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Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Newspaper - Newspaper articles, Sun News-Pictorial, They Flee Night Peril, The Sun News-Pictorial, Wednesday, January 17, p1, 1962
Various news articles pertaining to the January 1962 Victorian bushfires in the Dandenong and Healesville districts which by the third day had encompassed large areas of the State. Specific Eltham Shire districts mentioned include Panton Hill and Hurstbridge on page 1, Warrandyte on page 2, 3, 4 and 5, Hurstbridge, Smith’s Gully, Kinglake on page 3 and 4, Strathewen, Kangaroo Ground, Panton Hill, St. Andrews, Smith’s Gully on page 4 and Pound Bend, Smith’s Gully and Warrandyte on pages 20-21 • They Flee Night Peril, p1 (Illust.) • Their grim picnic; A flash fire strikes, p2 (Illust.) • Night of terror as towns quitted, p3 • Fought till he dropped, p3 (Illust.) • Rain in fire area, p3 • Wye River town goes, p3 • Black Friday Hero Dies In Fire; with wife, grandsons, p4 • Surrounded!, p4 (Illust.) • Main street houses ablaze, p4 • Hurstbridge is evacuated, p4 • Scores jump in river at Warrandyte, p5 • Hills people leave homes, p5 • “Fire” cry at Parlt., p5 • Blind – he’s safe now, p5 (Illust.) • Police Chief Runs Battle, p7 • From Fire Front: Hospital treats 34, p7 • Firms send help, p7 • Tragedy and Ruin: Third Day; Ferntree Gully; Warrandyte; Pound Bend; Smiths Gully; Escape for 18, pp20-21 (Illust.) • Church was a haven for the hurt, weary, p39 (Illust.) • A home is lost, p40 (Illust.) tom fielding collection, victorian bushfires - 1962, victorian bushfires – 1962, panton hill, hurstbridge, five ways crossroads, warrandyte south, dandenongs, upwey, mt. evelyn, monbulk, olinda, sassafras, st. andrews, warrandyte, christmas hills, yarra river, mitcham, whitehorse roiad, donvale, park orchards, metropolitan fire chief, w.t. aldridge, loughnan’s hill, ringwood, woori yallock, leslie ockwell, linda ockwell, kalorama, healesville, daylesford, fire damage – buildings, wye river, portland, eganstown, ballarat, sherbrooke park forest, forest commission headquarters, kallista, r.t. seaton, montrose, yallourn, central gippsland, smith’s creek, black friday, geoffrey ockwell, ronald ockwell, preston town hall, e.j. tenner, strathewen, kangaroo ground, eric farnsworth, adele farnsworth, robin farnsworth, roy cleland, ann cleland, belgrave, sassfras, kaloramalice commissioner porter, mansfield, box hill hospital, pound bend, ferntree gully, ferntree gully state school, w. carew, ann quinton -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Magazine, Sun News-Pictorial, Bush Fires: A pictorial survey of Victoria's most tragic week, January 8-15, 1939
THE WEEK REVIEWED (Article; Bush Fires: A pictorial survey of Victoria's most tragic week, January 8-15, 1939. Published in aid of the Bush Fire Relief Fund by the Sun News-Pictorial in co-operation with its newsagents, pp2-3) THE fiercest bush fires Australia has known since its discovery are quiescent at the moment, and Victoria, in the comparative coolness of the change which came with rain on Sunday night, has begun·to count its losses. In the fiery eight days, from Sunday to Sunday, at least sixty-six men, women and children have lost their lives in forest fires, or have succumbed to burns and shock; many others have died from heat; and several serious cases of burns are being treated in hospitals. Two babies in Narrandera district have died, and ten others are in hospital, because of milk soured by the record temperatures of those eight days. Forest damage totals at least a million pounds, and incalculable damage has been done to the seedlings which were to have been the forests of the future. Water conservation will be seriously affected by the silting-up of reservoirs and streams from which protective timber has been taken by the all-engulfing flames. More than a thousand houses have been destroyed, and these, with 40 mills, and schools, post-offices, churches, and other buildings, represent a loss of at least half a million. At least 1500 are homeless. For their aid, money raised in appeals has now passed the £50,000 mark, and the biggest relief organisation ever set up in peace time has swung into operation. The First Hint Victoria's first hint of what was to come appeared on Sunday, January 8, when most parts of the State awoke to find a blistering day awaiting. At 12.20 p.m., when the thermometer reached its highest for the day, 109.6 degrees, the first fire victims were at that moment going to their death on a bush track five feet wide off the main road to Narbethong. They were the forestry officers Charles Isaac Demby and John Hartley Barling, who went to warn Demby of his danger when he parted from his companions, and was himself surrounded by the treacherous fire. It was not until 8 o'clock next morning that the tragic news was flashed throughout the State. Searchers found the two charred bodies close together, one seeking protection in the nook of two logs. Barling's watch had stopped at 1.20. In