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Greensborough Historical Society
Newsletter, Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association, Community News: official journal of the Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association. Dec. 8th 1969. Edition No.1/69, 08/12/1969
This edition includes the aims of the Progress Association, School and Kinder news, Scout and Guide news, A report on a deputation to the Minister for Local Government on street construction, Wildflower notes, Personal news.Newsletter, 16 p., illus. greenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newsletter, Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association, Community News: official journal of the Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association. 22nd Dec., 1971. Edition No. 10/71, 22/12/1971
This edition includes Happy birthday, Community News, Diamond Valley Repertory, School and Kinder news, Callistemons, Summer peril, Death in 7/10 of a second, Pool... not for gambling, Local news.Newsletter, 16 p., illus. greenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Magazine, Sun News-Pictorial, Bush Fires: A pictorial survey of Victoria's most tragic week, January 8-15, 1939
THE WEEK REVIEWED (Article; Bush Fires: A pictorial survey of Victoria's most tragic week, January 8-15, 1939. Published in aid of the Bush Fire Relief Fund by the Sun News-Pictorial in co-operation with its newsagents, pp2-3) THE fiercest bush fires Australia has known since its discovery are quiescent at the moment, and Victoria, in the comparative coolness of the change which came with rain on Sunday night, has begun·to count its losses. In the fiery eight days, from Sunday to Sunday, at least sixty-six men, women and children have lost their lives in forest fires, or have succumbed to burns and shock; many others have died from heat; and several serious cases of burns are being treated in hospitals. Two babies in Narrandera district have died, and ten others are in hospital, because of milk soured by the record temperatures of those eight days. Forest damage totals at least a million pounds, and incalculable damage has been done to the seedlings which were to have been the forests of the future. Water conservation will be seriously affected by the silting-up of reservoirs and streams from which protective timber has been taken by the all-engulfing flames. More than a thousand houses have been destroyed, and these, with 40 mills, and schools, post-offices, churches, and other buildings, represent a loss of at least half a million. At least 1500 are homeless. For their aid, money raised in appeals has now passed the £50,000 mark, and the biggest relief organisation ever set up in peace time has swung into operation. The First Hint Victoria's first hint of what was to come appeared on Sunday, January 8, when most parts of the State awoke to find a blistering day awaiting. At 12.20 p.m., when the thermometer reached its highest for the day, 109.6 degrees, the first fire victims were at that moment going to their death on a bush track five feet wide off the main road to Narbethong. They were the forestry officers Charles Isaac Demby and John Hartley Barling, who went to warn Demby of his danger when he parted from his companions, and was himself surrounded by the treacherous fire. It was not until 8 o'clock next morning that the tragic news was flashed throughout the State. Searchers found the two charred bodies close together, one seeking protection in the nook of two logs. Barling's watch had stopped at 1.20. In the meantime, tragedy was spreading its cloak. By Monday, big fires were raging at Toolangi, Erica, Yallourn, Monbulk, Frankston, Dromana, Drouin South, Glenburn, and Blackwood, with smaller outbreaks at many other centres. In the ensuing week, while women and children were evacuated as fast as the flames would permit, Erica-scene of the 1926 fire disaster-thrice escaped doom by a change of wind. Indeed, those who have been in the fire country these past days say that the numbers of times a change of wind has saved towns from destruction is amazing. In the towns they speak of miracles. Monday's Miracles The escapes from Monett's Mill at Erica and from the Hardwood Company's Mill at Murrindindi, near where Demby and Barling went to their death, were Monday's miracles. Twenty came out alive from each mill. At the first a 60ft. dugout provided an oven-like refuge; at the second, 12 women and children survived in the smoke-filled gloom of a three-roomed cottage while their eight men, their clothes sometimes afire, poured water on the wooden walls. Three houses out of ten remained when the fire had passed. Record Temperatures Sunday had been the hottest Melbourne day for 33 years; Monday dropped to a 76.1 degree maximum; but Tuesday dawned hotter than ever, the mercury reaching 112.5. By now rumor was racing ahead of fact; whole towns were being reported lost; the alarm was raised for scores of missing persons. But fact soon overtook rumor, and within a few days the staggering toll began to mount to a figure beyond the wildest imaginings of the panic-stricken. Six died from heat on this torrid Tuesday, and the fires spread in a wide swathe from south-west to north-east across the State. Fish died in shallow streams. A curtain of smoke hid the sky from all Victoria, and hung far out to sea. It alarmed passengers on ships. On the Ormonde, on the voyage to Sydney from Burnie, women ran on deck, believing fire had broken out in the hold. Days later the smoke reached New Zealand. In Melbourne thousands of