Set of 10, 35mm Tecnodia white plastic mount slides by Colin Rough of trams in Collins St 30/4/2003. All in Yarra Trams livery unless noted otherwise. .1 - C 3004, route 109 Port Melbourne near Spencer St. .2 - C 3027, eastbound about to cross Spencer St to St Vincent's Hospital .3 - ditto .4 - C 3022 as for .1 .5 - C 3005, followed by an A class .6 - C 3035 at Swanston St intersection .7 - A 240 at Swanston St on route 112 in all over advertising for "Shave for a Cure" .8 - A 265 at Spencer St, route 109 .9 - C 3003 at Spencer St, route 109 .10 - C 3027 on Collins St extension bridge.On front written on a label "Yarra Trams, Collins St, Melbourne 30/4/2003" and the tram number.trams, tramways, a class, route 109, collins st, tram 3004, tram 3027, tram 3022, tram 3005, tram 3035, tram 240, tram 265, tram 3003, yarra trams, route 112, c class

Photo - see pdf file for further information. Number Brief Description RT001 South Melbourne depot - tram 861 -"Domain Rd" RT002 Fitzroy St, St Kilda - tram 858 - route 16 RT003 "3" - Z class - tram 210 - "City" - route 05 RT004 Swanston St - tram 989 - "University" - route 8 RT005 Swanston St - tram 992 - "City" - route 6 RT006 Swanston St - tram 867 - "City" - route 8 RT007 "2" - Track Relay Wattletree Road RT008 "1" Track Relay Wattletree Road - tram 214 - route 05 RT009 Swanston St - tram 26 - "City - Swanston St" - route 6 RT010 Balaclava Junction - tram 76 - route 09 RT011 "6" - Track Relay Wattletree Road RT012 Fitzroy St - tram 2042 - "East Brunswick" route 96 RT013 Swanston St - tram 985 - "City" - route 8 RT014 "4" - Track Relay Wattletree Road, Malvern East, looking east to terminus at Burke Rd RT015 "5" - Track Relay Wattletree Road RT016 Collins St - tram 923 - "St Kilda Beach" - route 12 RT017 Victoria Pde Siding - tram 67 - "Special" - route 12 RT018 Nth Fitzroy Depot - trams 2037 & 2021 RT019 Park Street - tram 844 - "West Preston" - route 10 RT020 South Melb Beach Ter - tram 49 RT021 St Kilda Line - tram 67 - "East Brunswick" - route 96 RT022 Port Melb Terminus - tram 67 - "Port Melb'ne" - route 111 RT023 Port Melb Line - tram 2038 - "Exhibition Bldg" - route 111 RT024 Sth Melb Depot - tram 937 – “Restaurant" RT025 Collins St - tram 282 - "City" - route 42 RT026 Spring Street - tram 2100 - "City Spencer St" - route 86 RT027 Spring Street - tram 2093 - "Port Melbourne" - route 111 RT028 "1" New Track Spring St RT029 "2" track construction - Spring St RT030 "3" track construction - Spring St RT031 "4" track construction - Spring St RT032 "5" track construction - Spring St Demonstrates the work of Robert Thomson in photography, collection and/or production of slidesAssembled album in a black presentation folder of 32 colour slides, collected or produced by Robert Thomson. All photographs have been scanned and placed on the Museum's G drive. A list of all photographs with details has been compiled. melbourne, tramways, trams, track construction

Set of two documents issued for the "Queen's Birthday Levee at Parliament House Friday 13th June 1969". .1 - notice to passengers printed on semi gloss paper for tramcars giving details of the even, diversion for Bourke St routes, shuttle in Bourke St and minor service changes for Swanston St and Collins St. .2 - Press statement - carbon copy on foolscap paper, giving details as for .1 and for services for Queen's Birthday Holiday the following Monday.trams, tramways, mmtb, services, queens birthday, bourke st, events, parliament

This picture frame was hung in the Bridge Hotel in the upstairs display that was assembled in the 1970s and can be seen in some of the photographs taken upstairs over the decades in the Port Collection. A round wooden photo frame decorated with carved circles with a sepia circular photo of young woman with voluminous hairstyle inside it. She has a triple strand of pearls around her neck. At the bottom of the photo if written Talma & Co, Swanston St, Melbourne. A brown string like a shoe lace is threaded through 2 hooks to hang it from.'Part of her mother's effects, K Robertson, born 1886 carved this frame as a girl probably around 1903. Subject not known, a friend perhaps.' written on the back of the photo. bridge hotel, k robertson, talma & co, picture frame

