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Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Slide - Slide - Cashmore Airport, Portland, 1980s
Coloured slide. Several earth moving vehicles parked on grassy area.portland airport, cashmore airport, construction site -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Slide - Slide - Cashmore Airport, Portland, 1980s
Coloured slide. Runway under construction. 10 plus earth moving vehicles/trucks on site.portland airport, cashmore airport, construction site, runway, runway construction, air travel -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Slide - Slide - Construction Portland/Cashmore Airport, c. 1980
Coloured slide. Earth moving equipment on runway site. Large areas of water. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Slide - Slide - Construction Portland/Cashmore Airport, c. 1980
Coloured slide. Large level, muddy area in foreground. Grassy area with workers accommodation huts at rear. Also several Earth moving vehicles. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Slide - Slide - Construction Portland/Cashmore Airport, c. 1980
Coloured slide. Man operating earth moving equipment on muddy area of work site. -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Tester Direct Current, mid 1900's
This tester was used between 1950 and 1980's. As part of the Occupation, Health and Safety requirements, equipment used to monitor the performance of electricity producing generators, regularly, hand held testers were used to check the insulation and the "earth" pin were up the the required operational levels. As the generators and their ancillary monitoring equipment was spread over a large area and cumbersome to service small hand held devices were required. These had to always be safe for the user to operate. A selected range of high quality meters were recalibrated every two years in the Meter and Calibration Laboratory at Yarraville(near Melbourne) This meter is very significant to The Kiewa Hydro Electricity Scheme because it was an integral part of maintaining the electricity producing water driven generators of the power stations. The reason why this meter was so essential is that provided the safety check on equipment used to monitor each Hydro Generator that they were complying within the grid network parameters. Grid parameters are set so that if there is an electrical fault on the system, that fault can be attended to with a very small change in the output stability of each generator. It is essential that the voltage of the network remain within the set limits. Generators are at Dartmouth, Mackay, Clover, West Kiewa, Yarrawonga, Cain Curran and three Power Stations in the Thornton area.This hand driven current generator produces 500 volts by winding the handle(on funnel curved side) to keep the voltage constant(one minute per test). The whole body is made from caste aluminium. One of the functions of this meter is to test the isolation resistance of any equipment being tested. This is to see if that equipment is safe to handle(no electrical shocks). The second function is to test the earth pin of any portable electrical equipment. The turn key on one side can direct which function is required(marked insulation or continuity). On the top side(enclosed in a glass fronted marked scale) is a continuity scale(top) and an insulation scale(bottom). This is covered , when not in use by "flip up" lid with manufacturer's details and name of the instrument. Opposite the winder are two screw tight knobs. One marked earth(left side) and one marked line(right side). On the top and next to the glass windowed scales in a post manufacture SEC Vic equipment equipment ID number. For carrying purposes there is chromed steel (fold together) handle.The bottom of the unit has two metal "feet" 150mm long by 114mm wideManufacturer's details on top side "MEG" underneath "INSULATION AND CONTINUITY TESTER" below this "constant 500 VOLT pressure" below this "REGISTERED MEG MEGGER TRADE MARK" below this "REG DESIGN NO. 690326" below this "UNITED KINGDOM PATENT Nos. 193746, 197178, 198182, 202062, 202398, 204649, 350715" below this "SUPPLIED BY THE GENERAL ELECTRIC Co. Ltd OF ENGLAND" below this "MAGNET HOUSE, KINGSWAY LONDON W.C.2" 'sec vic kiewa hydro scheme, alternate energy supplies, alpine feasibility studies temperature, rainfall -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Woodburn residence, mudbrick adobe (1949), Eltham Heritage Tour, 24 May 1992, 24/05/1992
ELTHAM HERITAGE TOUR The Society excursion on 24th May 1992 was arranged by David Bick, leader of the team carrying out the Shire's heritage study. David selected a number of sites or buildings identified in the study, some of them lesser known components of the Shire's heritage. The tour commenced at the Eltham Shire Office at 10.00 am. Travel was by private car and mini-bus with stops at about twelve locations for commentary by David.It included a short walk in Hurstbridge and lunch at Kinglake. Highlights of the tour included: - 10 am Leave from Shire Offices - 3 Important Trees - A Physical Link to Eltham's First Settlers - Toorak Mansion Gates - A Surviving Farm House - An Intact Circa 1900 Main Street - First Settlers - Gold Miners, and Timber-getters - An Early Hotel - A Pioneering Homestead - Changing Eltham Shire - 20th Century - 4 pm Afternoon Tea and Finish Tour Extract from ELTHAM CULTURAL HERITAGE TOUR (Newsletter No. 85, July 1992, by Bettina Woodburn) "In some respects Eltham is a 'back-water' and it has its own distinctive flavour. On the outskirts the homes date from the 1960's, 70's and 80s with a sprinkling of 'earth homes', mud-brick or pise, rammed dirt. Crossing Main Road into Beddoe Street and Thompson Crescent a very pleasant drive past pines and old fence lines, front lawns unfenced, the occasional ·old farm building, we eventually looked down on a huge circular roof of a 1992 adobe home. Other distinctive places included the Pauline Toner Butterfly Reserve, Gordon Ford's splendid garden at Fulling in Pitt Street, cypress hedges and old houses