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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Electoral Roll, City of Port Melbourne, Voters' Rolls, 10 Jul 1986
Prepared by the Town Clerk's Office of the City of Port Melbourne. Voters' roll for 1987 in the electoral province of Melbourne, divided according to Port Melbourne Division, Municipal Wards, and certified by Fred. C. Jackson, Town Clerk. This volume with yellow cover, Centre Ward.politics, town clerks, frederick charles jackson, local government - city of port melbourne -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Electoral Roll, City of Port Melbourne, Voters' Rolls, 10 Jul 1986
... Charles Jackson City of Port Melbourne ...Prepared by the Town Clerk's Office of the City of Port Melbourne. Voters' roll for 1987 in the electoral province of Melbourne, divided according to Port Melbourne Division, Municipal Wards, and certified by Fred. C. Jackson, Town Clerk. This volume with pink cover, Boundary Ward.politics, local government - city of port melbourne, town clerks, frederick charles jackson -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Electoral Roll, City of Port Melbourne, Voters' Rolls, 10 Jul 1986
... Charles Jackson City of Port Melbourne ...Prepared by the Town Clerk's Office of the City of Port Melbourne. Voters' roll for 1987 in the electoral province of Melbourne, divided according to Port Melbourne Division, Municipal Wards, and certified by Fred. C. Jackson, Town Clerk. This volume with green cover, Sandridge Ward.politics, local government - city of port melbourne, town clerks, frederick charles jackson -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Article - 2002 City of Port Phillip election, Feb 2002
This John KIRBY is not the professional photographer who worked in Port from the 1990s (and perhaps earlier) and subsequently became a member and volunteer with PMHPS.Material relating to Port Phillip Council elections, Sandridge Ward, March 2002 The Leader March 11, 2002 - article covering all candidateslocal government - city of port phillip, politics, julian hill, theo avgoulis, roger mckay, roy edmond, adrian jackson, john kirby -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Port Melbourne Setttlement Football Team, 1940
Copied from an original loaned by Ken TURNER. Wills OLDMAN (Killed in NG). Syd ROSS (Killed in PNG). Mickey Car was a boxer. Mr Oldman was the president.Lasercopy of photo of Port Melbourne Settlement Football team 1940. One of a group of settlement photos copied in 1998. (Refer #939)sport - australian rules football, societies clubs unions and other organisations, port melbourne settlement, jack phillips, ern turner, ken turner, les causland, larry tilley, wingy jackson, amos bilotti, arthur kerr, jim sinclair, mickey clearahan, mickey car, leo 'doc' wood, lionel wood, wills oldman, les stevens, fred heathcote, jim nicholls, mr oldman, sydney ross, dave matthews, john ross, len sallsbury -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Port Melbourne Setttlement Football Team, c. 1941
Copied from an original loaned by Ken TURNER. Wills OLDMAN (Killed in NG). Syd ROSS (Killed in PNG). Mickey CAR was a boxer. Mr OLDMAN was President.Small black and white photo and colour lasercopy of Port Melbourne Settlement Football team probably 1941. One of a group of settlement photos copied in 1998. (Refer #937)sport - australian rules football, societies clubs unions and other organisations, jack phillips, ern turner, ken turner, les causland, larry tilley, wingy jackson, amos bilotti, arthur kerr, jim sinclair, mickey clearahan, mickey car, leo 'doc' wood, lionel wood, wills oldman, les stevens, fred heathcote, jim nicholls, mr oldman -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Newsletter, City of Port Melbourne, Port Council News, 1988
Set of newsletters issued by the City of Port Melbourne, Vol 6 No 6 Winter 1988 (2 copies)local government - city of port melbourne, city engineers, town clerks, woodruff dairies, frederick charles jackson, bill thackray, neil beddoe, david graham, perce mcguire white, perce white -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Archive - File, papers of Terry Chumbley, 1987 - 1989
Terry Chumbley raised the issue of contamination of the Bayside site. His actions, particularly the correspondence included here, led to the EPA imposing a clean up notice on the site. The de-contamination work took several years and was reported to have cost $43 million. The discovery of site contamination indirectly led to the collapse of the S.C.D.C. proposal for the Bayside siteCollection of papers of Terry Chumbley, including newsletter 'Port Action', newsclippings and correspondence to relevant authorities, 1987 to 1989town planning - proposals shelved - bayside, environmental issues, local government - city of port melbourne, t chumbley, e walker, b robertson, r j (john) kirby, ronald 'bunna" walsh, f w jackson, h bocquet, environment protection authority, epa -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book, Nancy U'REN et al, A History of Port Melbourne, 1987
