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Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, F Stop Productions, Sir Rohan Delacombe (Governor of Victoria) speaking at the opening of Ringwood Civic Centre 28-Jan-1970, 28-Jan-70
Sir Rohan Delacombe (Governor of Victoria) speaking at the opening of Ringwood Civic Centre 28-Jan-1970. Seated are Ben Hubbard (Mayor of Ringwood) and Lady Delacombe. +Additional Keywords: Delacombe, Sir Rohan / Hubbard, Ben / Delacombe, Lady -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Stephenson Harry, The Golden Age, A history of the colony of Victoria 1851-1861, 1980
A record of the early development of Victorias Alpine Region by pioneer cattlemen, early settlements long since abandoned and the families who established them, and the many huts built as refuges during harsh conditions, many huts destroyed by bushfires,sbeef industry, settlers -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - List, A.T. Marshall and D.I. Menzies, "Tramways of Victoria as at February, 1971 - Ballarat", 1971
Yields information about the tramcars of Ballarat Tramway System prior to its closure and demonstrates a method of providing information to tramway enthusiasts at the time.Foolscap printed list titled "Tramways of Victoria as at February, 1971 - Ballarat", providing a list of operational tramcars in Ballarat, the year built, seating, Truck, motor horsepower and some remarks. Compiled by A.T. Marshall and D.I. Menzies, February 1971.tmsv, ballarat, sec, tramcars -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - List, A.T. Marshall and D.I. Menzies, "Tramways of Victoria as at February, 1971 - SEC Bendigo", 1971
Yields information about the tramcars of Bendigo Tramway System prior to its closure and demonstrates a method of providing information to tramway enthusiasts at the time.Foolscap printed list titled "Tramways of Victoria as at February, 1971 - SEC Bendigo", providing a list of tramcars in Bendigo, the year built, seating, Truck, motor horsepower and some remarks. Compiled by A.T. Marshall and D.I. Menzies, February 1971.tmsv, bendigo, sec, tramcars -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Plan, Plan of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Royal Park, Melbourne, c. 1884
Copy of plan held at the State Library of Victoria surveyed by G. Purchas, possibly 1884. Possibly based on the winning competition entry by Alfred Lynch 1861 (See B17.0076). Also see B18.0030 Plan drawn by Caroline Le Souef.caroline le souef, alfred lynch, zoological and acclimatisation society of victoria, royal park, g. purchas -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Ticket/s, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), VFL (Victoria Football League) Park tickets, 1980's?
Set of three single journey VFL (Victoria Football League) Park tickets printed on off white paper. 3.1 - 90c - purple - A21222 - Concession 3.2 - $1.30 - orange - A14193 - Adult 3.3 - 80c - orange - A25172 - Concessiontrams, tramways, tickets, vfl park -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, The Supply of Water for Irrigation in Victoria 1881-1981, 1988
Early history of irrigation in Victoria. From 1981 the name changed from State Rivers & Water Supply Commission to Rural Water Commission. Major changes have occurred sinceCream plasticized cover. Black writing. Photo of horse team and scoop working on Waranga Basin or channelsirrigation, books, history, local, rural, industry -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Souvenir - China Souvenir Plate Soldiers' Memorial. Wodonga, Victoria China, c1924 - 1939
This item is from a collection donated by descendants of John Francis Turner of Wodonga. A wide range of small china pieces carrying scenic views of holiday destinations or key locations were a popular kind of souvenir during much of the 20th century. Several different items have been produced to commemorate Wodonga and its landmarks over time. These items document key changes in Wodonga and its heritage. This plate depicts three key landmarks in Wodonga. THE SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL in Wodonga was unveiled on Tuesday 18th November 1924. It was designed by Messrs. Hosken & Co., of Hawthorn, Victoria. The monument is all of Australian workmanship. The pedestal is made of Harcourt granite, 9ft x 9ft at the base, and rising in seven courses to a height of 10ft 2in. The emblems (rising sun and