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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - HARRY BIGGS COLLECTION: OLD POLICE BARRACKS, 5/6/70
Document. Harry Biggs Collection. A letter on Public Works Department Victoria letterhead from G. Serpell Director General to Mr H. Biggs, Treasurer Royal Historical of Victoria (Bendigo Branch) dated 5th June 1970. In the letter he is stating The Depart. Of Crown Lands & Survey is investigating the future use & control of the old Police Barracks building.G. Serpell Director Generalorganization, club/society, community, harry biggs collection, old police barracks -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LANDS OFFICE: REPORTS OF LAND SALES BY AUCTION 1876 - 1891, 1876 - 1891
Document: green hard cover journal, buff spine and corners. Contains details of land sales by public auction Kerang, Swan Hill and Boort. m LH page ' Lot, County, Town or parish, section, allotment, sold, unsold, why not sold, upset price, sold per acre. RH page: value of improvements, name of purchaser, residence, deposit forfeited, total amount. On spine in gold lettering ' report of sales by auction' underneath 'land sales' in black. No. 6 on top of spine, letter K on base.Lands Officeplace, land sales, kerang, swan hill, boort, sandhurst, lands office, kerang, swan hill, boort -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MCCOLL, RANKIN AND STANISTREET COLLECTION: APPLICATION FOR MINING LEASE/INCLUSION OF LANDS IN MINING LEASE, 1930's
Documents: 14 copies of application for a mining lease, 3 copies of consent to the inclusion of certain lands in a mining lease ( 1928 ).Secretary by the Mines. State Public Offices, Treasury Gardens, Melbourneorganization, mining, lease documents ( blank ), mccoll, rankin and stanistreet: lease application -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - NOTES ON DUDLEY HOUSE
Typed notes on Dudley House, its history, description and some of what it looked like when the Branch had it.document, dudley house, bendigo branch of the royal historical society, district lands and survey office, supreme court building, bendigo high school, richard larritt, captain andrew clarke, public offices, post office, law courts, city council, national trust -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
CD-ROM, Public Record Office Victoria, Lands guide : a guide to finding records of Crown land at Public Record Office Victoria, 2009
... of Crown land at Public Records Office Victoria. Lands guide ...A Guide to finding records of Crown land at Public Records Office Victoria.CD-ROM -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Article - Photocopy, Horticultural Society of Victoria, 1860
Photocopy of Newspaper Article, Thursday 2 August, 1860 p 7 Report of the monthly meeting of the HSV Municipal Council of Richmond and commissioner of Public Works had granted funds for fencing the gardens and plans for a special meeting as soon as the Department of Lands had granted them land in the Surrey Paddock.Newspaper article from The Argusthe argus, surrey paddock, burnley gardens, horticultural society of victoria, hsv -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Department of Conservation Forests and Lands, Draft Gippsland Fisheries Management Plan, 1989
Provides information and inviting public comment and discussion on the management of the Gippsland Lakes Victoria.wetlands, recreation, waterways -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Book - Report, Grampians National Park Draft Management Plan, 1985
For Public comment to National Park Service, Victoria. A Division of the department of Conservation, Forest and LandsSoft Cover with B/W Photo of aerial view of ranges of Grampians. Black taped Spine binding.$5 Barry Clugston -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document - Report, Nunawading land, 01/10/1855
Photocopies of 3 sheets of documents in the Public Record Office listing the first land purchases in Nunawading. Headed: 'Final Report of a sale by public auction of suburban and country lands held at Melbourne on the 22nd October 1855'.williams, william, cousens, james, heading, nalborough, phillip, riley, patrick, blood, thomas, cook, holland, john, lobb, burrell, charles, land subdivision -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Photograph - Colour, Former Lake Condah Aboriginal Mission, 17/04/2016
