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Bendigo Military Museum
Equipment - WATER BOTTLES, 1) 1968; .2) 1982; .3) 1964
.1), .2) & .3) Water bottles, plastic, screw top lids attached to the bottle. .1), .2) Green colour. .3) Greyish colour with green screw on lid..1) “V1968 [up arrow] 8465-71-108-8703” .2) “ACMIL 1982 [up arrow] 8465-66--86-6349” .3) “US 1964 APC”military equipment - army, containers - drink consumption, water, bottle -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Images, 1960s
One of a collection of photographs from the Iggsten Estate. The water tower in the background is located in Hunter Street and was built in 1899-1900 to serve as the town's water supply. A new reservoir was built in 1945 with water being pumped from the Murray. A steel mesh structure, to make it look like a wine bottle, was added to the top in 1969 with funds from the Rutherglen Wine Festival.Black and white photograph, taken from the bottom on a hill, showing a water tower against the sky.water tower, wine bottle, tourism -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Images, 1960s
One of a collection of photographs from the Iggsten Estate. The water tower in the background is located in Hunter Street and was built in 1899-1900 to serve as the town's water supply. A new reservoir was built in 1945 with water being pumped from the Murray. A steel mesh structure, to make it look like a wine bottle, was added to the top in 1969 with funds from the Rutherglen Wine Festival.Black and white photograph, taken from the bottom on a hill, showing a water tower against the sky.water tower, wine bottle, tourism -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Map, T.F. McGauran, William Couty of Borong 1891, 1891
Stawell Water Supply Reserve. Grampians State Forest. Dairy Creek, Fyans Creek, Barney's Creek, Bovine Creek, Glasstree Creek, Stoney Creek. Stawell Water Supply Aquaduct Fkuming Tunnel.A2 Parish Map of Willam Inculdin Stawell Water Supply Reserve and Creeks. Marked in redPhoto Lithographed at the Department of Lands and Survey Melbourne. By T.F. McGauran 20.07.91 water supply survey -
Sunbury Family History and Heritage Society Inc.
Photograph, 15th
The Number 2 platform at Sunbury Station is featured in this image along with the former wooden pedestrian bridge and partial view of the two water towers, which in the past were used to supply water for the steam engines. A coloured photograph of a platform at a railway station which includes a pedestrian bridge and metal water tower. sunbury railway station -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Map, Department of Lands & Survey, Map of Melbourne & Suburbs, 1899
The Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works was established in 1891 to oversee the introduction of a sewerage and water reticulation system in Melbourne and its suburbs. This complementary map was produced by the Department of Crown Lands & Survey [Victoria] in the same decade showing the distribution of water in Melbourne for use by fire brigades. While by 1910, there were 123,227 connections to Melbourne's water supply system, it is unclear in this 1899 map whether water was supplied to all built structures in the defined areas or only to fire hydrants and stand pipes, as we know that the first connection of a building to the sewerage system in Kew only occurred in 1904.Map accompanying report on fire protection of Melbourne showing those areas supplied with water in colour.water reticulation -- melbourne (vic.), department of lands & survey -- historic maps, fire brigades -- melbourne (vic.), cartography -
City of Kingston
Domestic object - City of Moorabbin water glass, City of Moorabbin, c. 1990
Water glass produced for City of Moorabbin, incorporating gold edge and City of Moorabbin logoWater glass with gold edging and City of Moorabbin logo printed in gold on front.tableware, glassware, city of moorabbin, water glass -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, 20/11/1956
Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.Medium sized black and white photograph. Big wash-away under concrete slab at Tatura Waterworks storage / upright posts bottom right corner / sandbags and petrol drum above water line left of centre / water left of bankvictorian state rivers and supply commission, tatura waterworks, tatura waterworks trust -
Sunbury Family History and Heritage Society Inc.
Photograph, 2001
The water tank stands on Sunbury Railway station and was in use when steam trains were used along Bendigo line. After travelling 37 kms (25 miles) from Melbourne, it was necessary for the trains to replenish their water supply at Sunbury. The presence of the water tank at Sunbury Station is an indicator that it was one of the major stations along the Bendigo line. A coloured photograph of a rectangular water tower. The first level is a brick construction and the metal tank is on top of it. water tanks, railway stations, steam travel -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Sale Plan 38, 12/09/1855
Parish of Nunawading Sale Plan 38.Parish of Nunawading Sale Plan 38. Description of land is given with water supply. Surveyor C.Hodgkinson.Parish of Nunawading Sale Plan 38. parish of nunawading, hodgkinson, clement, water supply -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Plaque, 1961
Large brass plaque commemorating the opening of a State Rivers and Water Supply Commission building in Carnegie by the Premier in 1961SRWSC, This building was officially opened on September 14th 1961 by the Hon H.E Bolte MLA Premier of Victoria and the Hon W.J. Mibus MLA Minister of Water Supply -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - The Race at Dight's Falls, 1925
Dight’s Falls in Studley Park is an artificial weir built on a natural rock bar across the Yarra. The weir was built in the 1840s to provide water to the ‘Ceres’ flour-mill, one of the first in Victoria. The falls were later to become known as Dight’s Falls after the owners of the mill. Later, a pumping station was built on the Kew side of the river, which pumped water uphill to a reservoir in Walmer Street that provided water to the Melbourne Botanical Gardens and to Albert Park Lake. The area around Dight’s Falls was and is frequently used for recreational activities.Original, black and white positive of water flowing over the 'Race' at Dight's Falls in MelbourneInscribed verso: "The Race at Dight's Falls / River Yarra Melbourne / 1.3.25" "Kodak Print"dight's falls, river yarra, yarra -- kew (vic.) -
Charlton Golden Grains Museum Inc
Photograph, Ian Cameron, 1973 February Flood, Feb 1973
1973 flood. High water depth under Paterson Bridge, Charlton Victoria,B/W photograph of 1973 flood. High water depth under Paterson Bridge.flood, james paterson bridge, charlton -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, 1950
Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.Medium sized black and white photograph. P.O.W Camp 13 at Murchison laundry and shower building with water tank on stand above roof. Sundry small buildings to the right. Gravelled road foreground. Note - This complex of buildings water commission camp, 1950victorian state rivers and supply commission, camp 13, murchison -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document, History of Irrigation in Goulburn Murray Irrigaton District, 1990
Brief history of irrigation in Goulburn Murray Irrigation district and brief information on headworks supplying water to the area.Black folder, containing papers on State Rivers and Water Supply Commission worksdocument, irrigation -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, The original Eagle Star Ferry
The ferry was built at Brisbane Water and Drummoyne, NSW in 1936. There is a model of the ship in the Museum, built by John McGuigan. Model is Registration number 3190 This photo is taken from a painting.Coloured photo of an Ferry on the water with passengers on front and back decks.ferries, ferry eagle star, photographs -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Vehicle - Furphy Water Cart, J. Furphy & Sons, c. 1942
This horse-drawn, two-wheeled cart with a tank, is known as a Furphy Farm Water Cart that was made in Shepparton, northern Victoria, c. 1942. John Furphy (1842-1920) was born in Moonee Ponds, in 1842 to Irish immigrant parents and subsequently raised in the Yarra Valley before the family moved to Kyneton in central Victoria, where he completed an apprenticeship with the firm Hutcheson and Walker. Murphy began operations of his own at a site on Piper Street in Kyneton in 1864. He relocated for a business opportunity and founded the first blacksmiths and wheelwrights shop in the newly surveyed town of Shepparton in 1873. Furphy invented many farming tools and machines including a patented grain-stripper, and won awards at the 1888-89 Melbourne International Exhibition. His most famous invention is the Furphy Farm Water Cart, designed in the 1880s, at a time when water for most households and farms was carted on wagons in wooden barrels. The Furphy’s water cart is a single item that combines a water metal tank and a cart. The design of the cart was simple yet effective, and became popular very quickly and established itself as a vital piece of farming equipment. The water cart has had a number of words cast into its ends over many years. References to the foundry’s location in Shepparton, as well as advertising of other products also manufactured by J. Furphy & Sons were present on the ends. However, the most significant set of words to feature on the tank, was a poem encouraging continual improvement: ‘Good Better Best, Never Let it Rest, Until your Good is Better, And your Better Best’. During The Great War (1914-1918), the water cart was used by the Australian militarily at a large AIF (Australian Imperial Force) camp in Broadmeadows (Melbourne) where thousands of men were camped for months, before being transported aboard. Furphy Water Carts provided water to the troops, and were usually placed near the camp latrines, which was one of the few places the troops could share gossip and tall tales away from the prying eyes and ears of their officers. The water cart drivers were also notorious sources of information, despite most of their news being hearsay, or totally unreliable. By the time the men of the AIF were in engaged in combat on the Gallipoli Peninsula and the Western Front, the carts used for water supply had no markings and became simply referred to as Furphys. This owed as much to the coining of the term ‘Furphy’, Australian slang for suspect information or rumour. After a number of decades as principally a soldier’s word, 'Furphy' entered the broader Australian vernacular and was used mainly by the political class until recently when the term was taken up by a Australian brewer as a beer brand. This Furphy Water Cart was purchased by Friends of Flagstaff Hill in 2014. The support of local individuals, organisations and businesses enabled its restoration and later its installation alongside the existing late-19th century water pipe stand and 1940s hand pump The Furphy Farm Water Cart is of historical significance as it represents a famous Australian time-saving and energy-saving invention of the 1880s, replacing the labour intensive activity of collecting and dispensing water from barrels and casks on the back of carts. The water cart’s connection with manufacturing companies J. Furphy & Sons and Furphy Foundry are significant for being early Australian businesses that are still in operation today. Furphy carts are of military significance for the role they played during The Great War (1914-1918) in Australian army camps, and theatres of war in Europe and the Middle East, to supply the AIF troops with fresh water. A wooden framed, two-wheeled, horse-drawn cart, fitted with a horizontally mounted, cylindrical metal tank. The tank is made of rolled, sheet steel with a riveted seam, and cast iron ends with cast iron ends. The spoked metal wheels have fitted flat iron tyres and metal hubs. A metal pipe is joined to the outlet. The tank is silver coloured, the ends, wheels and trims are crimson, and the script lettering on tank sides is black. There are inscriptions on the tank, ends, and hubs. The water tank was made in 1942 in Shepparton, Australia, by J. Furphy & Sons and has a capacity of 180 gallons (848 litres). Hub perimeter, embossed “J. FURPHY & SONS” “KEEP THE / BOLTS TIGHT” Hub centre embossed [indecipherable] Tank, each side, painted “J. FURPHY & SONS / Makers / SHEPPARTON” Tank ends, embossed – “FURPHY’S FARM WATER CART” “BORN ABOUT 1880 – STILL ‘GOING STRONG’ 1942” “j. FURPHY & SONS / MAKERS / SHEPPARTON - VIC “ “S - - - - - L MANUFACTURERS” [SPECIAL] “SPIKE ROLLERS” “SINGLE TREES” “PLOUGH WHEELS” “IRON CASTINGS” “LAND GRADERS” “STEEL DELVERS” “CAST IRON PIG” “CHAIN YOKES” “GOOD – BETTER – BEST / NEVER LET IT REST / TILL YOUR GOOD IS BETTER / AND YOUR BETTER – BEST” Image [Stork carrying a baby] above shorthand, transcribed "Produce and populate or perish" Image [Furphy Pig Feeder] beside ‘Cast Iron Pig’ Shorthand, transcribed “"Water is the gift of God but beer and whiskey are concoctions of the Devil, come and have a drink of water"warrnambool, flagstaff hill maritime museum, water cart, furphy cart, furphy tank, furphy farm water cart, furphy, john furphy, john furphy & sons, furphy foundry, kyneton, shepparton, mobile water tank, jinker, hutchinson & walker, blacksmith, farm equipment, implement maker, tool maker, horse drawn, stork and baby, good, better, best, barrel, tank, first world war, wwi, eastern front, gallipoli, j furphy & sons -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, 20/11/1956
Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.Medium sized black and white photograph. Big wash-away under concrete slab at Tatura Waterworks storage / Sheets of galvanised iron foreground on slab / bags of sand and petrol drum further along above water level / water on right / tree on horizon.victorian state rivers and supply commission, tatura waterworks, tatura waterworks trust -
Puffing Billy Railway
Wagon, Explosives, 1900s
18½-inch (460mm) gauge wagon came from the Commonwealth Explosives factory at Maribyrnong in Melbourne’s western suburbs. It has gun-metal wheels, as avoiding sparks was understandably a priority in an explosives factory. It also has water tanks to drip water on the wheels as an added precaution Historic - Industrial Narrow Gauge Railway - Commonwealth Explosives factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria, AustraliaExplosives Wagon - Four wheel wagon with timber frame, copper water tanks and bronze wheels.explosives wagon, puffing billy, commonwealth explosives factory, maribyrnong explosives factory -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Register of Land 1955-1956, 1955
Register of Lands in Tatura district with apportioned water rights 1955-56Beige covers, red spine, black lettering. Rodney Irrigaton and Water Supply District 28.10.1955.farming and irrigation, books, irrigation, rural, industry -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Register of Lands. Master Register, 1958
Register of Lands in Tatura district with apportioned Water RightsBeige cover, red spine, black writing. Rodney Irrigation and Water Supply District. 1957-1958farming, irrigation, books, rural, industry -
Bendigo Military Museum
Container - WATER BOTTLE, c.1899 - 1900
Boer War 1899 - 1900 Army issue water bottle. A variety of water bottle designs were used during the South African War & a member of the 4th Victorian Imperial Bushman carried this bottle.Water bottle. blue coloured, round, cork attached by metal chain, hanging leather strap & metal buckle.containers, military equipment - water, passchendaele barracks trust -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Water Bag
Hessian water bag used for transporting water when travelling. Was placed on front of car/truck and kept cool. was also used as a general water supply.|Belonged to Jim Graham (father in law to Margaret Graham) Used on a Vauxhall car, 1940s & 1950s.Canvas water bag with ceramic and cork stopper. Two loops for attaching to vehicle on front is 12' Oasis. Other writing unclear to read.transport, motor vehicles, containers, domestic -
Trafalgar Holden Museum
Functional object - Water bottle in carrier
Army issue water bottle as made by GMHMade by GMH 1940Black metal water bottle with cork stopper in neck. Tan leather carry rack including shoulder strapmilitary, water bottle, leather holster -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, Lakes Post Newspaper, 1/04/1996 12:00:00 AM
An abandoned EPFRG emergency position indicating Beacon set off the alarm in Canberra initiating a full emergency response with helicopter, water police, coastguard and other units involved. The EPFRG was eventually located in a rubbish bin on a private property in Lakes EntranceBlack and white photograph of two Water Policemen Snr Const. Tony Burke and Snr Const. Brian Hall of Paynesville Water Police docked at Lakes Entrance Victoriacoast, defence services, police -
Nillumbik Shire Council
Painting: Tony Harkin (b.1938 Aus), Bush Study, 1982
Landscape painting of "a pool of water" and its surrounding Australian bush landscape. May be a reference to the Black Dam near Dunmoochin, Cottles Bridge.Signed and dated lower right corner "Harkin 1982"landscape, eltham, dam, cottles bridge, water, bush -
Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch
Equipment, Water Bottle, Made 1966
Standard type water bottle as issued to American and Australian troops in the Vietnam War.00095.1 Cloth , Canvas Water bottle cover with “FIX” stud fittings. Khaki, US Maker. 00095.2 Khaki Plastic Water Bottle Marked US 1966. 00095.3 Aluminium Dixee Cup, made by Stokes Melbourne Reg No 8465 - 66 - 058 - 5567 -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, c 1900
Coal tramway from Kilcunda to Griffiths Point - horses grazing in foreground. House and tree on left of photograph. White railway track winding through the fields which are overlooking the water.Kilcunda to Griffiths Point Coal Tramway - rural scene overlooking water.local history, photography, photographs, slides, film, tramway, kilcunda to griffiths point, black & white photograph, miss elms san remo -
Bendigo Military Museum
Functional object - WATER PURIFYING KIT
The bag is a clear plastic with a zip lock top. It is a heavy duty plastic. Instructions for use are printed on the outside. There are two strips of water sterilizing tablets. 10 pills each. There are also two "books" of army matches. Red cover with a crown over two swords and a leaping kangaroo. survival, water, purification -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - 'An Inch of Rain' A water history of Northern Victoria by Robyn Ballinger
184-page soft cover book entitled 'An Inch of Rain' by Robyn Ballinger A water history of Northern Victoria. Illustrated with B&W photos, maps and rainfall charts. Published 2012 by Australian Scholarly Publishing P/L, North Melbourne Printed by BPA Print Group rainfall, northern victoria, water