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Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1940
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...The third Delley's Bridge, built in 1940 with a curved deck, was situated slightly upstream from the previous bridge. Though it was subject to snow cover from time to time, raging floodwaters were not a threat after Bellfield Dam was built in the 1960s.The picture shows a curving bridge with a wood and wire railing. The bridge and surrounding trees are covered in snow.structures, bridges -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Photocopy, C 1930s
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...The third Delley's Bridge, a timber and concrete structure with a curved deck, built in 1940. It was situated slightly upstream from the previous bridge. After nearly 50 years of its use, wear and tear necessitated a fourth bridge to be erected in 2001.The picture shows a curving bridge with a wood and wire railing. An unsurfaced road crosses the bridge and the area is surrounded by trees.structures, tents -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1920s
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...The Stoney Creek dray bridge. Stoney Creek has been bridged a number of times on school road since the creek was re-routed in the early 1900s. A dray bridge was built C 1910 by local residents, which stood them in good stead for more than a decade. This bridge was replaced by a higher timber structure. Image two is a story from 1906 relating to Marshall White and his family trying to recross Delley's bridge after finding the Stoney Creek dray bridge washed away.Photo of two men on horseback on a wooden bridge with low log railing. A shelter can be seen in the background and there are thick trees surrounding the road.structures, bridges -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1940- (before 1950)
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...Stoney creek has been 'bridged' a number of times in School Rd, since the creek was re-routed in the early 1900's. A dray bridge was built c1910 by local residents which stood them in good stead for more than a decade.Photo of 'school bridge' over Stoney Creek. Gravel road in foreground leading to a wooden bridge surrounded by tall gum trees.structures, bridges -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Photocopy, C 1936
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...The relief workers as shown in the photograph were used in the Grampians for logging & road maintenance. After the Depression many hundreds of men worked on building and maintaining roads &: tracks. Some were employed by the Forest Commission of Victoria.people, road gang, structures, tents -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Sepia, C 1924
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...This is a photo of Knight's tea-rooms at Henham. The tea-rooms were moved from the Henham Estate to the Wannon in 1931.Photo shows a building with a woman and two children standing in front. There are large eucalypt trees to the left of the building.buildings, tea rooms -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1930s
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...The people in the photo are: Mr & Mrs Gus Knight and Ray Knight (on the right). The names of the other three people are not known. The site of the house is where a later monument would stand (see inscription).Photo shows six people; three seated on a large log, two standing and one leaning on a tree stump; in front of a house."Mr & Mrs Gus Knight, Ray on right. -Where Monument will go. Ray just cut down tree - so it would not fall on house." written in biro on rear of photo. "Wannon" written in pencil on rear of photo.people, knight, buildings, tea rooms -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1930s
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...A work crew at the Plantation rd working on pine plantations in this areapeople, road gang -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Postcard - Sepia, C 1930s
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...Photo is of Augustus Knight, owner of Knight's tea-rooms. Gus was part German.Photo shows a seated man holding a pipe to his mouth. A sapling fence is behind him.people, knight -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1930s to 1940s
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...The photo shows Augustus (Gus) Knight and Helen Knight in Ararat. The Knight's ran Knight's tea-rooms.Photo sjows a man and a woman standing in front of a wooden gate, with a house corner to their right.people, knight -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1924-1930
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...The information on the back of the photo says: "Henham - with pug walls - blue clay brought up in bags from Dickies' - Where Henham block joined Dickies. Was salt in the area it came from."Photo shows three boys standing in front of a small building (tea-rooms at Henham). There is a large tree (only trunk showing) in the foreground.buildings, tea rooms -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1924
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...Knight's tea-rooms. See "Victoria's Wonderland" p. 103-104 for further information.Photo shows a house with a smaller building behind and a picket fence (house and tea-rooms at Henham. Two cars are parked to the left of the smaller building (tea-rooms)bbuildings, tea rooms -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1929 - 34
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...The Knight's Tea-Rooms, which were known as "Coonarah". See "Victoria's Wonderland" p. 103-104 for further information.Photo shows a house with a smaller building to the right (Knight's tea-rooms at the Wannon).There is a car parked in front of the house and an unsealed road runs through the foreground.buildings, tea rooms -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1920s