Commissioned by Port Melbourne Council during 1980's amalgamation battle; first published 1983. Dark green, hard cover with dark green jacket: 'A History of Port Melbourne' by Nancy U'REN and Noel TURNBULL. Second (1987) edition. Signed copy.Signed "With best wishes Nancy U'ren, Noel Turnbull, Fred Jackson, Perce White Mayor 19/10/1983"perce mcguire white, fred jackson, perce white, local government, industry, families, sandridge lagoon, fishermans bend, transport - railways, transport - shipping, piers and wharves, fire and fire services, amalgamation, hotels, built environment, noel turnbull, nancy u'ren nee morris -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Port Melbourne Football Club, Swiss Studios, 1909
Capstan Cigarettes photo of Port Melbourne Football side 1909 Back Row; Owen Pamperin (far left), Martin Pash (far right) Centre row; Syd Anderson (fourth from left), then Frank Sinclair (sec), Joolen and John Jackson Front row; Harry Clarke (third from left, then Ted Brown (captain), Rob Franklin and Artie Treglown Received from Library, 1973 Plus names in pencil of players' surnamessport - australian rules football, owen pamperin, sydney sims anderson, joolen, brown, john jackson, rob franklin, treglowen, martin pash, frank sinclair, harry clarke -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book, Victorian Municipal Directory 1972, 1973
Issued to Cr Perce WHITE during his term as a Councillor of the City of Port Melbourne 1972 - 1994Victorian Municipal Directory 1972 - bound in blue, with gold stamped titlinglocal government - city of port melbourne, perce mcguire white, perce white -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book, Victorian Municipal Directory 1974, 1975
Issued to Cr Perce WHITE during his term as a Councillor of the City of Port Melbourne 1972 - 1994Victorian Municipal Directory 1974 - bound in green, with gold stamped titlinglocal government - city of port melbourne, perce mcguire white, perce white -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book, Victorian Municipal Directory 1976, 1977
Issued to Cr Perce WHITE during his term as a Councillor of the City of Port Melbourne 1972 - 1994Victorian Municipal Directory 1976 - bound in black, with gold stamped titlinglocal government - city of port melbourne, perce mcguire white, perce white -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book, Victorian Municipal Directory 1978, 1979
Issued to Cr Perce WHITE during his term as a Councillor of the City of Port Melbourne 1972 - 1994Victorian Municipal Directory 1978 - bound in brown, with gold stamped titlinglocal government - city of port melbourne, perce mcguire white, perce white -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book, Victorian Municipal Directory 1980, 1981
Issued to Cr Perce WHITE during his term as a Councillor of the City of Port Melbourne 1972 - 1994Victorian Municipal Directory 1980 - bound in red, with gold stamped titlinglocal government - city of port melbourne, perce mcguire white, perce white -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book, Victorian Municipal Directory 1982, 1983
Issued to Cr Perce WHITE during his term as a Councillor of the City of Port Melbourne 1972 - 1994Victorian Municipal Directory 1982 - bound in tan, with gold stamped titlinglocal government - city of port melbourne, perce mcguire white, perce white -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book, Victorian Municipal Directory 1984, 1985
Issued to Cr Perce White during his term as a Councillor of the City of Port Melbourne 1972 - 1994Victorian Municipal Directory 1984 - bound in grey, with gold stamped titlinglocal government -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book - Diary, dockmen work details, 1944
1944 Business Diary showing dockmen, the type of work done and the hours workedmelbourne harbor trust - port of melbourne authority, piers and wharves - station pier, w ashdown, k baldock, a borthwick, w collins, d caldwell, d davies, g finch, n flanagan, m grace, s greenshields, j morwood, g jackson, j mackay, h milkins, j maw, t o'brien, w oliver, j o'neill, r patterson, l ponton, r scott, t searle, l weate, m wickfeldt, r williams, a williams, f west, d webb, marshall, mitchell, atkins -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book - Diary, dockmen work details, 1956
1956 Business Diary showing dockmen, the type of work done and the hours worked'Mr W Bassett' handwritten top right front covermelbourne harbor trust - port of melbourne authority, piers and wharves - station pier, judge, carns, v akkerman, davies, knopp, jackson, keith, corfield, d caldwell, kelly, etchell, speath, allen, lawson, schrieber, robertson, colby, searle, schrauiven, kilbane, richards, biddlecombe, turkowski, hodgins, butterworth, mcmahon, bakker, jones, hughes, graham, grant, garrett, le marshall, gadsden, dyson, giltens, calleja, patterson, anderson, wright, pinch, wyers, fleming, ashdown, schofield, bassett -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book - Victorian Municipal Directory, 1892