Set of two A4 sheets photocopied, advertising "Yapper Tours W3 661 Outings", using BTM / BTPS W3 No. 661 in Melbourne during 1989. .1 - general brochure with a photos of 665 and 661 in Swanston St - giving fare and travel conditions. .2 - list of six tours dates during April 1989 giving proposed tour arrangements.trams, tramways, btps, charters, special trams, yapper tours

Yields information about the operation of Ballarat No. 36 in Melbourne following the closure of the Ballarat system.Digital image of Ballarat Tram No. 36 in Domain Road, South Yarra September 1971 undertaking shuttles between Victoria St and Domain Road for Ballarat Tourism. Driver standing by front of tram with conductress walking to the rear. Behind the tram is the crossover. See also Reg Item 5995 for another Mal Rowe photo of the tram in Swanston St.trams, tramways, ballarat tourism, domain road, tourism, tram 36

Colour photograph of W5 774 after repainting as part of the Heritage Fleet in the yard by the entry gate at Preston Workshops during 1995. Tram has the destination of Swanston St, route 28. Note the pantograph friendly point frog at the back of the tram. Photo from the Collection of the Department of Infrastructure now with the Public Records Office - image number "1995-166".Has Department of Infrastructure copy right stamp on rear and numbers "1995-166" and "3-18"trams, tramways, preston workshops, repainting, maintenance, w5 class, tram 774

Image by Keith Kings shows the first Restaurant tram (W2 442) on trials at the corner of Flinders and Swanston St. Melbourne 14/12/1982. Notes that it has been rebuilt by Preston Workshops for The Colonial Tramcar Restaurant Co. Has Flinders Street station in the background.Yields information about the first restaurant tram built for Melbourne.Black and white photograph of Restaurant Tram W2 442 on test, photo number 195-21Has details and date written on the rear.colonial tramcar restaurant, restaurant tram, flinders street, swanston street, tramways, tramcars, trams, preston workshops, w2 class, tram 442

St Kilda Presbyterian church cnr Alma Rd and Barkly st St Kilda. Additional notes: built in 1858, opened 5 June 1860, demolished in 1883 and new church built (presumably the church in photograph was built c 1883). Victorian cottage visible on opposite corner of Alma rd and Barkly st.black and white photograph good condition mountedTalma & Co,119 Swanston st, Melbourne. St Kilda Historical Collection, 150 Carlisle st, St Kilda. Historical Society of St Kilda PO Box 142, Balaclava 3185. C10

Photograph of cable tram trailer 202 after a bad accident where the side of the vehicles has been very badly damaged. The tram has a sign "for the hospital' attached to it. Destination signs are Studley Park, Botanical Gardens, Johnston St, Lygon St, Swanston St and Chapel St. Photo appeared in an article on Melbourne cable trams published in 1896 in Street Railway Review - See item 6444Yields information about severity of damage to a cable tram trailer 1890s.Copy photograph - Cable tram trailer 202 after a bad accidentMelbourne “A bad wreck” – Trailer No. 202. Copy neg Mark Plummer collections ex late John Alfred collection. cable trams, tramways, accidents, nicholson st workshops, articles, tram 202, trams

The photo shows the Flinders St station building at dusk. An MMTB bus and tram are waiting at the traffic lights. Tram fitted with marker lights shows a route number of "29" - which was discontinued in Nov. 1970. Marker lights commenced to be installed in 1970.Yields information about Flinders St station in about 1970.Colour postcard by Sandscene International, No. V7 with a serrated edge - No. JSC316postcards, route 29, flinders st station, flinders st, swanston street

Black and white Illustration, reproduction of a MMTB Annual report photograph of Traffic Congestion in Collins St, titled "Traffic Congestion, Collins Street - 2.45pm - 3rd November 1954". Shows many motor vehicles and a lone tram car at the top of the hill near Swanston St. Photo taken near the intersection with Elizabeth St. Originally reproduced in the 1955 MMTB Annual Report.trams, tramways, mmtb, collins st, traffic control

Reproduction slide of a coloured postcard showing cable trams in Collins St Melbourne just to the west of Swanston St with the Town Hall in the background. The nearest cable tram has the destination of South Melbourne with a number of young ladies sitting on the front. There is another cable tram crossing Collins St in the background. Yields information about Collins St Melbourne and cable tram operations.Kodachrome cardboard duplicate slide - Colour slide - reproduction - Collins St Melbourne with Town Hall c1900 "CB21" in penciltrams, tramways, cable cars, cable trams, collins street, swanston street, town hall, melbourne town hall

