After training as a Cartographic Draftsman within the mining industry, I worked as a property illustrator for real estate firms in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne for 23 years from 1983. I initially photographed houses with a Polaroid camera and made a 'thumbnail' sketch while there. The photos were used to scale off a sketch in pencil and then that sketch was overlaid with drafting film and the 'pen and ink' completed. The pens I used were the Rotring ‘Rapidigraph’ drafting pens. The ink was also made by Rotring (German).The film was ‘Rapidraw’, polyester drafting film, double matte. It takes a very fine line and doesn’t bleed. As well as house sketches, there were often floor plans and site plans ordered. Aerial sketches were ordered when the property needed an overall view. (Margaret Picken, 2020)This drawing is one of a series created by Margaret Picken for a range of real estate agents in Melbourne between c.1983 and c.2004. Each work is signed and dated by the artist.Gift of Margaret Picken, 2020Pen and ink drawing on drafting film of 24 Byron Street, Kew by Margaret Picken.24 BYRON ST., KEW / MARGARET PICKEN '88 / WOODARDS ~ KEWartist -- margaret picken 1950-, architectural drawings -- houses -- kew (vic.), 24 byron street -- kew (vic.)

Byron Street looking south. Norwood High School circa 1990

Black and white photograph (2 copies- 1 large, 1 small)Image shows partly constructed building with a dam in the foreground.

This file contains five items relating to Caulfield Council Visits with the Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) from 1919 to circa 1974: 1/ A photo album containing photos from the MMBW ‘visit to the Headworks, Yan Yean Water Supply, Wallaby and Silvery Creeks’ from 28/02/1919 to 03/03/1919, attended by members of the Caulfield City Council. The album contains 13 original black-and-white photographs, 3 of which are of the council members. The album is accompanied by a report by Felicitie Campbell, written 11/2008, about these visits. 2/ A publication from the MMBW documenting its review of operations for 1973-1974. The report contains information about water supply, sewerage and drainage infrastructure completed or in progress during this period including infrastructure in Caulfield, Ormond, Carnegie and Bentleigh. 3/ A periodical feature from the MMBW titled ‘Living City’, issue no. 16, Spring/Summer 1974. Included in the article titled ‘Program’ is a notice that construction will continue on the Elster Creek drain from Thomas St. to Wheatley Road, McKinnon. The periodical also includes the names of commissioners W. R. Walters from Caulfield and G. R. Bricker from Moorabbin (back cover). 4/ 2 maps and 1 information booklet from the Thomson Project Open Day attended by Felicite and John Campbell as representatives of the Caulfield City Council. This was an annual MMBW open date. Date unknown. 5/ Research notes by Kate Aldred about the photo album and Thomson Project Open Day booklet and their links to Felicitie Campbell 01/04/2014.koornang road, draper street, hall street, centre road, brewers road, caulfield intercepting sewer, byron street, caulfield park, elster creek, caulfield, carnegie, ormond, bentleigh, thomas street, brighton east, wheatley road, mckinnon, city of caulfield, bricker g. r., walters w. r., caulfield city council, melbourne and metropolitan board of works, hall councillor, murray councillor, murphy councillor, wharington councillor, phillips councillor, blyth councillor, best robert sir, reid doctor, jowett mr., wooley mr., hindle mr., annual reports, water supply structures and establishments, sewerage and sanitation, sewerage establishments, drainage, town planning, business and finance, councillors, mayors, acqueducts, dams and reservoirs, creeks, waterfalls, rivers, construction sites, north road, north road pumping station, cities and towns, campbell felicitie

Nomination documents for election as a Parents' Representative on Norwood High School first Advisory Council - Mrs. E.V. Pullin, 20 Mullum Road, Ringwood. June, 1959.Education Department Victoria letterhead , Norwood High School, Byron Street, North Ringwood, Vic. - J.A. Gibson, Head Master.

Copy of Letterhead.Ringwood Bowling Club Club Pavilion Hon General Secretary, A. R. Catron, Telephone: WU 8281, 4 Byron Street, Ringwood. Ringwood 21. 6.1961.

