Black and white photograph of a building a verandah and striped awnings in front. A large sign above the steps leading onto the verandah reads "RICHMOND HOTEL". There is a garden with roses in front of the building.Front: THE ROSE SERIES. P. 1114/ COPYRIGHT (typed, lower left) RICHMOND HOTEL, PORTLAND (typed, lower centre)portland bay hotel, richmond henty, postcard

Many of the Henty's of the Western District of Victoria also owned houses in Kew, Victoria. Stephen Henty, referred to on the reverse of the postcard, lived while a member of the Vitoria Parliament at 'Findon' in Kew. Kew Historical Society also holds a nationally significant collection of costumes belonging to three generations of Henty women.Monochrome, blue tinted 'real photo' postcard of Housen's Richmond Hotel, Portland. Two women stand on the steps of the hotel at left, with the rose garden in front of them. Behind them is a church spire. The hotel and its significance is outlined in two columns of blue coloured text on the reverse.Printed reverse: "THE RICHMOND is the most historical building in the State. On the site of today's building Edward Henty, the founder of permanent settlement in Victoria, commenced his first house February 19, 1835, finishing the work in two months. He had landed in Portland on Nov. 19th, 1834, and turned the first plough furrows in Victoria where the Hotel now stands on the 26th of the following month. It was also here that Major Mitchell ended his explorations from Sydney, meeting the Hentys on August 29th, 1836. In December of the same year Mrs S. G. Henty joined her husband, their son Richmond, the first male white child in Portland, being born in the Henty cottage. The present Richmond Hotel was built in 1840, and became the home of Stephen Henty until his departure from Portland in 1869. Though Edward Henty's first house was demolished in 1840, to make room for the new surveyed town streets, part of his wool store remains in the Hotel grounds, and is used as a wood shed. This is about the oldest building in the State : in it was held the first christening service in Portland on September 26th, 1841. On the site of the Richmond Hotel all the early visiting celebrities were entertained - Mitchell, Wedge, La Trobe, Fyans, Sir John Franklin, Capt. Stokes, etc. No other hostelry in Victoria can give you the historical atmosphere of the RICHMOND. / THE ORIGINAL HOME OF THE HENTYS."henty family, richmond hotel -- portland (vic.), stephen henty, edward henty, richmond henty, henty houses -- victoria, portland, postcards

Illustration. Taken and cut from a book. A page of text including three illustrations. The largest is a view of front of Richmond Hotel and gardens. Woman in a wicker chair with small girl. The woman is holding a parasol and the girl is wearing a hat. To the top right of main image is an image of a weatherboard building with two men outside. Underneath is written - First House Built in Victoria. To the bottom right of main image is an image showing a weatherboard building. Underneath is written - First Hotel in Victoria. Front: 'RICHMOND HOTEL The First Built Residence in Portland' - printed, beneath illustration

Photographs taken by Esther Winifred Hall (nee Smallpage) - great grand-daughter of Stephen George Henty. Taken in 1934 Centenary Celebrations in Portland.Back: "Original Home of Stephen George Henty. To E.... Hall from Marg...."centenary celebrations portland 1934

Photographs taken by Esther Winifred Hall (nee Smallpage) - great grand-daughter of Stephen George Henty. Taken in 1934 Centenary celebrations in Portland.Back: "to E.....Hall from Mary Grant." (and further text)portland centenary celebrations 1934

Black and white photograph of a building with verandah and striped awnings. A large sign above the steps leading u the verandah reads "RICHMOND HOTEL". In the foreground is a garden with roses.Front: THE ROSE SERIES. P. 1114/ COPYRIGHT (typed, lower left) RICHMOND HOTEL, PORTLAND (typed, lower centre) Back: (no inscriptions)postcard, portland bay hotel

Black and white photograph of a building with verandah and striped awnings. A large sign above the steps leading u the verandah reads "RICHMOND HOTEL". In the foreground is a garden with roses.Front: THE ROSE SERIES. P. 1114/ COPYRIGHT (typed, lower left) RICHMOND HOTEL, PORTLAND (typed, lower centre) Back: (no inscriptions)postcard, portland bay hotel

.1) Oversized photocopy of large plan depicting railway right of way where Mair and Humffray Streets meet. Main landmarks include Duke of Richmond Hotel, Prince of Wales Hotel, Duke of York Hotel, Welcome Nugget Claim and Shaft, Imperial Hotel, Union Hotel, Kingston St, Otway St, Wellington Claim, Gravel Pits Gold Working and Robert Burns Hotel. .2) Same of above. station reserve, bakery hill, railway, ballarat, mair street, humffray street north, duke of york hotel, duke of richmond hotel, union hotel, kingston st, otway st, wellington claim, gravel pits, gold workings, robert burns hotel

