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Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Administrative record - Heywood Hotel Guest Register, n.d
From the collection of the Bower Bird Museum, Heywood.Heywood Hotel guest register, 1974. Heavy cardboard covers, green, tan suede spine and cover corners. 'LODGERS REGISTER', in gold on red, on spine.heywood hotel, administrative record, local record -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Document - Letter - Bower Birds Nest Museum and Nursery in Heywood, n.d
Bowerbird MuseumAdvertising letter, handwritten by Vanda Savill on buff coloured paper, describing Bower Birds Nest Museum and Nursery in Heywood. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Booklet - Brochure, Casterton, Focus of the South West, n.d
From the collection of Vanda Savill, Bower Bird Museum, Heywood 'Dear Friends' servesTourist brochure, 'Casterton Focus of the South-West. Single sheet glossy paper, folded in 4; mushroom coloured, black pen and ink image of Casterton Railway Station on front. Printed both sides with photos and descriptions of Casterton and District attractions, plus advertising.casterton, tourism, tourist information, advertising -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Negative - Portland Bird Sanctuary, ZILLAH MASCHMEDT, PHOTOGRAPHER, c. 1934
NEGATIVE FOR BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH. Portland bird sanctuary. Water and reeds in foreground. Magazine Hill in the backgroundnegative, bird sanctuary, birdlife, waterfowl, wildlife -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Functional object - Envelope - City of Portland, c. 1992
White envelope. City of Hamilton to Bower Bird's Nest Museum, postmarked 23.3.92. Various notes, dates etc. written on both sides of envelope, in black and blue biro.bower bird museum, heywood, city of portland -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Postcard - Postcard - Cape Nelson Lighthouse, n.d
Formerly from the Bower Bird Museum, HeywoodColoured postcard of Cape Nelson Lighthouse; looking towards the sea. Small octagonal shaped shed on edge of cliff. Three people in foreground.Front: Cape Nelson Lighthouse; bottom left, black italic print. Back: 80c BB pencil, top left. Cape Nelson Lighthouse Portland Vic. (Photo Neil Cutts) - bottom left, blue print Roses Seires Colorview No 1660. Copyright Published by the Rose Stereograph Co., Glen Waverley Victoria' Vertically, left hand side, blue print.postcard, cape nelson, lighthouse, tourism, travel -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Souvenir - Souvenir - Vinyl Sticker Portland Harbour, n.d
Formerly Bower Bird Museum, HeywoodRectangular card with removable oval-shaped vinyl sticker in the centre. Sticker has an image of several wind-surfers in Portland Harbour off Henty Beach , Trawler Wharf and Fisherman's Breakwater in Background. Round hole for hanging, top centre . Pink border, pink "Portland', top centre of stickerFront: Yellow logo' 'Australia collectors choice Murray Views; in black Souvenir vinyl stick-ons, black print $1 blue texta -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Document - Brochure, Portland Botanic Gardens, n.d
From the collection of the 'Bower Bird' Museum, HeywoodSingle A4 sheet of green paper, with black writing, trifold to form pamphlet. Advertising Portland Botanic Gardens.portland, portland botanic gardens, tourism, advertising, visitor, bower bird museum -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Document - Message from the Shire president, Heywood, Victoria, 1994
'Bower Bird' Museum, HeywoodSingle page document, folded in three for posting. Message from 'Shire' President regarding restructure of local Government in Victoria. Shire of Heywood - Regarding restructure, 1994Front: Back - Label with 'Savill VAM and GJ Estate' Smith Street Heywood 3304 - printed on itgovernment restructure, heywood, portland, glenelg shire -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Souvenir - Pennant - Heywood Football Club, 1965
From the collection of the Bower Bird Museum, Heywood. The Heywood Football Netball Club was formed in the 1920s and played its first Senior Premiership in 1925 whilst playing in the Heywood and District Football League to its most recent back-to-back premierships in 2018-2019 as part of the South West District Football League.Green triangular fabric pennant, attached to wooden stick, commemorating Heywood Football Club as a finalist, 1965; gold lettering listing players. Heywood Football club badge and Anzac appeal badge. Attached to point pennant.football, heywood, heywood football club, pennant, souvenir, 1965 -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Booklet - Brochure, The Port of Portland, 1950s
From the collection of the Bower Bird Museum. Heywood.16 page Brochure 'The Port of Portland'. Cover pale blue cardboard with black print. An 8 cm diameter window in front cover showing the Port of Portland stage 1 development, which is part of map on page 1. - this is in colour. The remainder of pages in brochure are in black and white.portland, tourism, travel, economy -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Poster - Poster - 1984 Portland 150th celebration poster, 1984
