In 2005 Michele Matthews interviewed current and former residents of Bendigo for her thesis on the 1930s Depression as part of her PhD Research, with the University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts, History Department. Michele interviewed fifteen members of prominent Bendigonian families. The thesis was titled: "How Depressing?: The impact of the Great Depression on Bendigo and District 1925-1935". The Michele Matthews Collection contains fourteen audio cassette tape recordings and one written transcript. The tapes are each approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes duration. The questions presented to the interviewees explore everyday experiences they would have lived through at the time of the Depression. The questions covered sixteen relevant subjects: • Introduction and housing • Social activities, swimming, cinemas, school and games played with friends • Organizations such as the RSL, Relief Committees etc. and any effect they had on family life • The life of the single woman • Unemployment and Employment • Government Assistance • Charities Aid • Self-help • People Power, e.g. boycotts or protests • Politics • Trouble or crime • Family Health, Medical and Diet • Education • General memories of, and hardships encountered, during the DepressionAudio tape interview with Lillian Lenore Taylor (Nee Carey). Daughter of Gordon Wilfred Carey (who was a wheat and oats farmer at Prairie then a dairy farmer at Mandurang and also a letter carver at Bendigo) and Charlotte Lillian Grylls. Lillian was born in 1922 and attended school at Prairie State School, 1928-1929, and Mandurang. She did domestic arts at Bendigo 1923-1933. Lenore married Norman Henry Taylor in 1943. The tape has been converted to a sound file. The 90 minute interview can be listened to, and the notes viewed, at the Bendigo Historical Society. By appointment only. Also included are four handwritten pages by Lenore of the depression and war years.history, bendigo, michele matthews collection, the 1930s depression tapes, lillian lenore taylor

The Music Advancement Society of Bendigo presents the First Concert 1965 Series 'Serafino Trio'. Paul McDermott Violin. Peers Coetmore Cello, Mack Jost Piano. City Hall, Bendigo on Wednesday, 31st March 1965 at 8.15 p. m. Programme One Shilling. Boltons Print, Bendigo.event, entertainment, music, serafino trio, the music advancement society of bendigo

The Music Advancement Society of Bendigo presents the Second Concert 1965 Series - 'Duo Recital', - Brian Hansford, Baritone, Dorothy O'Donahoo,Mezzo Soprano, Robin Wright, Pianiste. City Hall, Bendigo on Thursday, 3rd June 1965 at 8.15 pm. Programme One Shilling. Boltons Print, Bendigo.event, entertainment, music, duo recital, the music advancement society of bendigo

The Music Advancement Society of Bendigo 5th Concert, 1973 Series - 'The Oriana Madrigal Choir'. Conductor: Leonard Fullard, Harpsichordist: June Buckingham. Soprano: Dorothy Thyer. City Hall, Bendigo. Saturday, 17th November, at 8.15 p.m Programme 25 cents. Bolton Bros Pty Ltd, Bendigo.event, entertainment, music, the oriana madrigal shoir, the music advancement society of bendigo, leonard fullard, june buckingham, dorothy thyer, bolton bros pty ltd

The Oriana Madrigal Choir. Conductor: Leonard Fullard, Mus. Bac. 'Choral Concert' (First of 1951 Series) Assembly Hall, Melbourne. Tuesday, 3rd April, 1951, at 8.15 and Bendigo Town Hall. Saturday, 14th April, 1951 at 8. Under the Auspices of the Music Advancement Society of Bendigo. Programme Sixpence.event, entertainment, music, choral concert - the oriana madrigal choir, leonard fullard, the music advancement society of bendigo

51 Forest Street Bendigo Heritage Research Report and Certificate of Title (1993). 113 Forest Street Letter to the Bendigo Council in 1992 from the National Trust Bendigo (Apply to the Society for Details). 55 Forest Street Bendigo National Trust Survey Data File and Historical Notes on the locality (1974)history, national trust bendigo collection, bendigo, forest street

Wooden box inlaid on top and front with hard white material (unknown) printed with sprays of violets. Box has metal decoration: images of violets surrounded by metal edging, ornate corner scrolls. Written on piece of paper stuck inside box: 'The Violet Box. This box is a relic of Bendigo Survey Office where the Pinniger family lived from 1878 to 1890. The box originally belonged to a Mr. Black, who with Grandfather (T.W. Pinniger) and the others, Messrs Allen and Turton, did the first geodetic survey of Victoria. To be given to Bendigo Historical Society' Newspaper article (Bendigo Advertiser July 16, 2009, by Jim Evans) included in enclosure relates to the 'Violet Box', and other early surveyors such as Richard Larritt.bendigo, sandhurst, geodetic, survey, pinniger, black

Annals of Bendigo 1851 to 1867 (1912) Printed by Mackay & Co. Market Square, Bendigo Includes maps, b/w photographs Grey card cover. Annals of Bendigo 1851 - 1867' written in ink on front cover and on spine. Bendigo Branch Royal Historical Society of Victoria written in ink on bottom RH corner.George Mackay.bendigo, history, annals of bendigo, bendigo, history, annals of bendigo, mining, culture, industry