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Article, Memorial to a timber merchant, 21/02/1987 12:00:00 AM
Article from the Age Real Estate Guide.Article from the Age Real Estate Guide re house built by Mr A.J. Elmore, timber merchant c 1912.Article from the Age Real Estate Guide.elmore, algernon john, laburnum street, blackburn, elmore houses -
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Document, Nunawading Memorial Swimming Pool, 1/02/1993
Response to Nunawading Swimming Pool redevelopment feasibility study by the Nunawading Swimming Club Incswimming pools, nunawading swimming club, munawading memorial swimming pool -
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, St Brigid's Crossley - centenary - memorial garden, last weekend June 2014
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Photograph - Digital photographs, Cussen Memorial in the Boroondara General Cemetery, Kew, Victoria, c2005-2015
The Boroondara General Cemetery is registerd by Heritage VictoriaFrom Heritage Victoria Statement of Significance Last updated on - December 15, 2005 What is significant? Boroondara Cemetery, established in 1858, is within an unusual triangular reserve bounded by High Street, Park Hill Road and Victoria Park, Kew. The caretaker's lodge and administrative office (1860 designed by Charles Vickers, additions, 1866-1899 by Albert Purchas) form a picturesque two-storey brick structure with a slate roof and clock tower. A rotunda or shelter (1890, Albert Purchas) is located in the centre of the cemetery: this has an octagonal hipped roof with fish scale slates and a decorative brick base with a tessellated floor and timber seating. The cemetery is surrounded by a 2.7 metre high ornamental red brick wall (1895-96, Albert Purchas) with some sections of vertical iron palisades between brick pillars. Albert Purchas was a prominent Melbourne architect who was the Secretary of the Melbourne General Cemetery from 1852 to 1907 and Chairman of the Boroondara Cemetery Board of Trustees from 1867 to 1909. He made a significant contribution to the design of the Boroondara Cemetery Boroondara Cemetery is an outstanding example of the Victorian Garden Cemetery movement in Victoria, retaining key elements of the style, despite overdevelopment which has obscured some of the paths and driveways. Elements of the style represented at Boroondara include an ornamental boundary fence, a system of curving paths which are kerbed and follow the site's natural contours, defined views, recreational facilities such as the rotunda, a landscaped park like setting, sectarian divisions for burials, impressive monuments, wrought and cast iron grave surrounds and exotic symbolic plantings. In the 1850s cemeteries were located on the periphery of populated areas because of concerns about diseases like cholera. They were designed to be attractive places for mourners and visitors to walk and contemplate. Typically cemeteries were arranged to keep religions separated and this tended to maintain links to places of origin, reflecting a migrant society. Other developments included cast iron entrance gates, built in 1889 to a design by Albert Purchas; a cemetery shelter or rotunda, built in 1890, which is a replica of one constructed in the Melbourne General Cemetery in the same year; an ornamental brick fence erected in 1896-99(?); the construction and operation of a terminus for a horse tram at the cemetery gates during 1887-1915; and the Springthorpe Memorial built between 1897 and 1907. A brick cremation wall and a memorial rose garden were constructed near the entrance in the mid- twentieth century(c.1955-57) and a mausoleum completed in 2001.The maintenance shed/depot close to High Street was constructed in 1987. The original entrance was altered in 2000 and the original cast iron gates moved to the eastern entrance of the Mausoleum. The Springthorpe Memorial (VHR 522) set at the entrance to the burial ground commemorates Annie Springthorpe, and was erected between 1897 and 1907 by her husband Dr John Springthorpe. It was the work of the sculptor Bertram Mackennal, architect Harold Desbrowe Annear, landscape designer and Director of the Melbourne Bortanic Gardens, W.R. Guilfoyle, with considerable input from Dr Springthorpe The memorial is in the form of a small temple in a primitive Doric style. It was designed by Harold Desbrowe Annear and includes Bertram Mackennal sculptures in Carrara marble. Twelve columns of deep green granite from Scotland support a Harcourt granite superstructure. The roof by Brooks Robinson is a coloured glass dome, which sits within the rectangular form and behind the pediments. The sculptural group raised on a dais, consists of the deceased woman lying on a sarcophagus with an attending angel and mourner. The figure of Grief crouches at the foot of the bier and an angel places a wreath over Annie's head, symbolising the triumph of