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Photograph - Dave and Peg Johns of Menzies Creek with their children
B&W photo of Dave and Peg Johns of Menzies Creek, with their children: Lynette (held by Dave), Geoff, Barry, Dorothy, and Malcolm. Mrs Johns and her daughters are in summer dresses. Mr Johns is in shirtsleeves and has a striped tie. The boys are in shirts and shorts. The group is standing near the corner of a building and there are trees in the background. Dated c.1950. -
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Photograph - The Johns family of Selby
B&W photo of the Johns family of Selby. Photo appears to date from c. 1930s. They are outside, with a hedge directly behind them. L-r, Martha Johns, a young woman sitting in a wooden chair. She is wearing a floral summer dress with a dark bow at the neckline. Martha was born in 1916. A young man, William David (Dave) Johns, stands, wearing a three-piece suit and tie. His left hand rests on the back of the chair of the next woman. This older woman, Alice, sits at a small table and has her left hand resting on an open book. She wears a dark skirt, light patterned blouse, and dark cardigan flecked with a lighter colour. She is wearing a necklace and she has round-framed glasses. Another young man, Ernest Johns, stands to her right. He is also dressed in three-piece suit and tie. He has his right hand placed on his right hip. A young woman, Florence Johns, sits in a wicker chair. She is wearing a dark outfit with a pale collar. Her hair is parted on the side and braided into two plaits. An older man, William John Johns, sits in a wooden chair. He is wearing a three-piece suit and tie. His waistcoat buttons up high on his chest, more of an old style suit than the two young men. He has grey hair and a moustache. All members of the group are smiling slightly. The photo was taken at the family farm, Hillandale, in Selby. Information provided by Lyn Kershaw, daughter of Dave Johns. -
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Photograph - Glen Park Homestead, Percy and Cissy Johns on verandah, early 1900s
B&W photo shows siblings Percy and Cissie (Minnie Agnes) Johns on the verandah of their home, Glen Park Farm, Selby. Percy looks in his early teens, making the photo around 1910 or later. He is wearing a long-sleeved pale shirt, long dark trousers tucked into knee-high boots, and possibly a dark hat. Cissie is wearing a pale, knee-length dress, dark stockings, and a pale, wide-brimmed hat. She is aged about 10. A medium sized dark dog sits at Percy's feet. The house is an L-shaped weatherboard with two gables at right-angles and a verandah with a bullnosed roof, ornate support posts, and a striped end piece from the roof. Wooden steps lead down from side. There is a large brick chimney where the two wings meet, and a metal water tank to the side. There are large trees, both in leaf and dead, plus some flowers near the verandah. -
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Photograph - Cissie Johns in jinker, c.1913
B&W photo shows Cissie Johns and another person who may be her brother Percy, sitting in a jinker. A dark horse with a white blaze is harnessed to the jinker. Cissie is seated nearest the camera. She is wearing a pale wide-brimmed hat and pale clothing. Her long fair hair is loose around her shoulders. The other person is holding the reins and is wearing a dark hat and pale shirt. This photo may have been taken at the same time as M0104. The subjects are facing south. The sun is shining. They are on a flat expanse of grass. Beyond them are several cypress trees. These are most likely part of the cypress hedges lining the driveway to Glen Park Farm farmhouse. In the background is the eastern flank of Black Hill. A small shed can be seen beside the driveway, partly obscured by the jinker's wheel. Dated c.1913. -
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Photograph - Bringing in potatoes at Glen Park Farm, Selby, c.1913
B&W photo shows a two-horse team harnessed to a small sled which is laden with bagged-up potatoes. A man wearing dark hat, waistcoat and trousers and a pale shirt is holding the reins of the horses, and two people who could be the Johns children, Percy and Cissie, are seated on the potatoes. The paddock slopes away and another hillside rises in the background. This is most likely Black Hill. dated c.1913. -
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Photograph - Two women on a motorcycle
B&W photo shows Cissy Johns and friend on a motorbike at Glen Park Farm, Selby. The photo shows two women in their 20s or 30s, sitting on a motorbike with the registration number 12169. The woman on the right who is most likely Cissie, is sitting astride the bike, holding the handlebars. She is possibly wearing a peaked cap. She has a long knitted jacket over a pale blouse, and a medium coloured skirt which is rucked up by the bike's petrol tank, showing her right leg from the knee down. She has dark stockings and what appear to be medium-heeled, laced shoes with a high shine. The woman on the left is sitting sideways on the pillion seat, with her arms loosely around the first woman's waist. She is wearing a cloche-style hat, a dark knitted v-necked cardigan or jumper, a light-coloured, mid-calf-length skirt, dark stockings and dark shoes with large buckles. Her legs are crossed at the ankles. Both women are smiling at the camera. The windscreen of a sidecar is visible. They are in a cleared paddock with a wire fence and trees in the background. n.d. -
