Coloured booklet of various scenes and buildings in and around Bendigo, titled Bendigo Victoria's Golden City. The front cover has a scene of Charing Cross looking towards Pall Mall. Inside the front cover is a very brief history and some Historical Buildings are mentioned. They are: Fortuna, Shamrock Hotel, Gold Mines Hotel, City Hall, Post Office, Law Courts, the Home for the Aged, Sacred Heart Cathedral, St. Paul's, Specimen Cottage, Log Lock-up and the Chinese Joss House. The coloured pictures inside are: The Central Deborah Gold Mine, Fortuna, Miner's Cottage, The Gold Mines Hotel, Victoria Hill, Bendigo Law Courts, Eaglehawk Log Lock-up, Look-out Tower Rosalind Park, Alexandra Fountain - Charing Cross, Conservatory Gardens with Law Courts in background, Inside the Conservatory, Bendigo Home & Hospital for the Aged - Victoria's 'White House', Sacred Heart Cathedral, Chinese Joss House, Chinese Joss House - Interior of the Main Temple, Bendigo Pottery - Potter at work, Bendigo Municipal Offices, Bendigo Institute of Technology at Flora Hill, Mt. Alvernia Hospital, Cobb & Co Coach, R Class Locomotive, Bendigo Tramcar, Lake Weeroona and Lake Eppalock Pumping Station. Some more attractions are mentioned inside the back cover. On the back cover is the Cenotaph - the only scale replica of the Whitehall Cenotaph - and Alexandra Fountain by night.Nucolorvue Productions Pty Ltdbendigo, tourism, photographs of bendigo icons, bendigo - victoria's golden city, fortuna, shamrock hotel, gold mines hotel, city hall, post office, law courts, home for the aged, victoria's 'white house', sacred heart cathedral, st paul's, specimen cottage, log lock-up, chinese joss house, charing cross, cenotaph, alexandra fountain, centra deborah gold mine, army cartographic unit, miner's cottage, harvey town, victoria hill, look-out tower rosalind park, conservatory gardens, conservatory, bendigo pottery, bendigo municipal offices, bendigo institute of technology, mt alvernia hospital, cobb & co coach, r class locomotive, bendigo railway station, bendigo tramcar, lake weeroona, lake eppalock pumping station, art gallery, historical museum eaglehawk, melville's caves, whitehall cenotaph, nucolorvue productins pty ltd, national library of australia

Robert Samuel Valentine Cocking (1882 - 14/5/1945) Born in Bendigo, Val Cocking began hi retail career at Myer Bendigo before opening his own draper shop c. 1912 in the lower block Pall Mall. In 1914 he moved his stock into temporary premises while he renovated his new shop, which combined the former Post Office Hotel and adjacent grocery and stationary shops. The new emporium opened in Aug 1918 selling drapery and soft goods. Mr Cocking was a champion rifle shooter; President of the Bendigo Chamber of Commerce; President of the Sandhurst Football Club for 18 years and President of the Bendigo Cricket Club. Bennetts Hardware shop was in Hargeaves St near the entrance to Allan's Walk in the 1950's. Beehive buildings. This was originally the Sandhust Mining Exchange and as such was the oldest purpose built exchange in Australia and was one of only two in regional Australia. It was initially established in the 1850's to service the miners of the area. It's first double story incarnation as the Bendigo Stock Exchange, contained up to 2000 stockbrokers and 5000 shareholders. In 1871 the building burnt to the ground and the new and current building was completed in 1872. The modern building was designed by Charles Webb, who was also responsible for the Royal Arcade in Melbourne. and features a pitched glass roof similar to the Royal Arcade, Melbourne.Three samples of wrapping paper from a. Cockings, b. Bennetts Store & c. Beehive storeswrapping paper, cockings, bennetts, beehive

Black folder containing photocopied documents pertaining to the setting up and running of the Central Deborah Mine, Bendigo. 1939 - 1948. Original copies held in McColl,Rankin & Stanistreet Collection. Application for Permit. Ministry of Post War Reconstruction. War Organisation of Industry. Quotes, Tenders. Hume & Iser. T.J Jorgensen. Electricity Supply Department. Saunders & Ross. District Telephone Office. R Toma. Stock Exchange. Building Site Plan. Abbott Supply Co. F.W. Milne & Son. The Golden City Agricultural Implements. Department of Labour and National Service.Miller & Co. Thompson Engineering and Pipe Co. Gold Boring and Prospecting. Costs. J.l. Howard. A.J. William Electrical Instruments.bendigo, mining, central deborah gold mine

