Book was awarded to Stephen John Holgate in 1891 for first prize in bookkeeping. Stephen (D.O.B. 09/07/1877) entered the college on 27/01/1890. The original registry notes parent as Stephen Holgate from Miners Rest and Stephen's previously school is noted as 'Home Tuition'. Other family members noted as attending the college are Harold, George, Edward, Robert and Thomas. Archives also hold war memorabilia for Edward and George Holgate.Presbyterian educators placed great value on a classical education matched with diligence in study. Book prizes were highly regarded and academic success admired. In the school’s early years prizes were ordered direct from London and had the school crest embossed in gold on the front or back cover. Many of the prizes given in early years were returned to the school to equip the Weatherly Library when it opened in 1936. Connection to college war memorabilia and war heroes.Bound in soft red calf with gilt lettering and college crest embossed on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Floral end papers, foxing on pages, black and white illustrations throughout. 595 p.Book plate inside front cover: College crest/ Bookkeeping/ V Form./ First Prize. Awarded to/ S. Holgate/ Christmas, 1891.stephen-john-holgate, 1891, book-prize, miners-rest, harold-holgate, george-holgate, edward-holgate, robert-holgate, thomas-holgate.

Queenstown (St. Andrews) District. A gold miner with his home made dry blower device used for extracting gold particles from dry soil with out the use of water. In 1929, St Andrews was known as Queenstown. Originally published in The Leader, Nov. 2nd, 1929, with the title "Relics of the Old Mining days in the Queenstown District," a series of eight numbered photographs. 'The Leader'; a weekly journal of news, politics, agriculture, literature, science and sport.This photo forms part of a collection of photographs gathered by the Shire of Eltham for their centenary project book,"Pioneers and Painters: 100 years of the Shire of Eltham" by Alan Marshall (1971). The collection of over 500 images is held in partnership between Eltham District Historical Society and Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Eltham Library) and is now formally known as 'The Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph Collection.' It is significant in being the first community sourced collection representing the places and people of the Shire's first one hundred years.Digital image 4 x 5 inch B&W Neg Print 11 x 24.5 cmsepp, shire of eltham pioneers photograph collection, queenstown, gold mining, gold miner, st. andrews, old timer

This photograph depicts a man in dark clothing, standing in front of a cut away section of earth. He is undertaking hydraulic sluicing, which involves the use of high powered hoses, in order to cut away the earth which can then be sifted for gold. There is a single tree in the background and the earth contains numerous signs of damage because of the mining. Beechworth become a mining settlement after the discovery of gold in 1852. Gold fever had already spread across Australia's colonies and the American states. Sluicing the landscape for gold, as shown in this photograph, was done by diverting water and washing away the lighter dirt, allowing the gold particles to sift down in to catchments for collection. In Beechworth, there was considerable discontent caused by attempts to restrict water use for sluicing to those with certain 'water rights'. The extensive use of hydraulic sluicing, and the washing away of top soils has continued to impact the surrounds of Beechworth in to the present day. Sluicing as a method for gold mining which was widespread across Victoria during the 1870s. The erosion of the top soil in search of gold has a continuing environmental impact on the landscape and this photograph depicts but one example of this occurring and can provide much information to a researcher interested in understanding the history of gold mining in Victoria. This image of the miner and hose is historically important because it demonstrates the methods of goldmining employed in the later years of the goldrush at Beechworth. It shows how much land is washed away by the use of this technology. The image has good interpretive capacity because it allows researchers to see a different mining technique to what is usually presented. Black and white square photograph on card.reverse: 84-50-3 / 1997 3141 / smdsluicing, goldmining, beechworth, burke museum, miners, gold miners, gold sluicing, environmental impact

