Red coloured poster advertising First Social Evening of Ringwood Caledonian Society.Nil

Black and white photo of two horses, thought to be at Blackburn Adult Deaf Society.adult deaf society., horses, blackburn

Three coloured photos of the Christmas Meeting of the Whitehorse Historical Society - December 2003whitehorse historical society

Two Coloured photos of Whitehorse Historical Society members collating the Newsletter in 2008whitehorse historical society

Mary Tolhurst M&DHS - March 29th Dunvegan Willows Park Melton 1992 Ladies Oral History Day Graham Minns President Ray Radford MC Sound recording transfer to CD 2011 by Tom Wood Edited typescript by Wendy Barrie 2013 I was born in Rockbank, and when I was five years old moved to Toolern Vale and started and finished school there. Toolern Vale only consisted of the Store, Post Office and shop, where you could buy your fodder, and pollard supplies, the Hall, the little Church and the bluestone School. The School changed shape three times from the 1800s[1869] til the time I went there. There was four generations of my family that went there and it was destroyed by fire in 1965. Marjorie nee Myers Butler. Yes, I remember along with it your lovely Ronisch piano. Mary, quite true! Marj what you say about the Ronisch piano. When I came the age to learn music my mum and dad couldn’t really afford it, but still what parents do for their children. They had Marj go along with them and pick this lovely Ronisch piano. It was known round the district. Everyone commented about the loss that lovely piano. After leaving school it was war time, 1939, then it was work, When I was 7 year old I was put out into the cow yard. In 1940 when the soldiers were going away our milk was confiscated it had to go to Bacchus Marsh. It used to go the Sunbury to be brine cooled and then go to Melbourne. Then they took it then to the Lifeguard Milk Factory at Bacchus Marsh. It had to go as condensed milk to the soldiers. This year is 50 years of the Land Army. I was an unofficial Land Army but they still kept check on me. I went onto married life and I followed the cows right through [howls of laughter] and we went on until the 1965 fire. That’s when we got out of the cows. Marjorie asks, was Granny Watts your grandmother or great grandmother? Mary: She was my great grandmother, the midwife of Melton. The 1965 fire started ¾ of a mile above our place, Frank Ryan’s sheds were burnt and his house was saved, then it wiped the School out, the Hall, the Church the Post Office and Store and little house that was Charlie Charlton’s in the early days. Mrs Wilson’s place was saved by the Fire Brigade by pulling boards off the side, and from there it went over the hill and it was stopped at the Rockbank Railway Station. If it had of got over the railway they said it would have gone into Werribee. A lot was burnt out in that strip. Mary nee Nixon Collins: 18 houses burnt that day. Audience question, did Melton get burnt that day? Ray: No. It came down through the Toolern Vale road and cut across about a mile and a half from the cross roads at Toolern Vale from north westerly to the south east and cut through over the Keilor road. Mary: It came in across the creek at Funstons in Toolern, then through Jim Minns. Dorothy was it your place then [nee Knox Beaty] to Ken Beatty’s and from there it went through to Doug McIntosh’s and to Cockbills and the wind changed and it came across to the railway line, and that is where they stopped it. [the cause of the fire was controversial, they had been burning off the night before and there was some talk of someone starting it. It was very hot and very strong wind, it was a terrible day] Ray: When the fire went through McIntosh’s they had a haystack on the north side of their house and the haystack got caught and the fire burnt a hole through the side of the house and the boys pyjamas on the bed. The house was saved. It came through like and express train roaring at you, I was at McIntosh’s when it went roaring past. You couldn’t see, dust and ash and tremendous heat. The fire started about 12 o’clock Jack [husband] said to me, fire, I said where, where? Just up the road, what have I got to do? and he went out and he had gone to the fire and left me. I tried to get the animals and I put out buckets of water, putting the buckets of water out saved my life. Chas Jones and another friend of his came in and they picked up the buckets of water, I thought I had better get out because the fire was on the haystack up the paddock and when I went to go out through the north side of the house and couldn’t get out, I’ll go through the front gate so I went around the other side of the house. I got caught there and Chassy Jones and his friend came round carrying the bucket of water and I panicked. He threw the bucket of water over me. Well that is what saved my life because I was damp, whenever we tried to leave the ball of fire came over me and over my shoulder and my hair was scorched. Chassy Jones lost his truck and Keith Watt his big truck because he had the water tank on it and they couldn’t get out of the yard. Granny Watt’s house, the first private hospital had condemned and Jack and I pulled it down and had it moved up to Toolern and had it in the yard a fortnight and it was all burnt and we didn’t get the shed we wanted. Every 13 years right up until Ash Wednesday fires, there has always been fire close at hand. The 1952 fire went down the back of the house, the 1965 fire took the house, and the house that I live in now, it is the third house that has been on that spot. When the Hunters owned it, Mrs Hunter was nearly burnt in her bed. They had a 13 roomed house. In 1924 the house burnt down, and there was another house was built there and that was the one that burnt down. Edna: So Mary built a brick veneer house. Marjorie: like the three little pigs [laughter] Mary Tolhurst member of the Melton & District Historical Society in the Melton and Moorabool Leader local identities, local special interest groups

Black and white photographTyped on back of photograph- "Ringwood Rifle Club. Remains of the club hut after the bushfires of January 1962. Bruce Mitchell in foreground."

