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Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book, Commuters, shoppers and scholars, 1988
Commuters, shoppers and scholars : a history of the Melbourne - Lilydale railway.Commuters, shoppers and scholars : a history of the Melbourne - Lilydale railway.Commuters, shoppers and scholars : a history of the Melbourne - Lilydale railway.railways, eastern suburbs, melbourne -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Eagles swoop to grab another flag, 1995
Vermont win its 3rd successive premiership against Donvale Football ClubVermont win its 3rd successive premiership against Donvale Football Club.Vermont win its 3rd successive premiership against Donvale Football Clubaustralian rules football, vermont football club, eastern district football league -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Programme - Ephemera, Theatre and concert programs, 1967 - 1986
Selection of programs dating from 1967 to 1986, musical concerts and plays by groups from Blackburn, Nunawading, Box Hill and Mitcham. Includes list of Mitcham Repertory Group's plays from 1953 - 1985.drama, nunawading arts council, the avenue uniting church, blackburn, bellburn singers, maroondah singers, acacia singers, nova theatre, box hill city repertory, eastern theatre group, mitcham repertory group, blackburn players -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document - Documents, Group reports, 2000
Annual reports presented to the Nunawading Arts Council Annual meeting by affiliated bodies. Includes an obituary for Ossie Maxwell Max Grant, theatre director who lived in Mitcham from the early 1950s until his death 22 Sept 2000.nunawading arts council, grant, max, nunawading art and craft market, australian childrens choir, babirra music theatre, box hill art group, blackburn high school. friends of music, choral institute melbourne, chime choir, eastern victorian highland dancing association, maroondah symphony orchestra, mitcham arts association, maroondah singers, mullauna secondary college music department, mitcham repertory group, nunawading and district historical society, nova theatre, u3a nunawading, vermont horticultural society and garden club, utassy parents association, vermont secondary college. music support group, whitehorse film society -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Conservation strategy on public exhibition, 1/04/1992 12:00:00 AM
Article advising the draft of a local conservation strategy to be put on public exhibition.Article advising the draft of a local conservation strategy to be put on public exhibition.Article advising the draft of a local conservation strategy to be put on public exhibition.recycling, city of nunawading, allan, peter, eastern freeway extension -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Giant digger takes first bite of our new tunnel, 2005
Article on the digging of the Eastlink tunnel through the Mullum Mullum Valley, and political controversy over road tolls.Article on the digging of the Eastlink tunnel through the Mullum Mullum Valley, and political controversy over road tolls. Photo of worksiteArticle on the digging of the Eastlink tunnel through the Mullum Mullum Valley, and political controversy over road tolls. east link eastern freeway extension, tunnel -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Magazine - Periodical, Eastlink News, 2005
Community information newsletter produced by ConnectEast Group. See Series Contents Card for holdings.Community information newsletter produced by ConnectEast Group. See Series Contents Card for holdings.Community information newsletter produced by ConnectEast Group. See Series Contents Card for holdings.eastlink, eastern freeway extension, thiess john holland, south eastern integrated transport authority -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Full steam for Eastlink
Work continuing on Mullum Mullum Valley tunnels and Ringwood bypass and Maroondah Highway bridge (photos).Work continuing on Mullum Mullum Valley tunnels and Ringwood bypass and Maroondah Highway bridge (photos).Work continuing on Mullum Mullum Valley tunnels and Ringwood bypass and Maroondah Highway bridge (photos).eastlink, ringwood bypass, maroondah highway, mullum mullum valley, deep creek road, mitcham, eastern freeway extension, tunnels -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, EastLink construction update, 2005
Thiess John Holland's construction updates of Eastlink.Thiess John Holland's construction updates of Eastlink. Thiess John Holland's construction updates of Eastlink.eastlink, thiess john holland, ringwood bypass, eastern freeway extension, mullum mullum creek valley -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, EastLink: the big picture, 2006
Progress of the Mitcham Frankston freeway.Progress of the Mitcham Frankston freeway.Progress of the Mitcham Frankston freeway.eastern freeway extension, mullum mullum creek valley, eastlink -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Would be M.P, 16/09/1999 12:00:00 AM
