View of the railway bridge, road and cars on Sherbourne Road / Para Road Briar Hill probably taken around the time of the September 1963 announcement of the construction of a new bridge during the 1963-64 financial year. (see Accession number: 01696-14) Photo dating estimate: In a couple of photos of this series an EH Holden sedan is captured, registration HUL-309. Production of the EH Holden ran between August 1963 and February 1965. The bridge and roadway is also quite wet, typical of early springtime weather which also coincides with the news announcement dated September 4, 1963. Black and white photograph printed with white borderssherbourne road, para road, briar hill, railway bridge

View of the railway bridge, road and cars on Sherbourne Road / Para Road Briar Hill probably taken around the time of the September 1963 announcement of the construction of a new bridge during the 1963-64 financial year. (see Accession number: 01696-14) Photo dating estimate: In a couple of photos of this series an EH Holden sedan is captured, registration HUL-309. Production of the EH Holden ran between August 1963 and February 1965. The bridge and roadway is also quite wet, typical of early springtime weather which also coincides with the news announcement dated September 4, 1963. Black and white photograph printed with white borderssherbourne road, para road, briar hill, railway bridge

View of Squires land which was subdivided for housing - two parts Woodland Crest higher part off Woodland Grove and Calrossi Avenue, Briar Hill showing new roads with curb and channelling and footpaths. No date. Looking up Hyacinth Avenue, Briar Hill from Sherbourne Road. Hibiscus Avenue first on right then Acacia Court. The white house on Hibiscus Avenue still exists (No. 3)Black and white photograph printed with white bordersVerso: COO2briar hill, real estate, woodland grove, squires, roads, acacia court, hibiscus avenuse, hyacinth avenue, woodland crest estate, inge bros pty ltd

Sherbourne Rise Estate, looking up Woodland Grove from Calrossie Avenue, Briar Hill. The house is believed to be No. 8. This is prior to Regal Court being established off Woodland Grove. View of Squires land which was subdivided for housing - two parts Woodland Crest higher part off Woodland Grove and Calrossi Avenue, Briar Hill showing new roads with curb and channelling and footpaths. No date.Black and white photograph printed with white bordersVerso: COO2briar hill, real estate, woodland grove, squires, roads, sherbourne rise estate

View of Squires land which was subdivided for housing - two parts Woodland Crest higher part off Woodland Grove and Calrossi Avenue, Briar Hill showing new roads with curb and channelling and footpaths. No date.Black and white photograph printed with white bordersVerso: COO2briar hill, real estate, woodland grove, squires, roads

View of Squires land which was subdivided for housing - two parts Woodland Crest higher part off Woodland Grove and Calrossi Avenue, Briar Hill showing new roads with curb and channelling and footpaths. No date.Black and white photograph printed with white bordersVerso: COO2briar hill, real estate, woodland grove, squires, roads

Photograph of Victorian Railways built tram No. 53 which was sold to the MMTB following closure of the St Kilda - Brighton Beach line in 1959. Modified by the MMTB, as VR class tram No. 53 and generally used on the Moonee Ponds to Footscray route 82. This photo shows the tram in River St after being fitted with tail lights in Feb. 1973 and before being renumbered to tram 700 in Oct. 1976Yields information about VR class tram 53Colour print on Kodak paper with black borders. trams, tramways, river st, route 82, vr class, tram 53

Night Photograph of W6 984 at the South Melbourne Beach terminus with the Bleak House Hotel in the background. Tram has arrived at the terminus and both trolley poles are up. Tram has a RESI investment advert on the front and a Winfield 25 cigarette advert on the side. Cigarette advertising in Victoria was banned during 1976.Yields information about W6 trams and the South Melbourne Beach terminus.Colour print on Kodak paper with black borders. trams, tramways, w6 class, tram 984, south melbourne beach

Colour photograph of W2 486 Route 82 Moonee Ponds, Rosamond Road, just before turning into Williamson Road, Maribyrnong.Yields information about W2 486.Colour print on Kodak paper with black borders. trams, tramways, w2 class, tram 486, route 82, moonee ponds

