Beret knitted during WW2 from darning wool. Darning wool was the only wool not rationed during the 1940's in Britain. Wool was sold only cut into lengths so was often used for fair-isle knitting.Knitted Fairisle beret. Knitted during WW2. Made with assorted colours of darning wool.costume, female headwear

Murray Comrie Collection. This photograph is a low-contrast image created from an older original. Copy probably made by Murray Comrie in the 1970s.Monochrome photograph depicting four sisters from the Bool family of Tarnagulla, dressed up for the 1904 'Poster Fair', wearing labels relating to local stores and household products. In May 1904, a ‘poster fair’ was enjoyed by attendees at the the Victoria Hotel and Theatre, Tarnagulla. It included a range of stalls where ‘about 30 young ladies, who had charge of the various stalls, wore costumes with advertisements of local and metropolitan business firms’ to raise funds for the new Church of England parsonage. From the left, Ruth Bool is representing the Exchange Store, Florrie Bool is supporting the Criterion Store, Vera Bool prefers Hudson's Soap, and Alice Bool is advocating Velveteen Soap.' tarnagulla, bool, thomson & comrie's exchange store, businesses, celebrations, entertainment

Letterhead Bendigo Easter Fair Society, 27 Queen Street, Bendigo, 3550. Secretary H.A. Sutton, PO box 202, Bendigo. An updated Souvenir Programme has been updated and 3000 copies are now available. It describes how a French Carnival inspired the Popular Girl Competition.bendigo, bendigo easter fair, news release

Raffle ticket, Bendigo Easter Fair Charity Carnival 1947, Hargreaves St. Popular Girl Section, Monster £100 raffle. Tickets 1/- each. Dark grey card, black print. N. Young Secretary, T. Goodisson President, E. Hains, Secretary, A. Wearne, Treasurer.bendigo, bendigo easter fair, raffle ticket popular girl 1947

Small brochure titled ''Bendigo ….the Golden Heart of Victoria''. On the cover arial view of Bendigo. Inside short chapters on: the discovery of gold, sporting facilities, accomodation, art, Easter fair, Bendigo. Please note; 2 photos attached to the bottom of each page have note been scanned.bendigo, tourism, brochure

The Bendigo Easter Fair Society to aid Bendigo Base Hospital and Asylum. Ticket no. 34321. Prize Chevrolet standard 6 cylinder sedan valued at 360 pounds. Motor car raffle, 1938, gift of W. Corrie Esq. and the associated business men. Tickets 1/ proceeds for charity.event, easter fair, bendigo easter fair

2 Bendigo Easter Fair medals 1907, 1 gold coloured, 1 stg silver, letters BEF on central shield flanked by date 1907 & Bendigo on top, silver one suspended on a pinned bar with words In Charitys Cause & marked on back Stg Silver Stokes & Sons.Stokes & Sonsevent, easter fair, bendigo easter fair

Novel. Colonial Edition.Green cloth-covered hardback book. Title & author printed in gilt on front cover & spine. Decorative embossed design on rear cover. Cover worn at corners with some staining on front. Binding loose, front cover has detached from body. 270 pp. Fair condition.'1214' underlined on flyleaf.adult fiction, kilmore mechanics institute library.

Paper cover, stained, foxing, insect damage to extremities. Cloth strip to spine, tearing at top and bottom. 152 pp. Binding generally intact, pp 51-54 detached. Sewn binding shows metallic/rust staining. Pages generally clean & unmarked throughout. Fair condition.non-fictionSystematic Census of Australian Plants with Chronologic, Literary and Geographic Annotations.botany, australia

Located on the corner of Grenville and Bridge Streets, the building has a veranda with sunblind awnings and ornamental trim. A banner on the front says 'Great Anniversary Bargain Fair'. Flags, presumably, of World War 1 allies fly from the roof.building, commerical, cowdell tonner & ellis, grenville street, bridge street

On 20 March 1999, during the Vision Australia Foundation's Annual Easter Fair at Kooyong, Victoria, Australia, 150,000 solid chocolate eggs were hidden and found by 3000 hunters. This was entered as a world record in the Guinness Book of Records.1 scanned page mounted on white cardboardvision australia foundation, fundraising

