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8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Newspaper - Benalla Ensign
Lord and Lady Gowrie attended the Melbourne Cup 1 November 1938. Their escort on that occasion was drawn from 8th (Indi) Light Horse Regiment and commanded by Lieutenant FC Trickey with soldiers drawn from Benalla, Euroa, Wangaratta, Tallangatta, Wahgunyah, Wodonga and Rutherglen Troops. The 8th Light Horse (Indi) Regiment superseded the 16th Light Horse in 1919. It had its headquarters at Benalla with sub-units throughout the Upper Murray and Northeast Victoria. In December 1941, the regiment converted from horse to mechanised, initially as 8th Reconnaissance Battalion then in July 1942 it became 8th Cavalry Regiment and served in Northern Territory. As Japanese threat to the mainland declined the regiment was disbanded. Well prepared memento of vice-regal visit to regional centre and escort duty by the local regiment.Framed photograph of an extract from "The Benalla Ensign" of Friday November 4 1938 reporting on the Governor General's escort to the Melbourne Cup drawn from the 8th Light Horse Regiment. The frame is black painted wood with gold trim.8th light horse regiment, benalla ensign, governor general, gowrie, flemington, cup -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Francis Ainger, n.d
An extract from 'The History of Victoria', Melbourne about Francis Ainger, born in England, arrived in Victoria 1856. He found gold at Bendigo and founded a carrying business between the principal goldfields. In 1867 he selected 80 acres at Mitcham, cultivated English grasses and an orchard. Established a Congregational Church.ainger, frank, congregational church -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1887
This is an extract/copy of an original photo that showed both Alfred and Charlie D'Alton together. (see Record # 127 for section with Alfred D'Alton and Record # 117 for the entire photo).Photo of Charles D'Alton looking for gold on Stoney Creek. people, d'alton, mining, stoney creek -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1887
This is an extract/copy of an original photo that showed both Alfred and Charlie D'Alton together. (see Record # 126 for section with Charles D'Alton and Record # 117 for the entire photo).Photo of Alfred D'Alton looking for gold on Stoney Creek.people, d'alton, mining, stoney creek -
Orbost & District Historical Society
year book, Year Book of Agriculture 1905, 1905
... with a dark blue fabric cover with gold print. Comprises extracts from ...Comprises extracts from the monthly journals covering rural changes in Victoria, improvements in agriculture and horticulture, Royal Shows and farming history.This item is a useful reference tool.A 448 pp book with a dark blue fabric cover with gold print.agriculture-history-victoria -
Orbost & District Historical Society
face powder, mid 20th century
These items were owned by Marjorie Burton. Marjorie Burton ( nee Whiteman), born 12 June, in Birmingham, England came to Orbost in 1995. In England she did office work – typing, shorthand and secretarial work - in accountants’ offices and also trained as a comptometrist with Burroughs in London. She came from a middle-class, working, church-going family. Her mother was a milliner who mademany of Marjorie’s clothes, hats and outfits. Marjorie married in 1938 to a salesman who later became a mechanic in the R.A.F. during WW11In the 1940’s women’s makeup was a huge industry. Despite war rationing, women began using makeup from the teens onwards. Cosmetics were an important part of most women's personal effects.Three containers of face powder. 2483.54 is a circular container, white with coloured flowers - the "Dreamflower Pattern". It contains some powder. 2483.55 and 2483.56 are pink boxes with gold print. 2483.54 : on base ; green text on white - Pond's Face Powder Suntan Made by Pond's Extract Co Ltd Perrivale Middx 2483.55 : Helena Rubinstein HR Silk Face Powder for Dry Skin Sport Boots 10/6 2483.56 : Helena Rubinstein HR Silk Face Powder for dry skin Beach Tan Inside is Exclusive Boots offer 6d off Your Next Purchase of Chikka pantiescosmetics skincare burton-marjorie -
Orbost & District Historical Society
jar, 1993
