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Clunes Museum
Photograph
... c. draper... IN BUILDING. photographs shops tuff c. draper clothier ...PHOTOGRAPH REMOVED FROM ALBUM DONATED BY MRS. TATNALL. THE SHOP LATER BECAME THE PROPERTY OF W.J. CHAMPION, THEN RUSSEL HORNER THEN MRS. LOTTE COLES. NOW OWNERS LIVE PRIVATELY IN BUILDING.PHOTOGRAPH OF G. TUFF DRAPER CLOTHIER SHOP. FRASER STREET, CLUNESphotographs, shops, tuff, c. draper, clothier -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - BAGGALEY COLLECTION: B&W PHOTOGRAPH OF 17 WOMEN
... . Mason, M. Mathews, W. Harris, C. Draper, G. Anett, A. Brown.... Mathews, W. Harris, C. Draper, G. Anett, A. Brown Middle row: G ...B&w studio photograph of 17 women: Back row: D. Smith, M. Mason, M. Mathews, W. Harris, C. Draper, G. Anett, A. Brown Middle row: G. Smith, V. Mason, L. Penna, Mrs. Dorman, L. Potter, Neta Cameron, D. Turrowgood Front row: E. Gregg, E. Lodder Separate photo: D. Gilbert (possibly missing when photo taken) Photo taken at Bartlett Bros. Bendigo -
Orbost & District Historical Society
account, 1915/ 1918?
... H. C. Slatterie was a draper, outfitter and boot nerchant... H.C. Slatterie, Draper, Outfitter and Boot Merchant ...H. C. Slatterie was a draper, outfitter and boot nerchant in Orbost. This account is for "sox" and a collar. This item is an example of the early 20th century book-keeping of an Orbost business.A white paper account with blue print. It is from H.C. Slatterie, Draper, Outfitter and Boot Merchant. There is a large purple receipt stamp in the centre. Handwritten date is for 4th March 1918. Receipt stamp shows 4th March 1915.account-h.c.slatterie book-keeping -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Upper Main Stawell Street looking East with London House on the left 1880
... Upper Main Street looking East. c 1880. Chadwick's Draper...Upper Main Street looking East. c 1880. Chadwick's Draper ...Upper Main Street looking East. c 1880. Chadwick's Draper / Liddiard's / London House on left. Commercial Hotel, Oriental Bank / Bank of Australia, Punchard Furniture, Earlier Union Bank. Extended Cross Reef and Sloane and Scotchmans poppet Heads in Background.Street scene of north side of upper Main Street looking east. London House on left, Commercial Hotel near centre of image. Two poppet heads of mines at right distance.stawell streetscape -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Main Street Stawell looking East from the Present War Memorial site 1878
... shop, Lecky Draper, C. Mulcahy Post Office Hotel, G.J. Hewlett..., Carters Boot shop, Lecky Draper, C. Mulcahy Post Office Hotel, G.J ...Main St. looking East towards Big Hill from Coffee Palace Verandah over Present War Memorial area. 1878 Businesses from left Walters and Son Factory, General Furnishing Mart, Stawell Town Hall, J. & A. Price Wine Spirits & Provision Merchants, Stawell Post Office. On right south side of Main Street, two-storey wooden Bull & Mouth Hotel, Whiteside Taylors, Carters Boot shop, Lecky Draper, C. Mulcahy Post Office Hotel, G.J. Hewlett Baker & Confectionery, Iron Monger, Victoria House Bond Draper, Town Hall Hotel, J. Richards Fancy Repository. Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878stawell business streetscape -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Work on paper - Three samples of wrapping paper (a-Cockings, b-Bennetts Store & c-Beehive stores)
... opening his own draper shop c. 1912 in the lower block Pall Mall... opening his own draper shop c. 1912 in the lower block Pall Mall ...Robert Samuel Valentine Cocking (1882 - 14/5/1945) Born in Bendigo, Val Cocking began hi retail career at Myer Bendigo before opening his own draper shop c. 1912 in the lower block Pall Mall. In 1914 he moved his stock into temporary premises while he renovated his new shop, which combined the former Post Office Hotel and adjacent grocery and stationary shops. The new emporium opened in Aug 1918 selling drapery and soft goods. Mr Cocking was a champion rifle shooter; President of the Bendigo Chamber of Commerce; President of the Sandhurst Football Club for 18 years and President of the Bendigo Cricket Club. Bennetts Hardware shop was in Hargeaves St near the entrance to Allan's Walk in the 1950's. Beehive buildings. This was originally the Sandhust Mining Exchange and as such was the oldest purpose built exchange in Australia and was one of only two in regional Australia. It was initially established in the 1850's to service the miners of the area. It's first double story incarnation as the Bendigo Stock Exchange, contained up to 2000 stockbrokers and 5000 shareholders. In 1871 the building burnt to the ground and the new and current building was completed in 1872. The modern building was designed by Charles Webb, who was also responsible for the Royal Arcade in Melbourne. and features a pitched glass roof similar to the Royal Arcade, Melbourne.Three samples of wrapping paper from a. Cockings, b. Bennetts Store & c. Beehive storeswrapping paper, cockings, bennetts, beehive -
