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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - SANDHURST POST & TELEGRAPH OFFICES
Black and White Photo/Drawing of the Sandhurst Post and Telegraph Offices - Pall Mall, the tower clock shows the time as 12:20pm, Markings read 'Sandhurst Post & Telegraph Offices'. Two horse carriages 15 people walking on the road.buildings, post office, sandhurst post and telegraph offices, sandhurst post office, sandhurst telegraph office, sandhurst post & telegraph offices, sandhurst, post office, pall mall -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Equipment - Equipment, Army, Trainer - Morsecode
Metal, plastic, pale blue paint, black and silver knobs, On/Off switch, morse keyNS No. 5805-99580-8558 Key telegraph F.I.L.71 Ser.No 2353signals, trainer -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Cable tram grip car No. 448, Daily telegrpah Sydney, 18/12/1962
Photograph of a cable tram grip car No. 448 after arrival in Sydney for Museum of Technology (Ultimo) at their Alexandria store. Keith notes that it was acquired from the ground of Monash University. The Sydney Tram Museum has since rebuilt the tramcar - see Trolley Wire.. Printed in the Daily Telegraph Sydney 18/12/1962.Yields infomation about a Sydney cable tram grip car.Photograph - Black and white and newspaper clipping. Two prints heldIn ink on the rear: "Sydney - Melbourne cable tram grip car No. 448 after arrival in Sydney for Museum of Technology (Ultimo) at their Alexandria store. Acquired from the ground of Monash University. Daily Telegraph Sydney 18/12/1962" and Australian Consolidated press Copyright photo stamp. KSK print number FS1 trams, tramways, cable trams, sydney, sydney tram museum, tram 448 -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Post and Telegraph Office 1895
Post and Telegraph Office Ross Street 1895; features four men posing out the front.tatura, buildings, historic, costume, male -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Mitcham Returned Servicemens League
In the 1960s the R.S.L. hall was used for plays, infant welfare, dancing classes for children and the like, also for use with parties and weddingsEarly black and white photograph of the Mitcham R.S.L.. Telegraph poles on left and right. Demolished in the 1980s.mitcham returned servicemens league, returned servicemens league -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1930 c
Black and white photograph of Telegraph Office at Bills Toorloo Arm House Lake Tyers Victoriaguesthouses, accommodation -
Clunes Museum
Document - TELEGRAM
TELEGRAM SENT ON 9TH AUGUST 1897PHOTOCOPY OF A TELEGRAM SENT FROM THE TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MARBLE BAR, WESTERN AUSTRALIA TO G NEILL.local history, documents, telegram, -
Clunes Museum
Magazine, MARGARE MCPERSON, THE BUSH TELEGRAPH OF CLUNES
.1 TWO COPIES OF THE BUSH TELGRAPH OF CLUNES, EDITION 1 FEBRUARY 1994 .2 THREE COPIES OF THE BUSH TELGRAH OF CLUNES , EDITION 2 15 MARCH 1994 .3 TWO COPIES OF THE BUSH TELEGRAPH OF CLUNES EDITION 3 11 APRIL 1994 .4 ONE COPY OF THE BUSH TELEGRAPH OF CLUNES EDITION 4 2 MAY 1994 .5 ONE COPY OF THE BUSH TELEGRAPH OF CLUNES EDITION 8 8 AUGUST 1994 .6 PRICE LIST FOR ADVERTISING IN THE BUSH TELEGRAPH OF CLUNES PUBLISHED BY A SMALL INDEPENDENT GROUP OF CONCERNED RATE PAYERS AND RESIDENTS OF CLUNESthe bush telegraph of clunes, jason mckenzie, margaret mcpherson -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Map, 1885
Significant collection relating to the social history across the shire.Map, Victoria. Skeleton map of Telegraph Circuits and Railways 1885. Scale 16 miles to 1 inch.map, skeleton map, telegraph, railways, 1885, 1880s -
Heathcote McIvor Historical Society
Insulator
Large Insulator made of porcelain on a cement base. Sat on Top of Telegraph Pole to carry electric wire. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - JAMES LERK COLLECTION:COLONIAL TELEGRAPH CODE
Book. Colonial Telegraph Code. Thomas & William Smith LTD.ST Lawrence Ropery, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.book, magazine, thomas & william smith -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Newspaper
Sunday Telegraph sydney dated 3rd Oct 1987 and a map of assembly area for the Welcome Home Paradenewspaper, welcome home parade -
Federation University Art Collection
Painting, [Trees] by Gwen Graham
Gwen GRAHAM Gwen Graham was a member of the Ballarat Artists Society. She was active <1963-1970>. This item is part of the Federation University Art Collection. The Art Collection features over 1000 works and was listed as a 'Ballarat Treasure' in 2007.Framed oil painting of pine trees and telegraph poles by Gwen Graham. Gift of David Alexander, 2013art, artwork, gwen graham, available, landscape -
