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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Plan - Extension to weighbridge, Sandridge, George Kelly?, Borough Surveyor, 8 Nov 1864
Plan for extension of weighbridge, Borough of Sandridge, 1864.Numbered in red pencilengineering, engineering department - borough of sandridge, george kelly -
Ballan Shire Historical Society
Map - Map. Ballan Township, Plan of Ballan Township in the Counties of Bourke and Grant
The map is an early one of the township of Ballan showing street names and land owners.The map is significant in that it lists the owners of the house blocks within the township.A map showing the township and surrounding area of Ballan in 1856. Town streets are named as are the owners of the subdivided blocks of land. The map is a lithocopy and there is a scale in chains."D D Fraser" is written across the top of the map and "1856" is written in the near top right corner. There are other additions to the map but they are very difficult to decipher accurately or completely.ballan, ballan township map, ballan1856 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - St Augustine's Church of England Inglewood 1864-1964, 14/06/1964
St Augustine's was consecrated in June 1864 and the first minister was Rev. H. C. M. Watson.16 Page Booklet celebrating 100 years of the church 1864-1964, program of events, Foreward by the rector, history of the church.religion, lydia chancellor collection, history, church -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Folder, William Brewer, 1864
Folder of information on William Brewer, Panton Hill, 1864william brewer -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Folder, Joseph Emmott, 1864
Folder of information on Joseph Emmott, Panton Hill, 1864joseph emmott, ann emmott -
St Kilda Historical Society
Photograph, Oberwyl, c.1990s
Rare Gold Rush mansion built 1856, ballroom added 1861colour photograph, unmounted[lengthy typed description on back] house built 1856, ballroom added 1861 -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Award - Medal, ca. 07-11-1856
The medal was presented to Captain Thos. Smith (Thomas Smith) for his assistance in saving the crew of the wrecked barque, the Eleanor Lancaster, at Newcastle in N.N.S.W. (New South Wales). The ship was wrecked during a storm on November 7th, 1856. This medal is significant as a form of recognition of the bravery of Captain Thos Smith.Medal; round, silver, with silver rope border, anchor and rope decoration on top and central inscription on the front, plain back. Black leather-covered case with blue velvet-covered insert and white silk-lined lid. The medal was hand engraved and later presented to Captain Thomas Smith."Presented to CAPT THOs SMITH As a public testimonial of his successful exertions in assisting to save the crew of the Barque ELEANOR LANCASTER during the storm of the 7th Novr" "NEWCASTLE" "N.S.W." "1856"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, medallion, shipwreck eleanor lancaster, captain thomas smith, shipwreck newcastle november 7th 1856, eleanor lancaster, newcastle, thos smith, storm, thomas smith, 7th november 1856, n.s.w. shipwreck, newcastle shipwreck, silver medal, hand engraved, life saving, australian award -
Clunes Museum
Book, Buckets to Pagers, Clunes Fire Brigade, 2014
History of the Clunes Fire Brigade.1 Paper back, dark blue cover. Author Robert Campbell, 131 pages contains text and photos, 150 years of service .2 Also Anniversary Dinner Programme 1864-2014History of the Clunes Fire Brigadepaper -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Births Register Index
small sheet of film 1864 OCONNELL J TO 1864 SKINNER Abirth, family, register -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Folder, Louis Le Juge, 1864
Folder of information on Louis Le Juge, Miner, Caledonian Diggings, 1864louis le juge -
Clunes Museum
Document - REPORT, APPLICATIONS FOR REWARDS - DISCOVERY OF NEW GOLD FIELDS, 1864
DOCUMENT PERTAINING TO THE APPLICATION FOR REWARDS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF NEW GOLDFIELDS DATED 1864local history, document, report, mining -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book - Borough of Sandridge, rate book, Mason and Firth, Printers, 1860 - 1864
Borough of Sandridge Rate Book - arrears of rates fee for the years 1860 to 1864local government - borough of sandridge -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Newspaper - Newspaper Cutting, The South Bourke Standard, The Horticultural Society, 1864
Description of the annual meeting of the society. The December flood had destroyed the fruit tree plantings. The Government had refused a request to grant them more suitable land to the north so part of the ornamental section had to be broken up and planted with fruit trees.Photocop[y of article in "The South Bourke Standard" 29 July, 1864 p3. the south bourke standard, floods -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Births Register Index
small sheet of film 1864 BROWN M TO 1864 DOWN Mbirth, family, register -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Births Register Index
small sheet of film 1864 DOWN P TO 1864 HAWKINS Ebirth, family, register -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Births Register Index