immortal life over death. The body of the deceased was placed in a vault below. The bronze work is by Marriots of Melbourne. Professor Tucker of the University of Melbourne composed appropriate inscriptions in English and archaic Greek lettering.. The floor is a geometric mosaic and the glass dome roof is of Tiffany style lead lighting in hues of reds and pinks in a radiating pattern. The memorial originally stood in a landscape triangular garden of about one acre near the entrance to the cemetery. However, after Dr Springthorpe's death in 1933 it was found that transactions for the land had not been fully completed so most of it was regained by the cemetery. A sundial and seat remain. The building is almost completely intact. The only alteration has been the removal of a glass canopy over the statuary and missing chains between posts. The Argus (26 March 1933) considered the memorial to be the most beautiful work of its kind in Australia. No comparable buildings are known. The Syme Memorial (1908) is a memorial to David Syme, political economist and publisher of the Melbourne Age newspaper. The Egyptian memorial designed by architect Arthur Peck is one of the most finely designed and executed pieces of monumental design in Melbourne. It has a temple like form with each column having a different capital detail. These support a cornice that curves both inwards and outwards. The tomb also has balustradings set between granite piers which create porch spaces leading to the entrance ways. Two variegated Port Jackson Figs are planted at either end. The Cussen Memorial (VHR 2036) was constructed in 1912-13 by Sir Leo Cussen in memory of his young son Hubert. Sir Leo Finn Bernard Cussen (1859-1933), judge and member of the Victorian Supreme Court in 1906. was buried here. The family memorial is one of the larger and more impressive memorials in the cemetery and is an interesting example of the 1930s Gothic Revival style architecture. It takes the form of a small chapel with carvings, diamond shaped roof tiles and decorated ridge embellishing the exterior. By the 1890s, the Boroondara Cemetery was a popular destination for visitors and locals admiring the beauty of the grounds and the splendid monuments. The edge of suburban settlement had reached the cemetery in the previous decade. Its Victorian garden design with sweeping curved drives, hill top views and high maintenance made it attractive. In its Victorian Garden Cemetery design, Boroondara was following an international trend. The picturesque Romanticism of the Pere la Chaise garden cemetery established in Paris in 1804 provided a prototype for great metropolitan cemeteries such as Kensal Green (1883) and Highgate (1839) in London and the Glasgow Necropolis (1831). Boroondara Cemetery was important in establishing this trend in Australia. The cemetery's beauty peaked with the progressive completion of the spectacular Springthorpe Memorial between 1899 and 1907. From about the turn of the century, the trustees encroached on the original design, having repeatedly failed in attempts to gain more land. The wide plantations around road boundaries, grassy verges around clusters of graves in each denomination, and most of the landscaped surround to the Springthorpe memorial are now gone. Some of the original road and path space were resumed for burial purposes. The post war period saw an increased use of the Cemetery by newer migrant groups. The mid- to late- twentieth century monuments were often placed on the grassed edges of the various sections and encroached on the roadways as the cemetery had reached the potential foreseen by its design. These were well tended in comparison with Victorian monuments which have generally been left to fall into a state of neglect. The Boroondara Cemetery features many plants, mostly conifers and shrubs of funerary symbolism, which line the boundaries, road and pathways, and frame the cemetery monuments or are planted on graves. The major plantings include an impressive row of Bhutan Cypress (Cupressus torulosa), interplanted with Sweet Pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum), and a few Pittosporum crassifolium, along the High Street and Parkhill Street, where the planting is dominated by Sweet Pittosporum. Planting within the cemetery includes rows and specimen trees of Bhutan Cypress and Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), including a row with alternate plantings of both species. The planting includes an unusual "squat" form of an Italian Cypress. More of these trees probably lined the cemetery roads and paths. Also dominating the cemetery landscape near the Rotunda is a stand of 3 Canary Island Pines (Pinus canariensis), a Bunya Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) and a Weeping Elm (Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii') Amongst the planting are the following notable conifers: a towering