Dedication of Tower and Cottage as a memorial to the memory of those who fell in two World Wars, by His Excellency the Governor of Victoria General Sir Dallas Brooks, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., K.St.J.8 pages incl. covers, parchment coloured with brown ink printing, double stapled Multiple copies held Copy marked '16/11/51' in red pencil on cover from personal papers of Stanley Simpson Addison M.B.E.governor of victoria, kangaroo ground, shire of eltham war memorial, sir dallas brooks, stanley s addison collection, war memorial tower

ANZAC 100 Years On - An intimate insight into the impact war has on Our Family's Journey. A true story based on war diaries, war records, recollections & personal experiences by Betty Brooks.Hard cardboard cover. Black white & gold print on front, spine & back. Beige coloured with faint writing background & front cover illustration of two books & a poppy in colour. 125 pages, cut plain white paper. Illustrated with sepia, black & white & coloured photos. Front fly leaf inscription Biography of a family. Handwritten in black ink on front fly leaf: "Donated by Julie Bennett"books, anzac journey, 100 years

Booklet contains a list of the recipients of the rewards for 2018; photographs include Sue Ballantyne (recipient), Rosie Bray, Jenny Macklin, Colin Brooks, Anthony Carbines, Vicki Ward, Mary Wooldridge26 p. text, one col. photograph (2 copies); with three photographs of participants in the ceremonyaustralia day awards

Tom Greelish was a local delivery man in Sunbury. In the photograph he is sitting in the baker's cart which was owned by the Eadie family. The Sunbury News Office in Brook Street is visible on the LHS of the image.A black and white photograph of a man seated in a delivery horse and cart.greelish, tom., delivery carts, brook street, eadie family

Ansonia Clocks were made by a clock manufacturing business which started in Ansonia, Connecticut, in 1851 and which moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1878. An enormously successful business, it turned out thousands of clocks in a large number of styles.This Ansonia clock was owned by the pioneer family of Miss Carol Green in Moorabbin Shire c 1887This Ansonia clock was owned by the pioneer family of Miss Carol Green in Moorabbin Shire c 1887A small ANSONIA clock. c1887 with a winding key and pendulum and a hinged front glass door This Ansonia clock was restored by Mr Frank M. Gowan.c 1960damaged label on back : AWARD PARIS..... / SMALL SHAR..... / ANSONIA CLOCK / none genuine without ' ( symbol) ' / factories at ANSONIA Conn. Brook / Salesroom .....19 Cliff Street ....../ansonia clock company, connecticut, america, phelps anson, terry theodore, andrews franklin, brighton, moorabbin, furniture, pioneers, clocks, market gardeners, early settlers, green carol, gowan frank

Awarded to a student for outstanding academic achievement over the year.Buff coloured card printed with school logo.Typed in: Penelope Tilbrook, 1A, Six Honours.1954. Signed in red pen: K.J. Coldicutt (Form Teacher) Stamped in brown ink: C.E. Brook (Head Master)williamstown high school, certificate honours

Original title: Official guests being entertained Kangaroo Ground Hall after Dedication of Tower and Cottage by Gen. Sir Dallas Brooks, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., K.St.J., 16 Nov 1951Black and white photograph of guests seated at three rows of tables, celebration dinner Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photo Collection, no. 414 (duplicate of hard copy held at Eltham Library)shire of eltham, ceremonies, sepp, kangaroo ground hall

The post card is an early view of the intersection of Brook and Evans Street looking west and towards Sunbury Station. Mount Holden is in the distance. Chris Christianson's shop is on the LHS of the picture with the post office on the RHS. This image is an early view of Sunbury town centre with the railway station and post office. Like many country towns of this era, The roads have been formed but not surfaced. A sepia photograph in post card format of a view of a town centre showing an intersection and some small buildings with a hill in the distance.TO THE RAILWAY/SUNBURYbrook street, evans street, sunbury railway station, christianson, chris.

