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Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Photograph
John David Roberts, LTh (MCD) was born in Brisbane, QLD in 1918. He was ordained in the Congregational ministry in Windsor, QLD in 1946. Black and white, head and shoulders studio portrait on card of Rev. John David Roberts looking to his left and wearing clerical robes. The photographed is tipped on to textured buff card which has an uneven cut down the right side. There is undecipherable pencil writing on the bottom right of the photograph.On the back: "Rev J D Roberts 1956-1961 Augustine Hawthorn (C)"congregational minister, augustine congregational church hawthorn, john david roberts -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Document (item) - CAC Collection - RAAF Avon Mk109 General and Technical Information
Australian Air Publication 711:47/109 Volume 1 September 1956 -
Ballarat RSL Sub-Branch Inc.
Certificate of Discharge
This object relates to Harold Thomas EWART. He was born on 1/01/1893 in Gracedale, VIC. Harold Thomas served in the AIF (1345) enlisting on, 17/07/1915 in Ballarat East, VIC before being killed in action on duties with the AUS INF BASE DEPOT as a Army Non-Commissioned Private (PTE) on 25/08/1915. Harold Thomas EWART was not a prisoner of war. His next of kin is E E EWART (Wife)first world war (ww1), 1914 - 1918, literature, ballarat rsl, ballarat -
Northern District School of Nursing. Managed by Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - Schools 21 and 22
The Northern District School of Nursing opened in 1950 in to address the issues around nurse recruitment, training and education that had previously been hospital based. The residential school was to provide theoretical and in-house education and practical training over three years. The students would also receive practical hands-on training in the wards of associated hospitals. The Northern District School of Nursing operated from Lister House, Rowan Street, Bendigo. It was the first independent school of nursing in Victoria and continued until it closed in 1989.Black and white photograph of seven third year nurses. Photo taken in a garden.Names written on back. "Schools 21 and 22. ?1956 or 57". (1956 or 1957 correct as both schools commenced 1954 and nurses' caps have a frill and stripe, therefore they are third year nurses)three tutor nurses., at lister house. -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Rangefinder, E R Watts & Sons, 1930-1945
E. R. Watts and Son, makers of theodolites and other surveying instruments, of 123 Camberwell Road, London. The company was established in 1856 by Edwin Watts at twenty-three he had saved £100 from his earnings to start the business with his staff consisting of one boy and later Alexander Clarkson as an apprentice with the workshop a small room over a Bemondsey stable. Watts' first order was from Negretti and Zambra for a mining dial Alexander Clarkson In the early days the firm worked mainly on marine compasses. Edwin Watts would go down to the Docks to adjust the compasses once they had been installed on the ships. In May 1873 the business moved to larger premises a house with a garden. The workshop was also the home of Mr and Mrs Watts and their five sons and three daughters. By now there were fifteen to twenty men employed by the firm. The company were commissioned to supply the Theodolites and Levels for the construction to the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1881. Towards the end of the century, the firm began to make heliographs continuing to produce them for the government until just before the Second World War when by agreement assigned their manufacture to another firm. 1904 The first dividing engine was completed by George William Watts. It was so remarkable an instrument at the time and for years afterwards, In 1907 Arthur Ames went to Canada and started an organisation in Winnipeg in 1909 this became a separate company called E. R. Watts and Son Ltd. of Ottawa. This firm developed considerably and was eventually with the co-operation of three other instrument companies (Cambridge Instrument Co, Ross, and Negretti and Zambra), were reconstituted as ”Instruments Ltd” of Ottawa and Toronto. During the next ten years, the firm expanded greatly to include glass grinding, leather work, dividing and engraving, testing, adjusting and packing. This expansion was continued during the First World War when workshops were completed and the machinery installed and running within eleven weeks from the start of construction. During the war, a Sergeant Coles, among the rats, lice and mud of the trenches, fitted various bits of scrap into his cocoa tin and made the first Flash Spotter for plotting the positions of enemy guns. Coles was rushed home to the firm's factory where he and George William Watts designed a spotter not made out of a cocoa tin and as a result, the Watts Vertical Force Variometer was developed during WWI. Other Watts instruments made in the First World War included the Light Mountain Theodolites which were taken on Mt Everest expeditions. In 1919 ER Watts and Sons was incorporated as a limited company and in 1939 G. A. Whipple joined the Board of Directors. Shortly afterwards, Frank Charles Watts died having been Chairman of the firm for over 37 years and seen it through the First World War with all its expansions and difficulties. He was succeeded by his brother George William Watts with the vacant post of Managing Director being filled by G. A. Whipple. During the Second World War, the company expanded further and the number of employees rose to well over 1,300. In 1946 Watts acquired 78% of Adam Hilger and the microscope maker James Swift and Son Who were Manufacturers of Theodolites, Levels, Alidades, Meteorological Instruments, Variometers, and many other types of scientific instruments Then in 1948 the company amalgamated with Adam Hilger as Hilger and Watts which was then incorporated as a public company.Naval Rangefinder with a vertical wooden handle, and an arrangement of optical lenses. Three reversible brass inserts calibrated on both sides in yards, correspond to various base heights, (20 and 25 feet, 30 and 35 feet and 40 and 50 feet). They are fitted along the axis of the instrument. When the scale for the appropriate base height is selected and inserted, the carriage can be slid for coincidence and the distance read at the index mark on the sliding carriage.inscribed "Rangefinder Cotton Type Mk II" Calibrated scale up to 5000 yds (50 ft), 5000 yds (35 ft), 4000 yds (25 ft) made by E. R. Watts & Son.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, rangefinder, cotton type, e r watts & sons, naval range finder, marine equipment -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record - SECV Ballarat Power Stations, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Units Book", 1956 to 1962
