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Ballarat Heritage Services
Image, Finish of the Melbourne Cup, 1902, 1902
... Finish of the Melbourne Cup, 1902 ...Black and white image of the Melbourne Cup horse race. The race was won by 'The Victory'.melbourne cup, horse racing -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Booklet, The University of Melbourne, Dean's Honours and Awards Presentation, 2002-2009
... the university of melbourne...The University of Melbourne ...dean's awards, awards, the university of melbourne, institute of land and food resources, school of land and environment -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Report, C. N. Govett, A. E. Twentyman, "A story of the Melbourne Cable Tramway System - 11th November 1885 to 26th October 1940", 1973
... "A story of the Melbourne Cable Tramway System - 11th ...Report or history Melbourne's cable trams written by Neville Govett and Alf Twentynan, two recognised historians on Melbourne cable trams. The book looks at the Engine Houses, cables in detail, route colours, grips, shunting, the various lines and how they operated, fares, annual reports, notes, and fare collection. Includes information on the operators, See item 1885 for another copy and a full scan of the document.Yields information about the operation and history of Melbourne's cable trams.Report - black comb bound, 230 approx. pages, photocopied from an original, loose sheets foolscap sheets photocopied from an original manuscript by C. N. Govett and A. E. Twentyman - 1973On page 3 in ink "To my friend John, with Best Wishes Neville Govett, 28 Apr 86". On a label on the outside of the comb binding "The Melbourne cable tram system" is a Dymo machine label. trams, tramways, cable trams, mmtb, winding houses, engine houses, operations -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - VFA The Port Melbourne Way by Tony CANNATELLI
... VFA The Port Melbourne Way by Tony CANNATELLI ...Colour photo of front cover of "VFA The Port Melbourne Way " by Tony CANNATELLI.sport - australian rules football, tony cannatelli, victorian football association, vfa, port melbourne football club, pmfc -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Ticket, Melbourne Tram Museum, Adult ticket for the Melbourne Tram Museum @ Hawthorn Depot, 2015 and 2018
... Adult ticket for the Melbourne Tram Museum @ Hawthorn Depot ...2804.1 - Adult ticket for the Melbourne Tram Museum @ Hawthorn Depot in the form of a day ticket giving month and date. Has the Friends of Hawthorn logo printed on it. Ticket Nos. Adult 008999 and 009000. 2804.2 - ditto for the Melbourne Tram Museum, as above with the Melbourne Tram Museum - ticket Nos. Adult 009001 and 009002. Both tickets printed by Milldean Press, 2804.1 late 2015, 2804.1 - March 2018.trams, tramways, melbourne tram museum, tickets -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Pamphlet, Concert by the Melbourne Singers, 13/06/1992 12:00:00 AM
... Concert by the Melbourne Singers ...Programme of a concert by Melbourne Singers.Programme of a concert by Melbourne Singers, formerly Mitcham Choral Society. Conductor of choir: Geoffrey Jones.Programme of a concert by Melbourne Singers.choirs, melbourne singers, mitcham choral and orchestral society -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Pamphlet, Melbourne Pageant Committee, "The Melbourne Pageant - January 21 - 28 1980 - Salute to Australia, Cavalcade of Transport", 1980
... "The Melbourne Pageant - January 21 - 28 1980 - Salute to ...Pamphlet - 3 fold DL - titled "The Melbourne Pageant - January 21 - 28 1980 - Salute to Australia, Cavalcade of Transport" advertising the planned events and dates with a map. Has name of Neil McPhee - chairman of Melbourne Pageant Committee Two copies held.trams, tramways, australia day, mmtb, melbourne, tramcars, pageant, melbourne pageant -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Map, Robert Russell, Map Shewing the Site of Melbourne and the Position of the Huts & Buildings Previous to the Foundation of the Township by Sir Richard Bourke in 1837
... Map Shewing the Site of Melbourne and the Position of the ...Map shows the first layout of Melbourne by Government surveyor Robert Russell, who accompanied Governor Richard Bourke in 1837. The surveyed blocks extend from present-day Flinders Street to Lonsdale Street, and Spring Street to Spencer Street, with extensive vacant land west to a salt lake (afterwards Batman's Swamp, later drained), north beyond Flagstaff Hill and south towards South Melbourne. Vegetation coverage is indicated, and tracks and existing buildings and cultivated land are shown.Printed map was created by Day & Haghe, Lithographers to the Queen, sometime after 1838, when the company received its Royal appointment. Copies of the 1837 map exist in several major map collections in Australia; most are uncoloured. This particular map is the earliest in the Kew Historical Society's map collection. It is a nationally significant artefact. Black and white lithographed map hand-coloured in blue and yellow gouache of the town of Melbourne in 1837. In contrast to the original lithograph, the river and the township blocks are coloured blue and yellow. A similar, partly coloured copy is in the collection of the University of Melbourne.maps - melbourne - 1830s, governor sir richard bourke, robert russell - surveyor, cartography -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Anglo-Australasian Photographic Company, Scene in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, c. 1876
