Photograph of Mining Lecturer John McAllister.john mcallister, mining

Supplement from the Ballarat News on Kryal Castlekryal castle

The Old Curiosity Shop was q house was built by bricklayer James Warwick, and his wife Caroline, with construction beginning around 1863. It was opened to the public in 1895. What is significant? Construction of the house later known as the Old Curiosity Shop commenced about 1863, the year bricklayer, James Warwick obtained a miner's right for a residential block on the edge of the exhausted Eureka diggings in the newly proclaimed municipality of Ballarat East. James built a modest 4-roomed timber and brick house for his expanding family and continued in the bricklaying trade until retiring around the early 1880s. By then he was pursuing his gardening interests in the local Horticultural Society and was supervising the gardens of many East Ballarat residents. It was during these years that his gardening and building interests converged to find expression in the marvellous permutations of decoration that extend over the house and garden. Using cast-off crockery, glass, ceramic figurine and mirror shards, shells, wallpaper samples, architectural ornament and slag, a place was found for all manner of things, large and small. Children would bring broken china dolls and bits of crockery, and the patient mosaic work preoccupied James and his wife Caroline for the rest of their lives. The work has its origins in the grottoes and shellhouses that ornamented the gardens of large English estates from the 1730s. In the few years before James' death in 1898, the house had become known as the 'Old Curiosity Shop', inspiring associations with the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. By then professional photographs had also been taken and thousands of tourists were visiting it yearly. Caroline obtained copyright for 2 of the photos and began issuing her own postcards before she died in 1903. The Shop passed to their son Charles and then to a succession of owners who added their own mythology to the story of the Warwicks and their work. After attracting tourists for more than 100 years, the Shop closed to the public in 1999. (Vitorian Heritage Database)Brochures on the Old Curiosity Shopold curiosity shop, warwick, ballarat east, james warwick, caroline warwick

Neville Bunning and his wife pack their blue van fro a trip - probably to Central Austrlia.neville bunning, blue van

Foolscap photocopyhumffray street

26 word telegram from Public Offiers to Henry Bell, Ballarat Member of ParliamentMinister will place amount on estimates cannot however guarantee that treasurers balance will allow his endorsement it not again if the house will pass it.telegram, ballarat school of mines funding, henry bell

Grey Poster with black printing showing the University of Ballarat flag. The name of the show 'Goodbye Helen' relates to the last exhibition at the Mount Helen Campus, before the Art School moved to Camp Street.norman baggeley, arts academy

IMage of Mavis Canty and Howard Pattenden dancing at the Ballarat Teachers' College Ball at Civic Hal, Ballarat.ballarat teachers' college, ballarat teachers' college ball, mavis canty, alan sonsee

delco light

projectors, power's prohecters, instrument

Seven typed pages outlining the history of the Graduate Diploma of Mining at Ballarat College of Advanced Education (BCAE)mining, ballarat college of advanced education

Four page booklet with blue printingon the front. It lists prize winners. ballarat school of mines, prize night programme

88 page book with green and red covered prospectus. Includes photograph of staff.ballarat school of mines, prospectus

Large quarto leather bound share register.ballarat city gmc, ballarat city gold mining company, harry davies, f. herman, w.c. rowe, t. morgan, f.w. holst, j.m. barker, w.d. mckee, j. brown

Dark brown leather covered bible.o.e. wilson

Black cloth covered book of 70 pages.non-fictionw.c. kernot, william charles kernot

Photograph of the Mt Helen Campus Union Building (later Albert Coates Complex)mount helen campus, buildings, u building, union building, albert coated complex, electrical engineering building, e building, miles coverdale

science department

An informal group of 4 men at Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education on the occasion of the V.T.C. council meeting in October 1973.phil law, plillip law, ray murray, willis connely, a. rizzoli

Three men at Dave Jelbart's Retirement function in the Ballarat College of Advanced Education Applied Mechanics Laboratoryderek woolley, dave jelbart, e.j. barker, jack barker

Frank Martin's s Retirement function.frank martin, richard croggon, w. ross ramsay, max mcgarry

Official Opening of Stage 1 Buildings on Mount Helen Campus by The Hon. Nigel Bowennigel bowen, mount helen campus, opening, stage one buildings, morgan b. john, m.b. john, e.j. barker, jack barker, dudley erwin, rolly parfenovics, w.g. durant, bill durant, harold arblaster

Turning of the Sod on Stage 1 Buildings on Mount Helen Campus by The Hon. Nigel Bowenmount helen campus, stage one buildings, morgan b. john, m.b. john, e.j. barker, jack barker, nigel bowen, kaye barry

Turning of the Sod on Stage 1 Buildings on Mount Helen Campus by The Hon. Nigel Bowen.mount helen campus, buildings, administration building

Two men in academic regalia, and a woman standing between them.mount helen campus, graduation, rex essilfie, neville gower, helen gower

Mount Helen Electrical Engineering Buildingmount helen campus, electrical engineering, e building, buildings

Mount Helen campus Library Building and Union Building (later Albert Coated Complex)mount helen campus, buildings, library, e.j. barker library, union building, albert coates complex

Photograph of the Mt Helen Campus, including the library, Union Building. .1 Free standing squash court .2 Roadway from north west entrance .3 Western facade of the Physical Education Building (P Building) .4 and .5 oval .mount helen campus, buildings, physical education, squash court, oval, p building

Photograph of the Mt Helen Campus, including the library, Union Building. .1 Free standing squash court .2 Roadway from north west entrance .3 Western facade of the Physical Education Building (P Building) .4 and .5 oval .mount helen campus, buildings, physical education, squash court, oval, p building