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Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Bailliere's Victorian Directory 1880/81, 1880/81
A Directory of Trades in Victoria small sheet of film SLV Trades A - BUTCtown, names, victoria, trades -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Bailliere's Victorian Directory 1880/81, 1880/81
A Directory of Trades in Victoria small sheet of film SLV Trades BUTC -FARMtown, names, victoria, trades -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Bailliere's Victorian Directory 1880/81, 1880/81
A Directory of Trades in Victoria small sheet of film SLV Trades FARM - SADOtown, names, victoria, trades -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Bailliere's Victorian Directory 1880/81, 1880/81
A Directory of Trades in Victoria small sheet of film SLV Trades SADO - ZINC. Alphabetical AAR - COLtown, names, victoria, trades -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Bailliere's Victorian Directory 1880/81, 1880/81
Alphabetical Directory of Victoria small sheet of film SLV Alphabetical COL - McCtown, names, victoria, trades -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Bailliere's Victorian Directory 1880/81, 1880/81
Alphabetical Directory of Victoria small sheet of film SLV Alphabetical McC - WHItown, names, victoria, trades -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Bailliere's Victorian Directory 1880/81, 1880/81
Alphabetical Directory of Victoria small sheet of film SLV Alphabetical WHI - ZWAtown, names, victoria, trades -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Bailliere's Victorian Directory 1880/81, 1880/81
Directory of Victoria small sheet of film SLV town, names, victoria, trades -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Fred Rochow Railways Collection - Driver George Judge, 1974
The Fred Rochow Railways Collection incorporates photos related to the operation of the Wodonga Railway Station including different types of trains and railways staff C. 1930 – 1990. It was donated to the Wodonga Historical Society by Fred Rochow, a railwayman who spent many years based in Wodonga. He joined the Victorian Railways on 17th June l947 and retired in 1988. For some time, he was a member of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen and served a term as a member of the Trades Hall Council. He had an extensive knowledge of the struggles that took place to achieve better conditions for railway workers. Fred worked for many years as a fireman and then worked his way up the ranks to driver, experiencing many changes from the days of steam locomotives through to diesel trains, locomotives and even the modern XPT train. He worked throughout Victoria at different stages of his career, with his final working years focused on the northeast of Victoria and the Albury to Melbourne line. After his retirement, Fred continued to share his love of steam miniature trains with the community.This collection has local and statewide significance as it captures images of trains, locomotives and personnel who operated the railway services in Wodonga and throughout Northeast Victoria. The railways played a critical role in opening up Victoria and connecting Australia for trade, business, social communication and transport.Driver George Judge standing on front of Locomotive X38 special train "Spirit of 96" The X class are a class of mainline diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering Victorian Railways between 1966 and 1976. X 38 was part of the second order. It entered service on Friday, 8th May 1970. X 37 and X 38 were built as replacements for the two S Class locomotives lost in the fatal Southern Aurora crash at Violet Town in 1969. It was later sold to Pacific National and rebuilt as XR550. "Spirit of 96" was a passenger train specially designed for cast and crew of the Australian 0-10 Network series “Number 96”. It was used to travel from Sydney to Melbourne for the annual TV Week Logie Awards. It was a silver, multi-carriage train with the Commissioner's carriage hooked up at the rear for VIPs. The 16 and a half-hour overnight journey, left from the centre of Sydney at 4.30 pm with a farewell party, complete with red carpet and jazz band in attendance. It featured whistle stop visits at country sidings and stations. Thousands of people turned out to see their favourite stars, before it arrived at Spencer Street station. The rail service of the time was keen to promote its overnight tourism packages, and for the journey the train was christened as the "Spirit of 96”. On front of locomotive "X38" On red black and white sign attached to the front rail of the locomotive "O/The Spirit of 96/Sydney-Melbourne/1974"railways wodonga, fred rochow, wodonga railwaymen, x class diesel locomotive, george judge, spirit of 96 -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Mann Collection Album - Dunstan's Corner, Wodonga, C. 1970s