Black & White Photograph Landscape Scene View From Poppet Head Lookout Tower Rosalind Park, Bendigo, 1940. Iconic Buildings, The Old Post Office, Town Hall, & Law Courts.bendigo, tourism, landscape poppet head rosalind park

Small booklet titled Mandurang School Centenary September 1977. It has a black and white picture of the school on the front cover. Mentioned in the book is the History of Mandurang State School and District, Industries, Wine, Milk, Gold, Tannery, The Look-Out, Timber, Hotels, Water Race, Floods, Post Office, Sports, Churches, Fire Brigade, List of Head Teachers 1861 - 1975, The School opens 1877 and Mothers' Club. Photos include Mr & Mrs J T Deravin Pioneer settlers of Mandurang, Deravin's Barn & Wine Cellars, Bernado Togno's Vineyard, Hargreave's Milk Cart, J Pearce & Sons Milk Delivery Bike, The Tannery, Wooden Poppet Head Tower, Kerr's Hotel, The Wine Hall (Previously Junction Hotel), Harry & Len Kofoed's Wood Trucks, Mandurang Recreation Reserve 1977, Mandurang Cricket Club (1889 or thereabouts), Methodist Church, School Pupils 1894, Early School Group, School Pupils 1960 and 1962, Working Bee before shifting School Building to it's Present Site, School Pupils 1922 and School Pupils 1977.Edwin J. Watts. Express Print, Bendigoeducation, primary, mandurang primary school no 1952, john jones collection - mandurang school centenary september 1977, edwin j watts, kevin o'brien, g pearce, j sloan, v togno, r pearce, j french, i adams, b adams, g grose, i kofoed, j pearce, f pentland, g shaw, n todd, i grose, h koefoed, m macdonald, k pearce, t french

BHS CollectionA4 copy of original photograph. Pall Mall shops viewed from Government Camp, prior to 1870 (when Post Office and Court House were erected). View shows the Shamrock Hotel and the Royal Exchange Hotel with linked verandahs, the bell tower of St Paul's Anglican Church; and band stand (on the site of Post Office) beyond the creek. In the foreground part of the Government Offices with eight men shown on fence line.bendigo buildings, early buildings in bendigo late 1800s

Contour map (copy) of the Government Camp Sandhurst, 1854. Map is mounted on coreflute and laminated. Written in bottom righthand corner 'Contour Plan of the Government Camp, Sandhurst. Dec 1854. Signed by Richard Larritt, Assistant Surveyor, 11th December 1854.' Shown on map: Pall Mall, Bendigo Creek, Commissioner's Gully, View Place (now View Street), Post Office, Bank of Victoria, District Surgeon, Sandhurst Fire Brigade, Police Hospital, Flagstaff, Gold Office, License Shed, Military Barracks, Stables, Commissioner's Buildings, Police Office. Old Cemetery, Garden. Reference on righthand side: 'Stone or brick buildings are tinted in crimson. Wooden buildings tinted in Indian Ink. Tents and other temporary structures tinted in Burnt Sienna.' Scale of Chains, on bottom of map. Sticker on bottom left hand corner and back of map ' Presented by Survey and Mapping, Victoria, 7th Octber, 1994'.map, bendigo, government camp, pall mall, bendigo creek, commissioner's gully, view place (now view street), post office, bank of victoria, district surgeon, sandhurst fire brigade, police hospital, flagstaff, gold office, license shed, military barracks, stables, commissioner's buildings, police office. old cemetery, garden. , survey and mapping victoria. sandhurst, bendigo.