The Beechworth Burke Museum Research Collection
Card (Series) - Index Card, George Tibbits, Cnr Ford and Camp Streets (Ford St), Beechworth, 1976
... ) F.C. O'Brien S+L £20 1900 - O'Brien, Frederick C. Draper.... O'Brien S+L £20 1900 - O'Brien, Frederick C. Draper, same S+L £65 ...George Tibbits, University of Melbourne. Faculty of Architecture, Building and Town & Regional PlanningIndex system that support the research for Beechworth : historical reconstruction / [by] George Tibbits ... [et al]Arranged by street names of BeechworthEach index card includes: street name and number of property, image of property, allotment and section number, property owners and dates of ownership, description of the property according to rate records, property floor plan with dimensions.beechworth, george tibbitsbeechworth, george tibbits -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Timer, 1940s
Australia's first telephone exchange was opened in Melbourne in August 1880. It was operated by the Melbourne Telephone Exchange Company. Owned by W. H. Masters and T. T. Draper, the Manager of the Company was H. Byron Moore. This was only two years after the world's first exchange in the United States, and just four years after Bell first spoke on a telephone. The exchange was located in the old Stock Exchange building at 367 Collins Street, a site now occupied by the Commonwealth Bank. In 1884, the operations of the Company, by then known as the Victorian Telephone Exchange Company, had grown considerably and were transferred to Wills Street, Melbourne. Private ownership of this company continued until 1887 when it was bought out by the Victorian Colonial Government. Other colonial governments followed this example. By 1910, the growth in telephone services made additional accommodation necessary. This could not be provided in the existing building in Wills Street and arrangements were made for a new exchange in Lonsdale Street. Alexander Graham Bell visited Australia in 1910 to advise the Federal Government's Postal Commission. Telephone exchanges were established in Adelaide with (48 subscribers), Hobart (10 subscribers) and Launceston (35 subscribers). The first exchange in Western Australia was established in 1887 and located in a small three-room cottage in Wellington Street, Perth with 17 subscribers. The year 1888 marked the opening of the Fremantle exchange in a small room at the rear of the Town Hall. There were nine subscribers. Australia's first automatic exchange was installed in the GPO in Sydney, in 1911, for internal use. But the first automatic exchange for public use was opened at Geelong in Victoria in the next year July 1912 with 800 subscribers. Melbourne's first automatic exchange was opened in the suburb of Brighton in 1914; the first public automatic exchange in NSW began operating at Newtown, Sydney in 1915; and Queensland's first was installed at South Brisbane in 1925. 1929 saw the opening of Tasmania's first automatic exchange in Hobart. an automatic telephone service. In June 1977, the manual telephone exchange at Swansea was replaced with an automatic service and made Tasmania the first State in Australia to have a fully automatic network. The half-century following Federation saw the growth of the automatic operation; a great extension of trunk line services; The automatic telephone contributed greatly to the early popularity of telephones in Australia. It was a quicker and more convenient way of communicating with another person on the same exchange — instead of having to go through tedious processes with the operator. From its introduction, the number of automatic telephones in operation grew to a remarkable extent. In 1886, the first trunk link of 16 km was connected to the exchanges of Adelaide and Port Adelaide in South Australia. Then, in 1907, the first inter-capital telephone trunk line was opened between Sydney and Melbourne. It was followed by a line between Melbourne and Adelaide in 1914. Sydney and Brisbane were linked in 1923, and Perth and Adelaide in 1930. In 1930, the first overseas calls from Australia came possible with the introduction of a radiotelephone service to England, and through there to Europe and America. A similar service opened to New Zealand in the same year. Initially, trunk channels linked different manual trunk exchanges. It was necessary for a succession of trunk operators to connect the appropriate channels, one after the other until the connection was made. As trunk traffic grew. the system