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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 -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Petroleum products loaded onto ship, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)port of portland archives, portland harbour, ship loading -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DAVID MCDONALD COLLECTION: EPPALOCK. CONSTRUCTION, c1964
Eppalock. Construction. Some of the pipes in the pump room at Eppalock.agfacolorcivil engineering, water supply, eppalock, eppalock. construction. some of the pipes in the pump room at eppalock. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Pamphlet, Commonwealth Pottery Propriety Ltd
Catalogue of stoneware pipes available for sewer and drainage work.Catalogue of stoneware pipes available for sewer and drainage work.Catalogue of stoneware pipes available for sewer and drainage work.commonwealth pottery pty ltd, clay, springfield road, blackburn north, no 41, pottery, drainage, sewerage and sanitation -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Ceramic - Tile
rounded green glazed tile with lip to hide pipesceramics, earthenware -
The 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victoria Regiment Historical Collection
Photograph - Various photograph
Various photograph of 5/6 RVR Pipes and Drums -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Photograph
‘A’ Squadron 8/13 Victorian Mounted Rifles conducted a parade at Buna Barracks, Albury on Sunday 1 May 1988 to mark the 103rd Anniversary of the formation of the Victorian Mounted Rifles and the 40th Anniversary of the linking of the 8th (Indi), 13th (Gippsland) and 20th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Light Horse Regiments to form the 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles. Colonel G K Howard, Director of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps was the Reviewing Officer. The Pipes and Drums of the 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victorian Regiment provided the music for the occasion. Following the parade Colonel Howard officially opened the Regimental Museum.Colour photograph of Pipes and Drums of Battalion Royal Victorian Regiment leading ' A ' Squadron Victorian Mounted Rifles on to the parade ground. Pipe Major; Sergeant Cox, Drum Major Private Donnely. -
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 -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Lee Breakwater, Portland, n.d
Port of Portland Authority Archivesport of portland archives, henty beach, construction, fishermans breakwater, raft, marine, maritime -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - H.A. & S.R. WILKINSON COLLECTION: CONDITION OF SALE
Conditions of sale by private contract dated 10th. August, 1928 between S. Hunter and G. Coates for land at the corner of Clark and Haman Streets, Bendigo together with water pipes, W.C. and all sundry for the price of 27 pounds and 10 shillings.organization, business, h.a. & s.r wilkinson real estate -
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 -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Functional object - Water standpipe, Langlands Bros. & Co, 1880-1893
This water standpipe is believed to be the only one of its kind in working order. It was originally located in Warrnambool, on the hillside at the corner of Mickle Crescent and Banyan Street, providing water for the Chinese Market Gardens below, on the flats. It was removed from this location on May 2nd, 1979, with the intention to relocate it at the new Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum & Village. The standpipe lay in storage for years until the Warrnambool Company, Chemblast, offered to restore it for use as a working display. The display was officially opened on March 31, 2014. The water from the adjacent lake is drawn out with a hand operated water pump, and goes up into the standpipe, where flows through the canvas hose and into the top of the Furphy Farm Water Cart. The display is a visual acknowledgement of the years served by Flagstaff Hill volunteer and Friends of Flagstaff Hill Chairperson, Bob Crossman. Warrnambool’s early settlers had no water supply prior to the mid-1850s. They relied on rain water tanks, domestic wells and springs. The town experienced a huge, destructive fire in William Bateman Jnr. & Co.’s large produce store in November 1856, which highlighted the need for both a fire brigade and a good supply of water. In 1863 a volunteer fire brigade was established. In August 1880 the town celebrated the installation of its first water standpipe on the corner of Liebig and Timor streets. The water was pumped from springs at Cannon Hill through the connected pipeline to the standpipe, then distributed to households via horse and cart. Each of the licenced cart drivers were compelled by Council regulations to keep their carts full from sunset to sunrise, ready to cart water to outbreaks of fire. They received a fee for this service. In 1893 the town installed a water supply, sourced from the Merri River, stored in a reservoir basin and tower in north Liebig Street, and distributed throughout the town in a system of pipes. By late 1939 a reticulated supply was installed, with the water piped in under the Otway Scheme. Standpipes are still used in modern times in rural and remote areas for homes, farms, stock, agriculture and firefighting. Many commercial or government owned standpipes are metered, charging a fee for the quantities of water supplied. This water standpipe was made by Langlands Foundry Co. Limited, Melbourne, which was establish in 1842. It was Melbourne’s first foundry and iron shipbuilder, and one of the largest employers in Victoria at the time. Langlands was known for its high quality workmanship and wide range of goods for mining, engineering, marine, railway and other industrial uses. The company made the first cast bell, the first lamp posts in the colony, and the boiler for the first Australian train. In the 1860s it produced cast iron pipes for the Board of Works, which laid the pipes for Melbourne’s first reticulated water supply. The firm was bought by Austral Otis Co. in 1897.This water standpipe is significant historically as it is believed to be the only one of its type in working condition. The standpipe is significant for being manufactured by early colonial firm Langlands Foundry of Melbourne, which was known for high