Photo of the scene looking southwest from the Post Office area, with an ESCo tram hauling a trailer and another tram on the opposite side of the roadway. Has the Town Hall, National Mutual Building, C Marks, and Snows in the view. Wal has dated the photo about 1913 on the rear of the postcard and about 1912 in his album notes - considered c1905 as the destinations are hanging from the front of the tram. They were soon after moved to the roof of the tram in a destination box. in the card sent to Ken Magor by Wal Jack, he notes the the Historical Museum has a large photo of this and you can see No. 12 outlined very clearly. See Reg Item 6247 for another version of this photograph/postcard.Yields information about the intersection of Sturt and Lydiard Streets in the early ESCo era and streetscape and the use of the former horse trams as trailers.5128 - Digital image from the Wal Jack Ballarat Album of a coloured postcard - titled "Town Hall and Sturt St Ballarat", has number 300516 and initials JV in the bottom right hand corner. Card printed in Great Britain, produced by Valentines. 5128.1 - Black and white version of the same photo 5128.2 - colour version with a note from Wal Jack to Ken Magor with Ken's stamp on the bottom right hand corner.5128 - On rear in ink "1913" and "Note No. 12 tram on left" 5128.1 - hand written message, undated to May from her brother Claude 5128.2 - see image 5sturt street, ballarat, tramways, esco, town hall, national mutual, trailers, horse trams, tram 12

Yields information about Ballarat, it businesses, identifies and its locations or environs through photos and advertisements and articles.The body of the "Christmas Number of the Ballarat Courier, Special Edition - December 1922" = coves missing. See attached listing with worksheet for summary of contents. Contains many advertisement for local business houses, photos and fiction and articles , pages 3 - 94 still existing, stapled. Notes on contents of Christmas Number of The Ballarat Courier Special edition, December 19, 1922. Photos Ballarat Association Cricket Team, winners Country championship - 1922 and photo of dinner at Sth Melb. Town Hall by VCA. - p83 Ballarat Golf club, Arch of Victoria and Club House - p63, 65 Ballarat Imperial Football club - league premier- 1922 - p19 Ballarat Miners Turf Club - showing stands and office bearers - p43 Ballarat North Golf Club - p67 Ballarat Town hall - p87 Ballarat Turf Club Office bearers and race finish - p45 Ballarat Yacht club - opening day and yacht race - p89 Black Hill Progress Association, - members and scenes - p33 Eureka Monument - p79 Finish of a race at Miners RC - p45 Head of the Lake and St. Patrick's the winning crew - p47 1.ake Wendouree - boating on (Gardens side - p] 1 Lake Wendouree, rowing and club houses - p28 Lal Lal waterfalls - p61 Lydiard St. View - Railway Station, Cemetery gates, Mining Exchange, Post Office and Banks - p71 National Federation Conference - 1922 - p39 South city Football club, Ballarat Assoc. Premiers 1922 - p25 Sturt and Lydiard St - top photo Town Hall and T&G building, with ESCo tram (pencil note "Tram No- 3 - Peckham Truck" written in - p75. Bottom photo, looking south from Town Hall. The Western Oval during a football match - p23 Victorian Farmers Union Conference, Ballarat 1922 - p37 Victorian Railway photos of various scenes around Victoria: Pages 3, 5, 7, 55, 59 Views of Victoria Park - p91 VR Ballarat Railway Workshops - p9 Advertisements on even numbered pages, featuring in particular: Ballarat Motor Garage - with photos - p88 C.A.V. Willard - storage battery service Stn - p76 with photo. CA Mitaxa - Builder - includes photos of new homes - p38 Coles & Pullham - stock sales - with photos - p86 ESCo - p70 Geo E. Dibble, machinery merchant - includes photos - p26 Geo. Waller - asphalt and carrier - photos of work and buildings Hanrahan's of Ballarat - Garage and stables - p30 J.L.Ridings - dentists, - photos of surgery p14 Longhurst's Bakeries - Mair and Yuille St. Includes Photos. - P84 Preston Motors, Melbourne - The Maxwell Sep Morse - Motor and Carriage builders - photo - p78 St. Patrick's College - photos of students and buildings - p46 State Savings Bank of Vic. - p20 T-J. Brown house remover and general carrier, photo of traction engines - p90 T.J.Haymes - Wallpaper etc. - p33 The Ballarat Co-Op Distribution Society - includes photos - p44 The Hupmobile - McLean Richards Motors - p22 Wallace Butter Factor - p82 Articles Black Hill Progress Association - p35 Damaged pages - cut outs clippings etc. Page 17/18 - top half bottom 1/3 of page 21/22 Pages: 9, 70, 71, 75, 87 and 90 imaged. Record reviewed and images of some of the pages added 10-9-2013p74. Note re tram 33.trams, tramways, ballarat, commerce, ballarat business, sports, science, esco

