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Hume City Civic Collection
Photograph, 1/08/1978
On 4th of August 1978 work began on the construction of the Goonawarra Estate on land that was the former Goonawarra Farm which overlooked the town of Sunbury abnd the Jacksons Creek valley. Plans for the new development included a golf course, houses, community and recreational facilities.The golf course openrd in 1980 and housing construction continued throughout the last two decades of the twentieth century and into the twentieth first century.A coloured photograph of the first sod being turned at the Goonawarra Estate. Four large pieces of earth-moving machinery and a large semi-trailer are in picture. A man is standing in the foreground.goona warra golf club, goonawarra farm, goonawarra housing estate, housing developments, sharkey, robert b., killkenny homes, australian ideas homes pty.ltd., craftsmen homes., glamor homes, villa bella homes, george evans collection -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, The Sloanes & Scotchmans United Quartz Mining Co., c1900
... coming from engine house. Foreground bare earth.... shed. Large cloud of smoke coming from engine house ...Mining Scene Sloane's & Scotchmans United Quartz Mining Co c1900. Ore hopper can be seen at left of poppet head. Sloane's & Scotchmans United Quartz Mining Co was the last mine company to close down in Stawell. View of poppet head and engine shed. Large cloud of smoke coming from engine house. Foreground bare earth.mining, panorama -
Ballarat and District Irish Association
Image, Round Tower at Monasterboice, c1864
The historic ruins of Monasterboice are of an early Christian settlement north of Drogheda in County Louth, Ireland. It was founded in the late 5th century by Saint Buithe who died around 521, and was an important centre of religion and learning until the founding of nearby Mellifont Abbey in 1142. The site houses two churches built in the 14th century or later and an earlier round tower, but it is most famous for its 10th century high crosses. The round tower is about 35-metres tall, and is in very good condition, although it is not possible to go inside. The passage of time has laid down layers of earth so now the doorway is almost at ground level. The monastery was burned in 1097. The 5.5-metre Muiredach's High Cross is regarded as the finest high cross in the whole of Ireland. It is named after an abbot, Muiredach mac Domhnaill, who died in 923 and features biblical carvings of both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. The North and West crosses are also fine examples of this kind of structure, but these have suffered much more from the effects of the weather. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasterboice)Image of a round tower in a graveyard. It is the Round Tower at Monasterboiceballarat irish, monsasterboice -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - IAN DYETT COLLECTION: AUCTION CATALOGUE - THE CITY OF GREATER BENDIGO
Bright yellow auction catalogue with black printing for a sale on 18th June, 1996 for the City of Greater Bendigo, AH Plant, Surveyor General & Others at Strathfieldsaye Depot, Strathfieldsaye. For sale were Earth moving equipment, tractors, 3 P/L equipment, caravans, various mowers, chippers,shredders, brush cutters, trailers, scrap, tools, Surveyors equipment, office furniture & computer equipment, drums of bitumen and R/C concrete drains. J. H. Curnow & Son P/L were the auctioneers. Map of how to get to auction site inside front cover. Loose pink Supplementary List, account Coliban Water listing backhoe/F.E. loaders, tractor, tipper crane and 4WD wagon listed.business, auctioneers, j h curnow & son pty ltd, ian dyett collection - auction catalogue - the city of greater bendigo, ah plant, surveyor general & others, darryl young, ian dyett, j h curnow & son p/l, coliban water, noel dyett, fred dyett -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - IAN DYETT COLLECTION: AUCTION CATALOGUE - DEPARTMENT OF SUPPLY
Pale green auction catalogue for a sale on the 29th June 1954 by the Department of Supply. Lots included vehicles, earth moving equipment, pumps, tractors, vehicle parts, furniture and office equipment. J. H. Curnow & Son Pty. Ltd. Were the auctioneers.business, auctioneers, j h curnow & son pty ltd, ian dyett collection - auction catalogue - department of supply, general motors-holden, j h curnow & son pty ltd, hedges & bell pty ltd -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - IAN DYETT COLLECTION: AUCTION CATALOGUE - WHITE SWAN RESERVOIR
