historic significant of Bendigo Pottery physical assets (Kilns and potter's wheels) assetsNational Trust - Five letters (16 April 1971 and12 November 1973) exchanged between National rust and Bendigo Pottery and University of Melbourne re the classification of the Bottle Kilns at the Bendigo Pottery Bottle Kilns (circa 1890), bendigo pottery bottle kilns

historic significant of Bendigo Pottery physical assets (Kilns and potter's wheels) assetsNational Trust - Two letters (17 December 1974 and undated proforma letter) on letterhead from the owners of the Bendigo Pottery seeking information: 3098.2A from the managing director of the Bendigo Pottery (Epsom) Pty Ltd and Bendigo Pottery (Nova) Pty Ltd sent to The National Trust (Central Victoria Branch) re the classification of the Bottle Kilns at the Bendigo Pottery Bottle Kilns (circa 1859 - 1900), 3098.2B Standard proforma letter to be forwarded to an unspecified range of companies/people from Humes Limited seeking information regarding its history, and a search for most historic ceramic articles produced by the pottery bendigo pottery bottle kilns

historic significant of Bendigo Pottery physical assets National Trust - Two letters exchanged between R.A. Horsburgh of Robert Herriot & Associates, Architects (27 & 28 October 1977) and the Central Victorian Branch of the National Trust (28 November 1977) providing architectural comment (with five dot points) on proposed alterations and extensions to the existing stables buildings at the Bendigo Potterybendigo pottery bottle kilns, bendigo pottery stables conversion to shop

historic significant of Bendigo Pottery physical assets National Trust - Four architectural plans for the upgrade of the stables Gallery and Shop at the Bendigo Pottery Epsom; by Robert Herriot & Associates, Architects; dated October 1977: 3098.4A Architectural plans 423/1 - missing 3098.4B Architectural plans 423/2 - orthogonal perspective looking south 3098.4C Architectural plans 423/3 - floor plan of proposed extensions to Stables Gallery, Bendigo Pottery 3098.4D Architectural plans 423/4 - proposed south and east elevations, and plans stables gallery as existing 3098.4E Architectural plans 423/5 - site plan of gallery including entry off Miland Highwaybendigo pottery bottle kilns, bendigo pottery stables conversion to shop, architectural plans

historic significant of Bendigo Pottery physical assets National Trust - four-page copy on the operation of typical downdraft kilns, includes a site plan of the Bendigo Pottery Page 1 - Paul A Scholar, Bendigo Pottery, Lowden Publishing6. 1979 Kilmorebendigo pottery bottle kilns, operation of a downdraft kiln

historic significant of Bendigo Pottery physical assets National Trust - three-page correspondence 23 - 28 July 1977 regarding the future of the Bendigo Pottery 1 white A4 media release from the National Trust (Central Victorian Branch) from Father John Stockdale President "stressing the historical, cultural and economic importance of the Bendigo Pottery to this region". 2 stapled green A4 page a file note dated 28 July 1987. "after protracted but amiable discussions with the Bendigo Pottery management, it is evident that the Pottery has taken care to preserve the important kins and promote the historic nature of the Bendigo Pottery" 3 pink-page from Shire Engineer, Shire of Huntly to the Managing Director Bendigo Pottery stating, "that there has been unconfirmed reports of possible future demolition works at your premises", and "bringing to their notice requirements under the: * Victorian Building Regulations 1983, regarding demolition * Regulation No. 14 Rats and Mice Destruction Regulations 1973 buildings shall not be altered or demolished without a permit from Council * Historic Buildings Act 1981regulations regarding demolition of buildings bendigo pottery bottle kilns

historic significant of Bendigo Pottery physical assets National Trust - four-page communications regarding the future of the Bendigo Pottery, July & August 1987 Two A4 notes from the National Trust * National Trust / Bendigo Pottery meeting agenda 28/07/1987 working towards preservation of the historic kilns * 29/07/1987 National Trust to Historic Buildings Council the NT strongly supports the registration of the Bendigo Pottery, Epsom approving transfer of the kilns top the Classified Lists An article (two pages) in the Bendigo Advertiser dated 18/08/1987 "Pottery Safe for Now" and "Kilns retained in plan for world-class attraction".retention of the kilns at the Bendigo pottery, Epsom bendigo pottery bottle kilns

