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Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1910
Black and white small format photograph of the LookOut Tree at Jemmys Point, showing dead tree supported by two logs, a woman two-thirds of the way up the 35 foot ladder which reaches the top. Lakes Entrance, Victoriahistoric sites, navigation -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, Bulmer H D, 1915
Also copy 15 x 10 same imageBlack and white photograph copied from a postcard of the LookOut Tree on Jemmys Point, shows the standing dead grey box tree supported by two heavy logs, a 35 foot ladder attached for access to top. Lakes Entrance Victoria.historic sites, navigation, people -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Photograph, before 1911
Photograph, black and white, of the three-masted barque SPECULANT at a jetty in low water. On the jetty and the shore are stacks of cut timber. The ship is in a wide river or bay, hills in the background, trees (like gum trees) in the foreground. Inscribed "Wrecked 10.2.11. Cape Patten. Jacobson. Munro. - - - -" Written on the photograph in blue pen "Rosbercon". (The SPECULANT was wrecked on 10th February 2011 at Cape Patton, Victoria, (not Patten as on the photograph). She was sailing under the control of Captain James Jacobsen and her First Mate was James Mumro.) 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, of the three-masted barque SPECULANT at a jetty in low water. On the jetty and the shore are stacks of cut timber. The ship is in a wide river or bay, hills in the background, trees (like gum trees) in the foreground. Inscribed below photograph "Wrecked 10.2.11. Cape Patten. Jacobson. Munro. - - - -" Written on the photograph in blue pen "Rosbercon"Inscribed below photograph "Wrecked 10.2.11. Cape Patten. Jacobson. Munro. - - - -" Written on the photograph in blue pen "Rosbercon"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, warrnambool historical photograph, cape patten, munro, james munro, la bella, speculant, cumming and ellis, international timber trade, p. j. mcgennan and co. warrnambool, peter mcgennan, capt. james jacobsen, warrnambool maritime history -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Digital Photograph, Alan King, Heritage apple tree, 28 December 2007
This old apple tree situated beside the Plenty River Trail at Greensborough has been associated with Melbourne Founder John Batman. Known as Batman's Tree, this apple tree is on the bank of the Plenty River near Leischa Court, Greensborough. It is said that Melbourne Founder John Batman may have planted the tree and later signed his treaty here with the Aboriginal people. It still bears fruit and its recorded on the National Trust's Register of Significant Trees, as the oldest apple tree in Victoria. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then / Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p7This collection of almost 130 photos about places and people within the Shire of Nillumbik, an urban and rural municipality in Melbourne's north, contributes to an understanding of the history of the Shire. Published in 2008 immediately prior to the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009, it documents sites that were impacted, and in some cases destroyed by the fires. It includes photographs taken especially for the publication, creating a unique time capsule representing the Shire in the early 21st century. It remains the most recent comprehenesive publication devoted to the Shire's history connecting local residents to the past. nillumbik now and then (marshall-king) collection, greensborough, john batman tree, plenty river trail -
Nillumbik Shire Council
Painting: Walter WITHERS (b.1854 Warwickshire, UK — d.1914 Eltham, Aus), Trestle Bridge, Eltham, c.1903-10
Walter Withers was a significant Australian landscape artist and a member of the Heidelberg School of Australian Impressionists. In 1903 Withers bought 'Southernwood', a house on 2½ acres (1 ha) at Eltham, to which he added a studio. Because of ill health, he lived during the week at his studio in Oxford Chambers, Melbourne, and on weekends and holidays with his family at Eltham until his death in 1914. The Eltham rail bridge is a unique and valuable historic relic of an earlier steam locomotive transport era in the Diamond Creek Valley and has long formed an important part of a magnificent Eltham landscape. When built in 1902 it was close to the terminus point of the Heidelberg-Eltham rail extension, on the route of the proposed Diamond Valley Railway that was then planned to continue much further up the valley towards Kinglake. This bridge is situated in attractive river-valley parkland amidst the tall and spreading manna gums and candlebarks of the Diamond Creek Valley. The Alistair Knox Park river-valley landscape, of which the timber trestle bridge is an important visual component, has been classified by the National Trust. Large manna gum and candlebark trees adorn the adjacent creek banks, and historic Shillinglaw Cottage is also part of this much-prized Eltham landscape. Eltham is home to a historic wooden railway trestle bridge. Mainly of timber-pier and timber-beam construction, but varied by a few longer steel-joists spans on timber piers at the main stream channel, this substantial bridge has almost two hundred metres of timber deck. Built in 1902, it is the only railway bridge of predominantly timber construction that is still in regular use as an integral