Three auction catalogues, two with red covers and the third is missing the cover. Sale of Earth Moving Machinery. Spare Parts, Machine Tools, Motor Trucks, Engineering Plant, Concrete Mixing and Batching Plant, Air Compressor Plants, Buildings, Stores and Costly Equipment on 31st March to 5th April 1952 (inclusive) at the White Swan Reservoir, Ballarat, Victoria. J. H. Curnow & Son Pty. Ltd. Were the auctioneers. Included in the catalogue is a Locality Plan showing location of lot areas - access roads, etc. Page 4 has a black and white photo showing Super c Tournapull, Lot 63 and Tractor hauling 12-15 cub. Yd. capacity scoop. Page 9 photo is Lot 209, a Sheep's Foot Roller, Page 12 photo is Lots 258, 259 & 260 - Class 1 tractor hauling two 12-15 c yd Te Tourneau Scrapers, and page 68 has a black & white photo of Lot 2377, the Concrete Batching Plant.business, auctioneers, j h curnow & son pty ltd, ian dyett collection - auction catalogue - white swan reservoir, the ballarat water commissioners, j h curnow & son pty ltd, prahran telegraph printing co -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - IAN DYETT COLLECTION: AUCTION CATALOGUE - AMPHITHEATRE DREDGE
Auction catalogue with a cream cover and dark red printing for an auction held at the Amphitheatre Dredge, Amphitheatre on 5th and 6th February, 1958 of electrically Operated Steel Bucket Dredge. Lots include Houses and Buildings for Removal, Motor Vehicles, Tractors, Earth Moving Plant, Electric Motors, Pumps, Winches, Valuable Tools, Stores, Piping and Accessories by order of the Central Victoria Dredging Co. N. L. Contains descriptions of sale items and a number of prices have been written in. J. H. Curnow & Son were the Auctioneers.business, auctioneers, j h curnow & son pty ltd, ian dyett collection - auction catalogue - amphitheatre dredge, central victoria dredginh co n l, j h curnow & son pty ltd, prahran telegraph printing co pty ltd -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850s
Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: A shaft was commenced on each of these claims, but no attempt was made to sink to any depth. The party owning the claim would work elsewhere; but each, day, one of them - the ''shepherd'' - would shovel out one or two spadefuls of earth in order to preserve the party's right to the claim. This might go on for weeks, until a sinking party revealed the trend of the lead. When this was known . . . Markings: 53 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Earth Scraper, 21/03/2024
Earth Scraper with wooden handle and metal scraper on one end and bolt through the handle to hold metal scraper on.wood, metal -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - ST. JUST'S POINT, 1990
72 page soft cover booklet - St. Just's Point, Down to Earth Cornish Humour. Comic strip cartoons of Cornish characters By Ian Glanville and signed by the author Published 1990 and printed at Sloans Printery , BendigoIan Glanville -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MERLE HALL COLLECTION: ROSALIND PARK CREATIVE VILLAGE BENDIGO PLAN OF MOSAIC AND TYPICAL REEF CONTOURS, 1990s
MERLE HALL COLLECTION: ROSALIND PARK CREATIVE VILLAGE BENDIGO Plan of Mosaic and Typical Reef Contours 3858.14.pdf contains five pages First Page: Describes the plan the mosaic is a stylised representation of the cenral area of the main Bendigo Goldfield. A typical croos section ogf the Bendigo Goldfield. The mosaic are based on actual mine layouts. The artist has used gold as her inspiration. Second Page: A plan of the mosaic using the atomic structure of gold. Third Page: A plan of the quartz vains winding through the earth, containing gold in its various forms. Fourth Page: A typical reef layout in the Bendigo Goldfields and cross sections. Fifth page: On of the Mosiaic depicking a bird -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - RESEARCH PAPERS: THOMAS WILKINSON PINNIGER, 1828
Thomas Pinniger (1828-1927) was born in England and emigrated to New Zealand before coming to Australia in 1852. With a team of 4 he conducted the first geodetic* survey of Victoria. He became the Government Surveyor for Bendigo in 1853 and in 1854 he laid out the plans for the town of Broadford. His son George, became the Victorian Surveyor General 1925-6. * Large scale mapping based on global measurements of large land masses. It allows corrections for the curvature of the earth.Document detailing the history of district serveyor Thomas Wilkinson Pinniger and his family history. -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Ceiling fresco, Ballroom, ‘Southesk’, Cotham Road, Stewart West, 1970
