A Dunlop "McEnroe tennis racquet, with oversize frame, and ribbon whipping around shoulders. Model name features across base of head. Dunlop logo and trademark feature on left and right sides of shaft, across throat and along shaft. 'D' trademark in arrowhead device also features on plastic butt cap. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Plastic, Ink, Leather, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Ribbon, Adhesive tapetennis

An Head 'Tournament Director' tennis racquet, with: aluminium frame with twin shaft; plastic bridge and butt cap; dark brown leather handle grip; and Wilson 'Performance Plus' netting. Manufacturer's name features across base of bridge, and across butt cap. Model name features along outer left shaft. Materials: Metal, Nylon, Leather, Plastic, Adhesive tape, Paint, Ink, Papertennis

A black Bancroft aluminium tennis racquet, featuring: featuring: twin shaft, white plastic bridge; no net strings; black & platinum leather handle grip; black plastic shaft casing; and black plastic butt cap. Manufacturer name & logo printed on bridge. Logo also embossed on butt cap. No model name visible. Materials: Metal, Plastic, Adhesive tape, Adhesive label, Ink, Leathertennis

A JCP 'TR-555' metal tennis racquet with double shaft and round head. Black plastic bridge with yellow adhesive label printed with 'TR/555'. Black plastic shaft casing and butt cap. Handle wrapped with perforated black leather grip tape. Adhesive label on butt cap states: JCP/ MADE IN KOREA. Materials: Metal, Nylon, Adhesive tape, Leather, Plastic, Adhesive labeltennis

A 'Birmal' model tennis racquet manufactured by Birmingham Aluminium Casting (1903) Co. Ltd. Has open throat and handle wrapped with string whipping and leather. Metal indented butt cap. Metal strings with some double stringing in a grid pattern. Manufacturer name embossed on one edge of shaft. Model name and words: 'ALL METAL' embossed on other edge of shaft. Materials: Metal, String, Leathertennis

A Wilson 'T2000' metal tennis racquet, with double shaft; yellow plastic shaft casing and silver whipping. Handle wrapped with grey non-original grip tape. Net anchored to metal wire wrapped around head frame. Yellow plastic butt cap with white label featuring 'W' logo in red. Materials: Metal, Plastic, Adhesive tape, Nylon, String, Adhesive label, Rubbertennis

A Wilson 'T2000' metal tennis racquet, with double shaft; cream plastic shaft casing and silver whipping. Handle wrapped with black leather (non-original, but Wilson-branded). Net anchored to metal wire wrapped around head frame. Yellow plastic butt cap with white label featuring 'W' logo in red. Materials: Metal, Plastic, Adhesive tape, Nylon, Leather, String, Adhesive labeltennis

A Wilson 'T2000' metal tennis racquet, with double shaft; white plastic shaft casing featuring 'W' logo and silver whipping; and a handle wrapped in brown leather. Net anchored to metal wire wrapped around head frame. White plastic butt cap with adhesive label featuring manufacturer's 'W' logo in black. Materials: Metal, Plastic, Adhesive tape, Nylon, Leather, Adhesive labeltennis

A Spalding 'Johnny Lamb' tennis racquet, with whipping around shoulders and shaft, and a plain leather handle grip. Model name features across throat on obverse; logo of the Valley Hunt Club features on throat on reverse. Latin American version of Spalding ball trademark features on shaft (i.e. MARCA REGISTRADA/SPALDING). Materials: Wood, Glue, Metal, Lacquer, Nylon, Leather, Ink, Paint, String, Ribbontennis

A Wilson, Maureen Connolly Mercury tennis racquet. Base of head features model name. Throat features Wilson logo. Shaft features decal head and shoulders image of Connolly. Base of shaft and plastic butt cap feature 'W' trademark. Leather handle grip features quatrefoil perforations. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Leather, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Paint, Ribbon, Plastic, Stringtennis

A Wilson Jimmy Connors Advisory Staff Model tennis racquet. Base of head features Wilson logo. Throat features model name. Lower shaft and butt cap feature 'W' trademark. Leather handle grip features patterned perforations. Name written across shaft on obverse: PAYAL PATEL. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Leather, Glue, Metal, Lacquer, Paint, Adhesive tape, Ribbon, Plastictennis

A Wilson Holiday tennis racquet, with slender shaft. Wilson logo features across base of head. Model name, with gold chevron in black and red round shield device, feature on throat. Red 'W' trademark features on lower shaft and butt cap. Leather handle grip features floral perforations. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Leather, Adhesive tape, Ribbon, Plastic, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Inktennis