wreath) are of bronze, and the lettering of the inscription and names of fallen soldiers are in raised lead letters. Originally the Memorial was completed with a full life size, 6ft in height, sculpture of an Australian soldier in Sicilian marble. The memorial bore the inscriptions: ERECTED BY THE RESIDENTS OF WODONGA AND DISTRICT IN MEMORY of the Men of this Town and District who fell in the Great War, 1914-1919, Also in grateful recognition of the men who served and returned. “Lest We Forget.” In 1982, due to frequent vandalism and high cost of materials to repair, the soldier statue was removed and later installed at the RSL Rooms. THE WATER TOWER is a major landmark of High Street, Wodonga. It began operation from January 1924 until it ceased operation in 1959. It stood unused for a decade until the lower section was modified and put to use as “ The Tower’s Cobbler’s Inn” in 1962. In 1972 Wodonga City Council proposed to demolish the Tower. Their suggestion received an unfavorable response from the city’s citizens, so the Tower still stands today. THE BAND ROTUNDA was officially opened on Sunday 5th September 1920 at the naming of the triangular reserve at the corner of High and Hovell Streets as Woodland Grove. The Wodonga Band gave a public performance on this occasion. The tri-coloured ribbon, which stretched across the entrance to the Rotunda was cut by Mrs R.H Murphy, daughter of Mr. John Woodland, secretary of the Wodonga Shire Council for 35 years, after whom the area was named. The rotunda has since been moved to Martin Park, Wodonga.This item comes from a collection used by a prominent citizen of Wodonga. It is also an excellent example of souvenir items created featuring landmarks to represent the city of Wodonga.A china plate depicting the Soldiers' Memorial Wodonga. The central coloured image is surrounded by a 8 representations of a variety of flowers and a silver edge trim. The makers mark underneath the dish was used between 1918 - 1939 so assists in establishing provenance of the irem.Beneath image: "SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL WODONGA On back of dish, Beneath a crown " VICTORIA CHINA CZECHOSLAVAKIA"victoria china, souvenir wodonga, wodonga soldiers memorial, woodland grove wodonga -
Greensborough Historical Society
Letter, Letter regarding the history of Bundoora Primary School no 1915, 22/04/1971
The letter was written in response to a request for information on the history of Janefield (later Bundoora) Primary School. It includes details of the building, staff and enrolments in the 1870s.This letter has details of the history of the Janefield (later Bundoora) primary school and was used to establish a date for it's Centenary celebrations.A typed letter from the Education Department of Victoria dated 22nd April 1977.Niljanefield primary school, bundoora primary school, educational department of victoria -
NMIT (Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE)
Bank Pass Book - CTS, State Saving Bank Pass Book, Collingwood Technical School 1951-1960, c1950
The Beazley Prize was awarded to various trade apprentices deemed to be outstanding in their chosen trade course.This pass book is a significant example of banking before the advent of electronic banking.Blue cloth cover with State Savings Bank of Victoria Fitzroy printed on cover.Handwritten on cover and rubber stamped inside "W.D.Beazley Trade Scholarship A/C"collingwood technical school, beazley award, trade awards, banking, passbooks, state savings bank of victoria, nmit, -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, State of Victoria, Government House Melbourne, 1999
[Melbourne] : State of Victoria, c1999 45 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm. non-fictionhistoric buildings -- victoria., government house (melbourne -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Book, Place Names of Victoria, 1977
Place names of VictoriaHardback. Front cover has a colour photograph of Mount Beauty and Kiewa Valley from the Tawonga Gap (Jocelyn Burt)E.J. Bienvenue Stamp of M. O. Bienvenu / 12 Noonan St. / Wangaratta 3677 Stamp of Marysville & District / Historical Society Inc / P.O. Box 22 / Marysville 3779victoria, place names, geography -
The 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victoria Regiment Historical Collection
Artwork, other - Artwork- Print, Queen Victoria