fire-volunteers were leaving in cars: vans, motor-buses-anything reliable on wheels-to aid the country in its grim fight. In the fires at Rubicon and. Narbethong, seventeen were facing death this day. But not till Wednesday, when Melbourne breathed again in a cool change, while the country still sweltered in temperatures up to 117 degrees, did the news come through the tree blocked roads. A woman and her little daughter, trapped on the road, were among those who died. Their bodies, and those of menfolk with them, were found strewn out at intervals along the road, where the furnace of the surrounding fire had dropped them in their tracks as they ran. Twelve died at a Rubicon mill, five on the road at Narbethong. At Alexandra, not far distant, a baby was born while the fires raged, and stretcher-bearers brought in the injured. On Thursday the State Government voted £5000 for the relief of fire victims. The Governor (Lord Huntingfield) and the Lord Mayor (Cr. Coles) visited some of the stricken areas, and dipped into their pockets personally. Later, the City Council, too, voted £5000. Friday, The 13th Friday, the Thirteenth, justified its evil name. A blistering northerly came early in the morning, presaging destruction, and forcing the mercury to a new record of 114 degrees. Racing fires killed at least ten in those terrible 12 hours. Four children were engulfed in the furnace at Colac. Panic drove them, uncontrollable, into the smoke-filled road when the fire raced down behind their home. They choked to death. In other parts fires were joining to make fronts of scores of miles. Kinglake was being menaced on two fronts, £60,000 worth of timber was going up in smoke in Ballarat district. Warburton was surrounded. Residents at Lorne, favoured resort, were being driven to the sea-front by a fire which destroyed at least 20 homes. Healewille. with flames visible from the town at one stage, was in a trough between two fires which burned four guest-houses, seven homes and left its surrounding beauty-spots wastes of bowed-over, blackened tree-fern fronds; with its famous Sanctuary, however, intact. Most of Omeo was destroyed this black day: Noojee. while 200 residents crouched in the river, was being reduced to a waste of buckled iron and smoking timber; Erica was once again saved by a change of wind. Beneath a pall of smoke, the Rubicon victims were buried at Alexandra. Friday night and the early hours of Saturday saw the streets of beleagured towns strewn with exhausted fire-fighters. Their flails beside them, ready for the next call, they lay where exhaustion overtook them-on footpaths, beside lamp-posts, in gutters, in cars, under trucks. Saturday's dawn brought clear skies and lower temperatures in many parts, and from the burnt-out areas came a great rush of tragic reports. The death-roll rushed past the fifty mark with incredible speed. Some had been trapped on roads, others at mills; some, after burying their treasures, had clung too long to the places they had made their homes for many years. Four men lost their lives because one went back for his dog. By Sunday, when the first of the saving rain came, nearly another score of names had been added to the list.Newspaper magazine, 48 pages (incl. covers). Fully digitised and searchable PDFPublished in aid of the Bush Fire Relief Fund by the Sun News-Pictorial in co-operation with its newsagents.bushfires, 1939 bushfires, black friday, warrandyte -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newsletter, Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association, Community News: official journal of the Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association. 28th February, 1971. Edition No. 1/71, 28/02/1971
This edition includes a report on the Progress Association's February 1971 meeting, Councillors' report. Diamond Valley Repertory, Guide news, About Community News, The Greenhill Road Progress Association?, Kinder news, The trees of Greenhills, Supplement to "Community News". No. 1/71. Greenhills' panorama #2. p. 8-9.Newsletter, 12 p., illus. greenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Journal, Kew Baptist Church Monthly News Vol VII November 1932, No. 76, 1932
Bi-fold pamphlet on brown paper. Kew Baptist Church Monthly News Vol VII November 1932, No. 76non-fictionkew baptist church -- highbury grove, churches -- kew (vic.), baptist churches, christian-washfold collection -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newsletter, Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association, Community News: official journal of the Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association. 23rd February 1970. Edition No.1/70, 23/02/1970
This edition includes a report on the Progress Association's February 1970 meeting, Councillors' reports, School and Kinder news, Scout and Guide news, Local wattles, Diamond Valley Repertory Group, Personal news.Newsletter, 14 p., illus., map.greenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills -
National Wool Museum
Newspaper Cutting, Messrs. C. J. Dennys and Co.'s New Wool Store Geelong, 10/9/1872