Bower Bird Museum, Heywood.1984 Portland 150th celebration poster- blue background, silver printing and images. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Administrative record - Administrative record - Parking Plans, Edgar Street Heywood, n.d
'Bower Bird' Museum, HeywoodParking plan for Edgar Street Heywood- Parallel Parking -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Booklet - Booklet - Program Tyrendarra Show 1990, 1990
'Bower Bird' Musum, HeywoodProgram for Tyrendarra 73rd Annual show, 1990 yellow cardboard cover, with black printing. Photo of horse and rider jumping rail fence. On front cover. Back cover has postal details and 55c stamp. Entry form loose inside program. Admittance ticket stapled inside front cover.Front: Back - 'Mrs Savill Bowerbird Museum Heywood 3304' - Written in blue pen -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Pamphlet - Brochure - Lake Condah History Walk, Mar-88
'Bower Bird' Museum, HeywoodPale yellow with brown print brochure. A3 size, folded in half, men tri-fold, Lake Condah History walk. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Pamphlet - Pamphlet - Glenelg Shire Services, n.d
'Bower Bird' Museum, Heywood8 page pale yellow with black print - pamphlet detailing Glenelg shire services. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Souvenir - Souvenir Flag Pennant - Royal visit souvenir 1954, 1954
Bower Bird Museum HeywoodPale coloured fabric triangular pennant. Border purple shading to white. Coloured, oval - shaped paper depiction of Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II attached to pennant. Surmounted by a crown painted in purple and white. Underneath 'Our glorious Queen'. Royal visit souvenir 1954, in purple and white. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Document - Invitation - Ballet Concert, Heywood, Dec-73
From the collection of Vanda Savill, Bower Bird Museum, HeywoodRed card with black hand written print. Invitation to Ballet Concert at Heywood Community Hall, 14th December 1973.ballet, dance, concert, performance, 1973, 1970s, heywood -
Yendon History Group
Photograph, Untitled, Yendon Catholic Church, Early 20th century
Importance of religion in the Yendon community is evidenced by the two churches. This is the weatherboard building of the catholic church and there was also a brick Anglican Church. Both these buildings were eventually removed when congregations declined as the community declined in the twentieth century.The catholic church was looking a bit delapidated in this photo taken just before it was demolished. Locals recall how the priest had to contend with all the birds nesting in the roof as the church slowly deteriorated.This is the only known photo ( as of 2010) of the Catholic Church in Yendon before it was removed.Enlarged printed copy of scanned Sepia photo of the Catholic Church, a wooden structure with a pitched tin roof, at Yendon just before it was removed.The grass is high and the barbed wire is not strained. The arched church windows have several broken panes of glass.It is a rectangular building with two additional spaces - an entry and a vestry. religion, tin roof, church, yendon, catholic, arched windows, vestry, broken panes of glass, weatherboard churches, pitched roofs, barbed wire -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Bassett-Smith, Queen Elizabeth II Coronation celebrations and parade, Eltham, Jun 1953
Three black and white photographsalf davis, anz bank, army, arthur street, bert bredle, ceremonies, civic functions, coronation, councillors, cr e.p. harmer, cr f.v. squire, cr frederick e. griffith, cr stanley s. addison, dave lyon house, eltham hall, eltham lower park, eltham shire office, eltham village, eltham, frank davis mhr, guard of honour, main road, mr c.g. seear, mrs alf davis, mrs arthur bird, mrs e.p. harmer, mrs f.e. griffith, mrs frank davis, mrs ham, mrs s.s. addison, mrs squire, parade, queen elizabeth ii coronation, r.j. (dick) ham, shopping centre -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, Lake Condah Mission etc
This is a book by Vanda Savill giving information on the Lake Condah Aboriginal settlement, its inhabitants and its immediate neighbouring settlers. Lake Condah Mission settlement in Western Victoria was established in 1867. Vanda Savill (1913-2005) with her husband ran a dairy farm and the Bower Birds Nest Museum and History Centre at Heywood. She was passionate about keeping alive the local people’s personal histories and for 20 years, in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, she wrote and published many books on the areas around Heywood. This book is of interest as it gives information on the history of Lake Condah Aboriginal Settlement and the neighbouring settlers in this area. It is also of interest because of the author’s warm and conversational writing style. This is a soft cover book of 164 pages. It has a red cover with black and white images on the front cover of a church and a hand holding a pen. It has been stapled. There are many black and white sketches, illustrations and photographs in the book. The text has been handwritten in cursive script and then printed. lake condah aboriginal settlement, history of western victoria, vanda savill, warrnambool, history -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, The Great Swamp, 1980s