A young chemist named Dr. Cyril P Callister, hired by the Fred Walker Company, developed a new spread from brewer’s yeast. It was claimed as the richest known sources of natural Vitamin B. Labelled as ‘Pure Vegetable Extract’, it was sold in a two ounce amber glass jar and capped with what was known as a Phoenix seal, to keep the contents fresh. A competition inviting the Australian public to create a name for the new spread offered a prize of 50 pounds. finalists. Hundreds of people entered and Fred Walker’s daughter selected the winning name: VEGEMITE. The name of the winning entrant was never placed on record. VEGEMITE spread was then sold from grocers’ shelves. In April 1984, a 115-gram jar of vegemite became the first product in Australia to be electronically scanned at a checkout A commemorative jar was produced to celebrate the occasion of 70 years - 1922-1997.Vegemite is possibly Australia's most iconic food brand. Since the 1930s it has been a major part of this country's cuisine. Yet unlike other Australian icons the attraction of Vegemite has remained local. A tapered brown glass jar with a gold metal lid. The label o the front is red with yellow, white and black print. there is a similar smaller label on the lid. with black writing.On base: a spiral with 10 in centre circle 13573 underneath the spiral above is letter A with raised dots insidevegemite jar -
Orbost & District Historical Society
gold panning dish, mid - late 19th century
... and simplest method of extracting gold. Gold pans had widespread use ...Panning dishes were used for washing fine gold from river sediments or from the residue trapped in cradles and puddling tubs. They were often used on the edge of streams/rivers to sift gold from alluvial soil or crushed quartz. This simple pan would have been filled with sand and gravel which might have contained gold. The pan was submerged in the water and shaken to sort the gold from the gravel and other material, with the lighter material gradually being washed over the lip until only the heavy deposits, such as gold, remained at the bottom. (ref. Museum Victoria) This pan was used by George Henry Douglas Russell Snr. As a young man prior to his enlistment in WW1 he panned for gold using this dish. During the war he became a vet sergeant in charge of horse lines.Gold panning is the oldest and simplest method of extracting gold. Gold pans had widespread use in alluvial gold fields where water is available. This item is an example of the type of pan commonly used on Victorian gold fields.A circular dull metal panning dish which has a wide rolled top lip which tapers down to a smaller diameter for the base which is flat. The pan has been made from ironmetal which has a coating of another metal with a matte grey finish. It has a small hanging hole and a reinforcing ring all around the top.russell-doug gold-panning mining -
Orbost & District Historical Society
newspapers, Guinea Gold, 1943-1944
In WWII New Guinea, GUINEA GOLD presented news to all troops "in the field". It avoided editorial comment. It published for 1320 continuous days, without missing a single edition. The front and back pages concentrated on current world news, including major sporting events. Page 2 was generally devoted to extracts from Australian and US newspapers. Some news was obtained by taking shorthand notes of short-wave radio bulletins from Australia, the U.S. and the B.B.C. At its peak, distribution was 37,000 to US forces and 27,000 to Australian forces, daily. The daily version had four pages and the WEEK-END SUPPLEMENT edition contained 8 pages (with extra pictures & cartoons).Guinea Gold" daily brought to the news-hungry men of the Australian and American forces serving in the steaming jungle, topics of interest to allay their boredom and boost their morale. It was able to do so because US General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the South-West Pacific, gave it permission to publish his communiqués 20 hours before the release time for the rest of the world's media. The newspaper contains Australian, American & world news (military, political, sports & tabloid).Seven editions of "Guinea Gold" from 1943 and 1944. 2103.1 is edition 7/6/1943. 2103.2 is edition 8/6/1943. 2103.3 is edition 12/6/1943. 2103.4 is edition 27/2/1944. 2103.5 is edition 26/3/1944 and is the Weekend Supplement. 2103.6 is edition 26/3/1944 and 2103.7 is dated 9/4/1944 and is the Weekend Supplement.guinea-gold newspaper ww11 pacific-campaign new-guinea -
Federation University Historical Collection
Report, Wendy Jacobs et al, The Pyrenees Shire Avoca Shire Study 1864-1994 Volume 3, 1995
.1) Copy of Volume 1 of the Avoca Shire Heritage Study which outlines the enviromental history of the shire including gold, water, farming. wine and fruit, towns, road and rail, and extractive industries. .2) Copy of Volume 3 The Avoca Heritage Study which was commissioned by the National Estate Committee. Voume Three contains documentation on individual sites whoch reflect themes outlined in the Environmental History (Volume One). These sites are recommended for protectins under the Local Planning Scheme or the provisions of the Historic Buildings Act. The sites are arranged by geographical location, then, alphabetically by road.wendy jacobs, karen twigg, avoca, bung bung, homebush, crowlands, landsborough, moonambel, natte yallock, navarre, barkly, ]percydale, redbank, mountain creek, nettyalloc, green hills, glendhu, djadja wurrung, djab wurrung, hugh glass, glenmona, charles williamson, woodlands, william degreaves, chinese, mining, ironbark mine, homebush deep lead mine, ampitheatre, dredging, water, mashado's well, ellen allan, hunter's hime, wine, fruit, mackereth's vineyard, orchards, viticulture, edwin mackereth, john costello, w.a. adams, chateau remy, david rodwell, schools, education, churches, road, rail, avoca road districy board, ben nevis, eucalyptus distelleries, jim farnsworth, ned gollop, reg harvey, heritage study -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, The Pyreness Shire, Avoca Shire Heritage Study 1864-1994, Volume 1, 1995
