A large size printed magazine consisting of 78 pages with red border top and bottom of front and back cover with white writing in red border. A picture of a burnt out house and car is on the front and back cover.non-fictionash wednesday fires, victoria, the herald, the sun, newspapers, geelong, bendigo, south australia, 1980s, bushfires, macedon ranges

The cross depicted in the photograph is stated to be from the Uniting Church in Upper Beaconsfield in the Museum's registration records but may instead be from St John's Anglican Church which burned down in the Ash Wednesday bushfires as no Uniting Church site is recorded in Upper Beaconsfield. Forty-seven people were killed in the Ash Wednesday fires in Victoria, including twenty-seven from the Cardinia Shire area. Twenty-one of the people killed were located in Upper Beaconsfield; twelve of the people killed in the area were fire-fighters, along with nine residents. 186 homes and countless livestock were also lost in the fires which ranged through Victoria and into South Australia due to a combination of dry, hot and windy weather. The date of the fires corresponds with the the date of the Christian religious festival of the same name that year. St John's Anglican Church was rebuilt on the same site within the next three years. The design, by local architect Paul Reid, combined elements of the previous building with the style of village churches Reid had observed in Austria and Bavaria after his graduation from Melbourne University. The cross, which buckled in the heat generated by the fires, is believed to be on display at the Ash Wednesday Bushfire Education Centre in Cockatoo, which was itself constructed as a memorial on the site of a kindergarten in which 300 Cockatoo residents sheltered from the fire. The specific occasion on which this photograph was taken is not known.This item is significant because of its association with the Ash Wednesday bushfires, one of the worst natural disasters in Victoria's history. The Ash Wednesday fires occurred on 16th February 1983. Twenty-seven people from the Cardinia Shire area were killed in the fires, including twenty-one who died within a kilometre of the church in which the cross depicted resided.Black and white rectangular photograph printed on photographic paper. The photograph depicts a plain dark-coloured metal cross on a stand. The cross has buckled forwards. The item is resting on a table covered with a pale-coloured table-cloth. A bouquet of flowers is visible to the left-hand side of the image. Chairs and three women in special occasion-style clothing are visible at the rear of the image. The cross featured in the photograph is from a church in Upper Beaconsfield which was damaged in the Ash Wednesday bushfires in February 1983. The specific occasion on which this photograph was taken is not known.ash wednesday 1983, bushfires, churches, st john's anglican church, uniting church, upper beaconsfield victoria australia, cockatoo victoria australia, cross, deceased persons, natural disasters, ash wednesday bushfire education centre, paul reid, cardinia shire council

The Growing Harvest Is A Book That Continues The History Of St Peter's Parish, Bentleigh East During 1974 – 1983, Written By Bernie O’Brien. It Includes The Opening Of The New Church, The Foundations Of The Parish, Parish Developments, St Peter's School Church Community Related Aids & Groups Including All Previous Parish Priests.st peter's catholic church, guiney john, bentleigh east, bentleigh parish, heriot maurice fr, centre road, st paul's, o’brian bernie, bignell road, parish of st peter's, mannix daniel dr, connie street, the living harvest, whitehouse ray fr, new church, kennedy james joseph, cooper julie, stanhope wayne fr, bennett maureen, o’connor gerald fr, kathleen sr, chambers greg fr, murphy brendan, bourke colin fr, o’sullivan tim fr, maloney des fr, crawford fr, mckenna fred fr, bowd mr & mrs, livingstone stan, reed john, smith patricia sr, doolan fr, de marzi led fr, nolan m fr, handley dennis fr, boyer peter, hogan chris, reynolds mark fr, reynolds greg fr, dillon kevin fr, hayes brendan rev., shannon sue sr., family planning, emergency home help, moorabbin hospital, lay ministers, school bus, bingo, catholic family welfare bureau, liturgy, scout hall, bottle drive, moongala drop-in centre, the lighthouse, sacrificial offering, mayor of moorabbin, ecumenical civil service, rite of christian initiation for adults, big brother little brother, st peter's school, ash wednesday bushfires, lightning premiership, safety house program, salesian society, cappuchin fathers, jesuits, diocesan seminary, order of our lady of the sacret heart, sisters of our lady of the sacret heart, kennedy margaret sr., laidler terry fr, noreen sr., cochrane james, leach martin fr, reynolds greg, kooy van fr, lazzaro maria sr., coakley fr, maloney desmond fr, crawford malcolm fr, browne joseph fr, lilley con, corpus christi, cabrini sisters, mission cross, the rite of dedication, statue of st peter, the tree of life, the relic of st olivier, plunkett, holy name society, st vincent de paul, the children of mary, the legion of mary, parish finance committee, the anchor club

Ash Wednesday 1983 Bushfires Commemorative Newspaper

This record holds strong historic significance as it captures the community's resistance to the 1983 bushfires. There is also strong research potential due to the significance of the atrocities that occurred.Black and white rectangular photograph printed on matte photographic paper. This black and white photograph consists of St John's Anglican church in Upper Beaconsfield, which had been rebuilt following the 1983 bushfires. Records show the original building had undergone renovations and paint jobs throughout the 1950's and 1960's. The church underwent expansions by adding rooms and halls onto the original church structure. After the church had been destroyed by the Ash Wednesday fires the new church pictured above would take under a year to be rebuilt. Due to donations that came in the church was built completely debt free.religious structures and establishments, st john's anglican church, church, upper beaconsfield victoria australia, ash wednesday 1983, bushfires, 1980s, anglican church, emerald & district collection

Cuttings from Melbourne newspapers relate to 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfire.Scrap book containing 40 p. of newspaper cuttings relating to Ash Wednesday February 16th 1983bushfires, cockatoo victoria australia, ash wednesday 1983

Special editions of local newspapers published following Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983Newspapers. 1. Berwick-Pakenham Times 21 February 1983| 2. The Pakenham Gazette and Berwick City News| 3. Leader: Emergency Issue of Free Press, Lillydale Express, Knox-Sherbrooke News, Ringwood-Croydon Mail 17 February 19831. 44-page newspaper|2. 52-page newspaper|3. single sheet newsprint with photograqphs folded to 4 pages'bushfires, dandenong ranges, victoria, australia, cockatoo victoria australia, ash wednesday 1983, berwick-pakenham times, pakenham gazette and berwick city news, the leader

Stories, mostly from first-hand accounts, of the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Cockatoo, February 1983. The author lived in Cockatoo for 20 years and was at one time fire-risk contractor for the local council. Names used in the book are fictitious to protect privacy.94 p. : ill. ; DDC994.520922 ISBN 0908090595Paper'Donated to Emerald Museum by Robert Apedaile, 1995'bushfires, cockatoo victoria australia, edward mundie, ash wednesday 1983

The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Feb 1983 caused deaths, destruction and trauma in the township of Cockatoo. This book tells the story of the building up of the parish of St. Luke's Anglican Church and the building of the Church in the four years following the fires. It is written by Peter Crawford who became the vicar of the Emerald-Cockatoo parish.This is a recount of a local community's response to a devastating bushfire.cockatoo, ash wednesday, peter crawford