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Arapiles Historical Society
Amor Stove And Stand
House hold item, wire stand and fuel stoveamor, stove, stand -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Accessory - Costume and Accessories, c1900
Black Beads Glued to wire frame. Pin Clasp.stawell clothing material -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Book, Craig Tooke, "MTPA - Museum Guidebook", 1985
Book compiled by Criag Tooke for the Melbourne Tramcar Preservation Association c1985. Details the history of the organisation, its tramcar collection at the time and its works. Has on the front cover VR tram No. 30. At the time of cataloguing, the MTPA had on loan to the BTM, two trams, VR 41, L 103 and W2 407.Yields information about work of the MTPA.Book - 25 A4 pages + covers wire bound.mtpa, museums, guide book, vr trams, haddon -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Book, Allan William Mills, Mills - A Family Story, 1997
The family history of the MIllsGrey/Green cover with cutout for title. with wire binding.Mills A Family History.stawell -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Book, Public Transport Corporation (PTC), "Tram Network", late 1980s
Titled "Metropolitan Tram Network" published by Public Transport Corporation with a drawing of an A class tram on the cover along with a The Met logo. Provides information in map form on each tram route in a large print format, contact numbers and some general information as a disability service. Gives details of Met customers services, office hours and Legend. See also item 1181 and 6000 for other examples. Possibly late 1980s as the Port Melbourne and St Kilda Light rail lines are detailed.Demonstrates the provision of information about Melbourne's tram routes at the time.Book - wire bound, 34 pages + card covers.tramways, ptc, the met, maps, disability services, tram routes, routes -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Memorabilia - ABBOTT COLLECTION: BARB WIRE
Small section of single strand barb wire. Wire found at home in Strathfieldsaye, near Bendigo. Wire is high tensile and has a slight kink under the barbs which locks them in position. Item donated by Elaine Swanson, Strathfieldsaye, whose father purchased most of his fencing materials from Abbott Supply, Bendigo. The wire matches the design outlined in Abbott's patent application attached.rural industry, fencing, barbed wire, abbott, farming material, fence wire -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional Object - Trolley Wire Sample, Trolley Ear
Long ear, 6 screws, ex South wire, at location 14D showing badly worn ear, broken screw head, worn wire etc. Screws faced East. Screws were partially undone on 3/3/97. Ear- Brass, Wire-Cad Copper. See original worksheet for sketch and Reg. Item 514 for wire sizes. Images added 3-12-2016ballarat, overhead, fittings, trolley wire -
Orbost & District Historical Society
needles, MacGregor Instrument Company, First half 20th century
These veterinary items were found in an old walk-through dairy in Wombat Track, Orbost.These items are representative of items used in Orbost on dairy farms in the first half of 20th century.Six stainless steel needles for use in a syringe.2401.5 has a small length of wire inserted into the needle. 2401.6 also has a small length of wire inserted into the needle.2401.1 : 6 2401.2 : 7(?) 2401.3 : CLINIC 17 2401.4 : 16 2401.5 : S 19 2401.6 : VIM-FIRTH 20dairy farming veterinary-instruments hypodermic-needles -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Cnr. Cochrane & Whitehorse Roads, 1/06/1999 12:00:00 AM
Coloured photo of Overhead wires corner Whitehorse Road and Cochrane Streets, Mitcham, looking North. (Before installation of underground wires) - See also NP 1907 and NP1908whitehorse road mitcham, cochrane street mitcham, overhead powerlines -
Nillumbik Historical Society Incorporated
Tool - Rat Trap, c1890
A unique example of ”'making do” with materials available. Dated c1890..This remarkable device was skilfully made from wire - no soldering at all. The rat crawled up the ramp which tilted and tipped it into the bottom of the trap. When it tried to reach the bait in the hanging container a bell rang to inform the owner that a rat was caught.Rat Trap c1890. Hand Made plain wire construction jointed by wire lacing of wire hoops to frames. Semi circular section with flat base. Tapered entry one end leading to tilting trap, access hatch at opposite end. Includes food dish and warning bells. None#homemade, #rattrap, #vermin, #pestcontrol, #ingenuity -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional Object - Trolley Wire Sample
Piece of partly worn trolley wire taken from North bound wire between poles 9 and 17 (Loop & St Aidans Drive) on 4/3/97, during replacement operations. Is slightly curved, and only partly worn, both grooves are still good. Has been cut from other wire. See sketch on original worksheet for colours of wire. Images added 3-12-2016ballarat, overhead, fittings, trolley wire -
Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre
Headphones, c 1920s
Ear phones of the type would have been used hereHeadphones made from metal base, adjustable headstrap made from metal wire with canvas padding. Bradded wire lead with two connector pins, backlight ear padsBrandes Superior. BBC pat pending. Matched Tone trade mark. Made in Englandheadphones, wwii, audio equipment -
Cheese World Museum
Jar, stoneware
