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Booklet, Melton Uniting Church Newsletter, 2017
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...The Uniting Church, Yuille Street, Melton, was originally the Scots Presbyterian Church, was built 1865-67 and adjacent former Church Hall / Sunday School built in 1938.Newsletter for the church communitychurches -
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Booklet, Scots' Church Melton 97th Anniversary, 1947
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Church bookletchurches -
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Booklet, Melton Uniting Church- Shine as lights in the world, 1986
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Event held at the churchchurches -
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Booklet, Country Women's Association Recipe Book, 1974
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...From 1944-1996, Edna Barrie was a member of the Melton Branch Country Women’s Association (CWA), Melton Branch, Secretary of the Branch in 1945 – 1946 and Branch International Secretary 1970-1971. She worked with choir, music and drama interest groups within the branch attaining both first and second place in 1959, second place in 1952 Exhibition and second in Music in 1960 in the state. She was involved in their handicraft craft events, fund raising and musical events and singing competitions. During the 1950s she trained Trios and Quartets in part singing for the CWA competitions in Ballarat and Melbourne. It was at this time that she developed her skill as a conductor and trainer of choirs. She later auditioned for the Victorian Choir for alto parts believing she would stand a better chance of being chosen, because of her ability to sing in natural harmony. In 1962 she participated in the Tenth Australian Country Women of the World (ACWW) Triennial Conference “Australia Presents: CWA Massed Choir” in the Melbourne Town Hall. This event was recorded by Super Sound Spotlight on 45 extended play vinyl record. The songs were Australian music and words, for example The Silver Stars are in the Sky, The Graceful Swaying Wattle and Kookaburra. Edna continued with her interest in the Victorian Choir regularly meeting at the CWA Headquarters in Toorak for rehearsals. In 1974 she took part in the Australian Choir at the fourteenth Triennial conference of the ACWW Interfaith Service held at the Perth Concert Hall on the 13th of October. Recipes from the members of the Bradvale Branchlocal significant events, local identities -
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Map, Plan for the Village of Melton, 1853
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Site of early village Section numbers 1 - 17 Later became the Flat known as the Common Robert Russell – Surveyor Pinkerton, Sherwin, Bryan, Pyke, Yuille, CollyerMelton Town 1853 Plancouncil -
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Map, Parish of Derrimut, 1931
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Map of the Parish of Derrimutcouncil -
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Map, Melton Water Supply, Unknown
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...The development that had arguably the greatest impact in encouraging population growth in the shire during this period, was the establishment of a reliable water supply for the district. This had been a major concern of the local community for over 100 years, since the Melton township was first founded. Despite various schemes over the years to create a reliable water supply, the district was still dependent on bores, wells and tanks when the Melton Waterworks Trust was established in 1961 to address Melton’s water woes. With the opening of the Djerriwarrh Dam in December 1963, the shire’s residents finally had access to a reticulated water supply.Map shows the boundary of the area where the water will be serviced in the towncouncil -
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Map, Coimadai County of Bourke, 1911
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Town Plan of Meltoncouncil -
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Drawing, Windmill, Unknown
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...The windmill and water tank are located at the rear of the houseIllustration of the windmill and the water tank at the Willows sitelocal architecture -
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Equipment, Country Fire Authority Tag, Unknown
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ..."From the earliest days of settlement in the shire, residents demonstrated their willingness to band together in times of crisis and need. Bushfires were always a terrifying prospect and since its establishment in 1935, the local fire brigade (later the Country Fire Authority) fought hard to protect the people, homes and animals of the shire. In 1966, the Mount Cottrell Fire BrigadesGroup was formed as a way of consolidating the smaller groups around Melton, Rockbank, ToolernVale, Sydenham, Truganina and Werribee. Its headquarters were established at the home of Ernest ‘Bon’ and Edna Barrie in Ferris Road, Melton".Tag from an fire extinguisher emergency services -
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Souvenir, City of Melton stickers, Unknown
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Melton Promotion and Development Group Stickers promoting the City of Meltoncouncil -
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Unknown, Young's Motors, Unknown
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Ken Youngs GaragePromotion of Youngs Garage, High Streetlocal identities -
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Archive, Western Highway Petroleum, Unknown
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Advertisement of Western Highway Petroleum, business previously located on Western Highway, Melton. local identities -
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Memorabilia, Country Women's Association, Melton Day Branch, 2018