Advertises the Linton Amateur Dramatic Club night of "dramatic entertainment", to be held in the Parish Hall on September 21st 1935 to raise funds for the Linton Free Library.Cream sheet with 1cm decorative red border.Text: " Linton Free Library / PARISH HALL, SATURDAY, SEPT. 21st, 1935 / THE LINTON AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB / Will Assist the Library with a Grand / DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT. "linton amateur dramatic club, programmes, jack sheehan, clem o'beirne, h. p. bennett, h.a. mccorkell, j. collins, annie o'beirne, celia kennedy, daisy smith, kath cunningham, lionel sparrow

Dark blue label with gold printing for Chinkapook Wine Hall. Chablis. Bottled by L. Mackay. Chinkapook. Has a straight line border and a decorative border.business, printers, cambridge press, cambridge press collection, chinkapook wine hall, l mackay

This is the programme for the seventh dedication service of the officers of General Grand Council and General Court which was conducted by the President General of the Methodist Church of Australasia Rev Dr J W Burton. It was held on Monday 17 May, 1948 at 8.00pm in the Wesley Chapel, 159 Castlereagh Street Sydney. The Responsive prayer was led by Rev C Gallacher. The address was given by Rev Dr Geo A Wheen. The organist was Mr S R Stenton.Cream bi-fold paper with dark blue text and borders on three pages. The front bears an image of the MGC and MOK badges and has a gold border.methodist girls' comardeship, methodist order of knighthood, rev dr j w burton, wesley chapel castlereagh street sydney, rev c gallacher, rev w j bailey, rev dr geo a wheen, s r stenton

Certificate with green patterned border outside a double red line border. Yellow inside red border. Brown duty stamp in bottom right corner. Certificate No. 1091090. Printed in Spanish. Banco de Pruebas de Armas de Fuego. Test for gun.sciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, banco de pruebas de armas de fuego

With much fanfare and anticipation the Grand Opening of Cornish College was held on Sunday the 12 February 2012. The hall was filled to capacity. It commenced with a Welcome by Rev Dr Robert Johnson, the Welcome to Country, National Anthem and Official Opening and Unveiling of the Plaque. This was then followed by a Musical Item, the dedication of College and Commissioning of the Leaders, a Visual Presentation and short speech by the Reverend David Pargeter. Next was a Musical Item and The Principal, Mr Kerry Bolger's Address. Then the Benediction. White brochure printed on both sides of glossy, heavy A4 paper, folded to A5 size. With a teal upper 10mm border and a black lower 10 mm border. 15mm below upper border is the Cornish College emblem, followed by Cornish College name cornish_college_inaugural_year, education, school

