Collections of papers belonging to A.J.B. Aird from the beginning of the East Ringwood Lodge No. 668 till it closed on 16th August 2002.1. Agendas from 1949-1968 belonging to Brother Aird; 2. Lists of installations - 1949-1968; 3. Receipts and Expenses 1952, 58, 59, 60, 66, 68.; 4. Two seasons greetings cards 1949 and 1952-53.; 5. Souvenir Programme - 13 August, 1953.; 6. Souvenir 1949. Consecration of the East Ringwood Lodge No. 668. Blue cardboard covered programme. Signatures.; 7. Final light and surrender E. Ringwood No. 668. Laminated A4.; 8. Banner installation - 19th September, 1952. Wooden dowelling both ends. +Additional Keywords: Aird, A.J.B.

Miscellaneous documents related to the Ringwood Baths in Ringwood Street and the Ringwood Swimming Club.Packet includes: . 3742a- Season Ticket No 1 for the Municipal Baths, Ringwood Street, belonging to Cr A Temple Miles, dated 19.10.34 Season 1934-35. . 3742b- Typed document advertising the First Grand Aquatic Carnival at the Public Swimming Pool at dublin Road, Ringwood East. . 3742c- Invitation to Mr & Mrs R Pullin from the City of Ringwood for the Official Opening of Fred. Dwerryhouse Swimming Pool at Jubilee Park on 31st October, 1970. . 3742d, e, f- Early correspondence and reports on running of the Baths 1934 to 1937. . 3742g- Letter dated 19.9.1936 from the Ringwood Swimming Club to Ringwood Council requesting Clubrooms at the Baths. . 3742h- Two cards listing monthly items of interest dated 1925 to 1942. . 3742i- Ringwood Swimming and Life Saving Club Membership Cards for Kaye Maidment and William Maidment dated 9.11.58. . 3742j- Newspaper cuttings from 1928 to 1946.

Black and white "Murray Views" postcard - Maroondah Highway looking east towards Memorial Clock Tower on Warrandyte Road intersection; railway bridge on right. Circa 1959."1959" handwritten on front.

City of Ringwood community information annual report for 1966, including sections covering Finance, Rates & Charges, Commercial Projects, Municipal Library, Memorial Clock Tower, Private Street Construction, Advisory Service, Litter, Fire Hazards, Home Help Service, Immunisations, Infant Welfare Centres, Native Flora, Dogs, Horse Riding, Fly Control, Garbage Removal, Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Vandalism, Street Lighting, and list of departing and current Council Representatives.Mrs. Elizabeth Penny, representing the East Ward, made history in Ringwood by being the first woman elected to the Council, and subsequently as Ringwood's first lady Mayor.rinx

Community information booklet issued by City of Ringwood for 1985 - covering the facilities and activities of the Ringwood Council and other local organisations and associations. Cover photograph: Lionsbrae - Frail Aged Hostel.CONTENTS: (page no.) By-Laws/Traffic Regs. 35 Chief Executive 10 Children's Service 12, 13 & 40 Churches 41 City Map 32 & 33 Committees of Council 7 Community Services 38 Community Services Officer 43 Council Finances 24 Councillors 4 & 5 Council Meeting Dates 6 Council Representatives 8 Cultural Centre 23 Disabled Persons Facilities 44 Eastern Corridor 18 East Ringwood Shopping Centre 22 Emergency Telephone Nos. 63 Garbage Collection 20 Golf Course 15 Health 26 Historical Research Croup 47 Home Help 30 Hospitals 48 Immunisations 27 Incinerators 21 Infant Welfare Centres49 J.P.'s and Commissioners 37 Library 28 & 29 Lionsbrae 17 Management Executive 11 Mayoral Message – Cr. R. Gardini, J.P. 3 Meals on Wheels 34 North Ringwood Senior Citizens 16 Opportunity Shops 53 Parks and Reserves 53 Parliamentary Representatives 9 Playgroups 55 Pre-schools 56 Public Toilets 56 Rates 25 Ringwood Croydon Advisory Service 37 Schools 58 Senior Citizens Centres 60 Swimming Pool 14 Unemployment 62 Victoria's 150th Anniversary 36 Works Programme 18 & 19 Youth Outreach Worker 62 rinx