Portrait of Queen VictoriaBlack and gold metal frame with glass. Silver badge on front "6BN RVR SGT's Mess"6BN RVR SGT's Mess5/6 rvr, officer's / sergeant's mess -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Reports - Annual Reports of Mt Beauty Hospital & Alpine Health, 1987 - 2004
The Tawonga & District Hospital was situated in Tawonga at the corner of Ryders Lane and the Kiewa Valley Highway. The construction was initiated by the Hospital & Charities Commission with considerable assistance from the SECV. It was officially opened in 1949. It was relocated to Mt Beauty in 1961. In 1997, the business combined with the hospitals in the Alpine Shire (Bright & Myrtleford) and became 'Alpine Health'.The annual reports of the local Mt Beauty hospital and associated health facilities gives an insight into its changes both medical and in its governance with its consequences to the small towns and district over the years.Booklets - Tawonga District General Hospital, Mt Beauty Annual Reports 1987 - 1996 and Booklets - Alpine Health - Bright, Mt Beauty Myrtleford Annual Reports 1997 - 2004tawonga & distrcit hospital, tawonga district general hospital, alpine health, mt beauty -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Administrative record (item) - Annual report, 1910 Annual Report Victoria Missions to Seamen, 1911
The report was produced by and distributed to members, containing reports from the Committee, Chaplain, the Ladies Harbours Lights Guild, as well as a list of subscriptions and rules for the 1910 period. This copy is the first to feature images of all three main Mission venues established in Port Phillip pre WW1.Annual reports were published by the Mission to Seamen each year, and included reports from all seamen's missions and organisations in Victoria, as well as associated groups, such as the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild. These reports provide documentation of the activities conducted by the Mission, as well recording the people involved.1910, annual report, victorian seamen's mission, williamstown, sailors' rest, port melbourne, siddeley street, central institute, seamen's institute, mission to seafarers, melbourne, administrative document-annual report -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Map, Railway map of Victoria, 1912
Detailed map of railways in Victoria including adjacent areas of New South Wales.Detailed map of railways in Victoria including adjacent areas of New South Wales. Also shows 'principal coach routes'. On verso map of suburban lines with eastern line as far as Croydon and Bayswater. key numbers on map linked to pages of a timetable.Detailed map of railways in Victoria including adjacent areas of New South Wales.maps, railways -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - DVD, Public Records Office Victoria (PROV), Fisherman's Bend Housing Commission Spec Homes Photos record circa 1938, 1938
COPYRIGHT Public Records Office Victoria DVD containing four pages of images of photographs of Fishermans Bend Housing Estate under constructionfishermans bend, built environment - domestic, built environment - public housing, transport - motor vehicles, fisherman's bend housing estate -
Clunes Museum
Document - REPORT, LAND CONSERVATION COUNCIL OF VICTORIA, FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS - NORTH CENTRAL AREA, FEBRUARY 1981
THE LAND CONSERVATION COUNCIL WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE LAND CONSERVATION ACT 1970. AS ONE OF ITS THREE FUNCTIONS, IT MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE MINISTER FOR CONSERVATION WITH RESPECT TO THE USE OF PUBLIC LAND, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FOR THE BALANCED USE OF LAND IN VICTORIA...BOUND BOOKLET - ORANGE SOFT COVER WITH NAVY BLUE BINDING LAND CONSERVATION COUNCIL, VICTORIA MELBOURNE - FEBRUARY 1981 - INCLUDING MAPSnon-fictionTHE LAND CONSERVATION COUNCIL WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE LAND CONSERVATION ACT 1970. AS ONE OF ITS THREE FUNCTIONS, IT MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE MINISTER FOR CONSERVATION WITH RESPECT TO THE USE OF PUBLIC LAND, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FOR THE BALANCED USE OF LAND IN VICTORIA...local history, document, recommendations, land conservation -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Slide - T class 181 Footscray Explosives Factory, Tramway Museum Society of Victoria (TMSV), late 1950s
