BHS CollectionDiggers & mining. The gold era. - - - others travelled by coach or bullock dray. Slide shows a dray pulled by 4 ox, a coach pulled by 4 horses, men on horseback, and men on foot one with a wheel barrow. There are also several dogs. Markings 14 994.031 GOL:5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Found in a file entitled, "Women's Education, 1930's," in 1991Two pages of The Sun News-Pictorial, July 10, 1934. A large photo of many students crowded into a dray and sitting on a draught horse with the caption: "Things are never down on the farm at Burnley Horticultural School while Don, the old dray horse, is on the job carting his load of happy students back to the lecture rooms after a session of practical work. Most of the 30 pupils now at the school are engaged in the study of pruning."the sun news-pictorial, students, students working outside, female students, horses, women's education, draught horses, don, pruning

Magdala cum Moonlight Mine c1895. Showing wooden tanks and woodheap. Directors on left. The fifth from left tall man is Thomas Kinsella. A horse and dray would go up this ramp and take the crushed sand to the cyanide vats. To load drays with sand a horse would walk under a chute that was at the end of the conveyor belt and when sand was shoveled onto the conveyor, a dray could be loaded in 12 seconds.B/W Mr. Thomas Kinsella and gentlemen with young child leaning on rails overlooking wood stacks with three workers seated. Wooden vats, buildings. Three people by two horse buggy. labourer standing behind buggy.stawell gold mining

Photograph shows group of men on horse-drawn dray in front of Greensborough Hotel.Another photograph of a picnic group in Greensborough.Copy of black and white photographpicnics, greensborough, greensborough hotel

Patrick Raftis established a fuel and fodder store in Blackburn about 1916Black and white photograph of the P. Raftis chaff and grain store in Blackburn in the 1920's. Two horse drawn drays and four men in the photograph.|See also ND3272 & ND3319p. raftis and son, fuel and produce merchants

BHS CollectionWorking on the Goldfields. Three men with shovels on the RHS, two horses and drays centrally positioned; and men building a building frame, which appears to have animal carcasses hang up. goldfields, surface mining activity

One of a series of photographs, taken by Edgar James Dower in the second decade of the twentieth century. Born and raised in Olinda, his family later moved to Surrey Hills. He worked as an adult as a clerk in the city office of the Metropolitan Gas Company, and in his role as a 'collector', he was able to photograph scenes including the construction of tramlines and associated buildings in Kew, Hawthorn, Camberwell and Surrey Hills. Later he established a real estate agency with his brother - the E.J. Dower Real Estate Agency, Dandenong Office.The image is an historically significant record of the development of transport infrastructure which was used to connect Victorians in the first two decades of the twentieth century. This development resulted from increases in population and the consequent extension of Melbourne's suburbs. The photographs, both individually and collectively, richly detail the labour of workers and the tools and machinery used to create and extend Melbourne's tram network in the years preceding and during World War 1.Digital copy of an original mounted photograph depicting construction workers, horses and drays Hawthorn. The intense activity involved collecting materials for transport to the construction site in Cotham Road, Kew. Annotated recto: "Unloading trucks of metal for Kew Electric Tram Line in Cotham Road / At Hawthorn Railway Siding" Annotated verso: "Taken by E.J.D. / 1913"theme --- travelling by tram, theme -- connecting victorians by transport and communications, cotham road -- kew (vic.), trams -- kew (vic.), hawthorn railway station

