Songs of Australian heritage for voice. Melody line only with chord symbols. Includes guitar tablature for chords. Convicts, transportation and sea shanties. Pioneering, goldrush days and bushrangers. Shearers, drovers and bush life. Swagmen, Victorian expansion, sporting life and disasters. Contents: • According to the Act • The Albury ram • Another fall of rain • Australia's on the Wallaby • The bald-headed end of the broom • The ballad of Ben Hall • The ballad of the Kelly Gang • The banks of the Condamine • The big-gun shearer • The black velvet band • The blackboys Waltzing Matilda • Bluey Brink • Bold Jack Donohue • Bound for Botany Bay • Brisbane ladies • Cain killed Abel • The cane-cutter's lament • The carrier's song • The Catalpa • Charlie Mopps • Click go the shears • The cockies of Bungaree • Colonial experience • Coming down the flat • The convict maid • The currency lasses • The death of Alec Robertson • The death of Ben Hall • The death of Willie Stone • Denis O'Reilly • The drover's dream • The dying aviator • The dying stockman • Eight little cylinders • The Eldorado mining disaster • The exile of Erin • Farewell to Greta • Flash Jack from Gundagai • The flash stockman • Frank Gardiner • The freehold on the plain • The gaol song • The girls of the Shamrock Shores • The golden gullies of the Palmer • The gumtree canoe • The Hamfat man • Heenan and Sayers • Henry's downfall • Here's adieu to all judges and juries • I've been to Australia, Oh • Jim Jones at Botany Bay • Jog along til shearing • John Kanaka • The Lachlan Tigers • Leave her, jollies, leave her • Les Darcy • The limejuice tub • Look out below • Maggie May • Maids of Australia • Man of the Earth • The Maryborough miner • Moreton Bay • The morning of the fray • Morrisey and the Russian sailor • Musselman • The mustering song • My name is Edward Kelly • Nails • The new chum Chinaman • Nine miles from Gundagai • The nose on my old man • Oh, give me a hut • The old bark hut • The old bullock dray • One of the has-beens • The overlanders • Pint Pot and Billy • Pity poor labourers • Radcliffe Highway • The rigs of the time • Rolling home • The Ryebuck shearer • Sam Holt • Sign-on day • Sixteen thousand miles from home • South Australia • The springtime it brings on the shearing • The stockman's last bed • The Sunshine Railway disaster • Tambaroora Ted • The tattooed lady • Ten thousand miles away • The tent poles are rotten • Travelling down the Castlereagh • Tumba-bloody-Rumba • The two professional hums • Van Diemen's Land • The wallaby brigade • When we get our tuppence back • The wild colonial boy • Woolloomooloo Australian culture, folklore and history in songs.Paper; paperback book. Front cover: multicoloured background; picture of swaggy with guitar; picture of Eureka flag; black and green lettering. Back cover: red, orange and white background; Eureka flag; picture of a shearer with sheep; picture of a person in Ned Kelly armour playing a guitar on a horse; picture of woman facing the Ned Kelly figure; brand with the message "unsurpassed Australian made".Front cover: author's name and title. Back cover: author bio; praise from Jack Pobar, swagman.songs, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, convicts, transportation, sea shanties, pioneering, gold, goldrush, bushrangers, shearers, drovers, bush life, sporting life, disasters, music

Girl Guides & Scouts, Souvenir Programme World Chief Guide's Visit to Victoria. November 21st - December 5th, 1947. Official Programme. Includes Official Programme with activities for the Rally. Inside front cover information on the Girl Guides Association property between Yarra Junction and Warbuton, including a photo. Page 4 photo and wirte up on the Founder Robert Baden-Powell. Page 5 photo and write up on Lady Baden-Powell, GBE. The World Chief Guide. Pages 6 & 7, History of the Girl Guides of Victoria, includes photo of Lady Chauvel, State Commissioner and Miss M McL. Burns, State Secreatary. Page 10to 12 Guides own service. Inside rear cover advertising for The State Savings Bank of Victoria. Rear cover Evan Evans Pty Ltd, 680 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, C.1. Manufactures of flags, tents & flys, Haversacks & camping equipment. Appionted Flagmakers to the Girl Guides Association. b/ Letter.Old Mate of mine together we have roughed it through the bush for twenty years and time begins to lay his frosting brush upon the heads. But in our hearts the flowers of friendship grow its fresh as when we planted then in dear old Bendigo. I sigh when ever I think upon - Jack pats along the grub the music of the puddling mill, the cradle and tub, the hurdy gurdies german bands and mistletoe toe, why blow it. You're upset the tea on dear old Bendigo the back of life is sometimes smooth and at other times tis rough. But