small sheet of film 1864 HAWKINS E TO 1864 LONG Ebirth, family, register -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Births Register Index
small sheet of film 1864 HAWKINS E TO 1864 OCONNELL Jbirth, family, register -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Births Register Index
small sheet of film 1864 SKINNER C TO 1864 WILSON Jbirth, family, register -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Document (item) - Allansford land purchase document, Land purchase document, 1864
Thiss paper contains details of the purchase of Lot 11 in the Township of Allansford in 1864. The purchaser, Isabella McQueen, was born in Scotland in 1814, married Alexander McQueen in 1850 and with her family migrated to Australia in 1854. After her husband's death in 1860 Isabella purchased the land in Frank Street, Allansford in 1864 and lived in a house there with family members until her death in 1895. She had purchased the land, via an agent, from John Allan who with his brothers were the pioneer European settlers in the Allansford area. John Allan had created the township of Allansford in the mid 1850s by sub-dividing the land he owned there. John Allan moved to the Gippsland area late in 1864. This scrap of paper is most significant as it is an original record of an early transaction in the history of Allansford, a town now part of Warrnambool City.Mrs isabella McQueen Bot. of Robert Gregory As agent for J M Allan Esq. Lot no. 11 as marked and described on the Plan of Subdivision of the Township of Allansford. For which I have received the um of five pounds Stg. being the purchase money of same. Robert Gregory 21st October 1864allansford history, john allan, isabella mcqueen -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Births Register Index
small sheet of film 1856 ELLIS A TO 1856 JONES Jbirth, family, register -
Pyrenees Shire Council
Photo montage, Shire of Lexton Councillors, c1914
Photograph of Shire of Lexton Councillors 1864-1914significant to the Pyrenees Shire and Lexton communityphotographs of 12 Councillors and the Council building in Lexton framed"Inscribed front: Presented to the LEXTON SHIRE COUNCIL by Cr R.W. LAIDLAW, J.P. President 1864-1914 to commemorate the Jubilee of the Shire 1914 -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Book, The Despatch
WARRNAMBOOL MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE Warrnambool's Mechanics' Institute (or Institution as it was sometimes called) was one of the earliest in Victoria. On 17th October 1853, a meeting was held where it was resolved to request the Lieutenant Governor of the Colony to grant land for the erection of a Mechanics' Institutes building. A committee was formed at the meeting and Richard Osburne chaired the first meeting of this committee. The land on the North West corner of Banyan and Merri Streets was granted but there were no funds to erect the building. The Formal Rights of the Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute's encompassed its aims and these were officially adopted in1859; "This Institution has for its object the diffusion of literary, scientific, and other useful knowledge amongst its members, excluding all controversial subjects, religious or political. These objects are sought to be obtained by means of a circulating library, a reading room, the establishment of classes, debates, and the occasional delivery of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy, mechanics, astronomy, chemistry, natural history, literature, and the useful and ornamental arts, particularly those which have a more immediate reference to the colony." The Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute opened its first reading room in November 1884 in the National School building at the corner of Banyan and Timor Streets. The Institute was funded by member subscription, payable on a quarterly, half-yearly or yearly basis. Samuel Hannaford, the Manager of the Warrnambool Bank of Australasia, was the first Honorary Secretary of the Mechanics' Institutes, and an early President and Vice-President. He also gave several of the early lectures in the Reading Room. Another early Secretary, Librarian and lecturer was Marmaduke Fisher, the teacher at the National School. Lecture topics included The Poets and Poetry of Ireland', 'The Birth and Development of the Earth', 'The Vertebrae - with Remarks on the pleasures resulting from the study of Natural History' and 'Architecture'. In 1856 the Reading Room was moved to James Hider's shop in Timor Street, and by 1864 it was located in the bookshop of Davies and Read. In the 1860's the Mechanics' Institute struggled as membership waned but in 1866, after a series of fundraising efforts, the committee was able to purchase land in Liebig Street, on a site then called Market Square, between the weighbridge and the fire station. A Mechanics' Institute building was opened at this site in August 1871. The following year four more rooms were added to the main Reading Room and in 1873 the Artisan School of Design was incorporated into the Institute. The same year Joseph Archibald established a Museum; however, it deteriorated when he was transferred to Bendigo in 1877. In 1880, with Archibald's return to Warrnambool, the Museum was re-established, and in 1885 a new building was built at the back of