Note by T.H. Kneen 19 November 1991," S.E. entrance to Assembly Hall and rear entry to girls change rooms. Garden bed foreground right featuring zinnias."Black and white photograph. Entrance to the Hall from the Gardens. Girls' changing rooms on the right. Zinnias in foreground.assembly hall, zinnias, administration building, hall, girls' changing room, main building

John L. Sutherland graduated in 1954. See B09.0004(42) photograph of him.1. 10 black and white photographs, some with inscriptions, in Ilford Films paper packet - Burnley and Wilson'd Promontory excursion. 2. Black and white negatives from Kodak packet containing 76 negatives, proofs made and scanned - Burnley and excursions. 3. Kodak packet containing roll of 35 negatives - Burnley and Dinner Dance.4. Cardboard Kodak negative box with roll of 34 negatives - excursion to Wilson's Promontory.5. CD of scanned 3 and 4. j. l. sutherland, students, wilson's promontory excursion, administration building, pruning, helen eastman, glasshouses, cacti, students working outside, cricket, luffmann ponds, horses, orchard, insid, students in class, locker room, changing room, excursions, dahlias, tractor, royal agricultural show, student outside classes, speech day

Donated by Justine Curry (nee Mitchelson) (1954) for the 1991 Centenary. Also includes photocopy of her Certificate of Competency and her Reports for 1953 and 1954. Note (5) Frame for School Bell which used to be on top of the Pavilion is on the ground outside the Administration Building, later installed above the door.Photograph album collection of 61 b/w photographs of different sizes dated 1953-1954, some labelled. Were attached to magnetic pages but have come loose and have been transferred to plastic pockets. Also photocopy of work experience. A newspaper cutting. Certificate of Competency. Reports.Labelled, "Justine Curry 4/11A Margate Pd., Margate, Qld 4020." justine curry (nee mitchelson), administration building, luffmann ponds, yarra river, helen eastman, orchard, wilson's promontory, lloyd davies, mr kneen, students, e. b. littlejohn, jennifer edwards, botanic gardens melbourne, cricket, student groups, certificate of competency, school report, justine curry, justine mitchelson, t h kneen, luffman ponds, lily ponds, royal botanic gardens, ann spruzen, teena, garden views, school bell, orchard gates, orchard border, wilson's promontory camp, mervyn, boys changing room, john rittinger, barb mckay, carmel devaney, marie-louise leng, john sutherland

Diving Tower Valentine Series Card No. 1815. Post card is a view of the diving platform with the change rooms at the lake. On the verandah of the change room are people in swimming costumes and one person about to dive into the lake. There is also an enlarged photo of the post card. c 1930-1940.Valentine Series Post Card No 1815 of the Diving Tower and Change rooms at Lake c 1930 - 1940. The post card is black & white with trees along the lake and behind the change room. Valentine Series No. 1815 THE SWIMMING POOL, STAWELL on the back Published by the Valentine Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Queen St., Melb.stawell

Photograph - black and white. A photo of a group of men, miners, standing between Change-Room No.1 and Change-Room No.2. Written on front of photo 'Central Deborah - Mine, Bendigo 1946.Pall Mall Photo.organization, business, central deborah mine, central deborah miners.

nine children Gladys and George Legg named, sitting outside a hut used as a changing room at the western end of Bullock Island a favoured swimming place as the water was always clean and fresh from tidal movement Lakes Entrance Victoria. Gladys Legg - centre front. George Legg at back wearing a cap Black and white photograph of a group of nine children Gladys and George Legg named, sitting outside a hut used as a changing room at the western end of Bullock Island a favoured swimming place as the water was always clean and fresh from tidal movement Lakes Entrance Victoriaislands, people, recreation facilities, buildings

