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Australian National Surfing Museum
Document, Human Impact on Australian Beaches (Results from SOS95 Beach Survey), 1/5/1996 (estimated)
... Human Impact on Australian Beaches (Results from SOS95 ...Human Impacts on Australian Beaches was a landmark environmental study which provided a 'snapshot' of the health of 1612 beach areas around Australia. This nationwide study (which built on the success of the 1994 State of Our Surf Report) was put together by the Surfrider Foundation Australia with the support of more then 340 individuals and 70 organisations around Australia. The report was authored by surfer/environmentalist/artist Michael Legge-Wilkinson from Newcastle, New South Wales. Human Impacts was launched officially by Peter Garrett, leader of Australian rock band Midnight Oil at the Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach in May 1996.Human Impacts built on the success of the 1994 State Of Our Surf Report, released by the Surfrider Foundation Australia in 1994. Human Impacts was the first major report to specifically examine the environmental health of 1612 of Australia's beaches. A limited 500 copies of this report were produced, the majority of which went to education institutions, libraries, community groups and government departments. The report generated national and international media interest with the BBC London reporting on its findings in the week after its launch.Beach Environmental Report. 168 page report which examines the health of 1612 beach areas around Australia. Sepia cover featuring a photograph of endangered sanddunes at Stockton Bight, north of Newcastle. 168 pagesSepia cover, Surfrider Foundation logo on report coverbeach, surfrider foundation australia, human impacts on beaches, sos95, michael legge wilkinson, coastal development, beach pollution -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph - Beaches, 2003
... Beaches...Beaches ...Taken 29.12.2003Colour photograph of the crowded main beach Lakes Entrance Victoria K762-0039 TAKEN 29.12.2003beaches, recreation -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph - Beaches, 2/12/1999 12:00:00 AM
... Beaches...Beaches ...Photographs taken during the heat wave in 1999 Colour photograph of Christopher Wright-Smith playing in sand at Main Beach Lakes Entrance Victoria. Second colour photograph of children enjoying the water at Main Beachwaterways, beaches, recreation -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Newspaper - The Sun Newspaper dated 7/6/1944 - Special - My War Part 43, Local Newspaper Dated 7/6/1944 - Special - My War Part 43 - Landings In France - On The Beaches Of Normandy
... - Landings In France - On The Beaches Of Normandy ...Local Newspaper reporting on World War 2 Events - Special - My War Part 43Local Newspaper reporting on World War 2 dated 7/7/1943 - Special - My War Part 43Local Newspaper dated 7/6/1944 - Special - My War Part 43 Landings In France - On The Beaches Of Normandylandings in france - on the beaches of normandy, world war 2 -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, AJ Reid, Birds 3 : of South-eastern Australia : oceans, bays and beaches, 1987
... beaches...beaches ...Colour illustrations, maps, colour photographsbirds, south eastern australia, beaches, sea birds -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper Clipping, Cleaner Beaches, 31/11/1968
... Cleaner Beaches ...Article from a collection of newspaper clippings from October 1968 to July 1971Article about the offer by Mr R Ritter to clean the beaches with the assistance of school children for the coming season, December 1968phillip island, phillip island beaches, mr r ritter -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph - Beaches, 2009
... Beaches...Beaches ...Date made January 2009Colour photograph showing western side of western pier. Rocks extend from end of pier along base of sand dunes, some vegetation on dunes. Signs and lights on piers. Lakes Entrance Victoria topography, beaches -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Postcard - People on beach Lakes Entrance Victoria c1910, H D Bulmer, 1910 c
... Beaches ...a crowd of excursionists on beach near Eastern Pier all dressed in Sunday Best clothes a few small boys paddling on waters edge. Glimpse of Red Bluff in background Lakes Entrance Victoria c1910. Also postcard of same image in Spares box donated by Carpenter familySepia toned postcard showing a crowd of excursionists on beach near Eastern Pier all dressed in Sunday Best clothes a few small boys paddling on waters edge. Glimpse of Red Bluff in background Lakes Entrance VictoriaThe Beach Lakes Entrancecivil engineering, beaches, social history, people -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph - Beaches, 1992
... Beaches...Beaches ...Black and White Photograph of children in the surf at Lakes Entrance Victoria beaches, waterways, tourism -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Book, Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "See Melbourne's Beautiful Beaches and Garden Suburbs from a Special Bus", 1939