we must take as it comes this beef is rather tough, I feel a spider on my cheek, I've cought the varment _ 'No' Why bless me, if it ain't a tear for dear old Bendigo.J Batten, Print, Melb.event, official, guides scouts, world chief guide's, girl guides & scouts, official souvenir programme world chief guide's visit to victoria. november 21st - december 5th, 1947. activities for the rally. information on the girl guides association property between yarra junction and warbuton, including a photo. page 4 photo and write up on the founder robert baden-powell. page 5 photo and write up on lady baden-powell, gbe. the world chief guide. pages 6 & 7, history of the girl guides of victoria, includes photo of lady chauvel, state commissioner and miss m mcl. burns, state secretary. page 10to 12 guides own service. advertising: the state savings bank of victoria, evan evans pty ltd, 680 elizabeth street, melbourne. appointed flagmakers to the girl guides association. b/ letter.

Single page of notes/interview record of Miss Daisy Paddock, teacher at the Ringwood State School in Greenwood Avenue (now Federation Estate) - Interview write-up by Ringwood History Group.Transcript: "Miss Janet Daisy Paddock She was an extremely well-liked and well-regarded teacher at the old RW State School in Greenwood Ave (Now Federation Estate). She taught between the years of 1927 until 1941, then again after the war from 1951 until final retirement in 1961. In fact she was so liked that her former pupils formed "The 2997 Club" , which met in her honour every year for a meal (and, of course, their guest of honour). 2997 was the RW SS number. In some of her letters about early life in RW, she recalls the RW Mail being produced and printed in a small wooden building in Adelaide St. [Adelaide St is officially no longer on the RW map but it went from the highway nearly to Mullum Creek, between Melbourne St and Warrandyte Road.^ In fact there is an unmarked 100 metres of road that is on the west side of Officeworks that ends in a roundabout at the bottom of Eastland carpark. I don't believe it is exactly in the same position as the old Adelaide Street but it pretty close. That would put the old Mail office in the vicinity of the Maroondah Council service centre in Eastland.] She also recalls that there were nearly a dam on every corner. In fact, I recall in my 1950s/60s childhood that there were still many dams around. As I previously mentioned, with the RW-Mitcham claybelt, there wasn't much top soil and the orange clay is very fine, so when the banks of the dam get wet, it wass very slippery. I often remember playing around in those dams, as most boys did in those days. A friend and I spied an old bath used to water some horses so after some trial and errors we made it waterproof and fashioned a couple of paddles out of wooden fence pailings. The first launch in the local dam was fine and we managed to manouver through the bullrushes into the middle. The only thing that I forgot about was that I had a d<^ that went everywhere with me and, rather than bark from the bank, he swam over to us and tried to get aboard. Bath tubs are not known for their seaworthness and he tipped us all in the drink. Of course the bath sank like a rock. We scrambled on the bank and he added insult to injury when, as all dogs do, gave the usual shake and sprayed us with water. My mind often comes back to one dam right next to the Croydon pub - that provided water to the Magg's orchard - dug in the usual fashion on about 3 metres deep scraped in the local clay, it was at this dam in the early sixties that a young boy drowned. After that we were pretty careful around dams. Going back to Daisy's memories, she recalls that the kids often started late on Monday mornings as Monday was Market Day at RW. They used to watch the stock being herded into the yards and people getting off the steam trains. Her family home was at Gruyere and her father used to drive to RW market and stop midway at the Burnt Bridge hotel and rest the horses. [I suspect that he may have watered other things besides the horses.] They eventually moved to RW in Thanet St. Miss Paddock still remembers the old RW school at the corner of RW St and Whitehorse Road, it was very small so they built the new school in Greenwood Ave. RW had a population of around 2,(K)0 when Daisy became an Assistant Class Five. She used to walk through the open paddocks, surrounded by bush and orchards. She goes on to say that the bush was alive with wildlife and a natural playground for the children. Miss Paddock was a member of the Soroptomist Club in RW (equivalent to Rotary), active in the church and local community. At our archives, we have a plaque that grac^ the entrance to the school, naming it the Miss Daisy Paddock library, in honour of a great woman in our city."

