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Learmonth and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, Jean Tillet, Baker Family History, 18/6/2010 (exact)
Comprehensive Baker Family History / John,Ann of 48 pages.John Weaver Baker arrived in Williamstown aboard the "Marion" on 25th January 1848.He was transported from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight as an "Exile",having been convicted of having in his possesion a silk handkerchief and sentenced to 10 years.On arrival he "left ship at own request",finding his own way to Melbourne and a new life.Proof of birth has at this time not been located,it is possible he may have been an orphan.He met Ann Neligan,an Irish orphan,who along with her sister,Eliza,made the journey from the poor house in Mallow on board ship.They were Married in Melbourne 9th July 1850. They had three daughters Caroline Ann 2nd May 1851,Elizabeth Conchetta 1st April 1853,died 20th August 1853,and Elizabeth born 1854.History of Journey of the Baker family from England and Ireland to Australia, then Melbourne/Ercildoune/Addington and finally to Donald.Family History Book, England / Ireland to Australia. Melbourne to Ercildoune / Addington and Addington to Donald. Author Jean Tillet/ Great Grandaughter.18/06/2010.Baker, John and Ann, Family History.ercildoune, addington, baker family -
Orbost & District Historical Society
Aboriginal grinding stone, Aboriginal people have shaped this rock through usage, pre-European Australia
This large and very heavy stone was donated by Albert Emphield. Where he found it is unknown, but he worked in the Orbost forest areas and lived at Cabbage Tree Creek.Aboriginal usage, tool manufacture.A large rock of generally oval shape and with a number of flatish surfaces and hole indentations which were identified by archaeologist Dr Joanna Freslov 2.6.2008 as being used by Aboriginal people as a grinding or tool-sharpening stone.aboriginal-grinding-stone -
Woolamai Beach Surf Life Saving Club
Award - Glass Trophy, Lifesaving Victoria Awards of Excellence 2005 - 2006, 2006
Engraved Glass Trophy on Glass BaseLife Saving Victoria Logo Life Saving Victoria Awards of Excellence 2005 - 2006 Beaurepaire Club of the Year Woolamai Beach Surf Life Saving Club -
Vision Australia
Photograph - Image, Group of people wearing Easter Bonnets
Group of 10 people pose for a photograph, possibly in the grounds at Kooyong, wearing Easter Bonnets.1 coloured photograph of people wearing hatsassociation for the blind, staff -
Clunes Museum
Book, TYPE SET BY THE BALLARAT COURIER. THE CRAFTSMAN PRESS PTY.LTY. BURWOOD VICTORIA, A HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL OF MINES AND INDUSTRIES BALLARAT, 1984
HARD COVER BOOK, GREEN CLOTH WITH GOLD LETTERING ON FRONT COVER AND SPINE. 635 PAGES WITH BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO CONTAINING INFORMATION AND HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL OF MINES AMD INDUSTRIES BALLARAT 1870 - 1982. WHITE DUST COVER WITH PHOTO OF SCHOOL OF MINES.local history, book, school of mines, schools of mines ballarat -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Morgan, Patrick, If The Walls Could Speak - A Social History of the Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria, 1998
A collection of writings, both poetry and prose, with the theme of early Gippsland, Victoria.literature -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SEC) and The Courier Ballarat, Voice of the People, Mar. 1962
Yields information about the view of The Courier, and locals about the mooted closure of the tramway system and reporting on the proposal in particular local views and the setting up of the Save the Tramway Committee.Foolscap sheet of plain paper, with rounded corners, with 5 newspaper cuttings, concerning the mooted closure of the Ballarat Tram system March 1962. All from The Courier, unless noted otherwise. 1 - Untitled report - 8/3/62 - public meeting of 200 people, representatives from a number of bodies, Chair Cr Roff and Mr Courtney - formation of the Save the Trams Committee, including advice from Geelong and City of Launceston running its own transport system. Lists the committee's name. 2 - "Inquiry Decision Likely Today" - 8/3/62 - Quotes Mr Stoneham, Opposition Leader noting recommendation of Sir John Elliot that the MMTB should control all transport in Provincial cities and that Mr Bell Junior had recommended trolley buses. 3 - "Voice of the People" - 9/3/62 - Editorial supportive of public transport, ACT and NT subsidising, united voice. 4 - "Funds Needed for Tram Fight" - 9/3/62 - Cr Roff - seeking funds, not a large amount. 5 - Set of two letters 8/3/62 - about tramway operations, economics and administration.closure, letter to the editor, editorial, sec, parliament, trolley buses -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Manuscript, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Geelong Tramways Early History", 1960s
