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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Audio - PMHPS Meeting, Harder than Football, VFL players who served in the Armed Forces, Barbara CULLEN, John Kirby, 27 Jun 2016
Barbara CULLEN discussing her book "Harder then Football" where she documents VFL players and stories of those who served in the Armed Forces. Duration 0:15:13 (?) incudling meeting preliminariessport - australian rules football, victorian football league, vfl, australian football league, afl, barb cullen, armed services -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - KHAKI COMEDY AND NEWSY NONSENSE, 1940s
Booklet. A 32 page booklet of humorous stories and poetry compiled by ' Semaphore' and probably aimed at the Defence Forces market during the 2nd World War. Called a 'Semaphore' Smile Book. Price One Shilling.Printed by E. H. Gibbs and Sons, Melbournecottage, miners, comedy, world war 2 -
Clunes Museum
Newspaper - NEWSPAPER CUTTING, BALLARAT "COURIER", MAN'S PLEA ON MURDERED WIFE, 28/4/1997
CLUNES. CRIMEBALLARAT COURIER APRIL 28, 1997. 2 PAGES. .1 FRONT PAGE STORY WITH PHOTO .2 PAGE 4 UNDER BANNER OF 'OUR UNSOLVED CRIMES'. ARTICLE AND PHOTOS OF ROBERT AND NINA NICHOLSONrobert nicholson, nina nicholson, murder, clunes -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, The Island and the Sea
Story written by Haakon Nilsen, an internee in Australia during WW2. Tells his story as a child, his mother, father and eventually finding other relations in America and life at sea prior to WW2.Soft cover book, with white cover. Front is divided in three. Top section depicting riverbank and river and trees; middle has title and authors name; bottom has a picture of a ship "Touraine"haakon nilsen, australian internee, touraine -
Upper Yarra Museum
Stove, Miniature
Story to be placed here - Available to publicMinature cast iron, Black Solid Wood Stove with miniature utensils. The stove is on legs with left hand extension for pots, right hand extension with holes, removeable hot plates [4 round 1 rectangle] tin chimney with folded join and seperate decorative cover with pot stands x2 , front door opens on hinges with internal gold pan with gold crescent logo. Frying pan, hot plate handle and "swan flat iron on stand. Solid fuel space with tin base. 2 screws and bolts used to assemble stove. 14 removeable parts.crescent, star, scrolls, wood, iron, tin, cast, stove, black, cast iron, star, solid, fuel, chimney, flat iron stand, flat, stand, hot plates, frying, pan, bolt, screws, legs, toy, miniature, crescent, made in taiwan, taiwan, wood box -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, WW2, Australian Corps of Signals, "SIGNALS", 1953
"SIGNALS" "STORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CORPS OF SIGNALS"Hard cover book. Cover - cardboard with green buckram covering. Black print on front and spine. Illustrated in black print small Corps of Signals badge. 196 pages, cut, plain, off white paper. Illustrated - black and white and colour photographs, portraits, maps and cartoons. End paper - front and back - Illustrated in pale green tones - montage of photographs.book, military history -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Book, J. H. Burchett, Utmost for the Highest-The Story of the Victorian School for Deaf Children, 1964
The story of the Victorian School for Deaf Children.Dark blue cover. On the front cover is the crest o f the Victorian School for Deaf Children in gold.non-fictionThe story of the Victorian School for Deaf Children.deaf children, learning, school, victoria -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Book, Margaret Coleman, From a Flicker to a Flame-The Story of The Girl Guides in Australia, 1989
The story of The Girl Guide movement in Australia.Front dust cover has a photograph of a group of Girl Guides sitting around a camp fire reading.non-fictionThe story of The Girl Guide movement in Australia.girl guides, australia, history -
Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre
Book - RAAF at War, Halstead Press Limited, These Eagles
Promotional style writingnon-fictionPromotional style writing -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, DONALDSON Mark, "The Crossroad" A story of life, death and the SAS, 2013
"The Crossroad - A story of life, death and the SAS"Hardcover book with dust cover Hardcover - cardboard, black buckram. White print on spine. Dustcover - paper, gold and white print on front and spine. Colour illustrations, front and back portrait photographs of author in uniform. 422 pages, cut, plain, off white paper. Illustrated colour photographs. First title page - handwritten inscription.First Title page = handwritten in black ink, "Merry Christmas/ To my Dad/ Thanks heaps/ heart shape (love) always/ Vicki xxx"book, autobiography, victoria cross -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book, Leo Cooper - Pen & Sword Books, The Hell they called High Wood: The Somme 1916 / Terry Norman, 2003_
Tells the story of the Battle of the Somme 1916.256 pages, illus., maps. Hard cover.world war i, the somme -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Folder, Margaret Bowering, The Uncles: the story of the Heyde Brothers, 2009
Rough draft of the story of the Heyde brothersThis book is a rough draft. It has a white front page with a clear plastic protective cover. Towards the end of the book has enclosed two pages of the presumably, authors notes.the front has the authors name and says "draft for comment"heyde brothers, margaret bowering, family histories -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, The Museum. Songlines
Tells story behind Aboriginal songs.Soft covered book with aboriginal design on front with "The Museum" and "Songlines. Finding inspiration in the dreamtime" in white writing. Purple spine with barcode and edition. Back page is black with a circular picture and information in gold and white writing.as aboveaboriginals, dreamtime, aboriginal songs -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book - Biography, Fred Lowen, 2001
Life story written by Fred LowenSoft cover, pale green cover. Picture of Fred Lowen, Feb 01.For the Tatura Museum with Best Wishes. Fred Lowen. Feb. 01camp 3, tatura, ww2 dunera, autobiography, fred lowen -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, The Voyage of Their life, 2001
The story of the SS Derna and its passengersGrey/green soft cover book with picture of passengers looking over the side of a ship. Black and white textthe voyage of their life, armstrong d, knee l & a, camps, tatura, ww2, books, history, local -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Copy newspaper article & photo, Torquay wreck story lives on
tells story of Scammell House Torquayphotocopy of newspaper article; Geelong Advertiser 1996wreck of joseph h scammell -
Unions Ballarat
My silent war (Don Woodward Collection), Philby, Kim, 1968
Story of a double agent (UK & Soviet). UK-USSR espionage. Autobiographical interest.Book; 164 pages. Dustjacket: white background; red and black lettering; authors' names and title. Cover: black background; gold lettering; author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, philby, kim, espionage, autobiography -
Vision Australia
Text, Newspaper clippings 18 (1946-1957), 1946-1957
News stories including fundraising events. 1 folder with newspaper cuttingsVarious articles from 1946 to 1957association for the blind -
Kilmore Historical Society
Ashore and Afloat, unknown
Boys adventure book of short stories.Soft board with cloth spine showing image of a sailing ship which has been glued on to paper covering, very worn. Front & back covers have detached from body. Book is water damaged throughout with mildew on edges of first two pages. Loose pages. Evidence of previous insect damage. No page numbers - about 50 pp. Very poor condition.'Robert Glanville/Kilmore/Victoria', inside front coverglanville collection, childrens literature -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Book, Alan Finch, The Wimmera Quarterly - Five Magazines, 1969-1970
Stories from the towns and people of the Wimmera.White paper covers with staples for binding. (April 1969) Tow Photos one of a plant the other a portrait. (Winter 1969) A B/W drawing of Mount Arapiles (Spring 1969) drawing of a Mallee Fowl. Summer 19(70) drawing of a steam train. (winter 1970) drawing of the Old Mission Station and Antwerp.The Wimmera Quarterly April 1969 The Wimmera Quarterly Winter 1969 The Wimmera Quarterly Spring 1969 The Wimmera Quarterly Summer 1970 The Wimmera Quarterly Winter 1970 60 Cents $2 A Year A Magazine of Wimmer Ways, Life and People.stawell -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document, Merle Reiffel, Story of Italian taken prisoner of war in Africa and sent to Tatura
Fiction based on true story. Story of Italian taken prisoner of war in Africa and sent to Tatura, Australia. He is billeted out to a farmer at Tylden, Central Victoria. Describes life on the farm. Returns to Italy after war but then returns to the Victorian farm. Marries and moves to Gilgarre. His son becomes a league football player, Adrian Batterson. Attached are two photos of people in the story.A4 folder with 8 pages. 2 photos included.italian pow, adrian batterson, billeting, farm life -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Newsletter, Newsletter, No. 188 September 2009
