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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - ABBOTT COLLECTION: BARBED WIRE
Abbott collection, black and white photograph showing a group of men in military uniform trying to dis-entangle a tank from barbed wire, in a thin black wooden frame, under glass with buff coloured mount, brown paper backing with framers label.photograph, tank, abbott -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - ABBOTT COLLECTION: MAN AND VEHICLE
Black and white photograph. Image shows man standing beside vehicle - possibly 1930's 'tourer'. Man is wearing hat, long coat. Possibly member of Abbott family.bendigo, industry, abbott supply, abbott, car -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Memorabilia - ABBOTT COLLECTION: BARB WIRE
Small section of single strand barb wire. Wire found at home in Strathfieldsaye, near Bendigo. Wire is high tensile and has a slight kink under the barbs which locks them in position. Item donated by Elaine Swanson, Strathfieldsaye, whose father purchased most of his fencing materials from Abbott Supply, Bendigo. The wire matches the design outlined in Abbott's patent application attached.rural industry, fencing, barbed wire, abbott, farming material, fence wire -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Nunawading Mayor's column, 1994
Nunawading mayor, Cr Abbott, discusses the benefits of a Box Hill / Nunawading merger and his disappointment at Box Hill Council's reluctance to amalgamate.Nunawading mayor, Cr Abbott, discusses the benefits of a Box Hill / Nunawading merger and his disappointment at Box Hill Council's reluctance to amalgamate.Nunawading mayor, Cr Abbott, discusses the benefits of a Box Hill / Nunawading merger and his disappointment at Box Hill Council's reluctance to amalgamate.abbott, kevin, mayors, city of nunawading, local government, city of whitehorse, city of box hill, amalgamations -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - Abbott Collection: Telegram
Electric Telegraph Victoria, British and Australian line. Original date and time: May 3rd, 1895, at 1.50 pm. Number of words: 6. Time received 8.43 am May 4th, 1895 From London addressed to Abbott Tanner Bendigo. Text on the telegram: prices rising. Signature at the bottom: Boutchers.telegram, abbott, business -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Razor, Early 1900's
This cut-throat razor was originally owned by the father of Dr. W.R. Angus' wife Gladys. Her ,maternal father's name was William Lawrence Forsyth. The razor was inherited by Gladys and is now part of the W.R. Angus Collection, which was donated to Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village by the family of Doctor William Roy Angus, Surgeon and Oculist. The “W.R. Angus Collection” includes historical medical equipment, surgical instruments and material once belonging to Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Thomas Francis Ryan, (both of Nhill, Victoria) as well as Dr Angus’ own belongings. The Collection’s history spans the medical practices of the two Doctors Ryan, from 1885-1926 plus that of Dr Angus, up until 1969. ABOUT THE “W.R.ANGUS COLLECTION” Doctor William Roy Angus M.B., B.S., Adel., 1923, F.R.C.S. Edin.,1928 (also known as Dr Roy Angus) was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria in 1901 and lived until 1970. He qualified as a doctor in 1923 at University of Adelaide, was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924 and for a period was house surgeon to Sir (then Mr.) Henry Simpson Newland. Dr Angus was briefly an Assistant to Dr Riddell of Kapunda, then commenced private practice at Curramulka, Yorke Peninsula, SA, where he was physician, surgeon and chemist. In 1926, he was appointed as new Medical Assistant to Dr Thomas Francis Ryan (T.F. Ryan, or Tom), in Nhill, Victoria, where his experiences included radiology and pharmacy. In 1927 he was Acting House Surgeon in Dr Tom Ryan’s absence. Dr Angus had become engaged to Gladys Forsyth and they decided he further his studies overseas in the UK in 1927. He studied at London University College Hospital and at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in 1928, was awarded FRCS (Fellow from the Royal College of Surgeons), Edinburgh. He worked his passage back to Australia as a Ship’s Surgeon on the on the Australian Commonwealth Line’s T.S.S. Largs Bay. Dr Angus married Gladys in 1929, in Ballarat. (They went on to have one son (Graham 1932, born in SA) and two daughters (Helen (died 12/07/1996) and Berenice (Berry), both born at Mira, Nhill ) According to Berry, her mother Gladys made a lot of their clothes. She was very talented and did some lovely embroidery including lingerie for her trousseau and