Donor's father, Mr W S Lang, was city valuer of City of Port MelbourneFaded green paper cover with 1898 and W S Lang stamped on front, Victorian Municipal Directory with gazeteer and waterworks. Irrigation Trusts record for 1898Title Page; "W S Lang, 11 Ashby Grove, Ivanhoe, Tel 499219built environment, local government - town of port melbourne, w s lang -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Grade 4A, Nott Street State School, Port Melbourne, 1957
Sent to us by Sandra SVENSSON after seeing her picture in the 2003 Historic Port Melbourne calendar (July)Class photo of Nott Street School grade 4A, 1957education - primary schools, bruch beckwith, colin chappel, danny clarke, des jackson, glen metheson, les mahoney, jeff wilson, colin preston, greg pasquill, doug byrne, noel rodda, robin murphy, bobby douglas, sandra svensson, linda dyett, karen morten, judith mcdonald, phyllis kirk, karen julier, janine mccauley, cheryl blank, nott street state school -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book, Victorian Municipal Directory, 1909 - 1940
Served as reference for Cr CRICHTONTwenty-eight volume set of Victorian Municipal Directories - 1909-1940 (1913,1915 and 1939 missing). Councillors, officers, Justices of cities listed year by year. Bound in navy blue, gold foil stamped with titling and Port Melbourne Councillor CRICHTON's name; years 1926 and 1932 stamped 'Mayor'local government, james peter crichton, mayors -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Newspaper - Newspaper, City of Port Melbourne, Port Council News, 1984 - 1994
4 page black & white publication issued by the City of Port Melbourne. Vol 1, No 1 Spring 1984 Port Melbourne Amalgamation Bulletin, February 1986 Vol 2, No 1 Autumn 1986 Vol 2 No 3 Spring 1986 Vol 3, No 2 Autumn 1987 Vol 3, No 3 Spring 1987 Vol 4, No 4 Summer 1987/88 Vol 5, No 5 Autumn 1988 Vol 6, No 6 Winter 1988 (2) Vol 6, No 7 Summer 1988 June 1989, Oct. 1989, Dec. 1989, Sep. 1990, Dec. 1990 (2), June 1991, Sep. 1991. Annual Report 1991/92 Dec. 1991, Mar. 1992, July 1992, Sep. 1992, Dec. 1992, Mar. 1993, Sep. 1993, Dec. 1993, Mar. 1994local government - city of port melbourne, town clerks, city engineers, beverley lewis, erika anders, geraldine stapleton, frederick charles jackson, bill thackray, neil beddoe, david graham, perce mcguire white, perce white -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Plaque, Port Melbourne Administration building, Parks and Gardens depot
Plaque removed from building upon its demolition in 2018Bronze or brass plaque installed on the City of Port Melbourne Parks and Gardens depot administration building when the building was officially opened on 28th July 1986"City of Port Melbourne Parks and Gardens depot. This admonistration and amenity building was officially opened on Monday 28th July 1986 by the Mayor Councillor Perce White JP. Councillors: T T Buckingham; P White JP; B J Mitchell; R F Julier; F R Winduss; N Tsilfoglou; Town Clerk F C Jackson City Engineer W A Thackraytown clerks, city engineers, barry 'bomber' mitchell, nick tsilfoglou, parks and gardens, frederick charles jackson, raymond frank julier, frederick robert winduss, theodore thomas (tom) buckingham, bill thackray, perce mcguire white, perce white, built environment - civic -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document, Port Melbourne City Council, Port Melbourne - Our City, Our Life, Our Choice - No Amalgamation, Jun 1986
Port Melbourne - Our City, Our Life, Our Choice - No Amalgamation yellow sheet with process for signature collection local government - city of port melbourne, amalgamation, frederick charles jackson, town clerks, liana thompson, mayors -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Education kit, Port Melbourne City Council, Port Melbourne - Our City, Our Life, Our Choice - No Amalgamation, Jun 1986
Port Melbourne - Our City, Our Life, Our Choice - No Amalgamation Facts and figures for the poll kit local government - city of port melbourne, amalgamation, frederick charles jackson, town clerks, liana thompson, mayors -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Map, Port Melbourne City Council, Port Melbourne - Our City, Our Life, Our Choice - No Amalgamation, Jun 1986
Port Melbourne - Our City, Our Life, Our Choice - No Amalgamation Map of area with names and addresses local government - city of port melbourne, amalgamation, frederick charles jackson, town clerks, liana thompson, mayors -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Plan, Routes to the Victoria Diggings, 1852