... Scene in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens ...Nicholas Caire was born on Guernsey in the Channel Islands in 1837. He arrived in Adelaide with his parents in about 1860. In 1867, following photographic journeys in Gippsland, he opened a studio in Adelaide. From 1870 to 1876 he lived and worked in Talbot in Central Victoria. In 1876 he purchased T. F. Chuck's studios in the Royal Arcade Melbourne. In 1885, following the introduction of dry plate photography, he began a series of landscape series, which were commercially successful. As a photographer, he travelled extensively through Victoria, photographing places few of his contemporaries had previously seen. He died in 1918. Reference: Jack Cato, 'Caire, Nicholas John (1837–1918)', Australian Dictionary of Biography.An original, rare photograph from the series 'Views of Victoria: General Series' by the photographer, Nicholas Caire (1837-1918). The series of 60 photographs that comprise the series was issued c. 1876 and reinforced a neo-Romantic view of the Australian landscape to which a growing nationalist movement would respond. Nicholas Caire was active as a photographer in Australia from 1858 until his death in 1918. His vision of the Australian bush and pioneer life had a counterpart in the works of Henry Lawson and other nationalist poets, authors and painters.‘Scene in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens’ : Views of Victoria (General Series) No.38 : Albumen silver photograph | Photo on card with Title and Description on reverse | Mounted 24 x 30 cm; Photo 12 x 17 cm.On Reverse: ‘The subject of this illustration is taken from near the Bridge, which crosses the Garden Lake. The grassy slope in the foreground of the picture is a portion of the North-West or Lower Lawn. Portions of the “Rockery” and the small lake can be seen in the mid-distance, near which is the new Rustic Summer-house. These Gardens are under the management of Mr. Guilfoyle, with about 20 assistant botanists, florists, and general gardeners.’nicholas caire (1837-1918), melbourne botanical gardens, landscape photography - victoria -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Magazine, Mutual Benefit Society of the Employees of the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Co. Ltd, "The Tramway Society Circular", 23/09/1910 12:00:00 AM
... Mutual Benefit Society of the Employees of the Melbourne ...Four page or folded sheet printed on off white paper, titled "The Tramway Society Circular", Friday 23/9/1910. Periodical or magazine has note that it was circulating among the Employees of Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Co. Has advertisement for "smart suits" of W. H. Bruce, The Peoples Tailor of 159 Bourke St Melbourne, details of the Tramways Benevolent fund, election of officers, Mornington Picnic (list depot reps) - uses the Hygeia, personal notes, benefit concert, library, smoke nights, ads for The Australian Mutual Provident Society, R. Oliver & Sons Grocers. Details of cricket matches coming up, the rules and other snippets. Also ads for T. K. Bennet and Woolcock Butchers. Printed for the Mutual Benefit Society of the Employees of the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Co. Ltd at 673 Bourke St, Melbourne by George Feinaigle, Secretary. See also Reg Item 2398 for a possible photo of the Mornington Picnic.trams, tramways, mto co, cable trams, personnel, welfare, employees, unions, sports -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Booklet, Art in Australia Ltd, The Melbourne Book, 1931
... The Melbourne Book ...Description of Melbourne by J. S. McDonald and photos of Melbourne by a number of photographers.Text, Woodblock illustration on title page, 18 plates by Melbourne photographers including J. Kauffman, J.W. Eaton, A.E.Stevens, W. Howieson, and the Melbourne Herald. Produced by Art in Australia Ltd, Sydney. [4] p. [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.non-fictionDescription of Melbourne by J. S. McDonald and photos of Melbourne by a number of photographers.melbourne -- tourist brochures, melbourne -- photography, christian-washfold collection -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Digital Image, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), grip mechanism as used in the Melbourne cable trams, 1920's?
