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Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Warrandyte Rd looking North from Main Street, Ringwood. 1908
Black and white photograph reproduced from post card. Scene of road looking towards Loughnan Hill, Andrew Kennedy's orchard. Horse and cart in centre of photo, orchard to left of picture. (3 enlarged copies, 2 postcards, a clipping and 1 9x18.5 reproduction) Postcards with correspondence from N Blood, 2 original of the postcards with messages. First reads: "Trust you are well my dear and hope your poor Mater is no worse but better. We arrived home safely..poor little Tim was very tired. Love from all to your sister and mother..self. Your sincere friend, N. Blood" Second Reads: "Miss Hill. Cowes P.O.. 4/3/09 Dear Olive, come at once; I am on my last legs! Very pleased to hear that you have been enjoying yourself as well. Your mother had been very ill and Elvie has lost a stone weight; and ??? looks down in the dumps. Topsy killed canary this morning so I took Topsy for a walk! Had a bush fire up at home on 22 and 23rd Feb. No time to scribble more. Yours to a cinder. Bert." This postcard writing is overstamped J.B.McAlpin, Estate and Financial Agent. District Government Valuer Ringwood. It has a 1d Victorian Stamp affixed. Typed below photograph, "Warrandyte Rd. from Maroondah Hwy. looking north. Mullum Creek bridge in dip - 1908". -
Lakes Entrance Historical Society
Photograph - Kinkuna, 2009
Kinkuna Amusement Park was opened 19 December 1987, closed 2002, building demolished or removed, land sold and subdivided into residential allotments.Copy colour photographic print showing Kinkuna Amusement Park on Princes Highway, owned by Joe and Shirley Walters. Photo shows main building and restaurant, mini golf, long taboggan on hill, garden and other attractions. Lakes Entrance Victoriaentertainment, recreation -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Main street, Ringwood c1924. showing cars and horse-drawn carriages in front of shops - undated but possibly c1924
... Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Main street, Ringwood... to Maroondah Highway." Image shows Main Street with motor cars... to Maroondah Highway." Image shows Main Street with motor cars ...Black and white photograph (2 copies- 1 large, 1 small)Written on rear of backing sheet of large copy: "Early days of Ringwood commercial centre. Present frontage of Eastland to Maroondah Highway." Image shows Main Street with motor cars and horse drawn vehicles in front of shops. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Shops in Main Street, c1925
Black and white photograph (2 copies)Typed below one photograph: "Maroondah Highway Ringwood. Shops opposite station entrance, c1925. Image shows people standing on pavement at front of Beilby Stores, and horse and cart on road. -
Sunbury Family History and Heritage Society Inc.
Photograph, Veronica Burgess, Diggers Rest Hotel, October 2008
The damaged building in the photograph is the former Diggers Rest Hotel which was built in on that site in 1854 It was a popular place during the 1970s Sunbury Pop Festivals as it was the closest hotel to the Pop Festival site. It was partly destroyed by a suspicious fire on 30th October 2008, which left the walls and chimney intact but the roof caved in. Since then there have been moves by the local community to either rebuild and reopen the venue or to demolish it.The Diggers Rest has been one of the few early surviving hotels that were built along the former Mount Alexander Road, now Calder Highway, during the 1850s gold rush years.This a non-digital coloured photograph of a double storey hotel building, which has been damaged by fire. The exterior walls are intact but the roof has collapsed.The building is beside a main road. diggers rest, diggers rest hotel, hotels, calder highway, gold rushes -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Main Street, c1909
... Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Main Street, c1909.... sepia) Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Main Street, c1909 ...Photograph (2 copies- 1 large black and white, 1 small sepia)Written on photograph: "Ringwood, Vic." Image shows view of dirt road looking west from Warrandyte Road with shops on right, and Station Masters house in background. Horse and dray in middle of road. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Main St. shops opp. old Ringwood Town Hall site, 1974
... Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Main St. shops opp... Highway Central, Ringwood. Main St. shops opp. old Ringwood Town ...Black and white photograph.Written on rear of backing sheet: "Main St. shops opp. old Town Hall site, 1974". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway, Ringwood. Looking west from Warrandyte Road - 1965
Black and white photograph (2 copies)Typed under photograph: "Main Street, looking west from Warrandyte Rd. 1965". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Clocktower and Main Street, c1930.Postcard view of the clocktower and main street from the railway bridge above Warrandyte Road and Maroondah Highway, Ringwood - c.1930
Black and white photograph (2 copies)Typed below photograph: "Shops on right now Safeway site - c1930". Written on backing sheet of one photograph, "Original site of Ringwood Memorial Clocktower. Intersection Maroondah Highway and Warrandyte Rd." -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Main Street showing Municipal Chambers, c1930
... Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Main Street showing... Highway Central, Ringwood. Main Street showing Municipal Chambers ...2 copies of photograph (1 large black and white, 1 sepia postcard)Printed below photograph: "Published by C.V. Ward. Main Street Showing Municipal Chambers, Ringwood". Written on rear of backing sheet: "1 - Town Hall - Front only 1930. 2 - Bank of Victoria, 3 - T & G Williams Hardware, 4 - SSB of Victoria, 5 - O. Gilpin Store, later Foy & Gibson, then Coles". -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Aerial Photos of Stawell from a Hot Air Balloon 1985 -- 11 Photos
Series of 11 Aerial Photos of Stawell. Hot Air Balloon 1985. Photo were taken during a second balloon ride in July 1985. Take off venue was the oval at Stawell West Primary School. The balloon course was parallel to the Western Highway out over Deep Lead. 1. Ride left from Stawell West Primary Oval. 2. School Children were brought out to see the balloon launch. 3. Western Highway Green School oval. 4. Central Park Lower Main St. 5. Taylor's Gully Park Sloane St. 6. Shadow of Hot Air balloon on low cloud over Western Highway. 7. North Western Woolen Mills. 8. Pleasant Creek special school. 9. Looking back at Stawell. 10. Grampians & Lake Lonsdale. 11. Over Deep Lead. Series of 11 colour photographs of aerial photos of balloon rides over a town. stawell -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Mr M.B. Smith, butcher, in front of shop in Adelaide Street. c1924
Black and white photograph (Original copy). Mounted on cardboard backing.Written on rear of backing board: "Shop Main Street. Mr. M.B. Smith - butcher. Standing in front of him is Mr.Geo Pratt, his assistant". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Bamford's Timber Yard, c1920
2 copies of photograph (1 black and white, 1 smaller sepia)Written on back of photograph: "Bamford, west corner of Warrandyte Road and Main Street". -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Main Street shops looking west from Warrandyte Road, c1950's
... Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Main Street shops... and white photograph. Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Main ...Newspaper clipping of black and white photograph.Image shows shops on north side of Whitehorse Road between Warrandyte Road and Adelaide Street. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Coffee Palace and shops along Main Street between Adelaide Street and Melbourne Street. c1920's
Black and white photographWritten on back of photograph: "Land values - Main Street, Ringwood - land worth £50 pounds a foot." Image is taken from a land sale brochure and shows cars and horse drawn vehicles parked in front of buildings. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Norgen-Vaaz ice cream shop, corner of Railway Place. 1986
Black and white photographWritten on back of photograph: "Ice cream shop, Main Street. 1986. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Bamford's Timber Yard, c.1915
Black and white photograph (3 copies- 1 large, 2 smaller) Typed below large photograph: "Bamford's Timber Yard. Cnr. Warrandyte and Main Rds. (Later to become Safeway Site). c1915". Image shows men standing outside building. Timber stacked to left and utility vehicle with P. Bamford written on cabin. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Highway Central, Ringwood. Laying water main in Main Street, 1935
2 photographs (1 large black and white, 1 small sepia)