Colour slide of T class 181 with the destination of Explosives Factory leaving Leeds St Footscray. Has the various shops and the Railway Station in the background.Yields information about Footscray trams to the Explosives Factory.Kodachrome colour slides, cardboard mount, duplicate.Stamped "Tramways Museum Society Victoria". In pencil "181 Footscray"leeds st, footscray, explosives factory, t class, tram 181, trams, tramways, mmtb -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Post Card Folder, Big 7 Folder, Vue Pac. 7 Detachable Post Cards of Rutherglen Victoria, c1970
Donated by Mrs Brian Jasper.Coloured post cards in folder with views of Rutherglen and District. This one is a view of Lake MoodemereOn message side of card: "Rutherglen, Victoria. A billabong of the Murray River. A wildlife reserve incorporating camping and water sport facilities. | NCV.1050 Nucolorvue Productions Pty. Ltd."lake moodemere -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Post Card Folder, Big 7 Folder, Vue Pac. 7 Detachable Post Cards of Rutherglen Victoria, c1970
Donated by Mrs Brian Jasper.Coloured post cards in folder with views of Rutherglen and District. This one is the tasting room at Campbell's WineryOn message side of card: "Rutherglen, Victoria. Spacious contemporary tasting rooms forms part of the old established winery of Campbell's. | NCV.1053 Nucolorvue Productions Pty Ltd."campbells winery, winemaking -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Book, Jennifer Williams, Thomas Kinsella an Irish Emigrant in Victoria 1854-1902 - Previously Cat No 3652e, 1954
White Paper cover with Black SpineTyped: Thomas Kinsella An Irish Emigrant in Victoria 1854 - 1902 Lower right corner: Jennifer Williams Irish and Scots in Australia (4th Year Honors). in pen: 1954 stawell -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Magazine - The School Paper for Grades V and VI (1918) No 233 - 229 Jan 1918- Nov 1918, Albert J Mullett for Department of Education Victoria Australia……………………………………………………, The School Paper for Grades V and VI (1918), c1918
Issue no 233 - 229 of The School Paper Jan - Nov 1918, 11 Editions. This binder with copies of The School Paper was owned by Roy and Wilfred Marriott, children of one of the pioneer families of City of Moorabbin.Issued by the Education Department of Victoria, printed Albert J Mullett, Government Printer, Melbourne 1918 Issue No 223-229 of The School Paper January – November 1918 This School Paper was owned by one of the pioneer families of City of Moorabbin, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT VICTORIA / SCHOOL PAPER / For Grades V and VI (1918); Issue no 233-229 Ed. Dept of Victoria / Poetry Number Signed W Marriott education, victoria, australian history, victorian education department, marriott, moorabbin, bentleigh -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Illustration/s, PCC 980 Victoria Parade
Black and white illustration of MMTB PCC 980 travelling west bound in Victoria Parade between Nicholson St and Spring St., possibly late 1950's. The tram showing destination of "Special". Has Penfolds Wine and Perfection ? ads on the sides of the tram. Also two ads on the front of the tram, but image not focused sharply enough to identify them. In the background is the ICI (now Orica) building. Caption on the illustration is "Efficient, Comfortable Transport. Melbourne P.C.C. equipped tram No. 980 pictured on reserved track in Victoria Parade." indicates probably from an electric traction or tramway publication.trams, tramways, pcc, mmtb, victoria parade -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Book, Ministry of Transport, "Transport in Victoria - Yesteryear and Today", 1980
Pamphlet or Book - 20 pages, full colour printed on gloss paper, centre stapled titled "Transport in Victoria - Yesteryear and Today", published by the Ministry of Transport giving an outline of Victoria's transport history from 1834. Provides a short history of the state transport system, railways, roads, trams, Metropolitan planning, the Bland report, social changes, the underground loop, transport interchanges, West Gate Bridge, Roads and Freeways, transport inquiry of 1980 and environmental changes resulting from motor cars. 2nd copy added 14-5-2016 from the estate of Charles Craig.trams, tramways, minister for transport, railways, trb, crb, murla, planning, history -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Pamphlet, Recognising Our Heritage - Archaeology assessment of Coach and Horses Hotel site, Ringwood, Victoria - 1999
