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National Wool Museum
Photograph, [Midday lunch break]
employees after lunch / at R S & S (midday break) USTRALIAN OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH/ DEPT OF INFORMATIONtextile mills - staff textile mills - history textile mills, returned soldiers and sailors mill, kidman, mr g. l., textile mills - staff, textile mills - history, textile mills -
National Wool Museum
Photograph, D P C Wilson 1949
D P C Wilson R S & S Woollen Millstextile mills - staff textile mills - history textile mills, returned soldiers and sailors mill, kidman, mr g. l., textile mills - staff, textile mills - history, textile mills -
National Wool Museum
Photograph, [R S & S exhibition stand]
wool marketing textile mills - history textile mills, returned soldiers and sailors mill, kidman, mr g. l., dennys lascelles concrete building, wool marketing, textile mills - history, textile mills -
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Monash Rugs The Geelong R S & S Woollen Millstextile mills - history, alexander lau pty ltd returned soldiers and sailors mill, retsol rugs, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd -
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Monash Rugs The Geelong R S & S Woollen Millstextile mills - history, alexander lau pty ltd returned soldiers and sailors mill, retsol rugs, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 40th Annual Report, 1960
"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 40th Annual Report, 1960."woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 41st Annual Report, 1961
"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 41st Annual Report, 1961."woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 42nd Annual Report, 1962
"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 42nd Annual Report, 1962."woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 43rd Annual Report, 1963
"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 43rd Annual Report, 1963"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 44th Annual Report, 1964
"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 44th Annual Report, 1964."woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 45th Annual Report, 1965
"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 45th Annual Report, 1965"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 46th Annual Report, 1966
"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 46th Annual Report, 1966"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 47th Annual Report, 1967
"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 47th Annual Report, 1967"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 49th Annual Report, 1969
"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 49th Annual Report, 1969"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 50th Annual Report, 1970
"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 50th Annual Report, 1970"Back coverwoollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 51st Annual Report, 1971
"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 51st Annual Report, 1971"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 52nd Annual Report, 1972
"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 52nd Annual Report, 1972"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Soldiers’ Memorial World War 1 in Main Street in front of the Coffee Palace
Soldiers’ WW1 Memorial with gate and fence around the memorial. The Weighbridge and Coffee Palace formerly Castlemaine Hotel can be seen in background. The photograph probably taken in the 1930's. Many changes have taken place since. The Coffee Palace, and Weighbridge have been removed and the area around the memorial has changed. Sepia photograph of the WW1 Soldiers Memorial with gate and fence around the memorial. Weighbridge and Coffee Place in the background. c.1930.stawell ww1 -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Collection of Photos, Fisher Street: Family circa end of WW1
... in garage sale in Fisher Street Stawell in early 2000's A Male ...End of WW1 1917 -1918 - Family lived in Fisher Street. copies of 18 B/W Photos taken in yard near fence line of Path some have Peppercorn Tree. Family with pet dogs. Most men have Poppy on lapels. Geoff Bullock purchased Glass Slide Photos in garage sale in Fisher Street Stawell in early 2000'sA Male in Soldiers unofrom under a tree with a house in the Background. -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Harold Elroy Gray Soldier
