This Wesleyan Chapel was used as the first Sailor's Rest in Williamstown in 1875. Photograph of the first Institute locales in Williamstown.View looking across street to a brick building with arched doorway on a corner block. A sign on the left reads: Sailors' Re[st].Typed sheet attached to verso: No. 15: The Sailor's Rest, Ann Street, Williamstown, about 1885. Written on verso: Photograph - Andrew Rider. Written on verso: Sailors' Rest, Ann St., Williamtown, 1880's.williamstown, ann street, sailors' rest, seamen's mission, andrew rider (1821-1903), wesleyan church

Photographer: Andrew Rider nelson place, morgue, c.1863, andrew rider - photographer

The Bay View Hotel located at 175 Nelson Place was designed by Gordon McCrae and built by Mr. Ingham in 1910 as a 13 room hotel. Upstairs was used as a clubroom for 100 people and billiard tables were installed downstairs. The laneway at the side led to the Artillery Brewery building, which has since been replaced by Nelson Heights Towers. The original hotel was a wooden building built pre-1869. Andrew Rider, hairdresser and photographer, whose name is linked with the hotel from 1875, was the owner of the new 13 room brick Bay View hotel and shop constructed in 1910 whilst George W. Magor was both the new and old publican. A year later, JJ Jeffries purchased the hotel, and by 1920 Hannah Starr was the licensee.bayview hotel, nelson place, 175 nelson place, andrew rider

No. 151-153 Nelson Place was designed by Michael Egan and constructed in 1860. The buildings are recorded in the Hobsons Bay Heritage Study Amended 2017 (Heritage Overlay No. HO219) and notes the following: Historically, they are among the oldest shops in Nelson Place and illustrate the early development of the street during the most prosperous period of the Port. They are also important for their associations with Thomas Mason. Thomas Mason, who owned these two shops, each of stone, brick and four rooms until c1880, was one of the most significant men in the early history of Williamstown. In 1858 he ran the two shops jointly with Benjamin Culley, a draper and clothier (Refer to 55 Cecil Street). Culley and Mason's partnership dissolved and after a brief period as the Ship Inn, in 1859, the two shops were now leased to various other businessmen, some of the longest standing being Matthew Suffren, a watchmaker; Edward Bailey, a chemist; a stationer, George Divers; Henry Douglas a plumber and Henry Linton, a boot maker (Refer to 22 James St, 46-48 and 50 Stevedore Street). In 1880 Mrs. Mason had assumed ownership which she retained until the shops were retaken by the executors of Sutton's estate (1890). Given the property's description in the period 1857-59 as a store of wood and stone and in 1860, as two shops of brick and stone, it is probable in that year that the whole premises was rebuilt. Thomas Mason, originally a Londoner, arrived in the colony in 1841. On 24 August 1844 he took charge of the signal station, and subsequently the light- house (then a lamp in a wooden tower), for a further five years. In `Port of Many Prows', Wilson Evans recounts a tale which indicates that Mason may not have been entirely conscientious in this role. After this he took up storekeeping and auctioneering but gave up the shopkeeping in 1858. He was a member of the first Williamstown Council and its chairman no less than four times (1856, 1860, 1862, 1864). He represented Williamstown in the Legislative Assembly in 1860-61 (6). Andrew Rider's photograph of Nelson Place, taken c1866 shows these shops as the most substantial in the block and adorned with a slender timber verandah. nelson place, 151-157 nelson place, thomas mason

Each year the national cycling championships are held at Ballarat.Colour photograph in digital format of a number of female bicycle riders taking part in the National Road Cycling Championships at Ballarat. The church is St Andrew's Kirk, Sturt Street, Ballaratballarat, st andrew's, cycling, bicycle

A proposal letter written by Mark Strizic for a grant from the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board to fund a series of art books. Strizic proposes a series of books illustrated by Strizic's own photography, under the series title Expressions. Strizic seeks a grant of $4900 from the board for the publication of two books, one of furniture maker Schulim Krimper, another on John Perceval's Cherubs. Budgets for these books are included, proposing to use the profit from sales to fund subsequent books, including one on the Centre 5 group of sculptors and one with Australian poets with graphics by artist Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski.Typewritten, carbon copy, foolscap, 4 pagesRobin Boyd pencil noterobin boyd, meriel wilmot-wright, myer foundation, mark strizic, schulim krimper, brian lewis, margaret garlick, inge king, clifford last, lenton parr, teisutis zikaras, julius kane, centre 5, time riders, john perceval, vincas jomantas, stan ostoja kotkowski, judith wright, roland robinson, kenneth slessor, max harris, claude wischik, commonwealth art advisory board, andrew grimwade, national gallery of victoria, joseph brown, brian stonier