Black and white line drawing of the route to the major Central Victorian Diggings, including Ballarat, Bendigo, Jim Crow (Daylesford), Kyneton, Carlshrue, Mount Macedon, Kilmore, Jackson's Creek, Keilor, Bacchus Marsh, Gregory, Black Forest, Geelong, Flemington, Melbourne, Mount Buninyong, Port Phillip. ballarat, bendigo, jim crow, daylesford, kyneton, carlshrue,, mount macedon, kilmore, jackson's creek, keilor, bacchus marsh, gregory, black forest, geelong, flemington, melbourne, mount buninyong, port phillip, diggings, thomas ham, goldfields -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Boroondara General Cemetery Springthorpe Memorial, c2005-2015
... ways. Two variegated Port Jackson Figs are planted at either ...The Boroondara General Cemetery is registerd by Heritage VictoriaFrom Heritage Victoria Statement of Significance Last updated on - December 15, 2005 What is significant? Boroondara Cemetery, established in 1858, is within an unusual triangular reserve bounded by High Street, Park Hill Road and Victoria Park, Kew. The caretaker's lodge and administrative office (1860 designed by Charles Vickers, additions, 1866-1899 by Albert Purchas) form a picturesque two-storey brick structure with a slate roof and clock tower. A rotunda or shelter (1890, Albert Purchas) is located in the centre of the cemetery: this has an octagonal hipped roof with fish scale slates and a decorative brick base with a tessellated floor and timber seating. The cemetery is surrounded by a 2.7 metre high ornamental red brick wall (1895-96, Albert Purchas) with some sections of vertical iron palisades between brick pillars. Albert Purchas was a prominent Melbourne architect who was the Secretary of the Melbourne General Cemetery from 1852 to 1907 and Chairman of the Boroondara Cemetery Board of Trustees from 1867 to 1909. He made a significant contribution to the design of the Boroondara Cemetery Boroondara Cemetery is an outstanding example of the Victorian Garden Cemetery movement in Victoria, retaining key elements of the style, despite overdevelopment which has obscured some of the paths and driveways. Elements of the style represented at Boroondara include an ornamental boundary fence, a system of curving paths which are kerbed and follow the site's natural contours, defined views, recreational facilities such as the rotunda, a landscaped park like setting, sectarian divisions for burials, impressive monuments, wrought and cast iron grave surrounds and exotic symbolic plantings. In the 1850s cemeteries were located on the periphery of populated areas because of concerns about diseases like cholera. They were designed to be attractive places for mourners and visitors to walk and contemplate. Typically cemeteries were arranged to keep religions separated and this tended to maintain links to places of origin, reflecting a migrant society. Other developments included cast iron entrance gates, built in 1889 to a design by Albert Purchas; a cemetery shelter or rotunda, built in 1890, which is a replica of one constructed in the Melbourne General Cemetery in the same year; an ornamental brick fence erected in 1896-99(?); the construction and operation of a terminus for a horse tram at the cemetery gates during 1887-1915; and the Springthorpe Memorial built between 1897 and 1907. A brick cremation wall and a memorial rose garden were constructed near the entrance in the mid- twentieth century(c.1955-57) and a mausoleum completed in 2001.The maintenance shed/depot close to High Street was constructed in 1987. The original entrance was altered in 2000 and the original cast iron gates moved to the eastern entrance of the Mausoleum. The Springthorpe Memorial (VHR 522) set at the entrance to the burial ground commemorates Annie Springthorpe, and was erected between 1897 and 1907 by her husband Dr John Springthorpe. It was the work of the sculptor Bertram Mackennal, architect Harold Desbrowe Annear, landscape designer and Director of the Melbourne Bortanic Gardens, W.R. Guilfoyle, with considerable input from Dr Springthorpe The memorial is in the form of a small temple in a primitive Doric style. It was designed by Harold Desbrowe Annear and includes Bertram Mackennal sculptures in Carrara marble. Twelve columns of deep green granite from Scotland support a Harcourt granite superstructure. The roof by Brooks Robinson is a coloured glass dome, which sits within the rectangular form and behind the pediments. The sculptural group raised on a dais, consists of the deceased woman lying on a sarcophagus with an attending angel and mourner. The figure of Grief crouches at the foot of the bier and an angel places a wreath over Annie's head, symbolising the triumph of immortal life over death. The body of the deceased was placed in a vault below. The bronze work is by Marriots of Melbourne. Professor Tucker of the University of Melbourne composed appropriate inscriptions in English and archaic Greek lettering.. The