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...In 1944-1996 Edna Barrie was a member of the Melton Branch Country Women’s Association (CWA), Melton Branch, Secretary of the Branch in 1945 – 1946 and Branch International Secretary 1970-1971. She worked with choir, music and drama interest groups within the branch attaining both first and second place in 1959, second place in 1952 Exhibition and second in Music in 1960 in the state. She was involved in their handicraft craft events, fund raising and musical events and singing competitions. During the 1950s she trained Trios and Quartets in part singing for the CWA competitions in Ballarat and Melbourne. It was at this time that she developed her skill as a conductor and trainer of choirs. She later auditioned for the Victorian Choir for alto parts believing she would stand a better chance of being chosen, because of her ability to sing in natural harmony. In 1962 she participated in the Tenth Australian Country Women of the World (ACWW) Triennial Conference “Australia Presents: CWA Massed Choir” in the Melbourne Town Hall. This event was recorded by Super Sound Spotlight on 45 extended play vinyl record. The songs were Australian music and words, for example The Silver Stars are in the Sky, The Graceful Swaying Wattle and Kookaburra. Edna continued with her interest in the Victorian Choir regularly meeting at the CWA Headquarters in Toorak for rehearsals. In 1974 she took part in the Australian Choir at the fourteenth Triennial conference of the ACWW Interfaith Service held at the Perth Concert Hall on the 13th of October. Items celebrating 80 years of Country Women's Association and the closure of the Melton branchlocal significant groups, local identities, local special interest groups -
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Memorabilia, The Country Women's Association of Victoria Inc Victoria Day Award, 2011
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Country Women's Association of Victoria Awardlocal significant groups -
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Archive, Country Women's Association Finley Branch, Unknown
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Front page of the 33rd Country Women's Association Finley Branchlocal significant groups -
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Archive, Associated Country Women of the World Conference, 1962
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Members attended “Australia Presents and other A.C.W.W. events. Mrs Edna Barrie was in the choir. Edna a member of the State and Australian Choir ASSOCIATED COUNTRY WOMEN OF THE WORLD TENTH TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE Melbourne October 1962 Melbourne Town HallItems from the conferencelocal significant groups, local identities -
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Memorabilia, Sewing needle and thread, c.1943
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ..."Members of the Melton Country Women’s Association branch, which had been established in 1938 just before the war, made camouflage nets and food packages, held fundraising events and sewed quilts to send to British children. All soldiers’ wives were made honorary members of the branch".Probably used during World War 2 effortwar, local special interest groups -
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Archive, Melton Railway Centenary, 1984
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ..."The Melton South Railway Station was the first stage of the direct Melbourne to Ballarat railway, whose opening in 1884 was attended by dignitaries including the Victorian Premier (Duncan Gillies), Minister for Railways (Alfred Deakin), Solicitor General (James Balfour), and the Sir William Clarke MLC".Items from Melton Railway Centenarytransport -
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Textile, H. Morgan and Sons Melton Vic, Unknown
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Felt rag from H. Morgan and Sons Melton Victorialocal identities -
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Functional object, Set of keys, Unknown
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Sets of keys, belong to a churchchurches, misc. -
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Functional object, Melton Uniting Church bookmarks, Unknown
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Bookmarks from the churchchurches -
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Memorabilia, Melton State School Centenary, 1970
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...On 17th May 1858 a State subsidised, combined Denominational School was opened by HT Stokes, with an attendance of about 30 children. This school was conducted in the wooden Melton Combined Protestant Church, situated on ‘a creek flat’ thought to be on the north side of Sherwin Street between Pyke and Byran Streets. It is likely that the Church had been established by 1855 and that the first minister was the Rev. Hampshire, who lived in Cambridge House on the Exford Estate. Ministers of the Protestant denominations were invited to hold services there. As there was only one resident Minister in the town (Presbyterian Mr J Lambie), laymen of the various denominations often spoke on Sundays. In 1863 this building was declared a Common School with the number 430. One of its first and most prominent headmasters was John Corr, who served from 1860 to 1864. Most of Mr Corr’s children also became teachers, including Joseph Corr, at the Rockbank school, and J Reford Corr and WS Corr, headmasters and teachers at numerous prestigious private secondary schools around Australia. John Corr purchased land alongside the school and elsewhere in and near Melton, became secretary and treasurer of the new Cemetery Trust, and by July 1861 was deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages. He walked three miles every Sunday to teach at the Weslyan Sunday School he had established. Despite good reports from the Education Department Inspector, and burgeoning enrolments, the local school committee recommended the dismissal of, firstly, his wife (from the work mistress position), and then him from the headmaster position. Corr saw his dismissal as an attempt to redirect state aid for education from the Combined Protestant school to the support of the Free Presbyterian Minister Rev James Lambie (by one account the owner of the land on which the Common School was erected), whose son-in-law James Scott subsequently assumed responsibility for the school. Rev Lambie failed in his efforts to keep the existing school, which the Education Department Inspector and the majority of Melton citizens regarded as badly situated and badly built. Following a conditional promise of state aid, local contributors in 1868-69 raised ₤72.10.6 towards the cost of an iron-roofed bluestone rubble building 43 ft x 12 ft. This was erected on a new site of 1.5 acres (the present site). The State contributed ₤120 to the new school, which opened in 1870. A very early (c.1874) photograph of the school shows its headmaster and work mistress / assistant teacher (probably James Scott and his wife Jessie) and its (very young) scholars. Similar photos show pupils in front of the school in c.1903, and 1933. In 1877 a second bluestone room costing ₤297 was added and further land acquired from the Agricultural Society (who only needed it two days a year) to enlarge the schoolground to 3 acres. In the early 1880s an underground