This is a collection of 12 coloured photographs of the Warley Hospital and Nursing home donated by Meg Davis. In 1923 the Warley Hospital was established in a house purchased by Mr Thompson. The new hospital was built in 1962 and the Nursing Home Annex was added in the mid 1970's. The Hospital was closed January 31st 2008.Colour Photograph 1 Cyprus Tree in grounds of the Warley Hospital with Plaque mounted on Granite plinth at base. Colour Photograph 2 Warley Avenue Cowes, Phillip Island with trees lining the street. Colour Photograph 3 Plaque mounted on Granite plinth stating "This tree was planted at the Diamond Jubilee Celebration 4-12-1983 by Mr Peter J Berwick, President Victorian Bush Nursing Association" Colour Photograph 4 Warley Avenue Street Sign mounted on concrete pole. Colour Photograph 5 Warley Hospital driveway alongside front entrance. Colour Photograph 6 Warley Hospital with "Expressions of Interest" Sign in foreground with SOLD across the sign. Colour Photograph 7 Warley Hospital Nursing Home. Colour Photograph 8 Warley Hospital front view with garage underneath. Colour Photograph 9 Warley Hospital Nursing Home. Colour Photograph 10 Warley Hospital front close up view of garage entrance and Nursing home to the right in the background. Colour Photograph 11 Warley Hospital Main Entrance. Colour Photograph 12 Warley Hospital original Medical Centre - now Consulting Rooms. warley hospital cowes phillip island, hospitals, warley nursing home cowes phillip island, warley avenue cowes phillip island, meg davis

One of a collection of photographs purchased by the Society from Jack Day of Mornington.Black & White postacrd of Marldon Guest House. Situated in an elevated position over looking bay in Thompson Avenue, Cowes. House has verandah with garden behind a fence and a pine tree providing shade in the street outside."Murray Views No. 21" "Marldon Guest House, Cowes, Phillip Island, Vic." On Back: "Dear Matre, We are having a nice time here. It is my birthday today and we had a cake with three candles and I got 2 ribbons and some sweeties and some hankies. Will see you on Sat. Love Lyn. Addressed to: Mrs C. Henderson,17 Woodmason Street, Malvern, Melbourne."marldon guest house, cowes, phillip island, jack day collection

A depiction of a seascape with six large rocky outcrops emerging from the ocean. The rocks are painted in horizontal layers of red, yellow and blue. The sea is indigo with highlights in white and darker areas of near black. Sky depicts a dawn or dusk view, with lower half washed in apricot and yellow with touches of red/orange. Upper half of sky is blue. In faun matt and framed under glass in wooden frame with gold edging.Front: McL 90 (lower right) (white paint) Back: (no inscriptions)

CEMA Art collection Previously located in History HouseThe print depicts a night view of a city street. In the foreground are ghosly figures completing a military march along a wide street. On the left side is a large white Remembrance Shrine with three flags hanging on individual flagpoles. In the background are numerous multi-storey buildings with a row of light streetlights in front. The work is completed in various shades of blue and mounted with brown card. Framed with a gold and black frame, the work has an exposed canvas.Front: Brass embossed plate: THE IMMORTAL SHRINE BY WILL LONGSTAFF COPYRIGHT REGISTERED Back: (No inscriptions)

CEMA Art Collection. Part of "A Community View" 150 years in Portland Screenprint Exhibition. Part of Angela Gee Residency 1983 and 1984.Laminated screenprint of a fishing boat on slipway. The boat and ground surrounding it are predominantly black with a small amount of orange. The sky is dark blue and fades into a lighter blue on the right side of the work.Front: Norman Poole (lower right) (pencil) Back: 31

CEMA Art Collection Previously located in History HouseThe painting depicts a large stone building with two smaller buildings in the foreground. Within the foreground is a small patch of dirt and grass with a side view of a small building to the right and a front and side view of a small stone building to the left. In the background is the large building which features two chimmneys. To the left of the building is a leafless tree and pale blue sky. The work has a gold and green frame with glass.Front: "GREENMOUNT" (brown, lower left) TRAVIS WEBBER (brown, lower right) 23 (white sticker attached to glass Back: (No inscriptions)

