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Ringwood and District Historical Society
Certificate, United Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons - Collection of Masonic Degrees and Correspondence maintained by Aird family of Ringwood, Victoria
Buff coloured certificate with red Lodge seal. Certification that Brother Arthur James Bromwich Aird was advanced to the honorable Degree of Mark Master on 18th August, 1936, in the Lilydale Lodge No.65on the Register of the United Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of Victoria. Signed by the Deputy Grand Master and given under the Seal of the Grand Lodge at Melbourne on 22nd March, 1937. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Certificate, United Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons, Victoria - Collection of Masonic Degrees and Correspondence maintained by Aird family of Ringwood, Victoria
Buff coloured certificate with gold Lodge seal. Certification that Brother Arthur James Bromwich Aird has been appointed to the office of Grand Registrar in the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of Victoria for the ensuing twelve months. Signed by the Grand Master under the Seal of the Grand Lodge on 21st May,1952. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Certificate, United Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons, Victoria - Collection of Masonic Degrees and Correspondence maintained by Aird family of Ringwood, Victoria
Buff coloured certificate with gold Lodge seal. Certification that the Past Rank of Senior Grand Warden has been conferred on Brother Arthur James Bromwich Aird. Signed by the Grand Master under the Seal of the Grand Lodge on 26th July, 1961. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Certificate, (x2) Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of England and Wales & c - Collection of Masonic Degrees and Correspondence maintained by Aird family of Ringwood, Victoria
Two buff coloured certificates with purple seal. Certification that Brother Arthur James Bromwich Aird, being properly qualified as a Mark Master Mason and Royal Arch Mason, was - (a) duly acknowledged as a Most Excellent Master, and (b) received and greeted as a Royal Select and Super Excellent Master - in the Melbourne Council No. 56 on 1st November, 1955 & recommended to the notice, attention and protection of all illustrious and well beloved companions throughout the globe. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Certificate, Princes Hill Lodge No.294 - Collection of Masonic Degrees and Correspondence maintained by Aird family of Ringwood, Victoria
Clearance certificate - Allan Aubrey Williams, Master Mason, ceased to be a member of United Grand Lodge of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons of Victoria and is clear of all dues. Dated at North Carlton on 21 February, 1928. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Certificate, Princes of Wales Mark Lodge No.8 - Collection of Masonic Degrees and Correspondence maintained by Aird family of Ringwood, Victoria
Clearance certificate and covering letter - Brother Alan Aubrey Williams, Master Mason, ceased to be a member of Prince of Wales Mark Lodge No.8 under the United Grand Lodge of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons of Victoria and is clear of all dues. Dated at St.Kilda on 31st March, 1943. Covering letter addressed to Brother Williams signed by Norman Wright, Secretary, 12th April, 1942. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Letter, Grand Council of the Order of the Secret Monitor - Collection of Masonic Degrees and Correspondence maintained by Aird family of Ringwood, Victoria
Blue postmarked Airmail/Air Letter from Grand Council, O.S.M. London, dated 13th April, 1959 to A.J.B. Aird regarding accepting the Office of Past Grand Standard Bearer and ability to attend the Grand Conclave Meeting for Investiture on 13th June, 1959, at the Cafe Royal, London. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Certificate, Supreme Grand Chapter of Victoria - Collection of Masonic Degrees and Correspondence maintained by Aird family of Ringwood, Victoria
Buff coloured certificate with gold seal regarding appointment of Companion Arthur James Bromwich Aird as V.Em. Past Grand Scribe Nehemiah, in the Grand Chapter on 18th April 5962, 1962. Accompanying letter dated 26 January, 1962 from Supreme Grand Chapter of Victoria informing of the promotion and letter dated 24th April, 1962 from District Recorder, Mornington, outlining completion of formalities and wearing of 30 degree regalia on remittance of £15-15-0 fee. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Letter, Order of the Secret Monitor, Moorabbin, Victoria - Collection of Masonic Degrees and Correspondence maintained by Aird family of Ringwood, Victoria