ould be M.P. up a creek with policies to peddleWould be M.P. up a creek with policies to peddle : article by Paul Heinrichs on Simone Alesich, Democrat candidate for Victorian Upper House seat of Koonung.ould be M.P. up a creek with policies to peddlealesich, simone, eastern freeway extension, mullum mullum creek, scott despoja, natasha (senator) -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book - Report, Koonung - Mullum Forestway, c1975
The Koonung-Mullum Freeway : a plan for action. A Report prepared for the Mullum Valley Freeway Action Group and Koonung Valley Action Group, under a grant from the Department of Environment by Ronald Champion Conservation Planning Environment Consultants and Paul Thompson, Rob Paul Landscapes ca1975mullum valley freeway action group, koonung valley action group, champion, randall, thompson, paul, rob paul landscapes, victoria. department of the environment, mullum mullum creek, koonung creek, eastern freeway, forest conservation, parks and reserves -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Map, M.M.B.W - Schwerkolt Cottage, 30/04/1968
Extract from M.M.B.W. map No 79 showing proposed main road, open space, residential zones C & D and location of Schwerkolt Cottage. Approved 40/04/1968. 2 copiesschwerkolt cottage, melbourne and metropolitan board of works, eastern freeway -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Koonung Creek, 01/09/1995
Coloured photo of, Left: Koonung Creek, Right: Bushy Creek. Freeway Construction nearby.koonung creek, eastern freeway -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - Article, Report put in, 15/07/1992
Strong dissatisfaction expressed by user groups of the Vermont Reserve at the existing facilities.parks and reserves, vermont reserve, bartsch, marc, landscape australia consultants, eastern district football league -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - Article, Call to post cards early, 1/01/1993 12:00:00 AM
Paul Frank has restored a 1940s pillar box which is used in a 'Post early for Christmas' display. Photograph. Cutting from Nunawading Gazette, 22/11/1993eastern mail centre, postal services, christmas, historical society -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, North East Link Plan, 2018
Plans for the North East Link project can be viewed at northeastlink.vic.gov.auPlans for the North East Link project can be viewed at northeastlink.vic.gov.auPlans for the North East Link project can be viewed at northeastlink.vic.gov.aunorth east link, eastern freeway, bicycle paths -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Road to Eat Into Parks, 2018
Plans for the North East Link indicate parkland along Koonung Creek will go.Plans for the North East Link indicate parkland along Koonung Creek will go.Plans for the North East Link indicate parkland along Koonung Creek will go.north east link, koonung creek, blackburn north, eastern freeway, whitehorse active transport action group, city of whitehorse, bicycle paths -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - Article, Covid-19 & EFNL, 2020
Almost a century-old, the Nunawading Football Club is facing a brutal year due to the impact of Covid-10 with a start-date uncertain.Almost a century-old, the Nunawading Football Club is facing a brutal year due to the impact of Covid-10 with a start-date uncertain.Almost a century-old, the Nunawading Football Club is facing a brutal year due to the impact of Covid-10 with a start-date uncertain.eastern football netball league, eastern district football league, diseases -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, In Poll Position, 2009
Mitcham wins the family vote for its quality schools.Mitcham wins the family vote for its quality schools, health care and public transport with a population of 14,221 in 2006. Listed are ten top spots to visit.Mitcham wins the family vote for its quality schools. mitcham, eastlink, schwerkolt cottage, rangeview shopping centre, eastern emergency relief network, mitcham hotel, migrant services, yarran dheran -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Injecting Room Proposed, 2017
Whitehorse Health organisations would welcome supervised heroin injecting rooms after a trial was announced in North Richmond.drugs, city of whitehorse, eastern health -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, View East from 1 Spring St Melbourne, c2017
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Photograph - Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Kew and Hawthorn from the air, c2017
Digital images of the Melbourne suburb od Kew and Hawthorn from the air.hawthorn, camberwell, kew junction, eastern freeway, camberwell junction, glenferrie, kew cottages, willsmere, melbourne, aerial, cityscape, landscape, kew, yarra river, aerial photograph -
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Photograph - Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Boroondara General Cemetery Gatehouse, c2005-2015
The Boroondara General Cemetery is registerd by Heritage VictoriaBoroondara Cemetery in kew was established in 1858. It has an unusual triangular reserve bounded by High Street, Park Hill Road and Victoria Park, Kew. The caretaker's lodge and administrative office (1860 designed by Charles Vickers, additions, 1866-1899 by Albert Purchas) form a picturesque two-storey brick structure with a slate roof and clock tower. A rotunda or shelter (1890, Albert Purchas) is located in the centre of the cemetery: this has an octagonal hipped roof with fish scale slates and a decorative brick base with a tessellated floor and timber seating. The cemetery is surrounded by a 2.7 metre high ornamental red brick wall (1895-96, Albert Purchas) with some sections of vertical iron palisades between brick pillars. Albert Purchas was a prominent Melbourne architect who was the Secretary of the Melbourne General Cemetery from 1852 to 1907 and Chairman of the Boroondara Cemetery Board of Trustees from 1867 to 1909. He made a significant contribution to the design of the Boroondara Cemetery Boroondara Cemetery is an outstanding example of the Victorian Garden Cemetery movement in Victoria, retaining key elements of the style, despite overdevelopment which has obscured some of the paths and driveways. Elements of the style represented at Boroondara include an ornamental boundary fence, a system of curving paths which are kerbed and follow the site's natural contours, defined views, recreational facilities such as the rotunda, a landscaped park like setting, sectarian divisions for burials, impressive monuments, wrought and cast iron grave surrounds and exotic symbolic plantings. In the 1850s cemeteries were located on the periphery of populated areas because of concerns about diseases like cholera. They were designed to be attractive places for mourners and visitors to walk and contemplate. Typically cemeteries were arranged to keep religions separated and this tended to maintain links to places of origin, reflecting a migrant society. Other developments included cast iron entrance gates, built in 1889 to a design by Albert Purchas; a cemetery shelter or rotunda, built in 1890, which is a replica of one constructed in the Melbourne General Cemetery in the same year; an ornamental brick fence erected in 1896-99(?); the construction and operation of a terminus for a horse tram at the cemetery gates during 1887-1915; and the Springthorpe Memorial built between 1897 and 1907. A brick cremation wall and a memorial rose garden were constructed near the entrance in the mid- twentieth century(c.1955-57) and a mausoleum completed in 2001.The maintenance shed/depot close to High Street was constructed in 1987. The original entrance was altered in 2000 and the original cast iron gates moved to the eastern entrance of the Mausoleum. Some notable memorials include The Springthorpe Memorial (VHR 522), The Syme Memorial (1908), The Cussen Memorial (VHR 2036). Burials within the cemetery include the Henty family, artists Louis Buvelot and Charles Nuttall, businessmen John Halfey and publisher David Syme, artist and diarist Georgiana McCrae, actress Nellie Stewart and architect and designer of the Boroondara and Melbourne General Cemeteries, Albert Purchas. The Boroondara Cemetery features many plants, mostly conifers and shrubs of funerary symbolism, which line the boundaries, road and pathways, and frame the cemetery monuments or are planted on graves. The major plantings include an impressive row of Bhutan Cypress (Cupressus torulosa), interplanted with Sweet Pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum), and a few Pittosporum crassifolium, along the High Street and Parkhill Street, where the planting is dominated by Sweet Pittosporum. Planting within the cemetery includes rows and specimen trees of Bhutan Cypress and Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), including a row with alternate plantings of both species. The planting includes an unusual "squat" form of an Italian Cypress. More of these trees probably lined the cemetery roads and paths. Also dominating the cemetery landscape near the Rotunda is a stand of 3 Canary Island Pines (Pinus canariensis), a Bunya Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) and a Weeping Elm (Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii'). Amongst the planting are the following notable conifers: a towering Bunya Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii), a Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), a rare Golden Funeral Cypress (Chamaecyparis funebris 'Aurea'), two large Funeral Cypress (Chamaecyparis funebris), and the only known Queensland Kauri (Agathis robusta) in a cemetery in Victoria. The Cemetery records, including historical plans of the cemetery from 1859, are held by the administration and their retention enhances the historical significance of the Cemetery. Digital images of a red brick gatehouse at Boroondara General Cemetery in Kew.cemetery, boroondara, kew, gatehouse, clock, tower, clocktower, heritage, memorial -
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Photograph - Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Boroondara General Cemetery Springthorpe Memorial, c2005-2015