These town photos are part of a collection donated by Elaine Mann. Elaine was married to David Mann, a successful Wodonga businessman and community leader who passed away in Wodonga in June 2012. David was a member of the Mann family who began their business in Wodonga in 1920. Elaine was a teacher in Wodonga for many years and an active member of the community. Arthur Dunstan Hardware Arthur Dunstan established mills at Red Bluff on the Mitta and a timber yard at Wodonga. He also built a sawmill at Glen Wills in 1931 which operated for about 16 years. A larger and more modern sawmill with drying kilns was erected at Eskdale in 1947. He was contracted to build Wodonga’s Municipal sale yards in 1935, followed by the Wangaratta sale yards. This created so many forward orders that he bought a large block of land on the corner of Beechworth and Tallangatta Roads and opened a timber mill and hardware store. The business stood on this corner for about 40 years. A large proportion of the company's timber output was processed at the Wodonga yards into flooring, weatherboards, mouldings etc. and practically the whole output was distributed locally and throughout the Riverina and eastern areas of New South Wales, and Canberra. At its peak Dunstan’s was one of the biggest sawmilling businesses in Victoria and in Wodonga employed 150 people and milled l6,000,000 super feet of timber annually. A super foot is a measurement for timber, equal to one foot square by one inch thick. Arthur Dunstan also built Tower Place in High Street. He died in Wodonga in 1963 and the business was continued on by his sons. Dunstan’s timber yards in Wodonga were sold to Ezerd Industries in 1987 with the retail section being bought by BBC Hardware.This photo collection is of significance as it documents how the businesses and buildings in Wodonga have evolved and contributed to community throughout the late 20th century. A. Dunstan & Sons Hardware was located at the roundabout on the corner of High Street and Thomas Mitchell Drive (Formerly Tallangatta Road). "Southside Terrace" now occupies this site.wodonga businesses, high st wodonga, dunstan's hardware wodonga -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Book - Wodonga Australia - Victoria's Top Industrial Town, Wodonga Promotions Committee, 1966
Winning the top award for "Industrial Development" in the Victorian Premier Town Contest 1964, Wodonga was recognised and declared the chief industrially developing town outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. This publication outlines the key features of Wodonga supplemented with photos and maps.non-fictionWinning the top award for "Industrial Development" in the Victorian Premier Town Contest 1964, Wodonga was recognised and declared the chief industrially developing town outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. This publication outlines the key features of Wodonga supplemented with photos and maps.wodonga description and travel, wodonga development -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Photograph - Colour, L.J. Gervasoni, Daylesford, 1987, c1987
... town. daylesford spa country panorama L.J. Gervasoni ...Daylesford is a Central Victorian town.Three colour photographs placed together to make a panoramic view of Daylesford, Victoriadaylesford, spa country, panorama -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, RIP Connie Johnson mosaic of Love Your Sister Big Heart Project, c2017
THE BIG HEART PROJECT Connie’s health is in decline and she’s slowly succumbing to the perils of cancer. She is beyond treatment now. But before she goes, she is determined to break a world-record of her own, to match her brother’s. She has called it The Big Heart Project and it will be Connie’s final fundraising act for Love Your Sister before she retires to be with her nearest and dearest. The world record for longest line of coins stands at 75.4kms and is held by a town in Austria. To break the record, Connie needs to collect 3.951 million five cent coins! Thousands of families around the country have already purchased metres ($2.90) and Connie will lay the coins in the shape of a MASSIVE love heart, visible from space, this coming May 10, at the Lyneham Netball Courts in her hometown of Canberra. Schools nationally are participating in ‘Five Cent Fridays’ and Bendigo Bank are providing a collection depot at each of their branches. The Royal Australian Mint are supplying the coins and Questacon have tasked their best scientists and mathematicians with the mechanics. Most importantly though, 100% of every donated coin will be passed on to the country’s best cancer researchers, IN FULL. You can donate a metre ($2.90) for a cancery loved on http://www.loveyoursister.org/big-heart-project Digital imagescancer, breast cancer, connie johnson, constance johnson, charity, 5c, 5 cents, coins, big heart project, love your sister, northbourne avenue, canberra -
Sunbury Family History and Heritage Society Inc.