Black and gold colored rowing program- containing historical information about the Warrnambool Rowing Club, race events for the regatta and advertisements. Another copy is in the state library of new south wales Mitchell Library - Onsite Storage Q797.123/2 REQUEST ITEMBlack and gold colored rowing program- containing historical information about the Warrnambool Rowing Club, race events for the regatta and advertisements.city of warrnambool rowing club, warrnambool rowing club, hopkins river warrnambool, regatta program, centenary regatta, rowing

This award is in recognition for the Society's 60th Birthday Open Day ExhibitionRDHS was nominated for an award for our Ringwood and District Heritage Open Day, held on 27 October 2018. The Society was announced as the winner at the Maroondah City Council Australia Day Awards Ceremony held at Ringwood Lake Reserve on 26th January 2019. It was accepted by RDHS President Russ Haines. This catalogue item consists of 4 photographs taken on the day by Ken Briscoe. (Edited/Cropped). See Item 11000 for the actual award certificates and BookletNone

Handwritten notes concerning the scaling back of the Ballarat School of Mines Science and Field Naturalists Club due to the war.In view of difficulty of obtaining lectures and activities for members be circularised [illegible] in the coming year. The work of the Society be confined to: Flower Show, Social Evening, Excursion. Proposed Mr Bary, Mr Collyer. Show beginning of October. Early notice to be given . Beginning of September. Social Evening late in August.smb, ballarat school of mines, ballarat science and field naturalists club, collyer

Jack Gervasoni played football with Fitzroy Football Club from 1951-1956. He was also a member of the Fitzroy Foolballers Cricket Club.Members of the Fitzroy Footballers Cricket Club visit Daylesford and the Gervasoni family. Left to right: Frank Curtin, Gus Gervasoni (father of Jack Gervasoni), Bess Gervasoni (mother of Jack Gervasoni), Jim Kettle (behind), Jack Gervasoni (of Daylesford), Earl Davey.john hogan gervasoni, fitzroy footballers cricket club, daylesford, gus gervasoni, elizabeth gervasoni, frank curtin, jim kettle, earl davey

Reproduced by permission of Mr John Arnold from his book: "The Riversdale Golf Club - a history, 1892-1977." Copyright to book: Riversdale Golf Club. Surrey Hills Golf Club operated from 1892-1908 then moved and became Riversdale Golf Club. The game was played across paddocks from Trafalgar Street, Mont Albert to Whitehorse Road and down Victoria Crescent to where Box Hill TAFE is now located in Elgar Road. There were problems with cows eating the tee flags! The clubhouse still exists as 30 Trafalgar Street.Apart from its association in documenting the Surrey Hills Golf Club which has long disappeared, this image documents the landscape in the pre-urban era.Black and white photo of a scene at Surrey Hills Golf Club. There is a water hazard in the foreground with a lady on her knees trying to retrieve a ball from the water's edge. Three lads, one on a horse, are watching, as are 3 males to the right."In water" in the bottom right of the photo. Caption: "Captain Fred Andrew watches his partner's misfortunes during a game at Surrey Hills in 1895."sports grounds, surrey hills golf club, riversdale golf club

Banner used during 1984 tour of Canada and America by the Guiding Light Square Dance club. Made by Margaret Fox, who along with her husband Colin, volunteered to teach square dancing at the AFB. Her son remembers that his parents rarely ever drove to a dance together, as they would need both cars to ship down the food made by Margaret to the hall, or ferry dancers to and from dances.Yellow satin banner with green outline of Australia and two people dancing inside and writing inside boomerang across Australia and enamel badges attachedGuiding Light Square Dance Club 1984 Tour - Canada & Americarecreation, association for the blind, margaret fox, guiding light square dance club