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Photograph - Cissie and Percy Johns
B&W studio portrait of Percy and Minnie Agnes (Cissy) Johns, children of Edwin Johns of Selby. Percy is about 10 years old. He is wearing what appears to be a sailor suit comprising a dark, double-breasted jacket with a deep, pale collar which is squared off at the back, a dark waistcoat buttoned to the neck, with a pale bow and collar showing, and dark knee-length pants over dark stockings and ankle boots. The jacket is undone. Cissy looks to be about 3 or 4. She is wearing a dark, knee-length dress with a yoke, long sleeves, and a light, wide lace collar. She has dark stockings and calf-length buttoned boots. She has a bow in her hair. The children are standing in front of an ornate wicker chair with one arm resting on the arm of the chair. The name 'Melba' is written on the cardboard frame around the photo, and 'Melba [illegible but presumably '& Co.'] Melbourne' is embossed on the bottom right corner of the photo. The original photo is badly foxed. Dated c.1905. -
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Photograph - Hay being stacked at Glen Park Farm, Selby
B&W photo showing hay being stacked at Glen Park Farm, Selby. The photo shows two women and a man in a sloping paddock. On the left is a woman in a pale, knee-length dress, climbing a ladder propped up against a tall haystack. The haystack has a covering with a repeated logo on it. A man stands near the bottom of the ladder, holding a sheaf of hay on his right shoulder. He is wearing a hat, light jacket and dark trousers. A woman stands uphill of the others. She has a light blouse and slightly darker calf-length skirt. The haystack is set between trees on the downhill side. In the distance Black Hill can be seen. -
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Photograph - Percy Johns, 1930s
B&W photo of Percy Johns, an unknown woman and a farm worker during potato digging at Glen Park Farm, Selby, in the 1930s. Percy Johns stands on the left, wearing a dark hat, jacket with deep pockets, and pants. He is holding a shovel in his right hand, and his left hand is on his hip. Beside him is a young unidentified woman with dark hair, who is wearing a loose dress with a drop waist. Beside her is an unidentified farm worker, wearing a hat, dark waistcoat and pants, and pale shirt. He has a pipe in his mouth. They are standing between rows of potatoes. On the left of the photo there is a row with potatoes lying on the ground. There are at least eight full bags of potatoes in the field. Behind the trio is what appears to be the cypress avenue running down to the homestead out of range on the right of the photo. -
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Photograph - Puffing Billy line near The Tanks
B&W photo of the Puffing Billy line near The Tanks below Glen Park Farm. On the left is the house of the Dunham family, with shedding in the background. The land slopes down to the track then falls quite steeply away to a treed area. In the distance can be seen land which is now part of Cardinia Reservoir. -
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Photograph - Glen Park Farm, Selby
B&W photo showing Glen Park Farm, Selby, owned by the Johns family, as seen from the north-east corner. Photo shows the descent to the valley then up Black Hill in the background. Mostly cleared paddock apart from the cypress avenue to the farmhouse (which is glimpsed between the trees) a few single trees dotted about, and the heavily treed area on the top of Black Hill. There is a small building or shed or possibly a haystack in the centre of the photo. -
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Photograph - Glen Park Farm, Selby
B&W photo shows two horses harnessed to a harvester or grass cutter. A worker dressed in pale shirt and hat stands to their left, behind chest-high grass. They are in a large paddock with trees dotted around. -
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Photograph - Glen Park Farm, Selby
B&W photo of Glen Park Farm taken from the eastern slope of Black Hill. -
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Photograph - Percy and Cissie Johns at Glen Park Farm
B&W photo of Percy and Cissie Johns at Glen Park Farm. Percy is astride a motorbike, reg # 12169, wearing a light coloured jacket over a shirt and tie, and wearing a peaked cap (similar to a uniform cap). Cissie is seated in the sidecar. She is wearing a light blouse and she is smiling. The sidecar has a folded-down roof and a windscreen. There are sheds and trees behind them. -
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Photograph - Views of Menzies Creek during Covid lockdown 2020
Five photographs of Menzies Creek and other villages during the August 2020 Covid Lockdown, taken by Kate Leigh. 027/37 is a photograph of a drinking tap in a park, with a sign saying “Drinking taps closed until further notice”. 027/38 is a cafe sign instructing customers “Please order inside only 3 customers @ a time inside. Wait outside for your order. Thx for your patience.” 027/039 is a shop with a corrugated iron roof, closed off with tape. 027/40 and 027/41 both feature close-ups of railway tracks, with the latter showing weeds sprouting from rails. -