became increasingly unsuitable. More trunk operators had to be employed and so labour costs increased. It was a tedious and slow way of making a long-distance call, and it was sometimes hard to hear, particularly when several exchanges were linked With technical advances, trunk switching moved from manual operation through a partly automatic phase. Automatic transit switching equipment was used and only a single operator was required to connect a trunk call to a wanted automatic subscriber. Until well beyond the middle of this century, the majority of trunk traffic went through this single telephonist control. In 1953, the number of telephones in use in Australia passed the one million mark. By then, the need for improvement in the automatic exchanges was becoming well recognised. The need was for a telephone switching system which would do a better job more economically than the conventional step-by-step ex-change. This led to the adoption of the Crossbar system as the standard in automatic telephone exchanges in 1960. The introduction of Crossbar switching was a big step forward in the automation of trunk calls. It substituted automatic switching and charging equipment for the originating trunk operator, and improved the quality of the system radically. Before the introduction of the Crossbar system there were often very long delays in obtaining a booked trunk call, and the quality of sound was often very poor. With Crossbar, Subscriber Trunk Dialing (STD) became a reality. A trunk call by STD was as easy to make and almost as fast to connect as a local call.The item was made around the 1940s and used up until the 1970s in manual cord telephone exchanges as a way to time and charge users for trunk calls made over the telecom system of the time. Post Master General dept. - Trunk Call Timer.Inscribed PMG, C. of A, 37. Bell chimes at 3 min increments.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, timer, trunk call, telephone, cord exchange -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Label, Cramond & Dickson, Early 20th century
... and Dickson Outfitters, General Drapers, Importers &c ,WARRNAMBOOL... MEN'S OUTFITTING WARRNAMBOOL .4,.5,.5.1 C&D Reliable Footwear ...The Cramond and Dickson Store was a major one in Warrnambool operating from 1856 to 1973. Both John Glass Cramond and James Dickson , the original firm partners were prominent in community affairs in Warrnambool. These labels are important ones because the Cramond and Dickson store was major one on the corner of Liebig and Timor Streets, Warrnambool. We have several articles emanating from this department store. .1,.2, .3 black paper rectangular adhesive label with white text in varied fonts and a space for writing. The reverse indicates that it has been removed from another piece of paper. .4,.5,.5.1 Cream rectangular adhesive labels with gold coloured text and a decorative border. .5 has a tear on the lower edge . .5.1 has a piece of 'blu tack' on the reverse. .6,.7 White rectangular card with dark blue text and a decorative border. .8 Cream rectangular label with dark blue text and a decorative border. It is discoloured..1,.2,.3 From Cramond & Dickson GENERAL DRAPERY GLOVES HOSIERY MILLINERY MANTLES UNDERCLOTHING MEN'S OUTFITTING WARRNAMBOOL .4,.5,.5.1 C&D Reliable Footwear. Description --------- Size --- Last--- No. .6,.7 MANUFACTURED EXPRESSELY FOR CRAMOND AND DICKSON WARRNAMBOOL Size....... Qual..... .8 FROM Cramond and Dickson Outfitters, General Drapers, Importers &c ,WARRNAMBOOL A pencilled mark is C c1900 . cramond and dickson store, drapers., men's outfitters., mantles, underclothing -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Box, Tatura & District Co-Operative Housing Society Ltd, 1964 - 1981
Applications for Co-Operative Housing Loans. - 1964 - 1981Dark brown and white archival boxandrews r, bear r, baldwin e, batey l, beer m, beqir t, boccabella a, boschetti p, brown j, bunn j, caiafa g, callaghan j, cassidy j, cleary p, clement r, corrigan v, cross d, doller h, downie t, draper r, elliott s, gale d, gledhill j, gledhill k, glover a, green d, greenaway i, gregory w, hepworth r, hoelter c, iorio c, kiss j, letizia f, lockwood r, matheson r, mcardle b, mcintyre f, mcleod b, mcmahon f, muto d, nash b, oliver r, pinner l, rogers a, ross s, serra a, sinclair j, trevaskis j, wall f, whiteacre g, willaton a, williams r, tatura, housing loans, documents, agreements -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Baptist Church Members c 1930's
