Bendigo Advertiser "The way we were" from Friday, February 11, 2005. Hard at work: in this photograph, taken in the late 40s-early50s, general carrier and wood merchant Eric Finch cuts wood on a saw bench. The wood yard was on the corner of Union and Harvy streets, West Bendigo.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

This heavy, detachable lace collar is an example of the dressmaking and needle work skills of the women of the families of the pioneer settlers and market gardeners of the Moorabbin Shire c 1880 The Maggs family settled in the Brighton district in the late 1800,s. After the Dendy's Special Survey of the Brighton area in 1841 land allotments were rented or sold to pioneers who established market gardens, dairy farms, fruit gardens and vineyards. The pioneer settlers and market gardeners of Moorabbin Shire had to be self reliant and made their own clothing and utensils. This is one of many items that exhibit the skill and craftsmanship of the women in these familiesThis heavy, lace collar is detachable and consists of hand crochet work.clothing, crochetwork, pioneers, early settlers, dendy henry, maggs geoff, brighton, bentleigh, moorabbin, market gardeners, craft working, dressmakers

School work of 6-7 year old Gretl Frank on standard issue toilet paper in Camp 3. Gretl was the daughter of Kurt and Emma FrankIllustrated paper toilet roll. School work. Text in Germantoilet roll, paper, school, frank g, hurnung g, camp 3, tatura, war camps, documents, education

Lists the work carried out by the SEC on tram No. 11. Includes notes on the tram itself, body, brake gear, electrical, and truck. Generally, only significant work is listed.Demonstrates the SECV practice of maintaining records for the work on the tramcars in Ballarat.Foolscap ruled sheet with stamp tram car number and work category, typed or handwritten entries.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, sec, tramcar maintenance, records, tram 11

Lists the work carried out by the SEC on tram No. 12. Includes notes on the tram itself, body, brake gear, electrical, and truck. Generally, only significant work is listed.Demonstrates the SECV practice of maintaining records for the work on the tramcars in Ballarat.Foolscap ruled sheet with stamp tram car number and work category, typed or handwritten entries.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, sec, tramcar maintenance, records, tram 12

Lists the work carried out by the SEC on tram No. 13. Includes notes on the tram itself, body, brake gear, electrical, and truck. Generally, only significant work is listed.Demonstrates the SECV practice of maintaining records for the work on the tramcars in Ballarat.Foolscap ruled sheet with stamp tram car number and work category, typed or handwritten entries.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, sec, tramcar maintenance, records, tram 13

Lists the work carried out by the SEC on tram No. 14. Includes notes on the tram itself, body, brake gear, electrical, and truck. Generally, only significant work is listed.Demonstrates the SECV practice of maintaining records for the work on the tramcars in Ballarat.Foolscap ruled sheet with stamp tram car number and work category, typed or handwritten entries.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, sec, tramcar maintenance, records, tram 14

Lists the work carried out by the SEC on tram No. 17. Includes notes on the tram itself, body, brake gear, electrical, and truck. Generally, only significant work is listed. Demonstrates the SECV practice of maintaining records for the work on the tramcars in Ballarat.Foolscap ruled sheet with stamp tram car number and work category, typed or handwritten entries.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, sec, tramcar maintenance, records, tram 17

Worked and used by Mrs Jean Ashcroft (nee Broad)White linen oblong cloth with cut and button hole work in centre and each cornermanchester, table linen

This is a works diary used in 1898 for jobs to be carried out by the Shire of Bulla.Black cloth bound book with gold lettering and 365 plus pages."Work Diary/1898"1890s, shire of bulla, george evans collection

This work was undertaken by Keith Rash.Sign on strawboard for the show Broadway as shown by Gem Pictures. The work is signed "gem" Studios Ballarat.keith rash, signwriting, broadway, gem studios, gem pictures, signwriting, rash

Lists the work carried out by the SEC on tram No. 16. Includes notes on the tram itself, body, brake gear, electrical, and truck. Generally, only significant work is listed. Details the sale of the body in 1956Demonstrates the SECV practice of maintaining records for the work on the tramcars in Ballarat.Foolscap ruled sheet with stamp tram car number and work category, typed or handwritten entries.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, sec, tramcar maintenance, records, tram 16