The early settlers of Victoria depended on horse drawn vehicles to farm, make roads and railways, deliver produce and transport people. Horse harnesses were an important requisite for all drivers and could be found wherever there were working horses. Horse Harnesses have played an essential role in different cultures throughout history. Simple, utilitarian horse harnesses made of leather straps and iron rings were being used in early China before AD 500 as well as ancient Greece and Rome allowing horses to pull chariots and ploughs. The Greeks and Romans were the first to use a "horse collar" which distributed the weight of the harness evenly across the horse's chest rather than relying on a "throat harness" that could damage a horse's throat or choke them. During the medieval period, European horse harnesses became more elaborate and decorative. Variations of different horse harnesses were also found in Native American and Middle Eastern cultures. Horse Harnesses usually have four basic components which include - 1. Communication - the bridle, bit and reins allows the driver to communicate instructions and commands to the horse, guiding its movement and direction. 2. Draft - the collar, hame straps, hames, traces and chains enables the horse to draw and pull the load efficiently by distributing the weight and transferring the pulling force to the vehicle. 3. Stopping - the breeching band, pole straps and breast strap helps to control or stabilise the horse and vehicle when moving downhill or stopping. 4. Support - the back pad, backband, belly band and back saddle keep the harness in the correct position and proper alignment. This dray harness is a plain, basic harness and reflects its working class origins. It was used by Mr. Oswald (Jack) Bourke with his horse and dray to firstly deliver drygoods from Sunbury to Melbourne in the 1930's and later (through the 1940's and 1950's up to 1961) when he worked on the garbage round for the Springvale City Council. This horse harness is a significant example of the equipment that was needed wherever horses were being used - particularly in the early years of Victoria's settlement by white settlers. Harnesses such as this example were used with drays, farming equipment, delivery carts and personal transportation.A leather and metal horse harness used with a horse and dray circa 1930's to the early 1960's. It is made up of a number of components. 1. A leather bridle with metal buckles and rings, blinkers and a metal single jointed, snaffle bit that has the initials M B stamped onto the leather. 2. A leather bridle with metal buckles and rings and a metal "straight bar" Eggbut snaffle bit. It has an elongated X design (with 4 dots) stamped onto the leather strap holders near each buckle. 3. A blue and white vinyl halter with one leather patched strap. The nose band and a chin strap are covered with woollen padding. 4. A pair of leather shaft protectors. They have lacing holes along each edge and a repeating design of small shapes (flowers, wings, crosses and arrowheads) which run along the front of each protector. 5. A leather strap with a stainless steel chain and catch and a maker's mark for "Glenn's Leather Goods, Pearcedale Victoria" stamped onto the end. 6. A wide leather strap covered with a webbing sleeve. It has two large metal rings and each end and one ring has a rope attached. 7. A leather strap comprised of three separate sections (two shorter and one longer) joined with two metal rings. The longer section has notches along its length and the shorter section at the other end has a buckle. It also had a maker's mark stamped on it but the mark is very worn and the writing is difficult to read. 8. An adjustable leather horse collar with two buckles and straps at the top opening and two "B's" stamped into the leather. The top of the collar is made from treated leather pieces stitched together and the underneath of the collar is untreated leather. It has a padded indentation running all the way around the collar for the hames to sit in. 9. Two pairs of long leather traces - each having a buckle and notched section at one end and each one is made with three lengths of leather spliced together. 10. A leather strap (with one spliced join) belonging to a horse harness with two shorter straps (each ending with a metal clip) attached to a steel D ring at one end. 11. Three assorted short leather straps - the top one has clips at each end and a buckle (for adjusting the length) in the centre, the middle strap has notches and a buckle and the bottom strap is white with notches and a buckle.Bridle with blinkers - "M B" Bridle - design showing an elongated X with a dot in each section stamped onto strap holder Shaft Protectors - stamped design of flowers, wings, crosses and arrowheads Strap with chain - "Glenn's leather goods / Pearcedale / Victoria" Leather Strap (with two metal rings) - Maker's stamp - "name indecipherable / SADDLER / ...OURNE" Collar - "B / B" Leather strap - flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, great ocean road, sunbury, springvale, dray, delivery dray, harness, horse harness, horse drawn vehicles, working horse, oswald (jack) bourke, bridle, horse collar, hames, shaft protectors

Students with Draft Horse and Dray in front of Stawell School of Mines Skene Street c1900stawell education

Working Bee at Central Park (Horses & Drays) probably to make the Fire Brigade practice track.stawell

One of a small album of six photographs of the construction of the Cotham Road tramline in Kew, taken by Edgar James Dower in the second decade of the twentieth century. The reverse of each photo contains notes, written over time by the photographer, which are contained in the 'Inscriptions' field. Born and raised in Olinda, Dower's family later moved to Surrey Hills. He worked as an adult as a clerk in the city office of the Metropolitan Gas Company, and in his role as a 'collector', he was able to photograph scenes including the construction of tram and train lines and associated buildings in Kew, Hawthorn, Camberwell and Surrey Hills. Later he established a real estate agency with his brother - the E.J. Dower Real Estate Agency, Dandenong Office. The album as a whole can be viewed separately as the parent file.The image is an historically significant record of the development of transport infrastructure which was used to connect Victorians in the first two decades of the twentieth century. This development resulted from increases in population and the consequent extension of Melbourne's suburbs. The photographs in the album, as well as Dower's single photos mounted on card, individually and collectively richly detail the labour of workers and the tools and machinery used to create and extend Melbourne's tram and train networks in the years preceding and during World War 1.The sixth of six annotated photos in an album of photographs of the construction of the St Kilda to Kew electric tram line, taken in Cotham Road, Kew, by the amateur photographer, Edgar James Dower, in 1913. The album contains images detailing the preparation for the laying of the tracks plus work laying the line. The photographer notes on a number of the photos that the metal tracks were collected from the Hawthorn railway siding. The album, together with other phots by E.J. Dower has been made available by the owners for the Kew Historical Society to digitise and publish online and in print.Annotation verso: "Preparing tram line Cotham Road Kew for electric trams / 1913 / The metal was brought by horse and drays, from Hawthorn railway siding".keywords, theme -- connecting victorians by transport and communications, theme -- travelling by tram, photographers -- edgar james dower, cotham road -- kew (vic.)

