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Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Equipment - Standard measure, Mid to late 19th Century
The beginning of standardised weights and measures began In Victoria when the Melbourne Observatory received sets of standard weights and measures, which had been tested in Britain against the then British Imperial standards. These included the primary standard yard and pound for the Colony of Victoria. Other standards of weights and measure held by shires and the administrative body's within the colony could then be compared to these primary standards. A Weights and Measures Act was passed in Victoria in 1862, establishing local inspectors throughout the colony. By the 1870s each local council and shire in Victoria held a set of standards that were used to test scales, weights and dry measures used by wholesalers, factories and shops. Every ten years the councils’ standards would themselves need to be rechecked against the Victorian Standards. The checking was done by the Victorian Customs Department in the 19th century, but with the transfer of responsibility for customs to the Federal Government in 1901, weights and measures function was retained by the Victorian Government and was shifted to the Melbourne Observatory. In 1904, a new building was erected at the south end of the Great Melbourne Telescope House, where the standard weights and measures and testing equipment was installed. This room had a large whirling apparatus for testing air meters and became known as the Whirling Room. When the Melbourne Observatory closed in 1944, the Weights and Measures Branch was formed to continue and this branch remained at the Observatory site unit until 1995. J & M Ewan History: J&M Ewan was a Melbourne firm that began by selling retail furniture and wholesale ironmongery. They had substantial warehouses situated at the intersection of 81-83 Elizabeth and Little Collins Streets, the business was established by James M Ewan in 1852. Shortly afterwards he went into partnership with William Kerr Thomson and Samuel Renwick. When Ewan died in 1868 his partners carried on and expanded the business under his name J & M Ewan. The business was expanded to provide a retail shop, counting-house and private offices. Wholesale warehouses adjoined these premises at 4, 6 and 10 Little Collins Street, West. This company provided and sold a large and varied amount of imported goods into the colony that consisted of agriculture equipment, building materials, mining items as well as steam engines, tools of all types and marble fireplaces. They also supplied the Bronze measuring containers in the Flagstaff Hill collection and the probability is that these containers were obtained by the local Melbourne authority that monitored weights and measures in the mid to late 19th century. The company grew to employ over 150 people in Melbourne and opened offices at 27 Lombard St London as well as in New Zealand and Fiji. The company also serviced the Mauritius islands and the pacific area with their steamship the Suva and a brig the Shannon. Robert Bate History: Robert Brettell Bate (1782-1847) was born in Stourbridge, England, one of four sons of Overs Bate, a mercer (a dealer in textile fabrics, especially silks, velvet's, and other fine materials)and banker. Bate moved to London, and in 1813 was noticed for his scientific instrument making ability through the authority of the “Clockmakers Company”. Sometime in the year 1813 it was discovered that one Robert Brettell Bate, regarded as a foreigner in London had opened a premises in the Poultry selling area of London. He was a Mathematical Instrument maker selling sundials and other various instruments of the clock making. In 1824, Bate, in preparation for his work on standards and weights, leased larger premises at 20 and 21 Poultry, London, at a rental of four hundred pounds per annum. It was there that Bate produced quality metrological instruments, which afforded him the recognition as one of one of the finest and principal English metrological instrument-makers of the nineteenth century. English standards at this time were generally in a muddle, with local standards varying from shire to shire. On 17 June 1824, an Act of Parliament was passed making a universal range of weights, measures, and lengths for the United Kingdom, and Bate was given the job of crafting many of the metrological artifacts. He was under instruction from the renown physicist Henry Kater F.R.S. (1777-1835) to make standards and to have them deposited in the principal cities throughout the United Kingdom and colonies. Bate experimented with tin-copper alloys to find the best combination for these items and by October 1824, he had provided Kater with prototypes to test troy and avoirdupois pounds, and samples with which to divide the troy into grams. Bate also cast the standard for the bushel, and by February 1825, had provided all the standards required of him by the Exchequer, Guildhalls of Edinburgh, and Dublin. In 1824, he also made a troy pound standard weight for the United States, which was certified for its accuracy by Kater and deposited with the US Mint in 1827. Kater, in his address to the Royal Society of London, acknowledged Bate's outstanding experimentation and craftsmanship in producing standards of weights, measures, and lengths. An example of a dry Bronze measuring container made specifically for J & M Ewan