Melton City Libraries
Newspaper, Oral History Day, 1992
Mary Tolhurst M&DHS - March 29th Dunvegan Willows Park Melton 1992 Ladies Oral History Day Graham Minns President Ray Radford MC Sound recording transfer to CD 2011 by Tom Wood Edited typescript by Wendy Barrie 2013 I was born in Rockbank, and when I was five years old moved to Toolern Vale and started and finished school there. Toolern Vale only consisted of the Store, Post Office and shop, where you could buy your fodder, and pollard supplies, the Hall, the little Church and the bluestone School. The School changed shape three times from the 1800s[1869] til the time I went there. There was four generations of my family that went there and it was destroyed by fire in 1965. Marjorie nee Myers Butler. Yes, I remember along with it your lovely Ronisch piano. Mary, quite true! Marj what you say about the Ronisch piano. When I came the age to learn music my mum and dad couldn’t really afford it, but still what parents do for their children. They had Marj go along with them and pick this lovely Ronisch piano. It was known round the district. Everyone commented about the loss that lovely piano. After leaving school it was war time, 1939, then it was work, When I was 7 year old I was put out into the cow yard. In 1940 when the soldiers were going away our milk was confiscated it had to go to Bacchus Marsh. It used to go the Sunbury to be brine cooled and then go to Melbourne. Then they took it then to the Lifeguard Milk Factory at Bacchus Marsh. It had to go as condensed milk to the soldiers. This year is 50 years of the Land Army. I was an unofficial Land Army but they still kept check on me. I went onto married life and I followed the cows right through [howls of laughter] and we went on until the 1965 fire. That’s when we got out of the cows. Marjorie asks, was Granny Watts your grandmother or great grandmother? Mary: She was my great grandmother, the midwife of Melton. The 1965 fire started ¾ of a mile above our place, Frank Ryan’s sheds were burnt and his house was saved, then it wiped the School out, the Hall, the Church the Post Office and Store and little house that was Charlie Charlton’s in the early days. Mrs Wilson’s place was saved by the Fire Brigade by pulling boards off the side, and from there it went over the hill and it was stopped at the Rockbank Railway Station. If it had of got over the railway they said it would have gone into Werribee. A lot was burnt out in that strip. Mary nee Nixon Collins: 18 houses burnt that day. Audience question, did Melton get burnt that day? Ray: No. It came down through the Toolern Vale road and cut across about a mile and a half from the cross roads at Toolern Vale from north westerly to the south east and cut through over the Keilor road. Mary: It came in across the creek at Funstons in Toolern, then through Jim Minns. Dorothy was it your place then [nee Knox Beaty] to Ken Beatty’s and from there it went through to Doug McIntosh’s and to Cockbills and the wind changed and it came across to the railway line, and that is where they stopped it. [the cause of the fire was controversial, they had been burning off the night before and there was some talk of someone starting it. It was very hot and very strong wind, it was a terrible day] Ray: When the fire went through McIntosh’s they had a haystack on the north side of their house and the haystack got caught and the fire burnt a hole through the side of the house and the boys pyjamas on the bed. The house was saved. It came through like and express train roaring at you, I was at McIntosh’s when it went roaring past. You couldn’t see, dust and ash and tremendous heat. The fire started about 12 o’clock Jack [husband] said to me, fire, I said where, where? Just up the road, what have I got to do? and he went out and he had gone to the fire and left me. I tried to get the animals and I put out buckets of water, putting the buckets of water out saved my life. Chas Jones and another friend of his came in and they picked up the buckets of water, I thought I had better get out because the fire was on the haystack up the paddock and when I went to go out through the north side of the house and couldn’t get out, I’ll go through the front gate so I went around the other side of the house. I got caught there and Chassy Jones and his friend came round carrying the bucket of water and I panicked. He threw the bucket of water over me. Well that is what saved my life because I was damp, whenever we tried to leave the ball of fire came over me and over my shoulder and my