The Boroondara General Cemetery is registerd by Heritage VictoriaFrom Heritage Victoria Statement of Significance Last updated on - December 15, 2005 What is significant? Boroondara Cemetery, established in 1858, is within an unusual triangular reserve bounded by High Street, Park Hill Road and Victoria Park, Kew. The caretaker's lodge and administrative office (1860 designed by Charles Vickers, additions, 1866-1899 by Albert Purchas) form a picturesque two-storey brick structure with a slate roof and clock tower. A rotunda or shelter (1890, Albert Purchas) is located in the centre of the cemetery: this has an octagonal hipped roof with fish scale slates and a decorative brick base with a tessellated floor and timber seating. The cemetery is surrounded by a 2.7 metre high ornamental red brick wall (1895-96, Albert Purchas) with some sections of vertical iron palisades between brick pillars. Albert Purchas was a prominent Melbourne architect who was the Secretary of the Melbourne General Cemetery from 1852 to 1907 and Chairman of the Boroondara Cemetery Board of Trustees from 1867 to 1909. He made a significant contribution to the design of the Boroondara Cemetery Boroondara Cemetery is an outstanding example of the Victorian Garden Cemetery movement in Victoria, retaining key elements of the style, despite overdevelopment which has obscured some of the paths and driveways. Elements of the style represented at Boroondara include an ornamental boundary fence, a system of curving paths which are kerbed and follow the site's natural contours, defined views, recreational facilities such as the rotunda, a landscaped park like setting, sectarian divisions for burials, impressive monuments, wrought and cast iron grave surrounds and exotic symbolic plantings. In the 1850s cemeteries were located on the periphery of populated areas because of concerns about diseases like cholera. They were designed to be attractive places for mourners and visitors to walk and contemplate. Typically cemeteries were arranged to keep religions separated and this tended to maintain links to places of origin, reflecting a migrant society. Other developments included cast iron entrance gates, built in 1889 to a design by Albert Purchas; a cemetery shelter or rotunda, built in 1890, which is a replica of one constructed in the Melbourne General Cemetery in the same year; an ornamental brick fence erected in 1896-99(?); the construction and operation of a terminus for a horse tram at the cemetery gates during 1887-1915; and the Springthorpe Memorial built between 1897 and 1907. A brick cremation wall and a memorial rose garden were constructed near the entrance in the mid- twentieth century(c.1955-57) and a mausoleum completed in 2001.The maintenance shed/depot close to High Street was constructed in 1987. The original entrance was altered in 2000 and the original cast iron gates moved to the eastern entrance of the Mausoleum. The Springthorpe Memorial (VHR 522) set at the entrance to the burial ground commemorates Annie Springthorpe, and was erected between 1897 and 1907 by her husband Dr John Springthorpe. It was the work of the sculptor Bertram Mackennal, architect Harold Desbrowe Annear, landscape designer and Director of the Melbourne Bortanic Gardens, W.R. Guilfoyle, with considerable input from Dr Springthorpe The memorial is in the form of a small temple in a primitive Doric style. It was designed by Harold Desbrowe Annear and includes Bertram Mackennal sculptures in Carrara marble. Twelve columns of deep green granite from Scotland support a Harcourt granite superstructure. The roof by Brooks Robinson is a coloured glass dome, which sits within the rectangular form and behind the pediments. The sculptural group raised on a dais, consists of the deceased woman lying on a sarcophagus with an attending angel and mourner. The figure of Grief crouches at the foot of the bier and an angel places a wreath over Annie's head, symbolising the triumph of immortal life over death. The body of the deceased was placed in a vault below. The bronze work is by Marriots of Melbourne. Professor Tucker of the University of Melbourne composed appropriate inscriptions in English and archaic Greek lettering.. The floor is a geometric mosaic and the glass dome roof is of Tiffany style lead lighting in hues of reds and pinks in a radiating pattern. The memorial originally stood in a landscape triangular garden of about one acre near the entrance to the cemetery. However, after Dr Springthorpe's death in 1933 it was found that transactions for the land had not been fully completed so most of it was regained by the cemetery. A sundial and seat remain. The building is almost completely intact. The only alteration has been the removal of a glass canopy over the statuary and missing chains between posts. The Argus (26 March 1933) considered the memorial to be the most beautiful work of its kind in Australia. No comparable buildings are known. The Syme Memorial (1908) is a memorial to David Syme, political economist and publisher of the Melbourne Age newspaper. The Egyptian memorial designed by architect Arthur Peck is one of the most finely designed and executed pieces of monumental design in Melbourne. It has a temple like form with each column having a different capital detail. These support a cornice that curves both inwards and outwards. The tomb also has balustradings set between granite piers which create porch spaces leading to the entrance ways. Two variegated Port Jackson Figs are planted