MEYER COLLECTION - FALLS CREEK PHOTOS In 1947 a determined group of like-minded State Electricity Commission (SEC) staff including Ray Meyer, the chief surveyor of the Kiewa Hydro-Electric Scheme, had a common interest that revolved around the skiing potential of the snow-covered high plains which included what is now the resort of Falls Creek. The six SEC employees, Toni St Elmo, Ray Meyer, Jack Minogue, Lloyd Dunn, Adrian Ruffenacht and Dave Gibson (together with their families) banded together to secretly build a 'hut' that was the first ski lodge at Falls Creek. Using a road built in 1930s to gain access to Falls Creek, their hut project was carried out in secret as efforts by other skiers were blocked by H.H.C. Williams – the engineer in charge of the Hydro Scheme. In 1946 Ray Meyer made a trip to the Lands Office in Melbourne. He came away with a 99-year lease on three acres that was ideally suited for a hut designed by Lloyd Dunn. Adrian Ruffenacht (Design Engineer for the KHS) had suggested where the group should build because of easy access to a spring for water. Much of the building material required was scavenged from derelict huts on the high plains. Due to the need for secrecy, the determined group worked on the hut in the evenings and weekends to avoid detection. During the building period the group had met at Echidna Rock (now known as Eagle Rock) where Skippy St Elmo announced, "This is my favourite ‘Skyline’.” And so the first lodge in the area at Falls Creek Ski Resort came into existence. With the development of the International Poma in the 1970s, the Skyline Lodge, which was sited between the ski-lift’s pole one and pole two, was demolished. However, the legacy of Ray Meyer, Toni St Elmo, Jack Minogue, Lloyd Dunn, Adrian Ruffenacht and Dave Gibson and Skyline lives on in the vibrant atmosphere of Falls Creek Resort. The MEYER COLLECTION documents developments on the Kiewa Hydro Scheme and their life at Falls Creek from the mid 1930s to 1960s.This image is significant because Wallace's Hut is a heritage listed building which has provided shelter to cattlemen and skier on the High Plains since 1889.A black and white photo taken by John Meyer inside Wallace's Hut. The hut was built in 1889 and is probably the oldest surviving hut on the high plains of north-east Victoria. The State Electricity Commission used the hut from the late 1920s until the early 1940s to collect data on precipitation for possible future hydroelectric works. Toni and Skippy spent their first years on the mountain living in Wallace's Hut. falls creek, victorian snowfields, joan meyer, diamantina hut

Cardboard backed , cloth bound , Ritewell No 248 Minute Book (M ?) Hall written in blue ink The Bendigo Repertory Society, paper cuttings from 1929- 1970's was formed in 1929 when at the invitation of Mr. G. Hall, Mr.J.Beresford Fowler came up from Melbourne to found a drama group here. In 1930 the group took the name of Bendigo Repertory Society and presented its first public production, 'The Rat Trap' by Noel Coward. Page 3 and 4 have black white photos taken from 1929 Illustrated Tasmanian Mail -of the play The Vortex -at the Theatre Royal by Noel CowardH.Hall

Victoria Police Gazette No. 37 dated Thursday, September 10, 1868, containing notices about: murder, incendarism, highway robbery and stealing from the person, housebreaking and stealing from dwelling houses, felonies and offences not otherwise described, miscellaneous information, horses and cattle, property stolen or lost, missing friends, courts, inquests, deserters from H.M. Service, property found, deserters from merchant vessels, extracts from the New South Wales Police gazette, and extracts from the Tasmanian crime report. Also a list and description of horses and cattle reported to the police as stolen during the week ending 8th September, 1868.essential services, police, victoria police gazette