The Pyreness Shire, Avoca Shire Heritage Study 1864-1994, Volume 11) 21008.1 - Volume 1 - Pale blue bound book of 47 pages - Environmental History 2) 21008.2 - Volume 3 - Pale blue bound book - Geographical Locations of Individual Sites, alphabetically by Road Namewendy jacobs, karen twigg, nigel lewis/richard aitken pty ltd, shire of avoca, avoca heritage study, national estate committee (victoria), national estate grants program, victorian goldfields, pyrenees, moonambel, natte yallock, rathscar, barkly, redbank, crowlands, landsborough, the pyrenees shire, lexton shire, exploration and pastoralism, gold, water, farming, wine and fruit, towns and settlements, living in community, road and rail, extractive industries, conclusion, ballarat, major mitchell, djadja wurrung aboriginal group, djab wurrung aboriginal group, avoca, lamplough, chinese camp, alluvial mining, ironbark mine, upper homebush, homebush deep lead mine, avoca and district historical society, deep leads, quartz mining, percydale, hog's reef mine, avoca, dredging, hunter's home, moonambel c. 1890, mrs ellen allan, lamplough, the 1865 land act, flour milling, flour mill, moonambel. c. 1880, harkins farm, bung bong c. 1900, dairying, viticulture, navarre, schools, churches, cemetaries, wars, hotels, halls, sports, horse racing, country fire authority, maryborough-avoca railway, cobb and co -
Bendigo Military Museum
Newspaper, "Guinea Gold", 3 Aug 1943
"Guinea Gold" newspaper was published during WW2 for Australian and American troops. The Australian version with Australian home news extracted from Australian newspaper.4 page newspaper (own broadsheet folded), yellow in colour with writing in black type set. Red stain in top right corner of page 1 and some small tears.Dated August 3, 1943, Vol 1 No.259. Contains detailed news items related to WW2. Page 2 Death notice for for P A Taylor circled in pen.guinea gold, newspaper, ww2 -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Edendale Farm, 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) "The land was unprofitable for intensive farming, but there was always water in the Diamond Creek. The railway, a technological advance, followed the valley, and was provided to transport produce. At North Eltham we were privileged to tour a surviving farmhouse of the 1860-70 era at the Shire’s Edendale Farm, with the as yet unfinished Sculpture for a front fence - bulbous tree-trunks decorated with salt pots, with cross members from the old trestle bridge. As was usual these six veranda posted houses faced South (or East, away from the sun!) with the scullery, kitchen and pantry "out the back". The veranda, which must have been very narrow, no longer exists. It probably wrapped around three sides. The drive took us past the Dutch Windmill, only twenty years old and in the Shire of Diamond Valley, then the Diamond Creek Cemetery with impressive gateway, to a detour to see another old farmhouse, isolated on a hill off Murray Road Wattle Glen. Here was a particularly thick patch of exotic planting of pines and cypresses. Subsistence farming no longer pays. Following the rail-line we noticed on the left near Silvan Road an Edwardian cottage and on the right near Yates Road the old school residence for this Upper Diamond Creek area."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 5095eltham, shire of eltham historical society, activities, heritage tour -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Edendale Farm, 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) "The land was unprofitable for intensive farming, but there was always water in the Diamond Creek. The railway, a technological advance, followed the valley, and was provided to transport produce. At North Eltham we were privileged to tour a surviving farmhouse of the 1860-70 era at the Shire’s Edendale Farm, with the as yet unfinished Sculpture for a front fence - bulbous tree-trunks decorated with salt pots, with cross members from the old trestle bridge. As was usual these six veranda posted houses faced South (or East, away from the sun!) with the scullery, kitchen and pantry "out the back". The veranda, which must have been very narrow, no longer exists. It probably wrapped around three sides. The drive took us past the Dutch Windmill, only twenty years old and in the Shire of Diamond Valley, then the Diamond Creek Cemetery with impressive gateway, to a detour to see another old farmhouse, isolated on a hill off Murray Road Wattle Glen. Here was a particularly thick patch of exotic planting of pines and cypresses. Subsistence farming no longer pays. Following the rail-line we noticed on the left near Silvan Road an Edwardian cottage and on the right near Yates Road the old school residence for this Upper Diamond Creek area."