beautifully handmade baby clothes. Dr Angus was a ‘flying doctor’ for the A.I.M. (Australian Inland Ministry) Aerial Medical Service in 1928 . Its first station was in the remote town of Oodnadatta, where Dr Angus was stationed. He was locum tenens there on North-South Railway at 21 Mile Camp. He took up this ‘flying doctor’ position in response to a call from Dr John Flynn; the organisation was later known as the Flying Doctor Service, then the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A lot of his work during this time involved dental surgery also. Between 1928-1932 he was surgeon at the Curramulka Hospital, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. In 1933 Dr Angus returned to Nhill and purchased a share of the Nelson Street practice and Mira hospital (a 2 bed ward at the Nelson Street Practice) from Dr Les Middleton one of the Middleton Brothers, the current owners of what previously once Dr Tom Ryan’s practice. Dr Tom and his brother had worked as surgeons included eye surgery. Dr Tom Ryan performed many of his operations in the Mira private hospital on his premises. He had been House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1902-1926. Dr Tom Ryan had one of the only two pieces of radiology equipment in Victoria during his practicing years – The Royal Melbourne Hospital had the other one. Over the years Dr Tom Ryan had gradually set up what was effectively a training school for country general-practitioner-surgeons. Each patient was carefully examined, including using the X-ray machine, and any surgery was discussed and planned with Dr Ryan’s assistants several days in advance. Dr Angus gained experience in using the X-ray machine there during his time as assistant to Dr Ryan. When Dr Angus bought into the Nelson Street premises in Nhill he was also appointed as the Nhill Hospital’s Honorary House Surgeon 1933-1938. His practitioner’s plate from his Nhill surgery is now mounted on the doorway to the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. When Dr Angus took up practice in the Dr Edward and Dr Tom Ryan’s old premises he obtained their extensive collection of historical medical equipment and materials spanning 1884-1926. A large part of this collection is now on display at the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool. In 1939 Dr Angus and his family moved to Warrnambool where he purchased “Birchwood,” the 1852 home and medical practice of Dr John Hunter Henderson, at 214 Koroit Street. (This property was sold in1965 to the State Government and is now the site of the Warrnambool Police Station. and an ALDI sore is on the land that was once their tennis court). The Angus family was able to afford gardeners, cooks and maids; their home was a popular place for visiting dignitaries to stay whilst visiting Warrnambool. Dr Angus had his own silk worm farm at home in a Mulberry tree. His young daughter used his centrifuge for spinning the silk. Dr Angus was appointed on a part-time basis as Port Medical Officer (Health Officer) in Warrnambool and held this position until the 1940’s when the government no longer required the service of a Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool; he was thus Warrnambool’s last serving Port Medical Officer. (Masters of immigrant ships arriving in port reported incidents of diseases, illness and death and the Port Medical Officer made a decision on whether the ship required Quarantine and for how long, in this way preventing contagious illness from spreading from new immigrants to the residents already in the colony.) Dr Angus was a member of the Australian Medical Association, for 35 years and surgeon at the Warrnambool Base Hospital 1939-1942, He served as a Surgeon Captain during WWII1942-45, in Ballarat, Victoria, and in Bonegilla, N.S.W., completing his service just before the end of the war due to suffering from a heart attack. During his convalescence he carved an intricate and ‘most artistic’ chess set from the material that dentures were made from. He then studied ophthalmology at the Royal Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital and created cosmetically superior artificial eyes by pioneering using the intrascleral cartilage. Angus received accolades from the Ophthalmological Society of Australasia for this work. He returned to Warrnambool to commence practice as an ophthalmologist, pioneering in artificial eye improvements. He was Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist to Warrnambool Base Hospital for 31 years. He made monthly visits to Portland as a visiting surgeon, to perform eye surgery. He represented the Victorian South-West subdivision of the Australian Medical Association as its secretary between 1949 and 1956 and as chairman from 1956 