In 1952 the subject surf boat crewed by Geoff Scott, Ron Blackney, Wes McLaren, Jim Tibb, and Stan Stephens, won the Victorian Surf Boat Championships. When the club had finished with the boat Mr. Harold Stephenson paid one shilling and it eventually found its way into a garage where it remained for over 20 years before being donated to Flagstaff Hill. This boat is regarded as a unique example of craftsmanship, closely resembling Bay whaleboats used around the Warrnambool area in the 1800s. This timber caravel surf boat was named “Aeroplane Jelly” and was built by N & E Towns a Newcastle boat builder in 1949 Aeroplane Jellies and David Jones as sponsors of the Sydney Surf Carnival of 1950/1951 donated jointly the vessel. George Towns started his boat-building business in 1869 on Dempsey Island on the Hunter River, NSW. George's sons took over the business as N & E Towns (Norman and Eldrid) and continued until the early 1950s. The business made a variety of small craft including fishing boats, launches, and flood boats. In 1928 they built their first surf boat it took about six weeks to build with cedar planks and hardwood frames. After World War II surf boats became their main focus and they became well known for the lighter and faster designs. Many “Towns built” craft have won events at state and national surf championships. They were renowned Boat Builders producing a much lighter and faster running boat than anything previously made, with a buoyant type bow design giving it the lift necessary to get out and through heavy surf. while its sleek lines from amidships aft provided very fast running qualities. Either side of its bows, it bore the bright silver aircraft transfer of the Aeroplane Jellies Company. After a surf competition at Narrabeen NSW, the competing Warrnambool surf lifesaving team returned home to Warrnambool their club committee decided to purchase the "Aeroplane Jellies" Surf boat if and when it became available as the team had been so impressed with the boat. On 30 October 1951 a cheque for £207-2/6' was raised, £180 for the boat, balance for oars. Transport was arranged and the boat was delivered in November 1951. When the "Aeroplane Jellies" competition days were over in the early 1960's due largely to changing surf boat design, Warrnambool Club's Secretary, Mr. Harold Stephenson, sought permission from the Committee to purchase the boat for the nominal sum of one shilling thus preserving the vessel for posterity. The boat had been stored for many years at the Nullawarre Bakery where it remained until Mr. Stephenson died in 1985. After Mr. Stephenson's passing his family donated the vessel to Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum in 1986.A very rare example of a surf lifesaving boat that for its time was a unique creation that revolutionised small vessel design in Australia. It was made by a renowned maker that today unfortunately many of his examples of boats he made, especially surf life-saving boats no longer exist making the Flagstaff Hill boat very significant to not only surf lifesaving history but to the part it played in our social life for all those who went to the beaches in 1960s Australia.Surf boat named "Aeroplane Jellies". Timber, double ender carvel, built in 1949 by N & E Towns, Newcastle, NSW. Only a few are in existence. She was a trophy prize at Sydney Surf Carnival 1950/1951, donated by Aeroplane Jellies and David Jones Dept. Store, Sydney. The boat was won by South Narrabeen Surf Club. Warrnambool Surf Club purchased her on 30/10/1951 for £207-2/6, and she was sold to Harold Stephenson in early 1960's for 1 shilling. Donated to Flagstaff Hill by the family of Harold Stephenson around 1985-1986. The name Aeroplane Jellies was lettered in gold across the boat's coaming and there is a remnant of some of the gold lettering still there.warrnambool, flagstaff hillflagstaff hill maritime museum, great ocean road, ememgency, historic boat, surf boat, n & e towns, carvel, vintage boat, double ender boat, lifesaving boat, geoff scott, south narrabeen surf club, warrnambool surf life saving club, lifeboat

2 colour photo showing the interior of the newly built Methodist Church in Station Street c1963 These photographs are in the presentation album given to Vera Wigley in memory of her husband, builder Evan Wigley. See Registration Numbers 11002-00 to 11002-10 for the full set of photographs.

Handwritten and typed copies of a Business License Petition. Petition is about storekeepers, etc. who have built their businesses on Crown Land. The petitioners hoped that the land upon which they have erected their premises may be surveyed and put up for public auction and that the premises on the land are valued and allowed for.document, names of bendigo pioneers, business license petition, business license petition, i hendry, major general macarthur

Document: Theatre programme. 'The House That Jack Built.' Commencing at Her Majesty's Theatre Saturday Dec. 23rd. 1915. J.C. Williamson Ltd. Written by George Slater and Frank Dix. Additional scenes by Harry Taylor. Small notice 'Danger' included inside. Printer Syd. Day.George Slater + Frank Dixentertainment, theatre

Piece of cream-coloured silk, no markings, from Basil Watson's biplane, in construction stage. Handwritten note states : 'Assam silk material used in covering the wings and fuselage of Basil Watson's airplane built by him in 1916. The wings and fuselage were then painted with an oil protective covering'person, individual, basil watson

Used by donor in 'Blackburn - a picturesque history'Black & white photo of original Church of Christ Built in 1906, on South West cnr. Whitehorse Road and Albert Street. Later sold and removed..|Photo includes, Elizabeth Sanders, Miss Sanders, Alf Edwards, Edwin Schwab, Alf Schwab,Albert Hone and Theo Edwards.albert street blackburn, whitehorse road blackburn, sanders, elizabeth, miss, edwards, alf, schwab, edwin, hone, albert, theodore, blackburn church of christ