The Sunbury Swimming Club held their events at the Sunbury Swimming Club. The narrow part of the creek was known as 'the Nook' where children had to swim across to get their swimming certificates.A sepia photograph of Sunbury Swimming Club, the building in the background is the ladies change room. Unmounted postcardsunbury swimming club, the nook, sunbury swimming pool, swimming pools, gregor, alex, billinghurst, beryl, francey, sandra, sport, george evans collection

The photo features an identified member of the Emerald Football Club.B/W photograph of Ces Svanberg, Emerald Football Club, in the changing room in his uniform, lacing up a boot. Rear (handwritten): Ces Svanberg Emerald Football Clubemerald football club, svanberg

Black and White photograph of John Phillips constructing the framework for the toilet change room area in the NW corner of the depot, 1980 or 1981. Reported on work being commenced in the 1980 - 81 Annual report. Photo Carolyn Dean. tramways, trams, btps, depot

Photo of Port Melbourne football ground (North Port Oval), taken after grandstand was rebuilt (around 1926-) after the 1918 burning of the earlier one. Opposing teams are seen headed into the changing room structure that was constructed in the meantime.sport - recreational grounds, sport - australian rules football, doug smallpage, north port oval

Document: 2 copies of complimentary guide to the Central Deborah Gold Mine. Details information about poppet legs and shaft, change room, drying room, first aid room, ore bins, boiler, stoke hold, winding engine, boiler feed pump, electric compressor, dteam driven compressor and blacksmith's shop.Central Deborah Gold Mine NLorganization, business, central deborah gold mine, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet collection: central deborah gold mine nl, goldmining

Set of two colour photographs of the depot floor at the rear of No. 2 and 3 road after hotmixing and No. 2 road, between the rails on Friday March 13. Photographs by Warren Doubleday. On Kodak Paper. 848.1 - shows area at the rear of No. 2 and 3 road, with change room in the background. 848.2 - shows area between 1 and 3 roads, with 39, 26 and 38 in background. See March 1998 Fares Please!depot, floor surface

Mt Beauty residents swam in the local rivers. The new complex was safer and included amenities eg. toilets, change room etc. It was easier to supervise and teach swimmers and to develop their skills in water.The swimming pool enabled residents and visitors of the Kiewa Valley to swim in safety and to improve their water skills.Two Black and White plans each showing the proposed buildings and pool areas of the Mt Beauty Swimming Pool and Sporting Complex. Dated 26th June 1985mt beauty swimming pool, shire of bright

Joan O'Shea Collection. Central Deborah Gold Mine Bendigo. Promotional material. Chronological History, Poppet legs and shaft, Change Room, Caretakers or rag pickers room, Drying room, first aid room, carbide light room, Underground, carpenters shed, ore bins and loading bays, stamper battery, wilfley table, berdan pans, laboratory, display room, boiler, stroke hold, winding engine, boiler feed pump, electric driven compressor, steam driven compressor, blacksmith's shop.Photograph Courtesy Philip Beer.mining, marketing, central deborah mine.

See Item 11000.189Hanro Sample Room Photo: Tall Room with 3 banks of Studio type lighting. At the back is a glass door. The walls are painted wood panelling to the door line in front of that is the reception desk with a curved desk that has a vase of glowers. A filing cabinet is to the right with cupboards to the back. A black phone sits on the desk. To the right of the room is a display of knitwear in wood style cabinetry with a change room and Hanro underwear display. To the left you can see part of the rack display. At the bottom of the photo at either side is some sticky tape Box 116Aphotograph, building, hanro, hanro

5 pieces of information/advertising material for the Central Deborah Mine. A. Thankyou card presented to A. Richardson in appreciation of assistance with restoration of the mine. B&C. Diagram of the layout of the mine area, including highlights of underground tours, Key dates of the mine history and a map key to layout on the front of the pamphlet. D&E. Complimentary copy of a guide to the Central Deborah Gold Mine, showing the layout of the area and a description of each numbered site at the site. F&G. Advertising brochure, similar to the previous copy, D&E, with numbered locations at the site, and descriptions of each site. Includes additonal information re, Room 2 (change room) and Model room. H&I. Pamphlet of the mine area, showing chronological history, and short description of theach numbered site.gold mining, miners' safety cage, central deborah mine.