This book has been written by Vanda Savill and is about the settlers in the Wallacedale area in Western Victoria. Wallacedale is 28 kilometres south west of Hamilton and was created by the draining of the Condah Swamp. Vanda Savill (1913-2005) and her husband ran a dairy farm and the Bower Birds Nest Museum and History Centre at Heywood. Vanda Savill was passionate about keeping alive the personal histories of local people and for 20 years she wrote and published many books about the areas in which she lived. This book is of interest because it tells the stories of settlers in the Wallacedale area of Western Victoria. It also has appeal because of the warm, conversational style of the author.This is a soft cover book of 216 pages. The cover has a white background with a black and white image of a hand holding a pen and, on the front cover, five black and white photographs and, on the back cover, nine black and white photographs. The title of the book is in red cursive writing. The information in the book is printed from the original handwriting of the author (Vanda Savill). The book also has many black and white photographs. The book is bound with red tape.wallacedale, history of western victoria, vanda savill, warrnambool -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Document - Sheet Music (2 copies), W H Glen & Co Pty Ltd, Music Sheet Ideal Town Song, 1928
... Bird & Co 479 Collins Street Melbourne.... by McCarron Bird & Co 479 Collins Street Melbourne. Both copies -Cream ...Both copies - This sheet music was composed by A.J.Bates in 1928 as part of the Warrnambool celebrations when the city won the Ideal Town competition that year. This was the first Ideal Town award, a competition sponsored by the The Sun newspaper with the finalists decided by votes sent in by The Sun readers. Warrnambool won in the large town category. Warrnambool Council and local businesses used the award as a tourist promotion tool. An original link to Warrnambool through music.Both copies -Cream paper with black text and black and white illustrations along the top and left hand side in banners.Six pages. Inside the front cover are the words to the song while the musical score is on pages 3-5. back cover is blank.Written and composed by A.J. Bates. Printed by McCarron Bird & Co 479 Collins Street Melbourne.warrnambool the ideal town, sheet music -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, Loch Ard Gorge, Early 20th century
This is a booklet containing an epic-style poem by Alice Goldstraw on the subject of the wreck of the ‘Loch Ard’. Alice Goldstraw (died 1967) was the daughter of George and Robina Goldstraw who were pioneer farmers in the Cudgee area. The Goldstraw families were prominent in the early history of Warrnambool and district, especially as timber millers. The ‘Loch Ard’ wreck (1878, Mutton Bird Island near Port Campbell) is Victoria’s most famous wreck – 51 lives lost with only two survivors. The story of the survivors, Eva Carmichael and Tom Pearce has legendary status in the stories of shipwrecks in Victoria and has been the subject of articles, songs, poems, plays, novels and films. This booklet is of great significance because it is a well-written poem by Alice Goldstraw, a member of a pioneer family in the Cudgee area. It is a notable early poem about the wreck of the ‘Loch Ard’ which has attracted much interest in the Warrnambool area and beyond. Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum in Warrnambool specializes in promoting stories of this wreck and features many relics of the wreck in its collection – the Loch Ard Peacock, the Carmichael watch, the Tom Peace binoculars etc. The laser night show at this Museum currently features the story of the wreck. Original copies of this poem are now rare.This is a soft cover booklet of 20 pages containing a poem about the wreck of the ‘Loch Ard’. The cover is cream-coloured with the front cover having blue print and a sepia-coloured photograph of the Loch Ard Gorge. The booklet has a page of photographs connected to the ‘Loch Ard’ and an ornamental black border around each page of the stanzas. The front cover is somewhat blotched and stained. The booklet has been stapled but the staples have been removed.poetry, loch ard shipwreck, warrnambool authors, alice goldstraw, warrnambool history -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, Taming the wild
This book has been written and published by Vanda Savill (1913-2005). She and her husband ran a dairy farm and the Bower Bird Museum and History Centre at Heywood, Victoria. She was passionate about keeping alive local people’s personal histories and for 20 years she wrote and published many books dealing with the histories of people in Western Victoria. ‘Taming the Wild’ tells of the settlers of the Portland/Tyrendarra area.This book is of interest because it is an account of many settlers in the Portland/Tyrendarra area of Western Victoria. The format of the book, handwritten in a conversational and warm style, is also of interest.This is a soft cover book of 160 pages. It has been handwritten by Vanda Savill and her own handwriting had been reproduced in printed form. The cover has a black background with silver-coloured writing and images of a hand holding a pen, birds and leaves. The book has many black and white photographs. The book is bound with a plastic clip. vanda savill, history of western victoria, history of portland, history of tyrendarra -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Spirit Level