Ballarat trams 43 and 27 in Lydiard St. North, at Mair St. 13-7-1962. Tram 43 heading south has Electric Cooking roof ad, 27 heading north, with briquettes ad on front of tram, and a roof ad. Has buildings of the east side of Lydiard St. in background looking towards Post Office. Quite a number of motor cars in photo. Both trams have dash canopy lights, but small white strip.'SEC Ballarat, Nos. 43 & 27 in Lydiard St. North 13-7-62' on one side and 'W.Jack Photo' on reverse, all in blue inktramways, trams, ballarat, lydiard st. nth, mair st, tram 43, tram 27

Building historyB/W photo of original photo of Corduroy Bridge Hotel, High St. Clarendon, circa 1906, shows Clarendon Post Office and members of Brown family.corduroy bridge hotel, clarendon, high street, clarendon post office

detail of historic buildingColour Photograph, Old Buninyong Post Office (1874), Learmonth St. Buninyongbuninyong, church, presbyterian, uniting, learmonth st.

The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) plans were produced from the 1890s to the 1950s. They were crucial to the design and development of Melbourne's sewerage and drainage system. The plans, at a scale of 40 feet to 1 inch (1:480), provide a detailed historical record of Melbourne streetscapes and environmental features. Each plan covers one or two street blocks (roughly six streets), showing details of buildings, including garden layouts and ownership boundaries, and features such as laneways, drains, bridges, parks, municipal boundaries and other prominent landmarks as they existed at the time each plan was produced. (Source: State Library of Victoria)This plan forms part of a large group of MMBW plans and maps that was donated to the Society by the Mr Poulter, City Engineer of the City of Kew in 1989. Within this collection, thirty-five hand-coloured plans, backed with linen, are of statewide significance as they include annotations that provide details of construction materials used in buildings in the first decade of the 20th century as well as additional information about land ownership and usage. The copies in the Public Record Office Victoria and the State Library of Victoria are monochrome versions which do not denote building materials so that the maps in this collection are invaluable and unique tools for researchers and heritage consultants. A number of the plans are not held in the collection of the State Library of Victoria so they have the additional attribute of rarity.Original survey plan, issued by the MMBW to a contractor with responsibility for constructing sewers in the area identified on the plan within the Borough of Kew. The plan was at some stage hand-coloured, possibly by the contractor, but more likely by officers working in the Engineering Department of the Borough and later Town, then City of Kew. The hand-coloured sections of buildings on the plan were used to denote masonry or brick constructions (pink), weatherboard constructions (yellow), and public buildings (grey). Public buildings, coloured grey on the Plan 1582 include the police station and post office, churches and schools. The earliest church school, Common School No.356 was located at the rear of the Congregational Church in Peel Street. It was constructed in 1859. The first buildings of Kew Primary School No.1075 on the other side of Peel Street were constructed in 1871. The school in 1903 only occupied a small fraction of its current site. In 1903, where the rear playground is now located, were two weatherboard and one brick villa. Trinity Grammar School was founded in 1902 and opened in the Parish Hall at the rear of Holy Trinity Anglican Church. It was not to move to its current site until 1906. The outline of the building housing the Kew Fire Brigade in the centre of the north side of Walton Street is shown but not named on the plan. Further down Pakington Street stood the two-storey Italianate mansion ‘Overton’. The home of Stanford Chapman, it was to be featured in the Imperial Institute series of bromide photographs of Victoria, Vol. 1: Homes and scenery. It was later to become a boarding house before it was later demolished.melbourne and metropolitan board of works, detail plans, maps - borough of kew, mmbw 1582, cartography

