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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Booking office, R Graham Carey's aerodrome, Fishermen's Bend
See photocopy with names of those pictured (item 1263.02)Laser copy of photo of R. Graham Carey's aerodrome booking office 1920s, a church hall transported to Fishermen's Bend from Brighton and used also as the family home. With Carey, his children and a number of others outside the hall.transport - aviation and aerodrome, fishermans bend, r graham carey, bertha carey harvey, melbourne aviation company, edith carey, howard carey, graham melrose carey, g r mcpherson -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph, Clare Gervasoni, Daylesford Uniting Church, 18/10/2015
A red brick church on stone foundation in Daylesford, a hall, and a former church. The small building at the centre is the John Mitchell Memorial Hall named after a teacher and superintendent from September 1861 to 1921. It was still in existence in August 2024. daylesford uniting church, daylesford methodist church, daylesford -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MERLE HALL COLLECTION: ROSALIND PARK CREATIVE VILLAGE BENDIGO MOSAIC NEWS ISSUE 3 APRIL 1995, 1993
MERLE HALL COLLECTION: ROSALIND PARK CREATIVE VILLAGE BENDIGO Mosaic News Issue Number 3 April 1995 3858.15.pdf contains six pages, feature article on the artist Maery Hall and notice of general meeting. -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Report, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Tram Fleet as at 11/2/69", 11/02/1969 12:00:00 AM
Single foolscap carbon copy titled "Tram Fleet as at 11/2/69", listing the class, total, in circulation at either depots or workshops and stored. Also lists the body of VR54. At the time 699 cars total, 669 in use 30 stored. Initialled K. T. Hall as Works Manager 11/2/69Various hand written notations by the applicant. stamped "86009" in the top right hand corner.trams, tramways, tramcars, mmtb, lists, stored trams -
Bendigo Military Museum
Accessory - WHEEL CHAIR MOBILITY AID, Webster Brothers, C.Post WW1
This mobility aid was housed under the old stage area of the Soldiers Memorial Institute building in Pall Mall Bendigo. When the renovations to the building began in late 2016 the Aid was removed and restored by the Bendigo District RSL Men in Sheds program and is now on display in the same building now called Bendigo Military Museum. The Soldiers Memorial was the HQ of the Bendigo RSL Sub Branch. It is not known the origin of the Aid but it was most likely used by disabled Bendigo RSL members post WW1.Three wheeled Mobility Aid. Front wheel is 41cm dia pneumatic, 32mm wide, rear wheel 68cm dia, width 52mm wide. The right wheel axle has a sprocket & chain assembly, the left is free wheeling, both have mud guards. Frame is tubular steel painted reddish colour, the seat and back rest are brown leather, seat sides are timber, there are two timber platforms in front, the top one is adjustable the bottom one is fixed. The chair is steered via a long metal handle fixed to the wheel frame. The right hand side has the sprocket and chain assembly and motion is controlled by turning the handle in a circular motion, only one speed.on the front wheel stem is a transfer. “Webster Brothers Cycle Manufacturers Mitchell Street Bendigo”mobility, aid, wheel chair, brsl, smirsl -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (Item) - Hawker Siddeley 748 Series 2A Performance Manual
Description: 20 pages. Published by RAAF. Published 23/7/1973. AAP 7431.114-3M. Repair Overhaul Manual for Blower Assembly Part No. HD-615-ARC-51X Level of Importance: World. Author: Prof. Neil E. Harlan -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Book, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1889
This book was part of a large group of books referred to as the Pattison Collection, which belonged to the Warrnambool Public Library, part of the Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute. About RALPH ERIC PATTISON and the ‘PATTISON COLLECTION’ The ‘Pattison Collection’ is a collection of books and records that was originally owned by the Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute, founded in Warrnambool in 1853. By 1886 the Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute (WMI) had grown to have a Library, Museum and Fine Arts Gallery, with a collection of “… choice productions of art, and valuable specimens in almost every branch and many wonderful national curiosities are now to be seen there, including historic relics of the town and district.” It later included a School of Design. Although it was very well patronised, the WMI was led to ask the City Council to take it over in 1911 due to lack of financial support. In 1935 Ralph Pattison was appointed as City Librarian to establish and organise the Warrnambool Public Library as it was then called. Ralph Eric Pattison was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, in 1891. He married Maude Swan from Warrnambool in 1920 and they set up home in Warrnambool. In 1935 when Pattison accepted the position as City Librarian for the Warrnambool City Council his huge challenge was to make a functional library within two rooms of the Mechanics’ Institute. He tirelessly cleaned, cleared and sorted a disarrayed collection of old books, jars