Plastic coated mounted on metal/fold out stand. View of Harbour taken from "All Saints" steeple. Contains - Baths, Ocean Pier, Long Pier, Fishermans Wharf. Bentinck Street. Unseated - Truck loaded with wool bales. Power poles. Red roofs on Baths, Court House, Richmond Hotel, Bank of Australasia Hand coloured.Front: Panorama of Portland, Victoria (length of Ocean Pier 2880 ft).harbour, photography

In May 1917 William Gruner, a soldier, was with a group of people drinking at the Prince of Wales hotel in Richmond. After the group left the hotel, Gruner returned and stabbed the licensee, Robert Walker, with a military service knife. Walker was a former policeman. Gruner was charged with manslaughter.Prison record for William Gruner, prisoner registered number 34611, giving details of the prisoner, his crimes and the dates and places of his trials.english speaking prisoner, william gruner, robert walker, manslaughter

Photo shows Geelong tram 36 outbound to North in Mercer St at Ginn St. In the background is a shop selling Franklins Lemon Swish, a four & Twenty Pie shop, Toppa Ice cream, a Coca Cola truck, a Hotel advertising Richmond Lager, three parked buses and a shop advertising hot pies. On the pole is a tram stop with a metal "CARS STOP HERE" sign. On the left-hand side of the photograph a surveyor can be seen at work.Yields information about the Geelong operations toward the closure of the tram system.Black and white Negative - 120 sizetramways, geelong, mercer st, tram 36, tram stops

Photograph of a postcard - titled "Sturt St Ballarat", looking west along Sturt St from Grenville St., Valentine Series 1499. Wal notes "old type on left, present No. 26 on Right with Sebastopol type in background. In the photo are advertisements or buildings for: Reed and William, Thornton for photos, S&N Sior, W Brown & Co, Cycle and Motor, Singer, Bailey Bros Cash Butchers, Geo White, Robur Tea, Davies Bread, Carlyon's Hotel and Richmond Wal has dated the photo about 1930 on his album notes. For rear of postcard - see image i2.Yields information the buildings, buildings and scene in Sturt St looking west from Grenville St.Digital image from the Wal Jack Ballarat Album.In bottom right hand corner has the "2 Vic Rail Photo".trams, tramways, esco, sturt st, dawson st, tram 26

C & G Harding Pty Ltd opened a $350,000 crumpet-making factory in Wigg Street, Wodonga on 18th March 1977. The company director and plant manager was John Harding. They initially employed 20 local employees. At its peak the business baked hundreds of thousands of crumpets every week, producing 7,200 crumpets per hour. As well as being exceptionally popular in Wodonga, they shipped their products as far away as Sydney, The business closed in the 1990s. The Sarah Harding Baking Company originated in Richmond, Victoria. William Harding was convicted of sheep stealing in 1846 and sentence to 10 years transportation. Harding was lucky he was not sentenced a decade earlier - he trained in carpentry and arrived a free man. In 1852, he was working on the foundations of a new home when his neighbour - the wealthy politician William Highett - gave him a loan to build the Kingston Hotel in Richmond where he was the licensee in 1854. It was successful, but Harding drank and gambled much of the profits and when he slighted Highett in a card game the loan was foreclosed. The Hardings were saved by wife Margaret and daughter Sarah, the eldest of their 17 children, who started a successful crumpet business - the Sarah Harding Baking Company. The company operated for over 100 years, carried on in several locations by descendants and relatives of the original William Harding who died in Hawthorn, Victoria in 1904 after a long and colourful life. The Wodonga business was the first C & G Harding bakery to be established outside of Melbourne.This item is significant because it represents a successful Wodonga business.An advertisement for a Wodonga business. It includes a business logo and an image of the premises.Sarah Harding's Crumpets THE PERFECT PARTNERS FOR MURRAY VALLEY DAIRY PRODUCE C. & G. Harding Pty. Ltd. WIGG STREET, WODONGA, 3690 Telephone: STD 060 24 4205wodonga businesses, c & g harding, sarah harding's crumpets

David Mitchell was born near the town of Forfar, Scotland, became an apprentice to a stone mason and builder, then emigrated to Australia in 1853. In Melbourne, he set up a builder's yard in Burnley St, Richmond and later bought Cave Hill Limestone Quarries in Lilydale and manufactured the cement in Richmond. He became Shire President for Lillydale in 1883. Also he established a brickworks in Burnley St, Richmond. He was responsible for building PLC College in East Melbourne, Menzies Hotel, The Exhibition building and Scots Church. Although he was very wealthy in his own right, he is also known as the father of Dame Nellie Melba. White soft cover booklet with a large drawing of David Mitchell (1901) on the front.