Books on loan from Stawell Baptist Church.Copy of B/W photograph of men and women in front of brick building. 3 rows of peopleRow R L ?, Charlie Carter, Ray Kingston, A.?, TedNikkelson, Bob Blachford, Alex Bernhardt Shubert 2 Kyle Crossett, Gladys Crossett, Miss Edith G Dulcie Corrye, Florence Willy, Maisy Elliot 3 Daisy Kennedy, Rev N.S. Draper, Mrs Draper Dulcie Corrie & Berhardt Shubert. Married Florence E Willy & Ted Nikkelson Married at churcch 26/12/42 tr lo died Funeral service in Baptist church by Rev. Arlr B. Carter & Maisie Elliot Not Married.baptist church -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Baptist Church Group
Stawell Baptist Church group c 1930's Back Row Charlie Carter, Ray Kingston, Alan Reeves, Ted Nikkelson, Bob Blachford, (hidden) Alex Robey, Ernhardt Schubert. Centre Row. Kyle Crossett, Gladys Crossett, Edith Gresswell, Dulcie Corrie, Florence Willy, Maisy Elliot, Phillis Morris, Front Row. Daisy Kennedy, Rev. N. s. Draper, Mrs. Draper, Win Lea. The original photograph belonged to Mr E. R. Nikkelson and taken at the time Rev. N.S. Draper was the minister. Black & White original photograph and copy of Stawell Baptist Church Group c 1930's stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, C. Herbert Photo, Upper Main Street Stawell c1880, 1880s
Upper Main St. Looking East (Herbert Photo) Businesses are the Cash Store, J. Webb, J Allingham Draper, Chadwicks Draper, Commercial Hotel. Two Story Oriental Bank Building / O'Driscoll solicitors. Horse drawn cart in street. On right is the side of Mechanics Institute, R H Wadsworth Watchmaker. c 1880's. Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878streetscape, businesses -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Main Street Stawell looking West from Layzell Street 1878
1878 photo of Main St. Scenes looking West from Layzell St. Wooden building on left is Foresters Hotel on corner of Patrick Street. D. Fern Hotel / Times Office, McKeller Building with Draper sign. Across Main street from left in distance is J Allingham Draper, Chadwick & Co Drapers / Liddiard's , D. Telford Produce Grocer, Bank of Victoria, Oriental Bank / O'Driscoll's, J. Punchard Furniture, A.B. Clemes, Bennett & Briston, Union Bank Australia, R.W, Dane Grocer on corner of Layzell Street. Same view as 6730-2 0539-2 Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878stawell businesses streetscape -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Main & Wimmera Streets corner looking West c1878
Corner of Main & Wimmera Streets looking West. 1878. Union Hotel or Coffee Palace formerly Castlemaine Hotel , Stawell Town Hall, Grocer, A. Brown Wholesale Retail, McAlpine Tinsmith Plumber, J. Porch Draper, Chemist, Methodist Church roofline. Stawell Post Office, Akins Seedsman and Stationer.Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878stawell business streetscape -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Commercial Bank of Australia
Features R-L: Commercial Bank of Australia, C. Mitchell Newsagency, Charles Brady Draper. East end of Hogan Street. Features a girl child crossing the street; womand and child at newsagent's shopfront.tatura, buildings, historic, costume, children, female -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Panorama of Stawell from Big Hill with Whims & Poppet Heads Victorian Views Collection C Herbert c.1880s
Views from Big Hill Sloane Street Fisher Street areas looking towards West. Mining in foreground of photo. Upper Main Street and Patrick Street Streetscapes visible. Mathers and Franklin. Agnew Draper. J R Franklin? Draper. Coffee Palace formerly Castlemaine Hotel , Town Hall visiblePanorama of Stawell from Big Hill showing Sloane's St. / Fisher St. areas. The photo has Whims & Poppet Heads in the foreground. There are around 6 copes of the photograph. Victorian Views. C. Herbert. Photo. Copyright Registered. Stawellstawell, panorama, mining, streetscape -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Main Street Stawell looking West with Geo. Mitchell shop on the right c 1955 -- Coloured
Coloured photo c 1955 Main Street Scene looking West. Geo Mitchell Draper on right with Coles and Macrows. On the left E. Dale & Co. shop sign is visible. Either side of the street has cars parked at an angle with a soft canopy car parked on the left side.Colour photograph looking down Main St Stawell with the Grampians in the distance c 1955. This coloured photo has shops either side in view and cars parked at an angle along the street. Coles, Macrows and Geo. Mitchell shops are on the right and E. Dale & Co shop sigh is visible on the left.stawell business streetscape -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Upper Main Street Looking East 1886
Upper Main Street Looking East 1886. From left J Allingham Drapers. J Chadwick & Co Drapers. Bank of Victoria partly obscured, Commercial Hotel, Oriental bank, Punchard's Furniture. On right is the side of Mechanics Institute obscured. B.S. Dawson Chemists & Wadsworth Watchmaker. English Scottish & Australian Bank . Upper Main Street scene with people standing in roadway, Side of cart visible on left. c 1880stawell streetscape -