A4 size information handout provided at RDHS guest speaker presentation "Archaeology in Ringwood" by Wren Lakeman (June 2023), talking about her work assessing archaeological significance of Eastlink Freeway/Tollway construction sites in accordance with Heritage Victoria requirements. -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Postcard - Fountain Inn, Port Melbourne, WTP Post Card, Fountain Inn, Crockford Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria, 1892
Appears to have belonged for a time to licensee of Fountain Inn "pudney" (except licensee at the time is listed as Joseph Ballhausen). If 1892, cable tram has just gone in, so dispute the marked date."Fountain Inn, Crockford Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria". A postcard of the Fountain Inn (deemed 1892). Sender has written "Greetings from Port Melbourne" across the front. Hand tinted photo shows cable car and horse cart. Printed in Germany."To dear Aunt Mary with fond love from Bessie" Also "greetings from Port Melbourne" "1892" "56 years ago at 1945 Pudney Licensee"hotels, built environment - commercial, transport, fountain inn -
Clunes Museum
Document - Charter, Charter for the Formation of the New Branch of the AWA Victoria Clunes, 1907
Wood framed Charter for the formation of the new branch of the Australasian Women's Association Victoria Clunes Branch No.36. Printed with black ink on ivory coloured paper. Dated 18th December 1907. Signed by Margret Corbett (President and Jessie Ley (General Secretary)Nilawa, clunes awa, 1907 -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Sue Wesson, An historical atlas of the Aborigines of Eastern Victoria and Far South-eastern New South Wales, 2000
An extremely detailed atlas of tribes, clans, and languages in eastern Victoria and south-eastern New South Wales. Includes maps, census information about the numbers and makeup of these clans in historical records, meanings and comparative spellings of all known named tribes and clans.maps, b&w photographs, colour photographs, tables -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Certificate, 04/02/1926
This Certificate was donated to Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village by the family of Doctor William Roy Angus, Surgeon and Oculist. It is part of the “W.R. Angus Collection” that includes historical medical equipment, surgical instruments and material once belonging to Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Thomas Francis Ryan, (both of Nhill, Victoria) as well as Dr Angus’ own belongings. The Collection’s history spans the medical practices of the two Doctors Ryan, from 1885-1926 plus that of Dr Angus, up until 1969. ABOUT THE “W.R.ANGUS COLLECTION” Doctor William Roy Angus M.B., B.S., Adel., 1923, F.R.C.S. Edin.,1928 (also known as Dr Roy Angus) was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria in 1901 and lived until 1970. He qualified as a doctor in 1923 at University of Adelaide, was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924 and for a period was house surgeon to Sir (then Mr.) Henry Simpson Newland. Dr Angus was briefly an Assistant to Dr Riddell of Kapunda, then commenced private practice at Curramulka, Yorke Peninsula, SA, where he was physician, surgeon and chemist. In 1926, he was appointed as new Medical Assistant to Dr Thomas Francis Ryan (T.F. Ryan, or Tom), in Nhill, Victoria, where his experiences included radiology and pharmacy. In 1927 he was Acting House Surgeon in Dr Tom Ryan’s absence. Dr Angus had become engaged to Gladys Forsyth and they decided he would take time to further his studies overseas in the UK in 1927. He studied at London University College Hospital and at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in 1928, was awarded FRCS (Fellow from the Royal College of Surgeons), Edinburgh. He worked his passage back to Australia as a Ship’s Surgeon on the on the Australian Commonwealth Line’s T.S.S. Largs Bay. Dr Angus married Gladys in 1929, in Ballarat. (They went on to have one son (Graham 1932, born in SA) and two daughters (Helen (died 12/07/1996) and Berenice (Berry), both born at Mira, Nhill ) Dr Angus was a ‘flying doctor’ for the A.I.M. (Australian Inland Ministry) Aerial Medical Service in 1928 . The organisation began in South Australia through the Presbyterian Church in that year, with its first station being in the remote town of Oodnadatta, where Dr Angus was stationed. He was locum