The first school of Mines in Australia was established at Ballarat in 1870. At the time of its jubilee (1930) the following people were members of the School Council: W.H. Middleton (President), W.T. Humphreys (VP), J.S. Vickery (VP), F. Barrow, Col. W.K. Bolton, William Baragwanath, A.E. Cutter, J.N. Dunn, G. Fitches, W.H. Fleay, F. Herman. W.D. Hill, T. Hurley, K. Kean. J. Kelly, L. Lederman, Mayor of Ballarat, Mayour of Ballarat East, D. Maxwell, M. Martin, R. Maddern, D. Ronaldson, F. Saunders, R. Stephenson, A.O. Stubbs, R.E. Tunbridge. The School Staff in 1920 comprised: Herbert H. Smith, Walter Rowbotham, Reginald L. Cutter, M.C. Young, Hilda Wardle, M. Wiliamson, P.S. Richards, L.H. Archibald, J. Woods, Ken Moss, W. Kenneth, Mrs McIlvena. B. Robinson, S. Rowe, E. Hope-Jones, Miss Abrams, L.St.G.P. Austin, Alfred Mica Smith, J.R. Pound, Herbert R. Murphy, N.H. Junner, Maurice Copland, L.H. Archibald, E.J.A. McConnon, Newton King, D.m. Hull, T.R. Gordon, John M. Sutherland, T.K. Jebb, Dick Richards, C. Tonkin, A.W. Steane, J. Paterson, H.W. Malin, R.V. Maddison, S.M. Mayo, F.A. King, W.H. Steane, T.R. Gordon, T.A. Williams, H. Waldron, G. Black, E.J. McConnon, R.V. Duncan. R. Cutter, E.G. Vawdrey, Hilda WardleWhite stapled booklet - landscape format - 20pp + soft covers with blue writing. Includes an historical sketch of the Ballarat School of Mines. Contains images of the school from around 1920. The history outlined in the booklet follows: 'Ballarat has helped to influence the life and destinies of Australia in many ways, the recital of which would perhaps prove tedious to the citizens of less favoured localities! However, it can be said, without much fear of contradiction, that only less known thought Australia than its fame as a gold field is the reputation won for it by its school of Mines, ... Ballarat was still quite a new place when the School was founded, but a very propserous and popular place all the same, with a go-ahead lot of citizens brim full of the spirit of enterprise which seemsto animate mining populations generally. Money was plentiful, and they launched out into ventures, which later, were to develop and take the place of the gold mines, while what is more to the point, they understood the value of education. the old digging days were passing away. So far as Ballarat itself was concerned the day of the cradle and tin dish had already passed into an antiquity "as dead and distant as the age of the Tubal Caon," said dir redmond Barry on declaring the School open. Mining had become a serious business, and the mining engineer, the metallurgist, and the geologist had become a power in the land. In these circumstances the suggestions to found a School of Mines met with ready acceptance. The late Mr James M. Bickett had the honor of bringing forward the proposition at a meeting of the Ballarat Mining Board in October, 1869. it was agreed to, and the Government, having been approached for assistance, granted a lease of the old Supreme Court buildings at a nominal reantal. A modest sum, including 100 pounds from the Borough Council of Ballarat West, was subscribed by a number of sympathisers, and on the 26th October, 1870, the inaugural address was delivered by Sir Redmond Barry, the first President of the School. Classes were commenced on the 23rd January, 1871. The students at first were mostly adults. They were chiefly men emloyed at the mines, who had the wisdom and energy to devote their spare time to study, and, though their attendance was somewhat irregular, they made very good progress. Old prints which have been preserved show them at work at furnaces, big bearded men of the old-fashioned type of miner. It is interesting to note that among those who gave evidence and encouragement was Sir Roderick Murchison, who many years before had advised Cornish miners to emigrate to Australia to search for gold, and who in 1848 was in possession of gold ore sent from this country. Sir Roderick sent a parcel of books for the library, and gave useful advice as to the curriculum which should be