by possibly the most important makers of measurement artifacts that gives us today a snapshot of how imperial weights and measures were used and how a standard of measurement for merchants was developed in the Australian colonies based on the Imperial British measurement system. The container has social significance as an item retailed by J & M Ewan and used in Victoria by the authorities who were given legal responsibility to ensure that wholesalers and retailers of dry goods sold in Victoria were correct. The container was a legal standard measure so was also used to test merchants containers to ensure that their distribution of dry goods to a customer was correct. Bronze round container with brass two handles used as a legal standard for measuring dry quantities & is a 'peck' measurement. "IMPERIAL STANDARD PECK" engraved around top of container with " VICTORIA" engraved under.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, standard measure, bronze, peck measurement, j & m ewan, victorian standard dry measurement, bronze container, victorian standards, melbourne observatory, robert bettell bate -
Surrey Hills Historical Society Collection
Research notes, Research notes re Eustace Coghill
Notes provided in part by Elspeth Carey, Eustace Coghill's daughter.Research notes regarding Eustace Halley Coghill including his AIF details & highlights of his legal career.aberyswyth, wandsworth road, eustace halley coghill, elspeth carey (mrs), elspeth coghill (miss) -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - CONNELLY, TATCHELL, DUNLOP COLLECTION: ACCOUNT
Account, dated 30/9/1902 from Connelly tatchell & Dunlop to Mr. John Maher for legal services.business, legal, connelly & tatchell, connelly & tatchell collection - account, john maher, connelly tatchell & dunlop -
Greensborough Historical Society
Memoirs, The Diary of John Spence, 20/02/1859
This document outlines a 3 month sea journey from England to Australia in 1859 on the sailing ship "Arabia".John Spence and his wife Jessie were pioneers of Victoria.An 11 page computer printed stapled document. It is double side printed in A4.Niljohn spence, jessie spence, mary spence, sailing ship arabia, immigration -
Surrey Hills Historical Society Collection
Compact disc, Victorian Directory 1916-1920 (Sands & McDougall) (5 discs)
The Sands and McDougall directories are amongst the most comprehensive. You can find out more details about places in which people lived, the other residents in the area, the services available in the region...all of which help to paint a picture of your ancestors' life. Apart from the Street,Alphabetical, Trade and Professional directories, this volume also contains Government and Official, Ecclesiastical, Legal, Municipal, Colonial, Societies and Institutions directories. This compendium of Sands and McDougall's directories covers 1916-1920. Each is very comprehensive containing the following sub-directories: city streets Directory: with a street index, and street by street listings of all houses and the householder at each address. Country directory: that lists people alphabetically for each town and their occupation. Alphabetical Directory: covering the whole of Victoria. Melbourne and Suburban Professional & Trade Directory: listing people by their trade. Country Professional & Trade Directory: complements the Melbourne list to give coverage of all Victoria. It also includes Agriculture and Pastoral; Government and Official; Legal and Judicial including Justices of the Peace; Ecclesiastical.The Sands and McDougall directories are amongst the most comprehensive. You can find out more details about places in which people lived, the other residents in the area, the services available in the region...all of which help to paint a picture of your ancestors' life. Apart from the Street,Alphabetical, Trade and Professional directories, this volume also contains Government and Official, Ecclesiastical, Legal, Municipal, Colonial, Societies and Institutions directories. This compendium of Sands and McDougall's directories covers 1916-1920. Each is very comprehensive containing the following sub-directories: city streets Directory: with a street index, and street by street listings of all houses and the householder at each address. Country directory: that lists people alphabetically for each town and their occupation. Alphabetical Directory: covering the whole of Victoria. Melbourne and Suburban Professional & Trade Directory: listing people by their trade. Country Professional & Trade Directory: complements the Melbourne list to give coverage of all Victoria. It also includes Agriculture and Pastoral; Government and Official; Legal and Judicial including Justices of the Peace; Ecclesiastical.streets, trade, agriculture, government, legal, ecclesiastical, farmers, farm workers, clergy -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Documents, Parrington, 1896-1897