tenens there on North-South Railway at 21 Mile Camp. He took up this ‘flying doctor’ position in response to a call from Dr John Flynn; the organisation was later known as the Flying Doctor Service, then the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A lot of his work during this time involved dental surgery also. Between 1928-1932 he was surgeon at the Curramulka Hospital, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. In 1933 Dr Angus returned to Nhill where he’d previously worked as Medical Assistant and purchased a share of the Nelson Street practice and Mira hospital from Dr Les Middleton one of the Middleton Brothers, the current owners of what was once Dr Tom Ryan’s practice. Dr L Middleton was House Surgeon to the Nhill Hospital 1926-1933, when he resigned. [Dr Tom Ryan’s practice had originally belonged to his older brother Dr Edward Ryan, who came to Nhill in 1885. Dr Edward saw patients at his rooms, firstly in Victoria Street and in 1886 in Nelson Street, until 1901. The Nelson Street practice also had a 2 bed ward, called Mira Private Hospital ). Dr Edward Ryan was House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1884-1902 . He also had occasions where he successfully performed veterinary surgery for the local farmers too. Dr Tom Ryan then purchased the practice from his brother in 1901. Both Dr Edward and Dr Tom Ryan work as surgeons included eye surgery. Dr Tom Ryan performed many of his operations in the Mira private hospital on his premises. He too was House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1902-1926. Dr Tom Ryan had one of the only two pieces of radiology equipment in Victoria during his practicing years – The Royal Melbourne Hospital had the other one. Over the years Dr Tom Ryan gradually set up what was effectively a training school for country general-practitioner-surgeons. Each patient was carefully examined, including using the X-ray machine, and any surgery was discussed and planned with Dr Ryan’s assistants several days in advance. Dr Angus gained experience in using the X-ray machine there during his time as assistant to Dr Ryan. Dr Tom Ryan moved from Nhill in 1926. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1927, soon after its formation, a rare accolade for a doctor outside any of the major cities. He remained a bachelor and died suddenly on 7th Dec 1955, aged 91, at his home in Ararat. Scholarships and prizes are still awarded to medical students in the honour of Dr T.F. Ryan and his father, Dr Michael Ryan, and brother, John Patrick Ryan. ] When Dr Angus bought into the Nelson Street premises in Nhill he was also appointed as the Nhill Hospital’s Honorary House Surgeon 1933-1938. His practitioner’s plate from his Nhill surgery states “HOURS Daily, except Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturday afternoons, 9-10am, 2-4pm, 7-8pm. Sundays by appointment”. This plate is now mounted on the doorway to the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Tom Ryan had an extensive collection of historical medical equipment and materials spanning 1884-1926 and when Dr Angus took up practice in their old premises he obtained this collection, a large part of which is now on display at the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool. During his time in Nhill Dr Angus was involved in the merging of the Mira Hospital and Nhill Public Hospital into one public hospital and the property titles passed on to Nhill Hospital in 1939. In 1939 Dr Angus and his family moved to Warrnambool where he purchased “Birchwood,” the 1852 home and medical practice of Dr John Hunter Henderson, at 214 Koroit Street. (This property was sold in1965 to the State Government and is now the site of the Warrnambool Police Station. ). The Angus family was able to afford gardeners, cooks and maids; their home was a popular place for visiting dignitaries to stay whilst visiting Warrnambool. Dr Angus had his own silk worm farm at home in a Mulberry tree. His young daughter used his centrifuge for spinning the silk. Dr Angus was appointed on a part-time basis as Port Medical Officer (Health Officer) in Warrnambool and held this position until the 1940’s when the government no longer required the service of a Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool; he was thus Warrnambool’s last serving Port Medical Officer. (The duties of a Port Medical Officer were outlined by the Colonial Secretary on 21st June, 1839 under