Colour photographs taken during the Bialik College school year. They depict a range of activities in 2005: bike ride, mali, police band, purim, science Y12, snow sports, flood. Items are listed as being uploaded from 2006 to 2008. Please contact [email protected] to request access to this record.2005 photos bike ride, mali, police band, purim, science Y12, snow sports, flood2000s, 2005, bialik college, sport, science, incursion, excursion, flood

CLUNES GOLD FESTIVAL 1996PHOTO SPREAD 'CLUNES GOLD FESTIVAL'. DAYLESFORD ADVOCATE 3 APRIL, 1996. PHOTO PAGE 1; PHOTOS PAGES 6 AND 7; PHOTO PAGE 18 - POLICE FLAG.gold festival, 1996, street parade, police, flag

Issue No 6 of a series contains articles on early Gippsland newspapers photographs of Gippsland schools Wonthaggi coalmine strike Police history Thomas Coto immigrant Tarlton Rayment Naturalistperiodicals, schools, migrants, strikes, police

In October 1901, Mr B. Cleal wrote to the Chief Commissioner of Police complaining about the large number of effeminate young men using ‘various conveniences’ for ‘an evil of the most terrible description’. Mr Cleal’s letter is part of a remarkable collection of documents held by Public Record Office Victoria that are valuable to LGBTIQ+ history and heritage in providing unparalleled insight into where and how beats operated in and around the city at that time. By ‘conveniences’ Cleal meant public toilets, and he listed the busiest of them: the corner of Rathdowne and Victoria streets; Lansdowne Street, East Melbourne; under the viaduct opposite the Customs House in Flinders Street; at the rear of the old City Court in Little Collins Street; and under the viaduct at the foot of King Street. Cleal described in detail how these beats worked: ‘One cannot enter but two or three of the above fellows rush in and on pretence of using same will pass some disgusting remark concerning one’s person etc’. The Chief Commissioner despatched one of his officers, Sergeant Canty, to investigate. Canty’s report provides further detail and description of who he encountered at the public toilets. He reported that men ‘known by the term “Pufters” [sic], are generally well dressed, sober, quiet in their manner and some of them very well connected’. Canty further noted about these men: 'it is often very difficult for the police to catch them offending, and if they do at any time make filthy or indecent overtures to any man, they believe him to be similarly inclined, but should they make a mistake the man insulted never thinks of giving any of them in charge [complaining to the police], but sometimes gives the offender a well-deserved blow or kick instead, of which the recipient never complains.' Sergeant Canty admitted that the problem had existed for some time. But, he added, ‘I don’t think the evil complained of is as great as said in attached [Cleal’s letter]’. In reviewing the file, Canty’s supervisor noted that Cleal, ‘appears to have given these resorts considerable attention’. Much of the evidence for same-sex activity in Melbourne in the early twentieth century comes from court cases and sensationalist news reports. With their eyewitness accounts of the use of local beats, these documents in the collection of Public Record Office Victoria provide a more detailed, understated account, making them some of the more unusual and historically significant records in Melbourne’s queer history. Quoted from "A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects" by Graham Willett, Angela Bailey, Timothy W. Jones and Sarah Rood.

Copy of correspondence of 1862 of William Wilson, Deep Creek farmer, Nunawading, who found a horse and saddle on his property. Donated by Mrs Fitzmaurice who procured it from police records.wilson, william, deep creek, nunawading, police

Victoria Police letterhead;

Map of Blackburn, Mitcham and Nunawading District showing schools, public phones, police stations and post offices. Scale 20 chains to 1 mile.Map of Blackburn, Mitcham and Nunawading District showing schools, public phones, police stations and post offices. schools, mitcham, nunawading, police, post offices, blackburn, forest hill, vermont