floor is a geometric mosaic and the glass dome roof is of Tiffany style lead lighting in hues of reds and pinks in a radiating pattern. The memorial originally stood in a landscape triangular garden of about one acre near the entrance to the cemetery. However, after Dr Springthorpe's death in 1933 it was found that transactions for the land had not been fully completed so most of it was regained by the cemetery. A sundial and seat remain. The building is almost completely intact. The only alteration has been the removal of a glass canopy over the statuary and missing chains between posts. The Argus (26 March 1933) considered the memorial to be the most beautiful work of its kind in Australia. No comparable buildings are known. The Syme Memorial (1908) is a memorial to David Syme, political economist and publisher of the Melbourne Age newspaper. The Egyptian memorial designed by architect Arthur Peck is one of the most finely designed and executed pieces of monumental design in Melbourne. It has a temple like form with each column having a different capital detail. These support a cornice that curves both inwards and outwards. The tomb also has balustradings set between granite piers which create porch spaces leading to the entrance ways. Two variegated Port Jackson Figs are planted at either end. The Cussen Memorial (VHR 2036) was constructed in 1912-13 by Sir Leo Cussen in memory of his young son Hubert. Sir Leo Finn Bernard Cussen (1859-1933), judge and member of the Victorian Supreme Court in 1906. was buried here. The family memorial is one of the larger and more impressive memorials in the cemetery and is an interesting example of the 1930s Gothic Revival style architecture. It takes the form of a small chapel with carvings, diamond shaped roof tiles and decorated ridge embellishing the exterior. By the 1890s, the Boroondara Cemetery was a popular destination for visitors and locals admiring the beauty of the grounds and the splendid monuments. The edge of suburban settlement had reached the cemetery in the previous decade. Its Victorian garden design with sweeping curved drives, hill top views and high maintenance made it attractive. In its Victorian Garden Cemetery design, Boroondara was following an international trend. The picturesque Romanticism of the Pere la Chaise garden cemetery established in Paris in 1804 provided a prototype for great metropolitan cemeteries such as Kensal Green (1883) and Highgate (1839) in London and the Glasgow Necropolis (1831). Boroondara Cemetery was important in establishing this trend in Australia. The cemetery's beauty peaked with the progressive completion of the spectacular Springthorpe Memorial between 1899 and 1907. From about the turn of the century, the trustees encroached on the original design, having repeatedly failed in attempts to gain more land. The wide plantations around road boundaries, grassy verges around clusters of graves in each denomination, and most of the landscaped surround to the Springthorpe memorial are now gone. Some of the original road and path space were resumed for burial purposes. The post war period saw an increased use of the Cemetery by newer migrant groups. The mid- to late- twentieth century monuments were often placed on the grassed edges of the various sections and encroached on the roadways as the cemetery had reached the potential foreseen by its design. These were well tended in comparison with Victorian monuments which have generally been left to fall into a state of neglect. The Boroondara Cemetery features many plants, mostly conifers and shrubs of funerary symbolism, which line the boundaries, road and pathways, and frame the cemetery monuments or are planted on graves. The major plantings include an impressive row of Bhutan Cypress (Cupressus torulosa), interplanted with Sweet Pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum), and a few Pittosporum crassifolium, along the High Street and Parkhill Street, where the planting is dominated by Sweet Pittosporum. Planting within the cemetery includes rows and specimen trees of Bhutan Cypress and Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), including a row with alternate plantings of both species. The planting includes an unusual "squat" form of an Italian Cypress. More of these trees probably lined the cemetery roads and paths. Also dominating the cemetery landscape near the Rotunda is a stand of 3 Canary Island Pines (Pinus canariensis), a Bunya Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) and a Weeping Elm (Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii') Amongst the planting are the following notable conifers: a towering Bunya Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii), a Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), a rare Golden Funeral Cypress (Chamaecyparis funebris 'Aurea'), two large Funeral Cypress (Chamaecyparis funebris), and the only known Queensland