Hume City Civic Collection
Photograph, 3/11/1985
The photograph is of the Sunbury Junior Fire Brigade in uniform standing by a fire truck driven by their leader, Ron Fisher.A black and white photograph of twenty-four boys and girls next to the Sunbury fire truck with drivers.country fire authority, fire brigades, fisher, ron, veitch, j., draper, f., hurford, t., hayes, b., thomson, s., carroll, d., riley, kelders, sheppard, m., burckeridge, allan, brock, k., dawson, sulac, l., r., morris, tuvey, g., krishna pillay, c., baird, peters, ashley, -, sebastian, p., fire engines, motor vehicles, george evans collection -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Container - Greeting Card Box, TC Beirne & Co, The Horseshoe : Cabinet of Artistic Autograph Christmas & New Year Cards with Envelopes, c.1898
The Brisbane Courier (7 Dec 1898) carried an advertisement for greeting cards, of which the horseshoe box is one. It was retailed by T. C. Beirne and Co., Cash Drapers, The Valley, Brisbane. "CHRISTMAS CARDS. Well-assorted Packets and Boxes of beautiful Christmas and New Year Cards at the following startling prices :-Assorted Cards in Packet: The "Snowdrift" Packet, containing 25 cards, 4¾d; postage, 2d. extra. "The Scarlet Berry" Packet, containing 50 cards, 6¾d; postage, 4d. extra. Assorted Cards, in Boxes, with Envelopes : The Horse-shoe Box, containing 10 cards and envelopes, 4¾d;..."Maroon cardboard box with silver decorative cover. The overall design is of a horse shoe surrounded by garlands.HORSESHOE / THE CABINET OF ARTISTIC AUSTOGRAPH AND CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS AND ENVELOPESephemera, greeting cards -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Document - Newspaper article, Eltham's growth has been rapid in recent years, c.1960
ELTHAM’S GROWTH HAS BEEN RAPID IN RECENT YEARS Unknown local paper c.1960s Recent years have seen a rapid change in the appearance of Eltham’s business centre - so rapid, in fact, that the growth of premises has been almost 300%. For more than thirty-five years Eltham had little more than a dozen traders - the town's business area spreading from Pryor Street in the north, to Pitt Street in the south. The greatest density of businesses - no more than a handful of shops - were situated in the present shopping centre but other essential services such as the Post Office, were located half a mile away. As the town's population grew and the need for more shops became apparent, the growth was centralised around the railway station and Shire hall. Few of the old premises are used for their original form of business today, though many are still in existence. One of the oldest (seen clearly in the illustration) still in use is now Ferrari's Greengrocery. This shop was Eltham's butchery in early days, conducted by Jim Ryan. Up to twenty years ago, Mr. Ryan ran his business from the shop. whilst his son toured Eltham in his horse and cart, cutting his customers' orders as he went from door to door. Another business - one of the few still trading in the same goods-was Burgoyne's Hardware. This is now owned by Mr. R. Clinton, a new shop has recently been added and shortly the old premises will disappear completely. The Burgoyne family were well known to Eltham's population. The Post Office and Store (then in Main Road, near Bridge Street) was run by Mr. and Mrs. Burgoyne. The Post Office was later moved, and attached to the hardware store. OLD HOTEL In this same area was the old Eltham Hotel, almost opposite the present hotel. The building still stands, but has been converted into a house. The hitching rail can still be seen by the roadside. Back in the township was Barber's Blue Gum store, later conducted by Mrs. Burges (mother of Garnet Burges) and claimed to be Eltham's oldest shop. Further down the road, just past the hardware store, was the barber shop and billiard saloon. Next door was E. J. Andrew's news agency, library and State Savings Bank. Eltham's original chemist's shop, or dispensary as it was called, is now an electrical repair shop. On this side of the street too, was Mrs. Monteith - Draper. Mr Monteith was the owner of Eltham' s bus service. This bus service had no regular route, but deposited passengers at the point nearest their homes - a. door to door taxi service. Next to Mrs. Monteith stood another grocery - and general store, and next again, the local blacksmith. Another of Butcher Ryan's sons was Eltham's blacksmith and obviously an enterprising man he conducted a timber business next door to his smithy's shop. These two premises are still run by one man - Garnet Burges. BOOM STARTS Twenty years