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Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Photo - Kiewa Crescent Mt Beauty Circa 1960s
Mt Beauty was constructed by the SECV in the late 1940s. Built as a construction town for workers and their families during the construction of the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme. This photo shows the shops and cars in Kiewa St, Mt Beauty and the houses and Chalet in the background in the early 1960s.Large black and white photo taken from Lakeside Avenue end near the Post Office and looking towards the Chalet and Mt Beauty hill.Stamp in purple: "Please quote / No. LH1399 / when ordering / Laurie Richards / JW 1528"mt beauty township, kiewa st mt beauty, shops and cars in the 1960s mt beauty. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph-B&W, Hill's Dairy, Canterbury Road, Ringwood 1989-Barn interior, 6/07/1989
Hill's Dairy, Canterbury Road, Ringwood 1989- Inside the barn. Note the rough roof supports and sparse construction. The cows' feed mangers are on the right.Inside the barn./ Note the rough roof supports and sparse construction. / The cows' feed mangers are on the right. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph-B&W, Hill's Dairy, Canterbury Road, Ringwood 1989-The Barn, 6/07/1989
Hill's Dairy, Canterbury Road, Ringwood 1989-The Barn (exterior view). The roof support posts on the left are those in picture 7 (6502-005)The Barn / The roof support posts on the left are those in picture 7 (6502-005) -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph-B&W, Hill's Dairy, Canterbury Road, Ringwood 1989-Back Garden Fruit Trees, 6/07/1989
Hill's Dairy, Canterbury Road, Ringwood 1989-Back Garden Fruit Trees, Mulberry Tree. The path visible is that in Picture 11 (6502-009).Back Garden Fruit Trees, Mulberry Tree. The path visible is that in Picture 11 (6502-009). -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Post Office, Christmas Hills
Old photograph of Christmas Hills Post Office Shire of Eltham Pioneers photograph Collection, no. 202 (duplicate of hard copy held at Eltham Library)christmas hills, post office, sepp -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Drawing
Drawing by Sgt Stewart Allan Chambers VX77754 Born 23/7/1902 at Toongabbie Enlisted 11/3/1942 at Caulfield at the age of 39 years 7 months He served in the AIF from 11/3/1942 to when he was discharged on 14/2/1946 He was attached to the 2nd Ambulance Car Coy and 3rd Australian Air Maintenance Coy. Sgt Chambers was posted to Wangaratta prior to embarking on 14/8/1942 for New Guinea during World War Two.Victoria's 2/24th Infantry Battalion was raised in Wangaratta in July 1940. They were welcomed with open arms by the local community as they rapidly built up their numbers. The people of Wangaratta adopted the Battalion and they became known as "Wangaratta's Own" because of the time the battalion spent in the town during its formative period prior to deployment overseas. Many of the soldiers maintained life long friendships with the people of Wangaratta. Even though the Battation was disbanded in 1946 members and their families return each year, in November, for a commemorative service at the 2/24th Battalion Memorial Wall at the Wangaratta Cemetery.Cream paper with drawing by hand in pencil of soldier looking up at plane and parachutes attached to boxes falling to ground with palm trees and hills in backgroundChristmas Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year To Mrs McDonald From Stewart Drawing - verse on box Rear - VX77754 S A Chambers 3rd Aust Air Maint Coy Australia stewart a chambers, vx 77754, ww2 -
Surrey Hills Historical Society Collection
Photograph - Digital photo
Digital black and white portrait of a woman, standing in front of a flowering garden. Ellen Holt in her garden at 9 Beatrice Avenue Surrey Hillswomen's fashion, hats, ellen holt -
Tennis Australia
Event Programme, 1948
Programme for 1948 Davis Cup Challenge Round, held West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, Long Island. Materials: Paper, Inktennis -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph - copy, 1989 copy
Copy of original black and white photograph of early stage of Camp 13.Copy of black and white photograph. Occupied barracks. Clothes lines beside hut, fence in foreground, row of huts in background in front of trees and hills.camp 13, murchison victoria, internment camps, internment camp buildings -
Benalla Art Gallery
Watercolour, William Blamire YOUNG, Japanese willow, Not dated
Born: Londesborough, Yorkshire, England 1862; Arrived: Sydney, New South Wales Australia 1885; Lived and worked: England 1893-1896; Died: Montrose, Victoria, Australia 1935VictorianLedger Gift, 1985Rural landscape with large weeping tree, fence, rolling hills, line of trees and sky. Grey rubbed from gold gesso timber frameRecto: Signed "BLAMIRE YOUNG-" in white watercolour in l.l.c of composition; Not dated; Not titledwatercolour, landscape, trees, fence -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