Letter dated 26th October, 1964 from District Grand Recorder, Order of the Secret Monitor, District Grand Conclave of Southern Australia, 12 Dane Road, Moorabbin, Victoria, confering R.Wor. Bro. A.J.B. Aird with the rank of Past District Grand Visitor in the District Grand Conclave of Southern Australia on payment of £3-3-0 fee. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Mixed media - Video, RDHS Guest Speaker Presentation - "The Biala Ringwood Story" - Dennis Johnston
Digitised video (1.63GB). Duration: 30 minutes. Recorded April, 2024. (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)Guest Presenter Dennis Johnston was named 2023 Maroondah Citizen of the Year for his long-standing involvement with and contribution to Biala, Ringwood. This organisation is dedicated to providing support and care for special needs children and their family. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Mixed media - Video, RDHS Guest Speaker Presentation - "At the Foot of the Cherry Tree" - Alli Parker
Digitised video (2.50GB). Duration: 46 minutes. Recorded May, 2024. (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)Guest Speaker, Alli Parker, accomplished scriptwriter, talks about her Ringwood family and her book based on the incredible true story of her Grandparents, Gordon and Cherry - Australia's first Japanese war bride - spanning seven years and two countries reeling from the aftermath of WWII. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Plan - Model Helicopter, Charles Medew, Ringwood, Victoria - 1909
(Source: The First One Hundred Years by R.S. Medew and I.M. Bowman - A History of The Medew Family in Victoria - page 11 extracts) - Charles Turner Medew (1829-1915 ) arrived in Victoria from England in 1857. He eventually settled in Ringwood as the original purchaser of Crown Allotment 32, Section C, where he built his own home in 1888 and became well known locally "for his fine building work and stone masonry." ... "In his retirement, Charles Medew experimented with model helicopters. About 1910, at the age of 80 years, he was able to raise these helicopters to such a point of efficiency that, just with an elastic wound propeller, when released they could fly upwards to the height of the large oak trees." ... "(Also) In 1910, Charles obtained plans and made a model of the Wright Brothers' biplane entirely of wood, with laminated wood propeller and driven by twisted elastic bands." This model remained in his workshop for many years after his death and with his family's permission was eventually placed in the Melbourne Science Museum.3 pencil drawings showing assembled parts and sectional views of a model helicopter. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Mr. Herman Pump and family outside family home on Canterbury Road, c.1914. Later became site of Heathmont Uniting Church
Written on backing sheet, "Herman Pump and family ". Mr. Herman Pump and family outside family home on Canterbury Rd. Now site of Uniting Church.Black and white photograph of family standing outside a house. "Herman Pump's family. Orchard rear of house (H.P. was Sec. of Coolstore at one time)." -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, The Australian Pioneer Families of Kathleen Ila Cullen and Alan Frederick Washusen. Russell Washusen, Part 3- The Washusen Orchards of Heathmont. June 2023
Soft cover bound book of 40 pages.Cover includes an image of a painting by Matthias Schmid depicting Lutherans leaving Zillertal in the AustrianTyrol in 1837 after being expelled from Austria. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Mixed media - Video, RDHS Meeting Presentation - "The World of Joan Bilceaux" - Russ Haines
Digitised video (2.61GB). Duration: 61minutes. Recorded March, 2021 (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)In this talk, Ringwood and District Historical Society President Russ Haines takes us through the early history of the Birt's Hill / Croydon Road area, the former locations of the Bilcock and Hardidge families. The Bilcock family had one of the early general stores in Kent Avenue and later moved to Toorak Avenue, Croydon. The father, David Bilcock was a talented film maker. His daughter, Joan Bilceaux, was a renown singer, model and actor, having varied the spelling of her surname as her chosen professional name. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Mixed media - Video, RDHS Guest Speaker Presentation - "My Ringwood Years" - Thomas Guest