Football matches were a popular onshore activity and Annual reports note Reverend Weller in the 1920s managed to establish a temporary pitch and a change room facility near Port Melbourne. The donor, Wally Nancarrow, was a tailor in the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney (from Nov. 1927- Aug. 1935 on Trove) so the relation with the Melbourne Mission is unclear. The shield can be seen hanging above the canteen on item 1713 (dated c. 1950) and in the Celia Little Room. The Annual Report 1936 mentions a shield (p11) seen on page 15: "Football: The competition has been extended this year, and in the future is to include all matches played in Australian ports. The Victorian Missions to Seamen Shield is the present trophy, and the Assistant-Chaplain has been appointed Organiser and Honorary Secretary." The shield may have been done after the one mentioned in the annual report and we can only speculate nothing was ever engraved because of WW2.The collection holds many historic and later contemporary colour photos of crew football teams posed onshore and on decks. Sports and games were an essential part of the welfare services offered by the Mission when seamen had long shore leave.Wooden shield featuring two circular disk silver plaques one on each side at the top. One with the engraving of a ship and the other with the engraving of a footballer. At the top in the centre is an anchor in relief gilded with a rope attached, falling across the front of it and coiling at the bottom of the anchor. Two flags crossing over in the middle of the shield; one the Australian Navy flag and the other the Mission to Seamen flag. Laying over the top of the poles of the flags is a brass banner with the competition description engraved on it. At the bottom is a brass scroll with an inscription about who presented it and where. The shield has 12 smaller, blank silver shields along the sides. The shield is kept inside a wooden display cabinet with a glass front and navy material back ground.engraved on brass banner: For annual competition by crew of merchant ships presented by Wally Nancarrow, Sydneyshield, soccer, football, anchor, brass, silver, wally nancarrow, mission to seafarers victoria, walter james nancarrow (1885 - 1961)

Red cover note book dated 30/4/(19)15 with pencilled handwritten heading, Inventory of Plant , Brewery, W & S, [Wine & Spirits] Cordials, Malt House . Inside page is headed 'Top Room' and lists in handwriting numerous items which equipped a brewing operation. Three following pages are headed 'Wine & Spirit Store' and lists various related items. Two following pages are headed 'Brewery Cellar' and list various related items. A page and a half headed 'O W Ice Works' also lists various related items. A page headed 'Changing Room' lists various items. 'Beer Cooler & Store' page has a list of items as well as does five pages headed 'Factory'. Two pages headed 'Cooper Shed', single page headed 'Carpenter Shed', two pages 'Malt House' two pages 'New Chilling Plant, two pages 'Stable' single page 'Blacksmith', Fire Brigade Hose & Connection' ,and finally under 'Motor Cars' heading a Clement Bayard and a Talbot are named with a value respectively of 150 pounds and 500 pounds each.bendigo, industry, cohn bros brewery

654.1 - 14 pages (7 A4 sheets, photocopied onto pink paper), titled "Around the Tracks", Preston Workshops news and reports, including Norm Cross notes on the film Malcolm, Bob Spark's Poetry, workshops consultative committee report and other workshop notes. 654.2 - single sheet pink A4 paper, photocopied, title "Stop Press" about changes to the Mess Room and car park at Preston Workshop.trams, tramways, preston workshops, malcolm, staff