Document titled "Time table of all night tram and bus services" dated July 1941 lists the routes and times trams or buses left the suburban terminus and passed either Franklin and Swanston St or Princes Bridge. Gives fares, through routing. Signed S M Richardson Manager.Demonstrates a 1941 all night services timetable brought about by restrictions in the sale of petrol due to the Second World War and the need to transport workers to factories.Paper sheet off white paper, printed in black ink.tickets, all night services, world war 2, timetables, fares

Colour postcard, No. 60717. of the view looking west from Swanston St along Bourke St. c1900 with two cable car sets in the view. Has the Leviathan store on the left, Town Hall, Robertson & Moffat and the Vander? Plugge? Hotel on the right. A Policeman is on duty and a man sweeping the roadway into a pan.Yields information about the view along Bourke St from Swanston St,Postcard - colour with divided back, used with two Victorian 1/2d stamps on the rear.Handwritten note and date stamp.trams, tramways, cable trams, bourke st

Notice to Passengers titled "ANZAC Day", Tuesday 25 April 1961 detailing the service alterations for the March - closure of Swanston St, diversion of trams, termination of trams, connecting services via La Trobe and William Sts, and changes to bus routes. Signed by B H Misson Traffic Manager.Yields information about the changes to the CBD Tram services for the 1961 ANZAC day march.Notice - printed on special size paper.tramways, anzac day, notices and information, timetables, services

William Nichols Anderson (1873-1927) was an Australian painter, one of whose works from the 1906 series River + Rail is in the Kew Historical Society’s art collection (donated 1984). A separate archive file contains correspondence, biographical information (written by his niece), and locations in Kew where he lived. Much of the correspondence between the Society and the City of Kew relates to the painting and its location in the Mayor’s Room at the Kew Civic Offices, Charles Street, where it was on loan from the Society. Lucy M (Jean) Hornby, the artist’s niece and the donor of the painting was a resident of 5 and 20 Queens Street, Kew (Vic). Australian ImpressionismGift of Lucy Hornby, 1984Framed oil on canvas by W. Nicholls Anderson of Park Street, Kew (now Adeney Avenue) looking uphill in a southerly direction towards Cotham Road. The painting is dated to 1906. The two storey house at left was known as 'Eborensis'. The house is still extant on the corner of Adeney Avenue and Parkhill Road. On sticker on back of frame - Adeney Ave./1913/ £3.3.0/ 13th Annual/ Exhib. V.A.S [Victorian Artists Society]/1911 Aust Art Exhib/the Guidlhall/Swanston st Melb./ Adeney's Paddock/ Kew. £3.0.0.artists - kew - victoria - australia, victorian artists society, william nicholls anderson (1873-1927), adeney avenue kew, australian art exhibition 1911, victorian artists' society, w. nicholls anderson

334.1 - Kookaburra Series No. 25 postcard, vertical format, view of the Swanston St entrance to Flinders St. Railway station with five sets of cable trams with horse drawn vehicles and many people. Photo is formally printed using a screen. Title 'Main Entrance, Flinders St. Rly Station Melbourne' along base. On rear in landscape format is areas for address, card number, a kookaburra symbol and saying, publisher notes and areas for address and correspondence. Off white card. c 1910. 334.2 - Photograph as a postcard of the Swanston St. entrance of Flinders St. Railway station from ground level with horse drawn vehicles and pedestrians in view. No motor cars in view or cable cars. c1910. On base in white ink (faded) handwriting 'Railway Station Melbourne'. On rear is name of object and areas for Address and Correspondence and '29'. trams, tramways, melbourne, flinders st. station, cable trams

Reports on a free tram in Swanston St - hired for $350 by the group Action for Public Transport to publicise a rally in the City Square on 30-7-1976. Quotes rally organiser Rus Littleson. Has a photo of Conductor John Cregan giving passenger Kay Angel a rally phamplet. Story by Stephen Nisbet.Yields information about a rally to protest about public transport fares.Newspaper clipping - "Passengers were fare game for action group" - The Age 30-7-1976tramways, trams, melbourne, public transport, fares, rally, free tram