Consists of formation history, track and route dates, operator, SEC takeover and route lengths. Three pages of statistics - Income, Expenditure and loss 1935 to 1936, - includes car miles., operational statistics, expenditure breakdown of the SEC era. The last three years of operational statistics have been filled in by hand. Probably prepared late 1960's by Les Denmead (assumption here - See Reg item 3289 and 3483 for Bendigo version)Yields historical notes and statistics on the Geelong Tramway system - the statistical information being the most important. Shows the financial situation of the Geelong system was never satisfactory.Four sets - original and three copies - foolscap typed documents, five pages each, titled "Geelong Tramways Early History". 'BTPS 402" in top right hand corner.trams, tramways, geelong, sec, mesco, history, statistics -
Falls Creek Historical Society
Magazine - Ski Victoria - Victoria has mountains of snow
Ski Victoria Booklet from 1980 featuring 48 pages containing all information required for the ski resorts of Victoria. Falls Creek is featured on pages six to eleven. This item is important as it documents seasonal activities at Falls Creek Alpine ResortMagazine with white front cover, featuring a large square image of a person in black and white ski clothes skiing down hill surrounded by snow and blue sky. Centred above image is Ski Victoria in green with a ski figure in same green, a blue vertical line illustration of the state of Victoria. 1980 is written in smaller black letters underneath with Victoria Has Mountains of snow below text and above image in black capital letters. 'SKI VICTORIA / 1980 / VICTORIA HAS MOUNTAINS OF SNOW'skiing, snow field, snow victoria, tourism victoria, ski victoria, snow, winter, winter tourism -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Archive, Port People Archive, 2008 - 2019
Official records of port People Inc. Port people were an activist group formed because of concerns over Council intentions for Garden City reserve.Port People Archive six folders .04 - whiote cover Port people on spine. Westpac bank statements and letters 2008-2019 Attached sheet has detailed contents of folders and also on USB stick. Supplementary file has a list of significant issues contained in the dicuments as considered by Rowan Groves, President.built environment, local government - city of port phillip, parks and gardens, public action campaigns, port people inc, rowan groves - president, garden city, garden city reserve -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Archive, Port People Archive, 2008 - 2019
Official records of port People Inc. Port people were an activist group formed because of concerns over Council intentions for Garden City reserve.Port People Archive six folders .01 - pink binder marked Port People minutes (hand written) January 2008 -April 2012 Attached sheet has detailed contents of folders and also on USB stick. Supplementary file has a list of significant issues contained in the dicuments as considered by Rowan Groves, President.built environment, local government - city of port phillip, parks and gardens, public action campaigns, port people inc, rowan groves - president, garden city, garden city reserve -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, McCarron Bird, Victoria and its metropolis, past and present : the colony and its people in 1888, 1888
Inscribed: W.T. McFee, Auburn Grove. Mr. J. Jenner, Cowes, Phillip Island. Received from Mrs. Spaven. Estate of Mrs J. Jenner. Labelled: Bound by W. Detmold, Melbourne. -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Pamphlet, National Trust of Australia (Victoria), An introduction to the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1960-1973
This work forms part of the collection assembled by the historian Dorothy Rogers, that was donated to the Kew Historical Society by her son John Rogers in 2015. The manuscripts, photographs, maps, and documents were sourced by her from both family and local collections or produced as references for her print publications. Many were directly used by Rogers in writing ‘Lovely Old Homes of Kew’ (1961) and 'A History of Kew' (1973), or the numerous articles on local history that she produced for suburban newspapers. Most of the photographs in the collection include detailed annotations in her hand. The Rogers Collection provides a comprehensive insight into the working habits of a historian in the 1960s and 1970s. Together it forms the largest privately-donated collection within the archives of the Kew Historical Society.Four-page folded A4 size brochure on the activities of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)national trust of australia (victoria) -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Manuscript, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Bendigo Tramways Early History", 1969