The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) plans were produced from the 1890s to the 1950s. They were crucial to the design and development of Melbourne's sewerage and drainage system. The plans, at a scale of 40 feet to 1 inch (1:480), provide a detailed historical record of Melbourne streetscapes and environmental features. Each plan covers one or two street blocks (roughly six streets), showing details of buildings, including garden layouts and ownership boundaries, and features such as laneways, drains, bridges, parks, municipal boundaries and other prominent landmarks as they existed at the time each plan was produced. (Source: State Library of Victoria)This plan forms part of a large group of MMBW plans and maps that was donated to the Society by the Mr Poulter, City Engineer of the City of Kew in 1989. Within this collection, thirty-five hand-coloured plans, backed with linen, are of statewide significance as they include annotations that provide details of construction materials used in buildings in the first decade of the 20th century as well as additional information about land ownership and usage. The copies in the Public Record Office Victoria and the State Library of Victoria are monochrome versions which do not denote building materials so that the maps in this collection are invaluable and unique tools for researchers and heritage consultants. A number of the plans are not held in the collection of the State Library of Victoria so they have the additional attribute of rarity.Original survey plan, issued by the MMBW to a contractor with responsibility for constructing sewers in the area identified on the plan within the Borough of Kew. The plan was at some stage hand-coloured, possibly by the contractor, but more likely by officers working in the Engineering Department of the Borough and later Town, then City of Kew. The hand-coloured sections of buildings on the plan were used to denote masonry or brick constructions (pink), weatherboard constructions (yellow), and public buildings (grey). This plan shows the original configuration of the Kew Post Office, Court House and Police Station, which had opened in 1888. This configuration was to essentially remain until the purchase of the Court House and Police Station by the City of Boroondara in 2007 and its subsequent renovation. Interestingly, the MMBW surveyors incorrectly labelled parts of the complex. In the triangle in front of the Post Office, before the erection of the Kew Cenotaph in 1925, was located a lawn and the Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain. While many of the shops on the south side of High street had been constructed by 1903 a number of sites were still used as vegetable gardens. Further along High Street, on the corner of Charles Street, the Salvation Army Barracks can be seen on the plan. These Barracks predate the later Citadel and ‘Young People’s Hall’ that were opened in 1919. At 22 Charles Street can be seen the house of James Venn Morgan. Hailed as the ‘father of Kew’, Morgan arrived in Melbourne in 1840. He was first engaged as a bookmaker, but a fortunate venture on the goldfields enabled him to purchase land in Kew. He conducted a market garden and dairy in Kew for many years.melbourne and metropolitan board of works, detail plans, maps - borough of kew, mmbw 1588, cartography

The Kew Civic Centre (A K Lines, MacFarlane & Marshall, 1972) was built next to the Kew Civic Hall (A C Leith & Bartlett, 1960) on the site of the former mansion Ordsall (later renamed South Esk). Whereas the entrance to the Civic Hall was positioned off Civic Drive, the main entrance to the Civic Centre faced Cotham Road, as shown in the undated perspective drawing of the proposed building. The Civic Hall was used for public functions and performances, while the Civic Centre was used for civic offices. It also contained the Council Chamber. The building opened in 1972, following the relocation of the councillors and council officers from the former Town Hall in Walpole Street (now a Woolworth's supermarket). Following the amalgamation of the former City of Kew into the City of Boroondara in 1994, the Civic Centre was sold to Trinity Grammar School. The exterior of the Centre has been modified by Trinity Grammar.A report for Heritage Victoria (date) describes how two architectural firms dominated the designs for new civic buildings in Victoria during the post war period. The report claims that: "An interesting sub-theme in the erection of post-war municipal offices in Victoria is that a considerable proportion were designed by the same three or four Melbourne-based architectural firms, who established themselves as the leading specialists in this type of work. The two most prolific firms in this regard were A K Lines, MacFarlane & Marshall, and A C Leith & Bartlett; both, in fact, had made names for themselves as designers of local government offices prior to the Second World War. Lines' office, for example had designed the Eltham Shire Offices in 1941, while Leith's firm had been responsible for the celebrated Heidelberg Town Hall in 1937). Both practices parleyed this early experience into a lucrative post-war career, designing numerous municipals offices well into the 1970s." (Survey of Post-War Built Heritage in Victoria, Built Heritage Pty Ltd, 2010.) The perspective drawing importantly captures the original design and function of the exterior of the building and its public entrance.Hand-coloured perspective sketch of the new Kew Civic Centre, completed in 1972 to designs by A K Lines, MacFarlane & Marshall; and located on the corner of Charles Street and Cotham Road, Kew. The sketch represents the front elevation of the building and its relation to the preexisting Kew Civic Hall at right. The three storey building features strong vertical concrete buttresses that extend across the three levels. KEW CIVIC CENTRE / A K LINES, MACFARLANE & MARSHALLkew civic centre, a.k. lines, macfarlane & marshall, architectural drawings, civic buildings -- kew (vic.), town hall -- kew (vic)