This item was given to the Historical Society in 1972, with the donor indicating that the spirit level belonged to the Henty family. The Hentys of Portland are regarded as the first permanent settlers in the State of Victoria (1834). Stephen Henty, with his brother Edward, was involved in the whaling industry in Portland. He also had shipping interests, operating a regular Western District shipping service (‘Champion’, ‘Lady Bird’, ‘Western’, ‘Edina’ etc) and a property ‘Cadnook’, near Harrow. Stephen Henty had close connections with Warrnambool not only because of his shipping interests but also because he was the brother-in-law of an early Warrnambool Harbour Master, Captain Frank Helpman. A spirit level was an essential tool for early settlers as they often built their own homes and constructed the roads nearby, needing to ascertain if what was being constructed was on level ground.It does not seem possible to establish whether this item belonged to the Henty family or to a Henty property. But in the Historical Society collection we have a piece of sheet music which includes the handwriting ‘Mrs Smalpaige, Cadnook’, ‘S. J. Henty’ and the date ‘8th August 1859’. Also the Warrnambool Art Gallery has an authentic Henty piano dating from 1837 and Stephen Henty’s wife died in Hamilton in 1906 so it is possible that the spirit level came to us from a Henty family descendant living nearby via Mr N. Kelly. If the Henty provenance can be proved then this item is of high significance.This is an unvarnished wooden spirit level, apparently home made, with a bubble in the centre. The top has been attached with eight screws, now much rusted. There appears to be some letters in the bubble area but they have not been deciphered “Hentys spirit level, oldest in Australia” is written in ink on the back of the objectspirit level, henty brothers portland, warrnambool, henty family -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Badge - Royal Federation of Aero Clubs Badge, Stokes Melbourne, Circa 1969?
Swinton CollectionGold flying bird on circular disk of gold and 2 blues circled around the earth and inscription of Australia. Gold lettering on dark blue outer circle Royal Federation of Aero Clubs of Austswinton, aero clubs, royal federation of aero clubs -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Document - Postcard, Wading Birds of Warrnambool, Tapestry commenced February 2012. Postcard printed on its completion
This postcard is a photograph of a section of a large tapestry , 1.8m x 1.9m, which hangs in the foyer of the South West Health Care. This tapestry was funded by the Geoff and Helen Handbury Foundation. It was woven at the Australian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne. The postcard “Concerning the Wading Birds of Warrnambool Wetlands” brings to a wider audience, the work of John Wolesley as well as the craftsmanship of the weavers in presenting his original watercolor in a different medium. The tapestry itself was commissioned by Warrnambool Base Hospital.Background is in muted shades of blue and browns with larger birds in foreground and smaller ones in the background. The texture of the tapestry is clearly visible. The back of the postcard has South West Healthcare logo in top left corner and credits in bottom section.South West Healthcare logo, Artist John Wolseley, Weavers, Chris Cochius, Pamela Joyce, Milena Paplinka, Photo credit, Jeremy Weihrauch. warrnambool, warrnambool base hospital, tapestry, john wolesley, south west health care, geoff and helen handbury foundation, australian tapestry workshop, weavers. -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, Vanda Savill (1913-2005), Such is life, 1985
An example of Vanda Savill's handwritten books documenting western district local histories focussing on the Henty family.This is a paper back book with a yellow cover with black headings and annotations, black and white sketches and black and white photographs. There are 52 pages of handwritten and copied material with photographs and illustrations. The pages are stapled.non-fictionAn example of Vanda Savill's handwritten books documenting western district local histories focussing on the Henty family.henty family, vanda savill, warrnambool -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, Vanda Savill (1913-2005), Tha' she blows, 1980
Scrapbook style book history of early Port Fairy and PortlandThis is a paper back book of 176 pages. The pages are bound together. The cover is blue card with silver-coloured wording and illustrations of whales. There are 829 photographs and illustrations. The historical material contained in the pages is handwritten and photocopied. non-fictionScrapbook style book history of early Port Fairy and Portlandwhaling, port fairy, portland, shipwrecks