Colour enlargement of a photograph (slide) of Southesk (formerly Ordsall) in Cotham Road, Kew (demolished 1970).The ceilings of and architraves of Ordsall were painted by artists employed by the decorating company, Cullis Hill & Co. The frescos, of which fragments survive, were some of the most important murals used as elements of interior decoration in Melbourne during the Boom Period of the 1880s. These photographs were taken immediately prior to the demolition of the house, and are the best examples of the murals.The most significant decorative aspects of Southesk (formerly ‘Ordsall’) were the murals in the front two rooms. An article in the Melbourne Argus in 1882 records that Mr Vandenbrandt and Signor Rizzi created these under the supervision of Cullis Hill. This fresco from the ceiling of the ballroom is believed to depict one of the ‘boldly drawn four great geographical divisions of the Earth’. The crowned woman, believed to represent Europe, stands aloft in a chariot drawn by cherubs holding garlands of flowers.david carnegie, john halfey, southesk - cotham road - kew (vic), ordsall - cotham road - kew (vic) -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Journal, Kewriosity : October 1984
[Kew] Recreation Centre update [The Committee; Resident Attitude Survey] / p1. [Anglican] Archbishop's first visit to East Kew [St Paul's Church] / p1. Community [Asian Evangelical Fellowship; Hyde Park Fellowship; Kew Baptist Church; Kew Native Plant Group; Kew Garden Club; Kew (Daytime) Garden Club; Fashion Parade; The Rheumatism and Arthritis Foundation of Victoria; Retiring?; Anyone for tennis?; Games evening] / p2. Council - Mayoral Column / Cr Robin Saunders / p3. New Depot / p3. Library News / p3. Calling on people with disabilities in Kew / p3. Dieback in Kew's Plane Trees / p3. Kew's new Councillors - Roger Streeton; Chester Keon-Cohen] / p4. Kew Junction Shopping Centre - Liftout Guide / p5-6, 11-12. Youth Pages - Welcome / p7. Earth Club Camps / Phil Smith p7. Training the oldies / Elizabeth Trapani p7. Holiday fun around Kew / p8&9. Things to do in Kew / p10. A bit further afield / p10. Community - Artisst take dance , drama & art to the streets / p13. Asthma Foundation / p13. Council - More thoughts about the Community House / p14. 1985 Kew Festival / p14. Development Plan for Lower Yarra / p15. Jackie Kookaburra goes to Sea / p15. Migrant woman candidate for Kew [Anna-Maria Dierer, ALP] / p15. Council/Community - Traffic Management; New Residents' Kit; Family Fun Day [East Kew Uniting Church]; Older Person's Action Centre; Kew Citizens' Band - Engagement list / p16.Kewriosity was a local newsletter combining Kew Council and community news. It was published between November 1983 and June 1994, replacing an earlier Kewriosity [broad] Sheet (1979-84). In producing Kewriosity, Council aimed to provide a range of interesting and informative articles covering its deliberations and decision making, together with items of general interest and importance to the Kew community and information not generally available through daily media outlets.non-fiction[Kew] Recreation Centre update [The Committee; Resident Attitude Survey] / p1. [Anglican] Archbishop's first visit to East Kew [St Paul's Church] / p1. Community [Asian Evangelical Fellowship; Hyde Park Fellowship; Kew Baptist Church; Kew Native Plant Group; Kew Garden Club; Kew (Daytime) Garden Club; Fashion Parade; The Rheumatism and Arthritis Foundation of Victoria; Retiring?; Anyone for tennis?; Games evening] / p2. Council - Mayoral Column / Cr Robin Saunders / p3. New Depot / p3. Library News / p3. Calling on people with disabilities in Kew / p3. Dieback in Kew's Plane Trees / p3. Kew's new Councillors - Roger Streeton; Chester Keon-Cohen] / p4. Kew Junction Shopping Centre - Liftout Guide / p5-6, 11-12. Youth Pages - Welcome / p7. Earth Club Camps / Phil Smith p7. Training the oldies / Elizabeth Trapani p7. Holiday fun around Kew / p8&9. Things to do in Kew / p10. A bit further afield / p10. Community - Artisst take dance , drama & art to the streets / p13. Asthma Foundation / p13. Council - More thoughts about the Community House / p14. 1985 Kew Festival / p14. Development Plan for Lower Yarra / p15. Jackie Kookaburra goes to Sea / p15. Migrant woman candidate for Kew [Anna-Maria Dierer, ALP] / p15. Council/Community - Traffic Management; New Residents' Kit; Family Fun Day [East Kew Uniting Church]; Older Person's Action Centre; Kew Citizens' Band - Engagement list / p16. publications -- city of kew (vic.), kewriosity, council newsletters, community newsletters -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Journal, Kewriosity : September 1984