... "See Melbourne's Beautiful Beaches and Garden Suburbs from ...Thirty two page landscape booklet on semi gloss white paper with off white cover and single supplementary white sheet tipped onto the inside of the front cover titled "See Melbourne's Beautiful Beaches and Garden Suburbs from a Special Bus". Saddle stapled, printed letterpress. Text printed in black and green ink. Cover green ink only. The book advertising MMTB's Special tourist bus, giving overall tour details on page 1, including fares, time of departures and reservations. Each tour has a map showing the route, details of the tour route with notes and photographs. Page 14 shows a maximum traction tram on the reserved track in Dandenong road and page 30, W2 488 outbound in Victoria Parade. Page 32 has an advertisement for the Round Trip by Tram 1/-. Front cover has details of the departure times and fares and a photo of the Tourist Bus. The supplementary sheet has been prepared for the tours that operated daily from Sun Sept. 17 to Friday May 31, except Anzac Day. Melbourne Tram Museum has a similar book - different bus - Reg Item 99 - 1938-39 version..trams, tramways, mmtb, bus tours, melbourne, sightseeing -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Book, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "See Melbourne's Beautiful Beaches and Garden Suburbs from a Special Bus", 1938
... "See Melbourne's Beautiful Beaches and Garden Suburbs from ...Thirty two page landscape booklet on semi gloss white paper with off white or cream cover and single supplementary white sheet tipped onto the inside of the front cover titled "See Melbourne's Beautiful Beaches and Garden Suburbs from a Special Bus". Saddle stapled, printed letterpress. Text printed in black and green ink. Cover green ink only. The book advertising MMTB's Special tourist bus, giving overall tour details on page 1, including fares, time of departures and reservations. Each tour has a map showing the route, details of the tour route with notes and photographs. Page 14 shows a maximum traction tram on the reserved track in Dandenong road and page 30, W2 488 outbound in Victoria Parade. Page 32 has an advertisement for the Round Trip by Tram 1/-. Front cover has details of the departure times and fares and a photo of the Tourist Bus. The supplementary sheet has been prepared for the tours that operated daily from Sun Sept. 18 to Friday May 31, except Anzac Day. Ballarat Tramway Museum has a similar item, 1939-1940 version - different bus on cover. - Reg Item 1838.trams, tramways, mmtb, bus tours, melbourne, sightseeing -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, 1910
... beaches ...Commercial Souvenir for sale to holiday makers in San Remo 1910.Sandy cove - back beach San Remo at bottom of small cliff. People on beach - one bathing box at middle right. Two cars on cliff top. Black & WhiteThe Back Beach San Remo, Vic. The Rose Series P 1456. On reverse - Bathing Box Beach, Bonwick's Beach. Elmslocal history, photographs, san remo, beaches, bathing box, black & white photograph, tourism -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Postcard, The beach pavilion Port Fairy
South Beach - showing horses and buggies.Black and white photograph of the beach pavillion at the South Beach with horses and buggies in the foreground and the bathing boxes in the background on the left hand side- taken for use as a postcardThe Beach pavilion Port Fairy beach, pavilion, south beach, kiosk, horses, buggies, bathing boxes -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Summerland Beach
The beach where the Penguin Parade is now located.Black and white photo of the beach and dunes at Summerlands Beach.Murray Views No. 13. Summerland Beach, The Home of the Penguins, Phillip Island, Vicpenguins, summerland beach, photographs, postcards -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Postcard - Ocean Beach, 1950c
... Beaches ...Black and white small format postcard of the ocean beach. It shows an expanse of sand dune, remains of a brush windbreak fence, and the observation tower, built for Royal Lifesaving Club, pre Surf Life Saving Club. Lakes Entrance VictoriaThe Ocean Beach Lakes Entrancebeaches, surf lifesaving -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph
South Beach 1975 After stormBlack and white photograph of South beach with houses in backgroundSouth beach Afternoon May 1975south beach, storm, sea, houses -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Stephen E Ambrose, Citizen soldiers : the U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the surrender of Germany, 2002
... Citizen soldiers : the U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches ...his sequel to D-DAY opens at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy Beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945. In between comes the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy, the breakout of Saint-Lo, the Falaise gap, Patton tearing through France, the liberation of Paris, the attempt to leap the Rhine in operation Market-Garden, the near-miraculous German recovery, the battles around Metz and in the Huertgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, the capture of the bridge at Remagen and, finally, the overunning of Germany. From the enlisted men and junior officers, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from those on both sides of the war. The experience of these citizen soldiers reveals the ordinary sufferings and