The photograph shows scrubber No. 11 with destination SPECIAL at High St and Brighton Rd. The photograph is tightly cropped and under exposed. Built as a passenger tram car in Sydney in 1908, converted to scrubber in Sydney in 1953, purchased by MMTB in 1959 as Sydney tram system was being closed.Photo by J Seletto.Yields information about track maintenance and MMTB purchasing second hand equipment.Black and white photograph with photographer's notes on rear.In biro and red stamp on rear: 'No11 1st trip ex-Sydney High St & Brighton Rd, Photograph by J Seletto 8 April 19 (incomplete). Dx Print JSE9'trams, high st st kilda, sydney trams, scrubber, track maintenance, tramways, tram 11

Photo shows two adults and four children with croquet sticks in hand in front of building black and white photograph, unmounted, copy, good conditionOn back: Brighton Road, w side Built for Emil Thoneman, Merchant. Demolished approx 1960. Flats now on the site in Wimbledon Avenue

The photograph shows L class tram No. 102 with the destination City via Williams St route 65 in Hawthorn Rd, East Brighton. The tram is in the mid-distance and the road, span poles, street lights, residental houses with front fences are also included. Daylight with long shadows. The print is under exposed with several scratches in the centre requiring digital enhancement. Photo by Jim Seletto January 1960Shows 40 year old L class in revenue service as evidence of the MMTB's shortage of newer rolling stock.Black and white photgraph with photographer's notes on rearIn biro on rear: 'L 102 Hawthorn Rd East Brighton Jan 60 D X Print JSE7 J Seletto Phototrams, east brighton, hawthorn rd, tram 102, l class, span poles, tramways, route 65

Front of Sydneham Villa, 43 Brighton Road, St Kildablack and white photograph, unmounted, original, fair conditionSydneham Villa, 43 Brighton Road, St Kilda. Built in 1863 - owner David Lyons died there in 1883. Sydenham Villa demolished in 1983. In pencil: Mrs Hall owned it about 1970.

black and white photographSt Kilda Primary School, Brighton Rd. State School 1971. HistoricalSociety of St Kilda, PO Box 142, Balaclava 3183. F849. Graeme S. Breydon, 204 Carlisle st, Balaclava 3183, Ph 94-2886.

Photographs, Black and White, of the MMTB bus 45? - large Garford Chassis - .1 - Front on view showing the radiator, head lights and other details including the crank handle - shows the destination of Brighton Rd. Registration Number 68945. .2 - Side on view of the bus showing the lettering, logo, doorways and destination "via High St". Photos Print and photograph by Sutcliffe of Cromwell buildings 366a Bourke St. Melbourne.In ink on the rear: .1 - "M&MTB Garford Bus No. 45 - late 1920's". .2 - "MMTB Large Garford Bus (Probably No. 45), Late 1920's and in pencil "Large Garford" KSK print numbers SA955 and SA956.trams, tramways, mmtb, buses, brighton rd, garford, tram 7

Harry & Emily Leggetts Dance, St Kilda Town Hall, 1919. Dance crowd at Town Hallblack and white photograph, copy unmounted, good conditionHarry & Emily Leggetts Dance St Kilda Town Hall 1919 [Lengthly, typed description on back ]

St Kilda Town Hall, c.1945glossy black and white photograph good conditionHand written on back: Neg 48, Returned Soldiers Dinner 1945. 1940's?

black and white photographAlan and Ida Mickle at their Brighton Road, St Kilda flat. Box 248/2. 110

St Kilda Municipal Ambulance, used during the 1919 Influenza Epidemic. Patient on stretcher on ground black and white photograph, copy, poor image quality, unmounted[on back: Typed description of photograph]

Set of 3 handwritten table cards for Sunday 11/11/34. - Armistice Days Carlisle St & Brighton Rd, Elsternwick up. Carlisle St & High St, Elsternwick up. Carlisle St & Brighton Rd, Elsternwick up.trams, tramways, table cards, timetables

Black and white photograph, front on of Garford Bus, with registration No. 68945 and the destination Brighton Road. Rod Atkin advised by email of 25/9/17 that was MMTB Bus No. 45 One of two Gardford HL model buses (45 & 46) which entered service in 1925 and were both out of use by 1935 when the chassis was disposed of and the bodies modified for reuse on new chassis.trams, tramways, mmtb, buses, brighton rd, garford