Scrapbook with title The Carpenters Bench containing newspaper cuttings relating to carpentry projects.books, technical, carpentry

Historic - Industrial drill - typical hand operated design used in workshops.Historic - Industrial drill - typical hand operated design used in workshops.Hand operated drill press. Bench mounted type hand drill press. drill, press, workshop, hand operated, puffing billy

Historic - Industrial drill - typical hand operated design used in workshops.Historic - Industrial drill - typical hand operated design used in workshops.Hand Operated Drill Press Bench mounted type hand drill press. puffing billy, tools, hand tools, drill press

Three metal bench mounting Meat Mincers. Two Large one Smallstawell

Sundial and Stone Bench in Central Park Stawell. In Memory of Mr. C Simmons.This Sundial Pedestal and Seat , Presented to the People of Stawell Victoria. A Token to th e Memory of Cr. C Simmons. Erected By His Wife and Daughters In the Year 1931monumets

Knitted fabric is made with a single yarn or sets of yarns moving in only one direction. Whether done by hand or by machine, the process is the same. The knitting needle loops the yarn through itself to make a chain of stitches. These chains, or rows, are connected to produce the knitted cloth. There are two types of commercial knitting machine. A flat-bed has its needles, one for each loop, arranged in a straight line to produce a flat fabric. A circular machine has its needles arranged on a rotating circle. The cloth forms as a tube which can be made into seamless clothing. Griswold bench-type sock knitting machine hand operated by turning the handle.sock knitting machine, textile industry, wool, fashion, clothing

Black and white photograph of a man and a woman seated on a garden bench in front of a veranda.On back of photo: "Mr and Mrs Ready"ready family, roy ready, royston ready

L to R -Mrs Woolrich, nee Kate Hand with her widowed mother Eliza Hand and an unnamed woman.Sepia photograph showing three women sitting on a bench. All dressed as if for an outing.eliza hand, kate hand, kate woolrich

Christmas Party Date and Location Unknown - Several People sitting at tables and benchesPolaroidperson, group, christmas party

Donated by Helen Dudley (1945) 18 December 1991 for the Centenary Year.Black and white photograph of 1st Year Students in 1944 seated on the lawn and on benches.On reverse, "1944-1st year students L to R-Les Woolcock, Helen Hanna, Dorrie Piper, Mary Hume, Rhonda Shaw, Elise de Wilton, Viva Smith, Jane Collingwood."helen dudley, 1991, centenary, students, les woolcock, helen hanna, dorrie piper, mary hume, rhonda shaw, elise de wilton, viva smith, jane collingwood, recreation, lawn

This slide is part of a collection of visual resources used by Stuart Ascough while conducting training, seminars, conferences and lectures in China, Australia, India, Russia and Taiwan. This item is part of a collection of books, manuals, photographs, letters and clothing relating to the working life of Stuart Ascough. Stuart's career in the wool industry spanned over 43 years from 1960 to 2003 in various roles including Topmaking Plant Manager at Courtaulds Ltd. in Spennymore, U.K., Operations Manager at Port Phillip Mills in Williamstown Victoria, Marketing Executive, Early Stage Wool Processing at the International Wool Secretariat Melbourne, Australia and General Manager of Victoria Wool Processors Pty. Ltd. in Laverton North, Victoria. Throughout his career Stuart travelled extensively, and in the 1990s worked at many topmaking mills in China on quality improvement projects. He also provided technical advice and training at mills in India, Ukraine, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Latvia, Byelorussia and other parts of Europe and Asia.35mm colour transparency mounted in plastic slide mount showing interior view of scientific equipment and a computer on a bench top in a laboratory.wool, industry, australia, australian wool board international wool secretariat, topmaking, carding, factory, training, gill box

Calico embroidery pattern for table runner, intended for Renaissance work, or Point Lace. The blue printed pattern depicts leaves and flowers the whole length of the runner." L.B. Lacet Runner. J.W. with a crown in between the two letters, No. 4322" in top left hand corner of the runner and "Worked with Point Braid No. 261" in the top right hande corner. The same inscriptions are found repeated at the other end of the runner.household textiles., tableware, textileworking patterns