Colour photographs of the interior of a house in Webb Avenue, Ballarat East, and its garden shed. The houses in Webb Avenue were built for the Housing Commission in 1959. The interior fit out was likely to be similar in the other houses and each property appears to have had an identical garden shed. webb avenue, black hill, ballarat, housing commission, architecture

Also copy of same view, stained, 9 x 14Black and white photograph of the Narrows and Reeves Channel of Lake King, Gippsland Lakes. It shows Rigby, Fraser, and Flannagan Islands opposite the steep shoreline of the mainland. Taken from Jemmy's Point, it shows a recently built groyne from Rigby Island into the Narrows. Lakes Entrance Victoriaislands, waterways, topography

Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. After 1853, many hotels were built on the diggings. The diggings hotel was generally a rambling wooden structure with large stables. A billiard room or a bowling alley was often to be found nearby. Markings: 42 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

An item from an outstanding and diverse photographic collection, assembled by members of the Christian family of Pakington Street, Kew, comprising professional and amateur photography, depicting individuals, natural and settled environments and the interactions between these worlds. Many of the photographs vividly capture the worlds of three generations of men - Henry Christian, his son Orlando Henry Beater Christian, and his grandson of Henry Beater Christian. The most important photographer was the youngest, Henry Christian, who was a keen explorer, not just of his immediate environment but also of the Victorian wilderness. His major opus is contained in two albums in which he records, sometimes in majestic detail and on other occasions the intimate features of the natural world. His photographic travels during the 1920s, often in solitary ramblings but on other occasions with companions, recall the heroic landscape photography of an earlier era, pioneered by Nicholas Caire. In addition to their aesthetic value, the albums are historically significant records within the State of Victoria, of what is now a distant point in time, and of places that have become radically altered through human intervention.Sepia photograph of the wooden trestle Zig-Zag Bridge across the River Yarra. The bridge was built in the 1870s to transport stone from the west side of the Yarra to the east side. The stone was used in the construction of the Kew Asylum. The bridge continued to link the two asylums on each side of the river. yarra river -- kew (vic), zig-zag bridge -- kew (vic.), henry beater christian, christian-washfold collection

Elaine Mann was married to David Mann, a successful Wodonga businessman and community leader who passed away in Wodonga in June 2012. David was a member of the Mann family who began their business in Wodonga in 1920. Elaine was a teacher in Wodonga for many years and an active member of the community.This photo collection is significance as it documents how the businesses and buildings in Wodonga have evolved and contributed to community throughout the late 20th century.Bob Wiltshire and Ron Rattray built this store on the East side of High Street, next to the Railway signal box. The site had formerly been occupied by Abe Turton’s Coach building business. The building has since had several tenants, including “Lunn & Fordyce” clothingwodonga businesses, high st wodonga, wiltshire and rattray

Denis Gibbons (1937 – 2011) Trained with the Australian Army, before travelling to Vietnam in January 1966, Denis stayed with the 1st Australian Task Force in Nui Dat working as a photographer. For almost five years Gibbons toured with nine Australian infantry battalions, posting compelling war images from within many combat zones before being flown out in late November 1970 after sustaining injuries. The images held within the National Vietnam Veterans Museum make up the Gibbons Collection. A black and white photograph of the 1st Australian Task force Commander (Aug 1969 - Jun 1970). Brigadier Stewart Weir MC (centre of the group) inspects a new bridge built by Australian Engineers from the 1st Australian Task Force Base, Nui Dat, South Vietnam.photograph, brig stewart weir, engineers, 1st atf base, nui dat, gibbons collection catalogue, denis gibbons, photographer, vietnam war

Forms - set of 6 - index card size - titled "Car History" - with space for Car No., class, type, date built, date into service, with columns for 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, Km and Date with Alterations and Remarks. On rear, has space for further information. See Notes for further details.trams, tramways, tramcars, maintenance, forms, preston workshops

Builders Plate, sign - pressed brass sheet with burnished black background around the raised letters - "Coach Work by Holdens Motor Body Builders Ltd Adelaide & Melbourne". Has screws holes in each corner. Used by the company on the tramcar bodies it built for the MMTB in the 1920'sHas on the rear in black text pen "339"trams, tramways, signs, tramcars, tramcar bodies, holdens, new trams, w2 class

The Homestead, L C P Furnished Apartments have become very popular (on back)Black and white small format postcard of the Homestead at Whiters Camp Park. A timber and fibro cement building in Californian bungalow style. Low pitched gable roof with built in veranda extensions. Homestead was the residence of the proprietor and family. Formal garden in foreground image. Lakes Entrance Victoriatourism, houses, resort