... grip mechanism as used in the Melbourne cable trams ...Digital Image of a grip mechanism as used in the Melbourne cable trams - with caption. Has a portion of a grip in the mechanism.trams, tramways, cable trams, cables, cable grip -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Document (Item) - Advertisement for Ansett-ANA's helicopter service from Melbourne Airport to the Melbourne Heliport, Ansett-ANA Helicopter Service
... Melbourne Airport to the Melbourne Heliport ...Provides a brief overview of the history of helicopters and their uses in Australia at the time of publication. -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Newspaper - B&W photo of the MACQUARIE (see notes) formerly the MELBOURNE, News clipping unknown newspaper of the MACQUARIE under sail, April 1935 & April 1987
... B&W photo of the MACQUARIE (see notes) formerly the ...Clipper trader shipsFour masted barque entering Port Phillip in 1935B&W photo of the MACQUARIE (see notes) under sail. Newspaper clipping of the RMS MALOJA aground off Adelaide at Outer Harbour, March 1933. .Reverse " NIL " cargo clipper -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Booklet - Pictorial Souvenir of the Melbourne Zoo, 1925-1935
... Pictorial Souvenir of the Melbourne Zoo ...Pictorial Souvenir listing Zoological Board Members, description of gardens and their history, general information, map, and profiles with photos of particular animals.Pictorial Souvenir listing Zoological Board Members, description of gardens and their history, general information, map, and profiles with photos of particular animals. Tourist booklet costing 1/-, Cover in red, black and white includes graphic design of flamingo and kangaroos. non-fictionPictorial Souvenir listing Zoological Board Members, description of gardens and their history, general information, map, and profiles with photos of particular animals. washfold family, melbourne zoo, melbourne -- tourist publications, christian-washfold collection -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Sticker, Save the Port Melbourne line, 1990s
... Sticker, Save the Port Melbourne line ...From the 1987 campaign to keep the railwayTwo car stickers "Save the Port Melbourne line" featuring a train with wording around it,1987.transport - railways -
Melbourne Athenaeum Archives
Theatre Brochure advertisement, Demolition Job (play) by Gordon Graham - brochure extract - performed by The Melbourne Theatre Company at the Athenaeum Theatre commencing 5 November 1980
... - performed by The Melbourne Theatre Company at the Athenaeum Theatre ...Extract from Melbourne Theatre Company's brochure for Season 27 Part 2, for a play performed at the Athenaeum Theatre.athenaeum theatre, program, demolition job, melbourne theatre company, gordon graham -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Digital image of Barbara Gardiner pointing to her father's name on the Port Melbourne Elderly Citizen Club board, c.2010
... name on the Port Melbourne Elderly Citizen Club board. ...Image of Barbara GARDINER pointing to her father's name on the Port Melbourne Elderly Citizen Club board.barbara gardiner nee hegarty, brian hegarty -
Unions Ballarat
The printers of Melbourne : the history of a union, Fitzgerald, RT, 1967
... The printers of Melbourne : the history of a union ...History of various printing unions in Melbourne up to 1966.Pertinent to union history in Australia.Paper; book; red, black and white cover with a drawing of men operating old printing presses.Front cover: title and author's name.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, unions - printing, melbourne, history -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Friends of the Park float, Port Melbourne Festival, Pat Grainger, Feb 1989