The Lake Condah Mission site includes bluestone ruins and a reconstructed timber building, as well as the cemetery which were part of the original settlement. With European settlement in the 1830s came conflict. Gunditjmara people fought for their land during the Eumerella wars, which lasted more than 20 years. As this conflict drew to an end in the 1860s, many Aboriginal people were displaced and the Victorian government began to develop reserves to house them. Many Aboriginal people refused to move from their ancestral land and eventually the government agreed to build a mission at Lake Condah, close to some of the eel traps and within sight of Budj Bim (Mt Eccles). The mission opened in 1867. The Mission was formally closed in 1918, and Aboriginal people were forced off the Mission, some moving to Lake Tyers. The Gunditjmara protested against the Mission’s closure and many continued to reside in the buildings until the majority of the reserve land was handed over to the Soldier Settlement Scheme in the 1940s. The mission was destroyed by the government in the 1950s in an effort to force the integration of Gunditjmara people with the general community but the Gunditjmara people continued to live in the area and protect their heritage. The mission lands were returned to the Gunditjmara in 1987. Lake Condah Mission is a place with special meaning to the Gunditjmara community - as a community meeting place, an administrative centre, a symbol of political struggle and a link to family histories. As a result the Gunditjmara community do not want open public access to this site. Key Features of Interest Ruins of stone cottages and plot remains of buildings such as the church Reconstructed dormitory building (https://www.budjbim.com.au/visit/cultural-sites/lake-condah-mission/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz6j36ZvF-QIV8ZhmAh2tmA3qEAAYASAAEgLxrvD_BwE, accessed 2022)Colour photographs of the former Lake Condah Aboriginal Missionlake condah, lake condah aboriginal mission, aborigines, aboriginal, gunditjmara, eumerella wars -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Container - Basket, fisherman's
In July 1862, Victoria’s out-going Inspector of Fisheries and Oyster Beds, James Putwain, wrote a report of his observations of the colony’s commercial fisheries to deputy premier Charles Duffy. Irish-born Duffy was the Commissioner for Public Works, President of the Board of Land and Works, and Commissioner for Crown Lands and Survey, later to become Premier of Victoria. Reckoned to be of public interest, Putwain’s report was published in the Lands Circular of the day. Apart from its general historical interest in describing the fishes, fishing gear and boats of the time, this report remarks on the vulnerability of commercial fishermen to market wholesalers. It also comments on the particular role of Chinese, both as fishermen and as a discrete section of the fish-buying community at the time. FISHERIES OF VICTORIACane woven fisherman's basket for storage of catchfishing in port phillip and hobson's bay -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Plan, Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works : Borough of Kew : Detail Plan No.1561, 1905
The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) plans were produced from the 1890s to the 1950s. They were crucial to the design and development of Melbourne's sewerage and drainage system. The plans, at a scale of 40 feet to 1 inch (1:480), provide a detailed historical record of Melbourne streetscapes and environmental features. Each plan covers one or two street blocks (roughly six streets), showing details of buildings, including garden layouts and ownership boundaries, and features such as laneways, drains, bridges, parks, municipal boundaries and other prominent landmarks as they existed at the time each plan was produced. (Source: State Library of Victoria). This plan forms part of a large group of MMBW plans and maps that was donated to the Society by Mr Poulter, City Engineer of the City of Kew in 1989. Within this collection, thirty-five hand-coloured plans, backed with linen, are of statewide significance as they include annotations that provide details of construction materials used in buildings in the first decade of the 20th century as well as additional information about land ownership and usage. The copies in the Public Record Office Victoria and the State Library of Victoria are monochrome versions which do not denote building materials so that the maps in this collection are invaluable and unique tools for researchers and heritage consultants. A number of the plans are not held in the collection of the State Library of Victoria so they have the additional attribute of rarity.Original survey plan, issued by the MMBW to a contractor with responsibility for constructing sewers in the area identified on the plan within the Borough of Kew. The plan was at some stage hand-coloured, possibly by the contractor, but more likely by officers working in the Engineering Department of the Borough and later Town, then City of Kew. The hand-coloured sections of buildings on the plan were used to denote masonry or brick constructions (pink), weatherboard constructions (yellow), and public buildings (grey). MMBW Detail Plan 1561 outlines those residences in the area bordered by Burke Road, Loxton Street, Mount Street and Barkers Road that had been constructed by 1905 when the land was surveyed. At this time, the area nearest Burke Road had been subdivided and developed whereas the lands to the west were as yet undeveloped. The houses represented are not named on the Plan.melbourne and metropolitan board of works, detail plans, mmbw 1561, cartography -