at either end. The Cussen Memorial (VHR 2036) was constructed in 1912-13 by Sir Leo Cussen in memory of his young son Hubert. Sir Leo Finn Bernard Cussen (1859-1933), judge and member of the Victorian Supreme Court in 1906. was buried here. The family memorial is one of the larger and more impressive memorials in the cemetery and is an interesting example of the 1930s Gothic Revival style architecture. It takes the form of a small chapel with carvings, diamond shaped roof tiles and decorated ridge embellishing the exterior. By the 1890s, the Boroondara Cemetery was a popular destination for visitors and locals admiring the beauty of the grounds and the splendid monuments. The edge of suburban settlement had reached the cemetery in the previous decade. Its Victorian garden design with sweeping curved drives, hill top views and high maintenance made it attractive. In its Victorian Garden Cemetery design, Boroondara was following an international trend. The picturesque Romanticism of the Pere la Chaise garden cemetery established in Paris in 1804 provided a prototype for great metropolitan cemeteries such as Kensal Green (1883) and Highgate (1839) in London and the Glasgow Necropolis (1831). Boroondara Cemetery was important in establishing this trend in Australia. The cemetery's beauty peaked with the progressive completion of the spectacular Springthorpe Memorial between 1899 and 1907. From about the turn of the century, the trustees encroached on the original design, having repeatedly failed in attempts to gain more land. The wide plantations around road boundaries, grassy verges around clusters of graves in each denomination, and most of the landscaped surround to the Springthorpe memorial are now gone. Some of the original road and path space were resumed for burial purposes. The post war period saw an increased use of the Cemetery by newer migrant groups. The mid- to late- twentieth century monuments were often placed on the grassed edges of the various sections and encroached on the roadways as the cemetery had reached the potential foreseen by its design. These were well tended in comparison with Victorian monuments which have generally been left to fall into a state of neglect. The Boroondara Cemetery features many plants, mostly conifers and shrubs of funerary symbolism, which line the boundaries, road and pathways, and frame the cemetery monuments or are planted on graves. The major plantings include an impressive row of Bhutan Cypress (Cupressus torulosa), interplanted with Sweet Pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum), and a few Pittosporum crassifolium, along the High Street and Parkhill Street, where the planting is dominated by Sweet Pittosporum. Planting within the cemetery includes rows and specimen trees of Bhutan Cypress and Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), including a row with alternate plantings of both species. The planting includes an unusual "squat" form of an Italian Cypress. More of these trees probably lined the cemetery roads and paths. Also dominating the cemetery landscape near the Rotunda is a stand of 3 Canary Island Pines (Pinus canariensis), a Bunya Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) and a Weeping Elm (Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii') Amongst the planting are the following notable conifers: a towering Bunya Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii), a Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), a rare Golden Funeral Cypress (Chamaecyparis funebris 'Aurea'), two large Funeral Cypress (Chamaecyparis funebris), and the only known Queensland Kauri (Agathis robusta) in a cemetery in Victoria. The Cemetery records, including historical plans of the cemetery from 1859, are held by the administration and their retention enhances the historical significance of the Cemetery. How is it significant? Boroondara Cemetery is of aesthetic, architectural, scientific (botanical) and historical significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical and aesthetic significance as an outstanding example of a Victorian garden cemetery. The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical significance as a record of Victorian life from the 1850s, and the early settlement of Kew. It is also significant for its ability to demonstrate, through the design and location of the cemetery, attitudes towards burial, health concerns and the importance placed on religion, at the time of its establishment. The Boroondara Cemetery is of architectural significance for the design of the gatehouse or sexton's lodge and cemetery office (built in stages from 1860 to 1899), the ornamental brick perimeter fence and elegant cemetery shelter to the design of prominent Melbourne architects, Charles Vickers (for the original 1860 cottage) and Albert Purchas, cemetery architect and secretary from 1864 to his death in 1907. The Boroondara Cemetery has considerable aesthetic significance which is principally derived from its tranquil, picturesque setting; its impressive memorials and monuments; its landmark features such as the prominent clocktower of the sexton's lodge and office, the mature exotic plantings, the decorative