The building is the original Sunbury Post Office which is sited on the corner of Brook and Evans Street. Over the years although a post office operates on the same site, it has undergone many changes and extensions A small sepia photograph with rounded corners of Brick building with a white picket fence. A man is standing by the fence and there are two trees growing in the street.sunbury post office

A programme for a showing of film footage of Queen Elizabeth's coronation a couple of weeks after the coronation. In the 1950s few households had televisions so although the Coronation was broadcast, many people may not have had the opportunity to watch it live. A screening at South Melbourne Town Hall on 23rd June 1953 was for Junior Legatees. Approximately 1,200 children attended with their mothers (from 'History of Legacy 1953' at 01491). The Governor Sir Dallas Brookes was unable to attend due to illness and his wife, Lady Brookes spoke and read a message from him.Junior Legatees pledged allegiance to the Queen at rallies and classes, so they would have been excited to see the Coronation screened.White paper programme with a colour photo of the Queen and black type, folded in half.coronation, gala performance

Metropolitan Ambulance Service awards presentation held at Dallas Brooks Hall, Melbourne Victoria. Awards presented by Graeme John, (president, in grey suit) in presence of David Webb, the senior officer of the ambulance service.Colour photograph ataward presentation

Official opening of Heathmont Infant Welfare Centre, 30th November, 1960. Lady Brooks.. All material is from Gwen Horman’s three albums that she owned. Some photos have been taken by Peter Payens of Ringwood Studios, 36 Whitehorse Road, Ringwood, WU-7609, probably for the Ringwood mail newspaper.

Commemorative limited edition (5/30) collage from 'The Kooyong Collection', featuring digital print reproduction of photograph of doubles team Brookes/ Wilding playing against Alexander/Wright at 1908 Australian Championships. Certificate of authenticity adhered to back of frame. Materials: Paper, Ink, Wood, Glass, String, Adhesive label, Cardboardtennis