Norwood High School started the school year in multiple temporary premises while the new school was being erected in Byron Street, eventually opening mid 1959.Ringwood Post 7 May 1959 Headline "Minister at Norwood to see for himself" article in response to earlier letter to the editor headed "Piecemeal Education" regarding inadequate temporary accommodation.Deputation participants: Norwood High School Parents and Citizens' Association - Mrs. H. Couche, President, R.L. David, Honorary Secretary; Minister for Education, Mr. H.S. Bloomfield; Mr. J. Manson, M.L.A. (Member for Ringwood); Mr H. Hopkins, District Inspector; Mr. A. Gibson, Headmaster.

Norwood High School started the school year in multiple temporary premises while the new school was being erected in Byron Street, eventually opening mid 1959.Temporary alternative classroom accommodation report with photographs.Altogether, 214 pupils of the school work in what teachers say are impossible conditions in the East Ringwood drill hall, the Anglican Church Hall, and (East Ringwood) football pavilion.

Notice of ordinary meeting of the council 5th August 1980 Report of the Town Clerk's Department Report of the Town Clerk Western Region Commission Contribution for 1980/81 Street Construction Agreement Part Fairfax Circuit Albanvale Land Transfer Part of Rogers Street and Francis Street Discontinued to Abutting Owners Ralph McKay Ltd & Maribyrnong Timber Pty Ltd Request for Open Space Entitlement Farmers' and Graziers Subdivision McDonald Road Brooklyn Committee for Councillor Information Programmes Staff Matters Award Variations On Cost C.R.B. Projects Council Property 2 - 4 Burton Crescent Maribyrnong Supplementary Valuations Constitution Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works Dickson Street Private Street Scheme Sunshine Tip Tipping Agreements Collins & Davey Motors Pty Ltd Transfer to Whelan the Wreaker Holdings Pty Ltd Report of the Co-Ordinator of Welfare Services Building Regulations for Child Care Centres Request for Financial Assistance Aboriginal Advancement League Western Region Community Legal Centre Progress Report on Howard Kingham Lodge Frail Aged Hostel Darnley Street Braybrook Report of the Children's Services Development Officer Levels of Income Security Payments Report of the Chief Health Surveyor Health Act Registrations for 1980 Application for Transfer of Proprietorship of Premises Under the Health Act Infant Welfare Centre Boundaries Aycliffe Drive Infant Welfare & Pre-School Centre, Diamond Avenue Infant Welfare Centre & Deer Park Infant Welfare Centre Officers' Authorisation Under the Second-hand Dealers Act Report of the Superintendent Traffic & By-Laws Court Proceedings Parking Infringements Shopping Trolleys Dog Act Report of the City Librarian Library Subsidy Report of the City Engineer & Planner Planning Permit Eight Flats Fraser Street Sunshine Planning Permit Firty Bed Nursing Home 41 Thomson Street Corner Jackson Street Maidstone Planning Permit Application Internally Illuminated Sky Sign 809 Ballarat Road Deer Park Planning Permit Application Medical Consulting Rooms Lot 5 North West Corner Glengala Road and Bell Street Sunshine West Planning Permit Application Retail Plant Nursey Lots 32, 33 & 34 South West Corner Raleigh Road and Burton Crescent Maribyrnong Planning Permit Application Roof to Bridge Platform Extension With Existing Industrial Complex Somerville Road Brooklyn Planning Permit Application Garden and Building Supplies Lot 13 & 14 Francis Street Brooklyn Planning Permit Application Garden and Building Supplies Lot 16 Francis Street Brooklyn Planning Permit Application Rosamond Bowling Club Licensed Club Robert