Mayoral Column / Cr Robin Saunders p1. Local Area Traffic Management / p1. Community News / p2. Kew's new mayor [Cr Robin Saunders] / p3. Retiring Councillors [Cr Martin Solomons; Cr Joe Leaman] / p3. 1985 Kew Community Festival / p3. Library News / p3. 'Germs' - a musical [East Kew Primary School] / p4. "Kiss Me Kate" comes to Kew [Starlight Theatrical Company] / p4. Hyde Park Fellowship / p4. Dance / p4. Missionary Sisters of St Peter Claver / p4. What is the Rotary Club of Kew doing? / p4. WORCO [Worco Recyclotron Project] / p4. Youth pages - Welcome; Teen Club; St Hilary's Earth Club / p5. So you need help with housing? / p6&11. Community [Classes for older adults; Baby sitting clubs; Kew Historical Society; Children's Services; Probus Club of Kew] / p7. Municipal Depot update / p8. Council wants E6 and park / p8. Have you enrolled your child for kindergarten yet? / p9. Kew Toy Library / p10. Full Day Care Centre / p10. Things to do in Kew / p11. A bit further afield / p11. [Multilingual information about incinerator use] / p13. [Kew] Community House / p13-15. Disability access in Kew / p15. Heidelberg Tip / p16. New Residents Kit / p16. Kew Swimming Club / p16. Little Athletics / p16. Child restraints / p16.Kewriosity was a local newsletter combining Kew Council and community news. It was published between November 1983 and June 1994, replacing an earlier Kewriosity [broad] Sheet (1979-84). In producing Kewriosity, Council aimed to provide a range of interesting and informative articles covering its deliberations and decision making, together with items of general interest and importance to the Kew community and information not generally available through daily media outlets.non-fictionMayoral Column / Cr Robin Saunders p1. Local Area Traffic Management / p1. Community News / p2. Kew's new mayor [Cr Robin Saunders] / p3. Retiring Councillors [Cr Martin Solomons; Cr Joe Leaman] / p3. 1985 Kew Community Festival / p3. Library News / p3. 'Germs' - a musical [East Kew Primary School] / p4. "Kiss Me Kate" comes to Kew [Starlight Theatrical Company] / p4. Hyde Park Fellowship / p4. Dance / p4. Missionary Sisters of St Peter Claver / p4. What is the Rotary Club of Kew doing? / p4. WORCO [Worco Recyclotron Project] / p4. Youth pages - Welcome; Teen Club; St Hilary's Earth Club / p5. So you need help with housing? / p6&11. Community [Classes for older adults; Baby sitting clubs; Kew Historical Society; Children's Services; Probus Club of Kew] / p7. Municipal Depot update / p8. Council wants E6 and park / p8. Have you enrolled your child for kindergarten yet? / p9. Kew Toy Library / p10. Full Day Care Centre / p10. Things to do in Kew / p11. A bit further afield / p11. [Multilingual information about incinerator use] / p13. [Kew] Community House / p13-15. Disability access in Kew / p15. Heidelberg Tip / p16. New Residents Kit / p16. Kew Swimming Club / p16. Little Athletics / p16. Child restraints / p16. publications -- city of kew (vic.), kewriosity, council newsletters, community newsletters -
Melton City Libraries
Photograph, 'Melton South Chaff Mill employees, Unknown
Charles E “Ernie” Barrie started constructing a Chaff mill on the corner of Brooklyn and Station road in 1900. It soon became a thriving business and was ideally located close to the railway line. Ernie and his father William and other Barrie brothers had been operated travelling chaff cutters in the district of Melton and Werribee. Within a short time the mill expanded into two big sheds in partnership with his brother James E known as “Ted”. The eldest brother William was in the Manager living in Melton South. In 1906 Ernie applied for a railway crossing on Brooklyn Road to have direct access for railway trucks to be shunted to the mill to be loaded. The Mill was also had the first phone to be connected, No 1, and No’s 2, 3 were the Golden Fleece and Macs Hotels. In 1906 Ernie married Jessie Lang daughter of the Head Teacher at Melton State School No 430 (1896 –1917). The Barrie house on the north side of the mill was completed in August 1906. It survived for almost 60 years until demolition. Chaff mills were very susceptible to fires and often burnt down and would be rebuilt again ready for the peak of the harvesting season. The final demise of the Mill occurred in a spectacular blaze on the night of Friday 2nd December 1977, just before the earth tremor as reported in the local paper. Brian Dobson the local photographer lived close by and captured the night blaze. A video was also taken of the action by the fire brigade. My parents Bon and Edna Barrie were living at 19 First Avenue, and took colour slides of the smouldering