Bunya Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii), a Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), a rare Golden Funeral Cypress (Chamaecyparis funebris 'Aurea'), two large Funeral Cypress (Chamaecyparis funebris), and the only known Queensland Kauri (Agathis robusta) in a cemetery in Victoria. The Cemetery records, including historical plans of the cemetery from 1859, are held by the administration and their retention enhances the historical significance of the Cemetery. How is it significant? Boroondara Cemetery is of aesthetic, architectural, scientific (botanical) and historical significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical and aesthetic significance as an outstanding example of a Victorian garden cemetery. The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical significance as a record of Victorian life from the 1850s, and the early settlement of Kew. It is also significant for its ability to demonstrate, through the design and location of the cemetery, attitudes towards burial, health concerns and the importance placed on religion, at the time of its establishment. The Boroondara Cemetery is of architectural significance for the design of the gatehouse or sexton's lodge and cemetery office (built in stages from 1860 to 1899), the ornamental brick perimeter fence and elegant cemetery shelter to the design of prominent Melbourne architects, Charles Vickers (for the original 1860 cottage) and Albert Purchas, cemetery architect and secretary from 1864 to his death in 1907. The Boroondara Cemetery has considerable aesthetic significance which is principally derived from its tranquil, picturesque setting; its impressive memorials and monuments; its landmark features such as the prominent clocktower of the sexton's lodge and office, the mature exotic plantings, the decorative brick fence and the entrance gates; its defined views; and its curving paths. The Springthorpe Memorial (VHR 522), the Syme Memorial and the Cussen Memorial (VHR 2036), all contained within the Boroondara Cemetery, are of aesthetic and architectural significance for their creative and artistic achievement. The Boroondara Cemetery is of scientific (botanical) significance for its collection of rare mature exotic plantings. The Golden Funeral Cypress, (Chamaecyparis funebris 'Aurea') is the only known example in Victoria. The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical significance for the graves, monuments and epitaphs of a number of individuals whose activities have played a major part in Australia's history. They include the Henty family, artists Louis Buvelot and Charles Nuttall, businessmen John Halfey and publisher David Syme, artist and diarist Georgiana McCrae, actress Nellie Stewart and architect and designer of the Boroondara and Melbourne General Cemeteries, Albert Purchas.Digital imagescemetery, boroondara, kew, gatehouse, clock, tower, clocktower, heritage, memorial, cussen -
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Photograph - Black and White, Wombat Hill Lookout (Pioneers Memorial, c1935, c1935
Black and white photograph of the Pioneers Tower at Daylesford Botanical Gardens.daylesford, wombat hill botanical gardens, wombat hill, pioneers tower, lookout tower -
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Samuel Johnson at Connie Johnson Memorial Service at St Paul's Cathedral, 2017
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Connie Johnson Memorial Service - St Paul's - Sam and Sharon, 2017
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Connie Johnson Memorial Service - St Paul's - Mike, 2017
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Connie Johnson Memorial Service - St Paul's - DAvid, 2017
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Photograph - Colour, L.J. Gervasoni, Memorial to Till Aston, 2011, 06/08/2011
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Connie Johnson Memorial Service - St Paul's, 2017
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digital photographs, St Paul's - Constance Johnson's Memorial Service, 2017
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digital photographs, Lisa Gervasoni, St Paul's - Constance Johnson's Memorial Service, 2017
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digital photographs, Lisa Gervasoni, St Paul's - Constance Johnson's Memorial Service, 2017
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digital photographs, Lisa Gervasoni, Constance Johnson's Memorial Service at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, 2017
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digital photographs, Lisa Gervasoni, St Paul's - Constance Johnson's Memorial Service, 2017
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digital photographs, Lisa Gervasoni, St Paul's - Constance Johnson's Memorial Service, 2017