brick fence and the entrance gates; its defined views; and its curving paths. The Springthorpe Memorial (VHR 522), the Syme Memorial and the Cussen Memorial (VHR 2036), all contained within the Boroondara Cemetery, are of aesthetic and architectural significance for their creative and artistic achievement. The Boroondara Cemetery is of scientific (botanical) significance for its collection of rare mature exotic plantings. The Golden Funeral Cypress, (Chamaecyparis funebris 'Aurea') is the only known example in Victoria. The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical significance for the graves, monuments and epitaphs of a number of individuals whose activities have played a major part in Australia's history. They include the Henty family, artists Louis Buvelot and Charles Nuttall, businessmen John Halfey and publisher David Syme, artist and diarist Georgiana McCrae, actress Nellie Stewart and architect and designer of the Boroondara and Melbourne General Cemeteries, Albert Purchas.Digital image of the Springthorpe Memorial in the Boroondara General Cemeterycemetery, boroondara, kew, gatehouse, clock, tower, clocktower, heritage, memorial, springthorpe memorial -
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Photograph - Digital photographs, Cussen Memorial in the Boroondara General Cemetery, Kew, Victoria, c2005-2015
The Boroondara General Cemetery is registerd by Heritage VictoriaFrom Heritage Victoria Statement of Significance Last updated on - December 15, 2005 What is significant? Boroondara Cemetery, established in 1858, is within an unusual triangular reserve bounded by High Street, Park Hill Road and Victoria Park, Kew. The caretaker's lodge and administrative office (1860 designed by Charles Vickers, additions, 1866-1899 by Albert Purchas) form a picturesque two-storey brick structure with a slate roof and clock tower. A rotunda or shelter (1890, Albert Purchas) is located in the centre of the cemetery: this has an octagonal hipped roof with fish scale slates and a decorative brick base with a tessellated floor and timber seating. The cemetery is surrounded by a 2.7 metre high ornamental red brick wall (1895-96, Albert Purchas) with some sections of vertical iron palisades between brick pillars. Albert Purchas was a prominent Melbourne architect who was the Secretary of the Melbourne General Cemetery from 1852 to 1907 and Chairman of the Boroondara Cemetery Board of Trustees from 1867 to 1909. He made a significant contribution to the design of the Boroondara Cemetery Boroondara Cemetery is an outstanding example of the Victorian Garden Cemetery movement in Victoria, retaining key elements of the style, despite overdevelopment which has obscured some of the paths and driveways. Elements of the style represented at Boroondara include an ornamental boundary fence, a system of curving paths which are kerbed and follow the site's natural contours, defined views, recreational facilities such as the rotunda, a landscaped park like setting, sectarian divisions for burials, impressive monuments, wrought and cast iron grave surrounds and exotic symbolic plantings. In the 1850s cemeteries were located on the periphery of populated areas because of concerns about diseases like cholera. They were designed to be attractive places for mourners and visitors to walk and contemplate. Typically cemeteries were arranged to keep religions separated and this tended to maintain links to places of origin, reflecting a migrant society. Other developments included cast iron entrance gates, built in 1889 to a design by Albert Purchas; a cemetery shelter or rotunda, built in 1890, which is a replica of one constructed in the Melbourne General Cemetery in the same year; an ornamental brick fence erected in 1896-99(?); the construction and operation of a terminus for a horse tram at the cemetery gates during 1887-1915; and the Springthorpe Memorial built between 1897 and 1907. A brick cremation wall and a memorial rose garden were constructed near the entrance in the mid- twentieth century(c.1955-57) and a mausoleum completed in 2001.The maintenance shed/depot close to High Street was constructed in 1987. The original entrance was altered in 2000 and the original cast iron gates moved to the eastern entrance of the Mausoleum. The Springthorpe Memorial (VHR 522) set at the entrance to the burial ground commemorates Annie Springthorpe, and was erected between 1897 and 1907 by her husband Dr John Springthorpe. It was the work of the sculptor Bertram Mackennal, architect Harold Desbrowe Annear, landscape designer and Director of the Melbourne Bortanic Gardens, W.R. Guilfoyle, with considerable input from Dr Springthorpe The memorial is in the form of a small temple in a primitive Doric style. It was designed by Harold Desbrowe Annear and includes Bertram Mackennal sculptures in Carrara marble. Twelve columns of deep green granite from Scotland support a Harcourt granite superstructure. The roof by Brooks Robinson is a coloured glass dome, which sits within the rectangular form and behind the pediments. The sculptural group raised on a dais, consists of the deceased woman lying on a sarcophagus with an attending angel and mourner. The