the meantime, tragedy was spreading its cloak. By Monday, big fires were raging at Toolangi, Erica, Yallourn, Monbulk, Frankston, Dromana, Drouin South, Glenburn, and Blackwood, with smaller outbreaks at many other centres. In the ensuing week, while women and children were evacuated as fast as the flames would permit, Erica-scene of the 1926 fire disaster-thrice escaped doom by a change of wind. Indeed, those who have been in the fire country these past days say that the numbers of times a change of wind has saved towns from destruction is amazing. In the towns they speak of miracles. Monday's Miracles The escapes from Monett's Mill at Erica and from the Hardwood Company's Mill at Murrindindi, near where Demby and Barling went to their death, were Monday's miracles. Twenty came out alive from each mill. At the first a 60ft. dugout provided an oven-like refuge; at the second, 12 women and children survived in the smoke-filled gloom of a three-roomed cottage while their eight men, their clothes sometimes afire, poured water on the wooden walls. Three houses out of ten remained when the fire had passed. Record Temperatures Sunday had been the hottest Melbourne day for 33 years; Monday dropped to a 76.1 degree maximum; but Tuesday dawned hotter than ever, the mercury reaching 112.5. By now rumor was racing ahead of fact; whole towns were being reported lost; the alarm was raised for scores of missing persons. But fact soon overtook rumor, and within a few days the staggering toll began to mount to a figure beyond the wildest imaginings of the panic-stricken. Six died from heat on this torrid Tuesday, and the fires spread in a wide swathe from south-west to north-east across the State. Fish died in shallow streams. A curtain of smoke hid the sky from all Victoria, and hung far out to sea. It alarmed passengers on ships. On the Ormonde, on the voyage to Sydney from Burnie, women ran on deck, believing fire had broken out in the hold. Days later the smoke reached New Zealand. In Melbourne thousands of fire-volunteers were leaving in cars: vans, motor-buses-anything reliable on wheels-to aid the country in its grim fight. In the fires at Rubicon and. Narbethong, seventeen were facing death this day. But not till Wednesday, when Melbourne breathed again in a cool change, while the country still sweltered in temperatures up to 117 degrees, did the news come through the tree blocked roads. A woman and her little daughter, trapped on the road, were among those who died. Their bodies, and those of menfolk with them, were found strewn out at intervals along the road, where the furnace of the surrounding fire had dropped them in their tracks as they ran. Twelve died at a Rubicon mill, five on the road at Narbethong. At Alexandra, not far distant, a baby was born while the fires raged, and stretcher-bearers brought in the injured. On Thursday the State Government voted £5000 for the relief of fire victims. The Governor (Lord Huntingfield) and the Lord Mayor (Cr. Coles) visited some of the stricken areas, and dipped into their pockets personally. Later, the City Council, too, voted £5000. Friday, The 13th Friday, the Thirteenth, justified its evil name. A blistering northerly came early in the morning, presaging destruction, and forcing the mercury to a new record of 114 degrees. Racing fires killed at least ten in those terrible 12 hours. Four children were engulfed in the furnace at Colac. Panic drove them, uncontrollable, into the smoke-filled road when the fire raced down behind their home. They choked to death. In other parts fires were joining to make fronts of scores of miles. Kinglake was being menaced on two fronts, £60,000 worth of timber was going up in smoke in Ballarat district. Warburton was surrounded. Residents at Lorne, favoured resort, were being driven to the sea-front by a fire which destroyed at least 20 homes. Healewille. with flames visible from the town at one stage, was in a trough between two fires which burned four guest-houses, seven homes and left its surrounding beauty-spots wastes of bowed-over, blackened tree-fern fronds; with its famous Sanctuary, however, intact. Most of Omeo was destroyed this black day: Noojee. while 200 residents crouched in the river, was being reduced to a waste of buckled iron and smoking timber; Erica was once again saved by a change of wind. Beneath a pall of smoke, the Rubicon victims were buried at Alexandra. Friday night and the early hours of Saturday saw the streets of beleagured towns strewn with exhausted fire-fighters. Their flails beside them, ready for the next call, they lay where exhaustion overtook them-on footpaths, beside lamp-posts, in gutters, in cars, under trucks. Saturday's dawn brought clear skies and lower temperatures in many parts, and from the burnt-out areas came a great rush of tragic reports. The death-roll rushed past the fifty mark with incredible speed. Some had been trapped on roads, others at mills; some, after burying their treasures, had clung too long to the places they had made their homes for many years. Four men lost their lives because one went back for his dog. By Sunday, when the first of the saving rain came, nearly another score of names had been added to the list.Newspaper magazine, 48 pages (incl. covers). Fully digitised and searchable PDFPublished in aid of the Bush Fire Relief Fund by the Sun News-Pictorial in co-operation with its newsagents.bushfires, 1939 bushfires, black friday, warrandyte -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Negative - Photograph, Henley Bridge, c.1928