Barrett Reserve Rosamond Road Maribyrnong Planning Permit Application Sign 594 Ballarat Road Albion Planning Permit Flats Station Road Deer Park Planning Permit Application Proposed Relocatable Classrooms Holy Eucharist Primary School 1A Oleander Drive North West Corner Chedgey Drive St. Albans Planning Permit Application Rebuilding of Damaged Wall of Existing Licensed Grocer Ballarat Road Maidstone Planning Permit Application New & Used Car Sales and Service Dealership 209 Ballarat Road Maidstone Planning Permit Application Shop Alterations and Extensions Lots 1 & 2 Ballarat Road Deer Park Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme Contravention 121 Rosamond Road Maidstone Proposed Survey Sunshine Shopping Centre By Humanities Department of Footscray Institute of Technology Students Removal of Easement Lot 261 Atunga Court Sunshine West Strata Subdivision 101 Ballarat Road Plan of Consolidation of Title Wiltshire Files Sunshine Road Tottenham Tenders for Playground Equipment Naming Lanes North Side of Devonshire Road East of Cornwall Street Right of Ways Running North South From Una Street to Devonshire Road as Byron Place and Shelley Place Plan of Subdivision Westerngate North Estate Stage 4 Removal of Easement Station Road Deer Park Creation of Easement Lot 119 Station Road Deer park Availability of Sewer for Lots 246 to 252 Rosslare Parade St. Albans Aycliffe Drive Infant Welfare & Pre-School Centre Cherry Crescent Child Care Centre Rosamond Bowling Club Alterations and Additions to Municipal Offices Epalock Crescent Infant Welfare & Pre-School Centre and Ridgeway Parade Welfare & Pre-School Centre More Park Pavilion Request by Sunshine District Women's Softball Association for Two Electric Hand Dryers Report of the Building Surveyor Building Over Easement Lot 12 Block A McIntyre Road Sunshine North Building Over Easement 9 Orloff Court Sunshine North Wireless Tower Lot 1 Somerville Road Footscray West Schedule for Authorsing of Affixing the Common Seal of the Municipality to Documetns Orders of the Day Accounts Submitted for Payment as at 31st July 1980 Proposal to Construct Right of Way East Side of Sydney Street From King Edward Avenue to Forrest Street Under the Provisions of Division 10 of Part XIX of the Local Government Act 1958 Proposal to Construct Dickson Street (Part) Under the Provisions of Division 10 of Part XIX of the Local Government Act 1958 Notice of Motion Planning Permit Retail Plant Nursery Ballarat Road Deer Parkfairfax circuit, albanvale, burton crescent, maribyrnong, dickson street, sunshine, farmers' and graziers, rogers street, francis street, ralph mckay ltd, maribyrnong timber pty ltd, mcdonald road, brooklyn, sunshine tip, whelan the wreaker holdings, collins & davey motors, howard kingham lodge, darnley street, braybrook, aycliffe drive infant welfare & pre-school centre, aycliffe avenue, deer park, diamond avenue infant welfare centre, diamond avenue, deer park infant welfare centre, fraser street, thomson street, jackson street, maidstone, ballarat road, glengala road, bell street, sunshine west, raleigh road, robert barrett reserve, rosamond road, albion, station road, holy eucharist primary school, oleander drive, chedgey drive, st. albans, atunga court, wiltshire files, sunshine road, tottenham, devonshire road, cornwall street, una street, byron place, shelley place, rosslare parade, cherry crescent child care centre, rosamond bowling club, epalock crescent infant welfare & pre-school centre, epalock crescent, more park, esmond street, ardeer, sunshine district women's softball, mcintyre road, sunshine north, orloff court, footscray west, sydney street, king edward avenue

Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of Council held on 5th August 1980 Report of the Town Clerk's Department Report of the Town Clerk Western Region Commission Contribution for 1980/81 Street Construction Agreement Part Fairfax Circuit Albanvale Land Transfer Part of Rogers Street and Francis Street Discontinued to Abutting Owners Ralph McKay Ltd & Maribyrnong Timber Pty Ltd Request for Open Space Entitlement Farmers' and Graziers Subdivision McDonald Road Brooklyn Committee for Councillor Information Programmes Staff Matters Award Variations On Cost C.R.B. Projects Council Property 2 - 4 Burton Crescent Maribyrnong Supplementary Valuations Constitution Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works Dickson Street Private Street Scheme Sunshine Tip Tipping Agreements Collins & Davey Motors Pty Ltd Transfer to Whelan the Wreaker Holdings Pty Ltd Report of the Co-Ordinator of Welfare Services Building Regulations for Child Care Centres Request for Financial Assistance Aboriginal Advancement League Western Region Community Legal Centre Progress Report on Howard Kingham Lodge Frail Aged Hostel Darnley Street Braybrook Report of the Children's Services Development Officer Levels of Income Security Payments Report of the Chief Health Surveyor Health Act Registrations for 1980 Application for Transfer of Proprietorship of Premises Under the Health Act Infant Welfare Centre Boundaries Aycliffe Drive Infant Welfare & Pre-School Centre, Diamond Avenue Infant Welfare Centre & Deer Park Infant Welfare Centre Officers' Authorisation Under the Second-hand Dealers Act Report of the Superintendent Traffic & By-Laws Court Proceedings Parking Infringements Shopping Trolleys Dog Act Report of the City Librarian Library Subsidy Report of the City Engineer & Planner Planning Permit Eight Flats Fraser Street Sunshine Planning Permit Firty Bed Nursing Home 41 Thomson Street Corner Jackson Street Maidstone Planning Permit Application Internally Illuminated Sky Sign 809 Ballarat Road Deer Park Planning Permit Application Medical Consulting Rooms Lot 5 North West Corner Glengala Road and Bell Street Sunshine West Planning Permit Application Retail Plant Nursey Lots 32, 33 & 34 South West Corner Raleigh Road and Burton Crescent Maribyrnong Planning Permit Application Roof to Bridge Platform Extension With Existing Industrial Complex Somerville Road Brooklyn Planning Permit Application Garden and Building Supplies Lot 13 & 14 Francis Street Brooklyn Planning Permit Application Garden and Building Supplies Lot 16 Francis Street Brooklyn Planning Permit Application Rosamond Bowling Club Licensed Club Robert Barrett Reserve Rosamond Road Maribyrnong Planning Permit Application Sign 594 Ballarat Road Albion Planning Permit Flats Station Road Deer Park Planning Permit Application Proposed Relocatable Classrooms Holy Eucharist Primary School 1A Oleander Drive North West Corner Chedgey Drive St. Albans Planning Permit Application Rebuilding of Damaged Wall of Existing Licensed Grocer Ballarat Road Maidstone Planning Permit Application New & Used Car Sales and Service Dealership 209 Ballarat Road Maidstone Planning Permit Application Shop Alterations and Extensions Lots 1 & 2 Ballarat Road Deer Park Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme Contravention 121 Rosamond Road Maidstone Proposed Survey Sunshine Shopping Centre By Humanities Department of Footscray Institute of Technology Students Removal of Easement Lot 261 Atunga Court Sunshine West Strata Subdivision 101 Ballarat Road Plan of Consolidation of Title Wiltshire Files Sunshine Road Tottenham Tenders for Playground Equipment Naming Lanes North Side of Devonshire Road East of Cornwall Street Right of Ways Running North South From Una Street to Devonshire Road as Byron Place and Shelley Place Plan of Subdivision Westerngate North Estate Stage 4 Removal of Easement Station Road Deer Park Creation of Easement Lot 119 Station Road Deer park Availability of Sewer for Lots 246 to 252 Rosslare Parade St. Albans Aycliffe Drive Infant Welfare & Pre-School Centre Cherry Crescent Child Care Centre Rosamond Bowling Club Alterations and Additions to Municipal Offices Epalock Crescent Infant Welfare & Pre-School Centre and Ridgeway Parade Welfare & Pre-School Centre More Park Pavilion Request by Sunshine District Women's Softball Association for Two Electric Hand Dryers Report of the Building Surveyor Building Over Easement Lot 12 Block A McIntyre Road Sunshine North Building Over Easement 9 Orloff Court Sunshine North Wireless Tower Lot 1 Somerville Road Footscray West Schedule for Authorsing of Affixing the Common Seal of the Municipality to Documetns Orders of the Day Accounts Submitted for Payment as at 31st July 1980 Proposal to Construct Right of Way East Side of Sydney Street From King Edward Avenue to Forrest Street Under the Provisions of Division 10 of Part XIX of the Local Government Act 1958 Proposal to Construct Dickson Street (Part) Under the Provisions of Division 10 of Part XIX of the Local Government Act 1958 Notice of Motion Planning Permit Retail Plant Nursery Ballarat Road Deer Park Extraordinary Business Report of the City Engineer Planning Permit Flats Station Road Deer Park Report of the Building Surveyor Dangerous Building 12 - 14 Drummartin Street Albion Height of Fences 37 Wintersun Drive Albanvalefairfax circuit, albanvale, burton crescent, maribyrnong, dickson street, sunshine, farmers' and graziers, rogers street, francis street, ralph mckay ltd, maribyrnong timber pty ltd, mcdonald road, brooklyn, sunshine tip, whelan the wreaker holdings, collins & davey motors, howard kingham lodge, darnley street, braybrook, aycliffe drive infant welfare & pre-school centre, aycliffe avenue, deer park, diamond avenue infant welfare centre, diamond avenue, deer park infant welfare centre, fraser street, thomson street, jackson street, maidstone, ballarat road, glengala road, bell street, sunshine west, raleigh road, robert barrett reserve, rosamond road, albion, station road, holy eucharist primary school, oleander drive, chedgey drive, st. albans, atunga court, wiltshire files, sunshine road, tottenham, devonshire road, cornwall street, una street, byron place, shelley place, rosslare parade, cherry crescent child care centre, rosamond bowling club, epalock crescent infant welfare & pre-school centre, epalock crescent, more park, esmond street, ardeer, sunshine district women's softball, mcintyre road, sunshine north, orloff court, footscray west, sydney street, king edward avenue, drummartin street, wintersun drive