in Bridge Street and in every direction Eltham's special feature - a totally treed horizon. We were now in the part of the Shire closest to Melbourne - Montmorency - not on the way to anywhere, with no through road going across it, developed in the 1950's and 1960's with conventional gardens, now converted to native plants. The rail looped between Greensborough and Eltham and a shopping street (Were Street) served the area, growing up the hill from the station. It was a typical outer Melbourne suburb with lawns and roses with patches of originality. The shopping precinct still has 1950 characteristics - walls which sloped back, projecting roofs, the original shop fronts are nearly all tiled below the old windows. There's an air of past times about the School, the Dairy, the Butcher's (now a milk bar) and the Castlemaine stone face of the Commonwealth Bank. The final stop for the tour was at the mud-brick Woodburn residence, adobe of 1949 with additions. After War Service, Bill Woodburn had commenced an Architecture course at Melbourne University and after second year in the Christmas vacation, with his wife, Betti, built the two bedroom house - with amazing saving of costs. In the three and a half months they made over 3000 bricks (external walls 18" x 12" x 4", internal walls 12" x 9" x 4"), sifted top soil for mortar and laid them, on concrete foundations and slab floor, made all the structural window frames, door frames and roof members to carry 'super six' asbestos sheets, laboured for the electrician and plumber, did all the glazing and, still without electricity, moved in in March 1949. Rooms have been added, at first with glass walls, later using concrete blocks, to accommodate three daughters and a son. The house not only grew from the earth, but also with the family."Record of the Society's history and activities and highlighting various aspects of the Heritage Study undertaken by David Bick used to create the future heritage overlay for the Shire of Eltham and later Nillumbik Shire.Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 4 stripsKodak Gold 100 5095shire of eltham historical society, activities, heritage tour, woodburn house -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Book, Shire of Nillumbik, Laughing Waters Road: art, landscape & memory by Jane Woollard, 2016
"Laughing Waters has been a source of inspiration for many artists and designers, and was a natural extension of the dynamic art and lifestyle movement that began in the 1930s at Montsalvat. It was also an important site in the development of the Melbourne art scene in the 1960s and '70s, especially the earth building movement known as the Eltham Style. Since 2001 more than eighty artists have been in residence at Laughing Waters in Birrarung House and Riverbend. Their experiences and art making are woven together with Wurundjeri, European and family histories to create an evocative account of a special place in a bushy outer suburb of Melbourne." -- back cover. Eltham District Historical Society is acknowledged in the Acknowledgments section of this book.264 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ISBN 9780994486707laughing waters, eltham, yarra river, artists, killeavey, mud bricks -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Book, George Frederick Middleton, Build your house of earth : a manual of earth wall construction / G.F. Middleton, 1979
... Build your house of earth : a manual of earth wall... col.), diagrs., plans ; 25 cm. Build your house of earth ..."This book was "the bible" of mud brick and Pise builders in the 1950s"Paperback; xiii, 130 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), diagrs., plans ; 25 cm.ISBN 0908136722 (pbk.)buildings, mudbrick, mud brick construction -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Book, Earthbuild, Mud and Man: a history of earth buildings in Australia by Ted Howard, 1992
Includes references to local sites Bear's Castle, Yan Yean (City of Whitlesea), mud brick houses in Eltham, including at Montsalvat and Eltham Community Centre, Smith's Gully, Plenty Baptist Church and Warrandyte. Includes chapter on Alistair Knox. The author's own home appears in the book on page 100. It was situated at Batman Road, Eltham next to the manse and church opposite Stanley Avenue. It was demolished for unit development June 2004 after the author's death in 2003. A significant and oft cited history of the mud brick earth construction style of architecture which includes a number of examples within the Shire of Nillumbik, known to be a site of the environmental earth building movement following WW2.198 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ISBN 0646069624earth construction, mud bricks, pise, domestic architecture -
Australian National Surfing Museum
DVD Movie, Morning Of The Earth, Circa 2003
Morning Of The Earth tells the fantasy of three exotic lands: Bali, Hawaii and Australia, where surfers made their own houses, surfboards and lived in harmony with nature. Featuring Nat Young, Terry Fitzgerald, Gerry Lopez, Stephen Cooney, David Treloar and Michael Petersen. The movie soundtrack featured Terry Hannigan, Taman Shud, Brian Cadd , G. Wayne Thomas and many others. The film premiered at the Manly Silver Screen Theatre in 1972.Described by many as the greatest surf film ever made in Australia and one of the most influential surf films ever made, Albert Falzon's stunning surf footage captured the spirit of a timeless period in Australian surf history.Black text on red with iconic black and white photograph of Michael Petersen cutback.Film title, Jonas Mekas quote.nat young, gerry lopez, albert falzon, michael petersen, taman shud, morning of the earth, terry fitzgerald, stephen cooney, david treloar, bali, brian cadd, terry hannigan, g wayne thomas, david elfick -
Federation University Historical Collection
Work on paper - Artwork, Ballarat East Main Road Joss House Rubbings
