The Post War Planning Report was prepared by Leslie M. Perrott & Partners: (City Planning Consultants) and according to the report, it was submitted to the Council of the Municipality of Caulfield through its Special Committee on Post War Planning. The report has no evident date however the introduction text suggests that it was prepared before the end of World War II. The report is the only known extant copy and therefore considered rare. Bound report with grey cover titled: "Report to the Post War Planning Committee Caulfield City Council". Interior pages include x83 pages typed text printed on blue print paper; x3 pages copies of black and white photographs; 10 blueprint plans. 86 pages consistent in size with book cover, 10 x blueprint plans varying dimensions, folded and bound within the report. Printed on white sticker on spine of book "LH 994. 51" and on first page inside "CAULFIELD LIBRARY SERVICE REFERENCE BOOK" and on the verso of this page, another stamp with CAULFIELD LIBRARY SERVICE and LH REF 12/7 hand written in black ink and a 14 digit reference number below this. On the back of the last plan in the book, there is a blue stamp with "REFERENCE BOOK TO BE USED IN THE LIBRARY ONLY". Below this is a black and white barcode with a black line through it and a round, blue sticker beside it.

Folding post cards were popular as tourist souvenir of visits to places in Australia throughout the 20th century. Many thousands of the same photographs were reproduced and the Warrnambool and District Historical Society has several examples of these photographs. These folding post cards are kept as examples of the souvenirs tourists bought in the early and mid 20th century and the photographs themselves give a good indication of what Warrrnamool and district looked like at the time. The photographs also indicate what were considered at the time to be tourist spots worth a visit and a photo. These are folding post cards with scenes of Warrnambool. One has a kangaroo and a bush landscape on the front cover and one has seven kookaburras and a gum tree on the cover. There are 15 of the same black and white photographs in each (taken about the 1920s). The covers are buff-coloured with a space on the front cover to write and address and affix a stamp. Front Cover – Photographic Souvenir of Warrnambool, Victoria On one (VC000803.2) – in pencil – ‘late 1920s’ and on back cover on affixed sheet, ‘ from Horsham H.S., 17.3.96’ warrnambool, 1920 warrnambool

A history of the Forest Hill Post Office.A history of the Forest Hill Post Office.forest hill post office, post offices, peacock family, peacock robert, peacock catherine, mcarthur archibald

Colour photograph of the Daylesford Post Office. heritage, daylesford, townscape, daylesford post office

Colour photograph of Noorat Post Office.building, noorat, heritage, post office, noorat post office

Colour photograph of the Maryborough Post Office.maryborough, maryborough post office

Colour photograph of the Redan Post Officeredan, redan post office

Brown cardboard Post Card - no details - not completedFront Side intended for address of recipient. Reverse side has a standardised printed form letter. Front has an emblem of "On Her Majesties Services"

Australia Post new stamp release featuring artist Arthur Boyd, Robin Boyd's first cousin.Australia Post stamps promotional posterarthur boyd, walsh st miscellaneous

Article in Nunawading Gazette. Blackburn South Post Office to be sold and relocated to a nearby newsagency. Vermont Post Office will also be closed soon but its relocation is yet to be decided. The two post offices were losing $95,000 a year. No staff would be forced out of their jobs.post offices, blackburn south post office, caldwell, peter, quibell, keith, walters, terry, vermont post office

Stawell Post Office on corner of Wimmera and Main Streets. Erected 1875. Phone box and car at right of photo. Directional sign on the left side of the building. The Fruit Vegs building on the right side has replaced the Akins building on the right side in an earlier photo.Black & white photograph of a two storey building built in 1875. Out the front of the building is a signpost, bench seat, phone box and car in the foreground. A flag pole protrudes from one of the windows on the top storey. On the right side of the photo is a Fruit Vegs sign on the awning of the building next door. A directional sign post is on the left side of the building stawell

"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

Particulars of Thomas Stoddart's death registered.The Death Certificate gives further perspective on this renowned Ballarat citizen.One page divided into sections with printed headings at the top of the page and listings down the page written in longhand. To be read horizontally.Printed, longhand, top righthand corner, Thomas Stoddart 1905. On the back of the sheet, written in longhand "Obtained 22 Feb, 2010 for FBBG, History Group. thomas stoddart, ballarat botanical gardens, doctor john garner, 10 carrera marble statues, death certificate, friends of the ballarat botanical gardens, sharebroker, miner, john garner collection, gardens, ballarat, stoddart