The cabinet has a curved back and would have been custom‐built to fit the dimensions of the lantern room interior. It is likely to date from when the lighthouse was built in 1884 and may have been among the items delivered by the government steamer dispatch early in March which included ‘the lantern and other fittings for the Cape Nelson Lighthouse’. The Public Works Department provided a range of lightstation furnishings including office desks and cabinets, and domestic settings for keepers’ quarters, with nineteenth century items often stamped with a crown motif and the PWD monogram however the curved cupboards installed in Victoria’s lighthouse lantern rooms do not appear to display this small feature. Further research may reveal more about their manufacture and it is tempting to think that they were perhaps even supplied by Chance Bros as part of the entire lantern room installation. The company usually provided the timber battens for the lantern room paneling, and a cabinet may have been included in the assemblage. Another possibility is that the specially designed cabinet was made on site by carpenters along with other fittings. It is not known whether it is attached to the wall or movable; if attached it is considered to be a fixture and included in the Victorian Heritage Register listing for the lightstation (VHR H1773). Its location, when identified in the CMP of April 1995, was on the ‘lower lantern level’, where there was also a ‘timber step ladder’ (Argus, 6 March 1884, p6. nineteenth or early twentieth century), ‘timber framed lighthouse specification’, ‘timber framed chart’ and telephone .Residue on the furnishing indicates that it was formerly painted green, the colour of some of the other fixtures in the room, such as the original cast iron ladder. It is now partially varnished and the corner to the top’s edging on the right side has been cut off. The lighthouse also has a large curved back, two‐door cupboard. Other similar cabinets with curved backs survive at Cape Schanck, varnished wood cabinet with brass door knob, no drawers; Point Hicks, painted green with silver doors, no drawers and Gabo Island, bench top, 2‐door, no drawers, green paint removed to reveal cedar timber). Cape Nelson’s curved cabinet is unique among these examples for having drawers. The cabinet is a unique, original feature of the lantern room and has first level contributory significance for its historic values and provenance.The bench top cupboard has two drawers, each above a door, and each door is framed and beveled around a central panel. The cabinet has a curved back.

The following are the recollections of John Elkins, who started school in February, 1945 at Maryborough in Queensland, Australia. 'I think in Prep 1 that we had some paper to write on with pencils, but my memory of the routine use of slates is much more vivid. Each slate was framed in wood and one side was inscribed with lines to guide the limits for the upper and lower extremities of letters. The slate "pencils" were made of some pale gray mineral softer than slate which had been milled into cylinders some one-eighth of an inch in diameter and inserted into metal holders so that about an inch protruded. Each student was equipped with a small tobacco tin in which was kept a damp sponge or cloth to erase the marks. Sharpening slate pencils was a regular task. We rubbed them on any suitable brick or concrete surface in the school yard. Teachers also kept a good supply of spares, all writing materials and books being provided by the school. It is possible that the retention of slates stemmed from the political imperative that public education should be free. I do recall being given a Copy Book for home practice of letter formation, a typical practice until Grade 6. The tables at which we used to sit in the Infant School were replaced in the primary Grades by long desks seating five or six pupils. These had slots into which the slates could be inserted vertically. When the teacher asked the class to clear their desks, the command issued was "slates away!" This was an occasion for a noisy expression of relief as we dropped the slates producing a sound not unlike a volley of rifle shots, and usually brought a request from the teacher to repeat the process with no noise by holding the frames throughout. Thus, I suspect we may still have used slates in Grade Three, though by then paper, which may have been scarce during the War, seemed to be used more routinely.' The full context of John's account of writing during his primary school days can be found at: https://www.readinghalloffame.org/sites/default/files/history_of_literacy_22slates_away22_penmanship_in_queensland_australia.pdfSchool desks and benches/chairs have been in use in schools since formal group education started.Eight long school desks (five higher three lower), each with four inkwells and groove along length. eight school benches (five higher three lower). Each desk and bench accommodates four children.None.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village

Information on the Tilly Aston Heritage Collection held at Vision Australia Foundation, with some brief information about Tilly Aston (whom the collection was named after) and the resources held in the archive, and the ability of VAF to provide educational resources, accessibility advice and services to museums.1 white sheet with blue, black and green writingPhotograph of an older girl reading Braille to younger ones on a park bench (previously attributed to Tilly Aston, however there are facial discrepancies)vision australia foundation, fundraising