the Institute to accommodate the re-created School of Design, the Art Gallery and the Museum. In 1887 the Museum section was moved to the former courthouse in Timor Street (for some time the walls of the building formed part of the TAFE cafeteria but all is now demolished)). In 1911 the Museum was transferred back to the original building and the management of the Mechanics' Institute was handed over to the Warrnambool City Council. The Museum and Art Gallery became one and housed many fine works of art, and the Library continued to grow. The building was well patronised, with records showing that at the beginning of the 20th century there were between 500 and 800 visitors. During World War One the monthly figures were in the thousands, with 3,400 people visiting in January 1915. The Museum was a much - loved Institution in Warrnambool until the contents of the Museum and Art Gallery were removed to make room for the Warrnambool City Council Engineers' Department. The contents were stored but many of the items were scattered or lost. When the original building was demolished the site became occupied by the Civic Centre, which included the new City Library. (The library was temporarily located in the old Palais building in Koroit Street.) In the process of reorganisation the Collection was distributed amongst the community groups: -The new City Library took some of the historical books and some important documents, historic photographs and newspapers. -The Art Gallery kept the 19th Century art collection and some of the artefacts from the museum. -The Historical Society has some items -The State Museum has some items -Some items were destroyed -Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village has old newspapers, Government Gazettes, most of the Mechanics' Institute Library, ledgers and documents connected to the Mechanics' Institute Library, some framed and unframed artworks and some photographs. The Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute Library book collection is deemed to be of great importance because it is one of the few collections in an almost intact state, and many of the books are now very rare and of great value. WARRNAMBOOL PUBLIC LIBRARY The Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute (WMI) was formed by a voluntary community group in 1863, within six years of Warrnambool’s beginnings, and its Reading Room opened in 1854. The WMI operated until 1963, at which time it was one of the oldest Mechanics’ Institutes in Victoria. Mechanics’ Institutes offered important services to the public including libraries, reading rooms and places to display and store collections of all sorts such as curiosities and local historical relics. In 1886 a Museum and Fine Arts Gallery were added to the WMI and by the beginning of the 20th century, there was also a billiards room and a School of Art. By this time all Mechanics’ Institutes in country Victoria had museums attached. Over the years the Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute Library was also known as the Warrnambool Public Library the Warrnambool Library and the Free Library. Early funding from the government was for the “Free Library”. The inscription in a book “Science of Man” was for the “Warrnambool Public Library”, donated by Joseph Archibald in 1899. Another inscription in the book “Catalogue of Plants Under Cultivation in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens 1 & 2, 1883” was presented to the “Warrnambool Library” and signed by the author W.R. Guilfoyle. In 1903 the Warrnambool Public Library decided to add a Juvenile Department to library and stock it with hundreds of books suitable for youth. In 1905 the Public Library committee decided to update the collection of books and added 100 new novels plus arrangements for the latest novels to be included as soon as they were available in Victoria. In July 1911 the Warrnambool Council took over the management of the Public Library, Art Gallery, Museum and Mechanics’ Institute and planned to double the size of the then-current building. In 1953, when Mr R. Pattison was Public Librarian, the Warrnambool Public Library’s senior section 10,000 of the 13,000 books were fiction. The children’s section offered an additional 3,400 books. The library had the equivalent of one book per head of population and served around 33 per cent of the reading population. The collection of books was made up of around 60 per cent reference and 40 per cent fiction. The library was lending 400 books per day. In 1963 the Warrnambool City Council allocated the site of the Mechanics’ Institute building, which included the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery, for the new Municipal Offices and the Collections were dispersed until 1971. The Warrnambool Library took over the Mechanics’ Institute Library’s holdings on behalf of the Warrnambool City Council. Since the closure of the Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute the exact location and composition of the original WMI books and items have become unclear. Other materials have been added to the collection, including items from Terang MI, Warrnambool Court House and Customs House. Many of the books have been identified as the Pattison Collection, named after the Librarian who catalogued and numbered