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Photograph - T C WATTS & SON COLLECTION: 'TIRRANNIE' GOLDEN SQUARE, 1929
Thomas Crouch Watts was born on March 7th. 1865, to Joseph and Susan Watts. Before the real estate business commenced, Thomas and his brother were in partnership as booksellers and stationers in a shop at View Point. Thomas lived in a fine house in Rowan Street, which was called 'Ottawa' Thomas started his real estate business in the early 1900s in a shop in View Street. His daughter Edna was the book keeper and typist, Stewart Watson was the salesman and Stanley Phipps (Edith Lunn's father) was the property manager and valuer. When Thomas Watts died in 1914, his daughter took over the running of the business. She married Stewart Watson in 1918. Eventually the name of the business was changed to Bishop and Earl. From a letter from Edith Lunn re T.C. Watts & Son. 'The firm of T.C. Watts & Son later became Bishop and Earl. When the firm of Bishop and Earl ceased to operate after the death of Edith Lunn's father, S.P. Bishop, Miss. June Parry, Secretary of the BHS was a member of staff. June rescued all the photos of properties listed for sale from the office and placed them into the custody of the BHS.'Black and white original photographs (3) mounted on rectangular brown board. House, weatherboard, corrugated iron roof, return verandah with crossed wooden balustrade.4 chimneys. Garden with small palm tree. On back : Mr. Taylor.. 'Tirrannie', Golden Square, £ 2100 , inc. billiard table, linos, overmantle, 4 1/2 acres. 'April 1929' written faintly on back of one image. On front a sticker attached ' April 1929 ' Tiirannie' Golden Square, £2500 - 4 1/2 acres' ( possibly a later attachment for display purposes )Frank A. Jeffree, Bendigoplace, building, residential -
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Document - FORTUNA COLLECTION: POSTER - FORTUNA GARDEN FETE 1964, 1964
Double-side Poster - Fortuna Garden Fete 14/11/1964 Description of stalls, raffles, afternoon tea and children's entertainnment. Other side (reverse) has map of grounds with location of activities, toilets, St.John's Ambulance.buildings, residential, fortuna villa -
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Photograph - WEATHERBOARD HOME
Colour photograph: White weatherboard home with black trims. Verandah on three sides, set in garden. Location unknown. Physical description: unmounted photograph.buildings, residential, weatherboard house -
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Photograph - MAHER HOME
Black and white photograph: 'Maher Home', McIvor Road. 317 (printed numbers on back, possibly from developing). Old cottage style home with gable roof and one chimney on left. Set in an untidy garden, behind a broken-down picket fence. Physical condition: unmounted. Inscriptions/Markings: Maher Home, McIvor Road.buildings, residential, victorian