... Friends of the Park float, Port Melbourne Festival ...This float was created by members of Friends of the Park, a group formed in 1987 against government proposals to turn the railway and reservation into a grand boulevard to service the proposed Sandridge City 'Bayside' development. Members worked for months to make the decorations, added to a trailer. During the festival procession sausages were BBQ'd on the trailer and handed out to the crowd. On arrival at Murphy's Reserve all floats were put out of sight, and few saw the results of their efforts.One of 16 photos of Friends of the Park float for the February 1988 Port Melbourne Festival: Float construction at Station Street carport, 88 Ingles Street: Jan Fly and ?celebrations fetes and exhibitions, public action campaigns, town planning - proposals shelved - bayside, jan fly, friends of the park, port melbourne festival -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Friends of the Park float, Port Melbourne Festival, Pat Grainger, Feb 1989
... Friends of the Park float, Port Melbourne Festival ...This float was created by members of Friends of the Park, a group formed in 1987 against government proposals to turn the railway and reservation into a grand boulevard to service the proposed Sandridge City 'bayside' development. Members worked for months to make the decorations, added to a trailer. During the festival procession sausages were BBQ'd on the trailer and handed out to the crowd. On arrival at Murphy's Reserve all floats were put out of sight, and few saw the results of their efforts.One of 16 photos of Friends of the Park float for the February 1989 Port Melbourne Festival: Float construction at Station Street carport - Jemma and Marilyn Tulloch with flower decorationscelebrations fetes and exhibitions, public action campaigns, gemma tulloch, marilyn tulloch, friends of the park, port melbourne festival -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Friends of the Park float, Port Melbourne Festival, Pat Grainger, Feb 1989
... Friends of the Park float, Port Melbourne Festival ...This float was created by members of Friends of the Park, a group formed in 1987 against government proposals to turn the railway and reservation into a grand boulevard to service the proposed Sandridge City 'bayside' development. Members worked for months to make the decorations, added to a trailer. During the festival procession sausages were BBQ'd on the trailer and handed out to the crowd. On arrival at Murphy's Reserve all floats were put out of sight, and few saw the results of their efforts.One of 16 photos of Friends of the Park float for the February 1989 Port Melbourne Festival: Preparations for the procession forming by the Raglan Street flats - star of the float, Nellie Thackruhcelebrations fetes and exhibitions, public action campaigns, nellie thackruh, friends of the park, port melbourne festival -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Poster, Stephen Watson, "The Melbourne Tramways - A Pictorial History", 1993
... "The Melbourne Tramways - A Pictorial History" ...Poster - titled "The Melbourne Tramways - A Pictorial History" providing a detail map, showing the opening, closing, dates and notes of Melbourne's horse, cable, electric tramways and railways. Printed on a plain background. Has notes on closures, track layouts, accuracy and acknowledgements. Prepared by Stephen Watson 1993. See Reg Item 506 for later editions.Has a $15 price label on rear.trams, tramways, melbourne, map, tramways, cable trams, horse trams, box hill, vr trams -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Newspaper, The Age, "A fix for tram junkies", "The Melbourne Tram Book", 3/12/2003 12:00:00 AM
... "A fix for tram junkies", "The Melbourne Tram Book" ...Newspaper clipping from The Age 3/12/2003, titled "A fix for tram junkies" about the release of "The Melbourne Tram" book by Dale Budd and Randall Wilson. Gives details of their interest in trams, their background, other cities running trams, and the future of trams in Melbourne. Item written by Karen Heinrich, photo by Melane Faith Dove.trams, tramways, books, melbourne tramways, history -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Legal Record, Act to Incorporate a Company to be called 'The Melbourne and Hobsons Bay Railway Company', 20 Jan 1853
... Act to Incorporate a Company to be called 'The Melbourne ...Victorian Parliamentary Act "to Incorporate a Company to be called 'The Melbourne and Hobsons Bay Railway company' ": 20 January 1853, 16pp photocopy of ActPortions pertaining to reserves marked outtransport - railways, parks and gardens, melbourne & hobsons bay railway company, melbourne & hobsons bay united railway company -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Friends of the Park float, Port Melbourne Festival, Pat Grainger, Feb 1989
