The Ash Wednesday bushfiresin Feb 1983 caused death, destruction and trauma in the township of CockatooA book by Peter Crawford "Beauty from Ashes - A Church grows from the Bushfires of Ash Wednesday. The story of St Luke's Cockatoo being rebuilt after the fires of Ash Wednesday at Cockatoo 1983

A large size printed magazine consisting of 78 pages with red border top and bottom of front and back cover with white writing in red border. A picture of a burnt out house and car is on the front and back cover.non-fictionash wednesday fires, victoria, the herald, the sun, newspapers, geelong, bendigo, south australia, 1980s, bushfires, macedon ranges

Folder containing information pertaining to the Ash Wednesday fires, 16th February 1983. Contents: -Typescript, Australian Insight program broadcast 13th January 1984, prepared by Jennifer King. Contains interviews with Alan Marks and Maggie & Martin Bishop. -Typescript, "In The Shadow Of Ash Wednesday", prepared in 1983 by Selby CFA and detailing various problems encountered on Ash Wednesday. -Typescript, "Ash Wednesday 16 February 1983", a memoir by George Harmon. -Photocopy, "The Major Fires Originating 16 February 1983", detailing areas, casualties, damage, etc. Compiled by CFA, Victoria. -Article "Protecting Houses From Bushfires" by Bruce Gifford, unknown source, dated summer 1987. -Email, Peter Milton to Susan Heywood-Downard, "Extracts from Peter Milton's diary" dated 16 January [sic - should be February] to 2 March 1983. -Typescript, part of oral history recorded with Margaret Douglas -Age, 19th February 1983, death notices of people who died in Ash Wednesday fires -typescript, "february 16th, 1983 in Victoria, Australia" account, unnamed -letter attached to above typescript on 3AW headed paper, copy (?) of letter to station describing fires and thanking radio station for assistance.selby cfa, ash wednesday fires, bushfire-proof house design

Special editions of local newspapers published following Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983Newspapers. 1. Berwick-Pakenham Times 21 February 1983| 2. The Pakenham Gazette and Berwick City News| 3. Leader: Emergency Issue of Free Press, Lillydale Express, Knox-Sherbrooke News, Ringwood-Croydon Mail 17 February 19831. 44-page newspaper|2. 52-page newspaper|3. single sheet newsprint with photograqphs folded to 4 pages'bushfires, dandenong ranges, victoria, australia, cockatoo victoria australia, ash wednesday 1983, berwick-pakenham times, pakenham gazette and berwick city news, the leader

Stories, mostly from first-hand accounts, of the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Cockatoo, February 1983. The author lived in Cockatoo for 20 years and was at one time fire-risk contractor for the local council. Names used in the book are fictitious to protect privacy.94 p. : ill. ; DDC994.520922 ISBN 0908090595Paper'Donated to Emerald Museum by Robert Apedaile, 1995'bushfires, cockatoo victoria australia, edward mundie, ash wednesday 1983

Special edition of the 'Free Press' for the Ash Wednesday 10th Anniversary - 1993.

Cuttings from Melbourne newspapers relate to 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfire.Scrap book containing 40 p. of newspaper cuttings relating to Ash Wednesday February 16th 1983bushfires, cockatoo victoria australia, ash wednesday 1983

2 Albums of newspaper articles and photographs of the Ash Wednesday fires on 16 Feb 1983 and the trip arranged by the Nunawading Rotary Club for 23 children and 2 teachers to go to New Zealand for 15 days holiday.2 Albums of newspaper articles and photographs of the Ash Wednesday fires on 16 Feb 1983. bushfires, farr, ken. a, rotary club of nunawading

The cross depicted in the photograph is stated to be from the Uniting Church in Upper Beaconsfield in the Museum's registration records but may instead be from St John's Anglican Church which burned down in the Ash Wednesday bushfires as no Uniting Church site is recorded in Upper Beaconsfield. Forty-seven people were killed in the Ash Wednesday fires in Victoria, including twenty-seven from the Cardinia Shire area. Twenty-one of the people killed were located in Upper Beaconsfield; twelve of the people killed in the area were fire-fighters, along with nine residents. 186 homes and countless livestock were also lost in the fires which ranged through Victoria and into South Australia due to a combination of dry, hot and windy weather. The date of the fires corresponds with the the date of the Christian religious festival of the same name that year. St John's Anglican Church was rebuilt on the same site within the next three years. The design, by local architect Paul Reid, combined elements of the previous building with the style of village churches Reid had observed in Austria and Bavaria after his graduation from Melbourne University. The cross, which buckled in the heat generated by the fires, is believed to be on display at the Ash Wednesday Bushfire Education Centre in Cockatoo, which was itself constructed as a memorial on the site of a kindergarten in which 300 Cockatoo residents sheltered from the fire. The specific occasion on which this photograph was taken is not known.This item is significant because of its association with the Ash Wednesday bushfires, one of the worst natural disasters in Victoria's history. The Ash Wednesday fires occurred on 16th February 1983. Twenty-seven people from the Cardinia Shire area were killed in the fires, including twenty-one who died within a kilometre of the church in which the cross depicted resided.Black and white rectangular photograph printed on photographic paper. The photograph depicts a plain dark-coloured metal cross on a stand. The cross has buckled forwards. The item is resting on a table covered with a pale-coloured table-cloth. A bouquet of flowers is visible to the left-hand side of the image. Chairs and three women in special occasion-style clothing are visible at the rear of the image. The cross featured in the photograph is from a church in Upper Beaconsfield which was damaged in the Ash Wednesday bushfires in February 1983. The specific occasion on which this photograph was taken is not known.ash wednesday 1983, bushfires, churches, st john's anglican church, uniting church, upper beaconsfield victoria australia, cockatoo victoria australia, cross, deceased persons, natural disasters, ash wednesday bushfire education centre, paul reid, cardinia shire council