Soldier Killed First World WarB/W Photograph Oval Framed Image of Harold Grey S/N 6205Harold Elroy Gray 6205ww1 -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Archive - Book, Motor Spirit Ration Book 1938-1951, 1938
A Recent donation received by the Historical Society was an emergency Petrol sales book that was rescued from the demolition of the old RJ McClure Garage in Main Street. The Garage was located next door to the Town Hall and the book was rescued by a member of council Staff at the time of demolition. The book records; "the Sales of petrol, benzine or other motor spirits or of motor oil or motor accessories to travellers outside the hours prescribed by the factories and shop acts." The First Entry in the book is 14.12.1938, and the final one being 03.03.1951. A Motorist requiring to purchase fuel or motor accessories ha to record their name, address, vehicle registration number, make of vehicle, owner of vehicle, driver of vehicle, number of gallons purchased, the reason for the purcqahse and destination, Some of the reasons stated for the purchase of fuel outside hours were, Funeral arrangements, urgent Sickness, insufficent tank capacity, floodwaters, mechanical breakdown, return of soldier to camp and Urgent Military call. It is interesting to note the registration numbers. early on in the late 1930's, the rego. Numbers were all Numbers like 177301, 43973, 10790, 154900 and 49817. By the early 1040's Letters were being now being used. GC 733, HK 273, BW 450, FJ 668, and LC 612. Some of the vehicle names were recorded were: Willys, Essex, Buik, Morris, Singer, Hudoson, Whippet, Packard, Studbaker, Oldsmobile, La Fayette and Riley.Found at R.J. McClure Garage Main Street Stawell, by John Kindred and Given to SocietyFactories and Shops Act Emergency Bookautomotive, rationing, transport, vehicles, ww2 -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Coffee Palace and Soldiers memorial 1950's
... and Soldiers memorial 1950's Photograph ...Taken Cnr Main & Victoria StreetsPhotograph of Soldiers Memorial in front of Coffee Palace formerly Castlemaine Hotel, at Corner of Lower Main Street and Victoria Street.From Joan Britton (Taylor) Nee Ellisstreetscape, ww1, ww2 -
National Wool Museum
Textile - Rug, Returned Soldiers and Sailors Mill, 1963
The Returned Soldiers and Sailors Mills was located near the Barwon river on Pakington Street, Geelong, where its building still stands. The mill was established in October 1922 with capital acquired from War Gratuity Bonds. The mill produced fine grade woollen products with its speciality being ‘Retsol’ travelling rugs. The mill first began to run into financial troubles with the ‘Credit Squeeze’ or the ‘Holt Jolt’ of the early 1960s. This saw import restrictions lifted which triggered the start of a minor recession and a rise in unemployment. Included in these troubles was the RS&S Mill which saw the number of employees gradually decrease and business declining with cheaper imports beginning to grab an expanding part of the market share. The mill was eventually purchased by Godfrey Hirst in 1973 who tried to continue operations without success and in June 1975 textile production at the site ceased. Outside of financial considerations contributing to the closure of Woollen Mills in this period was the declining need for heavier fabrics as in-home heating and insulation improved. This need had been replaced for a demand for ever softer, finer and lighter worsted fabrics for more casual clothing. Modern day textile production requires fewer steps in the processing of materials for this use. This meant large factory complexes such as early woollen mills like the RS&S mills were no longer required. Compared to modern textile production which can spin a fine yarn out of synthetic fibre or imported cotton easily, spinning fine yarn from medium quality wool at a textile factory was cumbersome and no longer financially viable to suit new consumer demands. This rug provides context to this statement. It was gifted to Shirley and Gordon Green as a wedding present in November 1963 by one of Gordon's colleagues in the wool industry. Living in areas such as Neutral Bay, the Hornsby area and later in life retiring to the Central Coast, the blanket was too heavy for use in these weather conditions and hence