... Friends of the Park float, Port Melbourne Festival ...This float was created by members of Friends of the Park, a group formed in 1987 against government proposals to turn the railway and reservation into a grand boulevard to service the proposed Sandridge City 'bayside' development. Members worked for months to make the decorations, added to a trailer. During the festival procession sausages were BBQ'd on the trailer and handed out to the crowd. On arrival at Murphy's Reserve all floats were put out of sight, and few saw the results of their efforts.One of 16 colour photos of Friends of the Park float for the February 1989 Port Melbourne Festival: Nellie Thackruh, Jan Fly and Andrea Ellis in background, finishing preparations in Raglan Streetcelebrations fetes and exhibitions, public action campaigns, jan fly, andrea ellis, nellie thackruh, friends of the park, port melbourne festival -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Friends of the Park float, Port Melbourne Festival, Pat Grainger, Feb 1989
... Friends of the Park float, Port Melbourne Festival ...This float was created by members of Friends of the Park, a group formed in 1987 against government proposals to turn the railway and reservation into a grand boulevard to service the proposed Sandridge City 'bayside' development. Members worked for months to make the decorations, added to a trailer. During the festival procession sausages were BBQ'd on the trailer and handed out to the crowd. On arrival at Murphy's Reserve all floats were put out of sight, and few saw the results of their efforts.One of 16 colour photos of Friends of the Park float for the February 1989 Port Melbourne Festival: Preparations for the procession forming by the Raglan Street flats - Jan Fly, Andrea Ellis and Marilyn Tullochcelebrations fetes and exhibitions, public action campaigns, jan fly, andrea ellis, marilyn tulloch, friends of the park, port melbourne festival -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, RMIT Graduate Nurses Associaton, Being There: Nursing at the Melbourne - Victoria's first hospital, 2005
... Being There: Nursing at the Melbourne - Victoria's first ...[Parkville, Vic.] : Royal Melbourne Hospital Graduate Nurses Association, 2005 xii, 572 p. : ill., facsims., plan, ports. ; 25 cm. non-fictionroyal melbourne hospital -- history., nursing -- victoria -- melbourne -- history., hospitals -- victoria -- melbourne -- history. -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Photograph, The Barquentine "Speculant" at Melbourne Docks, before 1911
... The Barquentine "Speculant" at Melbourne Docks ...This photograph is of the barque "SPECULANT" during one of her voyages to Melbourne. The barquentine SPECULANT was a steel, three-masted sailing ship built in 1895 in Inverkeithing, Scotland, registered in Warrnambool, Victoria and wrecked at Cape Paton, Victoria, 10th February 1911. The SPECULANT had been involved in the timber trade between the United Kingdom and Russia, until sold to its Warrnambool owners and timber merchants Messrs. P.J. McGennan & Co. (Peter John McGennan) in 1902 for 3000 pounds and had her sailed to Warrnambool as her new port. Peter John McGennan was born in 1844 and worked as a builder and cooper in Holyhead, Anglesea, Wales. He immigrated to Australia in 1869 as a free settler and arrived in Warrnambool in 1871 and undertook management of a property in Grassmere for Mr. Palmer. Peter met his wife Emily in South Melbourne and they married in 1873. They had ten children including Harry who lived to 1965, and Andrew who lived until 1958. (The other children were their four brothers - John who was killed in the Dardenalles aged 35, Frederick who died aged 8, Peter who died aged 28, Frank who died aged 5 weeks - and four sisters - Beatrice who died age 89, Edith who died aged 49, Blanche who died aged 89 and Eveline who died aged 48.) In 1874 Peter starting a boating establishment on the Hopkins River. In 1875 he opened up a Coopers business in Kepler Street next to what was Bateman, Smith and Co., moving to Liebig Street, next to the Victoria Hotel, in 1877. In 1882 he then moved to Lava Street (which in later years was the site of