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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Harris Collection Shears
Jonathan Harris operated a winery on the banks of the Axe Creek, Axedale in the 1850s.Metal shears kept in the closed position with a leather clasp. There is some yellow paint on the leather and the metal. The metal has a lot of rust. Part of the Harris Collection.harris collection, shears -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Harris Collection: Large Rake
Jonathan Harris operated a winery on the banks of the Axe Creek, Axedale in the 1850s.A large metal rake with a wooden handle. The head 67 centimetres across two centimetres wide and one centimetre wide. attached to it are 12 square tines that are one centimetre square, tapering to half a centimetre and are five centimetres long. It has some yellow paint on it. The wooden handle is 144 centimetres long and three centimetres diameter. Two thin strips of two centimetre wide thick wire have been added. Part of the Harris Collection.harris collection, large rake -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Harris Collection: Rake
Jonathan Harris operated a winery on the banks of the Axe Creek, Axedale in the 1850s.A metal rake with a wooden handle. The head is 25 centimetres across with eight half centimetre diameter tines that are seven centimetres long. the wooden handle is 152 centimetres long and three centimetres diameter, the top 20 centimetres is painted black. Part of the Harris Collection.harris collection, rake -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Tool - trench axe
Small axe, metal head with one bladed end and one spiked end. Wooden handle. Probably World War One (WWI) German army issue.world war one, wwi, german army -
Otway Districts Historical Society
Photograph, Birnam Station, c.1926, c.1926
After a nearby mill closed down the Cashin family, who lived south of the mill site, requested Victorian Railways to keep the siding open for passenger use, which it did, but changed the name to Birnam in 1926. In 1927 it was moved south a little distance, closer to the houses it served. From left to right, awaiting the train, are the people it served, Tom Cashin, Ted Cashin, Arthur Cashin, the child Eva Facey, Jim Cashin, Sarah Cashin, the second child, Doris Hansen, Beatrice Hansen (nee Cashin), Bert Hansen, Jim Facey and Percy Facey. It was regularly patronised until 1939 after which it saw little use.B/W. 195mm x 250mm. At Birnam Station in c.1926, seven men, one with covered axe, three women and two children, awaiting the train.birnam; railways; tom cashin; ted cashin; arthur cashin; eva facey; jim cashin; sarah cashin; doris hansen; beatrice hansen; bert hansen; jim facey; percy facey; -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Postcard (item) - Black and white postcard, Stevenson's Falls, Unknown
An early black and white photograph of Steavenson Falls in Marysville in Victoria.An early black and white photograph of Steavenson Falls in Marysville in Victoria. The Steavenson Falls is named after the Victorian Assistant Commissioner of Roads and Bridges, John Steavenson who arrived in Victoria in the early 1860s.Post Card This Space for Correspondence Name and Address Here MELBOURNE/ 3 4 30 A 28 05 VICTORIA Wishing you/ all a/ very Happy/ New Year/ from yr old/ friend Emily Miss N. Smith/ Regent St/ Prahansteavenson falls, stevenson's falls, marysville, victoria, postcard, souvenir, john steavenson -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Postcard (item) - Black and white postcard, Marysville Waterfall, 1900's
An early black and white photograph of Steavenson Falls in Marysville in Victoria.An early black and white photograph of Steavenson Falls in Marysville in Victoria. The Steavenson Falls is named after the Victorian Assistant Commissioner of Roads and Bridges, John Steavenson who arrived in Victoria in the early 1860s.Post Card The Address to be written on this side. This space may be used for Correspondence/ within the Commonwealth at 1d rate./ Foreign, charged ordinary letter rate. May 1st./ Australia/ Many happy returns of the Day/ A.F. Mrs. H. Clutterbuck/ 15 Ealing Road/ South Ealing/ London Date Stamp MELBOURNE/ PM/ 2.15/ 4.4.06 Stamp/ BILL HOPKINS COLLECTION/ 21 KENSINGTON PARK ROAD W11/ NOTTING HILL GATE LONDONsteavenson falls, marysville, victoria, postcard, souvenir, john steavenson -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Badge, cloth, 2 BRAAC
Worn on battle dress uniform. Design also displayed on army vehicles as formation sign. 2nd Armoured Brigade no longer exists. The Australian Army no longer has any armoured brigadesCloth badge of 2nd Armoured Brigade, Royal Australian Armoured Corps. Featuring, in black, an armoured right arm holding a battle axe on yellow background. For right sleeveheraldry, army, badges, armour -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - ON THE CREEKS, 2005
On The Creeks. Early life at Strathfieldsaye in the valley of the three creeks, Axe, Emu, and Sheepwash. Primarily covering the Parish of Strathfieldsaye, but 'hopping' through the fence when the grass looks greener.Barbara Mitchellhistory, australian, strathfieldsaye -
Stratford and District Historical Society
Milking Stool