St Clement's Private Hospital was situated on the corner of Southey and Byron Streets, St Kilda South. After Sister Gwendolen Luly finished her training at the Alfred Hospital, her father William Luly established the hospital in about 1927 or 1928. She and Sister Brocklebank offered surgical, medical and midwifery services. The hospital was sold in 1940.White tea cup with blue and gold border at rim and gold stripe on the handle. On base: "DURALINE" GRAFTON CHINA B A J & SONS ENGLAND LOFTUS MORAN PTY LTD 1933 st clement's private hospital

St Clement's Private Hospital was situated on the corner of Southey and Byron Streets, St Kilda South. After Sister Gwendolen Luly finished her training at the Alfred Hospital, her father William Luly established the hospital in about 1927 or 1928. She and Sister Brocklebank offered surgical, medical and midwifery services. The hospital was sold in 1940.White saucers (3) with blue and gold border at rim and a scroll displaying the words ST. CLEMENT'S in blue.On the base: SUTHERLAND CHINA MADE IN ENGLANDst clement's private hospital

St Clement's Private Hospital was situated on the corner of Southey and Byron Streets, St Kilda South. After Sister Gwendolen Luly finished her training at the Alfred Hospital, her father William Luly established the hospital in about 1927 or 1928. She and Sister Brocklebank offered surgical, medical and midwifery services. The hospital was sold in 1940.White dinner plates (2) with blue and gold border at rim.On base: "DURALINE" SUPER VITRIFIED GRINDLEY HOTELWARE CO. ENGLAND LOFTUS MORAN PTY. LD MELBOURNE 10.32st clement's private hospital

St Clement's Private Hospital was situated on the corner of Southey and Byron Streets, St Kilda South. After Sister Gwendolen Luly finished her training at the Alfred Hospital, her father William Luly established the hospital in about 1927 or 1928. She and Sister Brocklebank offered surgical, medical and midwifery services. The hospital was sold in 1940.White bowl with blue and gold border at rim.SEMI-PORCELAIN SAMPSON BRIDGEWOOD & SON LTD MADE IN ENGLANDst clement's private hospital

St Clement's Private Hospital was situated on the corner of Southey and Byron Streets, St Kilda South. After Sister Gwendolen Luly finished her training at the Alfred Hospital, her father William Luly established the hospital in about 1927 or 1928. She and Sister Brocklebank offered surgical, medical and midwifery services. The hospital was sold in 1940.White jugs (2) with blue and gold border at rim and gold stripe on the handle.On base: "DURALINE" SUPER VITRIFIED GRINDLEY HOTELWARE CO. ENGLAND LOFTUS MORAN PTY. LD. MELBOURNE 6.32st clement's private hospital

St Clement's Private Hospital was situated on the corner of Southey and Byron Streets, St Kilda South. After Sister Gwendolen Luly finished her training at the Alfred Hospital, her father William Luly established the hospital in about 1927 or 1928. She and Sister Brocklebank offered surgical, medical and midwifery services. The hospital was sold in 1940.White jug with blue and gold border at rim and gold stripe on the handle.On base: image of a crown GRINDLEY HOTEL WARE ENGLAND VITRIFIED LOFTUS, MORAN MELBOURNE PATENT 6.32st clement's private hospital

St Clement's Private Hospital was situated on the corner of Southey and Byron Streets, St Kilda South. After Sister Gwendolen Luly finished her training at the Alfred Hospital, her father William Luly established the hospital in about 1927 or 1928. She and Sister Brocklebank offered surgical, medical and midwifery services. The hospital was sold in 1940.White tea cup with blue and gold border at rim and gold stripe on the handle. On one side is a scroll displaying the words ST. CLEMENT'S in blue.On the base: SUTHERLAND CHINA MADE IN ENGLANDst clement's private hospital