Chandlers Hardware Store). He was associated with the establishment of the Butter Factory at Allansford. He started making Butter Boxes to his own design and cheese batts for the Butter Factory. In 1896 established a Box Factory in Davis Street Merrivale, employing 24 people at its peak, (it was burnt down in 1923); and in Pertobe Road from 1912 (now the Army Barracks building). Peter was a Borough Councillor for Albert Ward from 1885 to 1891, he commenced the Foreshore Trust (including the camping grounds along Pertobe Road), and he was an inaugural Director of the Woollen Mill in Harris Street, buying an extensive share-holding in 1908 from the share trader Edward Vidler. They lobbied the Town Hall to have a formal ‘Cutting’ for the waters of the Merri River to be redirected from its natural opening south of Dennington, to its existing opening near Viaduct Road, in order to have the scourings from the wool at the Woollen Mill discharged into the sea. He sold Butter Boxes around the state, and had to ship them to Melbourne by rail. Peter’s purchase of the SPECULANT in 1902 enabled him to back-load white pine from Kaipara, New Zealand to Warrnambool to make his butter boxes then, to gain profitability, buy and ship potatoes and other primary produce bound to Melbourne. (McGennan & Co. had also owned the LA BELLA, which had traded in timber as well, until she was tragically wrecked with the loss of seven lives, after missing the entrance channel to Warrnambool harbour in 1905. It appears that the SPECULANT was bought to replace the LA BELLA.) In 1911 the SPECULANT had been attempting to depart Warrnambool for almost the entire month of January to undergo docking and overhaul in Melbourne. A month of east and south-easterly winds had forced her to remain sheltered in Lady Bay, Warrnambool apart from one morning of northerlies, when an attempt was made to round Cape Otway; she had to return to shelter in Portland after failing to make any headway. With only 140 tons of sand ballast aboard, the ship would not have been easy to handle. Captain Jacobsen and his crew of nine, mainly Swedes, decided to make for Melbourne, leaving Portland Harbour on 5th February 1911. By the 9th they had reached Cape Otway, where they encountered a moonless night, constant heavy rain, and a heavy sea with a south-easterly wind blowing. After safely rounding Cape Otway the course was changed to east, then north-east to take the vessel to a point six miles off Cape Patton, following the orders of Captain Jacobsen, who told the crew to be very careful with the steering, as the wind and sea was running to leeward. The patent log (used to measure speed) had been out of order for the last four months as no-one in Warrnambool was able to fix it: it was intended to have it repaired in Melbourne. In the meantime the crew measured the vessel's speed by looking over the side and estimating wind strength. This compounded the difficulties of imprecise positioning, as the strong cross wind and sea were acting on the lightly laden vessel to steadily drive it towards the shore. At 3.30am on Friday 10 February 1911 Captain Jacobsen and the first mate were looking over the side of the vessel when they heard the sound of breakers and suddenly struck the rocks. The crew immediately knew they had no chance of getting the SPECULANT off, and attempted to rescue themselves by launching the lifeboat, which was instantly smashed to pieces. One of the crew then volunteered to take a line ashore, and the rest of the crew were all able to drag themselves to shore, some suffering hand lacerations from the rocks. Once ashore they began to walk along the coast towards Lorne, believing it was the nearest settlement. Realising their mistake as dawn broke they returned westwards to Cape Patton, and found a farm belonging to Mr C. Ramsden, who took them in and gave them a change of clothes and food. After resting for a day and returning to the wreck to salvage some of their personal possessions, at 10am on Saturday they set out for Apollo Bay, a voyage that took six hours, sometimes wading through flooded creeks up to their necks. The Age described the wreck as "listed to starboard. All the cabin is gutted and the ballast gone. There is a big rock right through the bottom