Coach leaving Considines Hotel with the Winchelsea football team bound for Mt Moriac. circa 1910Alice Jeffries, Ernie Richmond.winchelsea, tennnis team, netball team, considines hotel, alice jeffries, ernie richmond, mt moriac, 1910, sports group

Large motel and conference centre on The Esplanade, Cowes near Erehwon Point.Cardboard folded sheet with dark red writing. Information re opening on cover and menu inside. Commemorative Menu. Keith & Rhonda Jobe have pleasure in welcoming you to the official opening of the Continental Resort and Conference Centre by the Federal Treasurer. MR Phillip Lynch, M P. 6th June 1976. Architect: Kenneth Crosier & Associates Swan Street Richmond. Builder: Bruni & Bisogni Ltd. Cobram.continental guest house,, cowes, keith & rhonda jobe, phillip island accommodation, hotels

Len Parker's Bedford truck is featured in one of the public art mosaics in Were Street, Montmorency. Mr Parker by Grace de Visser (EDHS Newsletter No. 249, December 2019) Len Parker was a regular sight around the district for almost 40 years, selling fruit and veggies from the back of his truck to his regular customers between 1939 and 1978, first in a 1927 Chevy then a 1949 Bedford truck. Len’s connection to the Eltham district started long before he was born. His father Fred first came through the district in the early 1900s. With horse and cart buying and selling what was available at the markets using his mothers’ home in North Melbourne as his base. Fred settled and developed a market garden in the rich soil along the creek at Watsons Creek, Christmas Hills in 1903. Ada Watson was almost five years old and one of eight siblings aged two to sixteen, when her Grandfather and Father both named Christopher Watson brought the Eltham Hotel and they moved from Richmond. Ada’s mother was formerly Emily Silk whose parents Martha and John Silk had been farming in Eltham around 1858 and much later a dairy farmer in Fitzroy. In 1917 at St Margaret’s Church Eltham, Fred aged 44 married Ada aged 35 who was still living and working at the Eltham Hotel. Six years later Ada died from cancer leaving Fred with two small children, Rose five and Len three. Len as a young boy, like his father before him worked the land with horses, growing vegetables, mainly potatoes, cabbages, pumpkins, beans, and tomatoes, selling the excess at the market. Len took over from his ageing father Fred, who had established similar rounds selling door to door with a horse and cart. Len preferred mechanical horsepower to the real kind! In 1939 at the age of eighteen Len brought an old 1927 Chevy Truck. He was taught how to drive it and two weeks later got his driver’s Licence. The Chevy truck had an old wagon on the back with no doors, only hessian bags to keep the wind out! Len had paid 75 pounds for it, kept it for ten years and sold it for the same price! Len’s blue 1949 Bedford was brought new in 1950 for 900 pounds with only a tray back on it. Straight away Len had a wooden frame covered with canvas added, with a roll up front and back. In later years, more solid sides replaced the canvas. Benches were added to hold the boxes of fruit and vegetables, with room to move in the middle, a fruit shop on wheels. Len had large scales attached to a box for weighing the fruit and veggies and many a district baby was also weighed on them. Len would stop at customer’s homes, take their orders and with his big cane basket on his arm deliver their order to their door. On his rounds he always wore a big soft back leather apron and a black or navy beret. If it was cold, he wore a ‘bluey’ jacket on his tall slender frame. Len would go to the markets early Thursday morning, only buying what was not grown at home or brought from his brother in law’s orchard. On his way home Len would start his ‘rounds’ in Lower Plenty and then Montmorency and parts of Eltham. Friday’s regulars were in Research, Kangaroo Ground and Panton Hill. Saturdays were Panton Hill and Christmas Hills. When Len retired in 1978, due to changing social times, women were working more and supermarkets starting to take over; his ageing truck was retired too. In 1999 his son Jim had the Bedford restored, Len was very happy to see ‘Beddy’ all shiny and new once again with just a tray back, like when it was new. Jim still drives the ‘Beddy’ to Heritage Truck shows twenty years on. Len married, had five children and lived most of his life, (except during World War 2 when he served in New Guinea), at Watsons Creek, Christmas Hills dying there in 2006 and is buried at the Kangaroo Ground cemetery with his wife of 64 years, Stella nee Tosch 1917 - 2007. Grace de Visser, the author of this article, is the daughter of Len Parker and a descendant of the two former owners of the Eltham Hotel, both named Christopher Watson. bedford truck, len parker, panton hill, tosch property