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Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Work on paper - Wine bottle label
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Colour photograph of a fundraising wine bottle label promoting the centenary of the Menzies Creek State School. Label is off-white with red printing. 'GORDO RIESLING/An unusual blend/ of Gordo and Riesling grapes specially/ prepared, giving a Moselle style taste/with a pleasant Dry Riesling finish, and ready/to be enjoyed now./The grapes were grown and vintaged at/ Angove's Renmark vineyards.' The label features the (then) school logo, designed to mark the school's centenary, with artwork by Tanya Mayer and Konrad Matta. -
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Article - Menzies Creek State School fire article, Destroyed By Fire - Menzies Creek State School
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...An article from The Age dated 19th Nov 1935, reporting a fire at the Menzies Creek State School. -
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Article - Menzies Creek State School article, Menzies Creek
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...An article from the Berwick and Oakleigh Advocate dated 4th May 1916, reporting an afternoon gathering at the Menzies Creek State School held on 17th April 1916. Narre Warren East State School was also invited to join the afternoon. -
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Postcard - Carinya postcard, boating on Aura Vale Lake
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Colour Photograph of people boating at Aura Vale Lake. Several small sailboats are on the lake. People are also swimming and sunbathing. Several beach umbrellas have been set up on the grass. -
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Photograph - Australia Post social media image, Menzies Creek post office c.1910
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Colour photograph of a social media post from Australia Post. Photo is of people standing in front of the Menzies Creek Post Office, circa 1910. A man on a horse is on the left. Four women and four children stand in front of the building. This was used for a series of stamps celebrating Australia Post's 200th anniversary. -
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Photograph - Photo of Menzies Creek Hall
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Photo shows Menzies Creek Hall c. 2012. A fibro and weatherboard hall is set among tall trees. Photo is from Victorian Places. -
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Photograph - Menzies Creek hall preparatory work, c. 1953
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Photos 051/267 and 051/268 are 2 copies (one named) of a black and white photograph showing a Working Bee at the Menzies Creek Hall site. Photos 051/269 is a close up of the left side of the photo, showing Carol King, Grace Martin, Barbara Haig and Mrs Haig, along with Lyn Hermon (baby) and Jay Hermon (toddler). Photo 051/270 is a close-up of Rodney Haig, with Mr Martin in the background wearing a hat. Other men can be seen in the background. The photo shows the land being cleared in preparation for the building of the Mnezies Creek Hall in 1953. Tall trees are in the middle and background. The hall is situated on the south-east corner of Belgrave-Gembrook Road and School Road. -
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Photograph - Menzies Creek Hall damaged by storm, 2016
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Colour photographs of Menzies Creek Hall damaged by a falling tree during a wind storm, 10th October 2016. In the first photo several cut logs in the foreground. The second photo shows a room bisected by the tree. Photos taken by Marian Matta. -
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Photograph - Menzies Creek Post Office, 1968
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Photograph of Menzies Creek Post Office and General Store on the Belgrave-Gembrook Rd. Shows narrow flight of stairs to doorway. In front of store is a telephone box and a bus shelter, Many trees visible in background. Photo from National Archives of Australia. -
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Photograph - Puffing Billy at Menzies Creek Station
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Two colour photographs from book, Saving Puffing Billy. 1, Several redgum sleepers piled near Puffing Billy crossing at Menzies Creek. Station is in background. c. 1962. 2. The re-opening of the Puffing Billy train, as it arrives at Menzies Creek, 28th July, 1962. Engine 7A is running around for the return journey to Belgrave. Both photos by John Thompson. -
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Photograph - Menzies Creek Station
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Colour photograph of Konrad Matta, Rhiannon Matta, Marian Matta, Carl Matta and Morgan Matta on the platform of Menzies Creek Station, c. 1982. -
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Photograph - Menzies Creek Station
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Black and white photograph of the platform at Menzies Creek Railway Station. n.d. -
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Photograph - Photo, Menzies Creek Station
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Photograph of Gembrook train (Puffing Billy) arriving at Menzies Creek Train Station from Belgrave. A woman and a man (?) are seated at the station. Two boys run along the far side of the track. Date unknown, -
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Photograph - Photo-black & white-Menzies Creek Railway Station
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Photograph of a shelter at the Menzies Creek Railway Station -
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Photograph - Photo-black & white-Puffing Billy track and water tower
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Photograph of the railway line to Gembrook and the water tank at Menzies Creek in the centre of the picture. This area, known as The Tanks, is the site of the landslide that closed the railway down in 1953. Glen Park homestead is on top of the hill on the left. -
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Photograph - Bagging potatoes on Hermon farm, Menzies Creek
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Series of black and white photos showing workers bagging potatoes and loading onto trucks. These were taken on the Hermon farm on Black Hill Road, Menzies Creek. The Hermon family leased this land from the State Forest Commission. -
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Article, Protests at Menzies Creek