Kauri (Agathis robusta) in a cemetery in Victoria. The Cemetery records, including historical plans of the cemetery from 1859, are held by the administration and their retention enhances the historical significance of the Cemetery. How is it significant? Boroondara Cemetery is of aesthetic, architectural, scientific (botanical) and historical significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical and aesthetic significance as an outstanding example of a Victorian garden cemetery. The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical significance as a record of Victorian life from the 1850s, and the early settlement of Kew. It is also significant for its ability to demonstrate, through the design and location of the cemetery, attitudes towards burial, health concerns and the importance placed on religion, at the time of its establishment. The Boroondara Cemetery is of architectural significance for the design of the gatehouse or sexton's lodge and cemetery office (built in stages from 1860 to 1899), the ornamental brick perimeter fence and elegant cemetery shelter to the design of prominent Melbourne architects, Charles Vickers (for the original 1860 cottage) and Albert Purchas, cemetery architect and secretary from 1864 to his death in 1907. The Boroondara Cemetery has considerable aesthetic significance which is principally derived from its tranquil, picturesque setting; its impressive memorials and monuments; its landmark features such as the prominent clocktower of the sexton's lodge and office, the mature exotic plantings, the decorative brick fence and the entrance gates; its defined views; and its curving paths. The Springthorpe Memorial (VHR 522), the Syme Memorial and the Cussen Memorial (VHR 2036), all contained within the Boroondara Cemetery, are of aesthetic and architectural significance for their creative and artistic achievement. The Boroondara Cemetery is of scientific (botanical) significance for its collection of rare mature exotic plantings. The Golden Funeral Cypress, (Chamaecyparis funebris 'Aurea') is the only known example in Victoria. The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical significance for the graves, monuments and epitaphs of a number of individuals whose activities have played a major part in Australia's history. They include the Henty family, artists Louis Buvelot and Charles Nuttall, businessmen John Halfey and publisher David Syme, artist and diarist Georgiana McCrae, actress Nellie Stewart and architect and designer of the Boroondara and Melbourne General Cemeteries, Albert Purchas.Digital image of the Springthorpe Memorial in the Boroondara General Cemeterycemetery, boroondara, kew, gatehouse, clock, tower, clocktower, heritage, memorial, springthorpe memorial -
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, boroondara general cemetery Henty, c2005-2015
... ways. Two variegated Port Jackson Figs are planted at either ...The Boroondara General Cemetery is registered by Heritage VictoriaFrom Heritage Victoria Statement of Significance Last updated on - December 15, 2005 What is significant? Boroondara Cemetery, established in 1858, is within an unusual triangular reserve bounded by High Street, Park Hill Road and Victoria Park, Kew. The caretaker's lodge and administrative office (1860 designed by Charles Vickers, additions, 1866-1899 by Albert Purchas) form a picturesque two-storey brick structure with a slate roof and clock tower. A rotunda or shelter (1890, Albert Purchas) is located in the centre of the cemetery: this has an octagonal hipped roof with fish scale slates and a decorative brick base with a tessellated floor and timber seating. The cemetery is surrounded by a 2.7 metre high ornamental red brick wall (1895-96, Albert Purchas) with some sections of vertical iron palisades between brick pillars. Albert Purchas was a prominent Melbourne architect who was the Secretary of the Melbourne General Cemetery from 1852 to 1907 and Chairman of the Boroondara Cemetery Board of Trustees from 1867 to 1909. He made a significant contribution to the design of the Boroondara Cemetery Boroondara Cemetery is an outstanding example of the Victorian Garden Cemetery movement in Victoria, retaining key elements of the style, despite overdevelopment which has obscured some of the paths and driveways. Elements of the style represented at Boroondara include an ornamental boundary fence, a system of curving paths which are kerbed and follow the site's natural contours, defined views, recreational facilities such as the rotunda, a landscaped park like setting, sectarian divisions for burials, impressive monuments, wrought and cast iron grave surrounds and exotic symbolic plantings. In the 1850s cemeteries were located on the periphery of populated areas because of concerns about diseases like cholera. They were designed to be attractive places for mourners and visitors to walk and