... Road Ringwood North melbourne The Guest family are well-known ...Digitised video (4.69GB) Duration: 90 minutes. Recorded April, 2021 (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)The Guest family are well-known to anyone who lived in Ringwood, particularly East Ringwood, during the 1940s-80s and earlier. Everyone knew of their bakery and the taste of the Guest Brothers' delicious bread. Tommy Guest grew up in this environment and took it all in, as a part of growing up. In the last 12 months, Tommy has written many stories on the RDHS' Facebook, which has helped many people get through the pandemic shutdown. -
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Mixed media - Video, RDHS Guest Speaker Presentation - "Heathmont's Orchards" - Gerry Robinson and Margaret McKern
Digitised video (3.79GB). Duration: 67 minutes. Recorded March, 2022. (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)Gerry Robinson and Margaret (Maggie) McKern of Heathmont History Group (HHG) combine to present an overview of Heathmont's pioneering orchardists, with Maggie providing a history of her Clark family property, "Roslyn", purchased in the 1930s and operating as a poultry farm and lemon orchard on the corner of Canterbury Road and Armstrong Road in Heathmont. -
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Mixed media - Video, RDHS Guest Speaker Presentation - "Fluctuating Fortunes on the Upper Goulburn Goldfields 1870s-1880s" - Dr. Louise Blake
Digitised video (2.66GB) Duration: 51 minutes. Recorded August, 2022 (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)Presenter: Louise Blake is a writer and historian with an interest in the stories of women, families, and communities on the nineteenth-century goldfields in Australia and New Zealand. Inspired by her family connection to the gold mining settlement of Woods Point, Louise completed a PhD on Women and Community on the Upper Goulburn Goldfields in north-east Victoria in 2019. In this talk Louise will share her research on Lawrence and Esther Chubb, who lived and worked at Gaffneys Creek on the Upper Goulburn Goldfields in the 1870s and 80s. In a series of letters Lawrence wrote to his family in England, and now held by the State Library of Victoria, Lawrence shared his early struggles as an independent miner on the central Victorian goldfields, his protracted courtship with Esther, the ordinary intimacies of their life at Gaffneys Creek, the work that Esther did to support the family in this remote mining region, as well as the material and emotional support provided by and to family, friends and neighbours. A rare and revealing source, these letters help to expand our understanding of the lived experience of mining families, particularly the work that women did to sustain families and communities, in this period of waged labour and tribute mining in Victoria. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Mixed media - Video, RDHS Guest Speaker Presentation - Heathmont Histories and Publications - Gerry Robinson
Digitised video (3.23GB). Duration: 60 minutes. Recorded October, 2022. (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)Presenter: Gerry Robinson is the convenor of the Heathmont History Group (HHG). Gerry presents this talk on the the many facets of what makes up local history - the natural history of fauna, flora and geology; the social history; the histories of families; the changes in history and how we adapt to new technologies. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper, Scrapbook Clipping, Library Collection, Ringwood, Victoria
Newspaper Clipping from "The Post", 18 October, 1995. P5. "McAlpins celebrate 100 years.In October 1995, members of the McAlpin family travelled from far and wide to celenbrate 100 years of settlement in North Ringwood. The McAlpins were orchardists in the area and were in Local Government. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper, Scrapbook Clipping, Library Collection, Ringwood, Victoria
Newspaper Clipping from "The Post", 24-1-1996. P9. Shopping centre history growsProgress continues on the North Ringwood shopping centre redevelopment, adding shops and extra parkinbg spaces. The Milne and Dickson families are still involved in the shopping centre, since the land had its beginning as an orchard -
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Newspaper, Scrapbook Clipping, Library Collection, Ringwood, Victoria
Newspaper Clipping from "The Mail", 3-9-93, Page 3 . Fun RunPlans for the 1993 Ringwood Festival were up and running.The two week festival contained community displays, family fun, theatre and cabaret. A highlight was the annual Ringwood Fun Run. Frankie J Holden opened the day along with Ringwood Mayor, Greg Adkins. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper, Scrapbook Clipping, Library Collection, Ringwood, Victoria