to 1958. In 1968 Dr Angus was elected member of Spain’s Barraquer Institute of Barcelona after his research work in Intrasclearal cartilage grafting, becoming one of the few Australian ophthalmologists to receive this honour, and in the following year presented his final paper on Living Intrasclearal Cartilage Implants at the Inaugural Meeting of the Australian College of Ophthalmologists in Melbourne In his personal life Dr Angus was a Presbyterian and treated Sunday as a Sabbath, a day of rest. He would visit 3 or 4 country patients on a Sunday, taking his children along ‘for the ride’ and to visit with him. Sunday evenings he would play the pianola and sing Scottish songs to his family. One of Dr Angus’ patients was Margaret MacKenzie, author of a book on local shipwrecks that she’d seen as an eye witness from the late 1880’s in Peterborough, Victoria. In the early 1950’s Dr Angus, painted a picture of a shipwreck for the cover jacket of Margaret’s book, Shipwrecks and More Shipwrecks. She was blind in later life and her daughter wrote the actual book for her. Dr Angus and his wife Gladys were very involved in Warrnambool’s society with a strong interest in civic affairs. He had an interest in people and the community They were both involved in the creation of Flagstaff Hill, including the layout of the gardens. After his death (28th March 1970) his family requested his practitioner’s plate, medical instruments and some personal belongings be displayed in the Port Medical Office surgery at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, and be called the “W. R. Angus Collection”. The W.R. Angus Collection is significant for still being located at the site it is connected with, Doctor Angus being the last Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool. The collection of medical instruments and other equipment is culturally significant, being an historical example of medicine from late 19th to mid-20th century. Dr Angus assisted Dr Tom Ryan, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and in ocular surgery. Cut-throat razor, part of the W.R. Angus Collection. Razor in dark green cardboard box. Razor has bone handle with arrow-head shaped end; blade swings inside the handle. The razor is a design called The Abbott and was made by J & J Maxfield of Sheffield in the early 1900's. It once belonged to William Lawrence Forsyth. Written in pencil script on lid: "W. L. Forsyth". Stamped into box and on steel blade "The Abbott". Blade also inscribed "J & J MAXFIELD / SHEFFIELD" flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, dr w r angus, william lawrence forsyth, j and j maxfield sheffield, cut-throat razor 1900's, personal effects 1900's, grooming equipment 1900's, hair cutting equipment 1900's -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Last Nunawading Council Meeting, 1/11/1994 12:00:00 AM
Black and white photo of Last Council Meeting of City of Nunawading held in Council Chambers, Civic Centre, Whitehorse Road, Nunawading, November 1994. Cr. Kevin Abbott addressing the Council through the Mayor, Cr. Noel Spurr.city of nunawading, spurr, noel, abbott, kevin -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Club saddles-up to move, 1993
Nunawading Pony Club is forced to re-locate outside the city to make way for a housing development.Nunawading Pony Club is forced to re-locate outside the city to make way for a housing development. Mayor, Kevin Abbott said the council cannot afford to purchase the land to allow the club to stay in Blackburn. Council has agreed to consider assisting the club with some money for relocation.Nunawading Pony Club is forced to re-locate outside the city to make way for a housing development. horse-riding, nunawading pony club, abbott, kevin -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Scalebuoy
Scalebuoy. Invented by Hartley Abbott and patented under the name of the Bendigo Electronic Company, made in various sizes & for different applications, such as to prevent scaling in the boilers at mines. Made up of a sealed glass bulb containing mercury and gasses enclosed within a chromed wire cage and with a chromed handle. The one shown being a handheld shaker model. Part of the Aileen and John Ellison collection.science, bendigo electronic, abbott -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - ABBOTT COLLECTION: PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs of Elizabeth Abbott (nee Steer) wife of James Staines Abbott pasted inside the Abbott family Bible. Born 16.10.1818, Married 1.9.1846, Died Wanalta 6.11.1900person, individual, elizabeth abbott -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Administrative record - Abbott collection: letter book