At the beginning of the 1890s, the Kew businessman and Town Councillor, Henry Kellett, commissioned J.F.C. Farquhar to photograph scenes of Kew. These scenes included panoramas as well as pastoral scenes. The resulting set of twelve photographs was assembled in an album, Kew Where We Live, from which customers could select images for purchase.The preamble to the album describes that the photographs used the ‘argentic bromide’ process, now more commonly known as the gelatine silver process. This form of dry plate photography allowed for the negatives to be kept for weeks before processing, hence its value in landscape photography. The resulting images were considered to be finely grained and everlasting. Evidence of the success of Henry Kellett’s venture can be seen today, in that some of the photographs are held in national collections.It is believed that the Kew Historical Society’s copy of the Kellett album is unique and that the photographs in the book were the first copies taken from the original plates. It is the first and most important series of images produced about Kew. The individual images have proved essential in identifying buildings and places of heritage value in the district.A panoramic photograph of the junction of High Street and Cotham Road. The photographer centres the point-of-view on the Kew Post Office and adjacent Court House. These were designed in the Queen Anne style by the Public Works Department's architect J Harvey and completed in 1888. The complex is important because it demonstrates a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings. The earlier Jubilee Fountain in front of the Post Office was erected by the Kew Borough Council to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. It was created to a design of the architects Reed, Henderson and Smart. The fountain was later relocated to the Alexandra Gardens to make way for the Kew War Memorial. The tram tracks in High Street were used by the horse tram, which ran from the Victoria Street Bridge to the Boroondara General Cemetery. The tram was replaced by an electrified service in 1915.The Post Officekew post office, kew illustrated, kew where we live, photographic books, henry kellett

At the beginning of the 1890s, the Kew businessman and Town Councillor, Henry Kellett, commissioned J.F.C. Farquhar to photograph scenes of Kew. These scenes included panoramas as well as pastoral scenes. The resulting set of twelve photographs was assembled in an album, Kew Where We Live, from which customers could select images for purchase.The preamble to the album describes that the photographs used the ‘argentic bromide’ process, now more commonly known as the gelatine silver process. This form of dry plate photography allowed for the negatives to be kept for weeks before processing, hence its value in landscape photography. The resulting images were considered to be finely grained and everlasting. Evidence of the success of Henry Kellett’s venture can be seen today, in that some of the photographs are held in national collections.It is believed that the Kew Historical Society’s copy of the Kellett album is unique and that the photographs in the book were the first copies taken from the original plates. It is the first and most important series of images produced about Kew. The individual images have proved essential in identifying buildings and places of heritage value in the district.In 1891, High Street was the centre of commercial activity in the Borough of Kew. It was unpaved and edged with deep bluestone gutters, which were designed to channel the significant flow of storm water down the hill to and beyond the Junction. On either side of the entrance to the shopping strip are two cast iron gas lamps that provided the only public street lighting before the Post Office was reached. Most shops, including the Nicholas Brothers’ Junction Store featured cast iron verandas. Further up the hill, Dougherty’s Greyhound Hotel was by this stage a local institution. Apart from the horse-drawn tram, the main form of personal and commercial transport in this period remained the horse, horse and cart, or buggy.The panoramic view predates the widening of High Street in the 20th century, and thus includes the original alignment of buildings on the south side. These included Henry Kellett’s shop.High Street, Kewkew illustrated, kew where we live, photographic books, henry kellett, high street - kew (vic)

A copy of the earliest known photograph of the former Kew Post Office on the corner of Cotham Road and High Street, Kew. The Post Office was opened in 1888. The original architectural drawings are held at the Public Record Office Victoria.The photograph is significant as the earliest known image of this Heritage Victoria designated historic building.The Kew Post Office on the corner of High Street and Cotham Road, Kew. The photograph includes the Queen Victoria Jubilee fountain at left. The image predates the large fig tree planted on the corner and the later Kew War Memorial (1925). What are presumed to be government employees stand beside the horse and buggy.