Photo - see pdf file for further information. Number Brief Description RT229 1997, Carlisle St, tram 129 - "Kew - Cotham Rd" - route 69 & tram 905 - "St Kilda Beach" - route 16 RT230 1997, Dandenong Rd, tram 86 - "Melbourne" - route 69 RT231 1997, Victoria Pde, tram 856 - "City Circle" - route 00 RT232 1997, Spring St, tram 909 - "City Circle" - route 00 RT233 1997, Swanston St, tram 982 - "University" - route 72 RT234 1997, Swanston St, tram 949 - "Glen Iris" - route 6 & tram 852 - "St Kilda Beach" - route 16 RT235 1997, Swanston St, tram 845 - "University" - route 16 RT236 1997, Swanston St, tram 951 - "?" - route 8 RT237 1997, Flinders St, tram 925 - "City Circle" - route 00 7 tram 2034 - "City La Trobe St" RT238 1997, Tram Defect, tram 98 RT239 1997, Flinders St Station, tram 785 - "?" - route 8 RT240 1997, Flinders St Station, tram 211 - "Moreland" - route ? RT241 Bourke St, tram 2059 - "City Spencer St"- route 87 RT242 St Georges Rd Preston, tram 1003 - "Preston" via St Georges Rd"- route 9 RT243 West Preston Terminus - tram 943 - "St Kilda Beach" - route 10 RT244 Princes Bridge , tram 950 - "City" - route 72 RT245 1997 Port Melb Ter, tram 265 - "Mont Albert" - route 109 RT246 1997 Port Melb Terminus RT247 1997 Port Melb Terminus, tram 285 - "Mont Albert" - route 109 RT248 North Balwyn Terminus, tram 244 - "City Lonsdale St" - route 48 RT249 1997 Bourke St mall, tram 2127 - "Bundoora RMIT" - route 86 RT250 1997 Bourke St mall, tram 2028 - "St Kilda Beach" - route 96 RT251 1997 Batman Ave, tram 239 - "Princes Bridge" - route 70 RT252 1997 Batman Ave Ter, tram 233 - "Wattle Park" - route 70 RT253 Princes Bridge , tram 960 - "City" - route 64 RT254 Swanston St at Flinders St, tram 776 - "Glen Iris" - route 6 & tram 809 - "Toorak" - route 8 RT255 Swanston St at Bourke St, tram 978 - "City" - route 64 RT256 Bourke St at Swanston St, tram 112 - "City" - route 86 RT257 South Melbourne Beach terminus, tram 818, - "East Coburg" - route 1 RT258 Carlisle St, tram 925 - "Kew Cotham Rd" - route 69 RT259 Acland St Terminus, tram 2018 - "East Brunswick" - route 98 RT260 St Kilda Rd Princes Bridge, "St Kilda Beach" - route 15 RT261 Batman Avenue Terminus, tram 24 "Special" & tram 22 - "Wattle park Elgar Rd" - route 70 RT262 Acland St Terminus, tram 646 - "City" - route 16 RT263 Bundoora Terminus - tram 2023 - "Bundoora" - route 86 Demonstrates the work of Robert Thomson in photography, collection and/or production of slidesAssembled album in a black presentation folder of 35 colour slides, collected or produced by Robert Thomson. All photographs have been scanned and placed on the Museum's G drive. A list of all photographs with details has been compiled. melbourne, tramways, trams

A colour slide people shopping at a fete at Legacy House in Swanston St in 1959. Was with many other slides taken in the 1950s and 1960s. The slides have been photographed to make digital images and moved to archive quality sleeves. In many cases the original images were not well focussed and the digital image is the best available.A record of fetes being held at Legacy House.Colour slide of people shopping at a fete in Legacy House, in a brown Super Anscochrome cardboard mount.Printed in red ink 'ANSCOCHROME / View from this side / Made in Australia". Handwritten in blue pen "Bargains ILC Fete 1959". Imprinted by indentation "AUG 59". Imprinted with black ink '14'.ilc, fete

Agfa colour slide, blue / white plastic mount, photo by Keith Caldwell of W5 808 turning from Victoria St into Swanston St, route 8, Toorak - Glenferrie Road terminus. Tram has the adverts for Tolleys Brandy and ACL. In the background is SW6 951, route 4D and another tram in the Victoria St shunts. The Carlton United Brewery is in the background. 27/4/1964In ink "W5 27.4.64:"trams, tramways, route 8, w5 class, victoria st, toorak, tram 808, tram 951

Bone China, three sided dish with gold lining, partly embossed around the edges, with an image of Flinders St station, Melbourne, with electric trams (W and single trucker) in Swanston St and cable trams in Flinders St - late 1920's? Image has been coloured. On the rear of the dish: "Royal Stafford / Bone (manufacturer's crown mark) China / Made in England / No. 224"trams, tramways, melbourne, flinders st station, souvenirs

