Widow club secretary Vera Lang and another lady at a trading table. The items include Christmas puddings. The Widow clubs often ran trading stalls of goods and handcrafts. Keesing Photographers took a series of photos on the same day of various ladies. It is assumed that the date was 1991 due to the reference number from the photographic studio 911030C-15 could mean 30 October 1991, along with 00645, 00646, 00647, 00648, 00649, 00651, 00661 to 00666.Photos of the committee members of Widows clubs were taken by a professional photographer.Black and white photo of 2 Legacy widows at a trading table and a proof sheet.Label on the back from Keesing Photographic with Reference No: 911030C-30A and 6 in pencil.widows, widows club

1. Commonwealth of Australia food ration coupons issued 1945-46, which entitle the holder to purchase rations of butter, tea, sugar and meat. 2. Meat ration card issued to Florence M. Howell in 1947. Card issued by Deputy Director of Rationing, Commonwealth of Australia. (see 2019-349)Text: " COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA / 1945-6 / FOOD RATION SHEET / HALF WEEK. "ration cards, world war 1939-1945, florence howell

Four page knitting pattern booklet featuring black and white printed graphics and text. The colour cover shows four sets of legs wearing knitted socks.front: [printed] 6194 / Emu / 3 & 4 / PLY / 15c - 1/6knitting, pattern, fashion, knitwear, women

Details the many components that went to make up a Melbourne cable tram grip. All drawings prepared by the MMTB. The second set has more components, generally bolts. See pdf files cable grip part 1, part 2 and part 3 for full details. R3485 - General Arrangement - provides a list of the parts Index - lists all the parts and relevant drawing number R3486 - Cable Grip Lever R3487 - Cable Grip Palm Handle R3488 - Cable Grip Pawl Rod Bracket and Bolt R3493 - Pawl Box, Guard Plate and Bolt R3494 - Pawl Latch Bracket R3496 - Adjusting Screw R3498 - Cable Grip Socket R3499 - Shoe and Shoe screws R3501 - Cable Grip Link R3502 - Quadrant R3503 - Crossbar R3504 - Slide and Slide end R3505 - Cheek R3506 - Protection Piece R3510 - Top Die Holder R3511 - Back Guard R3512 - Die R3513 - Bottom Die Holder R3514 - Sole Plate R3515 - Sheave R3518 - Swinger R3519 - Swinger Frame and Setscrew R3525 - Top Guide Plate R3534 - Sheave Protector R3535 - Sheave Centre R3541 - Hornbar WasherSet of 31 blueprint drawings within a brown paper folder and two brass fold back pins securing the drawings. Second copy - set of 38 drawings, black and white, loose in a sleeve. Has Mr Pratt on front cover. Date Stamped "6 Mar. 1934"trams, tramways, cable trams, cable grip, mmtb, lists

Ron Setford and his wife Grace Setford lived in Tanner Avenue, East Kew, from c.1946 to c.1995. A keen photographer, he recorded the changing face of Kew over a 20 year period. Apart from 30 photographs of built structures and places in Kew dating from 1960 and 1961, 145 of his 35mm colour slides chronicle the development of the F19 (later renamed Eastern) Freeway through the Yarra Valley in Kew over a five year period from c.1972 to c.1977. This important collection was donated to the Society by his granddaughter in 2025.This collection of 175 35mm slides is of local and statewide significance, owing to its subject matter, particularly the major development of road transport infrastructure during the 1970s with the construction of the Eastern Freeway. The photographer also took care to annotate and date most of his slides which enable the researcher to pinpoint temporal and spatial locations."Eastern Freeway 6/72 / Kew Main Drain extension under freeway"ron setford, eastern freeway, f19 freeway

Henry Sutton is a talented world-wide accepted inventor with inventions relating to the telephone, photography, wireless, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles as well as many more inventions. Henry was also one of four brothers that ran the Sutton's Music Store after the death of their Father Richard Sutton. Henry Sutton taught Applied Electricity at the Ballarat School of Mines in 1883 to 1886.1 x large envelope and 6 x small envelopes with Henry Sutton hand written on them as well as USA list of countries and states including Vict. Gr Bn, N.S.W, France and USA and number 18henry sutton, patents, edward waters and son, usa, france, victoria, nsw, great britain

Items were in an envelope addressed to MRS G FARLEY-SMITH. Items to be itemised at a later date.Documents 13 pages, 6 copies of photographs re the Hood family in WWI & WWII. Details home & service abroad.documents - history - biography, photography-photographs