ruins in the half -light. Ironically Bon had spent the first year of his life (born in April 1909 and sister Mary born October 1907) at the house beside the mill. Trethowan’s Chaff mill in Brooklyn road was also destroyed by fire, which stated in the evening on Tuesday April 28th 1987. It was established in 1910 by Dixon Brothers, followed by, Ebbot & Kebby, Robinson, Trethowan and Butler and was with the Trethowan family when it burnt down. Melton South was small a community referred to as Melton Railway Station. Member of the community raised the idea to have a public hall. In 1909 Cr Barrie, Mr Nesbitt and Delany formed a committee to build a community hall. Cr Barrie donated the land and The Exford Hall was completed in September 1910 later to be named Victoria Hall. It was demolished in 1992. Colour slide in Barrie archive. In April 1910 the Ernie sold the Mill to Glover Onians (HSK Ward) family moved away to a property in Trundle NSW. Ernie had acquired 640 acres (a square mile) and leased a further 1920 acres of adjoining land. It was the practise of the farmers in the area at the time to buy up or lease the surrounding land from the 640 acre crown land blocks to make up acerage for a viable wheat farm. His wife Jessie found the climate to be very hot and when the Darlingsford property at Melton was put up for sale in the latter part of 1910 and was passed in at the auction. My grandfather saw this an opportunity to return to Melton. The negotiations to Darlingsford were finalised on May 11th 1911. Barrie bothers with connections to Chaff mills and farming in Melton from the 1900s William Henry, Charles Ernest, James Edwin, Samuel John, Robert, Arthur Roger, Albert Walter. Three grandsons and a great-grandson are in business earthmoving and farming in Melton today. (2013) Memoirs by Wendy BarrieEmployees at Chaff Mill, it was located on the corner of Brooklyn and Station Road, Melton South. local identities, agriculture -
Melton City Libraries
Photograph, Exford, Unknown
1867 President (Road Board), Shire President. 1856 coach house – skillion dairy. First two storey house in rural Victoria 1842. Rammed earth Shearers quarters Exford Homestead on Werribee River (formerly Exe River) Home of Simon Staughton, arrived 1841 local identities, pioneer families -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Album - Hume Reservoir Australia Album - General View of Works from New South Wales end, Looking Upstream, August 1927, 1927
This set of photos is from a leather bound album bearing the inscription "HUME RESERVOIR AUSTRALIA" plus 'The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, P. C., M .P.' all inscribed in gold. It was presented to The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, P. C., M. P, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs on the occasion of his visit to the Hume Reservoir on 2nd November 1927. This album is of local and national significance as it documents the planning and development of the Hume Reservoir up to 1927. It was the largest water reservoir in the British Empire. The album records the pioneering engineering work that went into its construction.DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, N.S.W. RIVER MURRAY WATERS SCHEME. HUME RESERVOIR. 22. General View of Works from New South Wales end, Looking Upstream. Features: At the left, part of the North Wing Wall, the highest part of which is 26 feet below its ultimate height. Below in the foreground is the portion of the dam where provision is to be made for hydro-electric generation. The tubes, three in number, 13 feet in diameter, will be laid on the level shown and an early start will be made in laying them. The level for the other four regulating outlets, 9 feet in diameter, together with a part of the spillway section of the dam, is underwater at this stage and it may be remarked that at one point, about half way across the channel where the water is now flowing, the concrete foundations are about 80 feet below the level of the water. The broken surface of the water is due to the large “plums” in the concrete. The still water in the right foreground is the stilling pool over the concrete floor of which there is now more than 20 feet of water and by means of which the discharge from the outlet pipes will be quelled. The trestlework on the upstream side of the dam carries the concrete belt conveyor. It extends from the concrete mixer house, which is out of the picture, behind the wing wall, along almost the entire length of the concrete portion of the dam. The concrete is discharged from the belt at any desired point by means of trippers, one of which may be seen over the second trestle. On the other side of the flowing water is the coffer dam. A channel 300 feet wide involving about 140,000 cubic yards of excavation and dug for the temporary diversion of the river as it is flowing now. To the right top of the view beyond the Coffer Dam is the earth embankment being thrown across the major part of the valley by the Victorian Constructing Authority. The Mitta Mitta River flows into the Murray at the far end of the reach of water on the left. August 1927.hume reservoir australia, river murray waters scheme, hume reservoir construction -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Illustration/s, 1970's