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Photograph - Photos of house and land at 12c Black Hill Rd, Menzies Creek
Photographs of the house and land at 12c Black Hill Rd, Menzies Creek, taken by Chris Girvan in 2011. Features the run-down, abandoned interior and exterior of the house (missing glass pane windows), and shed. -
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Photograph - 12A Black Hill Rd, Menzies Creek, 2010
Colour photo showing exterior of the house at 12c Black Hill Rd, Menzies Creek, taken by Chris Girvan, February 2010' -
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Photograph - Sunset from Menzies Creek
Colour photo. Sun sets over hills of Menzies Creek. Two bare trees on the hill on the right hand side. Taken by Bruce Watson. -
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Photograph - Students at Menzies Creek State School 1932
School photo of students, including (from top): Mr. Ivan McAlpine, Ted Breen, David Walker, Barnot Shaw, Ernie Johns, Cliff Hermon; (Middle) Aileen Dunham, Dorothy Walker, Dulcie Worrell, Estaire Shaw, Cynthia Walker, Florrie Johns, Grace Hartrick, Merle Shaw; (Front) Frank O'Connor, Jim O'Connor, Mark Brenehy, Allen Beauchamp, Norman Dunham, Brian Brenehy. The School is in the background. -
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Photograph - Currie family in front of Puffing Billy
Members of Currie Family stand in front of Puffing Billy. A middle aged man stands on left. He is wearing a light-coloured three-piece suit and no hat. Next is a woman in a dark coat and wide-brimmed hat. Beside her is a taller woman in a coat with three large buttons at the waist and it is closed all the way to her neck. She is wearing a mid-dark hat. On the right of the group is an older woman in a coat over a light-coloured dress. Her hat has a decoration at the front. She is wearing glasses and T-bar shoes. In front of her adults are two boys, both in shorts. The taller boy is wearing a double-breasted jacket and has a shoulderbag strap across his. The shorter boy is wearing a jumper. People are leaning out of the train and also dangling their legs out. -
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Photograph - Main Street, Belgrave
Township of Belgrave from Rose Series P. 2952. Photograph taken from the low side looking towards Mount Dickie and the Terrys Avenue intersection. A group is walking past the tea rooms, as a man stands near the top of the stairs to the road. A young boy stands at the bottom. People are walking along the road. A horse and cart and a car can be seen. -
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Photograph, Train Crossing The Horseshoe Bridge
Puffing Billy seen crossing the wooden trestle bridge. The down train is heading towards Gembrook as it billows smoke from its chimney. Trees surround the area. -
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Photograph - Puffing Billy leaving Upper Ferntree Gully
Puffing Billy rounding a corner surrounded by grass and trees. Possibly near the bridge at Upper Ferntree Gully. -
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Photograph - VSSHP0194.05
Puffing Billy riding towards Ferntree Gully. The train is entering a cutting. -
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Photograph - Cathy and Finlay Currie
Cathy and Finlay Currie (Allan's parents). Mrs Currie is wearing a dark dress with a deep V-shaped patterned insert which extends from neckline to waist and appears to have looped edging. Her dark, wide-brimmed hat is trimmed with flowers. She holds a dark clutch bag and has dark shoes. There is an elaborate corsage pinned to her dress. Mr Currie is in a 3-piece suit of medium light shade, and a tall hat. Another woman can be seen behind them. They are outside a church and are probably at a wedding. -
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Photograph - Finlay Currie and dog at tent
Finlay Currie and dog at tent. Finlay appears to be in his 20s. He is wearing a three piece suit with high collared shirt. The tent has wooden logs for support and short planks at ground height. There appears to be a bed inside. The tent sides appears to be partially netting. A tiled roof house is in the background. The sleeping tent may have been erected for its health-giving benefits. -
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Photograph - Cow, horse and rider near creek
Horse, rider and cow at a creek (possibly Monbulk Creek). Spindly trees edge the track. The animals are drinking from the creek. -
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Photograph - Finlay Currie and dog at Belgrave House
Finlay Currie is seated on a wooden garden bench set beside a rock-edged path up to Belgrave House. He is wearing a hat, an open-necked shirt, waistcoat and trousers, and has his legs crossed. Another man stands further up the path, posed with his right foot on the rock edging. The dog sits at his feet. -
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Photograph - Belgrave House
Belgrave House. Several people can be seen sitting or standing on the L-shaped front verandah. House overlooks a hill. Trees are in the background. -
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Photograph - Belgrave House
Belgrave House as seen from the opposite hillside. Trees surround the hill the house is on.