Consists of formation history, track and route dates, operator, SEC takeover and route lengths. One page of statistics - 1935 to 1969, only completed to 1968 and last year filled in by hand. Gives Income, Expenditure, Loss, passengers and car miles. Car miles have been handwritten and pasted over the typed sheet. Probably prepared late 1960's by Les Denmead (assumption here - See Reg item 3289 and 3478 for Geelong Bendigo version), given the hand written notes etc.Yields historical notes and statistics on the Bendigo Tramway system - the statistical information being the most important. Four sets - original and three copies - foolscap typed documents, three pages each, titled "Bendigo Tramways Early History". 'BTPS 407" in top right hand corner.trams, tramways, bendigo, sec, esco, history, statistics -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Certificate - Certificate of Completion, Department of Mental Hygeine (Victoria), Certificate of Qualification, Mental Attendant, Department of Mental Hygiene (Victoria), 1945
Herbert Joseph Chambers was born in 1912 in Clifton Hill, Victoria. Later he was to live in Clark and Charles Streets in Northcote, in South Caulfield, and finally in Mentone. While he may have worked at the Kew Asylum before 1945, that year was when he was presented with a Certificate issued by the Department of Mental Hygiene (Victoria) declaring that he had completed training and passed the examinations required to work as a 'Mental Attendant’. The document is dated 19th December 1945 and signed by the Director of the Department and by the Co-Examiners. From at least 1945, he was to work as a member of the male staff of the Asylum, mainly in the Refractory Ward. A donor gifted to the Kew Historical Society in February 2019 a number of items collected by Herbert Chambers in his work at the Asylum. These include his Certificate of Registration, a photograph taken of him with two colleagues at Circular Quay in Sydney, a notebook containing ‘SP’ betting records of male asylum staff, and five sketchbooks with artwork created by Kenn’th [sic] Bailey, a patient of the Asylum. Herbert Chambers’ period of employment at the Kew Asylum coincided with the employment of the English psychiatrist Dr Eric Cunningham Dax (1908-2008) as Chairman of the Mental Hygiene Authority in 1952. Dr Dax introduced an art therapy program into Victorian psychiatric hospitals, including Kew, where it is likely that the five sketchbooks were created. The sketchbooks are believed to have been presented to Chambers by Bailey as a “gift for looking after him”. Herbert Chambers retired from the Kew Asylum in c.1970 after working there for almost thirty years.Representative example of certification required to work as a Mental Attendant in Victoria.Certificate issued by the Department of Mental Hygiene (Victoria) declaring that Herbert Joseph Chambers has completed training and passed examinations required to work as a 'Mental Attendant. The document, dated 19th December 1945 is signed by the Director of the Department and by the Co-Examiners.Department of Mental Hygiene Victoria This is to certify that HERBERT JOSEPH CHAMBERS is a trained MEDICAL ATTENDANT having completed the period of Training and passed the Examinations, prescribed by the Regulations of The Department of Mental Hygiene, in Elementary Anatomy and Physiology, First Aid, General Medical and Special Mental Hygiene. 19TH DECEMBER, 1945 Signed by the Director of Mental Hygiene and two Co-Examinersherbert joseph chambers, kew mental hospital, department of mental hygeine - victoria -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Archive, Port People Archive, 2008 - 2019
Official records of port People Inc. Port people were an activist group formed because of concerns over Council intentions for Garden City reserve.Port People Archive six folders .02 - black cover 2 ring binder. PPI minutes May 2010 to December 2012 Also: agenda file 2010 to 2015; Correspondence file 2012-2013; Financial file 2000 to 2018; CD ROM disk marked Port People files; Leaflet "Who are Port People?"; PPI code of conduct Attached sheet has detailed contents of folders and also on USB stick. Supplementary file has a list of significant issues contained in the dicuments as considered by Rowan Groves, President.built environment, local government - city of port phillip, parks and gardens, public action campaigns, port people inc, rowan groves - president, garden city, garden city reserve -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book - Coastal Western Victoria, Graham Patterson, Coastal Guide to Nature and History 3 Western Victoria, 2022