quality, cast iron products. The firm made the boiler for the first Australian train, assembled the first Australian paddle steamer and made the first Australian cast bell and lamp posts. Langlands was one of the largest employers in Victoria at the time. The standpipe is significant historically as it represents the evolution of water supply services in Australia. Standpipe; vertical cast iron water pipe, painted crimson, fixed in position, tapering inward from the round base to the rectangular joint near the finial on top. A hexagonal pipe extends at right angles from the joint, with an outlet fitting and flow-controlling wheel on the end. A length of canvas hose hangs from the outlet fitting. Inscriptions are on one face of the joint. The standpipe was made by Langlands Foundry Company of Melbourne. Embossed “LANGLANDS FOUNDRY CO. / LIMITED / ENGINEERS / MELBOURNE”warrnambool, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, flagstaff hill, standpipe, stand-pipe, water standpipe, fire standpipe, firefighting equipment, water supply equipment, chinese market gardens, banyan street, liebig street, water tower, bateman’s fire, working display, water supply, town water, rural water, reticulated water, cannon hill spring, merri river, otway water, water carters, horse and cart water supply, volunteer fire brigade, langlands foundry, early melbourne, iron works, bob crossman, late 19th century water supply -
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 -
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
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Pipe Tobacco Smoking, Circa 1889
Pipe smoking has been in vogue for centuries, and in Australia it was a symbol of the "discerning smoker" such as the landed gentry or men of professional status. This pipe, of the Standard Canadian style, would have emigrated to Australia with its owner, a reasonable young professional or executive of the Hudson Bay Tobacco Company in the late 1800s or early 1900s. It is the type of pipe well suited to a harsh rural backdrop and with its owner found the Kiewa Valley a more relaxed environment than the Canadian Indian locations. The value of this pipe to the original owner, who would have sealed many trade contracts during the Canadian Indian smoke rituals In the late 1800s, is indicated by the long voyage to Australia and the Kiewa Valley. However with the health related restrictions placed on public smoking in the early 2000s, these tobacco pipes were not immune from the legislation, and even though the pipe smoke was not as offensive as cigarette smoke it still came under the umbrella of smoking. Pipes were also used in the process of inhaling illicit drugs i.e. marijuana, but this use was limited to a very few and not with this pipe. Smoking in the second millennium is being phased out as a social habit in Australia but may affect the few "private" smoker and has, as the United States prohibition era (alcoholic drinks) did, spawn an illicit trade in cheap contraband tobacco. Pipes such as this item show that smoking was not only part of the lifestyle of the era but also that it was part of a ritual (especially to the Indians of the Canada Hudson Bay region) that sealed a brotherhood not only socially but also politically and economically.This type of pipe lends itself well to the rural setting of the Kiewa Valley and although it is a very exclusive pipe it blended into the tobacco industrial environment of the Kiewa Valley and its surrounding districts. The Kiewa Valley region was up until the late 1900s part of the Australian Tobacco industry and the levels of men smoking pipes was enhanced by the readily supply, "off the fields", of tobacco leaves and the attitude to city based smoking restrictions was one of resentment.This pipe has a straight shank and stem and its style is 'standard Canadian'. The pipe has a permanent filter and a stainless steel band with the initials of the Hudson Bay Tobacco Company and its seals stamped on it.. The bowl and shank are one piece of appropriate shaped wood. The bit and bore are made from bakelite (dark brown in colour). The pipe is fashioned in the form of the clay pipes used by trappers, in the late 1800s early 1900s. It has a "rest" lug at the bottom of the bowl similar to clay pipes. This pipe has its own pipe case with wood reinforcement running the entire pipe shaped contour.On the stainless steel at the mortise and tenon junction is stamped "HP" and below that are stamped symbols of a ship's anchor, a lion and a tobacco leaf.tobacco, pipe smoking, smoking accessories -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph, n.d
Port of Portland Authority Archivesport of portland archives -
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 -
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
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 -
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 -
Villa Alba Museum
Photograph - Exterior cast iron pipe beside louvre window, c.1987
Built for William and Anna-Maria Greenlaw in the early 1880s, and with interiors decorated by the Paterson Bros, Villa Alba remained in private ownership until 1949. From 1950, the house was owned by a number of institutions. By 1984, the Villa Alba Preservation Society had been formed, and three years later, the Mount Royal Hospital granted a 25-year lease to Kew Council. In 2004, the title to Villa Alba was passed by the Victorian Government to The Villa Alba Museum Incorporated. The Museum, at 44 Walmer Street, Kew, is now a cultural institution committed to the collection, study and display of 19th century interior decorative finishes, and the components of 19th and 20th century interior decoration.This is one of a number of historically and aesthetically significant photos of the interiors and exterior of Villa Alba when it was still owned by the Mount Royal Hospital, showing twentieth century accretions and deterioration of the historic fabric of the building. This was a benchmark survey against which future conservation and restoration activities can be measured.In December 1987, Mockridge Stahle & Mitchell Pty Ltd Architects prepared ‘Villa Alba Survey: A Report on the fabric for Mount Royal Hospital’ of which this photograph is a part. Photo of cast iron exterior water pipes located beside a glass louvre window.villa alba museum, conservation photographs, victorian architecture, louvre windows, drain pipes