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digital photographs, Lisa Gervasoni, St Paul's - Constance Johnson's Memorial Service, 2017
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digital photographs, Lisa Gervasoni, St Paul's - Constance Johnson's Memorial Service, 2017
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digital photographs, Lisa Gervasoni, St Paul's - Constance Johnson's Memorial Service, 2017
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digital photographs, Lisa Gervasoni, St Paul's - Constance Johnson's Memorial Service, 2017
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digital photographs, Lisa Gervasoni, St Paul's - Constance Johnson's Memorial Service, 2017
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Document - Report, Eureka Centre and Eureka Memorial Park Draft Interpretation Plan, 2019, 2019
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Photograph, Nucolorvue, Panorama from the Pioneed Memorial Tower, Daylesford, 1957
Daylesford is a tourist town in Central Victorian, known for its mineral water springs.Central Springs DaylesfordDaylesford, Victoria, Australia This famous holiday resort is famous for its up-to-date facilities, as well as for its natural attractions. The mineral Springs are renowned for their high medicinal elements. The visitor finds ample to amuse, in excellent fishing, boating, Boating, Swimming, golfing, hiking and riding. The district provides a wide range of typical Australian bush scenery, and the altitude of 2,000 feet above sea level as a tonic effect on all. Daylesford has modern hotels, guest houses, shops and places of amusement, also many other places of interest within short travelling distance. Bendigo, 50 miles, Ballara 30 miles, and Melbourne 75 miles, bring Daylesford within easy reach of many parts of Victoria. daylesford, wombat gardens, wombat hill gardens, daylesford pioneer memorial tower, landscape -
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Photograph, Clare Gervasoni, Memorial Plaque to George Crouch, 07/2022
R.A. Crouch established the George Crouch Prize for contemporary art at the Ballarat Art Gallery in memory of his father. The prize an from 1927 till the 1970s.Brass plaque with a sculptural likeness of George Crouch in the Art Gallery of Ballarat. The George Crouch Prize was established by, R.A. Crouch, the son of George Crouch. memory. Thought you might want to make a correction. Obituary "A well known resident of Ballarat East in the early days. Mr George Crouch, passed away at the age of 86, at his residence, Wynnstay road, Armadale, on Wednesday. For a number of years the late Mr Crouch conducted a boot and shoe store in Bridge street, and was successful in business. He leaves a widow, two sons, amndtwo daughters, one of the sons being Lieut.-Colonel R. A. Crouch, who represented Corio in the Federal Parliament for nine years, and who is a native of Ballarat." (Ballarat Star, 9 Oct 1914 ) George Crouch 1818-1914 A Ballarat pioneer since 1852 Erected by the Council of the Gallery - 1940george crouch, art gallery of ballarat, ballarat pioneer, r.a. crouch -
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Photograph, Clare Gervasoni, Steiglitz Pioneer Memorial, 2020, 15/03/2020
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Photograph - Colour, Clare Gervasoni, Lake Penhalluriack in the Eureka Stockade Memorial Garden, 25/10/2018
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Photograph - Photograph - colour, Clare Gervasoni, Daylesford Hospital Benevolent Asylum Memorial Plaque for Female Wards, 1897, c1897
Daylesford Hospital was opened in 1862.Marble plaque on the stairwell in Daylesford Hospital.Daylesford Hospital and Benevolent Asylum Female Wards The funds for the erection of these two wards for the use of females only were provided out of a legacy left for that especial purpose by the Hon. William Edward Stanbridge M.L.C. who departed thislife 5th April 1894 after residence in the district of upwards of 40 years and having represented it in the Legislative Council from the 15th December 1881 to the 26rh August 1892 opened on the 26th May 1897 by the Hon Sir W.A. Zeal M.L.C. President of the Legislative Council of Victoria. daylesford hospital, daylesford benevolent asylum, daylesford hospital and benevolent asylum, william edward stanbridge, w.a. zeal, legislative council -
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Photograph - Colour, Clare Gervasoni, Memorial in Gallipoli Park, Marysville, 2012, 15/12/2012
The 'New Life' sculpture is a permanent symbol of new life in community.A number of colour photographs showing Bruno Torf's 'New Life' sculpture in Gallipoli Park, Marysville.bushfire, black saturday, galipolli park marysville, marysville, bruno torf -
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Photograph, Cumberland Memorial Scenic Reserve, 2014, 04/11/2014
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