.1)Colour photo, 6 man EOD Bushmaster team, Afghanistan. .2) Colour photo, Bushmaster and EOD team.photography- photographs, military history - equipment, afghanistan

The Port of Portland opened in 1959. Straight after the Mission had the desire to establish a Mission at this location. A building was found in November 1961 on Cliff Road (AR 1961). After alterations and renovations, it was officially dedicated and opened the 30 June 1962. The Portland Mission was the fourth building to be opened in Victoria.Large rectangular (landscape orientation) monochrome photo, depicting 6+ clergymen gathered in a 'U' shape, conducting an outdoor servicePortland Guardian stampmission to seamen, portland, victoria, 1962, dedication, opening

Woolamai House was built in approx 1869 on part of Capt Cleeland's property which covered most of the eastern end of Phillip Island. He maintained the Beacon Light on Woolamai Point close to his house. Owned and occupied by family since 1869.Coloured photograph. The parlor in Woolamai House. Round table with glass centrepiece. 6 Victorian Balloon chairs. Sideboard and Whatnot.local history, photographs, buildings - historical, coloured photograph, john cook, woolamai house, cleeland family history

As part of the Kiewa Hydro Scheme the race lines were created to catch the water and direct it into the Rocky Valley Storage Dam.Part of the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme on the Bogong High Plains.6 black and white photos:- 2 with concrete framework, 2 concrete completed and 2 High Plaines race line.Alec McCullough Collectionkiewa hydro electric scheme, raceline, water power, bogong high plains

Henry Sutton is a talented world-wide accepted inventor with inventions relating to the telephone, photography, wireless, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles as well as many more inventions. Henry was also one of four brothers that ran the Sutton's Music Store after the death of their Father Richard Sutton. Henry Sutton taught Applied Electricity at the Ballarat School of Mines in 1883 to 1886. Set of 6 drawing instruments in black leather case made by Jaywess. Owned by Albert Sutton Son of Henry Suttonjaywess, henry sutton, albert sutton, drawing instruments, compass set

Frank Wright was a renown resident of Smeaton, where he was born on 2 August 1901. He lived at Laura Villa, and attended Smeaton State School. His father William was a gold miner and his mother's name was Sarah. Their family won many singing and instrumental awards. Frank was tutored by Percy Code and was awarded a gold medal for the highest marks in the ALCM examinations in the British Colonies at the age of seventeen years. He became the Australian Open Cornet Champion by the age of eighteen. A year later, Frank conducted the City of Ballarat Band, and later the Ballarat Soldiers’ Memorial Band. He formed the Frank Wright Frisco Band and Frank Wright and his Coliseum Orchestra. These bands won many South Street awards, and Frank as conductor won many awards in the Australian Band Championship contest. In 1933 Frank Wright sailed to England to conduct the famous St Hilda’s Band and was later appointed Musical Director of the London County Council, where he organized many amazing concerts in parks, in and around the London district. He was made Professor of Brass and Military Band Scoring and conducted at the Guildhall of Music and Drama. Frank was often invited to adjudicate Brass Band Championships around Europe, in Australia, including South Street and in New Zealand. The Frank Wright Medal at the Royal South Street competition is awarded to an individual recognized as making an outstanding contribution to brass music in Australia.A 6 page handwritten lecture on lined foolscap paper pertaining to the history of band performances in the London County Council parks.All handwritten in blue and red pen with some pencil additions. frank wright, brass bands, greater london county council parks department, conductor