A number of rubbings of calligraphic carvings thought to be from the Ballarat East Joss House in Main Road. .1) Blue and brown crayon. Translation: Erected on an auspicious day in winter 1859. Think of his loyalty (Quan Yu, now can canonised as the god of war to whom this temple is dedicated) (AD1084) to his sworn lover their sworn botherhood pledged in the peach garden as has been praised for thousands of years. .2) Rubbing in blue crayon of Chinese calligraphy from pole on right hand side of Joss House Door. (Larger) his great graciousness spreads to other (us here in foreign lands) kingdoms, and his virtue guards our gold miners everywhere. (Smaller) Dedicated to his disciples the Chu Pei-Huo family .3) Rubbing on litho paper. translation - One who knows the nature of things (in the world) will thus understand human nature. .4) Rubbing on litho paper. Translation of middle calligraphy - We all behold the wisdom of the gods in the heavens, earth and man. .5) Rubbing on litho paper - translation - The grace of god flows to all corners of the earth. .6) Charcoal rubbing - translation - Temple of the god of war. .7) Crayon rubbing of calligraphy on litho paper. Translation - Dedicated by the Ma Chu-Feng family. Emperor's virtue spreads far and wide. Grace in Abundance. Erected in winter, 1859. .8) Crayon rubbing of calligraphy on litho paper. Translation: Respectfully dedicated by the Ts'Ai Chi-Yang family. Grace in abundance. Erected in winter of 1859. .9) Crayon rubbing .10) Outline of calligraphy on copy paper .11) Rubbings of calligraphy on copy paper. Translation: The Holy God of War. Exhibited in 1862. Your respectful disciples. .12) List of 11 disciples chinese, joss house, keith rash, chu pei-huo, quan yu, ma chu-feng, ts'ai chi-yang, lee chua-yeh, hwong tien-jyue, wa perg-nan, liu chin-chuson, an lee factory, lice hsue-chiere, lee mei-tzy, lee pas-chi, lui lih-nie, wir hon-fu, li hsi-yang -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Foreshore Development, n.d
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: fd005, bottom right, pencil.port of portland archives, reclamation henty beach, bentinck street -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - land recalamtion, n.d
Port of Portland Authority Archivesport of portland archives, land reclamation, portland -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Slide - Slide - Cashmore Airport, Portland, 1980s
portland airport, cashmore airport, construction, development, air travel -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Land Reclamation, n.d
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: B in blue biroport of portland archives, portland harbour -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Land Reclamation, n.d
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: B in blue biroport of portland archives, land reclamation -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Cape Grant Quarry, n.d
Port of Portland Authority Archivesport of portland archives, cape grant quarry -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - contact sheet of 4 prints showing earth moving equipment, c. 1963
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)port of portland archives, construction, harbour -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Contact sheet of 4 prints showing earth moving equipment, c. 1963
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: equ006 (pencil, upper left) equ005 (pencil, upper right) equ003 (pencil, lower left) equ004 (pencil, lower right)port of portland archives, construction, earth moving, tool -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - earth moving equipment in quarry, c. 1963
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: equ012 (pencil, upper left)port of portland archives, construction, earth moving, quarry -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - construction work, 1960
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: equ002 (pencil, upper left) CONSTRUCTION WORK/ 1960 (pencil, lower left)port of portland archives, construction, quarry, earth moving -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - construction work, 1960
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: equ001 (pencil, lower left) [pencil instructions for enlarging and cropping on back]port of portland archives, construction, quarry, earth moving -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - earth moving equipment in quarry, c. 1963
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: equ007 (pencil, upper left) 18 (pencil, centre) [Pencil instructions for crop marks also on back.]port of portland archives, construction, quarry, earth moving -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - construction work on canal and bridge, Portland, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: Australian News And Information Bureau. Please Acknowledge (purple stamp, upper left) equ022 (pencil, lower left)port of portland archives, construction, quarry, earth moving -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - construction work, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: Australian News And Information Bureau. Please Acknowledge (purple stamp, upper left) equ021 (pencil, centre left)port of portland archives -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph mechanical earth moving equipment, Portland, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: equ009 (pencil, centre)port of portland archives, construction, quarry, earth moving -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - construction of Lee Breakwater and S. L. Patterson Wharf, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: equ016 (pencil, lower right)port of portland archives, construction, lee breakwater, s l patterson -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - construction of Lee Breakwater and S. L. Patterson Wharf, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: equ016 (pencil, lower right)port of portland archives, construction, quarry, earth moving, lee breakwater, s l patterson wharf -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Cresco, Portland, 1960-1966
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)port of portland