Looking north from near Bridge Street. York Street on right.Digital file only Photo scanned from the collection of Michael Aitken on loan to EDHS, 13 Feb 2018michael aitken collection, postcards, eltham, main road, shillinglaw cottage, shillinglaw trees, york street, bakery

Wooden striking mallet and circular wooden block with carved lettering and Probus logo.Probus Club of Ringwood Inc. - Probus logo - Made and donated by Clyde Aitken April 2002.

Sepia photograph from the 1930s of nine women in netball uniform with the letter V on the uniform. The first woman is holding a brown leather ball. The women are on a grass field, standing alongside a marked line. There is a nondescript building in the background. Sepia photograph of a group of women in netball uniform.On back - stamp with following: "Arthur Aitken Press Photographer 20 Albert Street Petersham 'Phone Late Chief Photographer Tel. Pictorial"womens basketball, women's basketball, netball, netball uniforms, uniforms, 1930s, sport, victorian team, women's netball, womens netball

Glenelg Shire Council RecordsColour photograph of 3 women and a man filleting, gutting, washing and weighing fish.Front: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)

Black bottle with long neck, made of black glass with black metal screw top and label front and backKapyong 1989 is at top of label with emblem between, then 111, 38th year, Kapyong, Commemorative Port. 750 ml. Wine made in Australia. 18% Alc/vol. Mt Aitken Vineyard Gisborne Vic On the back of the bottle

Marriage licence issued to James Bostock and Alicen Aitkin to be executed within a period of 3 months. It has been issued by the Bishop of Melbourne of the United Church of England and Ireland. It is signed by P Teulon Beamish who was arch Deacon in Warrnambool for many years. Three Bostock brothers married three the Aitkin sisters. James was the youngest of the Bostock family as his mother died in childbirth at his delivery. He had a keen interest in horses and worked for both Augustus and John .He died in 1919. Alice died in 1896 at the age of 53.This is one of a number of documents which relate to the Bostock family who were one of the most important pioneering families of the Western District. They owned and leased various properties around Warrnambool and were involved in many aspects of social and business life. This particular personal document shows a link between two influential families in the district at the time.Heavy cream paper with black printing and handwritten black ink inserts. Oval stamped seal in bottom right hand corner. No 2782 stamped in top right hand corner.warrnambool, bostock, aitkin, james bostock, alice aitkin, 1875,

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This microscope belonged to James William Manifold Aitkin (1835-1905) who was born in Tasmania and came to Warrnambool in 1852. He was a shopkeeper, produce merchant and flour miller who came to live at the property of Carracoorte, Grasmere in the late 1880s. He was a member of the Warrnambool Municipal Council from 1861 to 1868 and was Chairman of the Borough in 1863 when Warrnambool was declared a town and an early Mayor. The microscope was an improved model of a design by Benjamin Martin, an 18th century instrument maker considered one of the greatest designers and manufacturer of microscopes of his time. This microscope is of great significance because: 1. It is a beautiful object with high antiquarian and scientific interest 2. It has strong local significance as it belonged to James William Manifold Aitkin, a prominent Warrnambool and district businessman and farmer 3. It has social significance as it demonstrates the interest in natural history by the more affluent and educated men of the time. This microscope is in a polished wooden box with a metal lock (no key). The microscope is an English Martin Improved drum microscope (c. 1850) and made of brass. Inside the box there are two divisions, one to house the microscope. The other has a drawer containing six slide samples made of ivory or bone and five glass slides (with the listed material missing) and five other small items. On top of the drawer is a section for the microscope attachments contained in ten small inserts. The ten attachments are made of brass. There are also six items not in any particular inserts. There are two small slots for the pincers and slides etc. The only writings are the names and information on the slidesjames aitkin, microscope, benjamin martin, benjamin martin microscope, warrnambool