St Clement's Private Hospital was situated on the corner of Southey and Byron Streets, St Kilda South. After Sister Gwendolen Luly finished her training at the Alfred Hospital, her father William Luly established the hospital in about 1927 or 1928. She and Sister Brocklebank offered surgical, medical and midwifery services. The hospital was sold in 1940.Set of white crockery with blue and gold trim, made by different manufacturers. The items include 2 teacups, 3 saucers, 2 dinner plates, 1 bowl and 2 jugs. st clement's private hospital

The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) plans were produced from the 1890s to the 1950s. They were crucial to the design and development of Melbourne's sewerage and drainage system. The plans, at a scale of 40 feet to 1 inch (1:480), provide a detailed historical record of Melbourne streetscapes and environmental features. Each plan covers one or two street blocks (roughly six streets), showing details of buildings, including garden layouts and ownership boundaries, and features such as laneways, drains, bridges, parks, municipal boundaries and other prominent landmarks as they existed at the time each plan was produced. (Source: State Library of Victoria)This plan forms part of a large group of MMBW plans and maps that was donated to the Society by the Mr Poulter, City Engineer of the City of Kew in 1989. Within this collection, thirty-five hand-coloured plans, backed with linen, are of statewide significance as they include annotations that provide details of construction materials used in buildings in the first decade of the 20th century as well as additional information about land ownership and usage. The copies in the Public Record Office Victoria and the State Library of Victoria are monochrome versions which do not denote building materials so that the maps in this collection are invaluable and unique tools for researchers and heritage consultants. A number of the plans are not held in the collection of the State Library of Victoria so they have the additional attribute of rarity.Original survey plan, issued by the MMBW to a contractor with responsibility for constructing sewers in the area identified on the plan within the Borough of Kew. The plan was at some stage hand-coloured, possibly by the contractor, but more likely by officers working in the Engineering Department of the Borough and later Town, then City of Kew. The hand-coloured sections of buildings on the plan were used to denote masonry or brick constructions (pink), weatherboard constructions (yellow), and public buildings (grey). This plan shows several very large houses, particularly along Glenferrie Road, and the area now occupied by Ruyton Girls’ School. ‘Tarring’ (incorrectly spelled here as ‘Karring’) was built for Henry Henty in 1872, on part of his original allotment of 20 acres, and ‘Mount View’, which retains its original building and the fountain in the front garden, is part of Ruyton’s Junior School. The most significant change to Tarring and its grounds since 1903, involve the removal of a number of the outbuildings, including a Burmese temple, bought by Henty from the Burmese Exhibit at the Great Exhibition of 1880. It is shown on the plan as a summerhouse. The two-storey mansion, on the corner of Glenferrie Road and Wellington Street, was built in 1891 by leading architect Alfred White as his own home. Having an initial N.A.V. of £160, the house was purchased by a warehouseman Henry Lister, by 1900, when the N.A.V. was recorded at £111. By the turn of the century the house was known as ‘Comaques’. By contrast, much smaller houses are shown in Scott and Byron Streets, including a tiny Mission Hall in Byron Street, which belonged to the Anglican Church from at least 1903 to 1917.melbourne and metropolitan board of works, detail plans, maps - borough of kew, mmbw 1574, cartography

Notice of a talk by Dr Byron Rigby on transcendental meditation at Maharishi Vedic College, 345 Grimshaw Street Bundoora. (now Loyola College)Clipping with black & white text and photographtranscendental meditation, byron rigby, maharishi school bundoora