Typed notes titled 'Bendigo and its Historical Associations. Mentioned are the buildings that were erected between the 1870's and the turn of the century, the buildings and churches, the meeting of diggers and the formation of the Red Ribbon League,the early gold miners, the purchase of the Central Deborah Mine, the Bendigo Easter Fair , the Chinese, and Eaglehawk.document, bendigo and its historical associations, lake eppalock, the beehive, beehive chambers, post office, law courts, shamrock hotel, town hall, home and hospital for the aged, bendigo base hospital, hospital hill, forest street wesley, congregational, st johns presbyterian, all saints pro-cathedral, red ribbon league, sacred heart cathedral, a n z bank, atkinson's building, holland bros, a h q survey regiment headquarters, george lansell, fortuna, pioneer, j b lazarus, theodore ballerstedt, victoria quartz mine, wm rae, witscheibes 'jewellers shop', gold mines hotel, david sterry, the bendigo and district tourist association, city council, central deborah gold mine, victoria hill, sun loong, loong, bendigo easter fair, chinese joss house, white hills cemetery, st killian's church, log lock-up, whipstick forest, a richardson, bendigo branch royal historical society of victoria

2 Bendigo Easter Fair medals 1908, oval shaped with white enamel outer ring worded In Charitys Cause, blue enamelled centre with letters BEF above a coat of arms (undecipherable) topped with gold wings and a red Maltese cross, at base a Navy blue banner reading 1908.Stokes & Sons Melbevent, easter fair, bendigo easter fair

An illustrated Journal combining practical information, instruction and amusement. Donated to Whitburgh Cottage museum by unknown person.Green cloth-bound hardcover book, decorative gilt motif surrounding title on front cover. Covers faded with loss of colour, fabric torn on both sides of spine. Cover separating from body. Pages gilt edged. Patterns included. 380 pp. Illustrated. Fair - poor condition.Nil.british ladies journal, whitburgh cottage collection

Board cover with pasted on colour picture, green cloth spine. Wear to extemities, red colour scribbling to front cover. Front hinge partially detached. Discolouration & minor of pages throughout. Eight pages of coloured pictures & twenty other B&W illustrations. 148pp. Fair-good condition.fictionBedtime picture books for children between six and twelve; articles, verses, bible stories.children, religion

One Power point presentation (dated 27/11/2007) to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Briar Hill Primary School in 2007. Contents: a selection of unnamed class photographs from 1927 - 2006. Activities include Spring Fair 2007.A production of the Briar Hill Primary School to celebrate 80 years.1 compact disc in plastic case.briar hill primary school

Single issue of the English trade journal "Textile Recorder", No. 563, Vol. XLV11, 15 February 1930. This issue is a special issue from the Lancashire Cotton Fair and was sent gratis and unsolicited to the Collins Bros Mill with the purpase of obtaining a subscription."Textile Recorder" 15 Feb. 1930. Letter from John Brooks, editor of 'Textile Recorder' Subscription form for the "Textile Recorder" Order form for "Calvert's Mechanics' Almanack", 1930, page 1 Order form for "Calvert's Mechanics' Almanack" 1930, page 2 Order form for the 1930 edition of "The Silk and Rayon Directory & Buyers' Guide", page 1 Order form for the 1930 edition of "The Silk and Rayon Directory & Buyers' Guide", page 2textile machinery, textile industry, cotton, textile recorder

Quality Arts and Crafts Expo part of the celebrations at St. Paul's Church, Ringwood on the 125th. Anniversary of the Church. Other events were International Food Fair, April, Celebratory Dinner Dance August, Flower Show October, and Archbishops Visit October.Black and white A4 bifold pamphlet with black printing and B&W sketch of Church on lower front. Plan of stalls on p3. Printing on all pages +Additional Keywords: Carter, Richard

A barometer is an instrument used for measuring atmosphere pressure thus determining weather changes.The first apparatus generally accepted as a barometer was that set up in Florence in 1644 by Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), a mathematician and physicist. Torricelli filled a glass tube with mercury, sealed it at one end, and inverted it with its open end in a dish of mercury. The level always fell a short way down the tube, then settled at a height of about thirty inches. He concluded correctly that the mercury column was sustained by the weight of the air pressing on the open surface of mercury, and further experiments convinced him that the space above the mercury in the tube was a vacuum. He noted that the level rose and fell with changing temperature, but he was unable to use his apparatus to measure variations in the weight of the atmosphere because he had not foreseen that temperature would affect the level of the mercury. News of this experiment circulated quickly among European scientists, who hastened to replicate the experiment. Torricelli's conclusions were not universally accepted because some disputed whether the air had weight, while both Aristotle and the Catholic Church denied the possibility of a vacuum. In France, the philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) seems to have been the first person, probably in 1647, to attach a graduated scale to the tube so that he could record any changes attributable to the weather. At around this time Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany organized the first short-lived meteorological network among scientists in other Italian cities, gathering observations of pressure, temperature, humidity, wind direction, and state of the sky.Theis barometer is an example of a household item from the early 20th century, used to determine the day's weather. The barometer is significant as an aid to human social, material and scientific development.Barometer, round, brass housing inset into carved wooden casing (lacquer mostly worn off). Decorative lettering for weather conditions "Stormy, Rain, Change, Fair, Very Dry". Workings are visible through opening in centre of dial. Indicator needle and another adjustable needle . Hook screwed into back of case.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, barometer, scientific instrument, weather forcasting instrument, weather gauge