Description of Western Victorian Coast from Point Lonsdale to South Australian BorderThis is a book of 188 pages. The cover has colour photographs and printing in red and white. The pages contain printed text, maps and illustrations, and black and white and colour photographsnon-fictionDescription of Western Victorian Coast from Point Lonsdale to South Australian Borderwestern victoria coastline, graham patterson, warrnambool, shipwreck coast -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Faces of Federation : an illustrated history, 2000
Melbourne : Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 2000 134 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. non-fictionfederal government -- australia -- history, australia -- history -- 1891-1901, constitutional history -- australia, australia -- politics and government -- 1891-1901, australia -- politics and government -- to 1900, australia -- history -- 1788-1900, australia -- constitutional history, australia -- history -- 1891-1901 -- biography -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Stan Cornish compiler, Ardmona Cricket Club History - The Premiership Years, 2011
History of Ardmona Cricket Club premiership years.1 of 6 photographs of Ardmona Cricket Club. A4 46 page history of Ardmona Cricket Club Premiership years 1959/60, 1960/61, 1961/62. Photocopies of items from local papers and players details. See also L0711-L0718 for photographs, reunion and CD of reunion etc.Ardmona Sport 1950-60's. History of Ardmona.armona cricket club -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Stan Cornish compiler, Ardmona Cricket Club History - The Premiership Years, 2011
History of Ardmona Cricket Club premiership years.2 of 6 photographs of Ardmona Cricket Club. A4 46 page history of Ardmona Cricket Club Premiership years 1959/60, 1960/61, 1961/62. Photocopies of items from local papers and players details. See also L0711-L0718 for photographs, reunion and CD of reunion etc.Ardmona Sport 1950-60's. History of Ardmona.armona cricket club -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Stan Cornish compiler, Ardmona Cricket Club History - The Premiership Years, 2011
History of Ardmona Cricket Club premiership years.3 of 6 photographs of Ardmona Cricket Club. A4 46 page history of Ardmona Cricket Club Premiership years 1959/60, 1960/61, 1961/62. Photocopies of items from local papers and players details. See also L0711-L0718 for photographs, reunion and CD of reunion etc.Ardmona Sport 1950-60's. History of Ardmona.armona cricket club -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Stan Cornish compiler, Ardmona Cricket Club History - The Premiership Years, 2011
History of Ardmona Cricket Club premiership years.4 of 6 photographs of Ardmona Cricket Club. A4 46 page history of Ardmona Cricket Club Premiership years 1959/60, 1960/61, 1961/62. Photocopies of items from local papers and players details. See also L0711-L0718 for photographs, reunion and CD of reunion etc.Ardmona Sport 1950-60's. History of Ardmona.armona cricket club -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Stan Cornish compiler, Ardmona Cricket Club History - The Premiership Years, 2011
History of Ardmona Cricket Club premiership years.5 of 6 photographs of Ardmona Cricket Club. A4 46 page history of Ardmona Cricket Club Premiership years 1959/60, 1960/61, 1961/62. Photocopies of items from local papers and players details. See also L0711-L0718 for photographs, reunion and CD of reunion etc.Ardmona Sport 1950-60's. History of Ardmona.armona cricket club -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Stan Cornish compiler, Ardmona Cricket Club History - The Premiership Years, 2011
History of Ardmona Cricket Club premiership years.6 of 6 photographs of Ardmona Cricket Club. A4 46 page history of Ardmona Cricket Club Premiership years 1959/60, 1960/61, 1961/62. Photocopies of items from local papers and players details. See also L0711-L0718 for photographs, reunion and CD of reunion etc.Ardmona Sport 1950-60's. History of Ardmona.armona cricket club -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Pamphlet, Victoria Transport, "Wheels across Victoria", c1985
Pamphlet, folded A2 size sheet to A4 landscape, full colour printed, titled "Wheels across Victoria", sub-titled "How Victoria's Transport Authorities help move people and goods" Provides information on the activities of the Road Construction Authority, Road Traffic Authority, Metropolitan Transit Authority, RCA, RTA, MTA. V/Line, GEB and Ports, Grain Elevators Board and the various port authorities. On the inside has a introduction by the Minister for Transport Tom Roper and a game for up to 6 people moving markers from Gippsland to the NW corner of the state. Uses a dice. Published by Victoria Transport with the assistance of Caterpillar Australia ltd. Has the various authority logos.trams, tramways, rta, rca, vline, mta, victorian government -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Document - Folder, Brief history of the Ringwood Secondary College site in Bedford Road, Ringwood, Victoria, since 1905 and subdivision in 1924