Black and white illustration of PMTT No. 61 at the corner of Orrong and Balaclava Rds, c1917. Tram has route No. 4 in the window. Has a very large house entry gates in the background. Illustration has been pasted onto a piece of light cardboard with a caption written on the lower edge.Along the bottom edge in ink "P&MTT No. 61 (latter H class M&MTB) at the corner of Kooyong and Balaclava Rds in 1917. Property in 2011 shown as Melbourne Grammar School in Google Earth.trams, tramways, balaclava rd, pmtt, orrong rd, tram 61 -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz
The 'sketches' in this volume are more the substance and length of short stories illustrating the development of the tools of the Masters trade: farce, parody, irony, black humour and wonderful one liners which unerringly hit the mark. The ensuing narrative, however, brings the listener bumpily back to earth with a reminder of the mean and often tragic lives that were being endured in the busy, uncaring metropolis. The stories are in the following order and entitled; The Dancing Academy, Shabby Genteel People,The Prisoners Van, The Boarding House, Mr Minns and his Cousin, Sentiment, The Tuggses' at Ramsgate, Horatio Sparkins, The Black Veil, The Steam Excursion, The Great Winglebury Duel, Mrs Joseph Porter, A Passage in the life of Mr Watkins Tottle, The Bloomsbury Christening, The Drunkards Death.Ill, p.292.fictionThe 'sketches' in this volume are more the substance and length of short stories illustrating the development of the tools of the Masters trade: farce, parody, irony, black humour and wonderful one liners which unerringly hit the mark. The ensuing narrative, however, brings the listener bumpily back to earth with a reminder of the mean and often tragic lives that were being endured in the busy, uncaring metropolis. The stories are in the following order and entitled; The Dancing Academy, Shabby Genteel People,The Prisoners Van, The Boarding House, Mr Minns and his Cousin, Sentiment, The Tuggses' at Ramsgate, Horatio Sparkins, The Black Veil, The Steam Excursion, The Great Winglebury Duel, Mrs Joseph Porter, A Passage in the life of Mr Watkins Tottle, The Bloomsbury Christening, The Drunkards Death.english fiction, charles dickens 1812-1870 -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz
The 'sketches' in this volume are more the substance and length of short stories illustrating the development of the tools of the Masters trade: farce, parody, irony, black humour and wonderful one liners which unerringly hit the mark. The ensuing narrative, however, brings the listener bumpily back to earth with a reminder of the mean and often tragic lives that were being endured in the busy, uncaring metropolis. The stories are in the following order and entitled; The Dancing Academy, Shabby Genteel People,The Prisoners Van, The Boarding House, Mr Minns and his Cousin, Sentiment, The Tuggses' at Ramsgate, Horatio Sparkins, The Black Veil, The Steam Excursion, The Great Winglebury Duel, Mrs Joseph Porter, A Passage in the life of Mr Watkins Tottle, The Bloomsbury Christening, The Drunkards Death.Ill, p.292.fictionThe 'sketches' in this volume are more the substance and length of short stories illustrating the development of the tools of the Masters trade: farce, parody, irony, black humour and wonderful one liners which unerringly hit the mark. The ensuing narrative, however, brings the listener bumpily back to earth with a reminder of the mean and often tragic lives that were being endured in the busy, uncaring metropolis. The stories are in the following order and entitled; The Dancing Academy, Shabby Genteel People,The Prisoners Van, The Boarding House, Mr Minns and his Cousin, Sentiment, The Tuggses' at Ramsgate, Horatio Sparkins, The Black Veil, The Steam Excursion, The Great Winglebury Duel, Mrs Joseph Porter, A Passage in the life of Mr Watkins Tottle, The Bloomsbury Christening, The Drunkards Death.english fiction, charles dickens 1812-1870