Rankins Orchard and Sluicing Ponds, c1930s.mining, gold, tin, sluicing, orchard, farming -
Hume City Civic Collection
Photograph
The series of photographs were taken after exceptional heavy rain had fallen in Sunbury in the early 1990s. The Jackson Creek overflowed its banks and the surrounding flood plain area was under water.A coloured photograph of the Jackson Creek in flood along a river flat within the Rupertswood Estate. There are bare hills in the background and a fenced off run in the foreground.floods, weather patterns, jacksons creek, george evans collection -
Queen Victoria Women's Centre
Newspaper clipping, Women's centre going broke, 1 October 1997
Newspaper clipping Emerald Hill Times either page 5 or 6. Black and white photograph of Glenys Sharma, CEO on the rooftop of the QVWC building. cultural structures and establishments, business and finance, charitable organisations -
Surrey Hills Historical Society Collection
Book, Canterbury Corps: 1915 - The Salvation Army - 1990, 1990
This book summarises the first seventy-five years of the Canterbury Corps of the Salvation Army and its move to a new citadel in Guildford Road, Surrey Hills.guildford road, surrey hills, (col) (mr) arthur arnott, (col) (mr) harry goffin, (bro) (mr) bill rossitor, (bro) (mr) frank deane, (maj) will parkinson, (capt) (mr) ian wallace, churches, salvation army, (capt) (mr) les webb, (mrs) - hay, (capt) r bennett, (maj) edwin handy, (mrs) - hayward, (lt) o kennewell, (dr) (mr) bram southwell, (mrs) - bensley, box hill boys' home, canterbury picture palace, (ms) grace garlick, east camberwell girls' home, (capt) m gregory, religious groups, (mr) william booth, (general) eva burrows, (commissioner) bramwell h. tillsley -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Fury Over Path Plan, 2016
Blackburn homeowners are furious after being told trees in their backyards would be axed to make way for the Box Hill to Ringwood shared-use path.Blackburn homeowners are furious after being told trees in their backyards would be axed to make way for the Box Hill to Ringwood shared-use path.Blackburn homeowners are furious after being told trees in their backyards would be axed to make way for the Box Hill to Ringwood shared-use path.blackburn, city of whitehorse, trees -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Melbourne's origin a novel idea, 2009
Box Hill resident, Mr Gary Presland has written a book 'The Place for a village - how nature has shaped the City of Melbourne' (photo).Box Hill resident, Mr Gary Presland has written a book 'The Place for a village - how nature has shaped the City of Melbourne' (photo).Box Hill resident, Mr Gary Presland has written a book 'The Place for a village - how nature has shaped the City of Melbourne' (photo).presland, gary, melbourne -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Popular PC transferred, 1966
Article on Senior Constable Jack Baldiston's transfer from Blackburn Police Station and his voluntary work with Alkira Training Centre Box Hill.Article on Senior Constable Jack Baldiston's transfer from Blackburn Police Station and his voluntary work with Alkira Training Centre Box Hill.Article on Senior Constable Jack Baldiston's transfer from Blackburn Police Station and his voluntary work with Alkira Training Centre Box Hill.blackburn police station, baldiston, jack -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Old recyclables make way for pavilion, 2006
Materials from the old sports pavilion in Box Hill to be used in projects around Whitehorse.Materials from the old sports pavilion in Box Hill to be used in projects around Whitehorse. A larger pavilion has now been built (photo)Materials from the old sports pavilion in Box Hill to be used in projects around Whitehorse. pavilions, whitehorse reserve pavilion, allan, peter -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper Clipping, 15/07/1874
One of a collection of over 400 photographs & clippings in an album commenced in 1960 and presented to the Phillip Island & Westernport Historical Society by the Shire of Phillip IslandPhotograph of a newspaper clipping for the Golden Wedding Anniversary of William & Annie McFee. Celebrated at the home of Annie's parents in Box Hill on the 15th July 1874.william thomas mcfee, annie mcfee, annie aspinall, golden wedding, john jenner, bryant west -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Letter - Simon Crean MP, Letter of regret, Tom Hills' 90th birthday party, Tom Hills Archive, Jan 1994
Letter of regret from Simon Crean MP for Tom Hills' 90th birthday party at Port Melbourne Town Hall 18 February 1994celebrations fetes and exhibitions, tom hills, lexie bown, simon crean - mp -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Serious hazard, 1967