of preserved specimens and other items reserved for exhibition in the city’s museum. He developed and updated the library with a wide variety of books for all tastes, including reference books for students; a difficult task to fulfil during the years following the Depression. He converted all of the lower areas of the building into a library, reference room and reading room for members and the public. The books were sorted and stored using a cataloguing and card index system that he had developed himself. He also prepared the upper floor of the building and established the Art Gallery and later the Museum, a place to exhibit the many old relics that had been stored for years for this purpose. One of the treasures he found was a beautiful ancient clock, which he repaired, restored and enjoyed using in his office during the years of his service there. Ralph Pattison was described as “a meticulous gentleman whose punctuality, floorless courtesy and distinctive neat dress were hallmarks of his character, and ‘his’ clock controlled his daily routine, and his opening and closing of the library’s large heavy doors to the minute.” Pattison took leave from 1942 to 1945 to serve in the Royal Australian Navy, Volunteer Reserve as Lieutenant. A few years later he converted one of the Museum’s rooms into a Children’s Library, stocking it with suitable books for the younger generation. This was an instant success. In the 1950’s he had the honour of being appointed to the Victorian Library Board and received more inspiration from the monthly conferences in Melbourne. He was sadly retired in 1959 after over 23 years of service, due to the fact that he had gone over the working age of council officers. However he continued to take a very keen interest in the continual development of the Library until his death in 1969. THE NEW WARRNAMBOOL LIBRARY When the WMI building was pulled down in 1963 a new civic building was erected on the site and the new Warrnambool Library, on behalf of the City Council, took over all the holdings of the WMI. At this time some of the items were separated and identified as the ‘Pattison Collection’, named after Pattison. Eventually the components of the WMI were distributed from the Warrnambool Library to various places, including the Art Gallery, Historical Society and Flagstaff Hill. Later some were even distributed to other regional branches of Corangamite Regional Library and passed to and fro. It is difficult now to trace just where all of the items have ended up. The books at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village generally display stamps and markings from Pattison as well as a variety of other institutions including the Mechanics’ Institute itself. WARRNAMBOOL'S MECHANICS' INSTITUTE Warrnambool's Mechanics' Institute (or Institution as it was sometimes called) was one of the earliest in Victoria. On 17th October 1853 a meeting was held where it was resolved to request the Lieutenant Governor of the Colony to grant land for the erection of a Mechanics' Institutes building. A committee was formed at the meeting and Richard Osburne chaired the first meeting of this committee. The land on the North West corner of Banyan and Merri Streets was granted but there were no funds to erect the building. The Formal Rights of the Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute's encompassed its aims and these were officially adopted in1859; "This Institution has for its object the diffusion of literary, scientific, and other useful knowledge amongst its members, excluding all controversial subjects, religious or political. These objects are sought to be obtained by means of a circulating library, a reading room, the establishment of classes, debates, and the occasional delivery of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy, mechanics, astronomy, chemistry, natural history, literature, and the useful and ornamental arts, particularly those which have a more immediate reference to the colony." The Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute opened its first reading room in November1884 in the National School building at the corner of Banyan and Timor Streets. The Institute was funded by member subscription, payable on a quarterly, half yearly or yearly basis. Samuel Hannaford, the Manager of the Warrnambool Bank of Australasia, was the first Honorary Secretary of the Mechanics' Institutes, and an early President and Vice-President. He also gave several of the early lectures in the Reading Room. Another early Secretary, Librarian and lecturer was Marmaduke Fisher, the teacher at the National School. Lecture topics included The Poets and Poetry of Ireland', 'The Birth and Development of the Earth', 'The Vertebrae - with Remarks on the pleasures resulting from the study of Natural History' and 'Architecture'. In 1856 the Reading Room was moved to James Hider's shop in Timor Street, and by 1864 it was located in the bookshop of Davies and Read. In the 1860's the Mechanics' Institute struggled as membership waned but in 1866, after a series of fund raising efforts, the committee was able to purchase land in Liebig Street, on a site then called Market Square, between the weighbridge and the fire station. A Mechanics' Institute building was opened at this site in August 1871. The following year four more rooms were added to