the terms of the Quarantine Act. Masters of immigrant ships arriving in port reported incidents of diseases, illness and death and the Port Medical Officer made a decision on whether the ship required Quarantine and for how long, in this way preventing contagious illness from spreading from new immigrants to the residents already in the colony.) Dr Angus was a member of the Australian Medical Association, for 35 years and surgeon at the Warrnambool Base Hospital 1939-1942, He served as a Surgeon Captain during WWII1942-45, in Ballarat, Victoria, and in Bonegilla, N.S.W., completing his service just before the end of the war due to suffering from a heart attack. During his convalescence he carved an intricate and ‘most artistic’ chess set from the material that dentures were made from. He then studied ophthalmology at the Royal Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital and created cosmetically superior artificial eyes by pioneering using the intrascleral cartilage. Angus received accolades from the Ophthalmological Society of Australasia for this work. He returned to Warrnambool to commence practice as an ophthalmologist, pioneering in artificial eye improvements. He was Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist to Warrnambool Base Hospital for 31 years. He made monthly visits to Portland as a visiting surgeon, to perform eye surgery. He represented the Victorian South-West subdivision of the Australian Medical Association as its secretary between 1949 and 1956 and as chairman from 1956 to 1958. In 1968 Dr Angus was elected member of Spain’s Barraquer Institute of Barcelona after his research work in Intrasclearal cartilage grafting, becoming one of the few Australian ophthalmologists to receive this honour, and in the following year presented his final paper on Living Intrasclearal Cartilage Implants at the Inaugural Meeting of the Australian College of Ophthalmologists in Melbourne In his personal life Dr Angus was a Presbyterian and treated Sunday as a Sabbath, a day of rest. He would visit 3 or 4 country patients on a Sunday, taking his children along ‘for the ride’ and to visit with him. Sunday evenings he would play the pianola and sing Scottish songs to his family. One of Dr Angus’ patients was Margaret MacKenzie, author of a book on local shipwrecks that she’d seen as an eye witness from the late 1880’s in Peterborough, Victoria. In the early 1950’s Dr Angus, painted a picture of a shipwreck for the cover jacket of Margaret’s book, Shipwrecks and More Shipwrecks. She was blind in later life and her daughter wrote the actual book for her. Dr Angus and his wife Gladys were very involved in Warrnambool’s society with a strong interest in civic affairs. Their interests included organisations such as Red Cross, Rostrum, Warrnambool and District Historical Society (founding members), Wine and Food Society, Steering Committee for Tertiary Education in Warrnambool, Local National Trust, Good Neighbour Council, Housing Commission Advisory Board, United Services Institute, Legion of Ex-Servicemen, Olympic Pool Committee, Food for Britain Organisation, Warrnambool Hospital, Anti-Cancer Council, Boys’ Club, Charitable Council, National Fitness Council and Air Raid Precautions Group. He was also a member of the Steam Preservation Society and derived much pleasure from a steam traction engine on his farm. He had an interest in people and the community He and his wife Gladys were both involved in the creation of Flagstaff Hill, including the layout of the gardens. After his death (28th March 1970) his family requested his practitioner’s plate, medical instruments and some personal belongings be displayed in the Port Medical Office surgery at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, and be called the “W. R. Angus Collection”. The W.R. Angus Collection is significant for still being located at the site it is connected with, Doctor Angus being the last Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool. The collection of medical instruments and other equipment is culturally significant, being an historical example of medicine from late 19th to mid-20th century. Dr Angus assisted Dr Tom Ryan, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and in ocular surgery. Framed Certificate, Medical Registration, Medical Board of Victoria, W.R. Angus, 4/2/1926. Wooden frame, dark stained, with glass front. (W.R. 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