A Regent, Ellen Renwal tennis racquet. Regent logo features across the base of the head. Model name, with a decal head and shoulders image of Renwal features on the throat. An ornate squiggle device, flanked by two stars, features along the shaft. Inscription along right side of shaft: ESPECIALLY DESIGNED/FOR WOMEN. Materials: Wood, Nylon, String, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Ink, Paint, Leather, Ribbontennis

A Regent PTX-80 tennis racquet, with an open throat, and wood/fibreglass composite construction. Regent logo and model name feature along the throat. 'R' trademark features at base of shaft. Manufacturer's details feature on the right side of the shaft. Leather handle grip features triangular-patterned perforations. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Ink, Plastic, Adhesive tape, Leather, String, Fibreglasstennis

A Spalding metal tennis racquet, with double shaft, rounded head; metal throat bridges; black plastic shaft casing; and handle wrapped in black perforated leather. Black plastic butt cap has adhesive label featuring wreathed 'S' logo. Strip of brown leather used under throat as string buffer. Materials: Metal, Adhesive tape, Plastic, Leather, Adhesive label, Nylontennis

Two part object. (1) A metal Chemold 'Tony Roche Autograph' tennis racquet with double shaft and metal bridge. Black plastic shaft casing and butt cap. Adhesive label on butt has Chemold name & logo. Logo stickers also on shaft casing. Handle wrapped with brown leather grip tape. Autographed on handle by Tony Roche. (2) White vinyl racquet head cover with zipper. Signed in black marker: 'TO ROLF/I'M A GREAT MATE/TONY ROCHE'. Also has manufacturer name/trademeark printed in red & blue. Materials: Metal, Adhesive tape, Leather, Plastic, Adhesive label, Vinyl, Inktennis

Two part object. (1) A Seamco Ken Rosewall-endorsed metal tennis racquet, with double shaft, metal shaft bridge, plastic throat bridge; black plastic shaft casing embossed with 'ACRO'; and a handle wrapped in brown leather. Black plastic butt cap with adhesive label featuring manufacturer's 'S' logo and name. Manufacturer name on label on throat bridge (reverse). Endorser name on troat bridge (obverse). (2) A white & blue vinyl racquet head cover. Printed in red on cover is maunfacturer name and endorser signature (both sides). Materials: Metal, Plastic, Adhesive label, Leather, Adhesive tape, Nylon, Vinyltennis

Two part object. (1) A Seamco Ken Rosewall-endorsed metal tennis racquet, with double shaft, metal shaft bridge, plastic throat bridge; black plastic shaft casing embossed with 'ACRO'; and a handle wrapped in brown leather. Black plastic butt cap with adhesive label featuring manufacturer's 'S' logo and name. Manufacturer name on label on throat bridge (reverse). Endorser name on troat bridge (obverse). (2) A white & blue vinyl racquet head cover. Printed in red on cover is maunfacturer name and endorser signature (both sides). Materials: Metal, Plastic, Adhesive label, Leather, Adhesive tape, Nylon, Vinyltennis

Two part object. (1) A Seamco Ken Rosewall-endorsed metal tennis racquet, with double shaft, metal shaft bridge, plastic throat bridge; black plastic shaft casing embossed with 'ACRO'; and a handle wrapped in brown leather. Black plastic butt cap with adhesive label featuring manufacturer's 'S' logo and name. Manufacturer name on label on throat bridge (reverse). Endorser name on troat bridge (obverse). (2) A white & blue vinyl racquet head cover. Printed in red on cover is maunfacturer name and endorser signature (both sides). Materials: Metal, Plastic, Adhesive label, Leather, Adhesive tape, Nylon, Vinyltennis

This feed wheel is part of the drill press catalogued as No. 2030.A cast iron wheel ( a feed wheel) with three spokes (one has been broken off). It has a screw nut for fastening to the shaft of a workshop drill (cat. no. 2030).BUFFALO FORGE Co. BUFFALO N.Y.drill machinery engineering cast iron