Australia's first telephone exchange was opened in Melbourne in August 1880. It was operated by the Melbourne Telephone Exchange Company. Owned by W. H. Masters and T. T. Draper, the Manager of the Company was H. Byron Moore. This was only two years after the world's first exchange in the United States, and just four years after Bell first spoke on a telephone. The exchange was located in the old Stock Exchange building at 367 Collins Street, a site now occupied by the Commonwealth Bank. In 1884, the operations of the Company, by then known as the Victorian Telephone Exchange Company, had grown considerably and were transferred to Wills Street, Melbourne. Private ownership of this company continued until 1887 when it was bought out by the Victorian Colonial Government. Other colonial governments followed this example. By 1910, the growth in telephone services made additional accommodation necessary. This could not be provided in the existing building in Wills Street and arrangements were made for a new exchange in Lonsdale Street. Alexander Graham Bell visited Australia in 1910 to advise the Federal Government's Postal Commission. Telephone exchanges were established in Adelaide with (48 subscribers), Hobart (10 subscribers) and Launceston (35 subscribers). The first exchange in Western Australia was established in 1887 and located in a small three-room cottage in Wellington Street, Perth with 17 subscribers. The year 1888 marked the opening of the Fremantle exchange in a small room at the rear of the Town Hall. There were nine subscribers. Australia's first automatic exchange was installed in the GPO in Sydney, in 1911, for internal use. But the first automatic exchange for public use was opened at Geelong in Victoria in the next year July 1912 with 800 subscribers. Melbourne's first automatic exchange was opened in the suburb of Brighton in 1914; the first public automatic exchange in NSW began operating at Newtown, Sydney in 1915; and Queensland's first was installed at South Brisbane in 1925. 1929 saw the opening of Tasmania's first automatic exchange in Hobart. an automatic telephone service. In June 1977, the manual telephone exchange at Swansea was replaced with an automatic service and made Tasmania the first State in Australia to have a fully automatic network. The half-century following Federation saw the growth of the automatic operation; a great extension of trunk line services; The automatic telephone contributed greatly to the early popularity of telephones in Australia. It was a quicker and more convenient way of communicating with another person on the same exchange — instead of having to go through tedious processes with the operator. From its introduction, the number of automatic telephones in operation grew to a remarkable extent. In 1886, the first trunk link of 16 km was connected to the exchanges of Adelaide and Port Adelaide in South Australia. Then, in 1907, the first inter-capital telephone trunk line was opened between Sydney and Melbourne. It was followed by a line between Melbourne and Adelaide in 1914. Sydney and Brisbane were linked in 1923, and Perth and Adelaide in 1930. In 1930, the first overseas calls from Australia came possible with the introduction of a radiotelephone service to England, and through there to Europe and America. A similar service opened to New Zealand in the same year. Initially, trunk channels linked different manual trunk exchanges. It was necessary for a succession of trunk operators to connect the appropriate channels, one after the other until the connection was made. As trunk traffic grew. the system became increasingly unsuitable. More trunk operators had to be employed and so labour costs increased. It was a tedious and slow way of making a long-distance call, and it was sometimes hard to hear, particularly when several exchanges were linked With technical advances, trunk switching moved from manual operation through a partly automatic phase. Automatic transit switching equipment was used and only a single operator was required to connect a trunk call to a wanted automatic subscriber. Until well beyond the middle of this century, the majority of trunk traffic went through this single telephonist control. In 1953, the number of telephones in use in Australia passed the one million mark. By then, the need for improvement in the automatic exchanges was becoming well recognised. The need was for a telephone switching system which would do a better job more economically than the conventional step-by-step ex-change. This led to the adoption of the Crossbar system as the standard in automatic telephone exchanges in 1960. The introduction of Crossbar switching was a big step forward in the automation of trunk calls. It substituted automatic switching and charging equipment for the originating trunk operator, and improved the quality of the system radically. Before the introduction of the Crossbar system there were often very long delays in obtaining a booked trunk call, and the quality of sound was often very poor. With Crossbar, Subscriber Trunk Dialing (STD) became a reality. A trunk call by STD was as easy to make and almost as fast to connect as a local call.The item was made around the 1940s and used up until the 1970s in manual cord telephone exchanges as a way to time and charge users for trunk calls made over the telecom system of the time. Post Master General dept. - Trunk Call Timer.Inscribed PMG, C. of A, 37. Bell chimes at 3 min increments.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, timer, trunk call, telephone, cord exchange

This book containing the 17 cantos of Don Juan, was owned by Con O’Mahony, a lawyer who lived in Warrnambool at the turn of the 20th century He won the Bowen prize for essay writing in 1883. O’Mahony had a legal practice in Warrnambool in the Royal Chambers in Kepler Street at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. He was initially in a partnership with Messrs E.W. Klingender and Murray, then ,when this partnership was dissolved, he continued the business under the name of O’Mahony and later O’Mahony and Murray. He was actively involved in the management of the Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute and was a member of the Warrnambool Hospital committee.An item which belonged to one of Warrnambool’s most prominent citizens at the time.Blue linen over card embossed in gold with crest and mermaid on front cover with overall pattern of crowns and the letter “B” Title Poet and publisher’s name in gold on spine of book. Back cover plain. 612 pages with 4 black and white plates included.Stamped C O’Mahony Solicitors Warrnambool in purple ink. Dedication: to Algernon Charles Swinburne. MDCCCC11(1902)Printed by William Clowes and sons Limited London and Beccles.con o'mahony, warrnambool, byron's works

non-fictionFirst 4 editions of this free, independent newspaper that was distributed to over 4,000 homes in 1985. Short profiles of the publishers, John Byron and Graeme Henderson appeared in the first edition. News of coming and existing community facilities and community organisations appears alongside advertisements for events and businesses of the time.endeavour hills (vic.), hallam (vic.), community newspapers