Situated on the Yarra River, 5.5 kms south of Christmas Hills on private property. This timber trestle bridge is said to have been built some time after 1907 by Melbourne master-builder, David Mitchell (the father of Dame Nellie Melba), to connect his two "Henley Farm" properties with Lilydale. In earlier days, when the McPhersons owned the property, their children used a punt to cross the river to attend Yering Primary School. This private bridge is best viewed from the end of Wendy Way. - Source: Christmas Hills Past and Present, Yarra Glen & District Historical Society, 2004.This photo forms part of a collection of photographs gathered by the Shire of Eltham for their centenary project book,"Pioneers and Painters: 100 years of the Shire of Eltham" by Alan Marshall (1971). The collection of over 500 images is held in partnership between Eltham District Historical Society and Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Eltham Library) and is now formally known as the 'The Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph Collection.' It is significant in being the first community sourced collection representing the places and people of the Shire's first one hundred years.Digital image 4 x 5 inch black and white negative 9 x 12.5 cm printshire of eltham pioneers photograph collection, warrandyte, henley bridge, reflection -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
photograph, Eastlink Ringwood Bypass Construction-Ringwood Bypass 26/5/96
Colour photographWritten on back of photo: "Bypass -Looking Towards Warrandyte Rd from Pedestrian Underpass 26/5/96" -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Bamford's Timber Yard c. 1915
Black and white photograph of men standing outside building. Timber stacked to left of photograph and utility vehicle with P. Bamford written on cabin. circa 1915, 3 copies (1 orig, 2 copies)Typed below photograph, "Bamford's Timber Yard. Cnr. Warrandyte and Main Rds. (Now Safeway Site) c1915". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Building the old Ringwood baths in Ringwood St. 1934
Black and white photograph See Item 3000 for newspaper articles with 1934 datesTyped below photograph, "Building the old Ringwood baths in Ringwood St, looking towards Warrandyte Rd. 1934." -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Building the old Ringwood Baths in Ringwood St. 1934, incl Newspaper Articles
Black and white photograph. Several articles from Ringwood newspapers and the Argus (images attached) show the initial idea as Nov 1933 (3000-01 Ringwood Baths-Idea.jpg), Commencement in January 1934 (3000-02 Ringwood Baths-Start.jpg), and operational by November 1934 (3000-03 Ringwood Baths-Operational.jpg). An Argus article (via Trove) from 15 Mar 1934 describes a union complaint about use of workers on sustenance in the construction.(3000-04 Ringwood Baths-Complaint.jpg) Typed below photograph, "Building the old Ringwood Baths in Ringwood St. Looking towards Warrandyte Rd. 1934. -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph Souvenir, Souvenir Photo Cover, The Eltham Barrel, Main Road, Eltham
"Happy Medium" Photo Co., Yarra Street, Warrandyte. Provided souvenir photos for patrons of the Eltham Barrel as a momento of their visit Souvenir Photo cover made of card and printed both sides with centre fold. 4 slits for inserting souvenir photo (not included)happy medium photo co., eltham barrel, souvenir -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Ingrams Road at Allendale Road, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (1) Research to Kangaroo GroundColour photographallendale road, eltham horse trail (1992 survey), ingrams road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, From Lorimer Road through Pretty Hill to Kangaroo Ground, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (1) Research to Kangaroo GroundColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), kangaroo ground, lorimer road, pretty hill -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Looking back through Pretty Hill from Kangaroo Ground, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (1) Research to Kangaroo GroundColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), kangaroo ground, pretty hill -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Northeast corner of Pretty Hill, Wattle Glen Road, Kangaroo Ground, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (1) Research to Kangaroo GroundColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), kangaroo ground, pretty