Newspaper Clipping from the ""Maroondah Mail", 15-5-1998", P 3, "School enjoys a Russian Cultural Experience"Year 8 students at Norwood Secondary College have been learning about Russian culture, thanks to a visitor from Chernobyl, Maxim Iouldashev (pictured with Simon and Glenn) was brought to Australia by the Victims of Chernobyl National Relief Fund. He is spending three weeks with the school in Croydon, while staying with a host family in Ringwood. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper, Newspaper cutting an Obituary for Mrs. M. Pollard 24 August 1944 of Pitt Street , Ringwood
The late Mrs. Pollard was the wife of Frank Pollard of the Pollard Family who were early orchardists in Ringwood. Newspaper cutting dated 24 August 1944 -
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Mixed media - Video, RDHS Guest Speaker Presentation - "Arnott Family Research" - Geoff Arnott
Digitised video (3.80GB) Duration: 51 minutes. Recorded October, 2018 (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)Presenter: Croydon Historical Society Vice President Geoff Arnott is an active writer and researcher of heritage, having written the history of Wedderburn and many Croydon-related books. In this talk, Geoff provides a background of his family, why he decided to look into it, and the dark secrets revealed. His story is typical of many Australian family that began with migration from the “old country” during the 1850s, trying to seek their fortune and a new life in a new country. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Document, Glen Turnbull, Family Group Record for Carl Ferdinand WIELAND and Caroline CHISTENSEN, 25/2/2008
... Road Ringwood North melbourne Printed Family Group Record ...Printed Family Group Record for Carl Ferdinand WIELAND and Caroline CHRISTENSEN - married 1874 - and their two children Martha and Ernest Ferdinand. Prepared by Glen Turnbull -
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Document, Glen Turnbull, Family Group Records for Ernest Frederick WIELAND and his first Wife Sarah VAUGHAN (Married 1903) and second wife Pauline WANKE (Married 1911), 25/2/2008
... Road Ringwood North melbourne Two Printed Family Group Records ...Two Printed Family Group Records for Ernest Ferdinand WIELAND. The first relates to his marriage in 1903 to Sarah VAUGHAN and their three children (Stanley, Leslie and Norman). The second relates to his marriage in 1911 to Pauline Frances WANKE and their two children Daisy and Alan. Prepared by Glen Turnbull -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Mixed media - Video, RDHS Guest Speaker Presentation - "My Heathmont" - Peter Le Get
Digitised video (5.14GB). Duration: 61 minutes. Recorded May, 2018. (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)Presenter: Peter Le Get, together with his wife, Mary, have been one of the few families to purchase, and live in, four homes in the suburb of Heathmont. The Le Get’s came to Heathmont when pioneer orchardists were beginning to sell their properties, which led to the sub-division of land into housing blocks. It was the time of a new community coming together, with sporting clubs starting up, churches and schools built, roads being defined or asphalted, and the proliferation of new shops and businesses. -
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Mixed media - Video, RDHS Guest Speaker Presentation - "Ringwood Field Naturalists Club" - Peter Rogers
... Road Ringwood North melbourne The Rogers family have been ...Digitised video (4.78GB). Duration: 54 minutes. Recorded November, 2018. (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)The Rogers family have been involved with the Ringwood Field Naturalists Club since its inception back in 1961. The Club has promoted natural history in the local area, through excursions, meetings and presentations to local schools. Without them, our sense of appreciation of local flora and fauna would be much poorer. Past-President Peter Rogers takes us through its wonderful history. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Young Bob and Ronnie Oke, Scouting family
Scanned on 30th January, 2008 from Ida Oke's albums. Ida lives in East Ringwood and also contributed to the East Ringwood Recollections book. Wife of Bob (Robert William) Oke. Both Ida and Bob were heavily involved in the Scout movement, as were Bob's parents - Corrie and Ruby Oke, who both lived in Old Lilydale Road, East Ringwood.