Folder containing a table of contents and various newspaper clippings and other information pertaining to the Narre Warren area. The date the articles were published, and title of articles are listed below. Unknown Copy of photo of Princes Highway 16 Nov 2006 Casey Council honours John Byron 08 Oct 1992 Bay View House 02 Jun 1998 Allen family (vegetable growers) ?? Aug 1987 Brechin – The Heart of a Village that Grew 02 Aug 1990 Brechin Demolished 23 Jul 1992 The Lawless Days of Captain Dana 1972 Early History of Narre Warren, Narre Warren Nth and Harkaway 18 Aug 1994 Narre Warren – many theories of name origins 16 Jul 1992 Walton family of Narre Warren 11 Jan 1999 Webb Street Bakery Unknown Sketch of Princes Highway, Narre Warren 22 Jun 2000 Webb Street Bakery 06 Jul 2000 Webb Street Bakery & Murdoch family 22 Jun 2000 Webb Street Bakery 29 Oct 1998 Vale Sir Ian McLennan 1973 The Kent Family 26 Jan 1993 Narre Warren Mechanics Institute 02 Sep 1992 Legacy of S.J. Webb 25 Nov 2004 Isador Magid – Tributes for Fountain Gate Visionary 17 Nov 2004 Isador’s lasing vision 14 Jul 2004 Tony Purcell – profile 03 Feb 2005 Jack and Merle Tinkham’s 60th Anniversary 14 Feb 2005 Jack and Merle Tinkham 21 Nov 1996 Webb Street – that was then…. 11 Nov 1993 Rose Trewin remembers 13 Oct 1993 Hans Roland – a profile 25 Nov 1993 Stan Peters – a profile 23 Oct 1984 Webb Street School 11 Nov 2000 The Elms 09 Nov 2000 The Elms 17 Sep 2007 Araluen – The Bailey Home 07 Oct 1999 Narre Warren Produce Store 06 Oct 1998 Narre Warren Produce Store & Webb Street Bakery 03 Dec 1992 Native Police Corps 24 Apr 2003 Memorial Gates 22 Apr 2003 Memorial Gates 16 Apr 1997 Narre Warren Gates Unknown Narre Warren War Memorial (donated by Sylvia Nobelius) 18 Nov 1992 Mechanics Hall 31 Oct 1991 Centenary Celebrations for Mechanics Hall 16 Sep 1993 Fountain Gate Primary School overcrowding Unknown Map of Sec E Narre Warren Unknown Map of Narre Warren Unknown Narre Warren parish plans ?? Jun 1997 Narre’s Newsletter 29 Jun 2000 Narre Warren Bakery 2020 Max Pawsey Left his Mark 04 Feb 2009 Ian Pickering – People in Profile ?? Nov 1992 Narre Warren Houses and Occupants 1943 ?? 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The Modern Print Company - engravers, lithographers, general printers , bookbinders and paper rulers- operated in Koroit Street Warrnambool. It was founded by Frederick Gaspar and Byron Laing in 1900. In 1904 the partnership was dissolved . The business continued in Koroit Street for the next 50 years. This label gives the address as Kepler Street which may have been an office outlet.This label is retained as a memento of a prominent printing business operating in Warrnambool in the early 20th century.An oval light grey label with red printing adhered to a grey piece of cardboard.FROM Modern Print 91 KEPLER STREET. WARRNAMBOOL GENERAL PRINTERS , BOOKBINDERS , ETC. PHONE 274gaspar's modern print company, warrnambool

Model Replica of Old Fire Station Building in Byrne Street. On Permanent Loan from Colin Byron Familystawell

Model Replica of Stawell Salvation Army Citadel Building Main Street. On Permanent Loan from Colin Byron Familystawell