This bottle was one of the items salvaged from the wreck of the Fiji in 1891. Joseph Bosisto began manufacturing Eucalyptus Oil in Australia from 1854. This bottle is marked ‘J. BOSISTO”, which probably dates it from 1885 when the company J. Bosisto & Co. was formed. The marking on the bottom of the bottle “GERMAN/B_ _ E” could mean that the bottle was imported by J. Bosisto from Germany. In the early years bottles were imported from overseas countries including England and Germany. In 1872 the Melbourne Bottle Works was established to supply the bottles locally and more cheaply but had difficulty keeping up with the supply. From 1865 Australian-made Bosisto’s Eucalyptus Oil began to be exported to England then later to Germany and other countries. Bosisto’s Eucalyptus Oil won many prizes at exhibitions between 1854 – 1891. The three-masted iron barque Fiji had been built in Belfast, Ireland, in 1875 by Harland and Wolfe for a Liverpool based shipping company. The ship departed Hamburg on 22nd May 1891 bound for Melbourne, under the command of Captain William Vickers with a crew of 25. The ship’s manifest shows that she was loaded with a cargo of 260 cases of dynamite, pig iron, steel goods, spirits (whisky, schnapps, gin, brandy), sailcloth, tobacco, coiled fencing wire, concrete, 400 German pianos (Sweet Hapsburg), concertinas and other musical instruments, artists supplies including brushes, porcelain, furniture, china, and general cargo including candles. There were also toys in anticipation for Christmas, including wooden rocking horses, miniature ships, dolls with china limbs and rubber balls. On September 5th, one hundred days out from Hamburg in squally and boisterous south west winds the Cape Otway light was sighted on a bearing differing from Captain Vickers’ calculation of his position. At about 2:30am, Sunday 6th September 1891 land was reported 4-5 miles off the port bow. The captain tried to put the ship on the other tack, but she would not respond. He then tried to turn her the other way but just as the manoeuvre was being completed the Fiji struck rock only 300 yards (274 metres) from shore. The place is known as Wreck Bay, Moonlight Head. Blue lights were burned and rockets fired whilst an effort was made to lower boats but all capsized or swamped and smashed to pieces. Two of the younger crewmen volunteered to swim for the shore, taking a line. One, a Russian named Daniel Carkland, drowned after he was swept away when the line broke. The other, 17 year old able seaman Julius Gebauhr, a German, reached shore safely on his second attempt but without the line, which he had cut lose with his sheath-knife when it become tangled in kelp. He rested on the beach a while then climbed the steep cliffs in search of help. At about 10am on the Sunday morning a party of land selectors - including F. J. Stansmore, Leslie Dickson (or Dixon) and Mott - found Gebauhr. They were near Ryans Den, on their travels on horseback from Princetown towards Moonlight Head, and about 5km from the wreck. Gebauhr was lying in the scrub in a poor state, bleeding and dressed only in singlet, socks and a belt with his sheath-knife, ready for all emergencies. At first they were concerned about his wild and shaggy looking state and what seemed to be gibberish speech, taking him to be an escaped lunatic. They were reassured after he threw his knife away and realised that he was speaking half-English, half-German. They gave him food and brandy and some clothing and were then able to gain information about the wreck. Some of the men took him to Rivernook, a nearby guest house owned by John Evans, where he was cared for. Stansmore and Dickson rode off to try and summon help. Others went down to the site of the wreck. Messages for rescuing the rest of the crew were sent both to Port Campbell for the rocket rescue crew and to Warrnambool for the lifeboat. The S.S. Casino sailed from Portland towards the scene. After travelling the 25 miles to the scene, half of the Port Campbell rocket crew and equipment arrived and set up the rocket tripod on the beach below the cliffs. By this time the crew of the Fiji had been clinging to the jib-boom for almost 15 hours, calling frantically for help. Mr Tregear from the Rocket Crew fired the line. The light line broke and the rocket was carried away. A second line was successfully fired across the ship and made fast. The anxious sailors then attempted to come ashore along the line but, with as many as five at a time, the line sagged considerably and some were washed off. Others, nearly exhausted, had to then make their way through masses of seaweed and were often smothered by waves. Only 14 of the 24 who had remained on the ship made it to shore. Many onlookers on the beach took it in turns to go into the surf and drag half-drowned seamen to safety. These rescuers included Bill (William James) Robe, Edwin Vinge, Hugh Cameron, Fenelon Mott, Arthur Wilkinson and Peter Carmody. (Peter Carmody was also involved in the rescue of men from the Newfield.) Arthur Wilkinson, a 29 year old land selector, swam out to the aid of one of the ship’s crewmen, a carpenter named John Plunken. Plunken was attempting to swim from the Fiji to the shore. Two or three times both men almost reached the shore but were washed back to the wreck. A line was thrown to them and they were both hauled aboard. It was thought that Wilkinson struck his head on the anchor before s they were brought up. He remained unconscious. The carpenter survived this ordeal but Wilkinson later died and his body was washed up the next day. It was 26 year old Bill Robe who hauled out the last man, the captain, who had become tangled in the kelp. The wreck of the Fiji was smashed apart within 20 minutes of the last man being brought ashore, and it settled in about 6m of water. Of the 26 men on the Fiji, 11 in total lost their lives. The remains of 7 bodies were washed onto the beach and their coffins were made from timbers from the wrecked Fiji. They were buried on the cliff top above the wreck. The survivors were warmed by fires on the beach then taken to Rivernook and cared for over the next few days. Funds were raised by local communities soon after the wreck in aid of the sufferers of the Fiji disaster. Captain Vickers was severely reprimanded for his mishandling of the ship. His Masters Certificate was suspended for 12 months. At the time there was also a great deal of public criticism at the slow and disorganised rescue attempt to save those on board. The important canvas ‘breech buoy’ or ‘bucket chair’ and the heavy line from the Rocket Rescue was in the half of the rocket outfit that didn’t make it in time for the rescue: they had been delayed at the Gellibrand River ferry. Communications to Warrnambool were down so the call for help didn’t get through on time and the two or three boats that had been notified of the wreck failed to reach it in time. Much looting occurred of the cargo that washed up on the shore, with nearly every visitor leaving the beach with bulky pockets. One looter was caught with a small load of red and white rubber balls, which were duly confiscated and he was ‘detained’ for 14 days. Essence of peppermint mysteriously turned up in many settlers homes. Sailcloth was salvaged and used for horse rugs and tent flies. Soon after the wreck “Fiji tobacco” was being advertised around Victoria. A Customs officer, trying to prevent some of the looting, was assaulted by looters and thrown over a steep cliff. He managed to cling to a bush lower down until rescued. In 1894 some coiled fencing wire was salvaged from the wreck. Hundreds of coils are still strewn over the site of the wreck, encrusted and solidified. The hull is broken but the vessel’s iron ribs can be seen along with some of the cargo of concrete and pig iron. Captain Vickers presented Bill Robe with his silver-cased pocket watch, the only possession that he still had, as a token for having saved his life and the lives of some of the crew. (The pocket watch came with 2 winding keys, one to wind it and one to change the hands.) Years later Bill passed the watch to his brother-in-law Gib (Gilbert) Hulands as payment of a debt and it has been passed down the family to Gilbert Hulands’ grandson, John Hulands. Seaman Julius Gebauhr later gave his knife, in its hand crafted leather sheath, to F. J. Stansmore for caring for him when he came ashore. The knife handle had a personal inscription on it. A marble headstone on the 200m high cliffs overlooking Wreck Beach, west of Moonlight Head, paying tribute to the men who lost their lives when Fiji ran aground. The scene of the wreck is marked by the anchor from the Fiji, erected by Warrnambool skin divers in 1967. Amongst the artefacts salvaged from the Fiji are china miniature animals, limbs from small china dolls, rubber balls, this glass bottle, sample of rope from the distress rocket and a candlestick holder. These items are now part of the Fiji collection at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum, along with Captain Vickers’ pocket watch and Julius Gebauhr’s sheath knife. The glass bottle is registered as “Artefact Reg No Fiji/1”. Flagstaff Hill’s Fiji collection is of historical significance at a State level because of its association with the wreck Fiji, which is on the Victorian Heritage Register VHR S259. It also represents aspects of Victoria’s shipping history and its potential to interpret sub-theme 1.5 of Victoria’s Framework of Historical Themes (living with natural processes). The Fiji collection meets the following criteria for assessment: Criterion A: Importance to the course, or pattern, of Victoria’s cultural history. Criterion B: Possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Victoria’s cultural history Criterion C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Victoria’s cultural history. Clear glass oval medical bottle with rounded corners and flattened sides on front and back surfaces. Opening of bottle has a lip around it and could have been sealed with a stopper. There is a chip in the lip. One face of the bottle has a rectangular border with a name embossed vertically on it, “J. BOSISTO / RICHMOND”. The oval base of the bottle also has letters embossed on it “GE_ _AN” “B _ _ _ _ _”. There is also a large chip out of the base. The sides of the bottle have a vertical joining line. The bottle was recovered from the wreck of the Fiji.Flat side of bottle has rectangular border with “J BOSISTO / RICHMOND” embossed in the centre. The base of the bottle has “G E . . A N/B . . . . . .” embossed on it. Other letters have been removed with the chip. (probable wording was ‘GERMAN/BOTTLE)warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, shipwrecked artefact, fiji, 1891, glass bottle, medicine bottle, bosistos, j bosistos, german bottle