it stayed in its original box for nearly 60 years. Top and bottom of rug has frilled edges. Pattern is titled the 'Clan Cameron' and is repeated in a 7x7 grid. Front of rug has a red background with 4 vertical and horizontal lines. All is surrounded by a yellow boarder. Label is stitched into the bottom right corner. Reverse of rug also has a repeating 7x7 grid. Blue background with thick green horizontal stripe. Yellow and red boarder to the grid with 4 red vertical and horizontal lines making up the interior. Rug measure 1550 x 2040mm, approximately the same size as a queen size mattress.Wording, Bottom right corner. THE GEELONG R.S&S. WOOLEN MILLS/ PURE/ WOOL/ AUSTRALIA/ The John Monash Rug (cursive)/ The Clan Cameron (cursive)rs&s mills, textile manufacture, rug, clan cameron, sydney greasy wool exchange -
National Wool Museum
Book, The WIRA Collected Practical Problems
"The WIRA Collected Practical Problems" - Wool Industries Research Association, 1959.RS & S Milltextile production textile finishing weaving textile mills, returned soldiers and sailors mill wool industries research association, textile production, textile finishing, weaving, textile mills -
National Wool Museum
Label, Blanket
Rug label produced by the RSS Mill in Geelong for the Blamey rug.Rug label from the RSS Mill's Blamey rug.THE GEELONG R.S.&S. WOOLLEN MILLS / PURE / WOOL / THE / T.A. Blamey / RUGworld war i textile mills, returned soldiers and sailors mill, 1918: australians in france - exhibition (19/02/2000 - 30/04/2000) logo merino: sheep in australian art and design - exhibition (29/07/2000 - 04/02/2001), blamey, lt gen. sir thomas albert gbe, kcb, cmg, dso, world war i, textile mills -
National Wool Museum
Label, Blanket
Blanket label from the RSS Mill, Geelong for a Retsol rug.Retsol rug label from the RSS mill.THE GEELONG R.S.&S. WOOLLEN MILLS / PURE / WOOL / RETSOL RUGStextile mills, returned soldiers and sailors mill, retsol rugs, label, 1918: australians in france - exhibition (19/02/2000 - 30/04/2000) logo merino: sheep in australian art and design - exhibition (29/07/2000 - 04/02/2001) -
National Wool Museum
Label, Blanket
Blanket label from the RSS Mill, Geelong for a Retsol rug.Retsol rug label from the RSS mill.THE GEELONG R.S.&S. WOOLLEN MILLS / PURE / WOOL / RETSOL RUGStextile mills, returned soldiers and sailors mill, retsol rugs, label, 1918: australians in france - exhibition (19/02/2000 - 30/04/2000) logo merino: sheep in australian art and design - exhibition (29/07/2000 - 04/02/2001) -
National Wool Museum
Photograph, R.S.S. "B" Team
Photograph depicts the R.S.S. Mill "B" Team from c.1944. Team members are N. Jenkins, S. Condor, J. Barling (coach), J. Young, B. Flavell, D. Gates, J. Gellately, P. Nicholls (captain), L. Jones.R.S.S. "B" TEAM / N. JENKINS S. CONDOR J. BARLING (Coach) J. YOUNG B. FLAVELL / D. GATES J. GELLATELY P. NICHOLLS (Capt.) L. JONES WATT TELFER / STUDIOS Perm. Dec. 4th 1944textile mills - sporting teams textile mills, returned soldiers and sailors mill, sport, textile mills - sporting teams, textile mills -
National Wool Museum
Photograph, R.S.& S Woollen Mills Girls' Interhouse Sports 1940 A Team
Black and white photograph of Returned Soldiers and Sailors Woollen Mills Girls' Interhouse Sports 1940 'A' Team.Black and white photograph of Returned Soldiers and Sailors Woollen Mills Girls' Interhouse Sports 1940 'A' Team.textile mill, s textile mills sporting teams, returned soldiers and sailors mill, sport, leibhardt, c i.s. - returned soldiers and sailors mill, textile mills, textile mills - sporting teams -
National Wool Museum
Photograph, Geelong R.S.&S. Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Co. Limited Board of Directors, 22 October, 1938
Photo depicts the Geelong Returned Soldiers and Sailors Woollen and Worsted Mill Board of Directors in 1938. Pictured are: Secretary - E.J. Fairnie; Director - G.W. McDonald; Chairman - D.P.C. Wilson; Managing Director - A. Schofield; Director - Padre Charles Neville; Director - F.H. BurnRSS Mill Board of Directors, 1938.GEELONG R.S. & S. WOOLLEN & WORSTED CO-OPERATIVE / MANUFACTURING COY. LIMITED / BOARD OF DIRECTORS / 22nd OCTOBER, 1938 The / Lockwood Studios / Geelongtextile mills, returned soldiers and sailors mill, fairnie, mr edward john - returned soldiers and sailors mill schofield, mr albert m.b.e. - returned soldiers and sailors mill wilson, mr d. p.c. - returned soldiers and sailors mill