Bendigo cemetery receipt: 'received from Gilbert Rule the sum of four pounds. Dated Sept 3rd. 1929'. The Rule Collection was received from Sally Routledge, who received it from Margaret Allan, City of Greater Bendigo. It is assumed that the collection was sent to the Council in the belief that Bendigo had a museum.Bendigo Cemeterygilbert rule, bendigo

LYDIA CHANCELLOR COLLECTION: Small Size Book 'Hubert Lee' or 'How a Boy may do good' Small book, cover colour is royal blue with a gold motive in the centre with the title of the book. Pages are gold leaf. London Routledge and Co. 2 Farrington Stree. Printed by Woodfall and Kinder Angel Court, Skinner Street. Inscribed inside the cover: 'Special reward for Scripture Exercises. Presented to George W Hunter (???) at ther Wesleyan Sunday School Raywood Apr 2 / 15 ??? Sup.bendigo, history

Green hard covered cloth book of 127 pages. Images include the Monmouthshire Colliery Owners' Rescue Association (T. Braithwaite, J.F. Tallis, A.S. Tallis, W. Stewart, W. Gregson. Robert Jordon, T.H. Deakin. W.H. Routledge, B. Nicholas); A.T. Winborn of the Miners' Rescue Station, Crumlin; Draeger apparatus in use; Dragerwerl Lubeck, Water Gauge for testing Injector, Injecting sample air into test tube containing lime water, Meco Apparatus, Pneumatogen Self Rescue Type, Animal Air-Testerbreathing, poison, mine rescue, rescue apparatus, oxygen breathing rescue apparatus, a.t. winborn, monmouthshire colliery pwners' rescue association

This book belonged to the Warrnambool solicitor, Con O’Mahony (1863-1920). In 1883, he won the University of Melbourne Bowen Prize for his essay on the Federation of the Australian colonies. His prize, ten volumes of the ‘Lives of the Chancellors’, is today in the possession of the Warrnambool and District Historical Society. O’Mahony had a legal practice in Warrnambool in the Royal Chambers in Kepler Street at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. He was initially in a partnership with Messrs E.W. Klingender and Murray, then ,when this partnership was dissolved, he continued the business under the name of O’Mahony and later O’Mahony and Murray. He was actively involved in the management of the Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute and was a member of the Warrnambool Hospital committee. The item here described shows O’Mahony’s interest in bridge-playing, a popular pastime at that time. This book is of some significance as it belonged to Con O’Mahony, a well-known lawyer in Warrnambool in the early 1900s. It also shows the interest in bridge-playing as a pastime during that period. This is a small hard cover book of 112 pages. It was published in 1901(eighth edition) and contains seven chapters on how to play bridge, a scoring table and an index. The last three pages are advertisements for other books on bridge. The cover is yellow with the title of the book, the author’s name and the publisher on the front cover contained within a scroll pattern with four coloured images of the four kings from a pack of cards. The back cover has a list of the British Chess Handbooks published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd. The pages have been annotated (presumably by Con O’Mahony, the Warrnambool solicitor) and some sentences and headings have been underlined.Four stamps – one of ‘May 24 1902’ and three of ‘C.O’Mahony, Solicitor, Warrnambool’.bridge-playing, con o’mahony, warrnambool

George Meudell was born in Bendigo in 1860, the son of a bank manager. He became a public accountant. He worked for B J Fink. He took up a seat on the Stock Exchange. He later wrote a book, 'The Pleasant Career of a Spendthrift'. The book caused a stir and was withdrawn from sale. There was a later edition where a lot of names were withdrawn from the book.document, names of bendigo pioneers, the meudell mystery, the land boomers, michael cannon, maurice brodzky, george meudell, table talk, bendigo high school, money miller's bank of victoria, grant meudell, hnry miller, isaac pitman, john alsop, melbourne savings bank, andrew lyell, mercantile finance co ltd, b j fink, g w taylor, thomas bent, w l baillieu, stock exchange melbourne, william knox, broken hill proprietary, f m dickenson, historical society of victoria, the pleasant career of a spendthrift, george routledge & sons ltd, routledge & kegan paul ltd, frank campbell, robertson & mullens ltd, j m gillespie, sir matthew davies's mercantile bank, unofficial history of victoria, booksellers' association, the pleasant career, theodore fink, the herald, wilke & co pty ltd, the pleasant career of a spendthrift and his later reflections, lionel robinson, william clark, s m bruce, premier building society, j kitchen & sons ltd