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Hymettus Cottage & Garden Ballarat
Book, Exploring Ballarat's Garden Heritage
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Book, 2014
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Functional object - Fender, Fire place fender
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...Iron and steel fireplace fender for preventing (to fender off) potential embers or burning logs from falling from fire and landing on a floor. Removed from kitchen with the removal of the wood stove in the 1980s when a gas stove was introduced and placed in former bedroom now used as a study/library room.fender, fire, ballarat, ember, kitchen -
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Photograph, South Ballarat Football Committee
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...This mounted and framed photograph of the South Ballarat Football Club was presented to Patrick Taffe who had served as Secretary and Treasurer in 1933. -
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Book, Shakespeare's Stories
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...This Book was presented for fancy work to Miss Annie Wilson in 1882 with A. Bain as School Principal. It has a premium plate with presentation details on the verso of the front cover. It together with an earlier book from the same school helps trace the history of the school from its origins as Alex Bain's Camp St School in the 1870s through to its renaming as the High School Ballarat pre-dating the later Education Department's Ballarat Agricutural High School re-named Ballarat High School in the early twentieth century.Identifies personalities and principles of excellence in education in nineteenth century Ballarat. -
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Leather craftwork, circa 1925
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Photograph, The Taffe Railway family c. 1920
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...Studio portrait of Ballarat railway family in the 1920s with Michael Taffe Senior in his Head Porter uniform, and son John as Station Master beside him with Michael Jnr behind his father and Patrick rear right facing the latter two being Assistant Station Masters at that stage.On Mounting board: "Thornton" Studios Ballarat. -
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Certificate, Children of Mary Certificate
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...The Children of Mary is a Catholic organization for young people between the ages of 7 and 18. The confraternity was founded in France in the 1830s and was largely a spiritual lay confraternity for young women, this certificate of membership was issued to Irene Taffe at Loreto Convent Ballarat in 1925. irene taffe, ballarat, catholic, children of mary, ibvm, loreto convent -
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Greeting card
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...Printed on celluloid front "All Good Wishes". -
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Booklet, Knitting Topics by Patons
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...Small commercial book with advice on knitting produced by Patons & Baldwins wool co who also produced many pattern instruction books.wool, patterns, patons and baldwin, australia -
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Programme, XVIth OlympiadRowing and Canoeing Events Ballaarat Victoria - Australia
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Award - trophy, Champion Cottage Garden City of Ballaarat 1915 - 1918 trophy
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...Arguably the only nineteenth century working man's exhibition garden in its original form and with original elements extant in Australia and still maintained by the descendants of the 19th century owners. Horticultural awards from three centuries remain in situ in the cottage.Ballarat was renowned as a garden city and this title was used as a popular tourism drawcard from very early in the city's development. Public and private gardens were often open to the public and in the case of Hymettus the garden is recorded as being open to the public as early as 1917.A late Victorian silver and gilt plated trophy.Presented by Cr The Honorable F. Brawn M.L.C. Won by Mr M. Taffe. Years 1915 - 1918. 31/10/18.ballarat, horticulture, garden competition, exhibition -
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Postcard, Birthday Greetings Card
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...1920s postcard with sentimental image of lady plucking petals with birthday greeting a note from family member. -
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Work on paper - Dinner Menu, Olympic send-off dinner for Anthony Edwards 1996
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...Inscription on verso of bi-fold cover "The Taffe Family Going for Gold Atlanta '96, Thank you for your support, signature Eddy & in print Anthony Edwards.rowing, ballarat, olympic games, atlanta, taffe family, dinner menu, -
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Photograph
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...Inscribed on image "Michael & Marie Thanks for the support I will always remember you, Anthony Edwards Silver 2000 Bronze 1996.scull, rowing olympic games, ballarat, taffe. -
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Photograph, Church group, 14/06/2020
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...This group of buildings all of which served as churches at different periods is one of the best visual demonstrations of the rapid growth of Ballarat caused by the boom years of the gold rush following the initial alluvial diggings of the 1850s. The smallest church was built in 1861 followed by the next built in 1867 and finally the construction of the grand church on the corner of Neil and Macarthur streets Soldiers' Hill in the 1890s.methodist church, uniting church, soldiers hill, ballarat. -
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Iron Lace Frieze
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...This Daisy Pattern iron lace frieze was registered by the Cochrane foundry North Melbourne and exhibited at the Great Exhibition Melbourne in 1880. One of the most popular patterns used in Eastern Australia the actual foundry where this was cast is unknown but this example adorns the return verandah of Hymettus cottage in Ballarat. -
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Magazine, Australian Horticulture, 1991
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...Journal of the Australian Horticultural Industry for November - December 1991 front cover image of Michael Taffe (III) in the garden at Hymettus Ballarat. Feature article on the restoration of Hymettus Historic Garden Ballarat by Nancy Brewer.hymettus, historic garden ballarat, horticulture, magazine, hournal, nancy brewer.gardening, floral. -
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Certificate, Australian Mutual Provident Society Annual Bonus Certificate
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...The Australian Mutual Provident Society was established in 1849 and issued these reversionary certificates to members annually. -
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Bottle Opener, Ballarat Bitter Bottle Opener
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Juicer
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...Moulded green glass hand juice extractor with measuring base from the 1940s were the standard form for extracting and storing quantities of juice as opposed to the earlier more simple single lip base type of juicer.juice extractor, glass, measure -
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Book, The Garden City
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pair of beaded covers, sauce boat net crochet & beaded covers
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...These handmade beaded food covers were designed to protect sauces or gravy from flies or other pests while containers were on the table. These two examples were made by Mary Burke/Taffe in the 1930s the beads providing a decorative weight to keep the cover from allowing space for pests to enter containers.pests, beads, covers, food, sauce, gravy, mary taffe. -
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Buttons, Victorian Railway Buttons
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...These silver Victorian Railway Buttons were made in Melbourne by Stokes & Sons and were a standard form of button for police, railways and military during the Victorian era and in the case of the Victorian Railways until the 1960s.On the rim of back of buttons: - Stokes & Sons Melbournevictorian railways, buttons, stokes & sons, melbourne, railways, military, police. -
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Book, Victorian Railways Rules & Regulations 1919
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...This is one of a series of books inscribed by Assistant Station Master Michael Taffe in 1919. These books were required to be known and adhered to and were the basis of Station Master examinations for permanent appointment to the position of Station Master with the Victorian Railways. victorian railways -
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scarf, Scout Scarf
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...Scouting scarf blue with , belonging to Glen Taffe 3rd Wendouree Scouts 1980s from attending the fourteenth Australian Jamboree at Cataract Park New South Wales 1985-86.scouting movement, glen taffe, jamboree, cataract park, new south wales, 3rd wendouree scouts, ballarat. -
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Booklet, Trans-Australian Railway
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Photograph, Hymettus formal flower garden
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Certificate, St John's Ambulance Association 1st Aid Certificate
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Postcard, Nu-Color-Vue Productions Pty Ltd, Hymettus Historic Garden, 1986
... Hymettus Cottage & Garden 8 Cardigan St Lake Wendouree ...Hymettus Historic Garden and its cottage museum were opened to the public in 1985 after two years of garden restoration work. The interpretive work was undertaken by Mr and a team from Melbourne's Royal Botanical Gardens and the Taffe family. Plans were drawn up by Peter Lumley and Michael Looker of the Royal Botanical Gardens and the work of restoration undertaken by the family with financial assistance from Heritage Victoria and The City of Ballaarat. historic garden, ballarat, hymettus, postcard, royal botanical gardens melbourne, restoration, city of ballaarat.