Hard cover book - Full title: A Family Who's Who Volume IV - More About The East Family And Related Pioneers - Yules, Milligans, Hoopers, McCallums, Neethlings, Males, Quicks, Phillips, Keys, Burchetts, Greenwoods.Inside back cover - "On Sunday 13th November, 1836, Samuel East, a Methodist local preacher, conducted at Kingscote on Kangaroo Island, the first church service held in South Australia. See page 35 of A South Australian Colonist of 1836." "This is to certify that Sir Ronald East took part in South Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations in 1986 by participating in Uniting Church Service 9.11.86 as descendants of Samuel East (signed) Kym Boynton, Jubilee 150 Board Chairman."

Hard cover book - Full title: A Family Who's Who Volume III - More Australian Pioneers - The Burchetts and Related Families - Phillips, Canning, Greenwood, Milbourne, Robin, Stroud, Straw, Whitworth & Wright. By Sir Ronald East, 1976."200 copies printed for private distribution in Memory of Our Pioneer Ancestors to ensure that they will not be forgotten. Copy Number 157. To Ann from Dad & Mum, date 25.12.76.

Details of East Ringwood Football Club's 1953 Triple Premiership year for First Eighteen, Second Eighteen and Junior (U16) Eighteen. Includes photographs, newspaper clippings, players' and officials' profiles.

Summary of the school's history from 1924 to 1974 produced to coincide with it's 50th year Jubilee Celebrations held on 2nd November, 1974. Back cover outlines programme of proceedings on that day.

Yellow soft covered booklet detailing the history of the school from 1924 to 1990.

History of the Anglican Parish of Heathmont and Ringwood East written by Robin Underwood - 105 pages +Additional Keywords: Underwood, Robin

Herbie MATTHEWS (the Captain/Coach) previously played with South Melbourne in the then Victorian Football League.Photo of Ringwood Football Club 1948 Firsts Premiership team. Ringwood Football Club Premiership 1948. Back row - G Mahon, J Maidment, M Westmore, R East, F Barro, C Fitzgerald. Third row - J Prouse (trainer), M Maidment, G Hinds, J Morgan, H Morgan, A Tasker, J Westmore, Leo Pratt (trainer). Second row - W Connell, K Pratt (President), S Beal, H Matthews (Captain and coach), J Lindsay (Secretary), V Morphett. front row - K Hare, I Binns, M Donaldson (Boundary Umpire), J Burgess, T Pratt. On the back "Geoffrey Baker Studios, 620 Burke Rd, Camberwell, WF8070, 961 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, WX3645, 28 Pitt St, Ringwood, WU8201.

The first helicopter to arrive at Maroondah Hospital, Ringwood East, about 1990-91. It was used to take a child to the Children’s Hospital.Digital photos

"Alexander Colquhoun [Herald art critic 1914-1922 and feature writer for the Age 1926-1941] ... took private students in the first decade of the century, and one of these was Winifred Miles, who after her marriage in 1910 lived the remainder of her life in Ringwood. ... (She) began by doing charcoal studies of animals when she was in Balranald, but in later years moved to oils and then watercolours, travelling around Ringwood to find places to paint by means of a pony-driven governess-cart. She won prizes for paintings in the Royal Melbourne Shows." - Hugh Anderson - Ringwood, Place of Many Eagles [p.217].Unframed painting with cardboard border.

Charles Wheeler biography link http://www.portrait.gov.au/people/charles-wheeler-1881 Painted by a prominent artist. Refer to Sir Ronald East's history of the Greenwood family pp. 336-371, noteably page 343 that mentions about Henrietta Carr, only daughter on George F. Carr, who married AV Greenwood in 1896. Also reference to The Wattle Club pp. 356-7. Thus giving the connection of the Greenwood and Carr families, the subjects of Charles Wheeler's painting.Painting in glass-fronted frame.Typewritten notation behind the frame - "Greenwood oral family history says that this unsigned painting was done by Charles Wheeler as a demonstration for Rose Greenwood, (A.V. Greenwood's sister). They shared a studio at the Wattle Club Hall at Box Hill circa 1890s. The subject matter was said to be Grandfather Carr's orchard in Wantirna Road (Ringwood - Still standing in 2003). Source: Mary Greenwood, youngest Granddaughter of A.V. Greenwood."