figure of Grief crouches at the foot of the bier and an angel places a wreath over Annie's head, symbolising the triumph of immortal life over death. The body of the deceased was placed in a vault below. The bronze work is by Marriots of Melbourne. Professor Tucker of the University of Melbourne composed appropriate inscriptions in English and archaic Greek lettering.. The floor is a geometric mosaic and the glass dome roof is of Tiffany style lead lighting in hues of reds and pinks in a radiating pattern. The memorial originally stood in a landscape triangular garden of about one acre near the entrance to the cemetery. However, after Dr Springthorpe's death in 1933 it was found that transactions for the land had not been fully completed so most of it was regained by the cemetery. A sundial and seat remain. The building is almost completely intact. The only alteration has been the removal of a glass canopy over the statuary and missing chains between posts. The Argus (26 March 1933) considered the memorial to be the most beautiful work of its kind in Australia. No comparable buildings are known. The Syme Memorial (1908) is a memorial to David Syme, political economist and publisher of the Melbourne Age newspaper. The Egyptian memorial designed by architect Arthur Peck is one of the most finely designed and executed pieces of monumental design in Melbourne. It has a temple like form with each column having a different capital detail. These support a cornice that curves both inwards and outwards. The tomb also has balustradings set between granite piers which create porch spaces leading to the entrance ways. Two variegated Port Jackson Figs are planted at either end. The Cussen Memorial (VHR 2036) was constructed in 1912-13 by Sir Leo Cussen in memory of his young son Hubert. Sir Leo Finn Bernard Cussen (1859-1933), judge and member of the Victorian Supreme Court in 1906. was buried here. The family memorial is one of the larger and more impressive memorials in the cemetery and is an interesting example of the 1930s Gothic Revival style architecture. It takes the form of a small chapel with carvings, diamond shaped roof tiles and decorated ridge embellishing the exterior. By the 1890s, the Boroondara Cemetery was a popular destination for visitors and locals admiring the beauty of the grounds and the splendid monuments. The edge of suburban settlement had reached the cemetery in the previous decade. Its Victorian garden design with sweeping curved drives, hill top views and high maintenance made it attractive. In its Victorian Garden Cemetery design, Boroondara was following an international trend. The picturesque Romanticism of the Pere la Chaise garden cemetery established in Paris in 1804 provided a prototype for great metropolitan cemeteries such as Kensal Green (1883) and Highgate (1839) in London and the Glasgow Necropolis (1831). Boroondara Cemetery was important in establishing this trend in Australia. The cemetery's beauty peaked with the progressive completion of the spectacular Springthorpe Memorial between 1899 and 1907. From about the turn of the century, the trustees encroached on the original design, having repeatedly failed in attempts to gain more land. The wide plantations around road boundaries, grassy verges around clusters of graves in each denomination, and most of the landscaped surround to the Springthorpe memorial are now gone. Some of the original road and path space were resumed for burial purposes. The post war period saw an increased use of the Cemetery by newer migrant groups. The mid- to late- twentieth century monuments were often placed on the grassed edges of the various sections and encroached on the roadways as the cemetery had reached the potential foreseen by its design. These were well tended in comparison with Victorian monuments which have generally been left to fall into a state of neglect. The Boroondara Cemetery features many plants, mostly conifers and shrubs of funerary symbolism, which line the boundaries, road and pathways, and frame the cemetery monuments or are planted on graves. The major plantings include an impressive row of Bhutan Cypress (Cupressus torulosa), interplanted with Sweet Pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum), and a few Pittosporum crassifolium, along the High Street and Parkhill Street, where the planting is dominated by Sweet Pittosporum. Planting within the cemetery includes rows and specimen trees of Bhutan Cypress and Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), including a row with alternate plantings of both species. The planting includes an unusual "squat" form of an Italian Cypress. More of these trees probably lined the cemetery roads and paths. Also dominating the cemetery landscape near the Rotunda is a stand of 3 Canary Island Pines (Pinus canariensis), a Bunya Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) and a Weeping Elm (Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii') Amongst the planting are the following notable conifers: a towering Bunya Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii), a Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), a rare Golden Funeral Cypress (Chamaecyparis funebris 