A civic campaign for new public offices developed in Kew in the 1880s. After much deliberation, the location chosen was the junction of Bulleen and Cotham Roads. The buildings were designed by George Watson and John Henry Harvey, architects within the Department of Public Works (Victoria). Building was commenced in 1887, and after one year, the buildings were opened. The Post Office was transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901. The Police Station and Court House, sold by the Victorian Government to the City of Boroondara in 2007, are now a community cultural centre and performing arts venue.The buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register Register (HO885) in 1991. They are historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria because Watson and Harvey's designs exhibit diversity in integrating civil offices, they accommodate the apex of road junctions, and they demonstrate a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings.View through the old wire gates into the parking lot behind the former Kew Police Station and Court House. This was the entrance from Cotham Road with which supplies, prisoners, and police cars would enter.kew court house, public offices -- kew (vic), kew police station

A civic campaign for new public offices developed in Kew in the 1880s. After much deliberation, the location chosen was the junction of Bulleen and Cotham Roads. The buildings were designed by George Watson and John Henry Harvey, architects within the Department of Public Works (Victoria). Building was commenced in 1887, and after one year, the buildings were opened. The Post Office was transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901. The Police Station and Court House, sold by the Victorian Government to the City of Boroondara in 2007, are now a community cultural centre and performing arts venue.The buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register Register (HO885) in 1991. They are historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria because Watson and Harvey's designs exhibit diversity in integrating civil offices, they accommodate the apex of road junctions, and they demonstrate a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings.Former court room of the Kew Court House. By 1993 when this photograph was taken, the room had been taken over by the Kew Police Station and used for police lockers and as a briefing room. In the foreground the edge of the magistrates' desk can be seen and in the distance the railing used to separate the public gallery from the main section of the court. This railing was repositioned to the foyer during the renovations of the Court House from 2007-11. The magistrates' desk was destroyed. kew court house, public offices -- kew (vic), kew police station

A civic campaign for new public offices developed in Kew in the 1880s. After much deliberation, the location chosen was the junction of Bulleen and Cotham Roads. The buildings were designed by George Watson and John Henry Harvey, architects within the Department of Public Works (Victoria). Building was commenced in 1887, and after one year, the buildings were opened. The Post Office was transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901. The Police Station and Court House, sold by the Victorian Government to the City of Boroondara in 2007, are now a community cultural centre and performing arts venue.The buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register Register (HO885) in 1991. They are historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria because Watson and Harvey's designs exhibit diversity in integrating civil offices, they accommodate the apex of road junctions, and they demonstrate a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings.View through the Cotham Road carpark towards High Street of the southeast corner of the former police station. The use of red brick, tall brick chimneys and slate roof were representative of the Queen Ann Style used in the construction of the Kew Public Offices in 1888.public offices -- kew (vic), kew police station

A civic campaign for new public offices developed in Kew in the 1880s. After much deliberation, the location chosen was the junction of Bulleen and Cotham Roads. The buildings were designed by George Watson and John Henry Harvey, architects within the Department of Public Works (Victoria). Building was commenced in 1887, and after one year, the buildings were opened. The Post Office was transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901. The Police Station and Court House, sold by the Victorian Government to the City of Boroondara in 2007, are now a community cultural centre and performing arts venue.The buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register Register (HO885) in 1991. They are historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria because Watson and Harvey's designs exhibit diversity in integrating civil offices, they accommodate the apex of road junctions, and they demonstrate a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings.View of old weatherboard outbuildings, including a toilet, constructed in the formerly open area behind the Post Office, Court House and Police Station. In the distance is a wall of the former Post Office.kew court house, public offices -- kew (vic), kew police station, kew post office

A civic campaign for new public offices developed in Kew in the 1880s. After much deliberation, the location chosen was the junction of Bulleen and Cotham Roads. The buildings were designed by George Watson and John Henry Harvey, architects within the Department of Public Works (Victoria). Building was commenced in 1887, and after one year, the buildings were opened. The Post Office was transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901. The Police Station and Court House, sold by the Victorian Government to the City of Boroondara in 2007, are now a community cultural centre and performing arts venue.The buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register Register (HO885) in 1991. They are historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria because Watson and Harvey's designs exhibit diversity in integrating civil offices, they accommodate the apex of road junctions, and they demonstrate a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings.Side wall, facing Cotham Road of the former Kew Post Officekew court house, public offices -- kew (vic), kew police station, kew post office