... Documents ...These documents concern the 19th century proposed sale of the legal practice of Henry Parrington of Warrnambool to Samuel Backhouse of Collins Street, Melbourne. Samuel Backhouse came to Warrnambool to inspect the Parrington practice and offered £750 for the practice. The offer was accepted and the contract for the sale was drawn up. Henry Parrington then withdrew from the sale and was sued by Backhouse for breach of contract. Backhouse was wanting £150 compensation. The outcome of this case is not known. Henry Roberts Parrington qualified as a lawyer in England in 1873 and worked as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand from 1876 to 1886. He then came to Australia and worked for the legal firm of Messrs Higgins in Geelong and for Bayly and Higgins in Warrnambool. The business in Kepler Street, Warrnambool later became known as Higgins and Parrington and, in 1900, as Parrington and Tait (partner John Sym Tait). When John Tait retired in 1901 Henry Parrington was the sole proprietor of the practice. He died in Melbourne in 1926. These documents are of considerable interest as they outline an episode in the life of Henry Parrington, a well-known lawyer in Warrnambool in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. These are eleven documents pertaining to the Warrnambool lawyer, Henry Parrington. There are four single-sheet letters – two have blue typing and two have handwritten material in black ink. There is one telegram with both printed and handwritten material and a Post Office stamp. There are two envelopes which have been sent by mail and which have mauve Victorian twopenny stamps. These envelopes are torn at the top. These envelopes contain letters which have printed material at the top of the sheets and handwritten material in black ink. samuel backhouse, henry parrington, history of warrnambool -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Document (Item) - Research document, Craig Robson's Fairground Follies, 1904 Romani Vardo Showman's/Gypsy Wagon, 05-09-2022
A research document on the 1904 Romani Vardo wagon from The Marysville Museum in Marysville in Victoria.A research document on the 1904 Romani Vardo wagon from The Marysville Museum in Marysville in Victoria. Fred Sawyer was originally from London, but then later relocated to Sydney, Australia, and then to Marysville in Victoria where he established The Marysville Museum. The Romani Vardo wagon was housed in The Marysville Museum alongside a collection of horse-drawn vehicles, veteran, vintage, and classic vehicles, various machinery, and memorabilia.the marysville museum, marysville, victoria, burton type wagon, henry jones & son, gypsy, hawkers, gypsies, william spooner, artist, st george, dragon, peter ingram, gypsy museum, selbourne, england, colin king, fred sawyer -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Menu
Army Reserve regiments had ARA officers and senior NCOs for training and administrative purposesMenu and Place mat for dinner at Commercial Club for the Cadre Club, 8/13 Victorian Mounted Rifles, 16 October 1986.Both documents are extensively autographed by Cadre members and partners. -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Folder, Japanese Civilians Interned, 1991
Compiled and collected by Major Jim Sullivan. Lists of 498 Japanese civilians interned. The bond of friendship of the internees and officers, NCO's and particularly Lieutenant Jim Sullivan who loaded an Army truck with young internees for a trip to Rushworth and Peters ice cream. Old Lady Punshon was also fondly remembered.Olive green cardboard folder with white self adhesive sticker with inscription as below. Contains information in regard to Japanese civilians interned. Drawings, poems, letters, etc.Documents, Camp 4 Rushworth Japanese internees and Garrison. major jim sullivan, japanese internees, old lady punshon, camp 4, camp 4 japanese internees -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Ian D Clark, The papers of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate : volume three : miscellanea, 2001
Collection of correspondence, reports and sketches from G.A. Robinson, concerning his work as Aboriginal Protector in Port Phillip.document reproductions, b&w illustrations, word listsport phillip protectorate, george augustus robinson -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Ian D Clark, The papers of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate : volume two : Aboriginal vocabularies : South East Australia, 1839-1852, 2000
Extracts from a collection of original manuscripts held in the Mitchell Library. Mainly concerning vocabularies of the people of South Eastern Australia.b&w illustrations, word lists, document reproductionswaverong, woiwurring, boonerong, boonwurrung, waddowerong, wathawurrung, wadouro, wadowro, wadower, jarcoort, manemate, biggah, maneroo, cape how, twofold bay, wimmera, glenelg language, mutte mutte, madhi madhi, watte watte, wadi wadi, boomerong, george augustus robinson -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Periodical, Australian National University Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Aboriginal history, 1989
b&w photographs, maps, charts, document reproductions -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Periodical, Australian National University Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Aboriginal history : Aborigines in the services, 1992
maps, charts, b&w photographs, document reproductions -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Periodical, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Victorian historical journal, 2010
maps, tables, b&w photographs, document reproductions -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Shirley W Wiencke, When the wattles bloom again : the life and times of William Barak, last chief of the Yarra Yarra tribe, 1984