Penelope Aitken lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She makes paintings and installations about relationships: between people, between things and between people and things. Recurring subjects include friendship, genealogy, romantic liaisons, and cross-cultural exchange as well as gardening, craft and landscape design. 'I am interested in the social, psychological and aesthetic motives behind organisation, belonging and displacement and I often make work that investigates such arrangements.' She has held regular solo exhibitions since 1995 and has been represented in group exhibitions since 1989. These have included shows in public and commercial galleries, artist run spaces, outdoor projects and festivals in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Bundaberg, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Tokyo and Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. Aitken has previously worked at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and at Asialink at the University of Melbourne. From 2006 - 2009 she was a board member of the Melbourne artist run gallery, West Space and she has also curated and coordinated numerous exhibitions and written and edited catalogues, articles and essays. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education (Visual Arts) both from The University of Melbourne and completed her Masters of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004. In 1997 Aitken was selected to be a studio artist for two years at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne and in 2000 she undertook an Australia Council Studio at the Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan. More recently she spent two months in 2007 at the Laughing Waters Residency, Birrarung, in Eltham, Victoria. There she began her current interest in the rocks used in the landscape designs of Gordon Ford. Paintings of Ford's rocks made since 2007 as well as glacial erratics, meteors, and other natural and displaced rocks were exhibited in March 2011 at the Light Factory Gallery in Eltham in a show called My History of here, and Second Nature, one work from this exhibition, was awarded first prize at Eltham Masterworks 2011. Other work made about rocks in nature and culture include: the project, A dark archive, as well as in two installations: You seem so settled for one that doesn't belong held at West Space in 2009 and Gathering these things to remind me of home shown in 2010 at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, Queensland. In July and August 2007 Aitken undertook an arts recidency at Birrarung, a house and garden designed by Gordon Ford and managed as the Laughing Waters Artist in Residence Program by the Shire of Nillumbik Victoria. The rocks depicted in the painting 'Mapping Mass & Void 10' are all taken from the garden at Birrarung. Aitken has made reference to those rocks and the way in which Ford thought of the rocks as individuals that need to be handled and placed with consideration to show off their best aspects.oil and acrylic on linen ek prac 2015

The Aitken's Gap Inn was built and owned by Owen Fisher. He also built the stone wall. He was one of the original settlers at Aitken's Gap in the 1840's.A black and white photograph of the Aitken's Gap Inn.aitken's gap, pioneers, fisher, owen, stone walls, aitken's gap inn, george evans collection

Rev. John Aitken was ordained in Hobart, Tasmania in 1932.Matt, black and white, image of Rev. John Aitken.aitken, j., presbyterian

From page following title page: "2/2 Pioneer Battalion History. To the memory of All Ranks of the 2/2 Pioneer Battalion who were killed or died, as free men or prisoners during the Second World War" Refer Cat No 4072.2P, John Donald (Jock) VX19003, POW twice. Hard cover, cardboard, buckram, dark red colour, gold print on spine. 228 pages, cut plain white. Illustrated with black & white photos & maps. Front & back fly leaf & end papers illustrated, grey & white drawing of a scene with trees & soldiers in action. book, 2/2nd, pioneer

EDHS Members Gren Orford and Irene Gerrard discussing menu options at the 2007 Christmas break up 4 colour photographseltham, main road, eltham district historical society, christmas breakup, gwen orford, activiities, irene gerrard

Unopened cream jug depicting Vietnam Memorial 1992Vietnam Memorial 1992 for all those who served suffered and died Vietnam 1962-1973commemorative jug

Commemorative bottle of wine. Part of a set with wine glassWhite label. "To all those who sffered and died Vietnam 1962-1973"wine bottle

Wooden wine box, lined with green felt and containing wine bottle and glass. Front features engravied map of Vietnam and outine of a memorial 1992.Vietnam Memorial 1992 (front). Inside of lid is info on National Memorial to the Australian Vietnam Forceswine box, vietnam memorial

Commemorative wooden box containing a bottle of alcohol and inscribed liquor glass. Lid of box inscribed with map of Vietnam and jungle scenes. Inside of lid inscribed with description of national memorial to the Australian Vietnam Forces. Inside are two metal plaques inscribed "lest we forget" and "Vietnam 1962-1973"As abovememorial wooden box, vietnam memorial 1992

Pencil on paperNot signed, not dated

A digital copy of a hand written letter confirming dates for accommodation at Marysville House over Christmas in 1934. Marysville House was built in the late 1920s by Arthur Dickinson.A digital copy of a hand written letter confirming dates for accommodation at Marysville House over Christmas in 1934. Marysville House was built in the late 1920s by Arthur Dickinson.marysville, victoria, australia, marysville house, arthur james dickinson, grace dickinson, arnold spooner, eileen marie spooner, eileen marie dickinson, grace sweetland, eric dowdle, elsie may denton, elsie may dickinson, peter dickinson, linda dickinson, 2009 black saturday bushfires, letter, jean aitken