historic significant of Bendigo Pottery physical assets National Trust - two pages regarding the history of pottery and the future of the Bendigo Pottery, July & August 1987 3098.8A attributed to the Bendigo Advertiser and dated 28 May1873 noting the history of pottery making from Chian, Japan, Babylon, Egypt and Roaman pottery making. Article stamped received 30 Sep 1987and is incomplete as second page is not attached. 3098.8B undated typed history of pottery making in Victoria and in Bendigo in particular (article has damage in upper LH cnr. and has been folded above the last paragraph).3098.8B has scribbled notes and a basic sketch on the rear noting meetings with Sir Henry Bolte, Mr. Hamer, John Bull and ring Andrew bendigo pottery bottle kilns, history of kilns/pottery operations in bendigo

eleven art works in black pen sketches of Bendigo by Jan Neil dated 1972- 1977 156A Bendigo Pottery, Bottle Kiln, Epsom 1972 156B Gold Mines Hotel, Bendigo 1972 156C Bendigo Post Office 1972 156D National Bank 1973 156E Birney Car & Central Deborah Mine 156F Law Courts 1973 156G Law Courts 1980 156H Bendigo Town Hall 1972 156I Shamrock Hotel 1972 156J Fortuna Villa, Chum Street1980 156K Fortuna Villa 1977Jan Neilwes harry, jan neil, drawings

Bendigo Pottery - a. Booklet (text by Eric Page - Mullaya Publication) - has good coverage of history of the pottery and sections relating to 'Bottle Kilns'', local clay' potter's skill, use of moulds, firing, ceramic tiles - includes photos and line sketches; b. Bendigo Trust flyer re pottery with tour times and summary of history on reverse side.A Mullaya Publication. Designed and published for Bendigo Pottery (Epsom) Pty Ltd., by Mullaya Publications, 17 Griotte Street, Canterbury, Victoria. Printed by Humphrey and formula Press. Line Drawings by Jan Neil.bendigo, tourism, bendigo pottery