This photo depicts the rescue of three local skiets that became trapped on Mt Bogong during a blizzard and became known as the Cleve Cole tragedy . Mick Hull Howard Michell and Cleve Cole where skiing on Mt Bogong and could not find their way off the mountain via Staircase Spur due to Blizzard conditions and ended up in the Mitta Valley. Howard Michell walked to the Battys farm to get help for his weak and injured friends. Cleve Cole died shortly after arriving at Omeo hospital. This photo is historically significant as it tells the rescue story of this tragedy. The photos are of the people involved which add to the story. Mt Bogong Victoria's highest mountain is accessed from the Kiewa Valley and near by high plains and over shadows Mt Beauty township therefore is a local story. The photo comes from the rescue party which is a rare photo and thus has great interpretive capacity . The skiing history is one of KVHS main themes and this photo is part of our Skiing Across Country exhibitionBlack and white photo of several men in the bush near Mt Bogong. Photo is glued on to cardboard with a dark grey border and light grey wider border on the outside.Handwritten on back "The Discovery of Cleve Cole / up the Big River (Below Paddy's Flat) / Cole is arrowed / Cyril Rootsey / Jack Batty / Bill Batty / Paul? Bitner / Tom Fitzgerald / Etc. / (I think dad is the one with his hand up to his face)" Back - red stamp - "Herald Feature / Service / Melbournecleve cole. mt bogong. big river. paddy's flat.