NilScene of Portland Harbour. View includes people walking on beaches, jetties, moored boats (some with sails, some without). Upper centre of image shows a town, with a church to the right. To the left centre is a planned garden with people promenading. In foreground is empty land with a few seagulls. A train track enters the image on bottom centre. Print is predominantly in shades of blue, grey and brown. Mounted in dark cream matt, in wooden frame with glass.Front: A. Hy Fullwood (lower left, grey paint) "Portland Victoria" A. H. Fullwood 1836-1930 (printed below image) Back: (no inscriptions)

Art Collection Previously located in History HouseThe painting depicts the Portland Port from an aerial perspective. The perspective is taken from the ocean looking down across the Port and into the town of Portland. Within the foreground is the ocean beyond the Main Breakwater, the Main Breakwater and the Port. Within the Port nine large ships are docked and another is being brought into the Port by two tugboats. The background features a distant view of the town of Portland and the landscape beyond the township. The work has a white wooden frame and glass.Front: TROMPF (white paint, bottom right corner) Back: (no inscriptions)

CEMA Art Collection Part of "A Community View" 150 years in Portland Screenprint Exhibition Part of Angela Gee Residency 1983 and 1984Laminated screenprint of standing female figure dressed in black and holding a red umbrella. The figure is wearing a red glove and a pink item in her hair. The background is a floral wallpaper print in blues and greens.Front: 8/ 37 A Gee Back: 19

CEMA Art Collection. Part of "A Community View" 150 years in Portland Screenprint Exhibition. Part of Angela Gee Residency, 1983 and 1984.A laminated screenprint of a portrait montage in black on coloured background. The foreground consists of over one hundred small portraits which cover the majority of the work. On the left and top right sides are black outlines of various flora. At the top of the work is black text which reads "1834 Portland 1984".Front: Angela Gee '83 (lower right) (pencil) Back: 20portland, angela gee residency

Photograph of a watercolour by Eltham artist Bob Smith painted in 1980. The view is from around the rail line looking up Main Street with the Greensborough Hotel centre right. Posted on FaceBook by Dave Wilkes-Johnson, 20.8.2021.Colour digital photograph of paintinggreensborough hotel, main street greensborough

Possibly produced as one of a series of photographic post cards of various areas of the Mission especially of the Chapel in the pre-war WW2 period of the 20th century. There are several such cards in the MTSV Collection. The Chapel, opened in 1917, was a special fundraising project of the Ladies Harbour Light Guild and was originally dedicated as a Memorial Chapel in remembrance of those who served in the Merchant Navy of WWI. The Chapel is still used for marriages, baptisms,funerals and memorial services, and is often referred to as St Peter's, the Mariners' Chapel. Photographic postcards were produced soon after the new 1917 Mission to Seamen building was first opened. Available to supporters and visiting seafarers alike, effectively promoting the Mission and the role it played in ensuring both spiritual and pastoral care available to seamen and shipping to and from Australia. Black and white gloss print postcard featuring an interior view of St Peter's Chapel at the MTSV 717 Flinders St showing the baptismal font and front door.Pencil inscription " Ret to B. Kent" (see also gift comments below) ; Printed : "POST CARD / A Real Photograph Produced in Australia"mtsv, missions to seamen institute, baptism, merchant navy, st peter chapel, mission to seafarers, baptistry, baptismal font, seamen's mission, flinders street

Aerial view of Melbourne pre October 1997 as the Docklands stadium, landmark of the new precinct is not yet built.Large framed and glazed print of aerial colour photograph of the Yarra river and Docklands, C - 1982 - 1995 docklands, melbourne, aerial view, yarra river, city, port melbourne, albert park