Surrey Hills Historical Society Collection
Photograph, Alan Judge Holt at the piano
His dates: 1913-1993. ‘Kenilworth’, 9 Beatrice Avenue was home of Edmund Holt, his wife and 3 sons Ray, Fred and Alan who attended Surrey Hills State School in their primary years. The family were very involved with the Methodist (Uniting) Church. Alan became organist and for some years also played at the Canterbury Presbyterian Church. He was well-liked from his days as a newspaper delivery boy, and after marriage lived at 62 Broughton Road and then 2 Earle Street taking part in various local activities with his wife Edna and three boys. After completing his secondary education at University High Alan joined the Public Service and after a time in the Premier’s Department moved to the Lands Department. He became Secretary of that department and after retirement moved to 13 Berry Street, Box Hill. He keenly researched the history of Surrey Hills. He left his collection of Surrey Hills history to the people of Surrey Hills. A black and white photograph of a man playing at a piono. He is dressed in a suit and has his back to us. There is a planter stand to the left of the photo.kenilworth, beatrice avenue, surrey hills, mr alan judge holt, lands department, organist, surrey hills methodist church, canterbury presbyterian church, mrs edna holt, broughton road, earle street, pianist -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Plan, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, 1978
Plan of RBG with grid references. Produced by Dept. of Crown Lands and Survey, Victoria, Division of Survey and Mapping. Prepared in 1978 from surveys completed in 1976. (1) 2 copies plan. Main areas, buildings, etc., labelled, beds outlined. (2) Original coloured plan and reduced size photocopy. More labelling, particularly beds (handwritten). Labelled Jeremy J. Wallace with handwritten notes on reverse re a project. (3) Reduced size photocopy. Handwritten labelling of beds. (4 - 11) Enlarged photocopies of sections of (1) Handwritten notes and plant labelling. (1). Photgraphed copies by FRESCO 510131-TA. (12) Plan on a grid, coloured. "No Public Access," areas marked.jeremy j. wallace, royal botanical gardens melbourne -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Display folder containing photocopied maps of lands in Tarnagulla and district
David Gordon Collection. -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Photograph: Aerial view of Tarnagulla and district, 11th November 1983
Donald Clark Collection. An aerial colour photograph of Tarnagulla and surround lands. Labelled Run 1.tarnagulla -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Telegram, March 1862
Donald Clark Collection. A large lot of papers, including this and many other telegrams, were apparently found in the ceiling cavity of the Sandy Creek/Tarnagulla Post and Telegraph Office in the later 20th Century, during building works.Telegram sent from Tarnagulla Telegraph Office from Chas Harding to Frederic Harding at the Department of Lands a& Survey, Melbourne. Text reads "Wait no selling. Gold struck in works'. -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Odhams Press Ltd, The World's Greatest Paintings - Volumes 1,2,3, c. 1934
... of well-known pictures from many lands for the general public ...This work is published in three volumes containing one hundred fine colour plates of well-known pictures from many lands for the general public to enjoy. In addition to the plates there is a brief account of the life and times of each master represented avoiding all discussion of technical matter as far as possible.Three Volumes of The World's Greatest Paintings - Selected Masterpieces of Famous Art Galleries. Large format blue hardcovers with a decorative embossed front cover with an ancient Greek or Roman head bust at the top. The spine has two sets of gold bands at the top and bottom with the title in gold lettering. The work has one hundred fine colour plates of well know pictures with information about each master. Each book has a brown paper dustjacket with the title at the top in black lettering.non-fictionThis work is published in three volumes containing one hundred fine colour plates of well-known pictures from many lands for the general public to enjoy. In addition to the plates there is a brief account of the life and times of each master represented avoiding all discussion of technical matter as far as possible.art books, art, painters, artists, artworks -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Map - Survey Map, F.F. McGovern, Yangery - County of Villiers, 1884