Six badges: Women's Club 3BO,Central Deborah Gold Mine Bendigo, B.U.F.S, Dispensary Mcrae Street Bendigo,Bendigo Band CarnivalRailway Picmic September 12 1918, Bendigo Easter Fair 1930 April 19-22 1930 - For Charity Saturday Carnival 3967, War Fund Organisation.ephemera, mementoes, badges

Handwritten paper ''Chinese in Bendigo'' by A Chittock (no date or other details). Covers aspects such as fire in the Chinese Camp; disappearance of Constable Ryan; author's memories of kiln/ Bridge St/ nurseries; attitudes to Chinese; 1854 threat in Bendigo to the Chinese (Panton/McLachlan/Denovan);Chinese activities in community (Easter Fair); Bibliography.A. Chittockbendigo, mining, early chinese history, emu point, chinese joss house, white hills cemetry, bendigo chinese association.

Bendigo Advertiser "The way we were" from Tuesday, April 6, 2004. Twinkles: Bendigo Football League secretary Ivan O'Donnell was a busy man looking after his two young daughters, Heather and Margaret, on the merry-go-round in Rosalind Park during Bendigo's Easter Fair, 1957.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

Collection of stories for children by John Ruskin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mrs. Craik, and others. Donated from Monica Smith's (nee Turner) childhood collection. Descendant of early Kilmore Business families the Morrisseys and Hartnells.Blue cloth-bound hardcover with colour plated pasted to front. Gilt border front cover. Very faded spine, some fading & staining back & front. Insect damage front & back flyleaves and half title page. Front hinge broken, binding loose. 159 pp. Fair condition.Inside front cover, 'Monica Turner', pencil, cursive part worn away, Front flyleaf, 'Monica Turner/from C. Whelan/August 7th 1909'children's literature, turner collection

Letter from Wm Potter to Mr Bowen, Secr Court King of the Forest dated 21Mch 1873. The writer has been instructed by the Easter Fair Committee that they have arranged to meet the Delegates from the different Societies at the Beehive Exchange.to arrange the time and place for the moving of the Procession on Easter Monday, and other business.societies, aof, correspondence, ancient order of foresters no. 3770 collection - correspondence, easter fair, mr bowen, court king of the forest, beehive exchange, wm potter

A special gala performance of My Fair Lady was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre on 25th August 1966. It was attended by the Governor of Victoria, Major General Sir Rohan Delacombe and his wife, Lady Delacombe. Proceeds from the evening were in aid of Melbourne Legacy.A record that Legacy used gala performances for fundraising events. It was attended by the Governor who was patron of Legacy.Printed programme of a gala performance in aid of Legacy. The cream card cover has the Legacy emblem and printing in green, plus a decorative green ribbon in the side. The cover wraps around a printed programme with black and white photos and advertising inside. 32 pages.fundraising, governor of victoria, gala performance

Diamond Creek Bini Shell Community venue Built in 1979 in Diamond Creek opposite the hotel using a construction method invented by Dante Bini. A net of flexible steel rods were laid on the building’s circular base, on the top of a fabric bladder. Concrete was poured onto the mesh and a sealed cover laid over the concrete making a sandwich of cover, bladder and mesh. Compressed air was pumped into the bladder and the sandwich slowly began to rise and become a massive self-supporting dome. The inflation of the dome attracted crowds of onlookers many from various technical schools, VIPs and the famous football doctor, Donald Cordner. An opening night dinner was held to celebrate the construction and the Diamond Creek Bini Shell was used as a community venue for over ten years including for the Town Fair. The Shell was closed for safety reasons after a Bini Shell in another State had chunks of concrete fall off the dome due to a construction fault. At the Diamond Creek Town Fair in 1991 the demolition of the Bini Shell was an item on the Town Fair’s program. Information: Kevin Patterson, Nillumbik Historical Societybini shell, diamond creek community centre, nu-color-vue, postcard