the main Reading Room and in 1873 the Artisan School of Design was incorporated into the Institute. The same year Joseph Archibald established a Museum; however it deteriorated when he was transferred to Bendigo in 1877. In 1880, with Archibald's return to Warrnambool, the Museum was re-established, and in 1885 a new building was built at the back of the Institute to accommodate the re-created School of Design, the Art Gallery and the Museum. In 1887 the Museum section was moved to the former court house in Timor Street (for some time the walls of the building formed part of the TAFE cafeteria but all is now demolished)). In 1911 the Museum was transferred back to the original building and the management of the Mechanics' Institute was handed over to the Warrnambool City Council. The Museum and Art Gallery became one and housed many fine works of art, and the Library continued to grow. The building was well patronised, with records showing that at the beginning of the 20th century there were between 500 and 800 visitors. During World War One the monthly figures were in the thousands, with 3,400 people visiting in January 1915. The Museum was a much loved Institution in Warrnambool until the contents of the Museum and Art Gallery were removed to make room for the Warrnambool City Council Engineers' Department. The contents were stored but many of the items were scattered or lost. When the original building was demolished the site became occupied by the Civic Centre, which included the new City Library. (The library was temporarily located in the old Palais building in Koroit Street.) In the process of reorganisation the Collection was distributed amongst the community groups: -The new City Library took some of the historic books and some important documents, historic photographs and newspapers. -The Art Gallery kept the 19th Century art collection and some of the artefacts from the museum. -The Historic Society has some items -The State Museum has some items -Some items were destroyed -Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village has old newspapers, Government Gazettes, most of the Mechanics' Institute Library, ledgers and documents connected to the Mechanics' Institute Library, some framed and unframed art works and some photographs. The Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute Library book collection is deemed to be of great importance because it is one of the few collections in an almost intact state, and many of the books are now very rare and of great value. The Pattison Collection, along with other items at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, was originally part of the Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute’s collection. The Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute Collection is primarily significant in its totality, rather than for the individual objects it contains. Its contents are highly representative of the development of Mechanics' Institute libraries across Australia, particularly Victoria. A diversity of publications and themes has been amassed, and these provide clues to our understanding of the nature of and changes in the reading habits of Victorians from the 1850s to the middle of the 20th century. The collection also highlights the Warrnambool community’s commitment to the Mechanics’ Institute, reading, literacy and learning in the regions, and proves that access to knowledge was not impeded by distance. These items help to provide a more complete picture of our community’s ideals and aspirations. The Warrnambool Mechanics Institute book collection has historical and social significance for its strong association with the Mechanics Institute movement and the important role it played in the intellectual, cultural and social development of people throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The collection of books is a rare example of an early lending library and its significance is enhanced by the survival of an original collection of many volumes. The Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute’s publication collection is of both local and state significance. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: Chapman & Hall Ltd The label on spine cover with typed text PAT 823.8 DIC Pastedown front endpaper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service Front loose endpaper has a stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute Front loose endpaper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Serviceflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, the life and adventures of nicholas nickleby, charles dickens -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, 1940's
Kevin Findlay and the Goodall family in the photograph. Photo donated by Kevin Findlay.Black & White photograph of the Cowes State School children in Fancy Dress at the Shire Hall.kevin findlay, school fancy dress event, goodall family, cowes state school -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Civic Hall, Portland, n.d
Glenelg Shire Council records.Black and white photograph of side of Civic Hall, Portland, taken from front left.Back: Portland Development Committee (centre, blue stamp)portland civic hall -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland Town Hall, 1864, n.d