ago, when Thompson's took over Eltham's pharmacy they occupied the old shop adjoining the Shire hall. The building of Thompson's new premises, from which· they operate today, was the beginning of Eltham's recent growth and development. With another grocery store and a bakery at the corner of York Street, a butcher near Franklin Street, a cobbler's shop opposite the State School (did you ever wonder what that-little building attached to one of Eltham's oldest houses had been?), and an estate agency conducted by Mr. Clark, now Eltham Real Estate - only one trader remained - and today, still carries on, the only original owner of one of Eltham's .oldest established businesses - Mr. Dave Lyon, of Lyon Bros. Garage, which was formerly located in what was later used as Chenowyth's Foundry in Main Road. From the early twenties until little more than six or seven years ago that was the picture of Eltham. Some businesses had changed hands - many years before Mr. C. Rains had acquired Andrew's news agency, Mrs. Monteith's drapery had become Mrs. R. Smith's home-made cake shop, to change again and again to many other types of business. But generally, Eltham was unchanged, for nearly thirty years. Then suddenly new shops mushroomed. The new news agency and drapery, the chemist and adjoining shops, a new butcher, a green grocer and several more. POPULATION DOUBLED In the space of a few years, fifteen new shops, two banks, a restaurant and a post office were built at Eltham. New types of businesses found a ready market in an area which was quickly almost doubling its population. A little over twelve months ago, another wave of progress hit Eltham. Since then eight more shops have been built - a cake shop and fish shop in Dalton [sic – Dudley] Street - for building areas are unprocurable in the Main Street shopping centre now – have been built by Mr. D. Kimball; a new ladies’ and children’s wear shop has been opened by Rains; Eltham Dry Cleaners have another of these new shops, and Mr. R. Clinton has built elaborate new premises. Further down the road, Mr. C. Campbell has built a new butcher's shop, and next door, at present under construction, are a self service store and a shop which Mr. J. Hodges will open on completion. In addition to these new shops, Mr. J. Millett has extended his grocery to almost twice its original size. FLOURISHING Outside the central area, other businesses are flourishing. Latimer's felt factory is being developed in a picturesque rustic setting; P. J. Timber and Trading Company have recently completed a large showroom and timber yard, and in the town itself Nicholson and Merritt are now completing the extension of their foot wear factory to double its former area. This is Eltham today. Progress is moving rapidly in this rural area on the fringe of the metropolis. Less than a decade has seen vast development. The years to complete that span of time will see even greater changes and greater prosperity in this heart: of the Diamond Valley. OLD LANDMARK GOES Perhaps the most famous landmark in Eltham's' business section disappeared last Wednesday when the towering blue gum in Pryor Street at the rear of Main Road shops was felled. The tree, stated to be more than 80 feet high, was the one for which the adjoining café was named, when that business was Eltham’s only provision store, long before the turn of the century. Mr. J. Millett, who now owns the property on which the tree stood, deeply regretted its removal, but was mindful of the need for expansion in the business area. The "Old Blue Gum" was removed by Mr. A. Wilson, expert tree feller, from Heidelberg. Its proportions might be assessed by these facts – it took a gang of experienced men two days to completely fell and clear the tree, and, falling sections being brought down by cable tipped electricity wires on the opposite side of Pryor Street.andrew's news agency, bakery, barber shop, barber's blue gum store, billiard saloon, blacksmith, blue gum, burgoyne's hardware, butcher, cake shop, chemist's shop, chenowyth's foundry, cobbler's shop, dave lyon, dispensary, draper shop. mr monteith, dudley street, e. j. andrew's news agency, electrical repair shop, eltham bus service, eltham butchery, eltham dry cleaners, eltham hotel, eltham railway station, eltham real estate, eltham shire hall, eltham shopping centre, eltham shops, eltham town centre, estate agency, expert tree feller, ferrari's greengrocery, fish shop, foot wear factory, franklin street, garnet burges, general store, grocery, heidelberg, horace clark, jim ryan, ladies’ and children’s wear shop, latimer's felt factory, library, lyon bros. garage, main road, mr. a. wilson, mr. c. campbell, mr. c. rains, mr. d. kimball, mr. j. hodges, mr. j. millett, mr. r. clinton, mrs. burges, mrs. monteith, mrs. monteith's drapery, mrs. r. smith's home-made cake shop, nicholson and merritt, p. j. timber and trading company, pitt street, post office, pryor street, self service store, shopping centre, state savings bank, taxi service, thompson's pharmacy, york street -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Port Boys football club, 1956