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Article titled “Protests at Menzies Creek” about pensioners protesting cuts in pensions. Age 6th September 1932. -
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Article - Article - Roll of honor
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Article, Roll of Honor/Menzies Creek Woodcutter, announcing the death of Pte George Riddell, who was killed in action. Age, 28th January 1941. -
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Photograph - Photo, temporary shire sign. Shire of Yarra Ranges
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Colour photograph of entrance to Menzies Creek looking west, showing the new temporary Shire sign after amalgamation of Victoria's council areas in 1995. Belgrave-Gembrook Rd with Menzies Rd going to the left. Photo taken in 1995 by Marian Matta. -
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Photograph - Photo, Cotswold Valley
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Colour photograph of a farm in the Cotswold Valley, Menzies Creek, possibly Bob Endersby's land. Photo shows a field in morning mist. A tractor is ploughing the fields. There are trees and tanks on the right side, and many trees in the misty background. Sourced from Facebook, 2019. Photographer unknown. -
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Photograph - Hermon home, Menzies Creek
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Black and white photograph of three young children, Joy and Lyn Hermon and a friend, standing beside a timber and corrugated iron house with two brick chimneys, built in Menzies Creek. Joy and Lyn are the great grandchildren of James Hermon who built the house in 1874-1878. In 1885 the house became the Aura/Menzies Creek post office. Copy given to Sherbrooke Centenary Committee in 1989 by Hermon family. -
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Photograph - Photos of three watercolour paintings by Les Cope
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Photos of watercolour paintings of Menzies Creek by Les Cope. - based on a photograph of Menzies Creek in the early 20th Century. It shows Kings' store, the railway station, and the stationmaster's house, as seen from Menzies Rd. - image of the Menzies Creek store around the 1950s. It shows a man and woman talking on a bench, a red postbox, a telephone box, and a streetlight. - based on a photo of Menzies Creek, c.1900. It shows Kings Store and Post Office, with a postman on horseback and a group of adults and children in front of store. -
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Photograph - Glen Park homestead, Menzies Creek
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Colour photograph of Glen Park homestead at Menzies Creek prior to its demolition in the early 2000's. Photo shows house's north wall with two gables and a verandah between. Photo from Victorian heritage study. -
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Photograph - Puffing Billy train
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Two black and white photos dated 1962 from the National Archives of Australia, showing the Puffing Billy train in the Dandenongs. - Ground is steep and heavily treed and may be the stretch of line between Menzies Creek and Clematis Station. - Large trees line the track. There is a driveway below the line with large puddles. A car can be seen crossing the line behind the train. A lightly treed hill is visible in the background. This may be the crossing at the Clematis end of Menzies Rd with Tivoli Farm in the distance. -
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Photograph - Photo, Norah Douglas
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Black and White photograph of Mrs Norah Douglas (1864-1957) and an unidentified woman seated on a trap on a road winding between hills. Forest and paddocks are visible. Both women are wearing winter coats and hats with brims. One woman is facing away from the camera. The other woman is facing the camera and is smiling either at the photographer or her companion. The second woman has a heavy scarf or shawl around her neck. See VSSH0046 for further information on the family. -
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Photograph - Tantallon, Douglas farm at Menzies Creek/Emerald
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Black and White photograph of 'Tantallon', the Menzies Creek/Emerald Farm owned by Norah and Percy Douglas, situated on the north side of Ridge Road. The photo shows a corner of a post and rail fence enclosing a small farm paddock. Behind a row of trees, a brick chimney and part of a roof can be seen, presumably the main farmhouse. Timbered hills can be seen in the background. The photo appears to be taken looking north. See also VSSH0046 for more details. -
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Photograph - Farmland, Menzies Creek
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...Three colour photographs taken from the Belgrave-Gembrook Rd looking north, towards Ridge Rd over farmland at Menzies Creek. Land in the foreground belongs to Sam Frazzetto. Photos dated 1958 and copied from the National Archives of Australia.The fourth photo (from 14th August 2019) is taken by Will Ashburner from the Daffodil Farm as a comparison. -
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Photograph - Photo of hay stacked on a truck
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...B&W photo of a Chevrolet truck stacked with hay and parked in a treed corner of a paddock. Two men stand in front of the truck. A third man sits on the hay. The men are Ernie Thorn, Jim Norton and Bill Hermon. 1930-34. -
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Photograph - Photo - Three men standing on a truck laden with hay
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...B&W photo of three men standing on top of a load of hay on the back of a Chevrolet truck, reg. # VIC 115 393. The men are Ernie Thorn, Jim Norton and Bill Hermon (on the right). 1930-34 -
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Photograph - Photo - John Hermon looking out of a truck owned by his father
... Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc. 127 Colby Drive ...B&W photo of a young blond boy of c. 5 years old, leaning out of the driver's window of an International truck. The boy is John Hermon, son of W. J. (Bill) Hermon. He is wearing bib and brace overalls over a short-sleeved striped top with a pale rounded collar done up to his chin. The words 'Parties' and '61 Emerald' can be seen on the top of the truck, and 'W. J. Hermon/Menzies Ck/Via Belgrave/Licensed to carry 37 passengers' is painted on the door. There is a canvas covering over the back of the truck. c.1945.