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 5095eltham, shire of eltham historical society, activities, heritage tour -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Edendale Farm, 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) "The land was unprofitable for intensive farming, but there was always water in the Diamond Creek. The railway, a technological advance, followed the valley, and was provided to transport produce. At North Eltham we were privileged to tour a surviving farmhouse of the 1860-70 era at the Shire’s Edendale Farm, with the as yet unfinished Sculpture for a front fence - bulbous tree-trunks decorated with salt pots, with cross members from the old trestle bridge. As was usual these six veranda posted houses faced South (or East, away from the sun!) with the scullery, kitchen and pantry "out the back". The veranda, which must have been very narrow, no longer exists. It probably wrapped around three sides. The drive took us past the Dutch Windmill, only twenty years old and in the Shire of Diamond Valley, then the Diamond Creek Cemetery with impressive gateway, to a detour to see another old farmhouse, isolated on a hill off Murray Road Wattle Glen. Here was a particularly thick patch of exotic planting of pines and cypresses. Subsistence farming no longer pays. Following the rail-line we noticed on the left near Silvan Road an Edwardian cottage and on the right near Yates Road the old school residence for this Upper Diamond Creek area."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 5095eltham, shire of eltham historical society, activities, heritage tour -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Allwood House, Hurstbridge, 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) "At the crossroads stands Allwood House with its well laid out garden. The original owners, the Hurst family, ran a nursery; the aligned palms, the cactus clumps, the introduced trees and shrubs show the plants then in fashion. On the other corners stand an old corrugated iron garage; a restaurant, designed and built 1980, but by using old materials it tries to retain the rustic character of its surroundings; and open space where a two storied Wineshop/Saloon once stood. The old Bank, now in the grounds of Allwood House has been moved a few doors down the street."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, hurstbridge, allwood house -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Kangaroo Ground War Memorial, 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) "Now we drove through stands of pines to the Kangaroo Ground Lookout Tower, a most unusual War Memorial, World War I. The tower and a shed/residence (it had a chimney) were built from local sandstone. Below to the south and east of Melbourne spread 'suburbia'. Close by the landscape seemed so contrived - English fields and hedgerows! Although only about twenty inches deep, the soil of this ancient volcano, its crater lost under subsequent weathering, was rich, deserving the name of "Garden Hill". Now native trees are taking over again. In Kangaroo Ground itself stand the inevitable Store, School and Church - and two Norfolk pines and a monkey puzzle tree."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, kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground tower, war memorials, kangaroo ground memorial -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Shire of Eltham War Memorial, Memorial Park, Garden Hill, Kangaroo Ground; 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) "Now we drove through stands of pines to the Kangaroo Ground Lookout Tower, a most unusual War Memorial, World War I. The tower and a shed/residence (it had a chimney) were built from local sandstone. Below to the south and east of Melbourne spread 'suburbia'. Close by the landscape seemed so contrived - English fields and hedgerows! Although only about twenty inches deep, the soil of this ancient volcano, its crater lost under subsequent weathering, was rich, deserving the name of "Garden Hill". Now native trees are taking over again. In Kangaroo Ground itself stand the inevitable Store, School and Church - and two Norfolk pines and a monkey puzzle tree." On November 11th 1926 the Shire of Eltham War Memorial Tower at Kangaroo Ground was opened. It is regarded as one of Melbourne’s most outstanding lookout towers. It commands a magnificent 360 degree panorama from Kinglake across the Diamond Valley to Macedon and the You Yangs. It is built on a peak which was once a