contemplate. Typically cemeteries were arranged to keep religions separated and this tended to maintain links to places of origin, reflecting a migrant society. Other developments included cast iron entrance gates, built in 1889 to a design by Albert Purchas; a cemetery shelter or rotunda, built in 1890, which is a replica of one constructed in the Melbourne General Cemetery in the same year; an ornamental brick fence erected in 1896-99(?); the construction and operation of a terminus for a horse tram at the cemetery gates during 1887-1915; and the Springthorpe Memorial built between 1897 and 1907. A brick cremation wall and a memorial rose garden were constructed near the entrance in the mid- twentieth century(c.1955-57) and a mausoleum completed in 2001.The maintenance shed/depot close to High Street was constructed in 1987. The original entrance was altered in 2000 and the original cast iron gates moved to the eastern entrance of the Mausoleum. The Springthorpe Memorial (VHR 522) set at the entrance to the burial ground commemorates Annie Springthorpe, and was erected between 1897 and 1907 by her husband Dr John Springthorpe. It was the work of the sculptor Bertram Mackennal, architect Harold Desbrowe Annear, landscape designer and Director of the Melbourne Bortanic Gardens, W.R. Guilfoyle, with considerable input from Dr Springthorpe The memorial is in the form of a small temple in a primitive Doric style. It was designed by Harold Desbrowe Annear and includes Bertram Mackennal sculptures in Carrara marble. Twelve columns of deep green granite from Scotland support a Harcourt granite superstructure. The roof by Brooks Robinson is a coloured glass dome, which sits within the rectangular form and behind the pediments. The sculptural group raised on a dais, consists of the deceased woman lying on a sarcophagus with an attending angel and mourner. The figure of Grief crouches at the foot of the bier and an angel places a wreath over Annie's head, symbolising the triumph of immortal life over death. The body of the deceased was placed in a vault below. The bronze work is by Marriots of Melbourne. Professor Tucker of the University of Melbourne composed appropriate inscriptions in English and archaic Greek lettering.. The floor is a geometric mosaic and the glass dome roof is of Tiffany style lead lighting in hues of reds and pinks in a radiating pattern. The memorial originally stood in a landscape triangular garden of about one acre near the entrance to the cemetery. However, after Dr Springthorpe's death in 1933 it was found that transactions for the land had not been fully completed so most of it was regained by the cemetery. A sundial and seat remain. The building is almost completely intact. The only alteration has been the removal of a glass canopy over the statuary and missing chains between posts. The Argus (26 March 1933) considered the memorial to be the most beautiful work of its kind in Australia. No comparable buildings are known. The Syme Memorial (1908) is a memorial to David Syme, political economist and publisher of the Melbourne Age newspaper. The Egyptian memorial designed by architect Arthur Peck is one of the most finely designed and executed pieces of monumental design in Melbourne. It has a temple like form with each column having a different capital detail. These support a cornice that curves both inwards and outwards. The tomb also has balustradings set between granite piers which create porch spaces leading to the entrance ways. Two variegated Port Jackson Figs are planted at either end. The Cussen Memorial (VHR 2036) was constructed in 1912-13 by Sir Leo Cussen in memory of his young son Hubert. Sir Leo Finn Bernard Cussen (1859-1933), judge and member of the Victorian Supreme Court in 1906. was buried here. The family memorial is one of the larger and more impressive memorials in the cemetery and is an interesting example of the 1930s Gothic Revival style architecture. It takes the form of a small chapel with carvings, diamond shaped roof tiles and decorated ridge embellishing the exterior. By the 1890s, the Boroondara Cemetery was a popular destination for visitors and locals admiring the beauty of the grounds and the splendid monuments. The edge of suburban settlement had reached the cemetery in the previous decade. Its Victorian garden design with sweeping curved drives, hill top views and high maintenance made it attractive. In its Victorian Garden Cemetery design, Boroondara was following an international trend. The picturesque Romanticism of the Pere la Chaise garden cemetery established in Paris in 1804 provided a prototype for great metropolitan cemeteries such as Kensal Green (1883) and Highgate (1839) in London and the Glasgow Necropolis (1831). Boroondara Cemetery was important in establishing this trend in Australia. The cemetery's beauty peaked with the progressive completion of the spectacular Springthorpe Memorial between 