tank augmented the school water supply and in 1919 a five-roomed wooden residence was added. During this period the school correspondents often compained that the walls of the bluestone buildings were damp, affecting the plaster. In 1923 a brick room 26 ft 6 in by 24 ft with a fireplace and four rooms facing south, was added, and a corridor built to link the three buildings. This served adequately for the next 40 years. The school bell probably dates to 1883. The school also has a memorial gate (1951) to World War One ex-students, and an honour board to the 64 ex-students who served in the First World War. The school roll fell to 42 in the early post war-years, but was boosted by an influx of migrants, mainly from the UK, from the late 1960s. This presaged the boom in Melton’s development, and the corresponding growth of the school, with timber and temporary classrooms added to the previous masonry ones. An endowment pine plantation established in 1930 augmented the school’s fundraising activities when it was harvested in 1968. Part of the site was planted with eucalyptus trees in 1959. Famous ex-students of the early twentieth century included Hector Fraser (internationally successful shooter) and cyclist Sir Hubert Opperman. Pen, flag and flyer from the Melton State School Centenary celebrationseducation, local significant events -
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Decorative object, Stained glass window- Ferris Road, Unknown
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Tom and May Barrie lived on the family farm at Ferris Road Melton. Window from the Barrie family farmlandscapes of significance -
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Artwork, other, Edna Barrie: Collo Character, 2001
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Part of the PeopleScape Federation Celebration An initiative of the National Council for the Centenary of Federation, celebrating the contribution of Australians to their community and country. The final event of the year long celebrations, held in Canberra, the city that Federation created. The public art installation told the individual stories of Australians from all walks of life, from those living and those who had died. The massive sculpture depicted the life of the nation. The figures were nominated and decorated by individuals, groups of individuals and organisations from across Australia with every state, territory and region represented with approx. half from regional and the remote areas of Australia. The sculpture was installed in alphabtical order, each with a plaque at its base outlining the individual's achivement. The yellow colour of the figures against the green grass represented the colours of Australia.Close ups of Edna's Collo Characterlocal identities -
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Book, Ration books and cards, 1943,1945,1947, 1948
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Rationing regulations for food and clothing were gazetted on 14 May 1942. Rationing was introduced to manage shortages and control civilian consumption. It aimed to curb inflation, reduce total consumer spending, and limit impending shortages of essential goods. The broad reasoning behind the introduction of rationing was to ensure the equitable distribution of food and clothing. It was also hoped that a cut on consumer spending would lead to an increase in savings, which in turn could be invested in war loans. Australians were never as short of food nor rationed as heavily as civilians in the United Kingdom. Rationing was enforced by the use of coupons and was limited to clothing, tea, sugar, butter, and meat. From time to time, eggs and milk were also rationed under a system of priority for vulnerable groups during periods of shortage. Rationing was administered by the Rationing Commission. The basis for policing food rationing was through the surrender of coupons before rationed goods could be supplied. This had to occur between traders as well as consumers. Coupons were passed back from consumers to retailers, from retailers to wholesalers, and in many cases from wholesalers to producers, who were requested to return them to the commission. Breaches of rationing regulations were punishable under the general provisions of National Security Regulations by fines of to £100 or up to six-months imprisonment. Responding to the complaint that these penalties were inadequate, the government passed the Black Marketing Act at the end of 1942. This Act was for more serious cases and could carry a minimum penalty of £1,000.The clothing ration books and coupons belonged to Edna Barrie, the food ration card belonged to Wendy Barrie and the tea and butter ration card belong to Elizabeth Daley.local identities, war -
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Card, Identity cards, 1942
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Identity cards belong to Edna and Ernest (Bon) Barrie local identities, war -
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Book, 'Calda', 1884
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Mr Benjamin Richards, headmaster from 1881-1888. Frederick Thomas Myers Born Jan 20th January1877 Died 30th April 1963 Melton SS 430 Merit Certificate No116343 10th of Oct A.D. 1889 [1881 – 1889] Book belonged to Benjamin Richards, Head Teacher at Melton State School. Inside the book cover mentions Frederick Myers.education, pioneer families -
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Book, 'Mrs Maclurcan's cookery book, Unknown
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Ann’s cookery books are in the Daley collectionCookery book belonged to Ann Daleylocal identities, pioneer families -
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Book, 'Revelations of my friends', 1914
... Melton City Libraries 31 McKenzie Street Melton melbourne ...Rosemary Myers spoke about Lizzie Daley in May 2012. She described the house as having lots of ornaments, and how she enjoyed going thereto buy ribbons and laces for a pair of baby booties she knitted for her school handwork at Melton P S 430. Margaret Nolan's memories of Lizzie: When we were young kids we would go down to visit our cousins, the Myers who lived on the Highway. My great grand mother Mary Luby lived in Reserve road when she came to Melton, she was married here in 1857. Her sister Ann nee Dowling was married to Henri Miers [Myers] in 1867. Her other sister Eliza married William Daley in 1862. He had a Bootmakers shop in the High street. Their daughter Lizzie later turned it into a haberdashery shop. We would go there to buy sewing threads and ribbons. Margaret nee Nolan Brooks memories recorded on the 20th September 2013 Book was from Lizzie Daley's shop in High Street, Meltonlocal identities