The Denny Lascelles Wool Warehouse was the first building in Victorian planned to facilitate storage, inspection and marketing of wool in one operation, and upon completion was the second largest store in the colony. CJ Denny's was largely responsible for establishment and development of the wool marketing industry in Geelong and is a figure of significance in the history of settlement in Geelong. The wool store, a basalt structure with cement rendered ornamentation, was erected for CJ Denny's and Co, in 1872 to the design of Jacob Pitman, Architect.Wood cut engraving of the Mesrs. C. J. Dennys and Co.'s New Wool Store Geelong, published in The Illustrated Australian News, 1872. The half page full colour illustration shows the newly constructed Wool Store with a bull drawn cart carrying full wool bales situated out the front of the store.Top margin: THE ILLUSTRATED AUSTRALIAN NEWS 201 Below image: Mesrs. C. J. Dennys and Co.'s New Wool Store Geelong Image signed, lower mid edge: WINSTON Image, on building: C.J. Dennys Wool Brokers 1872 C.J. Dennys & Co. Wool & Produce Warehousedenny lascelles wool warehouse, wool, dennys, wool store -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newsletter, Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association, Community News: official journal of the Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association. 30 November 1970. Edition No. 10/70, 30/11/1970
This edition includes a report on the Progress Association's November 1970 meeting, Councillors' report, The road to survival, Save the Juggernaut, The origins of Greensborough, Eradication of a noxious weed - Boneseed, Scout news, Kinder news, Is there a future for Community News? Supplement to "Community News". No. 11/70. Greenhills' panorama #2. p. 4-5.Newsletter, 16 p., illus. greenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper article, Diamond Valley News, Artist's works show another side of war, 1995_
The article was published as a part of the Australia Remembers 1945 - 1995 Commemoration.The article is about Robert Anderson, a founder member of the Diamond Valley Arts Society. Robert served in WW2 and was selected to paint the portrait of Captain Lionel Colin Matthews, a decorated Signals Corps member.An A3 sized photocopy of a Diamond Valley News article. Nilcaptain lionel colin matthews, robert anderson, signals corps, australia remembers, ww2, daimond valley arts society -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper - clipping, The Sun News Pictorial, DC2 Kyeema crashed into Mt Dandenong. Crew and 14 passengers killed, 25-Oct-38
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Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper Clipping, Diamond Valley News, Tom Vickers remembers the days of playing footy in Main Street, 12/12/1985
Greensborough chemist Tom Vickers recall the early days after he came to Greensborough 1941 - playing football in the Main Street, working closely with Doctor Cordner and delivering prescriptions to Hurstbridge via train.Photocopy of a news article, black and white text and image.tom vickers, cordner family, main street greensborough -
Melton City Libraries
Newspaper, Pantomime at Melton, 1973
Tom Thumb production advertised in the Regional News Gazette local identities, misc -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newsletter, Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association, Community News: official journal of the Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association. April 27th 1970. Edition No. 3/70, 27/04/1970
This edition includes a report on the Progress Association's April 1970 meeting, Councillors' report, Memories of an old resident, William Trevithick, Report on Blackburn Group of Semi-Rural Streets, School and kinder news, Scout and Guide news, Personal news.Newsletter, 16 p., illus. greenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newsletter, Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association, Community News: official journal of the Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association.28th August 1972. Edition No. 6/72, 28/08/1972
This edition includes a report on the Progress Association's August 1972 meeting, Councillor's' report, Watching the birds, "Clematis" replies, Letters to the editor, School news, Personal news, Roads report. Supplement to August '72 "Community News" Open forum.Newsletter, 14 p., illus. greenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Magazine, Swanston Trams, "Swanston News", 1998
Newsletter - folded A3 sheet printed on gloss paper - "Swanston News" - issue No. 1, October 1998. Has items on Dandenong Road reserved track lighting, legacy, training, item on driver Scott Stevenson, training, Overhead Dual conversion and depot news. See also Reg Item 2766 for another versiontrams, tramways, swanston trams, dandenong rd, safety, tram depot, overhead -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper clipping, Marguerite Marshall, Pioneers planted the seeds of history, by Marguerite Marshall, 29/09/1981
Article about the origins of what is thought to be the Batman Apple TreeBlack & white photocopy of newspaper articleFrom Diamond Valley News 29 September 1981 p. 4batman apple tree -
International House, The University of Melbourne
Photograph (Item), Aerial view of Parkville
'Inscribed in pencil on reverse: 'From the News and Information Bureau, November 1953'. -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newsletter, Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association, Community News: official journal of the Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association. 25th May 1970. Edition No.4/70, 25/05/1970
This edition includes a report on the Progress Association's May 1970 meeting, Councillors report, The headstone heritage [St. Katherine's], Wattles for your garden, Diamond Valley Repertory, Relating to the environment, The Yandell Reserve, School and Kinder news, Scout and Guide news, Personal news.Newsletter, 18 p., illus. greenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper clippings, Diamond Valley News, Loyola at risk 1994, 22/02/1994