of her, and there is not the slightest hope of getting her off". A Board of Marine inquiry found that Captain Jacobson was guilty of careless navigation by not taking steps to accurately verify the position of the vessel with respect to Cape Otway when the light was visible and by not setting a safe and proper course with respect to the wind and sea. It suspended his certificate for 6 months and ordered him to pay costs. The location of the wreck site was marked for a long time by two anchors on the shoreline, until in 1970 the larger of the two anchors was recovered by the Underwater Explorers' Club and mounted on the foreshore at Apollo Bay. The bell from the wreck was also donated to the Apollo Bay Surf Lifesaving Club but is recorded to have been stolen. Rusting remains of the wreck can still be found on the shoreline on the southern side of, and directly below Cape Patton. Parts of the SPECULANT site have been buried by rubble from construction and maintenance works to the Great Ocean Road, as well as by naturally occurring landslides. Peter J McGennan passed away in 1920. The Gates in the western wall of the Anglican Church in Henna Street/Koroit St are dedicated to him for his time of community work, which is matched with other prominent Warrnambool citizens; Fletcher Jones, John Younger, J.D.E (Tag) Walter, and Edward Vidler. After Peter J McGennan's death Harry, Andrew and Edith continued to operate the family business until July 11th 1923 when the company was wound up. (Andrew lived in Ryot Street Warrnambool, near Lava Street.) Harry McGennan (Peter and Emily’s son) owned the Criterion Hotel in Kepler Street Warrnambool (now demolished). His son Sid and wife Dot lived in 28 Howard Street (corner of Nelson Street) and Sid managed the Criterion until it was decided by the family to sell, and for he remained Manager for the new owners until he retired. Harry commenced the Foreshore Trust in Warrnambool around 1950. The McGennan Carpark in Pertobe Road is named after Harry and there are Memorial-Stone Gates in his memory. (The Gates were once the original entrance to the carpark but are now the exit.). Peter’s great-grandson, also called Andrew, is a Security Officer in Warrnambool. The Patent Log (also called a Taffrail log) from the SPECULANT, mentioned above, and a number of photographs, are now part of the Collection at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village. The SPECULANT is historically significant as the largest ship to have been registered in Warrnambool, and is believed to have been the largest barquentine to visit Melbourne. It is evidence of the final days of large commercial sailing vessels involved in the Victorian and New Zealand timber trade. The SPECULANT is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register VHR S626Photograph, black and white, titled "The barquentine "Speculant", at Melbourne Docks"Title below photograph reads "The barquentine "Speculant", at Melbourne Docks"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, photograph, speculant, melbourne docks, cumming and ellis, international timber trade, f. j. mcgennan and co. warrnambool, capt. james jacobsen, warrnambool maritime history -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Friends of the Park float, Port Melbourne Festival, Pat Grainger, Feb 1989
... Friends of the Park float, Port Melbourne Festival ...This float was created by members of Friends of the Park, a group formed in 1987 against government proposals to turn the railway and reservation into a grand boulevard to service the proposed Sandridge City 'bayside' development. Members worked for months to make the decorations, added to a trailer. During the festival procession sausages were BBQ'd on the trailer and handed out to the crowd. On arrival at Murphy's Reserve all floats were put out of sight, and few saw the results of their efforts.One of 16 photos of Friends of the Park float for the February 1989 Port Melbourne Festival: Preparations for the procession forming by the Raglan Street flats - Gary Way (L), Michaela Sammit, Marilyn and Gemma Tulloch.celebrations fetes and exhibitions, public action campaigns, gemma tulloch, marilyn tulloch, jan fly, michaela sammit, gary, friends of the park, port melbourne festival