Legal document within a light brown manila document - titled "City of St Kilda / Re proposed construction of electric tramway Brighton Road", dated 8/4/1925 regarding the construction by the MMTB of an electric tramway from the then cable terminus in Brighton Road to Glenhuntly Road and the type of paving to be used. Has the seals of both organisations, signed by the MMTB Chairman and Acting Secretary and the Mayor of St Kilda, Councillor and Town Clerk. Agreement consists of three sheets, bound together with green tape. Only two pages used. Folder has file number "94" written on the outside.trams, tramways, mmtb, city of st kilda, brighton rd, construction, conversion, glenhuntly rd

Poster - special size, titled "Route of New Electric Tram from Lonsdale Street to Elsternwick via Brighton Road - Opening Sunday August 29th". Shows the tram rote in red and other tram lines dotted, including the Yarra River. Given its condition - a reproduction poster. From the Don Storey tram history notes - 1926 - 29 August - "he Elsternwick - St Kilda Junction line was opened, replacing the Brighton Road cable line together with an extension to Glenhuntly Road, and was built as double track." .1 - Laminated A3 version - added 30/6/2021trams, tramways, st kilda rd, brighton rd, lonsdale st, new tramway, conversion, elsternwick

Image from CD (Compact Diskette for use in computers) - see Reg Item 135. Image titled "St Kilda 1" on CD, of looking west over St Kilda Junction from Prahran. Has St Kilda tramway Jtn (St Kilda Road, Fitzroy St, Barkly St, Brighton Road, Wellington St and Punt Road in the photograph, along with St Kilda Railway Station and the "Junction Oval". No trams visible in photograph. Late 1920's or early 1930's - all tram tracks electric.trams, tramways, st kilda junction, st kilda railway station, fitzroy st, brighton rd

Image from CD (Compact Diskette for use in computers) - see Reg Item 135. Image titled "St Kilda" on CD, of looking east over St Kilda Junction from. Has St Kilda tramway Jtn (St Kilda Road, Fitzroy St, Barkly St, Brighton Road, Wellington St and Punt Road in the photograph, and the "Junction Oval". Mid to late 1925 as workmen are converting the cable track in Fitzroy St and Wellington St looks or appears converted with a crossover installed near the junction. Two cable car sets visible in St Kilda Road, on in Brighton Road and a bus? Also a bus? in Fitzroy St.trams, tramways, st kilda junction, st kilda railway station, fitzroy st, brighton rd, cable trams

Set of three photocopied notices onto foolscap, heat sensitive paper, c1937, with details of alterations due to revised or new tram routes. All signed S. M. Richardson as Manager. .1 - "Notice to Passengers - Through routing of Preston and South Melbourne Services" Gives new route numbers. Dated 10th July 1937. .2 - "Notice to Passengers - Extension of Brighton Cemetery tramway via Hawthorn Road, to Point Nepean Rd, East Brighton" - November 1937, part of copy missing on left hand side. Opening date to be 5th December 1937. .3 - "Notice to Passengers - Collingwood cable tramway bus service on Sunday mornings", gives details of bus times and frequency - and commencement times for the cable trams. Dated 3rd November 1937.trams, tramways, preston, south melbourne, east brighton, hawthorn rd, opening, routes, buses, cable trams, collingwood

This photograph shows approx 50 men in suits in a formal pose sitting and standing around tables, all facing the camera.The British flag hangs on one wall. Black and white photograph stuck on cardboard with biro note on rear. Sargents Cafe Elizabeth St City 1923. Send off to M A Browne Line manager Brighton Rd Car Housemen's group

Hardcover book made in 1923 to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1923. Coach – Horrie Clover Captain – Horrie Clover Leading Goal-kicker – Horrie Clover 28 goalshardcover bookR.Hunt Grandview Rd. Brighton

Black and white negative, by Wal Jack, of L 106 in Brighton Road, about to turn into Glenhuntly Road, has destination of Glen Huntly Depot, route 4B. In the overhead can be seen the junction for the Point Ormond line. 1948 In the background by the Service Station advertising Atlantic and Castrol, is a bus and part of the Elsternwick Hotel.trams, tramways, l class, glenhuntly rd, brighton road, route 4b, point ormond, tram 106

Hardcover book made in 1924 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1924. Coach – Percy Parratt Captain – Horrie Clover/Paddy O’brien Leading Goal-kicker – Alex Duncan 27 goalshardcover bookR. Hunt Grandview Rd. Brighton