part of Melbourne's metropolitan electric railway network and one of extremely few timber rail bridges in the State that still carry trains. Apart from its important continuing social function as a carrier of rail transport for the Hurstbridge line, this impressive bridge and its beautiful parkland environs contribute much to the character of Eltham township and that town's special reputation as an historic centre of environmental and conservation concerns. This section of the Diamond Creek Valley was the subject of a Walter Withers painting in the earliest years of the twentieth century and has strong historic links with our Heidelberg School of painters. Watercolour painting on paper of Eltham's Trestle Bridge in the middle of the day. A small section of the wooden bridge is located to the left of the painting. The focus is predominately on the wattle, manna gum and candlebark trees that is to the right of the bridge. The golden hues typically represent the australian sunlight and landscape. "W.W" in gothic script on the lower right side of the painting. Not dated. withers, eltham, trestle bridge, railway, watercolour -
Greensborough Historical Society
Article, Journal, The "Batman" apple tree at Greensborough, by Edward E. Pescott, 1942_06
Summary of the facts and legends regarding the planting of the apple tree which has become known as the Batman tree.2p. text with separate photograph"[pp.] 27-28 Vict. Nat. Vol. LIX June 1942"batman apple tree -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Postcard (item) - Black and white postcard, Main Road Marysville, Unknown
Postcard of early black and white photograph of the main street of Marysville in Victoria. This street is now known as Murchison Street.Postcard of early black and white photograph of the main street of Marysville in Victoria. This street is now known as Murchison Street.POST CARD PLACE/ POSTAGE/ STAMP/ HEREmarysville, victoria, murchison street, postcard, souvenir -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Postcard (Item) - Black and white postcard, Main Road Marysville, Unknown
Postcard of early black and white photograph of the main street of Marysville in Victoria.Postcard of early black and white photograph of the main street of Marysville in Victoria. This street is now known as Murchison Street.POST CARD PLACE/ POSTAGE/ STAMP/ HEREmarysville, victoria, murchison street, postcard, souvenir -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Painting, Renee Arendsen, Dead Wood Forest Mallacoota, 1967
CEMA Art Collection Winner of 1968 Portland Art Society Art Prize for the category Oil or similar medium.The painting depicts several tall, dead trees in the foreground with dense living trees in the background. The work has an interesting texture created through the use of clearly defined thick paint strokes. This technique is particularly evident in the foreground where it has been used to create the ground from which the dead trees stand. The work has a painted wooden frame with material mount and non-reflective glass.Front: R. ARENDSEN '67 (black, lower right) Back: RENNEE ARENDSEN "DEAD WOOD FOREST, MALLACOOTA" (1968) (typed) Stamp: KATRINA GALLERIES 485 CENTRE ROAD BENTLEIGH, VIC 97-6715 Yellow Sticker: 1967 Handwriting around back of frame. -
Whittlesea Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - Article, Whittlesea Leader, Elms support growing, 17 Oct 2001
Friends of the Elms community group to hold a meeting to give Whittlesea residents with elm trees tips on how to look after them and encouragement to register their trees on the Elm Tree Register. Hawkstowe Park ranger Ross Mugavin pictured.Newsprint 1 p. text with black and white photograph.friends of the elms, elm tree, ross mugavin, hawkstowe park, elm tree register -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Postcard (item) - Black and white postcard, Forest of Arden Marysville, Unknown
Postcard of early photograph of the Forest of Arden near Marysville.Postcard of early photograph of the Forest of Arden near Marysville.POST CARD PLACE/ POSTAGE/ STAMP/ HEREforest of arden, marysville, forest, tree fern, postcard, souvenir, victoria -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Painting - Painting - Water Colour
Glunkler was interned in Camp 3Water colour of two rows of huts. Each row has eight huts with the windows open. There is a single gum tree in the centre between the two rows and some tree in the background beyond a fence. Small gardens with stone edging are around the huts.Glunkler 1943 -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Painting, Nancy Malseed, Environment III, 1969
Art CollectionThe picture depicts trees with emus hiding amongst them. The trees are a cluster in the middle of a white background that gradually gets darker around the bottom and top edges. Mounted on a wooden backing which extends further then the picture, giving it a natural frame. No glass.Front: Malseed (brown paint, lower left.) Back: 1969- (Yellow circle sticker, top) 114 (small white sticker, top) Portland Art Gallery Trust (just short of top, white chalk) Nancy Malseed Environment 111 (1969) (strip of white paper, printed, top right) Malseed Environment 3 N.F.Scema, portland artists society -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Postcard - Postcard - The Harbour, Portland, n.d