Biography of William Barak, including cultural notes on the Woi wurrung Wurundjeri people.colour photographs, b&w illustrations, document reproductionswoi wurrung, william barak, yarra yarra -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, James Dawson, Australian Aborigines : the languages and customs of several tribes of Aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia, 1981
Comprehensive collection of details from James Dawson and his daughter on the people they met when they first settled in the Western District of Victoria in 1840. Detailed notes were kept on language and customs. He involved himself with the local people and respected their rights and lifestyle. He recorded incidents of their first contact with white people.b&w photographs, word lists, document reproductionswestern district, chaap wuurong, djab wurrung, peek whuurong, peek woorong, kuurn kopan noot, dhauwurd wurrung, birds, reptiles, relationship terms -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Ian D Clark, The journals of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate : volume one : 1 January 1839 - 30 September 1840, 2000
The journals of George Augustus Robinson (1788-1866), the Chief Protector of Aborigines of Port Phillip from 1839- March 1850 are a rich source of historical and ethnohistorical information. His voluminous private papers and journals were acquired by the Mitchell Library in NSW in 1939. The publications of Robinson's journals is an important addition to the already published material, for they offer insights into the state of relations between Aboriginal people and Europeans in the districts visited.document reproductions, b&w illustrations, word listsgeorge augustus robinson, port phillip, colonisation -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - A.P. 2062A 2062C 2062F Pilot's and Flight Engineer's Notes Lancaster Mark 1 - Four Merlin XX 22 or 24 Engines Mark III & X - Four Merlin 28 38 or 224 Engines
"F/O E. TURNER" is handwritten on the document coveravro lancaster -
Dandenong/Cranbourne RSL Sub Branch
Photograph
Surrender of Japan ending WWII.General Douglas Macarhur. & Emperor Hirohito Signing Document. -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Memorandum, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), Visit of Admiral Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten, Mar. 1946
Visit of Admiral Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten To Victoria from Tuesday 26th to Friday 29th March 1946. Memo of traffic arrangements from HS Wootton, Town Clerk. Copies of memos from W Simpson, Assistant Manager and JM Harry, Dist Traffic SuperintendentSeveral notations written in red pencil across documents.trams, tramways, letters, instructions, events -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Memorandum, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), Kooyong Tennis Courts - Notice Boards & Temporary Stops, Dec. 1933
"Kooyong Tennis Courts - Notice Boards & Temporary Stops" 1. - Memo from Dist Traffic Superintendent SS (W Simpson) to Malvern Depot, titled Notice to Drivers and Conductors - Temporary Stop Marks at Kooyong Tennis Courts. Temporary Provisional Stop Marks placed on poles 103 on both "up" and "down" tracks opposite Kooyong Tennis Courts. To be observed during loading to and from tennis matches on Saturday 30/12/1933, Monday 1/1/1934 and Tuesday 2/1/1934. 2. - Memo from Dist Traffic Superintendent SS (W Simpson) to Mr Monsbrough, Architect, requesting notice boards to be painted and placed at Kooyong tennis Courts. 3. - Handwritten note for above notice boards. 4. - Inspector's Report - Malvern. Report from inspector JH Gownie, advising of several requests from passengers on travelling to various destinations from the tennis. Inspector suggesting notice boards advising public on tram destinations be placed at temporary stops at Kooyong Tennis Courts.Several notes and signatures written in pencil and ink on documents.trams, tramways, instructions, events, kooyong tennis -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document, Public Transport Corporation (PTC), "Introduction of bus services after 8 pm and on weekends", Jan 1993
Document or memo from the Director of Passenger Services Division to staff regarding the announcement by the Minister for Public Transport Alan Brown about the introduction of bus services to replace tram services on some routes after 8 pm. This caused considerable concern and industrial issues. Dated 6/1/1993. See also items 3049, 3052 (closure of route 82), and 5498.Yields information the 1993 proposal to replace trams with buses on some routes in the evening and weekends.Document or memo - single A4 sheetptc, tramways, buses, bus replacement, tram replacement, closure -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document - Building Contract, Victorian Co-Operative Housing Societies, 27 Good Governs Street, 1960
Original buisling Specification, land purchase and Board of Works documents for the house at 27 Good Governs Street, Mitcham for John Kift in 1960.Original Specification documents for the erection of a house at 27 Good Governs Street, Mitcham for John Kift in 1960.non-fictionOriginal buisling Specification, land purchase and Board of Works documents for the house at 27 Good Governs Street, Mitcham for John Kift in 1960.good governs street mitcham no 27, kift john -
Melbourne Legacy
Document, Certificate of Incorporation, 1996