Contains entries for monthly records of Units generated and consumed in the Ballarat SECV district from July 1956. For each month to July 1960, records power generated, load factors, maximum demands, traction power, public lighting, domestic, industrial, and commercial, and total sales and for auxiliary equipment at the power stations. From August 1960 to Dec. 1962 duplicated sheets titled "Energy Statistics" that do not give data for sales. See item 9542 for data from Nov. 1949 to June 1956. Ballarat A Power Station not recorded generating during Dec. 1956 then not every month during 1957. Some use during the winter of 1958. Last recorded used was during June 1959.Demonstrates record keeping of the units generated and sent out (sold) of the two Ballarat Power stations.Printed as an Account book - approx 136 ruled pages + heavy card cover, blue tape binding on the outside, five sections, bound, with additional red and blue ink columns with many loose duplicated foolscap sheets.tramways, ballarat power supply, ballarat a power station, ballarat b power station, secv, electricity generation -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Book, Angus B. Watson, Lost & almost forgotten towns of colonial Victoria : a comprehensive analysis of census results for Victoria, 1841-1901, 2003
Lists all towns and villages with entries in the Victorian censuses between 1841 and 1901. It includes in excess of 1400 entries with the latitude and longitude for each town, numbers males and females in the town, and the number of occupied dwellings (where available). For many of these settlements the only visible trace of them today is in the census results collected by the fledgling governments of Colonial Victoria. It is a comprehensive reference and a fascinating insight into the movements of early populations of new Australians.cities and towns victoria, history 19th century, statistics, ghost towns - victoria, geographical names victoria, victoria census -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Unidentified location, Eltham district, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Mroads, infrastructure, shire of eltham, unidentified -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Unidentified location, Eltham district, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Mroads, infrastructure, shire of eltham, unidentified -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Unidentified location, Eltham district, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Mshire of eltham, unidentified -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Unidentified location, Eltham district, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Mshire of eltham, unidentified -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Unidentified location, Eltham district, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Mshire of eltham, unidentified -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Unidentified location, Eltham district, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Mshire of eltham, unidentified -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Unidentified location, Eltham district, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Mshire of eltham, unidentified -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Eltham Lower Park, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Meltham lower park -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Eltham Lower Park, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Meltham lower park -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Eltham Lower Park, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Meltham lower park -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Eltham Lower Park, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Meltham lower park -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Unidentified location, Eltham district, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Meltham, houses, unidentified -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Unidentified location, Eltham district, c.May1990
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Meltham, unidentified -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Unidentified rural road within the Shire of Eltham, c.May 1988
Located bewteen Watson's Creek Antiques, Eltham-Yarra Glen Road and Panton Hill Memorial Park35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcess Date MAY 88Minfrastructure, roads, shire of eltham, unidentified, rural road -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Panton Hill Fencing, Panton Hill, c.May 1988
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcess Date MAY 88Minfrastructure, roads, shire of eltham, rural road, panton hill fencing, panton hill -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, The Black Billy Tea Room, Panton Hill, c.May 1988
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcess Date MAY 88Mpanton hill, the black billy tea room -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Kinglake National Park, c.May 1988
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcess Date MAY 88Mkinglake national park -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, St Andrews Anglican Church Restoration Appeal, c.May 1988
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcess Date MAY 88Mrestoration appeal, st andrews anglican church -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, St Andrews Anglican Church Restoration Appeal, c.May 1988
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcess Date MAY 88Mantiques and old wares, st andrews -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, North Riding Mudbrick Restaurant, St Andrews, c.May 1988
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcess Date MAY 88Mst andrews, north riding mudbrick restaurant -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Watery Gully Park Fuchsia Nursery, Wattle Glen, c.May 1988
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcess Date MAY 88Mwatery gully park fuchsia nursery, wattle glen, fuchsia nursery, watery gully park -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Kangaroo Ground, possibly looking north from Henley Road, c.May 1988
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcess Date MAY 88Mhenley road, kangaroo ground -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Kangaroo Ground Store, 280 Eltham-Yarra Glen Rd, Kangaroo Ground, c.May 1988
35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcess Date MAY 88Meltham-yarra glen road, kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground store