A report on the history of the Yarra Track by John Waghorn, a local amateur historian.A report on the history of the Yarra Track by John Waghorn, a local amateur historian. John Waghorn was an amateur historian, an authority on the history of Victoria's postal services. He could tell you how mail was delivered in the high country in the 1880s, where the town of Gobur was, or when the overland Melbourne-Sydney mail service began. He admitted that his hobby has got a little out of hand. He had 30 filing cabinets, and indexes of more than 70,000 postal workers over the past 160 years crammed into three rooms at his home. If an ancestor was a postmaster in a Victorian town, he may have been able to reveal the person's occupation, income and working conditions.yarra track, john waghorn, victoria's postal services, wood's point, sydney road, longwood, merton, mansfield, postmasters, bonnie doon, melville merton mansfield, eltham, healesville, marysville, walhalla, melbourne-warburton-wood's point line, loose bags, heidelberg post office, eltham post office, kangaroo ground post office, yarra glen post office, marysville post office, healesville post office, mansfield post office, jamieson post office, gaffney's creek post office, wood's point post office, postal department, george rieck, stockman, jones, beecher, stockman's reward, big river, mary mcdonald, upper yarra river, donovan's creek, cornelius donovan, bridget buggy, matlock, alexandra, william farrell, jordan diggings, new chum, watts river, black spur, narbethong, granton, acheron river, mount strickland, paradise plains, mount grant, mount arnold, jordan goldfields, william robley, robley's spur, big river crossing, great dividing range, cumberland valley, james mcguigan, w elliot, christopher harrison, james marsh, cobb and co, box hill, lilydale, fehrings, koehlers, shaws, bear creek, cairnsville, cumberland creek, walkers, golden bower mine, collins' mountain home hotel, walsh's creek post office, rosa mcveigh, frank barton, hitchins, matthew kennedy, william morris, e r nichols, t woods, tom burchell, peter kerr, henry kuyper, william podlech, george koehler, henry brockmann, henry petty, thomas smith, jacob butchart, john perry, slingsby davis, royal mail hotel, walter gray, john summers, travellers rest hotel, lockington, the oaks, the springs, st clair, thomas crawford, springvale hotel, john sinclair, saint clair hotel, gould, mathews, willie we have missed you hotel, germany, johan fehring, adelaide, linton, ballarat, gunbower, murray river, anna katerina fehring, 1890s depression, land boom, fehring place, fred baker, alf sparke, fehring's hotel, mcveigh's hotel, wood's point mountaineer, l cox, victorian country directories, letson cox, coburg, maria hayes, setson, fitzroy, richmond, john cox, jordan river, jericho, e. norris, le poidevin, newell, o'brien, alhambra, sinclair, parker, ellis, tripp, quin, vernon, thompson, charsley, james fahie, george locke, william chester, chesterville, kirwan, cumberland reserve, blue spruce, e.s. and a bank, selby joyce, selby charles joy, selby joseph joyce

The collection of the Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute is on the Heritage Victoria RegisterGreen covered booklet of 272 pagesWritten in Front 'Brown Hill Buninyong 17 Feb 1889'library, ballarat mechanics institute, books, buninyong, baallarat mechanics' institute

Orange soft covered booklet of 32 pages.clement rogers, religion

Brown half leather bound (leather spine) with marbled cover of 1038 pages. Written in German.Signed A Mica Smithminerals, mineralogy, chemicals, mineral analysis, chemical constitution of minerals

Model of airplane Make N/Kmodel, 1942, raaf

Sepia class photo of girls (mounted on dark cardboard) at Port Melbourne state School (Nott St c1900). Second girl from left in third row is May N MOUNSEY. (information recorded on back of photograph)education - primary schools, m mounsey, nott street state school

Faded sepia photograph of many girls in lines dressed in matching white outfits and holding rods with ribbons, perhaps small maypoles (may be a calisthenics class) : at a Port Melbourne Primary School, probably Graham St.education - primary schools, sport - calisthenics, nott street state school, graham street state school, port melbourne primary school

Baptist Union of Victoria. Diploma of attendance. Awarded by the Sunday School Committee. Awarded to Percy A MAY 1919-1921"Percy A May" hand written, signed by W H Holdsworth and M Burgen. Three stamps at the bottom awarding for attendance for 1919, 1920 and 1921awards and presentations, religion - baptist church, education, percy allan may, w h holdsworth, m burgens

Colour lasercopy of a watercolour by F.K. Fitrett of the Port Phillip Bay Paddlesteamer Weeroonatransport - shipping, ps weeroona

Complimentary book by F.G.Strang setting out stowage weights, sea distances, weight and measure tables.maritime, melbourne harbor trust - port of melbourne authority, f g strang

Produced by and purchased from the Victoria Archaelogical Survey when preparing for the 1999 'Lee-ar-day Days' FestivalReadings in Victorian Prehistory Vol.2: The Victorian Aboriginals 1800 to 1860 by PJF Coutts 1981. Large green paperback book 280pp with illustrationsaustralian aborigines, p j f coutts

Financial record maintained by Herdsman for Borough of Sandridge, April 1886 to March 1891. Includes names of customers, receipt numbers and amounts receivedlivestock, local government - borough of sandridge, fishermans bend, f c forster - herdsman

glycerine bottle of C.F. Christensen Chemist, Bay Street, ca. 1945built environment - commercial, c f christensen - chemist

Round tin with picture depicting city landscape.Whitman's Chocolates Land Sea and Air One Pound net.......