Displayed at History House.Reproductive photograph of Portland Town Hall c1864. Mounted on blue matt with information label.portland town hall -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - LA TROBE UNIVERSITY BENDIGO COLLECTION: BENDIGO TEACHERS' COLLEGE HALLS OF RESIDENCE
A black and white photograph of the Bendigo Teachers' College Halls of Residence in Retreat Road. 1959.bendigo, education, bendigo teachers' college, la trobe university bendigo collection, collection, bendigo, bendigo teachers' college, halls of residence, education, tertiary education, accommodation, hostels, bendigo teachers' college students, buildings, photograph, photo, photographs, photography -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - JAMES LERK COLLECTION: FLYER FOR EXHIBITION MARCH 1976
James Lerk Collection - Flyer for Exhibition March 7/8 1976 Memorial Hall.event, exhibition, bottle collectors exhibition -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - PHOTOCOPY OF ARK HALL DOUBLE STOREY HOUSE LOCKWOOD SOUTH
Photocoph of Ark Hall double storey house Lockwood South with owners and children in foreground.buildings, residential, victorian -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Port Melbourne Baptist Church, Ross Street, Ron Laing, 1990s
Part of Ron Laing's collection of photographs recording Port Melbourne over a thirteen year period. Donated to the PMH&PS by the photographer.1990s view of Port Melbourne Baptist Church, Ross Street. The Chapman Memorial Hall.chapman memorial hall, ron laing, religion - baptist church, ross street -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Plan - Port Melbourne Town Hall, Port Melbourne City Council, 1916
Plan for town hall - Details of balustrade to blocking course above main cornice, 1918.port melbourne town hall -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Newspaper - Newspaper, South Melbourne Town Hall centenary, Emerald Hill and Sandridge Times, 26 Jun 1980
Copy of Emerald Hill and Sandridge Times, South Melbourne Town Hall centenary edition.publishing - newspapers -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Restored cars with Port Melbourne Town Hall and Bay Street, 1950s
Photocopy of page of restored cars with photo of Town Hall and Bay Street, early 1950stransport - motor vehicles, port melbourne town hall, gray's, renfrey's toy shop, business and traders -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Notice, façade restoration works, Port Melbourne Town Hall, Pat Grainger, 2001
Photograph of notice describing facade restoration works of Port Melbourne Town Hall, 2001built environment - civic, port melbourne town hall -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Postcard, 1910
Embossed card. Miss B. Glen, cl- Masonic Hall View Street Bendigo. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - GREATER BENDIGO PHOTO COLLECTION: EAGLEHAWK COURT HOUSE
Photograph. The 1869 Eaglehawk Court House. Built in red bricks at the rear of the Town Hall.eaglehawk, history, court house -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - BENDIGO VIEWS, Dec 1960
Slide. Bendigo Views. Christmas lights on the pine tree beside the SRL Memorial Hall.slide, bendigo, bendigo views, bendigo views -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - VAL DENSWORTH COLLECTION: EAGLEHAWK DAHLIA & ARTS PROCESSION, April 1979
Photograph. Eaglehawk D & A Procession. Clan McLeod Pipe Band on the way to the Town Hall.photo, eaglehawk d & a procession., eaglehawk d & a procession. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - VAL DENSWORTH COLLECTION: BENDIGO CITY VIEWS, 1950's
Photograph. Bendigo City Views. A view of Post Office, Law Courts, Town Hall.photo, bendigo city views., bendigo city views. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BENDIGO COMPETITIONS SOCIETY 1976 FESTIVAL GUIDE, 1976
BENDIGO COMPETITIONS SOCIETY 1976 FESTIVAL GUIDE- Bendigo City Hall May 1976bendigo, hospital, musical competitions, bendigo, music, festivals -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BENDIGO COMPETITIONS SOCIETY 1973 FESTIVAL GUIDE, 1973
BENDIGO COMPETITIONS SOCIETY 1973 FESTIVAL Guide - Bendigo City Hall May 1973bendigo, hospital, musical competitions, bendigo, music, festivals -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BENDIGO COMPETITIONS SOCIETY 1972 FESTIVAL GUIDE, 1971
BENDIGO COMPETITIONS SOCIETY 1972 FESTIVAL GUIDE - Bendigo City Hall May 1972bendigo, hospital, musical competitions, bendigo, music, festivals -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BENDIGO COMPETITIONS SOCIETY 1971 FESTIVAL GUIDE, 1971
BENDIGO COMPETITIONS SOCIETY 1971 FESTIVAL GUIDE - Bendigo City Hall May 1971.bendigo, hospital, musical competitions, bendigo, music, festivals -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - BENDIGO BUILDINGS, Oct 1970
Slide. Bendigo Buildings. Looking towards Charing Cross from the gardens of the RSLMemorial Hall.slide, bendigo, bendigo buildings., bendigo buildings. -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Rushworth Choir Perform c1991
Rushworth Choir performs to Tatura 50 & Overs in the Anglican Church Hall, c 1991.tatura, choirs, rushworth, church, anglicans, concert, religion, christian -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
Ypres, Belgium. The Great Cloth Hall and Belfry founded by Count Baldwin IX of Flanders.'overseas images, ypres, belgium