This oar is from the Lifeboat Warrnambool, which is on sit at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village. The construction of the lifeboat ‘Warrnambool’ began 15th September 1909 and was completed almost 12 months later, 1st September 1910. It was built at the Government Dockyard in Williamstown, Victoria, along the lines designed by the Great Britain’s Royal Lifeboat Institution, and included whaleback decks fore and aft, mast and centreboard, and rudder and tiller hung from the sternpost. It could be propelled by both sail and oar. At that time Captain Ferguson was Chief Harbour Master and Mr Beagley was foreman boat builder. Mr Beagley built the lifeboat with his fellow workmen. The boat was described as “… a fine piece of workmanship and does credit to her builders and designers…” It had all the latest improvements in shape, disposition of weight and watertight compartments, and it had space for a large number of people in addition to the crew. It appears that 'H Meiers' whose signature was on the plaque that was found concealed in the hull, was involved with the building of the lifeboat. His signature and the dates of the start and finish of the boat’s construction are pencilled on the raw timber 'plaque' found in the hull in the early 1990’s when the lifeboat was being restored. It is interesting that the ‘Melbourne Directory’ of 1911, published by Sands and MacDougal, lists McAuley and Meiers, boat builders, Nelson Place foreshore, between Pasco and Parker Streets, Williamstown, (Victorian Heritage Database, ‘Contextual History, Maritime Facilities’), It is quite possibly the business of the person whose name is inscribed on the lifeboat plaque. Flagstaff Hill’s documentation also mentions that the keel was laid at ‘Harry Myers, boat builders, Williamstown, Melbourne’ – the name ‘Myers’ can also be spelled ‘Meiers’, which could be the same person as the Meiers in “McAuley and Meiers” (as mentioned in genealogy lines of Myers). The new lifeboat, to be named ‘Warrnambool’ was brought to town by train and launched at the breakwater on 1st March 1911 using the Titan crane (the old lifeboat built in 1858, was then returned to Melbourne in 1911). This new lifeboat was stationed at Warrnambool in a shed located at the base of the Breakwater, adjacent to the slipway. A winch was used to bring it in and out of the water. The lifeboat ‘Warrnambool’ was similar in size to the old lifeboat but far superior in design, build and sea-going qualities such as greater manoeuvrability. The ‘self-righting, self-draining’ design was “practically non-capsizeable” and even if the boat overturned it would right itself to an even keel and the water would drain away. The hull was built of New Zealand Kauri, using double diagonal planking, laid in two layers at right angles, with a layer of canvas and red lead paint between the timbers to help seal the planking. It has “… plenty of freeboard, high watertight spaces between the deck and bottom… through which pipes lead…” The backbone timbers were made of Jarrah. The lifeboat Warrnambool was one of several rescue boats used at Port Fairy and Warrnambool in early 1900's. In late 1914 the Warrnambool lifeboat and crew were used to help find what was left of the tragic wreckage of the Antares, and were able to discover the body of one of the crewmen, which they brought back to Warrnambool. Between 1951 and 1954 the lifeboat was manned under the guidance of Captain Carrington. He held lifeboat practice each month on a Sunday morning, to comply with the Ports and Harbour’s request that lifeboats be manned by a strong and competent crew, ready for action in case of emergency. In the early 1960’s it ended its service as a lifeboat and was used in Port Fairy as a barge to help dredge the Moyne River, bolted to the Port Fairy lifeboat. Flagstaff Hill obtained the Warrnambool in 1975. In 1984 it was on display at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. On 23rd May 1990 she was lifted from the water and placed in a cradle for restoration. The name ‘WARRNAMBOOL could be seen faintly on the lifeboat before it was restored. It was during the restoration that Flagstaff Hill's boat builder discovered the 'plaque' inside the hull. A copy of the blueprint plans has the name “V.E.E. Gotch” printed on it. His advertisement in Footscray’s ‘Independent’ newspaper of Saturday 11th May 1901 states he is “Principal and Skilled member (Naval Architect) to the Court of Marine Inquiry of Victoria and holds classes for naval architectural drawing and arithmetic.” The oar is significant for its association with the lifeboat WARRNAMBOOL, which is significant for its half century service to the local community as a lifesaving vessel. She was also used to help retrieve the body of a shipwrecked crew member of the ANTARES. Large wooden oar, shaped two handgrip with tapering shaft to large flattened blade, (2) copper reinforcing strips on blade. Sweep oar is from the Lifeboat Warrnambool. flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, oar, lifeboat warrnambool, sweep oar

Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2001. Proud past: a government shaft at Fosterville, which operated from October 1900 to April 1903. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

Black and white photo featuring man in hard hat and wearing mining light supervising digging mining shaft at Central Deborah Goldmine,Bendigo.Man thought to be Ian Clarke.mining, business, central deborah gold mine

Very large wooden wagon, flat tray, 4 wooden wheels each with 12 spokes. Metal rims. Shafts detached and lying on tray. Painted red and blue.A E McPherson, Boomahnoomoonah

A PremierTrophy tennis racquet, with plastic whipping around shoulders and shaft, and vinyl handle grip. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Vinyl, Cloth, Plastictennis

A Kuebler 'Mark 77' composite metal tennis racquet. Original retail tag still attached to shaft. Materials: Metal composite, Plastic, Leather, Adhesive tape, Nylontennis

A Dunlop 'Maxply Fort' racquet with clear plastic packaging on handle. Signed on shaft by Rod Laver. Materials: Wood, Paint, Adhesive tape, Leather, Plastic, Nylon, Stringtennis