Frank Wright was a renown resident of Smeaton, where he was born on 2 August 1901. He lived at Laura Villa, and attended Smeaton State School. His father William was a gold miner and his mother's name was Sarah. Their family won many singing and instrumental awards. Frank was tutored by Percy Code and was awarded a gold medal for the highest marks in the ALCM examinations in the British Colonies at the age of seventeen years. He became the Australian Open Cornet Champion by the age of eighteen. A year later, Frank conducted the City of Ballarat Band, and later the Ballarat Soldiers’ Memorial Band. He formed the Frank Wright Frisco Band and Frank Wright and his Coliseum Orchestra. These bands won many South Street awards, and Frank as conductor won many awards in the Australian Band Championship contest. In 1933 Frank Wright sailed to England to conduct the famous St Hilda’s Band and was later appointed Musical Director of the London County Council, where he organized many amazing concerts in parks, in and around the London district. He was made Professor of Brass and Military Band Scoring and conducted at the Guildhall of Music and Drama. Frank was often invited to adjudicate Brass Band Championships around Europe, in Australia, including South Street and in New Zealand. The Frank Wright Medal at the Royal South Street competition is awarded to an individual recognized as making an outstanding contribution to brass music in Australia.Single page of think paper with black printing, containing the information about the concert held in 1953. It includes the name of the conductor - Frank Wright and the names of the representative bands along with the programme of music.frank wright, conductor, programme, brass band, victoria embankment gardens band stand

Laminated colour photographic image of Blue Macaw parrot laminatedsignature lower right 'David Higgins '85'bird photography, encapsulated photograph, colour photograph, david higgins, gorilla, mzuri, fauna, animal

This book was owned by Julia Flegeltaub who attended Ballarat's Grenville College.Green, cloth covered book.peter pan, arthur rackham, julia flegeltaub

Colour photographNote under photograph- February 1991- Improvement begins to show.

Colour photographNote under photograph- The dwarf Michaelmas Daisy border planting attracted the bees so close to the green that it had to be replaced with variegated dwarf geranium to avoid concern to players.

xiv, 177 p. : ill., plans :Includes index. Bibliography: p. 147-168.non-fictionhistoric buildings, historic gardens, historic sites

Ballarat HistoryOld gloss printballarat, ballaraat, east town hall, gates

Inscribed on original mountcard, l.l., gold letterpress, "N.J. CAIRE".bendigo, sandhurst, botanical gardens, house, photograph, work on paper

Gift of Mack Jost, 1988watercolour on paper

Purchased through the Horsham Art Gallery Trust Fund with the assistance of the Caltex-Victorian Government Art Fund, 1979

black and white postcard

c1915, site of the old bathing ship black and white photograph, unmountedMelbourne Suburbs St Kilda View of West Beach, improvement site of the Old Ship, St Kilda By the Sea Annual, p.63, season 1915-16, National Library of Australia

colour photograph, unmounted, original, good condition

HardcoverIndigenous colonial history, cattle station life, white-aboriginal relations, Australian fictiongardening, walsh st library

From the Ida Bevan Collection. The Children's Hospital purchased Redmond Barry's house on Rathdowne Street and moved to Carlton in 1876.The photographic collection at the RCH has been identified as especially significant, and comparative research suggests that it is one of the biggest and most diverse visual records of children’s health held by any hospital in Australia. Spanning more than a century, the collection traces the changes in how children have been cared for. It also reveals the daily experiences of hospital staff and patients over its long history, and the deeply personal stories of medical care that can result in sorrow or relief.Black and white photograph adhered to a card