Terry Kane and Richard Carter were the authors of the short historyType written notes and plans pertaining to the land titles and history of the Ringwood Secondary College site from 1905, prior to the land being sold by the Borough of Ringwood in 1954 to the Education Department. Transcript of covering letter from Richard Carter to Mr T Kane dated 16 November 2012 - "Re: Ringwood Secondary College As we discussed recently, I have done some research into the history of the site. Going back to 1905, the site, then 26 acres one rood 37 perches, was in the name of Walter James Anderson of 61 William Street, Melbourne, Accountant - most likely a speculator. Title transferred to Theodosia Anderson of 167 Collins Street, Melbourne, Artist - possibly his son - In 1907. Theodosia Anderson was thus the owner when on abortive subdivision Into "110 Splendid Home Sites" as "Bedford Park Estate, Ringwood" took place In 1924, creating Anderson Street, Joyce Street, Adams Street and Graham Road, all of which sank without trace. Theodosia Anderson died In 1933, leaving the property to John Blair, Solicitor of Melbourne and Annie Benson of Melbourne, widow, until title ultimately passed to The Mayor, Councillors and Burgesses of the Borough of Ringwood In 1946. Title was then spilt Into three with 14 acres 0 rood 11 perches being transferred to the Minister of Education on 1954 followed by a further 2 acres 1 rood 26 perches to the Minister In 1956. The balance of the land remains In the ownership of the now Maroondoh City Council as Bedford Park. It Is Interesting that at no stage did any of the land belong to the Commonwealth of Australia, notwithstanding that I always understood It was the site of the P.M.G. Workers Camp after the War. Perhaps the P.M.G. utilized the site by arrangement with the borough of Ringwood; perhaps the camp was on the opposite site of Hill Street (Government Road). More research Is needed on this point. Yours faithfully, CE CARTER & SON PTY LTD Richard Carter Managing Director" -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Digital Image, Public Transport Victoria (PTV), "Swanston and Victoria Streets Precincts upgrade", 2/2024
Information / consultative document about possible changes to tram tracks at the corner of Swanston and Victoria Streets and Elizabeth and Victoria Streets Melbourne. Shows the proposed new park around the former Franklin St signal box, new curves, reconstructed and extended tracks, car parking and traffic changes. Notes the potential of connecting North Melbourne (Arden precinct) to Swanston StYields information about a possible project at Swanston and Victoria Streets.Digital Image of a two page A4 information document down loaded 31/3/2024 titled "Swanston and Victoria Streets Precincts upgrade" from https://yarratrams.com.au/media/p2rbhmin/community-update-swanston-and-victoria-streets-precinct-upgrade.pdfproposed works, swanston st, franklin st, victoria st, elizabeth st, trackworks, consultation -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Archive, Port People Archive, 2008 - 2019
Official records of port People Inc. Port people were an activist group formed because of concerns over Council intentions for Garden City reserve.Port People Archive six folders .06 - black cover Port people on spine. Correspondence; leaflets; registration doamin .au name; documents from other bodies including COPP; Attached sheet has detailed contents of folders and also on USB stick. Supplementary file has a list of significant issues contained in the dicuments as considered by Rowan Groves, President.built environment, local government - city of port phillip, parks and gardens, public action campaigns, port people inc, rowan groves - president, garden city, garden city reserve -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Maddern I T, A Short History of State Education in Victoria, 1969
A general background of state education in Victoria, with information on the schools of the Traralgon Inspectorate produced for the centenary of state education.schools -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
CD, Stan Cornish compiler, Ardmona Cricket Club History - The Premiership Years, 2011
History of Ardmona Cricket Club premiership years.1 CD of reunion 6 of 6 photographs of Ardmona Cricket Club. A4 46 page history of Ardmona Cricket Club Premiership years 1959/60, 1960/61, 1961/62. Photocopies of items from local papers and players details. See also L0711-L0718 for photographs, reunion and CD of reunion etc.Ardmona Sport 1950-60's. History of Ardmona.armona cricket club