volcano, 237 metres above sea level. After World War one a memorial cairn was erected on the site, and in 1925 a committee of public-minded citizens began to plan for a tower. Many generous donations of material and money were forthcoming so that in 1926 the Governor General Lord Stonehaven was able to unveil the plaque before a crowd of 500 people. There was some concern in the 1960s when the Forests Commission wanted to build a firespotters cabin on the top. At first R.S.L. branches opposed the idea, but it was realised that this use could combine with its use as a tourist attraction, and would ensure its maintenance for the future, Today the Kangaroo Ground tower provides one of the best views around Melbourne and is a fitting memorial to those who died in two world wars. From: Historic items for Diamond Valley Community Radio September 1990 (EDHS collection) 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 5095culture, events, garden hill, kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground memorial, memorial park, shire of eltham war memorial tower, war memorials -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Edendale Farm, 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) "The land was unprofitable for intensive farming, but there was always water in the Diamond Creek. The railway, a technological advance, followed the valley, and was provided to transport produce. At North Eltham we were privileged to tour a surviving farmhouse of the 1860-70 era at the Shire’s Edendale Farm, with the as yet unfinished Sculpture for a front fence - bulbous tree-trunks decorated with salt pots, with cross members from the old trestle bridge. As was usual these six veranda posted houses faced South (or East, away from the sun!) with the scullery, kitchen and pantry "out the back". The veranda, which must have been very narrow, no longer exists. It probably wrapped around three sides. The drive took us past the Dutch Windmill, only twenty years old and in the Shire of Diamond Valley, then the Diamond Creek Cemetery with impressive gateway, to a detour to see another old farmhouse, isolated on a hill off Murray Road Wattle Glen. Here was a particularly thick patch of exotic planting of pines and cypresses. Subsistence farming no longer pays. Following the rail-line we noticed on the left near Silvan Road an Edwardian cottage and on the right near Yates Road the old school residence for this Upper Diamond Creek area."Colour photograph1992, culture, edendale, edendale community farm, events -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Edendale Farm, 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) "The land was unprofitable for intensive farming, but there was always water in the Diamond Creek. The railway, a technological advance, followed the valley, and was provided to transport produce. At North Eltham we were privileged to tour a surviving farmhouse of the 1860-70 era at the Shire’s Edendale Farm, with the as yet unfinished Sculpture for a front fence - bulbous tree-trunks decorated with salt pots, with cross members from the old trestle bridge. As was usual these six veranda posted houses faced South (or East, away from the sun!) with the scullery, kitchen and pantry "out the back". The veranda, which must have been very narrow, no longer exists. It probably wrapped around three sides. The drive took us past the Dutch Windmill, only twenty years old and in the Shire of Diamond Valley, then the Diamond Creek Cemetery with impressive gateway, to a detour to see another old farmhouse, isolated on a hill off Murray Road Wattle Glen. Here was a particularly thick patch of exotic planting of pines and cypresses. Subsistence farming no longer pays. Following the rail-line we noticed on the left near Silvan Road an Edwardian cottage and on the right near Yates Road the old school residence for this Upper Diamond Creek area."Colour photograph1992, culture, edendale, edendale community farm, events -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Sarsaparilla
Gold Seal Orange Bordered Label with a yellow backgroundCompound Cordial Extract of sarsaparilla prepared from the best red root of Jamaica sarsaparilla -
Clunes Museum
Book, Percy, John, Percy's Metallurgy - Iron & Steel, 1894
Dowlais is a former Iron/steel making and coal mining town in Wales, United Kingdom.1 Hardcover book light brown embossed cover, gold lettering on spine, 1864, subject matter, the art of extracting metals from their ores and adapting them to various purposes of manufacture. With illustrations, chiefly from original drawings, carefully laid down to scale. .2 Newspaper Article "Dr. Percy on Iron and Steel" published in The Times Tuesday, May 17, 1864 .3 Plan for Dowlais New Mills Gold Lettering on spine: "Percy's Metallurgy Iron & Steel London John Murray Faded Maroon stamp page 2 - Clunes School of Mines No. 24 16 Jun 93metallurgy, mining -