adopted. The Museum, which now contains a most valuable collection of minerals, was one of the first things attended to, and the reports presented to the Council from time to time speak of additions being made from all parts of the world. New equipment was constantly being added to the School, a good deal of assay work was done, and some specimens were sent from the East Indies for examination as far back as 1873. By this time there was a difficulty in providing accomodation for the students who wished to enrol, and the number of instructors had grown from two to four. In 1882 the first building was being erected on what was then part of the gaol reserve. A little more than ten years afterwards a buildnig formerly serving as a Methodist Church was absorbed, while later on, the demand for accomodation increasing, the attack upon the gaol was renewed. The School continued to grow in reputation and size, and became the science centre of the district, and in 1889 a learge new building was opened by Sir Alexander Peacock. Students came from over seas as well as from all the States of Australia, and after going through their courses they took with them the name and fame of the old School to all parts of the globe. School of Mines boys have played a great part in developing the mining fields of Western Australia, South Australia, and africa, while old students who have made a name in their profession are constantly dropping in to see how the old place is getting along. It was not to be expected, however, that the Ballarat School would be left without rivals, its very success inspiring competition. Mining Schools were started in other parts of Australia, and, at the same time, Victoria ceased to hold first place as a mining state. On the other hand there was a great advance in manufacturing, and the demand for technicaly trained men became a great and as insistent as ever it had been for trained mining men. The Council was quick to adapt the school to the new conditions, and the result is seen in the institution, which is one of Ballarat's proudest possession. Instruction is given in all branches of technical work, and the classes are filled with students who are building up for Ballarat a reputation as an industrial centre, which promises to equal that which it formerly held as a mining town. Owing to its bracing climate, its abundant opportunities for recreations, and its accessibilty, Ballarat as a city is an ideal place for educational purposed, and is yearly becoming more and more appreciated throughout the State. The chairman of one of Ballarat's biggests industries claims that the workman can do twice the day's work here that he can do in Melbourne. he was a little enthusiastic over it, perhaps, but it is a well-known fact that the healthy and invigourating Ballarat climate is conducive to both physical and mental activity, and the records of the School provide ample proof of it. One of the most interesting and successful branches of the School of Mines and Industries - if the name be enlarged with the enlargement of its scope - is the Technical Art School. "The City of Statues" has from its earliest days been a stronghold of art. Art schools have flourised here, and in 1905 the Education Department came to the conclusion that the best thing to do with them was to place them under the management of the School of Mines Council. A magnificent new Technical Art School was built at a cost of some 12,000 pounds on the site of the old Supreme Court building, and was formally opened on the 23rd July, 1915. The results have not only been justified but surpassed all anticipations. The most comprehensive list of subjects is taught, and this list is constantly added to. Students have flocked to the art School, which may be said to occupy a unique position in Australia, and its record of success is really astonishing. Its students supply art teachers for the newer schools that are being built, and many occupy leading positinos in important business houses. So well is its reputation known that orders are constantly being