'Aurea'), two large Funeral Cypress (Chamaecyparis funebris), and the only known Queensland Kauri (Agathis robusta) in a cemetery in Victoria. The Cemetery records, including historical plans of the cemetery from 1859, are held by the administration and their retention enhances the historical significance of the Cemetery. How is it significant? Boroondara Cemetery is of aesthetic, architectural, scientific (botanical) and historical significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical and aesthetic significance as an outstanding example of a Victorian garden cemetery. The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical significance as a record of Victorian life from the 1850s, and the early settlement of Kew. It is also significant for its ability to demonstrate, through the design and location of the cemetery, attitudes towards burial, health concerns and the importance placed on religion, at the time of its establishment. The Boroondara Cemetery is of architectural significance for the design of the gatehouse or sexton's lodge and cemetery office (built in stages from 1860 to 1899), the ornamental brick perimeter fence and elegant cemetery shelter to the design of prominent Melbourne architects, Charles Vickers (for the original 1860 cottage) and Albert Purchas, cemetery architect and secretary from 1864 to his death in 1907. The Boroondara Cemetery has considerable aesthetic significance which is principally derived from its tranquil, picturesque setting; its impressive memorials and monuments; its landmark features such as the prominent clocktower of the sexton's lodge and office, the mature exotic plantings, the decorative brick fence and the entrance gates; its defined views; and its curving paths. The Springthorpe Memorial (VHR 522), the Syme Memorial and the Cussen Memorial (VHR 2036), all contained within the Boroondara Cemetery, are of aesthetic and architectural significance for their creative and artistic achievement. The Boroondara Cemetery is of scientific (botanical) significance for its collection of rare mature exotic plantings. The Golden Funeral Cypress, (Chamaecyparis funebris 'Aurea') is the only known example in Victoria. The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical significance for the graves, monuments and epitaphs of a number of individuals whose activities have played a major part in Australia's history. They include the Henty family, artists Louis Buvelot and Charles Nuttall, businessmen John Halfey and publisher David Syme, artist and diarist Georgiana McCrae, actress Nellie Stewart and architect and designer of the Boroondara and Melbourne General Cemeteries, Albert Purchas.Digital imagescemetery, boroondara, kew, gatehouse, clock, tower, clocktower, heritage, memorial, cussen -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Whitehorse Emergency Relief Network
The Nunawading Ladies Benevolent Society became the Whitehorse Emergency Relief Network in 1999, when a number of local organizations were encouraged to form a network by Betty and Keith Rooney. The object was to collect domestic items of good quality to assist people in need, especially women who have been the victims of domestic violence.Coloured photograph of the interior of the Whitehorse Emergency Relief Network 10-12, Thornton Crescent, Nunawading. Domestic goods showneastern emergency relief centre, thornton crescent mitcham nos 10-12 -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, EastLink
Series of coloured photos, commenced in 2005, of the EastLink project at the Deep Creek Road siteeastlink, thiess - john holland, deep creek road, mitcham, eastern freeway extension -
Ambulance Victoria Museum
Painting, Ambulance Station, North Eastern Victoria District Ambulance Service, Wangaratta, Grant and Associates Architects and Engineers, Circa 1950s
Created by architects Grant and Associates to show their concept for a new ambulance district headquarters and station in Wangaratta. This building was subsequently built and as of 2015 is still in use.Timber framed water colour showing ambulance station seen from the road. Two cars present and several women and men are walking near the building. Ambulance Service logo has been adhered to the building.north eastern victoria district ambulance service, wangaratta -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Postcard, Murray Views, "Murray Views No. 40 Lydiard Street Ballarat Vic", 1948
Photo shows No. 25 at the intersection of Sturt and Lydiard St, c 1948, and of motorcars and other users in Lydiard St North. Looking south. Murray Views No. 40 Postcard. Has Post Office and the Commonwealth Bank in view. On the rear in a note to Ken Magor, Wal Jack has written: "No. 25 to Sebastopol, turning out of Lydiard St Nth into Sturt St 1948." See item 5307 for a digital image of this view. Yields information about the appearance of Lydiard St and Sturt St intersection from the north-eastern corner and the nature of the vehicular traffic using the street, c1948.Postcard black and white, divided back, with a handwritten note on rear.See image 2 for details of the handwritten note by Wal Jack on the rear. tramways, trams, lydiard st, sturt st, tram 25