Hardcover book made in 1921 to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1921. Carlton were defeated by Richmond in 1921 Grand Final by 4 points. Richmond 1.2 1.3 3.4 5.6 36 Sat 15-Oct-1921 2:50 PM Att: 43,122 Venue: M.C.G. Carlton 2.2 3.4 3.6 4.8 32 Richmond won by 4 pts Coach – Norman Clark Captain – Charlie Canet/Gordon Green Vice-Captain – Jack Greenhill Leading Goal-kicker – Horrie Clover 58 goalsHardcover book, wornR. Hunt Grandview Rd, Brighton 12/2/1922

Hardcover book made in 1922 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1922. Coach – Norman Clark Captain – Horrie Clover Leading Goal-kicker – Horrie Clover 56 goalsHardcover book, wornR. Hunt Grandview Rd Brighton 1/2/1923

also stamped on back D.J. Taggartblack and white photograph1900. CableTram (North Carlton to St Kilda) in Lonsdale St, Melbourne about 1905. Brian Pump 36 Knaith road, Ringwood East. Phone: 8707001. Rathdowne, Lygon and Swanston sts and St Kilda rd. Rathdowne st to Brighton rd. 49 North Carlton and St Kilda.

Photo shows - W6 965 (route 4, City) reversing at Elsternwick, using the Point Ormond leg of the triangle of the intersection at the intersection with Brighton Road and Glenhuntly Rd, due to the work to replace the Elsternwick level crossing. Dated 2-10-1960.Yields information about alterations to tram services during a level crossing removal project.Photograph - Black and White - W6 965 reversing at ElsternwickHas details typed on rear, date stamp and John Alfred Stamp. tramways, tramcars, w6 class, elsternwick, brighton road, glenhuntly road, tram 965, route 4

Photo - see pdf file for further information. Number Brief Description RT123 1971 Convention - 9.4.71 - tram 610 - "Special" - Wattle park terminus RT124 Mt Alexander Road - 980 - "Special" RT125 St Kilda Jct - 7.4.71 - "St Kilda Beach" - route 16 RT126 North Balwyn Terminus - 9.4.71 - tram 840 - "Nth Balwyn" route 79 RT127 Preston - tram 980 - "City - Spencer St" - route 9A RT128 St Kilda Jct - "E Brighton Malv Burke Rd" - route 64 RT129 St Kilda Park St Terminus 12.4.71 - tram 394 - "Special" & tram 1017 - "West Preston - Northcote" - route 10 RT130 Carnegie 9.4.71 - tram 106 - "St Kilda Jun" - route 17 RT131 High St - tram 980 - "East Preston" - route 98 RT132 St Kilda Park St Terminus 12.4.71 - tram 894 - "West Preston" - route 10 RT133 St Kilda Park St Terminus 12.4.71 - tram 894 - "West Preston" - route 10 RT134 Wattle Park - 9.4.71 - tram 610 - "City" - route 70 RT135 Wellington Parade - 9.4.71 - tram 840 - "City - Flinders & Spencer St Cnr" - route 23 RT136 Melville Rd West Coburg 12.4.71 - tram 787 - route 55 Demonstrates the work of Robert Thomson in photography, collection and/or production of slidesAssembled album in a black presentation folder of 14 colour slides, collected or produced by Robert Thomson. All photographs have been scanned and placed on the Museum's G drive. A list of all photographs with details has been compiled. melbourne, tramways, trams

JAMES JOSEPH HIGGINS, was born in Dublin in 1821 and, at age twenty, emigrated via Liverpool in 1841 with his wife Ellen and baby daughter Margarete, on board the 'Intrinsic'. They lived in Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, for some years, where their son James John Clarke Higgins was born in 1850. JAMES JOHN CLARKE HIGGINS moved to Brighton East when he married Ruth Simmonds in 1873. The couple lived on Jasper Rd near the corner of Centre Rd for the rest of their lives, and produced eight children HERBERT JOHN HIGGINS was the sixth child born in 1886, to James John Clarke Higgins and Ruth Simmonds, and grew up in Centre Rd, Brighton East, now Bentleigh. He was renting and working a property on Jasper Rd from the time he was married in 1913 to Victoria Matilda Long, daughter of Charles John Long and Annie Matilda Allnutt. Herbert John bought his property on Jasper Rd in 1921. [Metropolitan Board of works plan 3220, Municipality of Moorabbin, shows that in 1928, Higgins Rd was planned (and probably built soon after). Herbert was a dairyman and market gardener. He bred and milked cows and sold milk, cream, butter and eggs to the locals. He supplied hay/corn to be made into chaff to J L Smith’s produce store. He also leased land from other farmers in the area and helped work their land. c1950 he sold the property in lots, some privately, others to the Municipality. Some lots became part of Hodgson Reserve, Higgins Road, Bentleigh, and another lot, the Bentleigh Bowling Club. Herbert and Victoria, known as Queenie, had five children between 1914 and 1928. The youngest Dorothy, who remembered sitting in this pram and later using it to carry papers, wood, vegetable etc., lived on the property in Jasper Road until her passing in 2016. ( Ronald Alexander Higgins, descendant , Helen Stanley CMHS 2017) The family of Dorothy Higgins 1928-2016, were early settlers in Moorabbin Shire establishing a dairy farm c 1873 in East Brighton ( now Bentleigh)Wicker Perambulator, baby carriage, c. 1914, with a lined, painted wicker body, iron spring scrolled frame with leather straps and 4 steel wheels with rubber tyres. The push handle is broken and hood is missing. dairy farms, higgins james joseph, simmonds ruth, higgins dorothy, poultry farms, jasper road bentleigh, city of moorabbin historical society 1961, sheehy t.a., newsletters, ashley r, neville f, blackman n, moorabbin city council, moorabbin roads board toll gates, pioneers moorabin cheltenham, bentleigh, highett