A civic campaign for new public offices developed in Kew in the 1880s. After much deliberation, the location chosen was the junction of Bulleen and Cotham Roads. The buildings were designed by George Watson and John Henry Harvey, architects within the Department of Public Works (Victoria). Building was commenced in 1887, and after one year, the buildings were opened. The Post Office was transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901. The Police Station and Court House, sold by the Victorian Government to the City of Boroondara in 2007, are now a community cultural centre and performing arts venue.The buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register Register (HO885) in 1991. They are historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria because Watson and Harvey's designs exhibit diversity in integrating civil offices, they accommodate the apex of road junctions, and they demonstrate a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings.Dione McIntyre, Kew architect and member of Kew Historical Society, standing in front of a window in the former court room of the Kew Court House.kew court house, public offices -- kew (vic), kew police station

A civic campaign for new public offices developed in Kew in the 1880s. After much deliberation, the location chosen was the junction of Bulleen and Cotham Roads. The buildings were designed by George Watson and John Henry Harvey, architects within the Department of Public Works (Victoria). Building was commenced in 1887, and after one year, the buildings were opened. The Post Office was transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901. The Police Station and Court House, sold by the Victorian Government to the City of Boroondara in 2007, are now a community cultural centre and performing arts venue.The buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register Register (HO885) in 1991. They are historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria because Watson and Harvey's designs exhibit diversity in integrating civil offices, they accommodate the apex of road junctions, and they demonstrate a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings.Photograph of tall leadlight windows in the former Court Room (now the Just Theatre) of the Kew Court House. The photograph in the lower right corner shows part of the magistrates bench (now removed). Other items in the room include police lockers, as at that stage, in 1996, the room was occupied by the Kew Police Station and used as a briefing room and locker room.kew court house, public offices -- kew (vic.), court room -- victoria, kew police station

A civic campaign for new public offices developed in Kew in the 1880s. After much deliberation, the location chosen was the junction of Bulleen and Cotham Roads. The buildings were designed by George Watson and John Henry Harvey, architects within the Department of Public Works (Victoria). Building was commenced in 1887, and after one year, the buildings were opened. The Post Office was transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901. The Police Station and Court House, sold by the Victorian Government to the City of Boroondara in 2007, are now a community cultural centre and performing arts venue.The buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register Register (HO885) in 1991. They are historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria because Watson and Harvey's designs exhibit diversity in integrating civil offices, they accommodate the apex of road junctions, and they demonstrate a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings.Photograph of the rear of the former Kew Post Office, Court House, and Police Station showing outbuildings constructed within the formerly open court yard. These were service buildings for the workers in the Police Station.kew court house, public offices -- kew (vic), kew police station, kew post office

A civic campaign for new public offices developed in Kew in the 1880s. After much deliberation, the location chosen was the junction of Bulleen and Cotham Roads. The buildings were designed by George Watson and John Henry Harvey, architects within the Department of Public Works (Victoria). Building was commenced in 1887, and after one year, the buildings were opened. The Post Office was transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901. The Police Station and Court House, sold by the Victorian Government to the City of Boroondara in 2007, are now a community cultural centre and performing arts venue.The buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register Register (HO885) in 1991. They are historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria because Watson and Harvey's designs exhibit diversity in integrating civil offices, they accommodate the apex of road junctions, and they demonstrate a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings.Panoramic photograph of the entrances from Cotham Road to the Kew Post Office, Court House and Police Station. At centre front is the public toilet block, erected in the twentieth century by the City of Kew to designs by Rowland Chipperfield.kew court house, public offices -- kew (vic), kew police station, kew post office, cotham road -- kew (vic.)

A civic campaign for new public offices developed in Kew in the 1880s. After much deliberation, the location chosen was the junction of Bulleen and Cotham Roads. The buildings were designed by George Watson and John Henry Harvey, architects within the Department of Public Works (Victoria). Building was commenced in 1887, and after one year, the buildings were opened. The Post Office was transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901. The Police Station and Court House, sold by the Victorian Government to the City of Boroondara in 2007, are now a community cultural centre and performing arts venue.The buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register Register (HO885) in 1991. They are historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria because Watson and Harvey's designs exhibit diversity in integrating civil offices, they accommodate the apex of road junctions, and they demonstrate a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings.View of the Kew Post Office, opened in 1888 which sits at the intersection of High Street and Cotham Road.The extension of the building at right was constructed in circa 1941. This view is of of the Cotham Road elevation.kew post office, cotham road -- kew (vic.), public offices -- kew (vic.)