Black and white photographic image of a harbour with two long piers running into it and a shorter jetty with a building on it and circular jetty protruding from it. In the foreground are trees, a dirt road with an RACV sign bridging it to the foreground right and a railway track visible between the trees.Front: THE ROSE SERIES P. 10771/ COPYRIGHT (typed, lower left) THE HARBOUR, PORTLAND (typed, lower centre) -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - Menzies Creek Hall damaged by storm, 2016
Colour photographs of Menzies Creek Hall damaged by a falling tree during a wind storm, 10th October 2016. In the first photo several cut logs in the foreground. The second photo shows a room bisected by the tree. Photos taken by Marian Matta. -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Postcard, Valentine Series, 1930c
Coloured postcard of the Post Office Jetty, showing two buildings on jetty, boats moored, and steamer leaving the jetty. Shoreline edged with bluestone, small Great War Memorial cypress tree, surrounded by wooden tree guard. Lakes Entrance Victoriamemorials, waterfront, boats and boating -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, "Ashen" Homestead -- 1984 planting trees, 1993 showing some graves and the growth of the trees -- 11 Photos
Series of eleven photos taken in 1984 planting trees and 1993 showing some graves and also the growth of trees.stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, "Ashen" Homestead -- 1984 planting trees, 1993 showing some graves and the growth of the trees -- 11 Photos
Series of eleven photos taken in 1984 planting trees and 1993 showing some graves and also the growth of trees.stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, "Ashen" Homestead -- 1984 planting trees, 1993 showing some graves and the growth of the trees -- 11 Photos
Series of eleven photos taken in 1984 planting trees and 1993 showing some graves and also the growth of trees.stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, "Ashen" Homestead -- 1984 planting trees, 1993 showing some graves and the growth of the trees -- 11 Photos
Series of eleven photos taken in 1984 planting trees and 1993 showing some graves and also the growth of trees.stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, "Ashen" Homestead -- 1984 planting trees, 1993 showing some graves and the growth of the trees -- 11 Photos
Series of eleven photos taken in 1984 planting trees and 1993 showing some graves and also the growth of trees.stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, "Ashen" Homestead -- 1984 planting trees, 1993 showing some graves and the growth of the trees -- 11 Photos
Series of eleven photos taken in 1984 planting trees and 1993 showing some graves and also the growth of trees.stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, "Ashen" Homestead -- 1984 planting trees, 1993 showing some graves and the growth of the trees -- 11 Photos
Series of eleven photos taken in 1984 planting trees and 1993 showing some graves and also the growth of trees.stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, "Ashen" Homestead -- 1984 planting trees, 1993 showing some graves and the growth of the trees -- 11 Photos
Series of eleven photos taken in 1984 planting trees and 1993 showing some graves and also the growth of trees.stawell -
Wangaratta Urban Fire Brigade
Photograph
Brendon Collier up at ladder against a tree trunk with a fire hose putting out a tree stump smoulderingcolor photoBrendon Collier 1985b.collier, 1985 -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Postcard (item) - Colour postcard, Donovan Wilson, MARYSVILLE, Post 2009
A postcard with four colour photograph of attractions in an around Marysville in Victoria.A postcard with four colour photograph of attractions in an around Marysville in Victoria. This postcard was produced by Donovan Wilson as a souvenir of Marysville.Tree fern and Alpine Ash/ Goulds Memorial Drive/ Murchison St. Marysville/ Steavenson Falls Donovan Wilson Place/ Stamp/ Heremarysville, tree fern, alpine ash, goulds memorial drive, murchison street, steavenson falls, donovan wilson, postcard, souvenir -
Upper Yarra Museum
Wooden Serviette holder
Used by The Mayer Chalet, Warburton.Wooden two tone, serviette Holder, hand painted on the sideTwo Mountain Ash Gum trunks in fore ground with blue mountains another tree in the background. In creme writing "From Mayer Chalet"serviette holder, mayer chalet -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, War Memorial Tree, North Ringwood State School - December 1972
Written on back of photograph, "War Memorial Tree, North Ringwood State School - December 1972. Planted by Major General Beavis, 1955". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood Arbour Day, 1910
Catalogue card and back of photograph reads, 'Ringwood Arbour Day 1910. Cr. Rouget, Mayor of Lilydale opening the tree planting ceremony'. -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - 'Merridale' (formerly 'Pomeroy'), 43 Sackville Street, 1979
In 1979, a series of photographs of significant gardens in Kew (Victoria) were taken during a tour by Peter Watts, of National Trust Victoria. These were later purchased to add to the collection. In the case of each photo the colour had badly degraded over time. Original colour (degraded) positive photograph of the front garden and part of the colonnaded verandah of 'Merridale' (formerly 'Pomeroy'), 43 Sackville Street, Kew.Annotated in ink reverse: "Merridale 43 Sackville St Built 1884/5 / View of drive to portico / Entrance old trees and gardens"merridale, pomeroy, sackville street -- kew (vic.), gardens -- kew (vic.)