A history of Canterbury Cricket Club from 1887. Each chapter dedicated to a decade through to the 1980's. Includes appendices and results, awards, achievements. 58p. photosA history of Canterbury Cricket Club from 1887. Each chapter dedicated to a decade through to the 1980's. Includes appendices and results, awards, achievements. 58p. photos(mr) simon gardiner, (mr) sid mackie, (mr) keith silvers, (mr) len larkin, (mr) clyde ingram, (mr) frank gion, cricket, sport, (mr) m nesbit, (mr) s bisset, (mr) w grubb, (mr) r falconer, (mr) f leach, (mr) - slater, "tuss" curtis, (mr) stan self, (mr) maurie webb, (mr) norm shores, (mr) geoff matthews, (mr) wally bates, (mr) t mackie, (mr) harry swan, (mr) r mcconchie, (mr) r vaux, (mr) a pearson, (mr) - walduck, (mr) mick maguire, (mr) bob trengrove, (mr) lindsay ridgwell, (mr) john mccarthy, (mr) ewan mccarthy, camberwell union cricket club, canterbury cricket club, (mr) s parry, (mr) w lauchlan, (mr) e yeomans, (mr) a cooper, (mr) h gates, (mr) - gittus, (mr) f sheppard, (mr) - walker, (mr) a abud, (mr) - bishop, (mr) a leach, (mr) - edgoose, (mr) - allan, (mr) a brooks, (mr) c swan, reporter competition, north balwyn, mont albert, (mr) s stevens, (mr) j carlson, (mr) c yeo, (mr) e hosken, (mr) j smart, (mr) n booth, (mr) l warmbrun, (mr) a webb, (mr) w lachlan, deepdene, canterbury, box hill, surrey hills, eastern suburbs cricket assoc., (mr) t alway, (mr) a briggs, (mr) k silvers, (mr) n thackeray, (mr) r rudd, (mr) c ingram, (mr) r littlefield, (mr) (cr) r dimmick, (mr) g guiver, (mr) t cameron, (mr) ian coles, (mr) gerry hegarty, 1960-1969

Young Farmers is a network of clubs for young people aged 16 to 30. Young Farmers helps people meet new friends, improve skills, participate in their community and have fun. Activities range from weekends away to casual BBQs, field days, balls, farm tours and team events. (ref. Victorian Young Farmers Inc.) Traditionally a debutante ball was held for debutantes to formally come out into society. Debutante balls continue to have a devout following in parts of Victoria, particularly in smaller regional areas.Community dances/ balls are an important part of Orbost's social history and this item reflects that.A white/cream sheet of paper folded in half. It has black print "ORBOST YOUNG FARMERS CLUB DEBUTANTE BALL 5th OCTOBER 1973 President Mr Colin Granter Secretary Miss Helen Codey". Inside are lists of the official party, flower girls and debutantes with partners.dancing ball debutantes-ball

Invitation to the anniversary of the opening of the clubFolded cream card that has discoloured with age, printed green on face with folded paper insert printed in black.Front: To / Lt Symonds Memory of The Torpedo Insert: House lent by Mr. H. J. King Club Commandant From Mrs. R. L. Fenwickaustralian club - london, australasian officers club - london

Coloured photographs(34)Photographs include: Club personalities at old Club . Internal and external images of new Clubrooms and greens. Various team photographs. Final Premier Division 1999. Images 30210(a) to 30210(i).

The Warrnambool permanent Building and Investment Society was established in May 1869. It relied on investors buying shares in the society, thereby providing the funds which were available to be borrowed to use in the building of houses. A considerable number of houses in Warrnambool would have been built using this scheme. The stated trustees in 1872 were Samuel Macgregor, C A Cramer, James Astley Bromfield, and the committee comprised of James Hider, W. W. Jamieson, James Coulstock, Archibald MacFarlane, Robert Newton, David Evans, NT C Stelling and W Jones. The bankers were the national Bank of Australasia. It had some difficulties in the 1870’s but was still operating well into the 1930’s where it again was not putting through the volume of business compatible with its resources and it had been found necessary to pay off a considerable number of fixed deposits and Investors’ shares. There is little mention of it after the mid 1930’s. This document provides details of an organization which operated in Warrnambool for over 60 years and proved beneficial to homebuilders and investors alike. It also has a number of well- known local names listed in their positions of operating the building society.Cream watermarked paper folded to four pages. Title on front cover with letter to shareholders printed below for the year ending 30th April 1872. Page three has balance sheet of the Warrnambool Permanent Building & investment Society. Second and fourth pages are blank. Signed in print by James Hider President, Henry T Read secretary.warrnambool permanent building and investment society, warrnambool, warrnambool 1872,

Colour photograph."Note attached to photograph" Ringwood Bowls Club- Ladies Section. 2002 Club Champion: Gordana Baric. Runner-up: Anne Miles.

Colour photograph."Note attached to photograph" Ringwood Bowls Club- Ladies Section. 2003 Club Champion: Gordana Baric. Runner-up: Pearl Bickers.