This jar was used by the Hunt family on their dairy farm at Cudgee.Stoneware jar with stopper and wire handle. The cream body has instructions for use. From where the bottle slopes to the stopper is glazed brown. The stopper is rubber and the handle coiled wire.Stopper: 'Sharpe Bros Australia and New Zealand'. Body: Keep the Stopper Tight. This Jar is the absolute property and must be returned to Sharpe Bros. Australia & New Zealand Original and Largest Hygenic Brewer CAUTION. Persons Damaging Wilfully Retaining, Trading with or Misappropriating the use of this jar WILL BE PROSECUTED Sharpe Bros Trademarkallansford, cudgee, mervyn hunt, sharpe bros, stoneware jars, dairy farming, bottles, china ware -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional object - Tramway overhead wire 'Ear'
Used to suspend a tramway contact wire from catenary wires, or directly from a span pole. The contact wire is placed between the two halves and clamped in place by fastening the screws. Shows how tramway contact wire is suspended.A brass casting with various attachment points. The lower part is cast in two halves, with one side attached to the other with eight brass screws.ballarat, tramways, overhead, wiring, ear -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Magazine, 2 x Corio Shire Wire October/November 1987
2 x Corio Shire Wire October/November 1987 -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book - Atlas, Victoria. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Melbourne atlas, 2006_
The purpose of the Melbourne Atlas is to give a spatial view of physical , environmental, social, economic and cultural aspects of Melbourne which can be used in planning. It contains maps and graphs depicting many aspects of life in Melbourne. A snapshot of life in Melbourne in 2006.Various paging, text, illus., colour maps. Wire binding.melbourne, maps, town planning, social conditions -
Hamilton Pastoral Museum
Kettle
Alunimium kettle, with a handle held on with wire 1 gallon capacitynone -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, Bryce Raworth, Heritage Impact Assessment - 1 Bedford Road, Ringwood, Victoria. Application for permit - Proposed Redevelopment - July 2021, 2021
A4 size wire-bound book compiled by Bryce RaworthINTRODUCTION: This heritage impact assessment (HIS) was prepared at the request of the City of Maroondah, the owner of the subject property at 1 Bedford Street (sic), Ringwood. It relates to a proposal to demolish the existing shop on the site and construct a multi-storey car park incorporating a commercial tenancy at the lower levels. It reviews the significance of the existing building on the site and the contribution it makes to the surrounding streetscapes, then comments on the heritage impacts of the proposed demolition in the context of the significance of the place and broader considerations. This office has previously provided an Historical Overview of the subject site (June 2020) and this assessment draws upon that previous research and analysis. The report has been prepared by Guy Murphy and Bryce Raworth. CONCLUSION: The proposed demolition of the former Blood Brothers Store at 1 Bedford Street (sic), Ringwood and the construction of a multi-storey car park on the enlarged site will result in the loss of some significance to the Heritage Overlay. The degree of loss is moderated by the partial intactness of the store, its modest character and the loss of its original setting, as well the proposal to implement a heritage interpretation strategy for the site. When considered in the context of the broader range of urban planning considerations and broader net community benefit, the proposed development is supported with respect to heritage impacts. -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Domestic object - Strainer
Take a stroll through the average beverage aisle in your supermarket, and you might get the impression that tea has always come in small boxes with disposable tea bags. But before those easy to come by boxes, there was the rich and intriguing history of the tea strainer, a beautiful little tool that has helped our ancestors enjoy loose leaf tea for hundreds of years. Enjoying loose-leaf tea, and becoming familiar with this tool, can help spark an appreciation for your tea strainer and infuser collection, or simply inspire you to grow one. Documentation of tea tools such as the tea strainer appear in ancient history, the earliest models were likely made of bamboo, and later evolved into stainless steel, sterling silver, china, porcelain, silicon, and linen. During the Tang Dynasty in China, a small book called “Classic of Tea” was written describing tea utensils, and they were made to help Buddhist monks keep living things (such as small bugs) out of the drinking water. However, using a tea tool to keep run away tea leaves out of a cup did not become a cited use of the strainer until the 17th century when Dutch merchants made tea more readily available to those outside of the Chinese dynasty. British royals then increased the popularity of tea as their preferred beverage, and it was not long before a newfound fanaticism for tea in Great Britain spread to the American colonies, as did a growing demand for products that could separate loose tea leaves from liquid with ease and flair. Why did people use a strainer to separate out tea leaves in Great Britain and not in China? While the method of serving tea from a teapot with the tea loose in the pot was a practice used in both countries, the reason China may not have required a tool to remove leaves from their cup likely had to do with the types of tea leaves they were producing. The British owned tea plantations, in countries such as India, produced finer black tea leaves that did not require as much space to expand inside of a tea pot, where as the leaves prepared on the Chinese plantations would expand far more in