Image shows a centre of the road pole used to extend the electric tram in Swanston St from Queensberry St to Little Lonsdale St. Was proposed to be used in the conversion of cable to electric trams in St Kilda Road, but was not adopted. William St had a similar type of pole but these were removed when they became a traffic hazard.Shows design of centre poles that support overhead electric wires. Swanston Street electric trams centre poles - Newspaper photo. MMTB Swanston Street looking south from Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne, about 1923-24.tramways, trams, swanston street, centre poles, st kilda road

Coat worn by Sister Danson (VFX151507) during the British presence in Japan following the end of the Second World War. About 16,000 Australians served in the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces, including 130 from the Australian General Hospital with whom Sister Danson presumably served. Sister Danson was born in Numurkah and served as Leiutentant with the Heidelberg Military Hospital before embarking for Japan in 1947.This coat is part of a complete uniform set held by the Shepparton RSL. The uniform has representative and historic significance as an example of the style of uniform worn by nursing staff of the Australian General Hospital during the 1940s and into the 1950s. The uniform set has social significance to the Shepparton area, being owned and worn by a serving community member who was born in Numurkah, enlisted in Shepparton and returned to the community in later life.Shin length grey woollen double breasted coat fastened with three buttons on front centre. Interior bakelite or plastic button fastens panels on interior. Two hip-height pockets with folded flap on exterior. Grey fabric belt fastened with a metal buckle; belt is held in place with two fabric loops on either side of the waist. "AUSTRALIA" shoulder flashes on both left and right shoulders; on left arm a blue and brown rectangular colour patch and on the right arm, a blue square patch with embroidered crown and the words "BRITISH COMMONWEALTH FORCES." Epaulettes on either shoulder carry two metal badges signifying a senior Sister and fastened with a metal button. A pin is missing from the base of the epaulette. Interior lined with purple-grey lining; pocket on interior left chest and manufacturer's label at base of neck underneath loop.Shoulder flashes read "AUSTRALIA" and "BRITISH COMMONWEALTH FORCES". Label reads "TAILORS & HABIT/MAKERS/J. RAVENSDALE/& SON/NICHOLAS BLDG./SWANSTON ST MELBOURNE/SISTER DANSON". Buttons read "AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES"second world war, world war ii, medical, wwii, nurse, women

A colour slide of a fete at Legacy House in Swanston St in 1959. There two legatees behind a table of plants. Was with many other slides taken in the 1950s and 1960s. The slides have been photographed to make digital images and moved to archive quality sleeves. In many cases the original images were not well focussed and the digital image is the best available.A record of fetes being held at Legacy House.Colour slide of two legatees and a plant stall in Legacy House, in a brown Super Anscochrome cardboard mount.Printed in red ink 'ANSCOCHROME / View from this side / Made in Australia". Handwritten on front ''Smithy set ups flowers ILC Fete 1959'. Imprinted by indentation "Aug 59". Imprinted with black ink '10'.ilc, fete

Legatees hold comradeship events through the year. Date is estimated to be in the 1960s as it is being held in Legacy House in Swanston St and was with other slides from that period. The slides have been photographed to make digital images and moved to archive quality sleeves. In many cases the original images were not well focussed and the digital image the best available.A record of past social events for Legatees.Colour slide x 5 of a Legatee Comradeship event in white plastic Anscochrome mounts with red reverse side.The mounts are handwritten Comradeship in black ink.legatee event, comradeship

Newspaper clipping from The Sunday Advertiser of Adelaide, March 1954, letter to the editor titled "Many cities want to keep their trams" by A. Silcove of 80 Swanston St Melbourne about the planned change over from trams to buses in Adelaide and Adelaide becoming a small provincial centre as a result. Contained originally within Reg Item 5507 at the back of the binder. For items see btm5507 loose items list.pdf adelaide, closure

Postcard - colour titled "Collins Street Melbourne". Photo looks west from near Russell St has the Town hall and the Manchester Unity buildings in the photograph and a W2 at the Swanston St tram stop. Has stamp and address boxes on the front of the car and correspondence on the rear. Photo mid 1950's? On the rear - large space for correspondence and details of the photograph. Produced by Nucolorview, using a genuine Kodachrome photographOn the rear has the stamp of Graeme S Breydon - see image i2.trams, tramways, melbourne, collins st, town hall

Newspaper clipping from the Herald (Melb), 16/2/1957, titled "All-nighters roll out of the city" page 3 describing a trip on the last all night tram from Swanston St (Melb) to Glenhuntly depot on tram - Photo of X1 461 at Town Hall, and driver Fred Egan - story by John Monks with some errors. Scan added and entry updated 19/8/13trams, tramways, melbourne, tramways, all night services, x1 class