Colour photograph of the entrance from Bass Strait to the Gippsland Lakes. It shows the western end of Bullock Island and the entrance to North Arm, cars parked on island and many people fishing. This area built up during dredging operations over many years. Lakes Entrance Victoria topography, fishing industry, boats and boating

Photograph re 16th Intake National Service 23/4/1969 Recruit Training 20 Platoon D Coy Puckapunyal. Photo in the collection re Peter Ball, refer Cat No 4704 for service/other details Platoon names, surname only. Back row. Russell, Rennie, Carter, Henning, McMurrich, Golding, McLeay, Span, Musgrave, Tinney, Pitt. Fifth row. Flowers, McNair, Coates, Raco (Sam), Moon, Albert, DeJong, Taylor, Morgan, Burrows, Culp. Fourth Row. Wakeling, Fuller (Bob), Melbourne, Guistino, Thorpe, Forbes (Wayne), Alexander, Tirrell (Roger) Ellingham, Bloom, Freeman. Third row. Johnson, Watts, Tellis, Rankin, Whatmough, Goldsmith, Kopke, Thomas (Courtney), Darker, Lonergan. Second row. Russo, Cpl Brabrowsky, Cpl Eather, Cpl Richards, 2nd Lt Boag, Cpl Logan, Cpl Beasley, Robertson, Thompson. Front row. Dann, Hore, Ball (Peter), Luke (David), Clay, Missing. Sgt Simms, O'Donnell, Roberts, McHenry, Harris, Johns, Maher, Parmenta. Served in Vietnam later that is known. Henning, Fuller, Forbes, Thomas, Ball, Luke, Johns. Cpls Eather, Richards & Beasley had already served in Vietnam'. Thorpe served in Malaya later. Black and white photo of 20th Platoon, D Company. Six (6) rows of soldiers in uniform posed on the Parade Ground in front of building at Puckapunyal on 7th June 1969. Photo is in a white frame (wooden) with a glass front. Brown cardboard backboard with built in stand stapled to back.On back written "16th Intake" x "8 x6".puckapunyal, training, photograph, 20th platoon

Thaddeus Fairbanks (1796 –1886) was an American inventor. of heating and cook stoves, cast iron ploughs, and other items. His greatest success was the invention and manufacture of the platform scale, which allowed the weighing of large objects accurately. Fairbanks was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1796, the son of Joseph Fairbanks (1763–1846) and Phebe (Paddock) Fairbanks (1760–1853). His uncle was Ephraim Paddock, the brother of Phebe Paddock. In 1815 he moved to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and set up a wheelwright's shop above his father's gristmill. In 1820 he married Lucy Peck Barker and In 1824 he built an iron foundry. his brother Erastus joined him to establish E. and T. Fairbanks, a partnership to manufacture heating stoves, cast iron ploughs a design for which he patented in 1826. In 1830 Fairbanks and Erastus became interested in the raising and processing of hemp. Fairbanks went on to patent a hemp and flax dressing machine and became the manager of the St. Johnsbury Hemp Company. He also built a set of scales that would measure large loads of hemp accurately, as there were no reliable scales at the time. Upon the success of building these scales, his brothers recommended that he make and sell these for general use.  Fairbanks' most famous invention then became the platform scale for weighing heavy objects. These are commonly known as the Fairbanks Scales, for which he patented his original design in 1830.  Before this time, accurate weighing of objects required hanging them from a balancing beam as a result, particularly heavy or ungainly objects could not be weighed accurately. A platform scale, if large enough, could weigh an entire wagon. By placing a full wagon on the scale, unloading it, and then placing it on the scale when empty, it became possible to easily and accurately calculate the weight and value of farm produce and other loads. In 1834 Fairbanks and his brother formed "E. and T. Fairbanks and Company" to manufacture and sell these platform scales. These scales were well known in the United States and around the world resulting in the company doubling in volume every three years from 1842 to 1857. There was a temporary slow down during the American Civil War, however, the business took off again after the war. Their partnership was incorporated in 1874 into a firm known as "Fairbanks Scale Company". These platform scales revolutionized weighing methods of large loads and have been in use ever since. Portable platform scales are found in almost every hardware store, physician's office, and manufacturing factory throughout the United States and the world. The first railway track platform scale patent was granted to Fairbanks on January 13, 1857, as Patent No. 16,381. In 1916 the company was purchased by ”Fairbanks, Morse and Company”. Ownership of the company has since changed several times, but Fairbanks Scales continue to be made in St. Johnsbury Vermont to this day. Fairbanks had received 43 patents in his lifetime with the last one at the age of 91. He died on April 12, 1886, and is buried at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery. An early example of the first type of platform scale that revolutionised the weighing of goods throughout the world made in the USA around the turn of the 19th century. Commercially built platform scale on wheels. Cast iron base supports iron weighing platform with wooden floor. At back, square hollow wooden post supports a hooded rod which bears the weight of the platform and which hooks onto a brass balancing arm, marked in pounds up to 50. There is a cylindrical sliding weight and on the end a loop for a metal weight holder. The holder is designed for three circular pieces of metal with a slit to the centre. The weights used are 50, 100 and 200 lbs.Embossed to base Fairbanks Patent No 11 1/2, flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, platform scales