Photograph of Port Boys football club 1956sport - australian rules football, tommy lahiff, graham lahiff, b lillis, c davis, tony tucker, alby dunn, f knight, a simmons, j davis, j brooks, b lee, j coghlan, j mahoney, a francis, bob dunn, r bragg, p kerr, b francis, j cassidy, i badger, r draper, f mahoney -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Headwear - Slouch hat, Les Jones, Unite Felt Hats Pty Ltd, 1940
Given to PMH&PS by the local RSL Branch on their closure in May 1998.Slouch hat from uniform of Digger Les Jones, signed by mates in his regiment and kept by the RSL Sub BranchSignatures all over!war - world war ii, societies clubs unions and other organisations, costume, returned services league, rsl, les jones, les gilbert, r mcgregor, v hallas, john thomson, joe williamson, 'bluey' hobson, braemer, ron moss, bob wille, bruce peterson ?, 'bully' hayes, ted tile, bill dean, max wright, shields, alan condie, r johnson, geoff ruddick ?, lawrie ward, alec cassidy ?, max nankervis, ken muirhead ?, bert foster ?, d reynolds, jack bennett, jim chislets ?, spence, doc jefferies ?, pringle, les osbourne ?, r c kearney, j h clarke ?, collins ?, wal hooper ?, norm watson, don draper ?, r augustine ? -
Charlton Golden Grains Museum Inc
Photograph, Wylie's Buildings 1877
Earliest known photo of the stores. Johnson's Bridge store built 1873. Procter's c. 1876. Western end, left hand side of High Street, Charlton. Earliest known photo of the storesPhotograph of Peter Johnson's Bridge Store High St Charlton. Titled Wylie's Buildings 1877. Group of people on footpath. Peter Johnson's store, Reed Chemist shop, Procter's Butcher shop, Bank of New South WalesWylie's Buildings 1977peter johnson a.d. 1877 general storekeeper, peter johnson, draper, iron monger, timber merchant, general produce, jas reed, druggist, butcher, r procter & son -
Charlton Golden Grains Museum Inc
Photograph, W. Wylie shop
W. Wylie's store, west end of High St, Charlton. built by Peter Johnson c. 1872, managed by Mr. Gatwood c.1880s, then bought by William Wylie. Group of people standing outside on footpath, young man on a bicycle, 2 children and a man in upstairs windowMounted unframed photograph. W. Wylie's store, west end of High St, Charlton. Group of nine people standing outside on footpath, includes three women, a young man on a bicycle being held by another young man, 2 children and a man in upstairs windowClarke Bros Photographers Windsorw. wylie, general importer, draper & outfitter, high st charlton -
Whittlesea Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - Original photograph, Whittlesea Football Club, c. 1930
Whittlesea Football Club c.1930. Persons identified in the photograph, Jim Coulthard, Dick Blair, Jack Rawlings, Tom Draper, Walter Andrew, Syd Beney, Harry Hyland, Harry Cornfoot, Doc Blair, Bert Blair, Jack Gibbs, Alf Blair, Mascot - Sonny Blair and Todd Hillier.Black and white toned photograph of the Whittlesea Football Club mounted on cardboard.whittlesea football club, jim coulthard, dick blair, jack rawlings, tom draper, walter andrew, syd beney, harry hyland, harry cornfoot, doc blair, bert blair, jack gibbs, alf blair, sonny blair, todd hillier -
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Document - Letter, Photocopy, William Lockwood to Education Department regarding Scrubby Creek School, 1887, unknown
Mr. William Henry Lockwood (of Whittlesea, Victoria) with his wife Naomi, née Bullock, and their children, James, Joseph, Mary, Martha and Wilhelmina. The Lockwood family were early settlers of Whittlesea. William Henry Lockwood was born in Glossop, Derbyshire c.1832. He migrated to Victoria on the first voyage of the Marco Polo in 1853 and married Naomi Bullock in St. Peter’s Church of England Melbourne on 27th December 1856. They had nine children, four of whom died in infancy and were buried in Yan Yean Cemetery. The family lived in Whittlesea in a two-storey home, which faced Church Street. William was a talented engineer and architect. He commenced work as a contractor and surveyor for the Whittlesea Roads’ Board and became Whittlesea Shire Engineer in the 1870’s. He continued in this role until his death in 1912. During his time as engineer he built many buildings, bridges and roads within the Whittlesea Shire including the Whittlesea Courthouse and the Whittlesea State School. On two of our local bridges, which were constructed during 