Bendigo Advertiser "The way we were" from Monday, April 18, 2005. Haystack Poles: Horses and dray were used to move these logs felled in the Rheola or Bealiba region. Date unknown.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

The photograph was taken at one of the early Sunbury Shows. In April 1900 saw the establishment of the Sunbury Horticultural Society but it was in September 1915 that the first Sunbury Show was held at the Corporation Sale Yards in the form of a horse parade and sale. In 1917 the Show was held at the Old Reserve which was adjacent to the railway precinct. Today the Sunbury Show is held in October at the Clarke Oval. Annual Agricultural Shows are important events in many towns throughout the country and in Sunbury, it still draws crowds.A non-digital black and white photocopied photograph of a gathering of people at an agricultural show. Some people are on horseback while others are herding some cattle and a group are unloading barrels from a horse and dray. sunbury show, agricultural shows

The Mitcham Reservoir was completed in 1923. Excavation was by horse drawn scoops and drays. The site is accessed by Agra Road MitchamTwo copies of a black and white photograph of John Williams of East Doncaster Road, Mitcham, standing in front of the Mitcham Reservoir construction site in c1922williams, john, mitcham reservoir

Photograph of a Geelong streetscape with tram tracks under construction. Shows range of businesses at the time. Pedestrians are shown, along with a dray and horses and other horse drawn vehicles of the period.Black and white print on paperPhotograph missingtram track construction, geelong streetscape

Photocopy of an handwritten document with a brief history of the Fifeshire Hotel. Also a photocopy of a black and white photo of the Hotel with three women, five children and a baby at the front. An horse and dray can be seen on the left of the photo.bendigo, hotel, fifeshire hotel

Black and white photograph (2 copies- 1 large, 1 small).Written on rear of backing sheet: "Town Hall under construction - Taken in Melbourne St." Image shows Harry Tortice- wood carter on horse drawn dray.

Drays were used to transport heavy materials such as farm products, building supplies, food. They were pulled by horses or bullocks. Drays were important for transportation in the Kiewa Valley.Made of timber and steel. The piece of wood contacts the axle hub to brake the dray. Part of a brake for a dray. It is missing the actuator that is needed for tightening the band to operate as a brake.drays, horses, bullocks

The bullock team was part of a parade held on the main street of Halls Gap in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of Major Mitchell's visit to the area. There was also a plaque unveiled in commemoration of the Wildflower Show and its many volunteers.The photo shows a crowd watching a bullock team hauling a dray with five children sitting in it down a road. The bullock driver is walking alongside holding a long handled whip over his shoulder. A wagon pulled by draught horses can be seen behind the bullock dray. Buildings can be seen to the right rear of the photo and trees line the left side of the street.events, parades

Made by internee at Camp 3, Tatura and used there by childrenHandmade large wooden model of a cartor dray, painted brown and green. Has metal axle type arrangement under front wheels with attachment for horse model. 2 x removable panels front and backcart, beck k, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camp 3, toys, general, handcrafts, wood, carving

The property in the photograph is 'Emu Bottom' possibly after George Evans leased it, as the caption across the image reads 'Holly Green' 1860.An old non-digital black and white photograph with a cream border of a rural property showing the homestead on the RHS and three out buildings and trees in the background. A man is standing with a horse and open dray on the lower RHS of the image.'emu bottom', holly green, george evans, sunbury, homesteads

Horses played a vital role in the agricultural history of Orbost. This item is connected to that role.A brown leather working horse saddle, a dray saddle. Probably used from 1890's -1950's. It has 4 silver metal studs. The pads underneath have been re-covered with blanket material.saddle leather equestrian rural