A surveyor was employed to measure the land designated as Yangery, County of Villiers, in the Borough of Warrnambool. The area on the map is similar to the earlier Farnham Survey undertaken by William Rutledge in the 1850's. Warrnambool was a Borough between 1863-1883. Coutours, waterways, sea and other significant points are shown. The distances are accurately measured. This survey map was used for planning future land sales, recreation areas and roads. WILLIAM RUTLEDGE (1806-1876) William Rutledge surveyed the land known as Farnham in southwest Victoria in 1843. His tenants made him a profitable business from working the land there. In 1863 Rutledge moved from nearby Port Fairy to Farnham and became very successful in breeding sheep, which he imported from J.R. Kirkham of Lincolnshire, England. He also bred horses on his land. The survey map of Yangery is important for its connection with renowned surveyor William Rutledge. The map shows the growth of landholders in the district when compared to the original Rutledge survey of the 1850's.Survey map of Yangery, titled "Yangery - County of Villiers". Printed on white paper, mounted on brown paper. c. 1863-1876. Comments printed on the Map include; Special Survey by William Rutledge, Photo-lithographed at the Department of Lands and Survey, Melbourne by W.J. Burson, Price 1/- [one shilling]. Scale is in Chains. Map has boundaries of Koroit Borough, Meerai, Purnim, Wangoom, Borough of Warrnambool, Mentions the Proposal of Tower HIll for Public Recreation. The map names the owners of the land at that time. Hand written pencil marks and figures and "Sauls fence" drawn on map. Hand written pencil markes and figures and "Sauls fence" drawn onto map. "For Department Use only". "Scale: 8 chains to 1 inch" flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, county of villiers map, yangery district, w.j. burson, borough of warrnambool, koroit, purnim, meerai, wangoom, proposal of tower hill for public recreation, special survey by william rutledge, william rutledge, farnham, lincolnshire sheep, clydesdale -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LETTER DESCRIBING BENDIGO'S GRANDEST BUILDINGS
Bendigo's Grandest Buildings are the Public Offices (1883-7) and the Law Courts (1892-6). Like the Town Hall they were described as Italian Renaissance in Design, but have high mansard roofs which give them a distinctly French air. They are so pompously Bendigonian that they stand well with Vahland's work, but in fact they originated in the Public Works Department, the architect for both being W.G. Watson. The building containing the Public Offices and Post Office has a frontage of 155 feet to Pall Mall and 100 feet to Williamson Street, and it was designed to include the post and telegraph offices and the postmaster's quarters. Public access was from the porch facing Pall Mall, and on the first floor were the police, water supply and crown lands departments, reached by a stair from the porch on the short façade. It was the largest building of its type outside of Melbourne, and was built in the grandest fashion of ornately stuccoed brick on a foundation of Harcourt granite, faced above ground level with bluestone. The floors of the porches and landings of the main stair are of encaustic tiles, the interior woodwork is of French polished cedar, and the major public rooms have coffered and enriched ceilings and cornices, and ornamentally panelled walls divided by pilasters. The building is surmounted by a tower rising to 130 feet, containing a great clock made by Thomas Gaunt of Melbourne, the chimes played on five bells weighing a total of three tons.bendigo, buildings, state offices -
Merri-bek City Council
Photograph - Digital print on Ilford Fibre Pearl paper, Kim Kruger, Within ten miles of Melbourne 1, 2022
merri-bek public art collection -
Forests Commission Retired Personnel Association (FCRPA)
Commercial timbers of Victoria, Sample Box