hair was scorched. Chassy Jones lost his truck and Keith Watt his big truck because he had the water tank on it and they couldn’t get out of the yard. Granny Watt’s house, the first private hospital had condemned and Jack and I pulled it down and had it moved up to Toolern and had it in the yard a fortnight and it was all burnt and we didn’t get the shed we wanted. Every 13 years right up until Ash Wednesday fires, there has always been fire close at hand. The 1952 fire went down the back of the house, the 1965 fire took the house, and the house that I live in now, it is the third house that has been on that spot. When the Hunters owned it, Mrs Hunter was nearly burnt in her bed. They had a 13 roomed house. In 1924 the house burnt down, and there was another house was built there and that was the one that burnt down. Edna: So Mary built a brick veneer house. Marjorie: like the three little pigs [laughter] Collins - Mary M &DHS - March 29th 1992 Ladies oral history day at Dunvegan, Willows Park Melton. Graham Minns President Ray Radford MC Sound recording transferred to CD 2011 Edited typescript by Wendy Barrie 2013 Mary Collins nee Nixon born in Terang 1907 down in the Western District and we shifted to Melton when I was 5 and a half then I started school here in Melton, and spent all my school life at Melton State School, next to the Church of England, it’s called the Primary School now. I got my Qualifying and Merit Certificate then I left School because there wasn’t a High School. When I was 16 I got and job in the Melton Post Office and I worked there, I was the first girl in Melton to deliver the mail, and worked on the telephone and the Bank business. Mrs Ross and myself behind the counter, there were about 500 – 600 people in the Shire at that time and now when I go into the new Post Office there is 36,000 here there’s still 2 people behind the counter [laughter from the audience] and wait in a queue right out to the door. Times haven’t changed much have they! There was a manual telephone and you had to ring the handle, and there were eight subscribers when I went there and when I left there were 46 I had coaxed that number to join the telephone, even the police station didn’t have the phone on. The two Hotels and the two Chaff mills and Mr Ernie Barrie, Parkers the butcher, the Shire Office was No 8, and the Police house was next to the Courthouse on the corner. They were number 9. I can remember a lot of the numbers still. The Post Office was the Agency for the Commonwealth Bank [comment from audience member] I used to do the Bank business too, I left after four years there, mother wasn’t very well. The Inspector who used to come up to the Post Office asked me if I would take up casual Post Mistress and to go around the different districts but I refused and when Mrs Ross’s holidays were due I was the replacement. I wasn’t 21. I loved my work meeting everybody and most people had horse and jinkers and when the elderly would come in there would be Mr Tom Morrow, he only had one arm and Mrs Dunn came from Bulman’s road in their horse and jinker. They were elderly I would see them pull up out the front and quickly get their mail and run out to them because they didn’t have to get out of the jinker to tie up their horse. If someone had a baby in arms I would tear out and hold the baby while they got down. Mrs Ross was very very strict. I had to sweep the Post Office, she had a couple of mats and there would be a threepence or a sixpence under the mats show she knew whether I lifted the mat, I was whether I was honest or not. Graham: How much were your wages? I got 27/7 pence a week for a 52 hour week. I had to work every holiday except Good Friday and Christmas Day and even when it was Monday holiday I always had to go to work from 9am - !0 am, the Post Office was always open. In the winter I had to wait until twenty past six in case there were any telegrams to deliver. I delivered them on a push bike. One time Tom Barrie told me this years afterwards. I used to go home for lunch. We lived on the Keilor road and I used to ride my bike home. On the hot days the boys used to go and swim in the swimming pool down near a turn in the creek there was a hole where the boys would swim in the nude, they didn’t have any bathers and they didn’t have any watches in those days. Tom Barrie said they always used to watched for me as I was always about 3 minutes past 1, my lunch hour was from 1-2. One particular day they missed seeing me and swam on, and of course they were all late for school when they got back and were all kept in a night. I did get a fortnight holiday. I loved my work and I knew everyone in the district right from Toolern Vale to the Marsh and everybody at Melton South. Did you listen into conversations on the Switchboard? Oh no. [laughter] Melton did not have electricity then. I had to fill the lamps everyday with kerosene. The Staughton Memorial was outside the Post Office. It had four posts with the chain looped around it, and that’s where the people used to tie up their horses. Marjorie nee Myers Butler comments about sitting and swinging on the chains. Mr Fred Coburn lit the acetylene gas light in the Memorial. It was the only streetlight in Melton. There was no electricity until 1939. Ray Radford comments about another gas street light which was on the corner of Station road. [later] Mary passes around her school photos. Mary mentions the names of those who have passed away, Maisie McDonald, ,Marian Wraith, Hilda McCreey, and Valda McDonald. I have written the names on the back. Marjorie comments about Marie Jongebloed and Greta are the only two girls left out of big family of ten I think there were [hesitates] 4 or 5 girls and the rest were boys. Mary. Flora Woodley, Dorrie Flynn and Margaret McDonald are still alive. They are my age we were all born about 1907. Marjorie points out herself in a later photo [1921 and 1922 School ] Mary mentions the name Walsh and identyfies following names, the Parker boys, Ken Beaty, Malc and Linda Cameron, Maisie Mc Donald, Ted Radford, George Nixon, Norman Minns, he was later the Shire Secretary of Werribee. One of the Woodley girls. [Maisie Arthur] Marjorie: Rosie Shearwood, June Whiting Mary. Lily Mc Donald, she has passed away. Isabel Harrison nee Tinkler, she lives at Werribee, Doreen Rogers, Marjorie Walker, Jess McIntosh, Mary Gillespie. Mr Malone was the Junior teacher Mr Roe and Miss Cooke. Fred Myers, my sister [Elizabeth] and the year was 1921. Myers (Barrie) School Photo Collection. Many of the names were identified at the 1970 Centenary of Melton State School No. 430. Edna Barrie organised, compiled and typed the lists to accompany these photos for the year 1921. The 1922 photo shows the higher grades. Ladies Oral History Day event held by Melton and District Historical Society, article featured in the Telegraphlocal identities, local special interest groups -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Photographs, Old Post Office, Tarnagulla, early 1990s
Donald Clark Collection. Two copies of a colour photograph depicting the old Post Office and Telegraph Office, Tarnagulla. Original photograph. -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Photograph - Photograph: Former Sandy Creek/Tarnagulla Post Office, c. 1920s
Williams Family Collection. This building was used as the Post Office of Sandy Creek/Tarnagulla from 1861 to 1887. It has been a private residence since 1887. Monochrome photograph depicting the former Sandy Creek/ Tarnagulla Post and Telegraph Office. Original photographic print. tarnagulla -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - CONNELLY, TATCHELL, DUNLOP COLLECTION: LEGAL PAPERS, 1886
Document. Connelly, Tatchell & Dunlop - Legal Papers. 1 - 1886 - Letter from Bennett & Co re Hawthorne & Brady. 2 - 1886 - Letter from Morrow Thomas, Inglewood. 3 - 1886 - Letter from Thomson W. B. Solicitor, Bairnsdale re Smith & Butler to Seeber. 4 - 1886 - Post Office Telegraph from Dunlop A Geo re Martyn. 5 - 1886 - Post Office Telegraph from Connelly T. J. 6 - 1886 - Post Office Telegraph from Hawthorne D, Kerang. 7 - 1886 - Post Office Telegraph from Connelly T. J. re Koondrook. 8 - 1886 - Post Office Telegraph from Connelly T. J. re Martyn. 9 - 1886 - Letter from Bennett, Attenborough, Wilks & Connelly to Brown Frank re Turner & Mossop.cottage, miners, connelly, tatchell & dunlop, hawthorne, brady, morrow thomas, thomson w b. smith, butler, seeber, dunlop a g, martyn, connelly t j, hawthorne d, koondrook, bennett attenborough wilks & connelly, brown frank, turner, mossop -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - KELLY AND ALLSOP COLLECTION: NOTE ON SHARES
Handwritten note mentioning the number of shares, the price, and shortened versions of the mine names. Written on the back of a telegraph form.business, stockbroker, kelly & alsop, kelly & alsop collection - note on shares, lady b, centrals -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BUSH COLLECTION: COLLECTION OF TELEGRAMS, 1891 - 1894
Collection of approximately 15 Post Office telegraphs relating to Bush-Dahlsen marriage (1891) and birth of boy (1894).Merle Bushperson, individual, bush collection - personal -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia, c1860's
2 Hand Made Split Wood Roofing Shingles with Hand made nail. Old Post Telegraph Office stawell -
Clunes Museum
Newspaper - NEWSPAPER CUTTING, DAILY TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER CO., MELBOURNE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER28,1978
A CUTTING FROM DAILY TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1978 WITH A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MONUMENT IN THE SPOT WHERE GOLD WAS FIRST REPORTED.CLUNES LIVES UP TO ITS TRANQUIL NAME.local history, document, newspaper, mining, monument, gold rush 1850 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - BASIL MILLER COLLECTION: STEAM TRAM
Black and white photo of steam tram with 2 carriages, telegraph wire pole in background. '(5)' written on back of photo.person, individual, basil miller -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BUSH COLLECTION: COLLECTION OF TELEGRAMS (DEATH OF NINA BU, 1902
Collection of approximately 19 Post Office telegraphs to S. A. Bush relating to the death of his wife, Nina, July 1902.person, individual, bush collection - personal -
Westbourne Grammar Heritage Collection
Photograph - The Site for Westbourne 1977
In 1975 a School Council subcomittee was formed to select a new principal to instigate the development of secondary schooling at Williamstown Grammar. By 1977 the appointed principal, John Roberts Pascoe, had worked tirelessly assessing options in and around Williamstown and looking for support for the school's expansion plans. He found that support in the Werribee Council and Werribee community, which recognised the potential of an independent school for the expanding area. In 1977, based on demographic research and feasibility studies, fifty acres of land was purchased on Sayers Rd. at Truganina (then Werribee). This photograph shows that land, the site for the new secondary school for Williamstown Grammar, looking east at the corner of Sayers Rd & Marquands Rd, which would be a very different view today.Colour photograph of a cloudy sky and cleared land with a perspective line of telegraph poles extending from the right into the middle background.campus, secondary, expansion -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Shamrock Hotel on the corner of Seaby & Longfield Streets Stawell West with Mary Jenkins and Agnes Jenkins nee Keegan 1914
Two story weatherboard Shamrock Hotel 1914? corner of Seaby Street and Longfield Streets Pleasant Creek, Stawell West. Standing in Front are Mary Jenkins and Agnes Jenkins nee Keegan second and third from left. Granite Cob & Co Stables on left Buildings behind three large trees, telegraph pole front centre of image. Granite Cob & Co Stables on left Shamrock Hotelstawell business -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Station Street Mitcham
Very early black and white photograph of Station Street Mitcham, shops and 2 cars on right. Telegraph pole on left.mitcham, station street, station street mitcham -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph
The Stag was built 1848-1854. John Sanders purchased the land from Atkinson in 1848 and built the building as a licensed premises. Over the years it was also used as a Hotel, boarding house and boarding school. It is still used today as Accommodation and a restaurant. This photo has probably been taken in the 1980'sBlack and white Photograph of 2 story building with multi paned windows power pole on corner and telegraph pole to the righthotel, stag, seacombe, inn, john sanders, boarding house, school, coffee palace -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Photograph, Old Post Office, Tarnagulla, unknown, probably mid 20th Century
Donald Clark Collection. A monochrome photograph depicting the former Sandy Creek Post and Telegraph Office, Tarnagulla. Now a private residence. Copy photograph. -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Newspaper - Clippings re abattoirs dispute, 8 May 1890
Newspaper clippings relating to abattoirs dispute, 1890Age 8 May 1890, Argus 8 May 1890, Daily Telegraph 8 May 1890industrial disputes, industry - noxious, abbatoirs -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Image, 1900-1910 Approximate
Donated by Mr Greg Thomson, a former resident of RutherglenBlack & white reproduction, unframed, laminated. This reproduction is of the Rutherglen Post-Office as it was in the 1900s. The residence (to the left of pen mark cross on picket fence) has since been demolished and today that is where the present Post-Office stands, building to right of cross still stands. Original building built in 1863, altered in 1910Signs on front of building: "Electric Telegraph Office. Post Office" On back of photo: "Photographed pre 1910"rutherglen post office