the pot, and were therefore less likely to land or be bothersome inside a tea cup. This common approach to serving tea with smaller tea leaves required a solution to avoid ending up with a cup, and mouth, full of tea leaves. The obvious solution was a strainer basket. In the Victorian era, tea strainer baskets, similar to those still used in tea parlors today, were made to sit on top of the cup to capture the leaves when pouring the tea from a tea pot into the individual cups. Another solution was a tea-removing device called a mote spoon. Mote spoons act as search and rescue spoons to remove tea leaves from individual teacups. The tea would be brewed loose in the teapot, so any tea that ended up in the cup could be removed with a long handled spoon with holes in the spoon to remove rogue tea leaves and keep the steeped water in the cup. The handle also helped keep the teapot spout free of leaves and could help unclog any leaves trapped when pouring. Stainless steel tea strainers and tea infusers gained popularity in the late 19th century. Big name tea strainer producers, such as Tiffany and Gorham, could use fine silver to create quality, heavy, and sturdy strainers, for those who could afford it. There were many varieties of strainers at that time, but it was more likely that smaller designers who could not afford to mass-produce these quality strainers out of silver made them into unique shapes to attract consumers with lighter wallets. And borne was the tea strainer we are accustomed to today. Things took an unexpected turn for the tea strainer in the early 1900s when Thomas Sullivan, a tea merchant, shipped out tea samples in small silk bags. Customers did not realize that they were supposed to remove the tea from the bags, and instead boiled the tea, bag and all! The convenience of tossing out the leaves is obvious, and the popularity of tea bags is still seen today. Most premium bags of tea we are accustomed to today are frequently packaged loose for consumption, and when they are available in bags, the leaves are often crowded and do not have enough space to expand. While pyramid tea bags have become a more recent solution to this problem, due to the additional space at the top of the bag, enjoying a variety of quality tea is easier with a tea strainer in your arsenal. Besides, with the wide variety of strainers for your cup or pot in versatile materials such as mesh, silver, or a novelty silicone cartoon shape, loose tea can still reign supreme. Tea strainers sometimes do require more cleanup and measuring, but the experience and quality is always worth the effort. Besides, strainers also allow for mixing favorite tea blends together for an extra dose of delicious creativity! https://www.teamuse.com/article_170413.html The strainer provided the convenience of separating the tea leaves for disposal later.Metal strainer, bowl shaped, with mesh and twisted wire handle.Noneflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, strainer -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, History of Bennett Avenue Heathmont 3135, compiled by Laurie Allen, Heathmont History Group and the residents. 2023
Soft cover book of 31 pages with spiral wire spine.Cover depicts each residence number with corresponding owners name. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, Childhood Days In Ringwood. Memories of the Burns' Children- 1940s to 1960s. Compiled by Neville Burns and Meaghan Bosaid (Daughter), 2023
Soft cover book of 36 pages, with spiral wire spine.Memories of Stella, Margaret and Neville Burns growing up in Ringwood in the 1940s to the 1960s -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Dairy Equipment, enamel jug with lid, c1900
This white enamel jug was used to store milk, by early settlers families in Moorabbin Shire A typical enamel milk jug used by early settler families in Moorabbin Shire c1900A white enamel jug with a lid and wire loop carrying handledairy, dairy farmers, milk, early settlers, pioneers, moorabbin, brighton, bentleigh, cheltenham, containers milk -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Barbed Wire
Barbed wire reputed to come from gallipoli (identified asTurkish).miscellaneous, 1914, army -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Basket
Wire rubbish basket with metal base tapering in toward base. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - VAL DENSWORTH COLLECTION: SANDHURST DAIRIES, 1966/67
Slide. Sandhurst Dairies. Packing milk bottles into wire crates.slide, bendigo, sandhurst dairies., sandhurst dairies. -
Clunes Museum
Domestic object - STAND FOR IRON
Metal stand to rest iron, hand made from wireNiliron stand, domestic item -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Tool - Recorder - Cleaner, 1940's
Made by internee and used by Helga Wied (Anderson) at Camp 3Handmade recorder cleaner, wire handle, woollen cleaner headrecorder cleaner, wied l, camp 3, tatura, ww2, musical, instruments, wind -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Furniture - Chair, Harry Bertoia, Harry Bertoia Diamond Chairs, 1952
A mid-century design classic, these chairs were designed by Harry Bertoia and produced by furniture maker Knoll.Four white wire mesh chairs on black metal framewalsh st furnishings, robin boyd, ohm2022, ohm2022_21 -
Clunes Museum
Functional object - BARBED WIRE
THIS EXAMPLE OF BARBED WIRE HAS BEEN HAND MADE BY CONVICTSNilbarbed wire, fencing -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Accessory - Skirt or Kilt pin wire
Item has been passed down Susan Erey's family from her grandmother 1880 -1950 to her mother 1909 - 2011 Female skirt or kilt pin made with hand wrought wire.costume accessory