History of Warrandyte Post Office from 1876 to 1988

This cast iron hitching rail, designed to accommodate horses on Sturt Street Ballarat, incorporates a bronze plaque dedicated to the Australian Poet Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870).The memorial is of historic and aesthetic significance to the people of BallaratOrnate cast iron post designed for hitching horsesA.L. GORDON, AUSTRALIAN POET, 1833 - 1870 (on plaque)adam lindsay gordon, ballarat, australian poet

B/W Photo of Blackburn Post Office 1876.blackburn post office, black and white photograph

Black and white photo of Blackburn Post Office 1876.blackburn post office, blackburn

Black and white postcard of post and rail fence, Blackburnpost and rail fence, blackburn

Colour photograph of a post in Armstrong Street Sorth, Ballarat.armstrong street south, post, infrastructure, ballarat

Belonged to A.C. & E.J. Sebire.Post Office handbook. "A Great Selection for your Collection."booklet

Birregurra is a town in Victoria. Colour photograph of a weatherboard post office at Birragurra, Victoria. birregurra, birregurra post office, telephone, post office boxes

Electrical telegraphs were point to point text messaging systems primarily used from the 1840's until the late 20th century. It was the first electrical telecommunications system and were sent by an operator or telegrapher using Morse code. Social telegrams were also encouraged and special pictorial forms and envelopes were designed such as the special purple form and envelope which was used when conveying condolence details during World War 2.(fn. Powerhouse https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/163103). There was a brief resurgence in telegraphy during World War I but the decline continued as the world entered the Great Depression years of the 1930s.  Although telegraph lines continued to play an important part in distributing news feeds from news agencies post World War 2, the rise of the internet in the 1990s and the widespread installation of the telephones in homes saw the need for telegrams to greatly decline. When the Commonwealth Post and Telegraph Act was passed in June 1902, and a national Postmaster General's Department (the PMG) was established the responsibility for the nation's mail and telephone services fell on Post Offices. The Bendigo Post Office, built in 1887 and situated on Pall Mall was the central distribution centre for receiving and delivering telegrams and continued to deliver communication and postal services until 1997. Now a Visitor Centre, dedicated volunteers at the Post Office continued to demonstrate and educate the public about telegraphic services and the development of this unique form of communication up until 2019 when Covid 19 disrupted every day life, coupled with the death Ted Rankins (the last Post Master and a long term telegraph volunteer at the Post Office). This belt buckle was used on the leather satchels used by Junior Postal Workers in Bendigo to carry telegrams which were delivered by bicycle in the early years. The buckle is part of the postal collection donated by the Rankins family in memory of Ted Rankins.Circular belt buckle from telegram delivery satchel belt. Inner buckle depicts the Greek deity Hermes who personifies the transmission of information and was adopted as an allegorical representation of the function of postal services. Outer buckle; Post Office / Communications / Australia. Centre top outer buckle; emu, kangaroo and shield Inner buckle; Hermes (left facing)bendigo post office, bendigo tourism, city of greater bendigo tourism, post office collection, ted rankins collection

Photocopy, A4 sheet of an extract of a death notice of James Fraser, Ballarat Courier, Saturday 13/4/1907. Was a well known employee of the Ballaarat Tramway Company, born 1830 in Scotland, died in Nhill 4/1907. Cutting gives family details. Was a coach builder/painter. Also gives details of a James Duncan. Images of document added 27-08-12.trams, tramways, ballarat tramways, horse trams, coach building

A humorous post card intended to emulate an official army issued post card used for soldiers to quickly send information home. However the options given on the humorous postcard are contradictory. Postcards were a very common form of communication in the first World War. Postcards as souvenirs or as correspondence would have been familiar to the first Legatees as they had served in World War 1.Brown card with printed with black text. Side A Nothing is to be written on this side unles it is of useful information to the Enemy or your lady friends. If anything is written on this card it will be destroyed. In any case it will not be forwarded. I am quite well (?) I wish I were dead I am dead I have been dead for some time I am not yet shot I wish I were shot I hope to be shot I am shot The Q.M. has recieved the parcel you sent me Please forward 5 pounds/ 10 pounds/ 20 pounds/ 50 pounds (strike out the sum not required) I am in Hospital. She is/is not lovely. Signature (Must be Embossed) Date _ Side B The address only is to be written on this side. If anything is written on this side the post card will be destroyed. (Leadswingers Club)Pencil markings on side B appear to be numbers used to tally something.war correspondence, world war one, souvenir