. 'PHOTOGRAPERS' Bevelled edged has gold coloured 2 cm border. Lower RH Corner 'N Leves.N. Melbourne.' LEVES.- On the 14th inst., at his residence, 117Queensberry-street, North Melbourne, N. Leves, art decorator and glass embosser, late of Garratt- house, Surrey, England, and of Rothesay, Dunedin, aged 43 years. Ref: Family Notices. (1890, March 17). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), page 1. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8595014 Seven other nameplates stored in Container 3 yet to be catalogued as 7280 .2 - 7280.8bendigo, business, photograper -
Linton and District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Unidentified Event
Photograph of unidentified event, late 19th/early 20th century, possibly a gathering of the Linton Caledonian Society. Photograph shows group of people gathered on a grassy area/open space in front of a wooden building, trees in background. Some of the group are wearing uniforms and appear to be members of a brass and/or highland band. To the left is a wagon/cart with baggage and chairs(?) loaded on it. To the right is a horse-drawn cart with people seated on it, other people standing just behind it. About ten small children are in a row at the front of the group. A sign just behind them reads "A Chip Off the Old Block". Two flags are flying, one an Australian flag, the other a Union Jack. -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - Bert and Minnie Sutton c.mid 1940s
B&W photo of Bert (Gilbert William) and Minnie (Williamina Wilson) Sutton (daughter of Charles Macauley and Minnie Gray) standing outside their original home in Belgrave Heights. The photo shows the couple standing at their post-and-wire front fence at their property in Lockwood Road. The house was next door to Edward's store. Bert is in shirtsleeves and Minnie is wearing a cardigan over a dress. Their house is a single gabled house of weatherboard and fibro sheeting with an L-shaped open verandah. After purchasing the house Bert altered it, eventually enclosing the verandah and turning it into a sleepout. The house has been extensively altered since but is still standing in Lockwood Rd. The block is treed and the garden appears to be rather wild. A tiled roofed building is behind the house and to the left, possibly a garage. On the nature strip in front of the Suttons' house is a wooden bench, and attached to a tree are the signs, "Lockwood House" (with a hand pointing right), "To golf links" (with an arrow pointing right) and "Central Park Tennis Courts" (with an arrow pointing left). The sun is shining. Bert, who was a carpenter, died in 1969 and Minnie died in 1977. Copy of original photo donated to our society by Kath Oram, a founding member. -
Buninyong & District Historical Society
Sign - Notice board, Wooden notice board, Buninyong Debating Society, 1891, 20 August 1891
Wooden notice board made for public viewing, advertising events at the Buninyong Temperance Hall, 20 August 1891Historically significant documentation of events held at Buninyong Temperance Hall, 20 August 1891Wooden notice board, painted black, with paper notices glued to it."Buninyong Debating Society" Printed advertisements for events at Buninyong Temperance Hall, 20 August 1891buninyong debating society, buninyong temperance hall -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Drawing, Middle Pier Portland, n.d
CEMA Art CollectionThe drawing depicts a pier with three boats in the foreground and a building and light poles on the pier. The boats are various sizes and are all moored/anchored in the water below the pier. The boat on the right is the largest one and is a sailing boat. The work is framed in a brown wooden frame with glass and is not mounted.Front: (No inscriptions) Back: Middle Pier Portland (black pen) C. Woolcock (signature) (pound sign)4- 4 - 0 yellows sticker: H/H 19 1999 written in pencil -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Drawing, Collin Elwyn Woolcock, Epacris Impressa (Common Heath), 1972
Part of 'Woolcock Gallery Collection' Exhibited CEMA 1989.Drawings of a stem with leaf, flower and seed pod details. Leaves are soft and long, dark green and grow from the central stem. Flowers are bell-shaped and pink-red. From top-bottom is a pale pink flower in full bloom; a leaf top view; a stem detail with pod with whithered petal; top view of flower; side view of white flower; side view of red flower; internal view of flower (splayed open). Work is mounted in a double matt (grey on pink) and framed under glass in gold painted wooden frame.Front: CEW/72 (signature, lower right) (green pencil). Common Heath - Epacris impressa (lower left) (pencil). Common Heath - Epacris impressa (erased, lower centre) CEW (sign, pencil, erased) Back: 5 (upper left) (pen)cema, botanical, collin woolcock, woolcock collection, woolcock, botanical drawings -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Postcard, 1917