The Manifolds were a significant pioneering pastoral family in Western Victoria. The donated riding jodhpurs originally belonged to Mrs Edward Manifold, formally Beatrice Mary Synnot Anderson. Beatrice was Edward Manifold’s cousin once removed whom he married in 1900. Edward, the son of John Manifold, was born on 15 November 1868 and educated at Geelong and Melbourne Grammar schools and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (B.A., 1891). He chose the Danedite portion of land at Purrumbete, and on the death of his bachelor brother Thomas Peter (1863-1895), after a hunting accident, he took over his allocation, Wiridgil. He also owned Boortkoi, near Hexham and on these properties, he ran merino sheep, a Lincoln stud which dated back to 1870, and Shorthorn cattle. 3000 acres were also leased to dairy farmers. Edward was a member of Hampden Shire Council in 1909-31 and three times president at Camperdown. The town was largely bordered by Manifold land and partly dependent upon the local pastoral dynasties, which benefited the local area from the families’ various business interests. Though an offer to build public baths to commemorate the Queen Victoria Jubilee in 1897 was not proceeded with, the town acquired a hospital, a reserve on Mount Leura, a clock tower and a cricket pavilion, as well as notable donations from the Manifolds to St Paul's Church and the grammar school. Edward was a keen polo player and racing man. He was also a successful owner of steeplechasers and a committeeman of the Victoria Racing Club for many years. He was also a member of many Western District racing clubs. On the 16 July 1900, Edward had married his sixteen-year-old cousin Beatrice Mary Synnot Anderson by whom he had three sons Thomas Peter, Andrew and Robert Edward Manifold. Edwards's estate at his death was valued for probate at nearly £500,000. Edward died following an operation on 14 February 1931 at a private hospital in Yarra Vale Melbourne. Beatrice passed away in 1954, aged 79 in Ballarat where she was born in 1874. Contextual historic Family background: The Manifold brothers Thomas (1809-1875), John (1811-1877) and Peter (1817-1885) were the fourth, fifth and sixth sons of William Manifold and Mary, nee Barnes, of Courthouse Farm, Bromborough, Cheshire, England. The family had decided to emigrate to Van Diemen's Land. Thomas was sent ahead, arriving in Hobart Town on 23rd January 1828 with £1500 and a letter of recommendation from the Colonial Office. Thomas acquired 1280 acres on the west bank of the Tamar River. John and Peter, with their parents and three sisters, arrived on 8th July 1831. Land grants by then had finished but William brought ninety acres next to his son Thomas’ land and on the combined properties the family built Kelso House. The Manifolds’ properties were comparatively poor and when news of the Port Phillip District, in Victoria reached Thomas, he lost no time in coming to see for himself in February 1836. He was impressed with what he saw and hurried back to Tasmania to buy lambs and ewes. With one of his brothers, on July 9th he landed his stores at Point Henry and proceeded to occupy both sides of the Moorabool River. Thomas, at the end of the year, returned to Tasmania and left Peter and John to run the new property. Thomas, however, returned to Victoria for several visits and on one of these visits he, along with his brothers, examined the country near Ballarat. In December 1838 they managed to penetrate the Stony Rises, and Peter and John reached Lake Purrumbete and the Mount Leura country. During this time, on 4th July 1838, Thomas married Jane Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Captain Walter Synnot, formerly of Ballinate, County Armagh, Ireland, and then of Van Diemen's Land. Thomas joined his brothers, and they occupied the Purrumbete run in January 1839. On the journey to Purrumbete they could not take their stock and drays through the Stony Rises, so went north of Lake Corangamite, to the neck of land between it and Lake Gnarpurt. By April the move from Moorabool area was complete. As yet they had no hut and were working day and night, but their delight in their new run was unbounded. John wrote to his mother: “We are at last got to the land we wished for it is a beautiful place, and cannot be surpassed by any I have ever seen”. The three brothers occupied Purrumbete together, breeding both sheep and cattle until Thomas went to Grassmere run on the Merri River near Warrnambool in 1844. John and Peter soon gave up breeding sheep but retained the well-known '3M' brand for the cattle. These were Shorthorns, derived from four bulls originally imported by the Boldon brothers and later improved by further importations, and were renowned for size and quality. By the time of the gold rush in 1851, John and Peter were breeding over 1000 head a year, as well as fattening stores. The diggings at this time had disorganised Grassmere by drawing away Thomas's men, and his wife decided to take her two sons and two daughters to Europe for their education. Thomas gave up the property next year, went to England to join his family, and eventually brought the family back to live in Melbourne. At Purrumbete things were different. The brothers, John and Peter, preferred black stockmen to white, so the discovery of gold upset them very little while providing the very market they required. John was on his second visit to England when the rush started, and Peter went in his turn soon after John returned. On 2 September 1856 John married Marion Thomson, at Cormiston, Van Diemen's Land. They had four daughters and five sons, from three of whom, William Thomson, James Chester and Edward, the later generations of the family descend. Through the years the brothers had to contend with the scab, fluke and footrot, depression, rabbits, bush fires and pleuro-pneumonia. In 1861 they appointed as manager Henry Manifold Matson, their nephew, who had already been with them for five years. Thomas died in Melbourne on 7 November 1875, John at Purrumbete on 3 January 1877 and Peter at Purrumbete on 31 July 1885. Devout members of the Church of England, John and Peter, during their lives, gave generously towards building St Paul's Church, Camperdown, and guaranteed part of the vicar's stipend. Peter was a member of the Hampden and Heytesbury Roads Board from 1859 and carried on into the Hampden Shire Council when it was formed in 1864. However, it was not for public works that they were known, but for their personal example. In a new land where speculators and adventurers were all too common, the Manifold brothers were among those who intended it to be their home and their children's home. Industrious, unpretentious and hospitable, they were respected in their community as men of the highest integrity. This riding habit is a characteristic example of the type and style of riding clothes that well-dressed ladies wore in the 1920s. It highlights the changes that were beginning in society for women. Prior to 1918 ladies still had to ride side-saddle with skirts over Jodhpurs. Society of the time regarded women riding astride as unseemly and just not done. This riding habit is particularly significant on a number of levels, it shows the beginnings of change in society's attitudes through women's fashion after the First World War. A change that was to bring a start to a more liberating societal attitude towards women after the successful establishment of the Representation of People Act 1918 that gave women the right to vote. This garments provenance is linked to one of Victoria's important pioneering families the Manifolds, one of the first families that came from Van Diemen's land to settle the Western District of Victoria in 1844. Originally the garment belonged to the wife of the great-grandson of pioneer William Manifold, Edward Manifold who married Beatrice May Synnot Anderson, Edwards Cousin in 1900. The garment was made by the Mayfair tailors J. Busvine & Co. in the early to mid-1920s (estimate) who at the turn of the century were tailors to the Courts of Europe. Their clothing is highly collectible today and examples can be found in a number of significant museum collections around the world, notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the FIDM in Los Angeles. Jodhpurs, part of a three-piece, side saddle riding habit tailored for Mrs Edward Manifold, with four buttons to the front material black woolen twill the legs are cuffed below the knee with 8 buttons holes which are reinforced to the inside with fabric. Cream Satin waistband and removable chamois lining to the seat makers label Busvines Co. tailored for Mrs Edward Manifold.Embroidered in blue on a Satin Cream label to Jodhpurs "Busvine Ltd / 4, Brook St, London. W. No." Hand written in black ink script "523/ Mrs Edward Manifold"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, side saddle riding habit, side saddle riding outfit, breeches, mrs edward manifold, beatrice manifold, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road

Official opening of Heathmont Infant Welfare Centre, 30th November, 1960.Typed below photograph, '1960 - Opening Heathmont Infant Welfare Centre. Mayor Cr. R. Horman, Cr. Bert Lavis, Lady Brooks, Mrs. Horman, Mrs. Dwerryhouse'.

