Gwen Horman was a prominent figure in Ringwood History. Her husband , Robert, was the Mayor of the Ringwood Borough in 1954 and again in 1961 and played a large part in the move for Ringwood to become a city. Gwen was a foundation member and President of the Ringwood East Infant Welfare Centre, helped fund raise for the Maroondah Hospital and was a founding member of the Ringwood East CWA in 1949. She traveled extensively and there are many diary notes of these trips included in the history.Transparent front cover and buff coloured back cover, black spiral binding contains 38 pages of printed notes and photos, some hand written amendments. Printed 25-Sep-1998. +Additional Keywords: Horman, GwenLife and times of Gwen Horman

Packet- Miscellaneous documents relating to Ringwood Youth and Youth Club.Packet includes: . Correspondence- Ringwood Youth Activities Committee, 1971. Newspaper cuttings from 1954 to 1991 to do with Ringwood youth activities. . Brochure- Empire Youth Sunday Dedication Service, 21say, 1950. . Invitation from Ringwood Police & Citizens Youth Club to Mr & Mrs Pullin, to the opening of Clubrooms at Bedford Park 22nd August, 1959. . Ringwood Police & Citizens Youth Club Annual Reports, 1962 and 1963. . Hand written notes for the catering details for the Youth Club Ball, October 1956. . Booklet- 'Meeting The Needs Of Youth In Ringwood'. Report prepared by the Youth Services Planning Division, Victorian Association of Youth Clubs for the Ringwood Youth Action Committee, March 1971.

Photographs from Pollards (Lauriston), Warrandyte Road, Fishers (Greenhill) Mullum Mullum Road, Edna Lunt (nee Fisher).5-page printout and photocopied images compiled by Arthur Lunt, RDHS Archivist, Ringwood, Victoria, including Fisher and Pollard Family Trees. Photograph of house - Lauriston, with Joseph Pollard, wife - Emma Eliza Luscombe Pollard, and daughter - Ethel May Pollard. Photograph of picnic party with Alice Maud Mary Fisher "Mum" and Hugh Arthur Fisher "Dad". Title "Picnic in Victoria" (probably Warrandyte). NOTE: "Dad" and "Mum" were grandparents of Arthur Lunt (member of Ringwood Historical Society). +Additional Keywords: Pollard, Joseph / Pollard, Emma / Fisher / Luscombe / Gaskell.

Copy of group presentation notes for a talk to Ringwood and District Historical Society by Elva Brooke on early local identity Edward Thomas Miles 1849-1944 and descendants, with photocopied newspaper pages 17 and 18 of The Leader Supplement, October 6, 1894, and extract taken from the book "I Exell - The Life and Times of Sir Henry Jones" by Bruce Brown (1991) - Chapter 4, including the story of Captain E.T. Miles.

Note - Rhonda Clarke was reported as being related to Olympic runner Ron Clarke.Photograph of girls' basketball (netball) team of Ringwood East Primary School Metropolitan Premiers 1967. +Additional Keywords: Deany, John - teacher standing at rear, with back row L-R (standing) and front row L-R (kneeling): / Holmberg, Peta / Sanbrook, Gillian / Benson, Peta / Parker, Lyn / Harmen, Janice / White, Anne / French, Cheryl / Clarke, Rhonda / Cleary, Jenny / Rattray, Peta

Black and white photograph of family group in front of house. There is a small photograph in the sleeve which enlargement must have been taken from. There is an inscription on this.Typed below photograph, "Britten Family and home (site became Church of England, Warrandyte Road). Note log walls and rain-water barrel at his pioneer home. c 1907." Inscription on back of small photograph reads, "Wm Grace (1876), James Claridge (1880s) C. G. Britten (1905). All occupied this cottage on site now Church of England vicarage, Warrandyte Rd. Ringwood. Group from left. C. G. Britten holding daughter (Muriel) with son (Reg) on his right. His wife (nee Ethel Banks, Claridges' granddaughter) at rear with her sister in front, and brother Wally on extreme right. (Back of house)."