Photocopy of a collection of articles including a letter and photograph from a Forest Hill resident re the danger of the Middleborough and Canterbury roads corner in Blackburn South.Photocopy of a collection of articles including a letter and photograph from a Forest Hill resident re the danger of the Middleborough and Canterbury roads corner in Blackburn South.Photocopy of a collection of articles including a letter and photograph from a Forest Hill resident re the danger of the Middleborough and Canterbury roads corner in Blackburn South.middleborough road, blackburn south, canterbury road, blackburn south, bell, james l. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Nunawading's happy, 1994
Nunawading council and community groups have welcomed the Local Government Board's interim proposal to amalgamate the municipality with Box Hill to become the City of Koornung.Nunawading council and community groups have welcomed the Local Government Board's interim proposal to amalgamate the municipality with Box Hill to become the City of Koornung.Nunawading council and community groups have welcomed the Local Government Board's interim proposal to amalgamate the municipality with Box Hill to become the City of Koornung.local government, city of nunawading, amalgamations -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Lodge opens, 1991
The Governor of Victoria, Dr Davis McCaughey, will officially open Forest Hill's Strathdon Lodge, a 24 bed hostel to care for people with dementia this Sunday.The Governor of Victoria, Dr Davis McCaughey, will officially open Forest Hill's Strathdon Lodge, a 24 bed hostel to care for people with dementia this Sunday.The Governor of Victoria, Dr Davis McCaughey, will officially open Forest Hill's Strathdon Lodge, a 24 bed hostel to care for people with dementia this Sunday.strathdon community, aged people, nursing homes, alzheimers disease -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, High School Estate, 1949
Advertisement for High School Estate,Advertisement for High School Estate, Box Hill auction on 24/9/1949 of residence and shop and 15 shop sites including plan of development.Advertisement for High School Estate, auctions, high school estate box hill, middleborough road, box hill, flora avenue, whitehorse road -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Affordable Housing Project, 2018
Whitehorse Council has partnered with Port Phillip Housing Association & MAB Corporation in a new development of 73 apartments in Bruce St, Box Hill.Whitehorse Council has partnered with Port Phillip Housing Association & MAB Corporation in a new development of 73 apartments in Bruce St, Box Hill.Whitehorse Council has partnered with Port Phillip Housing Association & MAB Corporation in a new development of 73 apartments in Bruce St, Box Hill.housing, city of whitehorse -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Childcare Centres Rejected
Whitehorse councilors voted against a proposed childcare centre at 199 Canterbury Road, Blackburn and another at 310-312 Springvale Road, Forest Hill.Whitehorse councilors voted against a proposed childcare centre at 199 Canterbury Road, Blackburn and another at 310-312 Springvale Road, Forest Hill.Whitehorse councilors voted against a proposed childcare centre at 199 Canterbury Road, Blackburn and another at 310-312 Springvale Road, Forest Hill.city of whitehorse, child care centres, canterbury road, blackburn no. 199, springvale road, forest hill no 310 - 312 -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Roads, 1/12/1932
Shire of Blackburn and Mitcham specification and standard for reconstruction of sections of Canterbury Road at Blackburn 'Tunstall' (now Forest Hill) and Mitcham, 21 December 1932.canterbury road, blackburn, canterbury road, forest hill, canterbury road, mitcham, shire of blackburn and mitcham, road construction and maintenance -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Nunawading Community Garden
Coloured photograph of gardener attending his plot at the Nunawading Community Gardens in Jolimont Road, Forest Hill c1980. the gardens were opened in 1977community gardens, city of nunawading, nunawading community garden, parks and reserves -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Chernobyl's children not forgotten, 1991
Forest Hill Rotary Club has presented a cheque for $1,000 to Chernobyl Children's Relief Foundation which has been supported internationally by Rotary.Forest Hill Rotary Club has presented a cheque for $1,000 to Chernobyl Children's Relief Foundation which has been supported internationally by Rotary.Forest Hill Rotary Club has presented a cheque for $1,000 to Chernobyl Children's Relief Foundation which has been supported internationally by Rotary.rotary club of forest hill, durham, norm, botte, zina, chernobyl childrens relief organisation -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Going their own way
Box Hill and Nunawading Lutheran churches which combined seven years ago have now decided to re-establish themselves as separate entities.st pauls lutheran church, nunawading, nunawading, churches, thiel, john (dr), stolz, david (dr)