Clunes Museum
NEWSPAPER CUTTING, AUSTRALIAN MINERALOGIST
.1 EXTRACT OF A PUBLICATION REPORTING ON THE WORKS OF THE PORT PHILLIP AND COLONIAL GOLD MINING COMPANY p.293 (Publication unknown) .2 EXTRACT FROM A JOURNAL RELATING TO THE MINERALS OF THE CLUNES GOLDFIELD p.47 Australian Mineralogist, volume 3,, April-June, 1988local history, document, mining -
Tarnagulla History Archive
File containing photocopied extracts from the Bendigonian newspaper, Extracts from 1906-1907
David Gordon Collection. Blue plastic 'pouch' folder. Contains 100-200 A3 pages. Label indicates 'Excellent Poseidon Gold Rush References'. -
Melbourne Legacy
Album - Photo album, Col. W. Donovan Joynt VC
A photo album recording highlights of Legatee Donovan Joynt's life through photographs, newspaper clippings, and typed accounts. These have been catalogued separately to prevent them deteriorating any further on the glued plastic pages which were popular in the 70s and 80s. One of the final items was an extract from the Melbourne Legacy Bulletin dated 9.11.1989. A unique indication of how highly regarded Joynt was in Melbourne Legacy.Brown vinyl photo album, engraved in gold on front cover, two screws to hold pages in.Gold embossed with 'Col. W Donovan Joynt V.C.' on coverdonovan joynt, memorial -
Canterbury History Group
Document - Interview with Mr Wlliam Costello, 1989
Extracts from an interview with Wlliam Costello (born in 1892) during which he shared his memories of Canterbury shops and people.canterbury, canterbury road, balwyn road rochester road, canterbury library, malones hotel, goldings rubber factory, oregan family, maling road, shops, costello> william -
South Gippsland Shire Council
Lithograph, Framed, Working Coal - South Staffordshire
Framed copy of a lithograph.Set in red card window mount and gold metal frame. The print is a copy of an extract from a book which features an illustration of miners working coal in a South Staffordshire mine. -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Pages from a book: Poseidon Alluvial Gold Mine, Tarnagulla, Poseidon Alluvial Gold Mine, Tarnagulla, circa 1916
Murray Comrie Collection. Pages from a book (unknown), this excerpt titled 'Poseidon Alluvial Gold Mine, Tarnagulla' by O.A.L. Whitelaw, Field Geologist. Includes a map (also extracted from the book) with title 'Poseidon Alluvial Gold Mines'. Map of the mines entire workings, above and below ground. tarnagulla, poseidon, mine, mining, gold -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Domestic object - Bovril cup, c. 1950
This cup has been produced as a promotional item by the makers of Bovril, a meat extract paste usually used in cooking or stirred in hot water for a hot drink. It was developed in Britain in the 1870s and widely used during the depression of the 1930s and the World Wars when meat was scarce and expensive. Similar products such as Marmite (Britain) and Vegemite (Australia) have a vegetable rather than a meat base. This item is a memento of the times past when hot drinks made from meat or vegetable paste were very popular and it is retained for display purposes.This is a cream-coloured china cup with gold edgings and three gold-coloured Bovril logos (the name 'Bovril' inside a shield outline). The cup is mounted on a china base. Bovril Made in Englandmeat extract products, bovril, vintage china, bovril cup -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Information folder - Menzies Creek
Information folder containing items pertaining to the history of Menzies Creek. Contents: -document, "Menzies Creek, Now...And Then", by Pam Dennis, written for Eastern Regional Libraries History Writing Competition, 11 pages -single page from 'Australian Places' (Monash University), extracted 21st May 2004 -article, 'Following Tradition...', about Bill Hermon's retirement, The Trader, 19th July 1984, 2 copies -article, 'Museum draws first shots', re. the possible removal of the Puffing Billy Museum, Free Press, 9th August 1989 -article, 'There's gold in the Dandenongs!', re. Hancock's Nursery, Retirement, Issue 64, September 1998 -article, 'To remember...', re. Bill and Jean Hermon, Hills Trader, 1st August 1990 -article, 'Family honoured for community service', Free Press, 8th August 1990 -article, '30 years and still going strong', re. Puffing Billy, Knox-Sherbrooke Post, 29th July 1992 -article, "Daffodil delights", Free Press, 2nd Sep 1998, inc. photo of Rex Breen -article, 'People of the century', re. Hermon family, Ranges Trader Mail, 14th December 1999 -article, 'Pages from the past', re. the opening of John's Hill Reservoir in 1981, Ranges Trader Mail, 18th April 2000 -article, 'Historic reunion for family', re. Johns family, Ranges leader, 30th January 2002 menzies creek, gold-mining, timber, road transport, early settlers, menzies creek state school, puffing billy railway, st cuthbert's church, menzies creek rural fire brigade, menzies creek hall