hill, wattle glen road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, St Andrews Road near Ness Lane, Kangaroo Ground, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (1) Research to Kangaroo GroundColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), kangaroo ground, ness lane, st andrews road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, View from Ness Lane, Kangaroo Ground, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (1) Research to Kangaroo GroundColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), kangaroo ground, ness lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Looking north along Ness Lane, Kangaroo Ground, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (1) Research to Kangaroo GroundColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), kangaroo ground, ness lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Unopened section, Ness Lane, Kangaroo Ground, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (1) Research to Kangaroo GroundColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), kangaroo ground, ness lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Dawson Road from St Andrews Road, Kangaroo Ground, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (1) Research to Kangaroo GroundColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), kangaroo ground, dawson road, st andrews road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Junction of Kings Road (left) and Dawson Road, Kangaroo Ground, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (1) Research to Kangaroo GroundColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), kangaroo ground, dawson road, kings road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Track along unopened section of Kings Road, Kangaroo Ground, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (3) Kangaroo Ground to KinglakeColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), kangaroo ground, kings road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Unopened section of Kings Road south from Glenvern Road, Panton Hill, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (3) Kangaroo Ground to KinglakeColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), glenvern road, kings road, panton hill -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Track along Glenvern Road, Panton Hill, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (3) Kangaroo Ground to KinglakeColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), glenvern road, panton hill -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Track along Cracknells Road, Panton Hill, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (3) Kangaroo Ground to KinglakeColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), panton hill, cracknells road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Dam in Cracknells Road, Panton Hill, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (3) Kangaroo Ground to KinglakeColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), panton hill, cracknells road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Cracknells Road near Alma Road, Panton Hill, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (3) Kangaroo Ground to KinglakeColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), panton hill, cracknells road, alma road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Rodger Road from Alma Road, Panton Hill, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (3) Kangaroo Ground to KinglakeColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), panton hill, rodger road, alma road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Creek crossing, Rodger Road, Panton Hill, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (3) Kangaroo Ground to KinglakeColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), panton hill, rodger road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Lawrence Road, Panton Hill, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (3) Kangaroo Ground to KinglakeColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), panton hill, lawrence road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Creek crossing, Long Gully Bushland Reserve, Panton Hill, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (3) Kangaroo Ground to KinglakeColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), panton hill, long gully road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Motschalls Road from Long Gully Road, Panton Hill, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (3) Kangaroo Ground to KinglakeColour photographeltham horse trail (1992 survey), panton hill, motschalls road, long gully road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Motschalls Road near Gills Road (now Turnung Road), Panton Hill, 6 December 1992, 06/12/1992
The Eltham Horse Trail: Research and Warrandyte to Kinglake: Survey of proposed route, December 1992: (3) Kangaroo Ground to KinglakeTwo colour photographseltham horse trail (1992 survey), panton hill, motschalls road, gills road, turnung road