William Bravery Andrew was a native of Surrey, England. He came out to Australia in 1842 and lived in Brighton, Victoria for 14 years. He revisited England for a year, departing July 1856 and returning to Victoria in July 1857. William moved to Eltham around 1859 where he met and married a widow, Ellen Harper (nee Clarke) in 1867 whose husband John, a carpenter, had died in Melbourne the previous November leaving her with four surviving children: Edith Harper (1856 Eltham), Newell Harper (1858 Eltham), Ida Ellen Harper (1862 Eltham) and Lilian Harper (1862 Eltham). Ellen and John had suffered the loss of two children: John (1860-1864 Eltham) and Percy (1865-1866). William and Ellen had three more children of their own: Mabel Andrew (1868 Eltham), William Bravery Andrew (1870 Eltham) and Ernest James Andrew (1873 Eltham) By 1867 William was the registered newsagent for Eltham with a produce store, W.B Andrew Corn Store, on "Policeman's Hill", at the corner of Maria Street (now Main Road) and Franklin Street. He also took a lively interest in the public affairs of the town and district, and with his wife Ellen, continued to run the store for some fifty years. Ellen pre-deceased William on February 9, 1906, after a long and painful illness of some 11 years. William died October 8, 1907 and is buried with Ellen in Eltham Cemetery. Their youngest son, Ernest James took over running the business and became a prominent member of the community and Eltham Shire Councillor for 30 years. The grave of Ernest James and his wife Ellen rests beside William and Ellen. Sacred to The memory of Ellen Wife of William Bravery Andrew Died 9th Feb. 1906 Aged 77 years Also the above W.B. Andrew Died 8th Oct. 1907 Aged 85.Born Digitaleltham cemetery, gravestones, ellen andrew, william bravery andrew, ellen harper andrew (nee clarke), ernest james andrew