Some decades ago a card sorting set for the identification and description of Australian timbers was developed for timber species which were available commercially and were in common usage, by the Commonwealth of Australia (CSIRO, Division of Forest Products) To complement and inform this national timber set each State or Territory developed reference timber sets of representative species. The Commercial Timbers of Victoria set was Victoria’s most recent (circa 1984) expression of this Victorian timber samples were sourced from logs selected by Forest Commission of Victoria (FCV) District Foresters and milled locally. Kiln drying and machining was carried out at timber producers Row, Web and Anderson, in Port Melbourne. Labeling and boxing was done by FCV Timber Inspectors, with box and booklet design and graphics handled in-house More recent timber samples were badged as Conservation Forests & Lands, reflecting historical government restructuring in the early 1980s Info: Simon MurphyProvided the public, industry (timber and associated), and educational facilities with a reference collection of notable Victorian timbers. Initially in a reduced format from 1940-50s, with boxed sets produced from 1981 until 1984A boxed set of timber samples representing the 20 tree species that were considered to be the most notable in Victoria. The set also includes an information booklet. Each timber specimen has information on species, occurrence, uses and physical properties Produced for sale by the the FCV and later by the Department of Conservation Forests and Lands. (CFL). forests commission victoria (fcv) -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LANDS OFFICE, REPORTS OF SALES BY PUBLIC AUCTION BENDIGO DISTRICT
... land sold public auction country Victoria Lands Office Document ...Document: green hard cover book with buff spine and corners. Contains details of public auctions of land in Bendigo and district. Entries are in chronological order of sales with sale advertisement attached to page. Includes Manangatang, Boort, Rushworth, Maldon, Heathcote, Castlemaine, Sea Lake, Avoca.Lands Officeland sales, northern victoria, lands office, land surveyed, land sold, public auction, country victoria -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LANDS OFFICE: SANDHURST AND DISTRICT LAND SALES BY PUBLIC AUCTION 1854
Document: booklet, heavy brown paper cover, written on cover ' copy of sale books, suburban lots in Sheep wash and Emu Creeks sold June 20th. And 21st. 1854. Contains newspaper cuttings with purchase amount and purchaser name. White sticker fixed to pocket: Book 2 Strathfieldsaye and Nerring Land Sales 20th. June 1854 to 21 June 1854lands office, bendigo, sandhurst, land sales, auctions -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LANDS OFFICE: SANDHURST AND DISTRICT LAND SALES BY PUBLIC AUCTION 1854
Document: booklet listing land sold by public auction in Sandhurst and surrounding district. Written on front page in black ink: ' Huntly September 19, Eaglehawk Sept. 21st & 22nd. Sandhurst Town Lots Oct. 21st. Ravenswood Oct 24th & 25th. Sandhurst Bendigo Creek Epsom Oct. 25th. White Hills Nov. 14, 15, 16. White sticker fixed to pocket: Book 3 Sandhurst Land Sales, including outlying areas 19 September 1854 to 13 December 1854.land sales, land office, sandhurst, bendigo, crown land sales -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LANDS OFFICE: SANDHURST AND DISTRICT LAND SALES BY PUBLIC AUCTION 1855 - 1857
Document: booklet, marbled cardboard cover. Written on front ' Sale 1855 - ?7' Inside front cover £50 per acre - 6/3 per rood. £8 do. 1/- do, V1 do. -/1/2 do. 'E' ' from April 30th. 1855 to Jany. 27th. 1857' Contains blue pages with red columns. Copies of Crown Lands Sales listed in book, to right of copy, deposit, name of purchaser and total amount. White sticker on pocket Sandhurst Land Sales 22 January 1855 to 27 January 1857Lands Officebendigo, land sales, lands office, crown land, land sales, auctions, sandhurst -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LANDS OFFICE: SANDHURST AND DISTRICT LAND SALES BY PUBLIC AUCTION 1857, 1857 - 58
Document: blue lined pages listing crown land auctions held in Sandhurst 1857/58. Book contains newspaper cutting listing town lots for sale. LH page: Total, balance, deposit, purchaser. LH page: same. White sticker fixed to front: Book 6 Sandhurst land Sales including outlying areas 30 January 1857 to 29 June 1859bendigo, land sales -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LANDS OFFICE: SANDHURST AND DISTRICT LAND SALES BY PUBLIC AUCTION 1859 - 60
Document: booklet, brown heavy paper cover bound secured with white cotton. Blue paper pages. On front cover ' Sale Book 1859, 60, 61. From August 16th. 1859 to Feb. 26 1861' Contains newspaper cuttings of crown land sales held in Sandhurst. Alongside cuttings are columns: price per acre, amount, purchasers. White sticker fixed to pocket: Book 7 Sandhurst Land Sales 16 August 1859 to March 1861Lands Officebendigo, land sales 1859 - 60, lands office, sandhurst, crown land, auctions