Hardcover book with blue front cover and brown spine. On the spine a red square with gold letters "Letter Book''. The book has an alphabetical index at the beginning without any entry. Five hundred pages of very thin paper complete the book, only four pages have writing with letters dated 1898 and 1899. The letters are from Mr. Abbott relating to business orders.business, letters, abbott -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Award - ABBOTT COLLECTION: H.A.ABBOTT GOLF TROPHY, 1938
Abbott collection, EPNS tankard won by H. A. Abbott at Bendigo Golf Club 19.6.38 engraved as such on side.EPNS Chancerytrophies & awards, sports, golf -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - ABBOTT FAMILY BIBLE, 1862
Abbott collection, very old leather bound bible given to James Staines Abbott by his wife & daughters upon his 47th birthday. Contains many notations & newpaper cuttings, 2 pencil drawings by J.S.Abbott & 2 photos of his wife. James Staines Abbott was librarian for 18 years at the Eaglehawk Mechanics Institute.Inscription reads James Stainies Abbott the gift of his affectionate wife and daughters, Elizabeth Abbott, Elizabeth Ann Abbott, Caroline Esther Abbott June 1st 1862 Eaglehawk Gully Bendigo Australia.personal effects, religious, bible -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Nunawading Mayor's Column, 1994
Nunawading mayor, Cr Kevin Abbott discusses the rate implications for a Nunawading / Box Hill merger, the council's ongoing meetings with the Local Government Board and Nunawading's preferences for amalgamation.Nunawading mayor, Cr Kevin Abbott discusses the rate implications for a Nunawading / Box Hill merger, the council's ongoing meetings with the Local Government Board and Nunawading's preferences for amalgamation.Nunawading mayor, Cr Kevin Abbott discusses the rate implications for a Nunawading / Box Hill merger, the council's ongoing meetings with the Local Government Board and Nunawading's preferences for amalgamation.city of nunawading, city of box hill, city of ringwood, city of waverley, abbott, kevin, mayors, amalgamations, local government, local government finance -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, 80-litre bins are a farce|Anger at short time to choose, 1992
Residents angry that only one day given to choose size of bin.|Crs Abbott and Allan moved to abandon plans to introduce 80 litre bins in favour of 120 litre ones.Residents angry that only one day given to choose size of bin.|Crs Abbott and Allan moved to abandon plans to introduce 80 litre bins in favour of 120 litre ones. (photo - Graham Hawke)Residents angry that only one day given to choose size of bin.|Crs Abbott and Allan moved to abandon plans to introduce 80 litre bins in favour of 120 litre ones. city of nunawading, garbage collection, hawke, graham, abbott, kevin, allan, peter -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Assurance on assets, 1994
Nunawading mayor, Cr Abbott receives an assurance from Local Government Board Chairperson, Leonie Burke, that unless an account had been set up to service a particular debt, all income belongs to the amalgamated council.Nunawading mayor, Cr Abbott receives an assurance from Local Government Board Chairperson, Leonie Burke, that unless an account had been set up to service a particular debt, all income belongs to the amalgamated council.Nunawading mayor, Cr Abbott receives an assurance from Local Government Board Chairperson, Leonie Burke, that unless an account had been set up to service a particular debt, all income belongs to the amalgamated council.local government finance, city of nunawading, city of box hill, city of whitehorse, amalgamations, burke, leonie, abbott, kevin -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BILL ASHMAN COLLECTION: THE ELECTRICAL FACTOR IN THE SEDIMENTATION RATE OF BLOOD (SECTION 3), 1941
42 copies of a small 8 page booklet titled, The Electrical Factor in the Sedimentation Rate of Blood reprinted from the New Zealand Medical Journal April 1941.W N Abbott & E F Fowlersciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BILL ASHMAN COLLECTION: THE ELECTRICAL FACTOR IN RENAL METABOLISM (SECTION 4 ), 1941
123 copies of a small 8 page booklet titled, The Electrical Factor in Renal Metabolism (Section 4) reprinted from the New Zealand Medical Journal June 1941.W N Abbott & E F Fowlersciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BILL ASHMAN COLLECTION: THE ELECTRICAL FACTOR IN METABOLISM (SECTION 5T)
5 copies of a small 26 page booklet titled, The Electrical Factor in Metabolism (Section 5T) The Electrical Factor in the Treatment of Renal Oedema.W N Abbott & E F Fowlersciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Craft - ABBOTT COLLECTION: PRESSED FLOWERS