From the album of WWI soldier William West (1268) of the 29 Infantry Battalion, 5th Pioneers Battalion. This collection of postcards, photographs and clippings were sent between William and his family and loved ones during the years he was on active service. See also 207 and 220. Postcard with a black and white photograph of a soldier in uniform. His right arm is resting on a wooden stand and he stands in front of a brick ivy covered wall. Handwritten message on the back.There is a small sign at the base of the stand that says "3251"album, photo album, newspaper clippings, postcard, wwi, photograph, soldier -
Falls Creek Historical Society
Document - Hand-Written - Intention To Erect Sign Advertising My Business
Bob (Herman) Hymans (a former member of the Royal Netherlands Navy) was born in Bloemendaal, Holland on 30th September 1922. During World War II he fought against the Japanese in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and was imprisoned in Changi and on the Burma Railway. After gaining qualifications as a Ski Instructor, Bob arrived in Falls Creek in July 1950. Working as an Instructor and Supervisor at Bogong Lodge, Bob decided his future was in accommodation. He was successful in negotiating an indenture for land from the State Electricity Commission (SEC). It took Bob two years to build his Grand Coeur Chalet but, tragically, it was burned down in August 1961. Bob also built the first Chairlift in Australia. This was a single chairlift and the structure was built from wooden electricity poles. He was constantly full of new ideas and proposals for the village. Bob Hymans died on 7th July 2007. This Collection of documents and letters tells the story of Bob's endeavours to develop Falls Creek into the ski village it is today.This item is significant because it documents proposals put forward by Bob Hymans to develop facilities in the Falls Creek Tourist Area.Two unsigned handwritten notes related to signs and developments on SIte 4A at Falls Creek leased by Bob HymansTranscript: Copy keep 22/6/66 I beg to inform you that it is my intention to erect a sign advertising my business. It will be manufactured by a plastic sign firm, be positioned under the eaves of the Four Seasons Chalet and lit you by night. Yours faithfully ________________________________________ I am taking the liberty herewith to I apply for your permission to erect a Ladies Hairdressing Salon on Site 4A Yours faithfully.falls creek tourist area management committee, falls creek administration, plan for ladies hairdressing salon -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Sign - Pub Sign, 1920
The sons of a spirits dealer, Andrew and John Usher created one of the world’s most successful blended Scotch whiskies, Old Vatted Glenlivet, and played a key role in building the North British distillery. But they were also responsible for one of the most misunderstood lawsuits in Scotch history – the trademark battle for ‘Glenlivet’. Iain Russell reports. Three badly damaged paper labels on the back. A mirror is mounted on a one centimetre thick, 67 by 43 centimetres wooden frame with 18 centimetres by three centimetres decorative extensions on all sides. there two pieces of metal on the top to hang the mirror. A box nine six by four centimetres is mounted on each side, one is labeled MATCHES and the other CIGAR CUTTER both have ANDREW USHER & Co written on them. Behind the glass is gold coloured writing with black shadows stating USHER'S "SPECIAL RESERVE" & "O.V.C." WHISKIESpub mirror, andrew usher, o.v.c. whiskies -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Equipment - Foundry Patterns set, Briggs Brass Foundry, Early 20th century
The wooden crate contains a set of patterns or moulds that were once used at Briggs’ Brass Foundry for making sand moulds. The traditional method of sand casting is over 2000 years old. It is part of a crafted process used to make brass and copper alloy goods suited to marine use; bells, boat hooks, cowls, propellers, handles, lids, rowlocks, hooks, letters, bolts, rail holders, brackets, deck plates, flanges, rudder guides, portholes and covers. Briggs’ Bronze is a copper-based alloy made from local ingots of copper, tin, zinc and lead in carefully measured quantities. The finished product is non-corrosive and can last indefinitely. The crate of patterns was donated by the Briggs family in the early years of Flagstaff Hill, along with other related items such as brassware, tools and machinery. The donated items were displayed in a simulated Brass Foundry in the Village. The items were on show from the completion of the building in 1986 until 1994 when the building was repurposed. The patterns represent the trades of foundering and metalwork, both