Photograph, 25th August 1995
... , when Sunbury was a small country town. The contrast between ...This view of Sunbury Railway Station was taken from the corner of Brook and Evans Streets two years after the station underwent refurbishment and extensions and a carpark was constructed adjacent to the station. The Sunbury & District Heritage Association Inc. has a photograph P0663 of the station taken a century ago from the same place, when Sunbury was a small country town. The contrast between the two images is interesting. A coloured photograph of a streetscape with a weatherboard building in the middle distance,sunbury railway station, brook street -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - Article, The country boy who came to town to stay, 12/01/1993
Article from Nunawading Gazette, 12 Jan 1993 on the death of Charles Shambrook, aged 87. Mr Shambrook lived in Vermont for 76 years.shambrook, charles, pioneers -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Colour, Lisa Gervasoni, Omeo, 2017
Colour photograph of the Victorian town of Omeo.2017, great alpine road, omeo high plains, omeo, high country, streetscape -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Book - Paperback book, Ghost Towns of the Mountain Goldfields, 1999
Ghost towns of the mountain goldfields in VictoriaPaperback. Cover has a drawing depicting horses, both ridden and pack, walking along a forest track on their way to a small town. There are heavily forested mountains in the distance. Overlaid onto the drawing is a modern photograph of an old stone building. In the foreground is a green timber building with a water tank and verandah. It is all set in the clearing in the middle of a forest.Stamp of the Marysville & District Historical Society Inc / P.O. Box 22 / Marysville 3779 Also the inscription: To Alma / Thanks for your help / Signature / LS / November 1999gold, gold mining, gold town, ghost town, victoria, australia, history -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Book - Hardback book, Mountain Gold-A History of the Baw Baw and Walhalla country of the Narracan Shire, Victoria, 1980
A history of the Baw Baw and Walhalla country of the Narracan Shire, VictoriaHardback. Brown dust cover. Photograph on front cover looks out from the entry of a mine onto the front of a building which has a hill to the side of it. The back cover has a photograph of the side of a hill with some trees on it.G&V THOMAS Stamp of the Marysville & District Historical Society Inc / P.O. Box 22 / Marysville 3779gold, gold field, gold miner, gold mining, gold town, walhalla, baw baw, gippsland, victoria, australia, history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Certificate - CERTIFICATES WW2, MOUNTED, 1940 and 1946
.1) LHS. For King & Country Certificate presented to "T. L. LYNCH" by the Shire of Strathfieldsaye. Dated 28.6.1946. Signed by President, Councillor & Secretary. .2) RHS. For King & Empire Certificate presented to "T.L. LYNCH" by the City of Melbourne. Dated 8.3.1940. Signed by Lord Mayor & Town Clerk. .1) & .2) Photo of soldier between certificates, cardboard mounted & sealed in plastic.certificates, shire -
Mentone Grammar School
J Allan Anderson - one of the founders of Mentone Grammar School
J Allan Anderson graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1902. The following year he joined a law practice in the Victorian country centre of Stawell, where he met and married Ethel M. Allingham. Moving to East Kew, Melbourne, in 1917, where his son attended Trinity Grammar School. By March 1921 the family had exchanged their annual summer holidays at Mentone for permanent residence when they moved into Captain Dawson's former home, 'Riviera' off Mentone Parade. Disappointed with standards at this son's new local school and now living in a fast-growing town and district, in 1922, on a train journey to his office in the City, 46-year-old solicitor J.A. Anderson came up with the idea to form a new grammar school for boys in Mentone. -
Bendigo Military Museum
Certificate - CERTIFICATE WW1, FRAMED, C.1941
Certificate of Appreciation from the City of Essendon, Victoria for volunteering service to King & country with the forces of the Commonwealth of Australia. In black print on white background. Black, wooden frame, glass front & cardboard backing.Presented to: “Peter Nelson Gath on 16.9.1941” Signed by: “Mayor & Town Clerk”certificate, essendon, municipality, enlistment -
Bayside Gallery - Bayside City Council Art & Heritage Collection
Photograph - gelatin silver photograph, Visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to Brighton, 1920
... 1920 and covered 110 cities and towns across the country... 1920 and covered 110 cities and towns across the country ...In 1920 the Prince of Wales embarked on a journey to Australia on behalf of his father, King George V. While the visit was intended to strengthen the relationship between Australia and the Empire, the main objective was to offer thanks to the Australian men and women for the sacrifices and contributions that they had made during World War I. The Royal Tour began in April 1920 and covered 110 cities and towns across the country. The Prince spent eleven days in New South Wales, nine days in Victoria, four days in Tasmania, eleven days in Western Australia, six days in South Australia and eight days in Queensland. On Saturday 5 June 1920, following a morning at the races in Flemington, the Prince spent the afternoon at ANZAC Hostel in Brighton, where he chatted to wounded soldiers and, according to the newspaper reports at the time, "won the hearts of all present."prince of wales, his royal highness, hrh, royal tour, anzac hostel, brighton, mayor, cr. thomas wilson, j.h. taylor, town clerk, soldiers, diggers, crowd, north road, kamesborough, bayside -
Bayside Gallery - Bayside City Council Art & Heritage Collection
Photograph - gelatin silver photograph, Visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the Municipality of Brighton, 1920