Contents: • Next meeting, guest speaker; Harry Gilham: Stories from the Eltham Cemetery • September Meeting and Eltham Cemetery Excursions • September Heritage Walk • Joh Ebeli’s Story • Eltham, England • More News The Shire of Eltham Historical Society was formed in October 1967. The first newsletter of the Society was issued May 1978 and has been published continuously ever since on a bi-monthly basis. With the cessation of the Shire of Eltham in late 1994, the Society's name was revised to Eltham District Historical Society and this name first appeared with issue No. 103, July 1995. The collection of the Society's newsletters provides a valuable resource on the history of the Society's activities, office bearers and committee members, guest speakers and subjects of historical interest pertinent to the former Shire of Eltham and the Eltham District.A4 photocopied newsletter distributed to membersnewsletter, eltham district historical society, shire of eltham historical society -
Orbost & District Historical Society
book, Written in Gold, 1966
This is the third edition of this book.This is a useful reference tool.A thin 56 pp paper back book with a pale yellow cover. On the cover in black print is the title, "Written in Gold the story of Gulgong the town on the 10 dollar note". It contains a history of Gulgong, maps and illustrations.gulgong-history bank-notes -
Orbost & District Historical Society
book, Border Tales, 2000
The book was compiled by Peter Allard and Geoff Alves and published by the Genoa Town Committee. Genoa is a small town in East Gippsland, Victoria. It is close to the New South Wales border where the Princes Highway crosses the Genoa River.A paperback book of 120pp titled Border tales : stories from Genoa, Wangarabell, Wroxham, Timbillica, Maramingo, Nungatta, Wingan and Gipsy Point. On the front cover is a coloured picture of the bridge across the Genoa river at Genoa. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Booklet, Jack Lundy and Doug Tanner, Story of the Ringwood Movie Club- May 1980, May-80
A brief history of the Ringwood Movie Club by Doug Tanner and 'Bewitched Beauty' by Jack Lundy. A signed copy - 'To the Ringwood Historical Research Group 9-6-1980Story of the Ringwood Movie Club. Small eight page booklet with mid-blue covers with reels of film and film strip on front and back. +Additional Keywords: Lundy, Jack / Tanner, Doug / Lundy-Clarke, JohnInside front cover: A brief history of the Ringwood Movie Club by Doug Tanner. "Bewitched Beauty" by Jack Lundy. Donated to the Ringwood Historical Research Group, 9.6.80. -
Bendigo Military Museum
Literary work - NEWSPAPER, December 1941
Belonged to Arthur George Holley No 13556 RAN HMAS Hobart. Refer 2134 for service history also 2135.3, 2137, 2147.Newspaper, "The Wombat Times". Annual of HM Australian ship "Hobart". 12 pages, very yellowed, contains articles, poetry, stories, photos. .1) Pages 1,2,11,12. .2) Pages 3,4,9,10. .3) Pages 5,6,7,8.papers, naval, history -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Booklet - Booklet - Portland, Hamilton, Casterton, Coleraine, Willaura, Victoria, n.d
Forty page booklet promoting Portland, Hamilton, Casterton, Coleraine, Willaura. Lots of business ads. Stories on places to see; photos of same, town scenes etc. Cream cover, white pages, black print. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - STRAUCH COLLECTION: THE PENINSULA STORY BOOK 2
The Peninsula Story Book 2 Hell to Health the history of quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852 - 1966 by Major J.H.Welch, published by the Nepean Historical Society. Soft cover 96 pages with black and white photographs.Major J H Welchvictoria, history, quarantine station, australia-quarantine station-portsea vic-history-victoria -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - CASTLEMAINE GAS COMPANY COLLECTION: PHOTO TREE LINED STREET
Photo of a tree lined street, on the left a 2 story brick building on the right a blue stones building, that has been described as an old flour mill, located in Kyneton Victoria. At the corner of Piper and Ebden Streets.Agfaplace, streetscape, unknown -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BADHAM COLLECTION: MAKING TRACKS - MY VICTORIAN RAILWAYS STORY ESSAY
Making tracks: My Victorian Railways Story, essay submitted by Janette Morrison, 68 Barkly St Bendigo. Foolscap paper with Making Tracks logo on top of the page. Publication of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.document, memo, railway, making tracks - my victorian railways story essay janette morrison making tracks logo - publication of royal historical society of victoria. printed by, printers proprietary ltd., 27 little bourke st., melbourne.