Fred looks back; Report: Linley Hartley, Picture: Ron Grant Teaching himself German again after 70 years is just one of the many tasks Fred Golgerth, of Greensborough, has undertaken and succeeded in during his lifetime. As the two year old tenth child of a German descendent, Fred learnt to speak German from an Aunt. But World War 1 was raging. Fred’s older brother had gone to Europe with the Australian forces, changing his name … to ….. to sound less German. “I used to get my bottom slapped for speaking German at home,” Fred said. Even his name was changed from Otto to the more anglicised Frederick. Fred claims his involvement with Eltham started two years before he was born! His sister, two years older than him, was a babe in arms when his parents bought a piece of grazing property in Mount Pleasant Rd. “It was about 24 acres on a spur of Mt Pleasant,” Fred said. “My parents bought it from Mr and Mrs Hughes. There was a two-room mud hut in wattle and daub that we lived in from time to time. “My parents had a dairy farm and dairy in West Coburg, and they bought the Mt Pleasant land to put the dry stock on. “At one stage my mother got very ill and my older sister took my younger sister and myself to Eltham for four or five months. I went down to Eltham Primary School then.” That wasn’t the only time Fred stayed in Eltham. His sister, Wilhemina, known as Willa, married Jim Watson who had the Eltham hotel for some years from the end of World War 1. Pillar to post living was the way Fred described his youth, when he stayed with one married sister after another. “After a while Will and Jim lived in the big house at the top of Pitt St, next to the Council depot, and the hotel was managed by Fitzsimmons who had a big place near the river down there on Fitzsimons Lane. There was no bridge in Fitzsimons Lane but we used to cross the river at a ford, rolling up our trouser legs so they wouldn’t get wet, and carrying our shoes. I’d o down to visit some friends I had in Templestowe. And sometimes Jim Watson took his horse drawn lorry across the ford on his way to the brewery, instead of going don through Heidelberg.” “The bridge across the Yarra in Fitzsimons was not built until 1961.” Fred Golgerth, was only a teenager when he was rolled off his pushbike under a car on the bend between Mt Pleasant Rd and the Diamond Creek bridge. He was hospitalised in the little hospital on the east side of Eltham village that served the district in those days. He still carries the scars of the burns he received from the exhaust pipe and recent x-rays have revealed several broken vertebrae. At the time of the accident he was treated for a dislocated neck and was in plaster from his hip to the base of his head for about seven months. But nothing daunted Fred. Bouncing back he began work as an apprentice to a motor mechanic in Bell St, Preston, a man who is still living (at 90) in Queensland and who still communicates with Fred frequently. “He was like a father to me,” Fred declared. He was a marine engineer as well, so I …. that as well as blacksmithing. They taught us properly then.” After finishing his apprenticeship, Fred bought himself a 30 hundredweight Fargo truck and began his own contract carting business, doing most of the work for a firm called Carnegie’s and a subsidiary of that, Howard Radio. It was in the office Fred met his wife. “He taught me to drive the truck giving me lessons in my lunch hours up the Bourke St and Flinders St extension,” she said. “After work I’d have a driving lesson and all the girls from the Howard Radio would pile in the back to get a lift to Richmond Station.” In the 1939 bushfires, the Mt Pleasant Rd property was burnt out and the hut raised. Two years later, Fred and Dorothy were married. Fred paid £7.15.0 ($15.50) for the suit in which he was married. Dorothy had pulled out of the Women’s Air Training Corps to be married. Others with whom she trained went to Darwin and were in a convoy that was bombed. Fred went into the garage business in Brighton and continued his cartage business for a while. His company was employed to do all Brown Gouge’s motor repairs and factory maintenance. Because Fred had a certificate to do steam repair work he often got jobs maintaining industrial boilers. While he was in Brighton, Fred bought an eight-seater 1925 Silver Ghost Rolls Royce from Sir Keith Murdoch. When the couple moved to Rosanna in about 1943, it became a delivery van for the dairy they operated. “I thought I’d like to get back into a dairy business” Fred said. “We used to deliver the milk in the Rolls. “But it was hard work. We couldn’t get the labour and we’d drive to the farm and pick up the milk cans, take them back to the dairy, cool the milk, bottle it and deliver it. The inspectors would come regularly and the walls for bacteria.” Fred was exhausted. The couple gave up the dairy and moved to Eltham to live on the old property where a weatherboard house had now been built. It wasn’t a big house and the glassed in Rolls Royce limousine became the daytime nursery for the Golgerth’s second daughter. We’d put her in there to sleep during the day.” “Dorothy Golgerth was known to drive the Rolls at breakneck speed along Mt Pleasant Rd. Fred took some time off work then began driving a little local bus run by the Lyon Brothers before taking a maintenance job at the Athenaeum Club in the city. He’d ride an old Harley-Davidson to the station and travel into the city by train. Later, when the family moved to Pryor St. (their house stood where McEwans car park is now) Fred could walk to and from the station. “There was no resident doctor in the early days of Eltham,” Fred said. “Dr Cordner used to come from Greensborough to a room in the old house next to the old grocery shop on the corner of York St and Main Rd, Eltham (the grocery shop is now the Eltham Feed and Grain Store). The Golgerths lived in Eltham until “Dollar Day” – the day decimal currency became official. They eventually moved to Greensborough, when they have lived since. Fred has had his share of interesting jobs since then, retiring at 65 seven years ago when he was working in the engineering department at Larundel. Recently, two of his older sisters and a brother died, within a month. They were all in their 80s. They all had a profound influence on Fred, especially during his youth. His sharp wit and amusing anecdotes are the richer for his having been the youngest of a family that made the best of every circumstance. And now, as he enjoys his retirement, he is concentrating on relearning the language of his infancy; teaching himself German from tapes and a ‘teach yourself’ manual. He is fiercely proud of his German ancestry and treasures the diary, written in German in Gothic script, kept by his grandparents during their journey to Australia. On the inside in blue pen: "To Sadie, Wal Margaret & Elizabeth with lots & lots of love & best wishes from Mother"marg ball collection, eltham hotel, herbert james watson, otto (fred) golgerth, wilhemina watson (nee golgerth)