hardships of war. They overcame their fear and inexperience, the mistakes of their high command and their enemy to win the war.Index, bibliography, notes, ill, maps, p.528.non-fictionhis sequel to D-DAY opens at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy Beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945. In between comes the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy, the breakout of Saint-Lo, the Falaise gap, Patton tearing through France, the liberation of Paris, the attempt to leap the Rhine in operation Market-Garden, the near-miraculous German recovery, the battles around Metz and in the Huertgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, the capture of the bridge at Remagen and, finally, the overunning of Germany. From the enlisted men and junior officers, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from those on both sides of the war. The experience of these citizen soldiers reveals the ordinary sufferings and hardships of war. They overcame their fear and inexperience, the mistakes of their high command and their enemy to win the war. operation overlord, world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - europe -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Tiger Books, D-Day from the Normandy beaches to the liberation of France, 1993
... D-Day from the Normandy beaches to the liberation of France ...Photographic essay of victory in France.Index, ill p.284.non-fictionPhotographic essay of victory in France. world war 1939-1945 - history, world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - france -
Clayton RSL Sub Branch
Non-fiction book, Heimdal, The D.Day Landing Beaches, The Guide, 1957
... The D.Day Landing Beaches, The Guide ...Georges Bernage is an expert in the 1944 Normandy invasionsoft cover non-fiction book with 95 pages -
Clayton RSL Sub Branch
hard cover non-fiction book, D-Day From The Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France, 1994
... D-Day From The Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France ...Known as the start of the end of WWII, D-Dayforeward by Viscount Montgomery of Alamein CBEhard cover non fiction bookSticker with personal contact details of P.Cooper -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph
... beaches ...Part of collection donated to the Museum by Mr. Bernard Grayden 1975Postcard of view of pier from beach at Cowes, with tree in foreground.The Beach, Cowes, Victoria.local history, documents, postcards, beaches, cowes, phillip island, jetties, sepia postcard, bernard grayden -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Postcard - Photograph, South Beach Port Fairy
Early photo South BeachReflects change in the coastline over the yearsBlack and white seascape of South beach showing the bluestone shore and the wooden swings to the rightSouth Beach Port Fairybeach, sea, seascape -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Postcard, Walker and Lugg, The Bathing Beach Port Fairy
South beach swings and bathing boxesplus photographic copy of a black and white photograph of South Beach with swings and bathing boxesThe Bathing Beach Port Fairysouth beach, swings, bathing boxes, ocean, sea -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph - P.S. Tanjil, 1910 c
... Beaches ...Sepia photograph of postcard showing P S Tanjil at the back beach. People near shoreline, vegetation on dunes, western end of Boole Poole peninsula in background. Gippsland Lakes, VictoriaP S Tanjil at the Back Beachships and shipping, waterways, beaches -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph - Postcard, South beach Bathing boxes
South Beach bathing boxesColoured post card of South Beach taken from the West and depicts the bathing boxes in the backgroundSouth Beach Port Fairybeach, sea, seascape -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph
East Beach November 1995Coloured photograph of pathway along edge of East Beach with a tip truck in backgroundEast Beach 1995 November filling ineast beach, development, trucks, tier -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Souvenir - Pebbles mounted on plaque
Beach pebbles souvenired from Anzac Cove at Gallipoli in 1990Beach pebbles mounted on brown timber with black plaque attachedANZAC beach Gallipoli April 25 1990anzac beach, gallipoli, beach pebbles -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Postcard - Photograph, East Beach, Port Fairy
East beach parking with half round shed for Life saving club and a teardrop caravan parkedBlack and white postcard of East Beach car park with tear drop caravan and carEast Beach port Fairyeast beach, parking, half round shed, teardrop, caravan -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph, Lynda Tieman, 1995
East Beach November 1995 construction of recreation area Coloured photograph of shoring up the road on the East Beach during construction of recreation areaEast Beach November 1995 Filling ineast beach, development, trucks, filling -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Postcard - Salmon Fishing Lakes Entrance, 1910 c
twelve fishermen hauling net of salmon on the beach at Lakes EntranceA black and white postcard showing twelve fishermen hauling net of salmon on the beach at Lakes EntranceHauling Fish on Lake Entrance beachfishing, fishing industry