Bootmaking is a complex process requiring a variety of tools. The leather is cut to shape, glazed & burnished (polished) with heated irons. The pieces are stretched onto, & nailed to, a wooden last to form the boot. Once attached to the insole, the boot is finished on a metal last. Uppers are stitched with waxed thread through holes made with an awl. Heels comprise pieces nailed together & neatened with a heel shave. Metal plates, short nails or hob nails driven into the sole & heel, often in a pattern, improved durability.Cast Iron ball and ring bunion stretcher.boot stretchers

College House, the home for the Australian Regional Council of RCOG, was opened at 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne in 1954. It is likely that this gavel was part of a gift to commemorate the occasion. Sir Arthur Gemmell was President of RCOG from 1952 to 1955. He was knighted in 1955.Wooden gavel with case. Gavel and case are both made of oak. Handle of gavel is carved to be 8-sided (octagonal), with a small knob at the proximal end of the gavel handle that is also octagonal. Head of gavel resembles an elongated barrel, with two bands carved into the gavel head on either side of the handle. Case is in the shape of a three-dimensional trapezoid and consists of a lid and base fastened together with two metal hinges. The case has dovetail joins at each corner, and the top of the case is a rectangular relief with a simple borer. Inside of case contains a recess and a stand for resting the gavel into, as well as a circular, concave strike pad for the gavel. A metal plaque is attached to the inside lid of the case which reads 'Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists/Australian Regional Council/Presented by/Arthur A. Gemmell P.R.C.O.G 1954/Made of Oak from the City of London Guildhall'. The word 'BARNSLEY' is engraved in the bottom right hand corner of the inside of the case. 'BARNSLEY'rcog

Ill, maps, p.208.non-fictionYomping was revealed by the journalist Charles Laurence in 1982 as the word which the Royal Marines used to describe carrying heavy loads long distances on foot. Given the intense public interest in the dramatic events then unfolding in the South Atlantic, it caught on and is now in common usage.The Yompers is the first account to be written by a company commander who fought in the Falklands War. Called to action from their beds early on 2 April 1982, the author along with the rest of 45 Commando Royal Marines, sailed 8,000 miles to play a key role in the recovery of the Falkland Islands from Argentine occupation. Lacking helicopters and short of food, they yomped in appalling weather carrying overloaded rucksacks, across ground which threatened to break legs and ankles at every step. Despite extreme hardship, their morale and training ensured they remained a cohesive fighting-fit body of men.falklands war 1982, great britain - royal marines - commando 45

Double ended hammer with steel head and wooden handle.A O 3 (with shoe shape)hammers

Implements with a hard smooth roundedend or surface used for smoothing and polishing.Set of four burnishing tools used to polish leather. 3 - Metal with wooden handles. 1 - All metal with patterned ends,L. Richter Northampton on wooden handle, double ended tool with round middle.burnishers, polishers, surface finishing tools

Ill, index, bib, p.207.non-fictionJapans Gestapo provides comprehensive evidence of the ruthlessness of the Kempeitai against the white and Asian people under their control/.atrocities - japan, world war 1939 – 1945 - prisons and prisoners – japanese

ill. p.258.non-fictionRails Across Australia is an album of photographs taken by David Cable, a well-regarded British author of several albums of train pictures throughout the world. The photos were taken initially during the period between 1967 and 1973 when David lived in Adelaide, and then during several visits around the Commonwealth during the twenty-first century. The photos cover a wide variety of trains in the mainland states, from Queensland to the Pilbara region of Western Australia, and include pictures showing trains in the landscapes, as well as close-up photos of locomotives for the modelling enthusiasts. The well-known problems of different gauges originally established in the various states are illustrated by the individual classes designed for them, in addition to the newest designs for the standard gauge tracks now linking them.railroad trains -- australia -- history -- pictorial works., railroad trains -- australia -- history.

Owen Loftus and his mother lived in this house in the 1930's. Owen was a postman and also ran a taxi service.He died in the second World War and is remembered in the memorial window at Christ Church, Mitcham. Present owners (1998) are Anna and Gorden Seward. The previous owners were the Rev and Mrs Barnsley, a retired Church of England vicar. They came to Australia to be near Anna, who was their daughter.Coloured photograph of a house in Lucknow Street, Mitcham. Flowers in the sunshine with grey roof. Wooden eaves over windowslucknow street, mitcham no 58, streets, houses

An article from the Nunawading Gazette and 2 x A4 pagesnon-fictionKatherine Fielding Barnsley fought the council to have a gum tree outside her house in Lucknow Street, Mitcham preserved instead of being removed to make a straight footpath.memorial gum tree, lucknow street mitcham, barnsley katherine fielding

The Codd Bottle was first invented by English manufacturer, Hiram Codd at Barnsley in 1870. The groove inside the top of the bottle held a rubber ring. A small glass balll was held against this ring by the pressure of the 'pop' or 'fizzy' carbonated drink inside the bottle. This style of bottle was widely manufactured and used in the production of mineral waters and lemonade. The glass has a slight green tint, known as aqua glass, and is what the Victorian era produced as 'clear glass'This glass Codd bottle with glass ball and partial rubber ring was probably imported from England by Bennetts Pty. Ltd of Richmond, Victoria for their Lemonade and sold as refreshment to early settlers of Moorabbin Shire c1880A slightly green tinted, glass bottle with a groove inside the top which held a rubber ring, against which, the small glass ball inside the bottle was held by the pressure of the 'fizzy' drink inside.BENNETTS / LEMONADE diagonally across bottlecodd hiram, glass manufacture, glass bottles, moorabbin, brighton, barnsley england, carbonated water, soft drink, mineral water, bennetts lemonade maker, richmond, early settlers, market gardeners, melbourne