This album containing 50 photographs depicts a year at the Mission in 1928: Wedding of the Dora Walker with Harry Simpson on 14 February. Picnic at Riversdale Hawthorn, 1 January 1928 Ships in Port Melbourne in November: HMAS Australia, HMAS Brisbane, and destroyers Anzac, Success, Swordsman Wharfs, Victoria Dock, Stevedores Picnic in Finhaven, Kew, the Buchan's Property for Cup Day (6 November) Views of Port Melbourne from 1888 building Monday 29 October: return of Archbishop of Melbourne (Dr. Harrington Lees), who had spent a 10-month holiday in England with his wife. Arrival on the RMS Maloja Two photographs are missing.Pre Great Depression, 1928 was a difficult year in Melbourne and also for the Mission. Ships were rare on the wharfs meaning seamen were also rare in the missions. However they started the fundraising for the extension of the 1888 Port Melbourne building which was becoming too small. At the end of the year, Reverend Weller announced he was appointed assistant in London. He and his wife Alexina left in January 1929 after five years. They sailed on the Osterley on the 22 January 1929.Embossed yellow font on cover reads: ALBUMfan, strikes, police, reverend john reginald weller (1880-1969), alexina weller (nee caley), freda oxley, hmas australia, hmas brisbane, great depression, unemployment, port melbourne, station pier, sugar cane, queensland, dora simpson nee walker, weddings, cup day, finhaven, kew, the ducketts, mrs john buchan, flinders street extension, gasworks, wharfs, victoria dock, motorboat, southern cross, success, destroyers, football, sports, rms maloja, lhlg, fan album, anzac, swordsman, freda kathleen oxley 1882-1969, annie alexandrina caley (known as alexina) 1885-1934

Paperback blue cover with red English merchant Navy flag. 74 pagesfictionFrom the 1942 cover: We are proud to announce this book by Frank Laskier, "a sailor, an Englishman," the merchant seaman who gave the ever-memorable postscript after the BBC news on the first Sunday in October. The millions of listeners who heard that deeply moving voice will welcome an opportunity to read many more stories of the war at sea, which Laskier tells with the incomparable vividness of simple truth, and which made him a great broadcast speaker overnight. Laskier sounds, too, the note of victory that will bring a universal response-"Remember what we have been through; remember what we're going through; and fight and fight, and never, never, never, give in!" The publisher of this new edition has included an introduction and explanatory footnotes, as well as an appendix listing the ships mentioned in the book along with their descriptions. First published in 1942 by George Allen & Unwin, Londonfrank laskier, seafarers, sailors, seafaring life, ww2, world war 2, merchant navy, bbc, radio, liverpool, second world war, australia, padre oliver, battle of the atlantic, frank laskier (1912-1949), gunner, log book

This Wesleyan Chapel was used as the first Sailor's Rest in Williamstown in 1875. Photograph of the first Institute locales in Williamstown.View looking across street to a brick building with arched doorway on a corner block. A sign on the left reads: Sailors' Re[st].Typed sheet attached to verso: No. 15: The Sailor's Rest, Ann Street, Williamstown, about 1885. Written on verso: Photograph - Andrew Rider. Written on verso: Sailors' Rest, Ann St., Williamtown, 1880's.williamstown, ann street, sailors' rest, seamen's mission, andrew rider (1821-1903), wesleyan church

