This safe was invented in the 1890’s to protect and maintain food longer. The wire grid kept the food safe from vermin and allowed breeze to blow through. Hessian curtains hung down the sides and hessian strips lay in the water reservoir on top. The water wicked down the sides of the safe wetting the curtains. The breeze blew over the wet hessian keeping the inside cool. Meat safes were often kept on the verandah to increase breeze. The legs would stand in bowls of water to stop ant infestation.Pale green enamelled meat safe fitted for Coolgardie curtains (not present) fittings and 3 sides for curtains. One internal shelf 1/2 way and base. Grids of holes square with cross shaped decoration to each grid. Some surface rust. Water reservoir on top."PORTABLE PANTRY"meat safe, coolgardie, food

A blue hard covered book titled 'How to Attain and Retain Beauty.' Home Entertainment Library, 1935. Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd. London & Aylesbury. 384 pages, photos, illustrations. The book is in a small brown box sent to Mrs. Lydia Chancellor, 'Taraxville,' Golden Square.recreations, amusements, female, lydia chancellor collection, collection, beauty, health, excercises, recreation, female

FLAT WOODEN CONTAINER WITH ONE JIGSAW PUZZLE (ONE PIECE MISSING) AND A DOUBLE SIDED PICTURE GAME ON ONE SIDE, ALPHABET LETTERS ON OTHER SIDE (ONE SQUARE MISSING) OUR LITTLE TREASURES - ABC ON TOP LID AND FIVE CHILDREN PLAYING ON A BEACH ON OTHER LID.local history, toys, covered blocks and jigsaw puzzle, harris

HOPE & SAFE presents the material results of Kate Just’s two recent public banner projects in the UK and Melbourne responding to violence against women and current media coverage of this issue. Referencing and reviving moments in feminist history in which collective action and craftwork were deployed to enact change, HOPE & SAFE invokes a utopian reimagining of women’s safety and agency within the urban environment. In 2013, Just travelled around the UK with her KNIT HOPE Project. It involved an invitation to individuals and communities to publicly join her in knitting a night-reflective fluorescent yellow banner that spells the word HOPE in silver block letters. Later, various HOPE walks were taken in public at night with it. Bearing the artist’s daughter’s name, the resulting HOPE Banner manifests the artist’s wish for a brighter future for women broadly and for her own child specifically. Materially and conceptually, the banner entwines dualities of male and female, public and private, individual and collective. The uniquely patterned individual pieces refer to the work of many hands, joined together to form a seamless whole. The durability of the builder’s line and the high-vis reflective material, which is worn by construction workers, police and cyclists, imbues the banner with a level of visibility and authority. The singular large scale photograph HOPE Walk (Leeds) extends these complexities, documenting a moment in which police on horseback, donning coordinated yellow and silver jackets, asked if they could join the ‘protest.’ On return from the UK in early 2014, Just undertook the KNIT SAFE Project in Melbourne. It involved the communal crafting of a sister banner, a night reflective black and silver ‘blanket’ that spells SAFE. The more sombre SAFE Banner operates as a shield or soft monument constructed in the shadow of recent high profile violent deaths of women in Melbourne including Jill Meagher, Tracey Connelly and Fiona Warzywoda. The photograph SAFE Walk (Melbourne) captures a small group of banner holders quietly interacting with each other in the warm glow of a street lamp, projecting an almost fictional ideal of collective resistance to the harsh realities of the world. Also presented in the exhibition is the book HOPE SAFE, documenting the projects in their entirety and featuring an in-depth essay by art critic and historian Dr Juliette Peers. Photograph by Simon Strong. Wangaratta Art Gallery Collection. Winner of the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2015.A rectangular banner with a background made up of black yarn square panels that vary in shape and size with different knitted and crocheted designs, with lettering applicated onto the background using reflective nylon thread. A metal pole has been threaded through the top of the banner to enable it to be carried.wangaratta art gallery, wcta, textile, kate just

LYDIA CHANCELLOR COLLECTION: GOLDEN SQUARE METHODIST CHURCH A SOUVENIR OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S DEMONSTRATION A Certificate with photo of the church; its exterior and interior. Erected 1873 to seat 1500. In recognition of the Special gift placed on the Jubilee Stone, April 1st 1923 by Lydia Pethard G.A. Treasurerbendigo, history, bendigo churches

LYDIA CHANCELLOR COLLECTION: Methodist Church of Australasia Victoria and Tasmanian Conference Opening of the Extensions to the Sunday School Opening and dedication of the Extensions and renovations to the Sunday School Building at Golden Square Victoria 20th September 1959 at 3pm by the minister of the church The Rev. F. V. Winn, B.A.bendigo, history, bendigo churches