Single-sided glossy card certificate with brown and yellow border and brown text. There are small coloured seals within the border showing service attendance over the years. "Janet Lumsden" "J.K.Robertson" "Surrey Hills"presbyterian church of australia, league of young worshippers, rev j k robertson

Made by Mrs. Sarah Johnson.Star-shaped, white net milk jug cover, with stitched edging to the star and a crocheted cotton border. The crocheted border is decorated with turquoise-coloured glass beads.milk jugs, food covers, vessel covers

FOBG members working with Gardens Manager, Phil Tulk, in the Orchard Border. Descriptions on reverse. (1) Phil Tulk and Chueng-Ling Wong in Orchard Border. (2) Georgia (Libby Lambert's friend) and James Davies in Orchard Border. (3) Georgia (Libby Lambert's friend), Orchard Border. (4) Cheng-Ling Wong, Andrew Smith, Phil Tulk, Orchard Border. (5) Michele Adler, Marg Hughes, Barb Brockley. (6) Marg Hughes and James Davies. (7) Oak Tree.fobg, gardens manager, phil tulk, orchard border, chueng-ling wong, georgia, libby lambert, james davies, andrew smith, michele adler, marg hughes, barbara brockley, oak tree

Document. Greeting Cards. White, single card with dark grey-green border and a white flower entwined along each side. Within the border is a coloured Nativity scene. A Christmas verse is printed in a second part of the border below. On the back is written: To Sarah with love from May.person, greeting cards, malone collection, malone collection, greeting cards

To finance the war the Commonwealth had a series of war loans, and then peace loans. All were over-subscribed. This plaque was made and presented to the Shire of Orbost in recognition of the Shire residents' contributions to the Peace Loan at the end of World War 1.A rectangular brass plaque with raised lettering and raised borders.Commonwealth of Australia / Peace Loan / A.D. 1919 / To commemorate the oversubscription of the allotted quota of this loan by the Shire of Orbost / R.P. Cameron ? W.A. Watt Treasurer, W.M. Hughes Prime Ministerplaque civic-memento orbos-shire peace-loan

"Alexander Colquhoun [Herald art critic 1914-1922 and feature writer for the Age 1926-1941] ... took private students in the first decade of the century, and one of these was Winifred Miles, who after her marriage in 1910 lived the remainder of her life in Ringwood. ... (She) began by doing charcoal studies of animals when she was in Balranald, but in later years moved to oils and then watercolours, travelling around Ringwood to find places to paint by means of a pony-driven governess-cart. She won prizes for paintings in the Royal Melbourne Shows." - Hugh Anderson - Ringwood, Place of Many Eagles [p.217].Pencil drawing with cardboard border in glass-fronted frame.