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...Photo is of Ellen (Nellie) Knight, wife of Augustus (Gus) Knight. She is standing outside their home at Henham.Photo shows a woman standing in front of a sapling fence with an open gate. There is a house to the right and outbuildings behind the fence.people, knight -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1933
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...The photo shows the Wannon River in flood. Augustus (Gus) Knight built the footbridge. The boat was constructed using kerosene tins or honey tins.Photo shows five adults, four standing and one squatting, on a foot bridge. There are four children in front of them in a boat.structures, bridges -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1933
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...The photo shows "Knight's Bridge" at the Wannon River Crossing.Photo shows two women, one sitting and one standing leaning on the other woman's shoulder. They are on a wooden footbridge with water in the foreground and thick bush in the background.structures, bridges -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Photocopy, C 1925
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...The (known) people in the top photo are - boy running in background, Bert Knight; couple third & fourth from left, Ellen and Augustus Knight; 3rd from right, Gil Rogers. The bottom photo is Henham house and tea rooms and Dougal and Effie McArthur (1924 - 1929) are among the people.This is a photocopy of two photos. The first (top) image shows eight people standing in front of a building (the tea-rooms at Henham). There is the corner of a house and a picket fence to the right. A log fence with a gap is behind the people and a ninth man is running towards the gap. The second (bottom) image shows eight people standing in front of a house with a smaller building to the side (Henham house and tea-rooms).people, knight, buildings, tea rooms -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Newspaper - B/W, 09/03/1934
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...This is a letter which was published in the Hamilton Spectator on 9 March 1934. It appeals for donations to assist the Knight family, Gus in particular. The dontaions were to be used to move the family to Portland, due to the effects of the depression on their income and to Gus' continued ill-health.Newspaper clipping from the "Hamilton Spectator". The copy is two photos, which combined are an enlargement of the original article (see additional image).people, knight -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Financial record - Invoice photocopy, C 1895
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...A report from the Head Master of the All Saints' Grammar School, East St. Kilda, of the results obtained by Master A Knight, Third Class, at the Midwinter Examinations, 1895.Photocopy of school results from All Saints' Grammar School, East St Kilda.education, report cards, people, knight -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Newspaper - B/W, 03/02/1933
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...This is an article about Gus Knight. It does not refer to him by name, but calls him "Man of Crooked Sticks" , who he had watched making an armchair out of twisted gum-tree boughs. The author also mentions Gus's home, which was constructed of timber cut a hundred yards away. The article appeared in "The Herald" newspaper on 3 February 1933, in the "in Town and Out" section.Newspaper article titled "Man of Crooked Sticks"people, knight -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1950s (?)
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...Robert Greer, baker, married Ida Warren whose family started the bakery; in 1929. Robert & Ida inherited the Bakery from Ida's father John Warren. for further information see Bridging the Gap p. 56Photo shows Robert Greer, baker standing with a load tin in his hands, inside the bakery. Baking tins & ovens can be seen in the photo.Folio no.48 Negative no.25people, greer, buildings, bakery -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Coloured, C 1980s (?)
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...quarrying, mt difficult quarry -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Coloured, C 1980s (?)
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...quarrying, heatherlie -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Coloured, C 1980s (?)
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...Photo shows close up view of steam equipment. Three iron chimneys attached to equipment are cut off from view at top of photo. Wattle in bloom can be seen on both sides of photo.quarrying, heatherlie -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Coloured, 1956
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...Old buildings. The Quarry. Roses Gap Rd.quarrying, mt difficult quarry, buildings, heatherlie -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1920s
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...Mt Difficult quarry Grampians c1920quarrying, mt difficult quarry -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Coloured, C 1960s (?)
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...Stone was transported out of quarry by rail. Some sections of track are still visible at the Quarry.structures, train tracks, quarrying, mt difficult quarry -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Coloured, C 1960s (?)
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...quarrying, heatherlie -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Coloured, C 1960s (?)
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...buildings, houses -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Coloured, C 1960s (?)
... Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society Centennial Hall ...buildings, houses