received, not only from Victoria, but from other States, for honor boards and challenge shields to be designed and made. The most recent addition to the School of Mines and Industries is the Junior Technical School, for which a new building is now being erected on a portion of the gaol site, transferred to the School of Mines Counci by the Government. At the present moment temporary quarters are being occupied. Some students after passing through the Junior School go straight to employment, continuing perhaps to attend the evening trade classes, while others move on to the senior School. In a review of the work of the School of Mines mention must be made of a series of industrial research carried out under supervision of the Principal. One in particular, regarding the suitability of the local ores for the manufacture of pigments attracted much attention, while the experiemtns on the manufacture of white potery from Victorian clayes were considered of sufficient importance by the Federal Advisory Council of Science and Industry to warrant the appointment of a special investigator. The results of these have been most encouraging, and may have far-reaching consequences. The vocational training of returned soldiers also should not be overlooked. The work was taken in hand from the first, before the Repatriation Department gave assistance, and now with the help of the department of the School has become one of the largest vocational training centres in Victoria outside of Melbourne. The soldiers, trained in a variety of occupations, have made remarkable progress, and already considerable numbers have found employment in local workshops and factories. To sum up, the School is divided into the following departments, each well staffed and equipped: - The School of Mines, science, and Engineering; the Techncial Art School, the Boys' Junior Technical School, the Girl's Preparatory Technical Classes, Trade Classes, and the Commercial School. The school of Mines, science and Engineering, comprises the following branches: - Mining, Metallurgy, Geology, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Chemistry, and Pharmacy. Battery treatments, Cyanide Testing, Smelting, Assays, and Clay Testing from a regular part of the School's work. Students gaining qualifications obtain concession in their courses at the university, should they proceed there to continue their studies. The technical Art school curriculum includes training in all branches of pictorial and applied art, an Architectural Diploma Course, a Draughtman's Course, technical Art teachers' Course, Photography,Ticket Writing, Art Metal Work, Woodcarving, Needlework, and Leather work. The Trade Classes give instruction in Telephone Mechanics, telegraphy, Carpentry, Cabinet Making, Plumbing, Blacksmithing, Fitting, Electric Wiring, and Printing. Numerous Scholarships are offered every year, and altogether students will find few places to equal the Ballarat School of Mines and Industries as a training place for their life's work. One of the first in the continent to be established, its Jubilee finds it still in the front rank, keeping pace with the times, and offering to the youths of this country the means of taking advantage of Australia's teeming opportunities. william, battery, smith, herbert, drawing from the antique, ballarat school of mines botanical gardens, ballarat school of mines, redmond barry, alfred mica smith, james bickett, museum, dick richards, ballarat junior technical school, s m b, ballarat school of mines and industries, ballarat technical art school, model mine, james m bickett, j m bickett, roderick murchison, vocational training rooms, wesley church, methodist church, alexander peacock, lathes, repatriation, repatriatin department, war service, school council, baragwanath, gold mining, mining laboratory, plaster cast, r.w. richards, anniversary, jubilee