The plaques originate from chairs donated towards the furnishing of the Mair Street premises of the Clarendon Presbyterian Ladies College opened 1926. The chairs were situated in Watson Hall. The chairs were donated by the Old Collegains Dramatic Society which commenced with an inaugural production 1 October, 1925. The Touchstone December 1925 records the performance took place in the St Andrews Hall begining with a comedy sketch entitled 'Such is fame'...the second half of the programme consisted of what was described as 'a Pot-Pourri of Old Fashioned Tunes'. Four brass plaques featuring fine border and inscription.Inscribed on obverse: ; GIFT OF / Clarendon Old Collegians / DRAMATIC CLUB / 1926plaque, old-collegians-dramatic-society, clarendon-presbyterian-ladies-college, chairs, watson-hall

A4 sized certificate with a black border and red seal. "Victoria/ River Pilot Service/ This is to certify that/ Alba Cunnigham/ is duly qualified and competent to take charge and navigate all/ craft plying upon the Upper Yarra River Melbourne/ Licence issued under the Marine Board/ This twelfth day of February 1912/ Port Officer" written with pencil on the back "7.06"

N. J. Tillings Timber Factory was part of the Brougham Street, Light industrial area, Eltham. Brick bulidings includes signage: Wakefield Pr... (printer?) No 17 Building C. This is one of 7 B/W 8x10 inch photos with notes on obverse by Dick Crichton. Accompanying letter from Florence Chrichton 2013 : "Originally sent to Shire of Eltham Engineer, Mr. McDonald. [These photographs were part of their campaign to the Shire of Eltham in 1975] claiming that the zoning regulations were being breached by the occupants of various factories in the nearby light industrial zone [Brougham Street, Eltham] - to the detriment of those living in adjoining residential zones, and that, despite .. earlier objections and complaints, nothing was done about it."1 black and white photograph printed with white borderInscribed on back: "Weekend photograph of factories in Brougham Street surrounded by by residential zone. On weekdays cars surround premises - these have been built approx. two years - where is the landscaping? * Undeveloped light industrial land. Careful planning needed for future. Being on high elevations backs of future buildings will be seen from Main Road Eltham and future Art Centre complex. Also Bolton Street becoming heavily used arterial road. Off street parking facilities most important." . The front of the photo has pen marks indicating points of interest.industrial estate, brougham street, eltham

N. J. Tillings Timber Factory was part of the Brougham Street, Light industrial area, Eltham. Brick bulidings includes signage: Wakefield Pr... (printer?) No 17 Building C. This is one of 7 B/W 8x10 inch photos with notes on obverse by Dick Crichton. Accompanying letter from Florence Chrichton 2013 : "Originally sent to Shire of Eltham Engineer, Mr. McDonald. [These photographs were part of their campaign to the Shire of Eltham in 1975] claiming that the zoning regulations were being breached by the occupants of various factories in the nearby light industrial zone [Brougham Street, Eltham] - to the detriment of those living in adjoining residential zones, and that, despite .. earlier objections and complaints, nothing was done about it."1 black and white photograph printed with white borderInscribed on back: "Photo taken from corner Bolton and Brougham Streets showing undeveloped light industrial land used as storage (of portable toilets!). In the best tradition of Robin Boyd's 'Great Australian Ugliness.' Infringement of zoning regulations." industrial estate, brougham street, eltham, portable tiolets, 1975, bolton street, dick crichton, n.j. tillings, timber factory, shire of eltham