"Margaret Robbie was another of the local painters who came late to art or combined it with a quite different occupation. Her grandparents, John Shaw and Margaret (Byers), went to Hobart in 1855 but then crossed the Strait and settled in Kyenton where they remained until 1918. Margaret was the issue of the marriage of Mary Shaw and Robbie. She spent a considerable time overseas for the YWCA, including a period as its General Secretary in Toronto, Canada, and worked in the Middle East during World War 2. Margaret Robbie made her garage in Ringwood Street into a flat-cum-studio-cum-gallery for her painting activities when she was not caring for her sister and an elderly aunt." - Hugh Anderson - Ringwood, Place of Many Eagles [p.218].Painting with cardboard border in glass-fronted frame.Sticker on back of frame - "Ringwood Framing Gallery, 233 Whitehorse Road Ringwood, Phone 8704930"

Framed silver gelatin printNotation on back - "Ken Marshall, Jeweller, Maroondah Highway Ringwood took this photo. It was displayed in his shop window when I bought it. Next door to Pratt the butcher and Ron Dickason's fruiterer, just prior to the Eastland development - Gloria Welch, 23 Campbell St. Ringwood East."

"Margaret Robbie was another of the local painters who came late to art or combined it with a quite different occupation. Her grandparents, John Shaw and Margaret (Byers), went to Hobart in 1855 but then crossed the Strait and settled in Kyenton where they remained until 1918. Margaret was the issue of the marriage of Mary Shaw and Robbie. She spent a considerable time overseas for the YWCA, including a period as its General Secretary in Toronto, Canada, and worked in the Middle East during World War 2. Margaret Robbie made her garage in Ringwood Street into a flat-cum-studio-cum-gallery for her painting activities when she was not caring for her sister and an elderly aunt." - Hugh Anderson - Ringwood, Place of Many Eagles [p.218].Painting with cardboard border in glass-fronted frame.Sticker on back of frame - "Ringwood Framing Gallery, 233 Whitehorse Road Ringwood, Phone 8704930"

"Margaret Robbie was another of the local painters who came late to art or combined it with a quite different occupation. Her grandparents, John Shaw and Margaret (Byers), went to Hobart in 1855 but then crossed the Strait and settled in Kyenton where they remained until 1918. Margaret was the issue of the marriage of Mary Shaw and Robbie. She spent a considerable time overseas for the YWCA, including a period as its General Secretary in Toronto, Canada, and worked in the Middle East during World War 2. Margaret Robbie made her garage in Ringwood Street into a flat-cum-studio-cum-gallery for her painting activities when she was not caring for her sister and an elderly aunt." - Hugh Anderson - Ringwood, Place of Many Eagles [p.218].Painting in glass-fronted frame.

"Margaret Robbie was another of the local painters who came late to art or combined it with a quite different occupation. Her grandparents, John Shaw and Margaret (Byers), went to Hobart in 1855 but then crossed the Strait and settled in Kyenton where they remained until 1918. Margaret was the issue of the marriage of Mary Shaw and Robbie. She spent a considerable time overseas for the YWCA, including a period as its General Secretary in Toronto, Canada, and worked in the Middle East during World War 2. Margaret Robbie made her garage in Ringwood Street into a flat-cum-studio-cum-gallery for her painting activities when she was not caring for her sister and an elderly aunt." - Hugh Anderson - Ringwood, Place of Many Eagles [p.218].Painting with cardboard border in glass-fronted frame.Inscription along lower edge of painting - "Margaret Robbie, copied from a postcard", and sticker on back of frame - "Ringwood Framing Gallery, 233 Whitehorse Road Ringwood, Phone 8704930"

Colour photographWritten on back of photo: "19/2/95-Start of Bypass Looking East"

Colour photographWritten on back of photo: "19/2/95-Start of Bypass Looking East from Warrandyte Rd"