supporting maritime industries such as shipwrights and boatbuilders. Farmers, manufacturers and other local industries also needed the castings made by foundries. The Brass Foundry display was one of the early ‘working craft’ shops at Flagstaff Hill. It included a historic Cornish chimney that was set up as a working model, telling the story of heat from furnaces to smelt metal, which would then be poured into the sand moulds. This chimney is made from specially curved bricks and is about two-thirds of its full height when originally located at the Grassmere Cheese factory. HISTORY of BRIGGS BRASS FOUNDRY: - The family business was founded in 1912 by Herbert Harrison Briggs (1963-1931) with his son George Edward Briggs, trading as Briggs & Son Foundry at 70 Wellington Street, Collingwood. Younger son Cyril Falkiner McKinnon Briggs joined the foundry in 1922, and it was renamed H H Briggs & Sons Foundry. Both sons ran the firm after Herbert’s death in 1931, making products mainly for marine purposes. They became Bell Founders in 1936 and were known for their specialty of high-quality ship bells. They produced miniature varieties of these and other decorative items such as small propellers. The firm became known as Briggs Marine Foundry. The great-granddaughter of Herbert Briggs inherited the Briggs Brass Bell, similar to the one at Flagstaff Hill. Cyril became the sole family member of the firm in 1965. The Briggs Marine was an exhibitor at the 1965 Boat Show, where he advertised as “non-ferrous founders” and “Bell Specialists”. The foundry relocated to Chesterville Rd, Moorabbin. Cyril passed away in 1967. It is thought that either Cyril or his business partner Frank Lee donated the objects from the Briggs’ Foundry around the time when the business moved to Moorabbin. However, Flagstaff Hill hadn’t been thought about until 1972. The donated items were registered in the Collection in 1986 but they could have been in storage from an earlier date. In October of that same year, Briggs Marine restored Schomberg Bell, a shipwreck artefact from the collection at Flagstaff Hill. Peter Oram, who had worked for the previous owners of Briggs Marine as a fitter and turner, took over the firm in 2014, reviving some of the old casts for current use. The business is now located at Seaford in Victoria and is part of Alliance Casting & Engineering Solutions (Alliance Casting Pty Ltd). In 2016 the original Collingwood Foundry building was repurposed as a thriving business hub named The Foundry. The crate and its patterns are significant for their association with brass foundries locally and generally in coastal areas of Victoria. Marine industries such as ship and boat building rely on good quality castings for their machinery, equipment and fittings. The patterns are associated with the long-running firm, Briggs Brass Foundry, that specialised in cast goods for the marine industry, ready to supply the needs for once-off or mass-produced items. Their products would have been fitted to sail and steam vessels along coastal Victoria including Warrnambool. Briggs Marine is also associated with the Schomberg Bell in Flagstaff Hill, restoring the bell to is former state to show an example of the bell from a luxury mid-19th century vessel. The craft of sand-casting from carved wooden patterns to create metal is an example of skills from the past that are still used today. Wooden rectangular crate with removable wooden lid. Inside is a set of wooden patterns of various shapes and sizes for making sand moulds in a metal foundry. The crate is made from thick wooden planks nailed together. The extended wooden struts on the long sides form a frame to hold the wooden lid. A pair of metal handles are at each short end of the crate, fixed with strong metal bolds. Between each pair of handles is an inscription stamped into the wood. The underside of the crate has red paint splashes. There are insect holes in the wood but no sign of current infestation. 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Melbourne Tram Museum
Drawing, Prahran & Malvern Tramway Trust (PMTT), "Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust Tower Wagon Horse Drawn - Drawing No. 477 - Contract No.53", 1916
Blueprint of drawing No. 477 - "Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust Tower Wagon Horse Drawn - Drawing No. 477 - Contract No.53", showing the detail construction of the tower truck, both wooden and metal parts for the PMTT. Drawn by CC 19.6.14 and signed of A. S. Dix. Scanned in a high res tif file March 2016.In blue pencil on rear "Tower Wagon" and in bottom right corner "P&MTT Horse Drawn Tower Wagon Drg 477 19/06/1914. Found by John Prideaux, in MMTB / MTA Dumpmaster bin - former MTO building Bourke St City c1991".trams, tramways, tower wagon, pmtt, tower truck, horse drawn vehicle