Used by the Estoppey family, Swiss emigrants, at Briagolong. Three and four-legged milking stools were standard equipment in early dairies, where cows were milked by hand. Similar stools were used in the home for informal seating. Wooden milking stool with a square top of axe-dressed hardwood and four wooden legs that fit through holes in the seat. One leg is made from a branch of a tree.dairying, furniture -
Mont De Lancey
Tool - Broad Axe, Unknown
Used in the 19th or early 20th century.A steel forged metal headed broad axe with a turned wooden handle for a right handed person's use. It was used to trim posts or logs in the 19th or early 20th century.axes, cutting tools, hand axes, froes, woodworking tools, cleaving tools -
Mont De Lancey
Tool - Grinding Stone, Unknown
Owned and used by the late Mr W.T. Sebire 1900. The frame was rebuilt by Russell Sebire.A large sandstone grinding stone disc with a pale blue wooden frame and metal turning handle/ It was used for sharpening tools such as axes in the late 19th or early 20th Century. grinding stones, sandstone, equipment, sharpeners, sharpening stones, steel, wood -
Kyneton Fire Brigade
Memorabilia - Trophy
Award for aggregate trophy BUFB Demo 1960Part of Kyneton Fire Brigade trophy collection Silver urn with lid moulded on bakerlite base. Lid topped with badge in centre of gold wreath. Badge has gold helmet and crossed axes on red enamel background.BUFB 1960 Demo Aggregate Trophykyneton fire brigade, country fire authority, trophy, fire brigade demonstrations -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Axe Head, Before European settlement
This item was used well before European settlement and clearly demonstrates the development of the local Aboriginal tribes, Dhudhuroa and Yaitmathang in the use of a cutting /chopping implement, made from Mount William sourced material i.e. greenstone. This item was probably traded at the Bogong Mountain tribal yearly summer ceremoniesThe significance of this item places it at the fore front of human development in this region. The period when this tool was manufactured represents the time when the natural landscape had not been altered and the natural vegetation, fauna and flora, had not been subjected to imported species.This also proves that local tribes did live in this area and or the Bogong High Plains.Small ground edge stone axe head. Leading cutting edge very smooth and chiseled to a fine edge. Weight is, for its size fairly heavy. It is made from Greenstoneaboriginal tool stone ground-edge axe indigenous tool -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1935-36
Black and white photograph of four bush workers with a dog, axe and fern hook or slasher, one man with a rifle at Four Mile camp Buchan Road East Gippsland Victoriaforestry -
Mont De Lancey
Tool - Hatchet, Unknown
Used in the 19th century.A forged steel hatchet No 4 with a handmade short wooden handle used as a trimming hatchet or axe. It is branded: 'Golden Berg' curved around a swan in a circle. It was used in the 19th century.No 4. It is branded: 'Golden Berg' curved around a swan in a circle.woodworking tools, steel, froes, cleaving axes, axes, cutting tools, hand axes, hatchets, cleavers, tomahawks, wood -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - EXTRACT FROM BENDIGO ADVERTISER, JANUARY 4TH 1864: (SEVERE STORM), 04/01/1864
Extract from Bendigo Advertiser, January 4th 1864 (Severe Storm) with attached typed note stating that this extract found in relation to the ''heavy rain fall in February last'' (no date! - but about ''a century ago'). Mention in this note that the hotel mentioned - Costello's Axe Creek Bridge Hotel may have been later renamed The Perseverence (sic). The 1864 article describes the water and ice/hail damage in the neighbourhood of the Sheepwash, Emu and Axe Creeks.Bendigo Advertisernewspaper, bendigo advertiser, weather event, emu and axe creeks, axe creek bridge hotel -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Drawing - HARRIS COLLECTION: CHARCOAL SKETCH AXE CREEK, AXEDALE
Charcoal sketch on cream background of water course, trees on left hand side. Most probably sketch of Harris property, orchard and vineyard on Axe Creek, Mt. Sugarloaf Road, Axedale.George Harris, Axedaleartwork -
Mont De Lancey
Tool - Broad Axe, PLUMB USA, Unknown
Used in the 19th century by Bill Homefield.A forged steel headed broad axe with a handmade turned wooden handle for a left handed person's use. It was used to trim or square up posts or logs and shape timber in the 19th century.PLUMB USA is stamped on the head.axes, cutting tools, hand axes, froes, woodworking tools, cleaving tools -
Mentone Grammar SchoolThe “Axe Handle” awards originated in 1988, when WO2 Zachary Reark (CSM B Coy and son of famed Old Mentonian, Jim Reark) found an old axe handle in the bush at the end of the 1988 annual Cadet camp. This he proudly marched out of camp with, under arm, in the manner of one bearing a pace stick. This idea seemed to catch on with the then CO, LTCOL Tony Drinan who decided that each CSM would be issued with one of these as a “perpetual trophy” marking his promotion to the rank of WO2 and appointment as a CSM. The name of the recipient was duly engraved on a plate affixed to the handle. The Archive Centre holds about 12 such axes as well as this original.