RINGWOOD GARDEN CLUB INC. The following is a list of items that are stored at the RDHS Archive site, from the Ringwood Garden Club. This box of items does not include all the archival items from the Club, the Minutes will be kept at the home of the Archive Officer. Medal: From the Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria. Won at Box Hill show, in 1978. Badge: An early Ringwood Horticultural & Agricultural Society badge. Old Photograph: “Judging the Fruit Exhibits”, circa 1908. Certificate: 3rd. Prize at the 2009 Hanging Basket Competition, from the R.H.S.V. Shield: From the National Dahlia Society of Victoria, Annual Inter Society Championship In 1975. Won by the then: Ringwood & District Horticultural Garden Club. Tray: The Bill McDowell Perpetual Trophy for Amateur Cut Flowers: winners from 1973 to 1987. Old Photograph: From the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria, awarded at the Royal Melbourne Show in 1947, First Prize, Ringwood. Certificate: From the Melbourne City Council: Festival of Progress, held in 1951, to Commemorate the Centenary of Victorian Government. Certificate of Merit: from past winners at shows. (5) Certificates: 2 unused Certificates of Merit, 1 unused Champion certificate. Garden Competition Certificates: from 1959 to 1981. Poster: Early Autumn Show poster displayed in shop Windows. Hortico Prize Certificates: 2 unused, $10.00 & $5.00 value. Tape Recording: Recorded history of the Ringwood Garden Club, talk given by the late Hugh McCall on 23/9/1996, Club’s centenary. Prize Cards: 41 First Prize” cards from Mrs. D. Holloway & 27 “Second Prize” cards, from 1956 to 1960. Prize Cards: 2 First Prize & 1 Second Prize card from Mrs. Holloway at the 1st. Heathmont Boy Scouts in 1958. Prize Cards: 4 Prize Cards from the Upwey & District Garden Club. 3 lsts., 12nd. Prize Card: from the Boronia & District H & A. Society: 1st. Prize, (no other information) Prize Card: from the R.H.S.V.: Second Prize for 1 Vase of Daffodils, Mr W Rosel. Prize Card: from the Dandenong Ranges Floral Festival, Easter Show, First Prize, Mrs Holloway in April, 1957 plus a Second Prize, same year. Prize Card: from the Mitcham Horticultural Society, Autumn Show, Mrs Holloway, 1 Bowl of Floating Flowers in 1958. Laminated Certificates: from the Great Victorian Hanging Basket Competition by the R.H.S.V. (no years mentioned) Club Syllabus: from 1980 to 2015. Photographs: from winners at our shows and judges at those shows. Ribbons: Ringwood Horticultural Society, 1962, Champion, Exhibit in Vegetables. Upwey & District Garden Club, 1977, Jubilee Carnival of Flowers. Ringwood garden Club, Vic. Large Dahlia Championships, 1983,6 Dahlias, D.V.’s. National Dahlia Soc. of Vic., Autumn Show, 1975, Inter-Societies Championship. Upwey & District Garden Club, 1980 Carnival of Flowers, Mountain Dist. Cham’s. “ “ “ “ , Spring Show, 1973. “ “ “ “ , Carnival of Flowers, 1984, Inter Society Exhibit. “ “ “ “ , “ “ “ , 1982. Best Exhibit. Healesville Garden Club: Autumn Show, Best Exhibit, Cut Flower Section. Ringwood Garden Club, Autumn Show, 1964, Best Exhibit in Vegetables. Upwey & District Garden Club, 1974 Carnival of Flowers. Ringwood Garden Club, Spring 1986, Best Exhibit in Junior Cookery. Ringwood & District Hort. & Graden Club, Autumn Show, 1974, Best Floral Art. Ringwood garden Club, Autumn 1989, Ringwood Amateur Dahlia Championship, Ringwood Horticultural Society, Autumn Show, 1963, Best Exhibit in Vegetables. Ringwood H & A Society: Autumn Show, 1957, Best Exhibit Floral Art. Ringwood & District Horticultural & Garden Club, Spring Show, 1973, Best Floral Art Exhibit. Upwey & District Garden Club, Carnival of Flowers, 1985. Mountain District Championships, Inter-Society Exhibit. Yarra Glen A. & H. Society Inc. Annual Show: small blue sash-style ribbon. Small Ribbons: from Victoria 150, a second (red) & 3rd. (green) Felt Badges: 1 green for Secretary: 1 blue for Judge. Rosette: 3rd. Prize at the Hanging Basket Competition in 2009. Blue Folder: contains photographs, prize cards, certificates, awards, etc. Albums: 4 photo, albums of garden shows, floral art, Spring Celebration photos and Newspaper articles. * All items placed in the container were placed there on 2nd. September, 2019.