... 1920 and covered 110 cities and towns across the country... and covered 110 cities and towns across the country. The Prince spent ...In 1920 the Prince of Wales embarked on a journey to Australia on behalf of his father, King George V. While the visit was intended to strengthen the relationship between Australia and the Empire, the main objective was to offer thanks to the Australian men and women for the sacrifices and contributions that they had made during World War I. The Royal Tour began in April 1920 and covered 110 cities and towns across the country. The Prince spent eleven days in New South Wales, nine days in Victoria, four days in Tasmania, eleven days in Western Australia, six days in South Australia and eight days in Queensland. On Saturday 5 June 1920, following a morning at the races in Flemington, the Prince spent the afternoon at ANZAC Hostel in Brighton, where he chatted to wounded soldiers and, according to the newspaper reports at the time, "won the hearts of all present."prince of wales, his royal highness, hrh, royal tour, anzac hostel, brighton, mayor, cr. thomas wilson, j.h. taylor, town clerk, soldiers, diggers, crowd, guard of honour, captain grieve, h.m.s. renown, north road, kamesborough, bayside -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Image, c1950
Postcard sized photograph of Main Street, Rutherglen ScotlandOn back of photo: "SDS 154 Town Hall & Main Street, Rutherglen (from the East). Colour by John C. Miller"rutherglen scotland, main street rutherglen scotland -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Documents, Sun Print, Grand Massed Bands Display, Sunday, December 3, 1939
The events of the afternoon included lunch for the bandsmen at the Memorial Hall, a street march to the Park, and performances at the Park, concluding with a massed march back to town. 10 bands from the surrounding districts participated. The donor was teaching at the Rutherglen Higher Elementary School at the time of this event, and boarded at the Star Hotel.Program for a massed bands display, held by the Rutherglen & District Brass Band, on December 1939. Also included is a letter from the donor.bands, rutherglen town band, wangaratta town band, mooroopna town band, corowa town band, albury town band, goulburn valley pipe band, yarrawonga brass band, finley district citizens band, beechworth town band, benalla citizens band, rutherglen higher elementary school, star hotel -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Booklet, David Syme & Co, Facts about the North Eastern District, With the Compliments of The Age & The Leader, c1928
Covers information on the districts and the leading towns of the north-east of Victoria, including Benalla, Rutherglen, Wodonga, Omeo, Euroa and Mansfield. Centre pages present statistics comparing 1928 to 1908, relating to agricultural production, and the population, dwellings and valuations of the shires of each of these towns.Small booklet with a dark blue-green cover, containing information about the North Eastern districts of Victoria.benalla, rutherglen, wodonga, omeo, euroa, mansfield, statistics -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Newspaper, Rutherglen Sun and Chiltern Valley Advertiser, The Rutherglen Sun and Chiltern Valley Advertiser, July 15, 1927, 15/07/1927
This issue contains various articles on the opening of the Memorial Hall, Rutherglen, including an article on the back page on "The Honor Roll Rutherglen Town Hall". This article includes the names of all those on the roll.2 copies of the Rutherglen Sun newspaper for Friday 15/7/1927. rutherglen sun, rutherglen memorial hall, newspapers, opening ceremonies, honour boards, world war 1, world war i, ww1 -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Programme - Satin Programme for a concert, 1893 (Exact)
Prepared by Committee of the Rutherglen and Murray Valley Agricultural and Horticultural SocietyProgramme printed in black on once-white satin. Fringed sides. "With the compliments of the Committee of the Rutherglen and Murray Valley Agricultural and Horticultural Society" / "A Grand Concert / In Aid of the Funds of the Society / Will Be Held on Wednesday Evening, October 18th 1893 in the Town Hall Rutherglen. Accompanist: Mr. J.R. Rusden / Stage Manager Mr. C. Nash / Programme - Part 1 (and followed by full program)rutherglen & murray valley agricultural & horticultural society, music, concerts, performances -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Document - Council permit, 1877 (Exact)
Letter granting permission to Mr Arthur Gribbin to shoot shag on the Water Supply Reserve. Mr Gribble was senior Constable of Police stationed at Rutherglen. Water supply came from Lake King in the park. Councillors signing were Geo. Audley / Andrew Hunter (M. Gunter?) William Meehan. [check names - Gribbin - Gribble]Document written in black ink on blue paper, stamped with seal of Rutherglen Municipality, granting permission to Mr Arthur Gribbin to shoot shag on the Water Supply Reserve"Borough of Rutherglen / Town Hall / Rutherglen / 1st October 1877" Signed by Councillors and Town Clerk Thos. Reevespermit, water supply reserve, lake king, shag, rutherglen borough -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Letter - Letters, 1917 (Exact)
Mr A H Tompson held the positions of Town Clerk, Collector and Valuer to the Borough Council and Secretary, Treasurer and Collector to the Waterworks. The letter is signed by A H Stewart (Mayor), A G Aitken, R H Burgman Councillors & Town Clerk.Two handwritten letters on 'Borough of Rutherglen' letterhead (the first one a single page, and the second one two pages) expressing appreciation of the work of the Borough of Rutherglen Secretary, A.H. Thompson, on the occasion of his transfer to Rutherglen Shire Secretary."Borough of Rutherglen / Rutherglen 8th Feb. 1917" Borough seal on last page. burough of rutherglen, shire of rutherglen, a h thompson, a h stewart, a g aitken, r h burgman, a n presswell