The text reads: "This Print Represents The Chapel for Seamen... Port of London Society... Instituted March 18th 1818... Chapel for Seamen is moored off Wapping Stairs in the River Thames. View of the Interior (inset)"Excerpt from the autobiography of Robert Humphrey Marten (1763-1839) which he wrote at the request of his children on his 60th birthday. (As far as the donor's knowledge it only circulates within the family, so some of these details may not be recorded elsewhere about how the Mission to the Seafarers began. --------- Robert Humphrey Marten (1763-1839) left school at the age of about 14 to be employed in a “Counting House” in the City of London. Unfortunately, before the five years of his apprenticeship expired, the merchant ceased trading as he had lost a lot of money gambling. Marten made his way however and took opportunities which offered and eventually set up his own business with two of his sons, Robert and Charles. He was a Dissenter (non-conformist), active in his church and in many charitable works, as overseer of the poor for his parish, raising money for families in Germany impoverished by the Napoleonic wars, was a member of the Royal Humane Society and so it is not altogether surprising to find him in 1817 taking up the cause of sailors discharged from warships living on the streets: --- The Autobiography of R H Marten Esq of Plaistow Essex (1763-1839) “The deplorable condition of sailors discharged from the ships of war and now wanted for commerce – (trade being most woefully dull) attracted towards the close of the Year the notice and began to press upon the feelings of the Public. To relieve their urgent and personal distress I proposed a Public meeting – This was agreed to and Mr. Wilberforce was voted into the chair – A committee was formed and a noble subscription was most voluntarily supplied – Navy Captains and others gave most efficient assistance and Govt. lent some large ships to which the sailors were sent from the streets – were clothed and fed and the sick attended to and on the Sabbath Public Worship was performed on board. I was on this Committee which fully accomplish’d its humane purpose – and out of the Surplus fund sprang the present seaman’s floating Hospital where a sick or diseased seaman is received only on his presenting himself alongside and without any ticket or recommendation. For the greater benefit of seamen was sketched the present excellent establishment of the Merchant Seaman’s Auxiliary Bible Society of which Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth is President. This was more formally instituted on the ---[space left to add date later]. I drew the outline of the address to the Public which was afterwards much improved by the Revd. Mr. Draltry and I had the honour to chalk out the plan which has been so well executed by the pious Lieut. Cox at Gravesend – to whose zealous and judicious activity the success of the institution is much indebted, and in December I published my ideas on the necessity and advantage of making some permanent accommodation for preaching the Gospel to the numerous sailors always to be found in the Port of London. This led ultimately to a public meeting on the 5 Feb. 1818 and to the formation of the Port of London Society for promoting Religion among seaman [sic]. As the Founder of the Society I became its Chairman and Treasurer and on its formal Institution on the 18 March 1818 the public appeared much gratified with the attempt about to be made to raise the moral character of a class of men who had been unaccountably and far too long in this respect overlooked. The large ship fitted by the Society most commodiously as a Chapel was in May following moored nearly on the spot where in October 1803 I was run down by a Gravesend Hoy and narrowly escaped with life – Churchmen and Dissenters contributed cheerfully to the cost – Officers of the Navy became subscribers, Noblemen visited this strange and converted ship – the Admiral Lord Gambier became the avowed President and the Chairman of the public Meetings, and what is of far more importance – sailors came to it on the Sabbath by hundreds willingly to worship their maker, and listen to instruction – until the Language in common use on the Thames was divested of its Blasphemy – and the voice of Prayer was heard from the mouths of Seamen; and the outposts and many Foreign ports imitated and thus honored the example of the Port of London in her society for promoting Religion among Seamen. The Floating Chapel was solemnly dedicated for divine worship on the 4 May 1818 when the morning sermon was preached by the Revd. Rowland Hill to a very crowded auditory. “[see illustration in separate email] Autobiography of R H Marten esq pp 33-34 (privately published monograph) Note: The incident (c 1803) he refers to in which he “was run down by a Gravesend Hoy…” is graphically described earlier in his memoir. The donor's family has a connection with R.H. Marten. through his sister Mary, who married Cornelius Berry on 9 February 1793. The donor's father, Hugh William Berry (1905-?) reprinted the autobiography of R.H. Marten. And, she has herself a connection with the Mission as she used to collect money for the Mission at school. Large print depicting a floating church in Londonfloating church, seamen, sailors, religion, london, r.h. marten esq, wapping stairs, river thames, port, robert humphrey marten (1763-1839), cate lewis, seamen's hospital, welfare, napoleonic wars, royal navy, merchant navy

"Charles E. Turner was an artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, and specialised in landscape and marine views. Having served in the Royal Air Force in the First World War, reaching the rank of Captain, Turner worked as a war artist during 1939-45. Turner painted pictures of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth for Cunard, which were made into a series of popular postcards. He also designed for Churchill Cigar Boxes, and, alongside paintings demonstrating his first-hand experience of combat, produced illustrations for Illustrated London News and Sphere magazines. Many of his oil and watercolour paintings of the two World Wars are preserved in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, London, and at the Imperial War Museum, London." (The National Archives UK)Representative and promotional example of service by MTS to the variety of ships visiting ports in the first half of the 20th C. Cardboard frontispiece of a calendar published by the Missions to Seamen. A colour painting titled "Mission Boat on her Rounds" by artist Charles E. Turner, represents an imaginary image of the mission boat with the Flying Angel flag sailing towards several ships.Written in pencil at the back: "With best wishes from the Chaplain and the LHL Guild"calendar, frontispiece, charles e. turner (1883-1965), hlg, harbour lights guild

Australian wharf in the 1910s. On the rooftop we can read: -TED / HUDDART PARKER & CO. Inside the dock we can see barrels and bags. siddeley street institute, australian-wharf, huddart parker, walter richmond butler (1864–1949), goldsmith album