THIS WORKING BEE WAS PRIOR TO THE BUILDING OF THE SMALL SUNDAY SCHOOL, WHICH WAS BUILT WITH MONEY DONATED BY MISS CATHERINE BUCHANAN, ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OWNED BY MRS. ELVIE STORK, BALLARAT..1 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF A WORKING BEE AT ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, JULY 1916 .2 COPY.1 ON BACK OF ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH - WORKING BEE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH JULY 1916 "UNCLE JACK 2ND FROM LEFT PROBABLY HIS HORSE & DRAY" STUDIO HORNBY, CLUNESlocal history, photography, photographs, churches, presbyterian

One of a small album of six photographs of the construction of the Cotham Road tramline in Kew, taken by Edgar James Dower in the second decade of the twentieth century. The reverse of each photo contains notes, written over time by the photographer, which are contained in the 'Inscriptions' field. Born and raised in Olinda, Dower's family later moved to Surrey Hills. He worked as an adult as a clerk in the city office of the Metropolitan Gas Company, and in his role as a 'collector', he was able to photograph scenes including the construction of tram and train lines and associated buildings in Kew, Hawthorn, Camberwell and Surrey Hills. Later he established a real estate agency with his brother - the E.J. Dower Real Estate Agency, Dandenong Office. The album as a whole can be viewed separately as the parent file.The image is an historically significant record of the development of transport infrastructure which was used to connect Victorians in the first two decades of the twentieth century. This development resulted from increases in population and the consequent extension of Melbourne's suburbs. The photographs in the album, as well as Dower's single photos mounted on card, individually and collectively richly detail the labour of workers and the tools and machinery used to create and extend Melbourne's tram and train networks in the years preceding and during World War 1.The fourth of six annotated photos in an album of photographs of the construction of the St Kilda to Kew electric tram line, taken in Cotham Road, Kew, by the amateur photographer, Edgar James Dower, in 1913. The album contains images detailing the preparation for the laying of the tracks plus work laying the line. The photographer notes on a number of the photos that the metal tracks were collected from the Hawthorn railway siding. The album, together with other phots by E.J. Dower has been made available by the owners for the Kew Historical Society to digitise and publish online and in print.Annotation verso: "Preparing tram line Cotham Road Kew looking east for electric trams / 1913 / The metal was brought by horses and drays, from Hawthorn railway siding / 1913".keywords, theme -- connecting victorians by transport and communications, theme -- travelling by tram, photographers -- edgar james dower, cotham road -- kew (vic.)

One of a collection of over 400 photographs in an album commenced in 1960 and presented to the Historical Society by the Shire of Phillip IslandPhotograph of freight vessel "Vision" beached in surf at Ventnor Beach - port side - with two horses and drays and men loading bags of Chicory and Onions - three dogs. Ventnor beach was used when wharf charges were high.local history, photography, photographs, film maritime technology, cargo handling, freighter "vision" - loading chicory and onions, black & white photograph, freight vessel vision, ventnor beach, chicory and onions, horses and drays, john jenner, bryant west

Single horse drawn dray (non-tipping) made of timber with metal fittings and wheel rims. Open all round with uprights spaced along the tray. Rail at the top of the uprights. Painted dark brown with unpainted tray boards.No inscriptions or markings.transport - goods; horse - drawn

This copy of an original photograph created in the early 1900s details the "horse and cart" era when the normal transportation of the day was, in this rural setting, exclusively by horse and cart. The importance of this particular photograph to the subjects can be seen by the formal suits worn by both subjects.The natural bush and grassed backdrop have not been "touched up". The dray behind the horses is barely visible (fog like aperture). The lad , John Cooper was 14 years old when this photograph was taken. Both were in the process of harnessing four horses to "hook up" on the dray behind them. From their attire it looks like a trip to town or "the church".This photograph of life on a rural property in the early 1900 shows the rough and hard (physically) life in rural areas before great mechanical revolution/evolution post World War II. This was a time in the Kiewa Valley when most transportation was by horse drawn carriages and transportation routes where dirt roads with potholes. The significance of a local pioneer "family" encapsulated by this photograph cannot be reproduced as effectively in any other form. This digitised scanned copy of an original photograph of four work horses is on 200gms Fujicolor (Fujifilm) Crystal Archive paper has a silver side on which the image has been printed and a matt reverse side.The darker slightly "blurred" image has had a white frame placed over it at the time of encapsulation to provide the finished photo with a frame. This method highlights and focuses the view into the photograph. It is a clever way to permit the eyes to focus into the image to give it a greater third dimensional aspect. on the reverse side hand written(in pencil) "John Cooper & Paddy Cullen (itinerant worker) on grandfathers place (opposite Nesta Drews place) (orange Grove). "Grandfather emigrated from England with Ryders""orange grove " property, early tawonga life style, john cooper, paddy cullen, harnessing working horses