Photograph: dry stone wall, Lester Street, Eaglehawk. Photo shows three men ( identified as W. Crawford, F. Fitzpatrick, C. Jacob - order not known ) Written on accompanying sheet ' erected by Simon Jame, no cement or mortar used.' Notes appended ' Dry Wall in Lester St. was erected by Simon Jame, no mortar or lime was used in construction and it is still straight and true. It was originally erected to enclose a garden.'cottage, miners, dry stone wall, crawford, w., firtzpatrick f., jacob c., eaglehawk

Black and white reproduction: street scape view showing two storey building, ornate wrought iron balcony. On side of building : H. & C. Holmes, ironmongers & iron merchants, agricultural implements, oils, paints & paperhangings. Single storey building on RH side, timber above single doorway, paned windows either side. On front 'Bendigo rifle caller' (?) Dirt road at front, four men standing on footpath. Wooden fence on right hand side, small chimney behind. Batchelder written on bottom right hand side.Batcheldercottage, miners, bendigo, sandhurst, h. & c. holmes, ironmongers, agricultural, rifle

The Little Flower at work 1958 - 1983. A History of St. Therese's Parish Kennington. 128 pages with photographs, illustrations. Prepared for Monsignor Francis Owens, Parish Priest.Keith Housecottage, miners, bendigo, churches, st. therese's, catholic. keith house, monsignor f. owens. priest, parish.

Documents. Connelly, Tatchell & Dunlop. 1 - 1902 - Letter in blue envelope addressed to Green, Samuel, Retired Farmer, Lily Street, Bendigo containing account re Walters to you. 2 - 1902 - Account in blue envelope addressed to Dixon Mr Jacob, Farmer, Woodstock West. 3 - 1903 - Account to Collins Mrs in blue envelope.cottage, miners, connelly, tatchell & dunlop, green samuel, walters, dixon mr jacob, collins mrs

Negative. Victoria Hotel,on left of picture, S.Jones & Co; L.McPherson & Co; Bank of Commerce; Jones,Bird & Co, in left of picture. Also found in Box 87-2402.52.cottage, miners, victoria hotel, pall mall, bendigo., victoria hotel, pall mall, bendigo.

Document. Connelly, Tatchell & Dunlop - Legal Papers. 1 - Notes titled 'Crawfords land' 1902? 2 - 1890 - Torn notes - Commercial Finance Coy P? to Anderson. 3 - Torn Sheet - The Justices Act 1904, Third Schedule, Default Summons upon a complaint for a civil debt, in the court of Petty Sessions at Bendigo, in the Midland Bailiwick. 4 - Sundry General Costs concerning Custsons? R (name unreadable). 5 - Notes concerning 320 acres (notes not found).cottage, miners, connelly, tatchell & dunlop, commercial finance coy p?, anderson, the justices act 1904, custsons? r

Deed of Covenant between Mr. J.B. Davies to T. Luxton Esq., dated 5 August 1892. Pale blue two page document between John Bartlett Davies of Happy Valley Bendigo formerly called Sandhurst, gentleman, land registered in Office of Titles number 101598.cottage, miners, j.b. davies, happy valley road, thomas luxton, bendigo, sandhurst, deed of covenant

Document. Connelly, Tatchell and Dunlop - Accounts. 1 - Deposit slip for the Bank of Victoria for the credit of T Jefferson Connelly for five pound 8 shillings. Dated 12 July 1888. 2 - Post card with orange printing and printed one penny stamp. Addressed to Messrs Connelly, Tatchell and Dunlop, Barristers & Solicitors, Williamson St. Bendigo and dated 28 Feb 1896. On the back - Mitiamo 28.2.96 Yours of 24th with P. N. No 28740 & P. N. No 205982 duly received with thanks. Robt. I. Bidstrap. 3 - Two photo copies of 1 & 2.cottage, miners, connelly, tatchell and dunlop, t jefferson connelly, william crowley, bank of victoria, bidstrap robt i

Document. Various legal papers. 1889 - The National Bank of Australasia V Simpson Walter Peacock and Calvert James carrying on business as L McPherson & Co.cottage, miners, connelly, tatchell & dunlop, the national bank of australasia, simpson walter peacock, calvert james, l mc pherson & co.