1899 and 1907. From about the turn of the century, the trustees encroached on the original design, having repeatedly failed in attempts to gain more land. The wide plantations around road boundaries, grassy verges around clusters of graves in each denomination, and most of the landscaped surround to the Springthorpe memorial are now gone. Some of the original road and path space were resumed for burial purposes. The post war period saw an increased use of the Cemetery by newer migrant groups. The mid- to late- twentieth century monuments were often placed on the grassed edges of the various sections and encroached on the roadways as the cemetery had reached the potential foreseen by its design. These were well tended in comparison with Victorian monuments which have generally been left to fall into a state of neglect. The Boroondara Cemetery features many plants, mostly conifers and shrubs of funerary symbolism, which line the boundaries, road and pathways, and frame the cemetery monuments or are planted on graves. The major plantings include an impressive row of Bhutan Cypress (Cupressus torulosa), interplanted with Sweet Pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum), and a few Pittosporum crassifolium, along the High Street and Parkhill Street, where the planting is dominated by Sweet Pittosporum. Planting within the cemetery includes rows and specimen trees of Bhutan Cypress and Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), including a row with alternate plantings of both species. The planting includes an unusual "squat" form of an Italian Cypress. More of these trees probably lined the cemetery roads and paths. Also dominating the cemetery landscape near the Rotunda is a stand of 3 Canary Island Pines (Pinus canariensis), a Bunya Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) and a Weeping Elm (Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii') Amongst the planting are the following notable conifers: a towering Bunya Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii), a Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), a rare Golden Funeral Cypress (Chamaecyparis funebris 'Aurea'), two large Funeral Cypress (Chamaecyparis funebris), and the only known Queensland Kauri (Agathis robusta) in a cemetery in Victoria. The Cemetery records, including historical plans of the cemetery from 1859, are held by the administration and their retention enhances the historical significance of the Cemetery. How is it significant? Boroondara Cemetery is of aesthetic, architectural, scientific (botanical) and historical significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical and aesthetic significance as an outstanding example of a Victorian garden cemetery. The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical significance as a record of Victorian life from the 1850s, and the early settlement of Kew. It is also significant for its ability to demonstrate, through the design and location of the cemetery, attitudes towards burial, health concerns and the importance placed on religion, at the time of its establishment. The Boroondara Cemetery is of architectural significance for the design of the gatehouse or sexton's lodge and cemetery office (built in stages from 1860 to 1899), the ornamental brick perimeter fence and elegant cemetery shelter to the design of prominent Melbourne architects, Charles Vickers (for the original 1860 cottage) and Albert Purchas, cemetery architect and secretary from 1864 to his death in 1907. The Boroondara Cemetery has considerable aesthetic significance which is principally derived from its tranquil, picturesque setting; its impressive memorials and monuments; its landmark features such as the prominent clocktower of the sexton's lodge and office, the mature exotic plantings, the decorative brick fence and the entrance gates; its defined views; and its curving paths. The Springthorpe Memorial (VHR 522), the Syme Memorial and the Cussen Memorial (VHR 2036), all contained within the Boroondara Cemetery, are of aesthetic and architectural significance for their creative and artistic achievement. The Boroondara Cemetery is of scientific (botanical) significance for its collection of rare mature exotic plantings. The Golden Funeral Cypress, (Chamaecyparis funebris 'Aurea') is the only known example in Victoria. The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical significance for the graves, monuments and epitaphs of a number of individuals whose activities have played a major part in Australia's history. They include the Henty family, artists Louis Buvelot and Charles Nuttall, businessmen John Halfey and publisher David Syme, artist and diarist Georgiana McCrae, actress Nellie Stewart and architect and designer of the Boroondara and Melbourne General Cemeteries, Albert Purchas.Digital imagescemetery, boroondara, kew, gatehouse, clock, tower, clocktower, heritage, memorial, henty