A certificate of incorporation for Melbourne Legacy dated May 1996, and a memo from the CEO Terry Walsh about the legal status of Melbourne Legacy. There is an additional document titled 'Legacy Foundation No 3' .A record that Legacy took steps to be legally incorporated in 1996.White A4 paper certificate of incorporation of Melbourne Legacy and a memo and handbook.F/s L1 G.J. Welsh handwritten in biro on back page.regulations, legal -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
legal record (item) - Register, marriages, Register no 3, Nos 22 to 40 (Sept 15th 1923 to May 1st 1935, 1923
All the weddings performed in the St Peter Chapel from September 1923 to May 1935 are documented in the register. Each page records the necessary information for the marriage to be registered legally in the Commonwealth of Australian.The register is a record of the weddings conducted at the St Peter Chapel between the 15th of September, 1923 to the 1st of March, 1935.Handwritten in black ink on front cover: REGISTRATION NO 3. / NOS 22- 40 (SEPT 15TH 1923 TO MAY 1ST 1935. Stamped in purple ink in top left corner: FROM / THE MISSION / TO SEAMEN / MELBOURNE.wedding, mission to seafarers, seamen's mission, mission to seamen, st peter chapel, marriage, register, record, flinders street, dio-marriages, dio-archives -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, Declaration of Ernest by owners of land in Yendon being held as a site for Public Hall and Free Library; 1891, 1891
Document outlining the agreement between five males, all residents of Yendon. Land that had been purchased - being part of Crown Allotment Five Section six, Township of Buninyong East, Parish of Buninyong, County of Grant, has been purchased "as a site for a public hall and free library for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the Township of Yendon."Thick paper, hand written. Red dots indicate places for signatures Document stamped in green - 0122083 Signatures of; John Winterburn Kemp, Philip Ballantyne, Samuel Henry Mayo, Thomas Dooley, Thomas Watsondeclaration of ernest, land title, free library, public hall, yendon, buninyong, paris of buninyong, county of grant, john winterburn kemp, philip ballantyne, samuel henry mayo, thomas dooley, thomas watson -
Greensborough Historical Society
Document - Certificate of Title, Partington land, 30/09/1878
Certificates of title and associated documents relating to land owned by Charles Partington: Vol. 3200 Vol. 639882; 30/09/1878. Includes transfer of title to executors William James Partington and Maria Partington on the death of Charles Partington 16/05/1907.Shows part of the chain of ownership of this parcel of land in Greensborough. The Partingtons were Greensborough pioneers5 pages. Copies of land titles and associated documentsland titles - greensborough, partington family -
Greensborough Historical Society
Folder of Documents, Greensborough Park: Land Title Histories and Associated Instruments, 1872-1976
Land title documents trace the ownership of what is now known as Greensborough Park from 1872 to 1976.This property was owned at various times by well known Greensborough identities. The documents show the change from private ownership to public ownership of the site.Folder of copies of land title documents. 20 pages. Includes CD of electronic copies.greensborough park, banyule city council, shire of heidelberg, shire of diamond valley -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Document, Packet: Ringwood Coolstore Cuttings, Historical Notes, Equipment Sale, Rule Book. 1911-1959
Miscellaneous documents relating to the Ringwood Coolstore and Horticultural Society.Packet includes: . 3793(f): Hand written notes on the development of Ringwood Cool Stores in the early 1900's. . 3793(h): Typed document titled 'Fruit Cool Storage Symposium' dated 1963, produced by the Department of Agricultue and the Orchardists and Fruit Cool Stores Association. . 3793(g): Hand written minutes and general notes of the Ringwood Horticultural Society meetings and Shows, from 1899 to 1902. . 3793(e): Small booklet- 'Rules of The Ringwood Co-operative Cool Stores Society Limited, 1934.' . 3793(b),(c),(d): Typed documents: 1. How to lay out a packing shed. 2. Notice of the Forty-third Ordinary General Meeting of The Ringwood Co-operative Cool Stores Society Limited held in the Ringwood Town Hall on 31st March, 1959. 3. Notice of Important Auction Sale of 'Cool Stores Machinery and Plant Buildings for Removal' on December 2nd, 1959. . 3793(a): 2 Newspaper articles by J. K. McCaskill, J.P. on the Early History of Parish of Ringwood and Official Opening of the Ringwood Cool Stores in 1911. (Mail 3/12/1950 and 10/12/1959). -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document, Government of Victoria, "Rail - Victoria, a sources of rail manufacturing solutions for modern cities", c2003
Information document providing details of Victoria's rail equipment and vehicle manufacturers and their capabilities. Has a forward by the Minister for Manufacturing Industry Rob Hulls, undated. Includes a list of suppliers, their contact details and activity or service provided. Includes consultants, engineers manufacturers, suppliers etc. Rob Hulls was Minister 2002 to 2005. See item 7263 for a similar document c1998Yields information about the Victorian rail and tram equipment suppliers and consultants.Document - 16 pages, + plastic cover, A4, wire bound with 4 loose pages.tramways, melbourne, railways, victoria, vehicles, equipment, consultants, rob hulls, victorian government