the books during his time as Warrnambool Public Librarian in the time before the Mechanics’ Institute closed. It seems that when Warrnambool became part of the Corangamite Regional Library some of the books and materials went to its head office in Colac and then back to Warrnambool where they were stored at the Art Gallery for quite some time. Some then went to the Warrnambool Historical Society, some stayed at the Art Gallery and some were moved to Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village. The various stamps and labels on the books held at Flagstaff Hill show the variety of the collection’s distribution and origin. The books in the collection at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village date from the 1850s to the late 1950s and include rare and valuable volumes. Many of the books are part of the “Pattison Collection” after the Warrnambool’s Public Librarian, Mr R. Pattison. The Pattison Collection, along with other items at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, was originally part of the Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute’s collection. The Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute Collection is primarily significant in its totality, rather than for the individual objects it contains. Its contents are highly representative of the development of Mechanics' Institute libraries across Australia, particularly Victoria. A diversity of publications and themes has been amassed, and these provide clues to our understanding of the nature of and changes in the reading habits of Victorians from the 1850s to the middle of the 20th century. The collection also highlights the Warrnambool community’s commitment to the Mechanics’ Institute, reading, literacy and learning in the regions, and proves that access to knowledge was not impeded by distance. These items help to provide a more complete picture of our community’s ideals and aspirations. The Warrnambool Mechanics Institute book collection has historical and social significance for its strong association with the Mechanics Institute movement and the important role it played in the intellectual, cultural and social development of people throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The collection of books is a rare example of an early lending library and its significance is enhanced by the survival of an original collection of many volumes. The Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute’s publication collection is of both local and state significance. The Despatch Publisher: James M Tait Date: From May 21 1864 to October 1864 Further Information:Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library.flagstaff hil, warrnambool, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, the despatch -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Plan - Drainage works, cnr Crockford and Raglan Streets, Sandridge, George Kelly, Borough Surveyor, 3 Jun 1864
Sectional plan for drainage work after flood 1864. Corner Crockford Street and Raglan Street.Borough of Sandridgeengineering department - borough of sandridge, engineering - canals and drainage, business and traders - hotels, george kelly -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Plan - Drainage works, cnr Crockford and Raglan Streets, Sandridge, George Kelly, Borough Surveyor, 6 Jun 1864
Ground plan for drainage work after flood 1864. Corner Crockford Street and Raglan Street.Borough of Sandridgeengineering department - borough of sandridge, engineering - canals and drainage, business and traders - hotels, george kelly -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Administrative record - Minute Book, Public Works Committee, Borough of Sandridge, 1864 - 1865
A.09.03.DB Council of the Borough of Sandridge . Minutes of the proceedings of the Public Works Committee April 1864 to September 1865local government - borough of sandridge, andrew plummer, john pickles, edward clark, town clerks -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Compilation file: The Tarnagulla Courier newspaper, 1864-1866
David Gordon Collection. A black plastic folio containing pages of photocopies of the Tarnagulla Courier (November 1864 to December 1866). newspapers -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Painting, C Dell, The Francis Henty Homeward Bound, 1856
Art Collection Previously located in History HouseThe painting depicts a large sailing ship with orange masts and is almost in full sail. To the left of the ship are two other sailing ships. To the right are several sailing ships and white cliffs with a port. In the foreground is a rough green ocean with several seagulls in midflight. The background is a blue sky with numerous dark clouds. The work has a heavy gilded ornate frame and exposed canvas.Front: C DELL 1856 Back: Sticker of the Conservation Centre -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Births Register Index
small sheet of film 1856 BOWMAN E TO 1856 ELLIOTT Nbirth, family, register -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Births Register Index
small sheet of film 1856 JONES J TO 1856 MILLER Gbirth, family, register -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Microfiche, Births Register Index
small sheet of film 1856 MILLER I TO 1856 ROGERS Wbirth, family, register