This terracotta clay roof tile was part of a consignment of tiles in the cargo of ANTARES. THE ANTARES In mid-November 1914, after the beginning of the First World War, a young local man went one evening to fish near the Bay of Islands, west of Peterborough. He later arrived home hurriedly and in an agitated state declaring: "The Germans are coming!" His family laughed and disbelieved him, as this young fellow was prone to telling fictional tales. About a month later, on December 13th 1914, local farmers Phillip Le Couteur and Peter Mathieson were riding in the vicinity, checking on cattle. Phillip Le Couteur saw what he “thought was the hull of a ship below the cliffs.” He rode to Allansford and contacted police. The next day, two Constables and Phillip Le Couteur returned to the site, where they dug a trench near the top of the cliff and sank a log in it. To this they attached a rope, which they threw down the cliff face. Constable Stainsbury and Phillip Le Couteur then made the dangerous descent down the rope on the sheer cliff face. They found wreckage strewn around a small cove and a portion of a man's body under the cliffs. The hull of the ship could be seen about 300 metres out to sea. Some of the wreckage revealed the name Antares and the remains of the ship's dinghy bore the name Sutlej. During the next two weeks and with the help of the Warrnambool lifeboat and crew, two more bodies were found. Later investigations proved that the tragic wreck was indeed that of the Antares, reported overdue on the 207th day of her voyage from Marseilles, France, to Melbourne. She was a three masted, 1749 ton iron clipper, built in Glasgow in 1888 and originally named and launched as the Sutlej. Bought in 1907 by Semider Bros. from Genoa, Italy, she was refitted and renamed Antares. It was later realised that the local lad who a month earlier had declared he had seen German guns being fired, had probably seen distress flares fired from the deck of the Antares the night she was wrecked. She was last sailed under Captain Gazedo and wrecked at what is now known as Antares Rock, near the Bay of Islands. She had been carrying a large cargo of roof tiles from France to Melbourne, consigned to Mullaly & Byrne. Many of them are now to be seen amongst the battered and scattered remains of the wreck. Some of the timbers were found to be blackened by fire. An Information Board has been erected on the cliff top near to the site of the Antares wreck, at the end of Radfords Rd, west of Peterborough. (Ref: Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village’s “Antares” fact sheet, Victorian Heritage Database, Information Board at Peterborough, Flagstaff Hill Significance Assessment 2010) The Antares was one of the last of the 'tall ships' to be lost along the south west coast of Victoria, and is the only wreck that took the lives of all people on board. She is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register VHS S34. The Antares is significant as a sail trader carrying an international inbound cargo. It is part of the Great Ocean Road Historic Shipwreck Trail.Part of a terracotta roof tile from the wreck of the Antares Has sand encrusted to bottom of tile. Artefact Reg No A/6.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, antares, tall ship, peterborough, 1914 shipwreck, phillip le couteur, peter mathieson, constable stainsbury, sutlej, antares rock., bay of islands, terracotta tile, roof tile, clay tile, roofing material, building material

The Ballarat Star was an early Ballarat broadsheet newspaper.6 pages, middle page is missing half a page, pages yellowing, folded in two volume XXX number 117ballarat, ballarat star, john noble wilson, old white hart hotel, calcutta exhibition, john hickman engineer

The Ballarat Technical Art Schol was a division of the Ballarat School of Mines and opened in 1907. The 1908 Prospectus (cat. 4887) explains the diffreence between elementary, intermediate and advanced.Long purple marbled book rith red tape spine. Inside are pages of perforated enrolment slips, with 6 to a page.ballarat technical art school, enrolment, enrolment slip

``Newspaper clipping from "The Mail", 4-7-95, P 6. NEWS WATCH- Scheme to boost land for wildlife Maroondah City Council is pushing to have several local reserves awarded "Land for Wildlife" status in an effort to protect local flora and fauna. A council reserve at the western end of Tereddan Drive in Kilsyth South was recently awarded Land for Wildlife Status`

Newspaper Clipping from "The Mail", 6 April 1993, Page11, "Rate hardship to be reviewed"'. Article written by Janine JonesRingwood Council will review its hardship provisions for waivering unpaid rates. Mayor Greg Adkins said he was concerned that no ratepayers had their $100 state defecit tax levy waivered due to hardship as part of the latest round of rate changes. This was surprising when there was much hardship in the community. Cr Margaret Cheevers said the loosening of hardship provisions should be widened to apply to those who had difficulty paying their rates. Council's Chief Executive, John Paech , said only a "handful" of ratepayers had applied for hardship provisions

Newspaper Clipping from "The Mail", 11-6-96. P5. "Ringwood men receive honors", written by Rebecca ThorpeTwo Maroondah re sidents have been acknowledged in the Queen's Birthday honors list. North Ringwood residents Graeme Ford and Bruce Colcott were awarded the Public Service Medal and the Medal of the Order of Australia, respectively.

Copy of Bendigo Advertiser, Thursday August 6 1914, detailing the declaration of involvement by Great Britain in World War 1,Bendigo Advertisermilitary, world war 1, declaration of war

Journal of the Tramway Museum Society of Vic. Ltd. Volume 10, No. 6, December 1973. 35 Cents. 13 pages.person, individual, basil miller

Journal of the Tramway Museum Society of Vic. Ltd. Volume 7, No.6, December 1970. 30 cents. 14 pages.person, individual, basil miller

Journal of the Tramways Museum Society of Vic. Ltd. Volume 6, No.1, August 1969. 30 Cents. 16 pages.person, individual, basil miller