Conditions of sale by private contract dated 11th January, 1938 between Mrs. E. Banninger (seller) and Mrs. M.M. Spicer (buyer) for land situate in Wood Street, Long Gully, being Crown allotment 1 section P described in Crown grant volume 2129 folio 425693, together with 5-roomed weatherboard dwelling and all sundry, also bath, cement troughs and copper, wire doors, three venetian blinds, built in wardrobe, and vendor's interest in poultry pens built on land adjoining the above freehold, also all poultry and poultry farm equipment as per schedule on page 2. Price 550 pounds.organization, business, h.a. & s.r wilkinson real estate

This set of photos is from a leather bound album bearing the inscription "HUME RESERVOIR AUSTRALIA" plus 'The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, P. C., M .P.' all inscribed in gold. It was presented to The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, P. C., M. P, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs on the occasion of his visit to the Hume Reservoir on 2nd November 1927. This album is of local and national significance as it documents the planning and development of the Hume Reservoir up to 1927. It was the largest water reservoir in the British Empire. The album records the pioneering engineering work that went into its construction.DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, N.S.W. RIVER MURRAY WATERS SCHEME. HUME RESERVOIR. 19. Driving first row of piles for coffer dam across the river. New South Wales. December 1925. Cofferdams are temporary structures used where construction is being carried out in areas submerged in water. They are most commonly used to facilitate the construction or repair of dams, piers and bridges. To divert the river, a Coffer Dam was built across the old bed above and below the Dam site and tying into the end of the concrete wall built inside the levee bank. This completely surrounded the remainder of the site of the Dam and south wing wall, including an area of 12½ acres. hume reservoir australia, river murray waters scheme, hume reservoir construction

This miniature cash tin was produced by Fry's Chocolate Company of England as a promotional giveaway and probably held some chocolate samples. It would then have been used in a household for keeping trinkets or other small items. The Fry's Chocolate Company was established in Bristol, England in the mid 18th century by Joseph Fry and in the mid 19th century it produced the first mass-produced chocolate bar (1866 - Chocolate Cream, 1913 Turkish Delight). The company merged with the Cadbury company in 1919 and the Tasmanian Cadbury factory which opened in 1921 was known as Cadbury-Fry-Pascall. Fry's chocolate bars were very popular in Australia. This item is retained as a memento of Fry's Chocolate Company, the products of which featured in Australian life for many decades. This is a rectangular metal tin painted black and light brown. It has a hinged lid and a metal handle held with clips inserted into slits on the top of the lid. There is printing on the lid and a label on the base.Cash Fry's Chocolatechocolate bars, fry's chocolate, miniature cash tin

Robert Edward Davies CBE (30 July 1913 – 17 May 2002) was the Anglican Bishop of Tasmania from 1963 to 1981. Educated at Queensland University, he was ordained in 1937 and began his career as an assistant priest at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, NSW. After World War II service as a chaplain with Toc H and the Royal Australian Air Force he became Warden of St John’s College Brisbane. After this he was Archdeacon of Canberra, then Wagga Wagga. He became an assistant bishop of Newcastle and Warden of St John’s Theological College, Morpeth in 1960 and three years later the Tasmanian diocesan bishop. B&W head and shoulders studio photograph of Right Reverend Robert Edward Davies, Bishop of Tasmania."The Right Reverend RE Davies Bishop of Tasmania"davies, r. e., bishop

This item is on display in the Bistro area of the Bendigo District RSL Havilah Road. Refer Cat No 8173.2 for an actual propellor in the same venue. Due to the position and light a good photo was not possible.Framed colour photo, brown timber frame with photo in a white inset, the photo shows a ships shaft and propellors under going a 300 hour spin test inthe Ordnance Factory Bendigo, under the photo is a description detail of the test procedure, where built and for which RAN ships.brsl, smirsl, bdrslinc