Document. Evans & Coy. 1902. Handwritten page of receipts and expenditure for Evans & Coy. Dated 1902. Names mentioned include J Gee, McM (probably McMaster), Toomey, W Gee and A H Thomas.cottage, miners, evans & coy 1902, j gee, mcm (probably mcmaster), toomey, w gee, a h thomas

Document. Evans & Coy. Accounts - June 23rd. Handwritten page of receipts and expenditure for Evans & Coy. Dated Marong, June 23rd. Names mentioned include A H Thomas, McMaster, Wm Gee, J Evans, Dellar & Perry. Back includes note written by Wm McMaster. Came from a box marked 'Additional papers from the Evans Collection - for Eaglehawk Museum.'cottage, miners, evans & coy accounts - june 23rd, a h thomas, mcmaster, wm gee, j evans, dellar & perry

Book. Harry Biggs Collection. The Story of the Marong Shire from its Inception 1834 - 35 -- 1934 - 35. A blue cover with gold writing. Includes photos & lists of staff and students at the schools in the shire - Marong, Bridgewater, Kangaroo Flat, Raywood.cottage, miners, harry biggs collection, the victorian centenary book 1834-35 -- 1934-35, marong, bridgewater, kangaroo flat, raywood

Tears of Gold, fatalities on the Bendigo Goldfields 1852-1950. Signed by the author, John R. Kelly, 6 July 2010, dedication thanks to the Bendigo Historical Society Soft covered spiral bound book of 91 pages with black and white photographs, maps and illustrations.John Kellybendigo, gold mining, fatalities, bendigo history, goldmining, miners, mine accidents, family history.

Document: McColl, Rankin & Stanistreet, typed carbon copy agreement between Clifford Bray King and John Jepson Stanistreet for intended company New Don Gold Mines No Liability, 5 pages. Signed by C.B. King and J. Stanistreet, witnessed by John R. Liedminckcottage, miners, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet , bendigo, gold, goldmining, new don no liability

Document: Green bound ledger with red spine binding. An alphabetised ledger ( barely used ) listing expenses such as advertising, legal charges, insurance. All entries undated. Ledger also contains columns marked ' unallotted shares nominal capital, profit and loss, dated from 1932 to 1940. 'Ledger' and 'New Don No Liability'stamped on front cover.McColl, Rankin & Stanistreetcottage, miners, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet , bendigo, gold, goldmining, new don no liability

Auction Catalogue. Two copies of an auction catalogue for antique furniture and furnishings at 'Lancewood House', McLaren St. Bendigo. Contents of 18 rooms. Auction held over 3 days, May 31 to June 2. 1949. Auctioneers Bishop & Earl and Curnows (Bendigo) Prop. F. C .Dyett. Home once owned by Ernest Mueller. Catalogue includes 4 B & W photos of 3 rooms. Copy 'a' - Handwritten in ink on the first page 'Lydia Chancellor, Taraxville, Golden Square. Selling prices written against most items. 5 press cuttings re the auction are loose inside front cover. Copy 'b' - selling prices typed in against most items.Bishop and Earl, Curnows ( Bendigo)cottage, miners, lancewood house, auction, ernst mueller, bishop & earl, curnows (bendigo), lydia chancellor

Black and white image of workmen at electro hydraulic dredge Snake Valley mine site. Image has been mounted on dark brown card. Electro hydraulic dredge Snake Valley Victoria 1909. J.M.C. Bennett was an engineer back at the main base, at Dawson's Dam on the Carngham Road, bet Linton and Snake Valley. These dredges were used for getting gold. The streams of water under high pressure just washed the hills and ground away. This dredge closed down early 1910. 200 H.P. Motors were used and 10 in. pumps.electro hydraulic dredge, dredging, sluicing, mining, gold, miners, mining equipment, snake valley