Pressed flowers from the Abbott family bible.ephemera, mementoes, pressed flowers -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - ABBOTT COLLECTION: R.H.S.ABBOTT
Abbott collection. Sepia toned photograph of R. H. S. Abbott in Mayoral robes, in a chrome plated frame with brown velvet backing and strut support.photograph, person, bendigo-history-abbott-mayors, r h s abbott -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - ABBOTT COLLECTION: CARDS
Assorted cards found inside the Abbott family Bible.ephemera, mementoes, cards -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BILL ASHMAN COLLECTION: CORRESPONDENCE
Reprint from the 'British Medical Journal' dated 11 March, 1944 Letters to the Editor, Page 373. Written by W. N. Abbott of Auckland. Refers to medical matters and Scalebuoys.sciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, british medical journal, dr beaumont, dr robertson, new zealand medical journal, medical research council of great britain, 'the electrical factor in metabolism', abbott, fowler, w n abbott, bendigo electronic coy, f a stevenson, cambridge press -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - ABBOTT COLLECTION: CORRESPONDENCE, 1920 - 1960
A collection of Ten letters referring to the Abbott Company including share receipts, bond listings and a letter referring to the scalebuoy. These have been numbered 2402.228.1 - 228.10, Eric Cowling, sharebroker, H.A. Abbott, ,Sandhurst Trustees, RHS Abbott estate, H.A. Abbott, Sloman & Mogg, accountants; Commercial Travellers Club; Charles Sumner Bird, Scotts Hotel. Letters written in approx. 1940, mention of war in Charles Sumner Bird's letter.organization, business, abbotts, r.h.s. abbott, abbott company, scalebuoy -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - ABBOTT COLLECTION: NOTES
Notes written in shorthand found inside the Abbott family Bible.document, memo, shorthand -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - ABBOTT FAMILY LETTER, 1897
Letter sent from Shepparton by Elizabeth Abbott to her husband James Staines Abbott on 15th April 1897. Short note scribbled in black ink on scrap paper, one side only.communication, postal, letters -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Australia Day Winners, 29/01/1997 12:00:00 AM
Australia Day awards presented at Box Hill Town Hall on Australia Day, 1997.Australia Day awards presented at Box Hill Town Hall on Australia Day, 1997. Citizen of the year - Jean Abbott and Young Citizen of the Year - Craig Wallace. Three Community Achievement Awards also presented.Australia Day awards presented at Box Hill Town Hall on Australia Day, 1997.abbott, jean, wallace, craig, galley, rosalie denise, greenlink box hill inc., girl guides, webster, david (rev), ryan, mary, oscar, geoff, australia day -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Clothing - Costume and Accessories, c1935
Black Crepe Frock (made by Miss Gardiner) worn by Mrs Abbott.stawell clothing material -
Melbourne Legacy
Letter, Tobruk Photos, 1979
Letters regarding three photos of murals in near Tobruk in Libya. The photos were sent to Melbourne Legacy in 1979 by Legatee Syd Wilson of Yamba NSW. He thought Melbourne Legacy might be able to use them to generate money by selling them for advertising or publicity. He said they were enlargements of snapshots he had found in his old army trunk. Legatee Wilson's letter says the murals were: 'painted on three walls of a white concrete Italian block house (Police Check post I think), some 18/20 miles west of Tobruk, between Tobruk and Derna, and near a captured Italian airfield, somewhere about February 1941. Obviously they were painted by a Victorian Sapper. They were very well done, by a competent Sign-writer/artist, in correct and excellent colours (captured Itie paint no doubt - there was plenty in their Naval Stores at Tobruk).' (NB Itie was slang for Italian) From the AWM website the signs were painted by South Australian painter, SZ538 Sapper Leslie John “Doc” Dawes, 2/3rd Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. There are several photos on the AWM site including the building the three murals were on.Photos taken by a Legatee when on active service in Libya in World War 2 and donated to Legacy when it was thought they could be used for fundraising, which shows that Legatees were conscious of that Legacy needs to generate funds to continue its work.Black and white enlargement of a photo taken in Libya of Abbotts Lager mural.tobruk, murals -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - ABBOTT COLLECTION: FAMILY TREE
Part of the family tree of Harold Athelstane Abbott, showing parents and siblingsPhil Wilkinperson, individual, harold athelstane abbott, richard hartley smith abbott, harold athelstane abbott