Catalogue card reads, 'Sir Dallas Brooks seated in council chambers. Declaration of the city. Mayor A. Lavis, LHS Fred Dwerryhouse (Town Clerk), Alan Robertson (hand to face)'.

Black and white photograph of male staff of 1948. On back of photograph: Back row: Bradshaw, McCully, Munday,Osborne, Charles Middle row: ? , ? , Evans, Jenkins, Walshe, Blumenthal, ? Front row: Kent, Mepham, Brookes, Green, Tynanwilliamstown high school, 1948, staff

White document for the Solemnization of Matrimony of Harold Gengault Smith and Cynthia Brookes at St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne on December 6th, 1933. The front has silver printing and border. Inside are Hymns and a Psalm. The Blessing and an Anthem. Mendelssohn's Wedding March at the end. Printing is a purplish colour, surrounded by silver borders. Printers Brown & Newbound, Melbourne.document, invitations, wedding, document, marriage of harold gengault smith & cynthia brookes, brown & newbound

Photo of people at Seppelts & Sons cellars, Great Western. The official opening of the new drive which bears the name of Sir Dallas Brooks who is shown in the front row 4th from left. 13/4/1950winery, wine

Scout training course held at Meruka Park Lewis Tulk was Training Commisioner for YBA training leaders Pictured is Vern Brookes Area Commissioner for Scouts Donated by Lewis Tulk, former Scout Area Training Commisioner for Leaders.scouts victoria, scout leader training, lewis tulk collection, eltham, yarra batman area, meruka park, vern brookes

This window, in memory of Alfred Gurney Goldsmith, was unveiled on 9 February 1927 by Archdeacon Hayman along with the brass tablet in the Mission's hall. (AR 1927). It was created by George H. Dancey from Brooks, Robinson & Co, at a cost of £57. Arched windowsaltar, st peter chapel, flinders street, mission to seafarers, seamen's mission, mission to seamen, st peter, sailors, seamen, anchor, stained glass windows, win, memorial chapel, reverend alfred gurney goldsmith, kobe, william holman hunt, the light of the world, george dancey (1865-1922)

Students at Greensborough College are jumping for joy after their school's multimillion-dollar upgrade was unveiled. A new sports hall, senior school and specialist centre was opened by Education Minister James Merlino and state member for Bundoora Colin Brooks.News article 1 page, black text and colour image .greensborough college, colin brooks, james merlino

Information brochure from Colin Brooks MP detailing improved educational funding for Greensborough Primary School, Bundoora Primary School, Kingsbury Primary School, Greensborough College and Greensborough TAFE, with a number of public transport and road improvementsDouble sided coloured brochureprimary schools greensborough, public transport, colin brooks

The Yakka Company established a factory in Sunbury in Barkly Street between Brook and Stations Streets in the late 1950s. The Sunbury factory provided employment for the town's population which was increasing. It was established in Sunbury before the larger factory was built in Broadmeadows.A black and white photocopy of a photograph of the corrugated iron Yakka factory. The double doorway at the top of the ramp is flanked by 3 casement windows on one side and two on the other. There is a cyclone wire fence and gates across the front.yakka, corrugated iron, businesses, fences, barkly street, sunbury, george evans collection

Chris. Christiansen was a barber in Sunbury. He also ran a photographic studio from 1892 - 1916. His business was situated on the corner of Evans and Brook Streets. The Gillies Bridge is Situated on the Wildwood Road just off the Lancefield Road.A mounted sepia photograph of the Gillies Bridge at Sunbury. Across the bridge there are three men on a steam roller and one man behind on horseback. There are four men standing across the creek bed. The mounting is cream, 2 cm wide with silver writing under the photo. Cream mounting - 2 cm wide with silver inscriptionsGILLIES BRIDGE / SUNBURY / CHR. CHRISTIANSEN /gillies bridge, wildwood bridge, bridges, horses, christiansen, chris, photographers, animals, steam rollers, sunbury, men, clothing and dress, george evans collection

Group on steps of Pleasant Creek Special School. Includes Lady Brooks wife of the Governor of Victoria. Former Pleasant Creek Hospital site. Sometimes referred to as Pleasant Creek Special School and sometimes Pleasant Creet Training Centre.stawell education