The discovery of gold in Smyth's Creek in 1854 and subsequent gold rush to the Caledonia diggings led to the establishment of Queenstown (present day St Andrews). The first recorded burial was July 31st, 1861 and it was officially declared a Cemetery Reserve in 1866. Many graves are unmarked and unrecorded including many Chinese and other itinerant miners. The cemetery was closed for new burials in 1851. The last recorded burial was in 1981 in an existing family grave. In Loving memory of David Band Died 30th Decr. 1862, aged 51 years. John Cork Knell Died 11th April 1867, aged 42 years. Eliza Smith Died 20th Jany. 1874, aged 3 1/2 years. William Band Died 20th Feby. 1883, aged 51 years. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then /​ Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p73 The discovery of gold at Smyth’s Creek* in 1854 brought 3000 people to the area in search of their fortunes.1 However in the harsh conditions many miners and their families died young, and were buried in unmarked graves. Their stories died with them but by 1861, the first burial was recorded at the Queenstown Cemetery – that of William Dalrymple aged 65 – although the cemetery was only officially declared a reserve in 1866. Even before this in 1856, a double burial had been recorded for the twin baby daughters of George Harrison at Market Square, the miners’ settlement – presumably where the cemetery is today. In 1951 the Queenstown Cemetery at 70 Smiths Gully Road, Smiths Gully, closed for burials. However the last burial in a family plot, that of Grace Evelyn Smith, occurred in 1981. Today only 55 headstones remain, but more than 380 burials are recorded. Remnant bushland dominates the cemetery where many graves are merely mounds and others have been damaged by vandalism and the neglect of time. Bushfire in 1962 destroyed the picket fencing, grave markers and cypress boundary planted in the early 1900s. The box/stringybark woodland in the 1.7 hectare Cemetery Reserve is regrowth from then and the indigenous and heritage vegetation is protected. Thanks to the volunteer Cemetery Trust and Friends & Relations of Queenstown Cemetery, the cemetery is maintained, stories recorded and the burial index corrected and expanded.2 Close by the cemetery on the site of today’s Peter Franke Picnic and Nature Reserve stood Market Square, the Caledonia Diggings village of tents and stores, the forerunner of Queenstown, now St Andrews. Many of the Caledonia Diggings miners were Chinese, many of whom, with itinerant prospectors, were buried in unmarked graves. Histories are being recorded of other immigrants, mainly English and German, who settled after the gold rush, some of whose descendants fought and died in the two world wars. Names on many headstones are also recorded on the district’s roads, reserves and war memorials such as Motschall, Joyce, Howard and Coutie. The oldest surviving tombstone is that of Scot, David Band who died in 1862 at 51 years. His oldest daughter Elizabeth, with husband John Knell, owned the Queenstown Hotel and the post office. Child-rearing in a colonial gold town was often tragically difficult, as demonstrated in the first 20 years, when 41% of the 34 burials recorded were children. Settlers endured harsh conditions graphically illustrated with the deaths of Annie Joyce at 30 years and of her family. Annie was married to gold miner Walter Joyce. Their third child Walter, born in 1886, died in March 1887. Eight months later Annie died of breast cancer. Walter died in 1909, aged 53, of miner’s phthisic caused by stone dust destroying his lungs. It was so hard to make a living that burials were usually held from 2.30 pm to allow mourners to work a day before paying their last respects.3 Most burials before 1890 were recorded as Anglicans, as the only church on the Caledonia Diggings was the Church of St Andrew, until 1897, when the Primitive Methodist Church came to Panton Hill. Generally miners came to better themselves, but some, like Grace Hopkinson (nee Milward), born in England in 1828, came from a well-off and educated family. According to family legend Grace emigrated with husband William, to live in a tent, but had kept her personally embossed sterling silver cutlery service. Amid the tough environment were some successes like that reported in The Evelyn Observer April/May 1901 of miner William Hopkinson who was buried at the cemetery in 1912 aged 81. The Observer stated that Hopkinson ‘recently dropped across another find in his claim at One Tree Hill’. The lump of gold found this time weighed more than half a kilo. Mr Hopkinson referred to it as ‘another little speck’. *Today’s Smiths GullyThis 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, david band, eliza smith, gravestones, john cork knell, queenstown cemetery, smiths gully road, st andrews, william band