These articles deal with the proposal, in 1994, to sell off the former Loyola Seminary building on Grimshaw Street Watsonia. There are articles on the history of the Jesuit order and seminary as well as an expression of interest from Loyola college (all written by Duska Sulicich) and a letter to the editor and petition by local resident J Schluter.Loyola is a landmark building on Grimshaw Street but it has, at times, been under threat of redevelopment.Photocopies of 4 news articles, with text and black and white images.loyola college, watsonia, jesuits, seminary, loyola, duska sulicich, schluter. -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper Clipping, Greensborough Festival 1988, 04/10/1988
The Greensborough Festival 1988 was part of the local bi-centenary celebrations. These articles name the festival Committee and explain the creative style of the event.Community involvement in the Diamond Valley.Photocopies of 2 news articles. Black and white text and photos.greensborough festival 1988, rosalie bray, greensborough plaza, diamond valley -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper Clipping, Diamond Valley News, Station at breaking point, 11/12/2019
Frustrated Mernda commuters have inundated the Hurstbridge line, packing into peak hour services and filling the Watsonia station carpark "like never before".News article 1 page, black text, colour image.hurstbridge line, watsonia station, mernda commuters, hurstbridge line upgrade -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Newspaper - Newspaper cutting, The Sun News-Pictorial, 44, 1936
Photograph in the "Sun News-Pictorial" February 13th, 1936 p18. Back to Earth at Burnley Horticultural School. Bright students at Burnley Horticultural School assembled for work again yesterday, after the holidays. Mr. A.W. Jessep, the school principal, gave them an informal address of welcome.sun news-pictorial, burnley horticultural school, a.w. jessep, principal, mabs younger, female students -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Newspaper (series) - Willsmere Unit, Willsmere News 'n Views, 1986-1988
Dr Fred Stamp (1981-88) > Rosemary Barnes (2018) > Kew Historical Society (2018)CommunicationProvenance OrderNewsletters to parents and friends of the Willsmere Unit, created in 1986-1988; the final years of the Unit (formerly Kew Asylum)kew lunatic asylum, kew mental hospital, willsmere, kew hospital for the insane, dr fred stamp, the fred stamp collectionkew lunatic asylum, kew mental hospital, willsmere, kew hospital for the insane, dr fred stamp, the fred stamp collection -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Newspaper - Newspaper - 'Centenary Celebrations Review' for Melbourne's Centenary 1934, The Sun News-Pictorial, 11/12/1934
The Sun News-Pictorial for Tuesday 11 December 1934, a special issue headlined 'Centenary Celebrations Review' for Melbourne's Centenary, 66 pages -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Article - The Sun News-Pictorial, The Sun News-Pictorial, Port Melbourne Farewell for Troops, 2 May 1940
"Port Melbourne Farewell for Troops" Page 43 from the Sun News Pictorial, Saturday March 2nd 1940 Small article on Port's farewell to 60 2nd AIF men from Port Melbourne. Including a march from Returned Soldiers Hall, Beach St to the Town Hall. war - world war ii, returned soldiers hall, port melbourne town hall, aif, returned services league, rsl -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper - Printed, Ringwood City News Vol. 1 No. 8
10-page Ringwood City News volume 1, number 8, 24th August 1984. Weekly circulation of 30,000 when combined with Croydon City News. Ringwood local office: Rossprint, 1st floor, 23 Ringwood St, Ringwood, 870-3666. 1 Devon St, Croydon - phone 725-2555. Free. Publisher Ash Long. -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newsletter, Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association, Community News: official journal of the Greenhills and Nth. Greensborough Progress Association and the Apollo Parkways Progress Association. 1980, 1980
Duplication of Diamond Creek Road : the first stage of the F5 Freeway, Community News welcome back! But the news is not good!, Thunder over the hill, And it came to pass... Newsletter, 6 p.greenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills, apollo parkways progress association, apollo parkways -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newsletter, Eltham North Progress Assciation, News from the Eltham North Progress Association August 1977, 1977_08
Articles and comments of local interestThis edition of the News contains articles on garden construction by Paul Thompson; a message from the new Shire President Pauline Toner and other local news and commentary.10 p typescript duplicated, staplednon-fictionHandwritten 'Cr O'Connor'eltham north, pauline toner -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper, College News, 1997
Information and photographs of Forest Hill Secondary College.Information and photographs of Forest Hill Secondary College. Includes curriculum, facilities, musical production. News of Blackburn South junior campus. 4 pages.Information and photographs of Forest Hill Secondary College.forest hill secondary college -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Newsletter, Deakin Community News, Summer 2020
Deakin Community News Summer 2020 provided by Michael Sukkar MP, Federal Member for Deakin, outlining local projects funded by the Federal Government.deakin electorate, michael sukhar mp, croydon