1901, he was the engineer and builder. These are the Darebin Creek Bridge in Bridge Inn Road, Wollert and the Barber’s Creek Bridge in Plenty Road, Yan Yean. Both bridges are no longer in use. The Bridges are Monier reinforced concrete with bluestone abutments and were designed by Sir John Monash. In addition to his engineering work he was Postmaster and Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Whittlesea. He was appointed as inaugural treasurer of the Shire of Whittlesea in January 1875 and was actively involved in other community organisations. In the last few years of his life he continued working in spite of ill health. In her diary, his wife Naomi documented his last months. One entry reads, “16 Oct 1911 My husband in his office with Shire Secretary comparing books for audit”. After William’s death his daughter, Martha Hannah became Postmistress and another daughter, Wilhelmina Naomi Priscilla became Registrar for Whittlesea. A third daughter Sister Mary Emma was involved in charity work throughout Victoria working for the children of Sutherland Homes. She also appears to have acted as Registrar at Whittlesea after her sister Wilhelmina died in 1923. William Henry Lockwood died on January 12th 1912. The local community held him in high esteem for his contribution to the Whittlesea area. His wife Naomi died 22nd December 1912. The Lockwood family grave can be seen at Yan Yean Cemetery.1 page, photocopy of a hand written letterLetter dater 17 January 1887, from W. H. Lockwood, Draper, Grocer, Ironmonger, Post Office Store, Church St, Whittlesea, and Silvery Creek, Plenty Rangeslockwood, scrubby creek school -
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Functional object - Stiff & Gannon Money Till c. 1940s
The money till was used in the Stiff & Gannon General Store, Hardware, Draper and Grocery Merchants in High Street, Wodonga, which opened in August 1946 and closed on 28 February 1970.Local significance as Stiff & Gannon was a major retail outlet and employer in Wodonga from the mid 1940s. A wooden money till with two drawers. The bottom drawer has a metal handle and both drawers are lockable. Paper slot in lid for invoices"TRADE Docket Co. MARK / DOCKET BOOK Co. [AUST] /DISTRIBUTORS FOR W.A." on a plaque attached to one end of the top surface.business, hardware, drapery, wodonga, stiff & gannon, general store -
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Photograph - Send off for Alexander Frederick Reid OBE, MBE, 1956
Alex Reid was born in 1891 and began work on the Victorian Railways in 1907. He enlisted with the A.I.F in 1915. He served in Egypt and the Suez Canal but was discharged on medical grounds having contracted typhoid and dysentery. In 1917 he re-enlisted in the Anzac Light Horse. On his return to England, he survived the torpedoing of HMAT Ballarat and then served in France. On discharge from the army, Alex returned to the Victorian Railways and transferred to Wodonga. He was employed driving the “Spirit of Progress” and remained as “Driver in Charge” until his retirement in 1956. Alex was awarded the MBE in 1951 and the OBE in 1963 for his tireless efforts on behalf of Returned Servicemen and their families. He continued to work as a welfare officer for the RSL. As well as continued service to the RSL, Alex served as a member of the Wodonga High School advisory committee for 35 years and sat on the bench in the Wodonga Court for 15 years in his capacity as Justice of the Peace. Alexander Frederick Reid O.B.E died in Wodonga on 7 January 1979.This image represents a farewell work function for an outstanding member of the Wodonga community.A large black and white framed photo of a group of men attending a send off function in Wodonga in 1956.Alex Reid send off 1955 Back Row L to R Stan Warnock, F. Fulford, W. McEachern, S. Egan, P. Doolan, K. Moore, A. Smyth, M. Seymour, W. McAnanly, M. Flanagan, L. Gregson, L. Snow, H. Fraser, R. Cooper, W. Squires Second Back Row L to R K. Williams, W. Toomey, K. Coleman, F. Thistleton, K. Ziebell, P. Gough (S.M), C. Hughes, F. Dempsey, C. Craig, W. Baldock, J. Robinson, W. Odgers, C. Whitehead, G. Taylor, J. Muir, P. McDonald, W. Riley, A. Thompson, K. Robinson, B. Strachan, W. Walsh, T. Willoughby Seated second Row L to R J. Schmidt, A. Wagner, J. O’Donnell, J. Dawe, F. Leitch, J. Anderson, T. Brown, A. Elvish, F. Boadle, A. Reid, J. Draper (Police). N. Davey, F. Caine (P), A. Padgett, L. Burroughs (P), B. Saul, F. Weatherall, H. Binder, D. Sutton, T. Cosgriff, C. Clancy, ? , M. Nowadice, J. Karugan Front Row Seated L to R D. Shannon, S. Cuper, L. Cheesley. C. Williams, L. Madgeric, V. Snow. ?, A. Beach, L. Cross, C. McNamara, ? , Don Shepard.alexander frederick reid, eminent wodonga residents, ww1 veterans wodonga, hmat ballarat