This clay soft drink bottle was made by Bendigo Pottery circa 1899. It was badged for and sold by A. [Alfred] Darby of Henna Street Warrnambool, (between Raglan Pde and Lava St). The internal screw thread in the neck of this bottle allows for an applied ‘blob’ top stopper to be added. The company A. Darby bottled soda water, cordial, lemonade, ginger ale and ginger beer. Darby’s also made cider, lime juice, raspberry vinegar and other specialties. There was a branch of Darby’s cordial factory in Shepparton Victoria. The building has the year 1910 on it and is now the council office. The bottle’s manufacturer, Bendigo Pottery, was established in the 1858 during the gold rush era. The bottle is part of the “W.R. Angus Collection” that includes historical medical equipment, surgical instruments and material once belonging to Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Thomas Francis Ryan, (both of Nhill, Victoria) as well as Dr Angus’ own belongings. The Collection’s history spans the medical practices of the two Doctors Ryan, from 1885-1926 plus that of Dr Angus, up until 1969. ABOUT THE “W.R.ANGUS COLLECTION” Doctor William Roy Angus M.B., B.S., Adel., 1923, F.R.C.S. Edin.,1928 (also known as Dr Roy Angus) was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria in 1901 and lived until 1970. He qualified as a doctor in 1923 at University of Adelaide, was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924 and for a period was house surgeon to Sir (then Mr.) Henry Simpson Newland. Dr Angus was briefly an Assistant to Dr Riddell of Kapunda, then commenced private practice at Curramulka, Yorke Peninsula, SA, where he was physician, surgeon and chemist. In 1926, he was appointed as new Medical Assistant to Dr Thomas Francis Ryan (T.F. Ryan, or Tom), in Nhill, Victoria, where his experiences included radiology and pharmacy. In 1927 he was Acting House Surgeon in Dr Tom Ryan’s absence. Dr Angus had become engaged to Gladys Forsyth and they decided he further his studies overseas in the UK in 1927. He studied at London University College Hospital and at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in 1928, was awarded FRCS (Fellow from the Royal College of Surgeons), Edinburgh. He worked his passage back to Australia as a Ship’s Surgeon on the on the Australian Commonwealth Line’s T.S.S. Largs Bay. Dr Angus married Gladys in 1929, in Ballarat. (They went on to have one son (Graham 1932, born in SA) and two daughters (Helen (died 12/07/1996) and Berenice (Berry), both born at Mira, Nhill According to Berry, her mother Gladys made a lot of their clothes. She was very talented and did some lovely embroidery including lingerie for her trousseau and beautifully handmade baby clothes. Dr Angus was a ‘flying doctor’ for the A.I.M. (Australian Inland Ministry) Aerial Medical Service in 1928. Its first station was in the remote town of Oodnadatta, where Dr Angus was stationed. He was locum tenens there on North-South Railway at 21 Mile Camp. He took up this ‘flying doctor’ position in response to a call from Dr John Flynn; the organisation was later known as the Flying Doctor Service, then the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A lot of his work during this time involved dental surgery also. Between 1928-1932 he was surgeon at the Curramulka Hospital, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. In 1933 Dr Angus returned to Nhill and purchased a share of the Nelson Street practice and Mira hospital (a 2 bed ward at the Nelson Street Practice) from Dr Les Middleton one of the Middleton Brothers, the current owners of what previously once Dr Tom Ryan’s practice. Dr Tom and his brother had worked as surgeons included eye surgery. Dr Tom Ryan performed many of his operations in the Mira private hospital on his premises. He had been House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1902-1926. Dr Tom Ryan had one of the only two pieces of radiology equipment in Victoria during his practicing years – The Royal Melbourne Hospital had the other one. Over the years Dr Tom Ryan had gradually set up what was effectively a training school for country general-practitioner-surgeons. Each patient was carefully examined, including using the X-ray machine, and any surgery was discussed and planned with Dr Ryan’s assistants several days in advance. Dr Angus gained experience in using the X-ray machine there during his time as assistant to Dr Ryan. When Dr Angus bought into the Nelson Street premises in Nhill he was also appointed as the Nhill Hospital’s Honorary House Surgeon 1933-1938. His practitioner’s plate from his Nhill surgery is now mounted on the doorway to the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. When Dr Angus took up practice in the Dr Edward and Dr Tom Ryan’s old premises he obtained their extensive collection of historical medical equipment and materials spanning 1884-1926. A large part of this collection is now on display at the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool. In 1939 Dr Angus and his family moved to Warrnambool where he purchased “Birchwood,” the 1852 home and medical practice of Dr John Hunter Henderson, at 214 Koroit Street. (This property was sold in1965 to the State Government and is now the site of the Warrnambool Police Station and an ALDI sore is on the land that was once their tennis court). The Angus family was able to afford gardeners, cooks and maids; their home was a popular place for visiting dignitaries to stay whilst visiting Warrnambool. Dr Angus had his own