The Kokoda Track (or Trail) is a single-file thoroughfare that runs 96 kilometres (60ml) overland) - 60 kilometres (37ml) in a straight line - through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea (PNG).The trail was First used by Europeans in the 1890s by miners struggling northwards to the Yodda Kokoda goldfields. During the Pacific War of World War 2 a series of battles were fought from July 1942 to January 1943 between Japanese and Australian forces.One of the bloodiest campaigns of World War 2,which has forever sealed the relation ship between Australia and Papua New Guinea began 61 years ago. This Photographic Memorial is dedicated to those Australian and Papua New Guinea forces who fought against the Japanese with courage and fortitude on the Kokoda Trail.Rectangular shaped glass covered picture frame showing a collection of photos,two flags and a Rising sun badge. The Kododa Trail.kokoda track, world war 2, papua new guinea, australian forces, lara r.s.l.

Established during the great Mount Alexander alluvial gold rush of 1852-54 the cemetery is located on a small hill overlooking one of the richest spots on the goldfield (the junction of Fryers Creek and Loddon River). The location of the cemetery was chosen because it was a convenient piece of ground where gold was not likely to be discovered, and burials were mainly of Chinese miners. It remained in use until 1857. The cemetery was restored in 1929 using money raised within the Chinese communities of Bendigo and Castlemaine. Colour photograph of the Chinese Cemetery at Vaughan. vaughan, vaughan springs, vaughan chinese cemetery, chinese

The Town Mission was established in Ballarat East by a group of Wesleyans. "Australian Silverpen" wrote an historical sketch about the Town Missioner, Martin Hosking. From miner's tent to mission pulpit : Martin Hosking, Ballarat's town missionary : an in memoriam sketch /​ by The Australian Silverpen. See https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/223253590?q=town+mission+hall+ballarat&c=book&versionId=244807517 See also Dorothy Wickham's Beyond the Wall: Ballarat Female RefugePostcard size black and white photograph of the Ballarat Town Mission Hallmartin hosking, town mission, welfare, charity, ballarat, ballarat east, canadian home, ballarat town mission

Methodist services began in late 1893 in the bush, near the end of the present Silvan Reservoir. The seats were split rails and the pulpit a fallen log with a sapling rail. Then a miner's bark hut became available in on the Recreation Ground. The Methodist Church was built and opened in 1903 on the corner of Moxham's Rd and David Hill Rd., with the financial assistance of Mr. James Griffiths of Griffiths Tea. This booklet gives a comprehensive history of the development of the church, its congregations and ministers.Soft cover booklet of 40 pages. Cream coloured cover with a photo of Monbulk Methodist Church 1972.monbulk methodist church, betty hotchin

Thomas Buzza (1833-1904) was a Cornish born miner who came to Bendigo in 1853. He bought the BAckCreek sawmill (1861-1865). He had several other sawmilling enterprises and later operated a hay and corn produce store. He also built and operated paddle-steamers in the Murray Darling system. He left Myers Flat in 1893 and died in Goolwa, SA in 1904. He had married Emily Rainsdon (1852-1926) in 1867.Printed family history spiral bound with perspex cover. Contents page - no index. Contains family trees, summary of Thomas Buzza and his migration from Cornwall, details of descendants of Thomas Buzza, photographs, maps and images of birth, death and marriage certificates.Darren McFarlanegenealogy, family, cornish, buzza, bendigo, eaglehawk