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Orbost & District Historical Society
paling knife, c. 1890s to 1960s
Used in the timber industry for making split palings. The palings are shaped by hand with the bottom edge put onto the timber and a mallet hit onto the top of the blade. This pre-dates sawn palings. Associated with the timber and household building industry in the Orbost region.A rectangular flat iron blade attached to a wooden handle. The cutting edge of the knife is along the bottom (rather than the end as with an axe). The wooden handle appears to be made from a small tree branch.paling-knife splitting-timber -
Forests Commission Retired Personnel Association (FCRPA)
Adze - small
An Adze is versatile cutting tool similar to an axe but with the sharp cutting edge perpendicular to the handle rather than parallel. The wooden handle is straight and the blade has a slight curve. They are used for smoothing or carving wood such as sleepers An adz, with its long handle, cuts with the grain, and the nature of the chips is different from an axe. While they have a similar shape, they should never be confused with a hoe or mattock used for agriculture and horticulture. Adze - smalltimber tools -
Orbost & District Historical Society
adze, late 19th century
Adzes are used for smoothing or carving wood in hand woodworking. It is similar to an axe but with the cutting edge perpendicular to the handle. It is used chiefly for shaping wood.A square ended adze that has a thin arched blade set at right angles to the wooden handle. The handle is not original.wood-working-tool adze carpentry -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MARKS COLLECTION: MAP OF PARISH OF STRATHFIELDSAYE 1858, 8th September, 1858
Buff coloured document. On top 'Country Lands, Parish of Strathfieldsaye, County Unnamed'. On bottom 'Scale 40 chains to an inch. Public Lands Office, Melbourne Sept 8th. 1858. William Collis, Lith ( lithographer )'. Map shows Village Reserve on Emu Creek, road from Sandhurst, Sheepwash Creek and Splitters Creek. Wellington Hotel marked on map near intersection of Sheepwash Creek, Axe Creek and Emu Creek. Axe Creek Pound near Splitters Creek.map, bendigo, parish of strathfieldsaye 1858 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Medal - BENDIGO FIRE BRIGADE MEDAL, 1967
Medal: Bendigo Fire Brigade Medal has fireman's helmet, nozzle and axe with 'Bendigo Fire Brigade 1967 Demonstration' on front. Gold in colour and hanging on red, white, blue ribbon. Box 625Stokes A\ ASIAnumismatics, badges - civil, fire brigade demonstration 1967 bendigo -
The 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victoria Regiment Historical Collection
Honour Board - 5th/6th Battalion The Royal Victoria Regiment Champion Company Trophy
The Lochaber Ax fixed on to the wood board. The Lochaber axe was used by infantrymen to 'pull people off their high horse', it contains the champion company since 2005, although it was not given to any company for numbers of years. -
Mont De Lancey
Tool, Slasher, Unknown
A handmade slasher with a long wooden handle and a heavy sharp steel blade attached with a rivet to the handle. It was efficient for clearing thin and dense low-lying scrub or bush where an axe would be too clumsy. Indiscernable inscriptiontools, agricultural equipment, agricultural tools, slashers, gardening tools -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Tom Prior, Cutting trees
Cutting trees with a large cross cut saw and axe. Shown is Tom Prior (Ivy Reynolds' uncle) and his wife Eva Prior (or Ivy's mother)The Reynolds family were early settlers in Research. The Reynolds/ Prior collection of photographs were taken by Tom Prior, the maternal uncle of Ivy Reynolds, around 1900 and the 60 photos in the album give a fine overview of many of the landmarks of Research and Eltham over 100 years ago. lvy lived in the family home for many years at 106 Thompson Cres Research. Ivy's father, Ernst Richard Reynolds and grandfather, Richard Reynolds, lived at the same address. Ivy's father Richard worked for Mr. Trail on his property in Research. Reynolds Road is named after the family. Mr Tom Prior (wife Eva) worked at the Melbourne zoo. He was very innovative and made his own camera, using the black cloth hood to exclude the light. The photographs are a reminder of the rural nature of Research and Eltham and its rich heritage. Black and white photograph mounted in an album, the Reynolds/Prior Photograph Collection, this being one of 53 reproduced black and white images of early Eltham.The Reynolds/Prior Photograph Collection, Presented to the Eltham District Historical Society, 14 June 2006 by Ross McDonald. A second copy was also presented to the Andrew Ross Museum, Kangaroo Groundreynolds prior collection, trees -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Carving knife, c1944
Made at Camp 3 Tatura in WW2 by internees. The blade is made from a broken cross cut saw and the handle from a broken hickory axe handle.handmade carving knife with steel blade and wooden handlecarving knife, camp 3, tatura, !, domestic, items, food, preparation -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W, C 1900s
This is a photo of a woodchopping competition, a popular event at this time. The location is unknown, but it may have been the recreation area in Halls Gap.The photo shows five men standing on wood-chop blocks, all with axes in hand. In the foreground is a man sitting on the ground and discarded blocks, some numbered. Spectators can be seen in the background behind a wire fence.recreation, woodchopping competition