silk worm farm at home in a Mulberry tree. His young daughter used his centrifuge for spinning the silk. Dr Angus was appointed on a part-time basis as Port Medical Officer (Health Officer) in Warrnambool and held this position until the 1940’s when the government no longer required the service of a Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool; he was thus Warrnambool’s last serving Port Medical Officer. (Masters of immigrant ships arriving in port reported incidents of diseases, illness and death and the Port Medical Officer made a decision on whether the ship required Quarantine and for how long, in this way preventing contagious illness from spreading from new immigrants to the residents already in the colony.) Dr Angus was a member of the Australian Medical Association, for 35 years and surgeon at the Warrnambool Base Hospital 1939-1942, He served with the Australian Department of Defence as a Surgeon Captain during WWII 1942-45, in Ballarat, Victoria, and in Bonegilla, N.S.W., completing his service just before the end of the war due to suffering from a heart attack. During his convalescence he carved an intricate and ‘most artistic’ chess set from the material that dentures were made from. He then studied ophthalmology at the Royal Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital and created cosmetically superior artificial eyes by pioneering using the intrascleral cartilage. Angus received accolades from the Ophthalmological Society of Australasia for this work. He returned to Warrnambool to commence practice as an ophthalmologist, pioneering in artificial eye improvements. He was Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist to Warrnambool Base Hospital for 31 years. He made monthly visits to Portland as a visiting surgeon, to perform eye surgery. He represented the Victorian South-West subdivision of the Australian Medical Association as its secretary between 1949 and 1956 and as chairman from 1956 to 1958. In 1968 Dr Angus was elected member of Spain’s Barraquer Institute of Barcelona after his research work in Intrasclearal cartilage grafting, becoming one of the few Australian ophthalmologists to receive this honour, and in the following year presented his final paper on Living Intrasclearal Cartilage Implants at the Inaugural Meeting of the Australian College of Ophthalmologists in Melbourne In his personal life Dr Angus was a Presbyterian and treated Sunday as a Sabbath, a day of rest. He would visit 3 or 4 country patients on a Sunday, taking his children along ‘for the ride’ and to visit with him. Sunday evenings he would play the pianola and sing Scottish songs to his family. One of Dr Angus’ patients was Margaret MacKenzie, author of a book on local shipwrecks that she’d seen as an eye witness from the late 1880’s in Peterborough, Victoria. In the early 1950’s Dr Angus, painted a picture of a shipwreck for the cover jacket of Margaret’s book, Shipwrecks and More Shipwrecks. She was blind in later life and her daughter wrote the actual book for her. Dr Angus and his wife Gladys were very involved in Warrnambool’s society with a strong interest in civic affairs. He had an interest in people and the community. They were both involved in the creation of Flagstaff Hill, including the layout of the gardens. After his death (28th March 1970) his family requested his practitioner’s plate, medical instruments and some personal belongings be displayed in the Port Medical Office surgery at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, and be called the “W. R. Angus Collection”. This glazed clay bottle represents early Warrnambool industry. It is also a good example of soft drink containers used in the late 19th and early 20th century and of Australian made products. Bendigo Pottery is Australia’s oldest working pottery. The kilns at Bendigo Pottery are now on the Victorian Heritage Register. The W.R. Angus Collection is significant for still being located at the site it is connected with, Doctor Angus being the last Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool. The collection of medical instruments and other equipment is culturally significant, being an historical example of medicine, administration, household equipment and clothing from late 19th to mid-20th century. Dr Angus assisted Dr Tom Ryan, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and in ocular surgery. Earthenware soft drink bottle, part of the W.R. Angus Collection. Glazed clay, 'champ' shape, two-toned colour; caramel from mouth to shoulder, beige on lower section. Inside of neck has an internal thread that could have been sealed with an applied internal ‘blob’ top stopper. Black stamped Maltese cross design emblem on front with each quarter containing text, black oval stamp on back with maker’s details. Bottle was made by Bendigo Pottery of Victoria circa 1899 and sold by A Darby of Henna Street Warrnambool.Maltese cross design, each quarter has text "A. DARBY", "HENNA", 'STREET,", WARRNAMBOOL" Oval stamp” - - - - - -RE BENDIGO POTTERY [EPSO] M - - - - - O” flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, dr w r angus, dr ryan, nhill base hospital, mira hospital, flying doctor, department of defence australia, australian army, army uniform, bottle, earthernware soft drink bottle, earthernware bottle, a. darby, henna street warrnambool, soft drink industry warrnambool, bendigo pottery, 1899 soft drink bottle, champ shape soft drink bottle, ginger beer bottle, cordial bottle, blob top, blob stopper, internal stopper