The Napoleon (BML) gold mine (1932) was located near McDougall Road, Golden Gully, between Martin and Hattam Street. It had a depth of 921 feet. It was one of the latest and most lavish of Bendigo's mines. Plant and equipment were electrically driven. The four-compartment shaft, extra large by goldfield's standards, measured 17 feet 6 inches by 5 feet 2 inches and was cement lined below 900 feet instead of being red gum boxed as was the usual practice. The workshop was equipped to carry out all repairs for the equally lavish BML mines on the Nell Gwynne and Carshalton reefs. (The Gold Mines of Bendigo, Book 2, Arthur Victor Palmer) 'Napoleon BML Mines No Liability have issued a report for the fortnight ended September 5, where it states that the development scheme has been formulated and necessary equipment is being ordered. The Napoleon main shaft, (about 1700 feet south of the old Napoleon shaft) will be a four compartment shaft (17ft 6 inches by ft 2 inches inside the timber). aLevels will be opened at approximately 100 ft vertical intervals and cross-cuts extended approximately 125 ft each side of centre country to explore a cross-section across the anticline opposite to the shaft. At every fifth level, main drives will be extended north to connect with the old Napoleon shaft and south approximately 1800 ft. At the latter point, another cross-section of the anticline will be explored by rising and cross-cutting. The old Napoleon will be unwatered and on the 500ft and 1000 ft levels main drives will be driven to connect with main levels from the Napoleon main shaft to the south as well as being driven north 1800 ft where another cross-section of the anticline will be explored. Cross-sections further north and south may be developed as desired and also at intermediate points if necessary. Clearing and grading of the main shaft site are now in progress and the erection of the office and store building is proceeding. The design of engine room, change house and machine shops is now in hand and erection will proceed as soon as working plans and specifications are prepared.' The main shaft has been commenced at 3ft and advanced 10 ft. to 13 ft. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10975478?searchTerm=napoleon%20bml (The Argus, 8th. September 1934, 'Mining' page 18) Significant to mining history of Bendigo.Black and white photograph of a stamper head being lowered into position on the battery site of the Napoleon Reef Gold Mine. A wooden gantry supports the battery head as it being lowered. Three large concrete foundations are visible in immediate background, two of which have stampers already in position, the third stamper is being lowered onto the final foundation. In immediate foreground, 'boxing' is erected for future concrete pours. napoleon gold mine, napoleon reef gold mine

This Engine Room section of a ship's telegraph system was part of the equipment of the Ports and Harbour ship the SS Rip. The vessel serviced and maintained the lights and buoys at Port Phillip Bay and Queenscliffe. The SS Rip was possibly the former gunboat "Albert". The ship’s communication system that was used from the late 19th century to early-to-mid-20th-century is called an Engine Order Telegraph (E.O.T.) or ship’s telegraph. The system has two parts, the Bridge Section and the Engine Room Section. The Bridge Section is usually mounted on top of a pedestal, and the Engine Room Section is often attached to a vertical surface. The standard commands printed or stamped onto the dial are the directions of AHEAD and ASTERN, and the speeds of STOP, FULL, EASY, STD. BY. and FIN. ENG. The ship’s pilot on the Bridge of a vessel sends his Orders for speed and direction to the to the Engine Room with the E.O.T. He moves the lever or levers, depending on the number of engines the ship has, to change the indicator on the Bridge Section’s dial to point in the new direction and speed of travel. This change causes the Orders to be duplicated on the Engine Room Section’s dial and a bell to signal the change simultaneously. The engineer then adjusts the ship’s engines and steering equipment to follow the pilot’s Order. The manufacturer, Mulne Bros., was a copper and brass works at 166 Sussex Street Sydney, in December 1892, and previously from 1870 at 128 to 130 Sussex Street. The company made and sold a wide range of equipment including machinery and gauges for the Railways.The Engine Room section is significant for being part of the communications system on the ship SS Rip, owned by Melbourne's Ports & Harbours department and used to service and maintain the navigation signals of Port Phillip Bay and at Queenscliffe in the mid-20th century. The dial is an example of marine equipment made in Australia and used for the safety of Victorian vessels. It is also significant for being made by an early Australian manufacturer, Milne Brothers of Sydney.Engine Room Section of a ship’s telegraph or Engine Order Telegraph (E.O.T.). The round metal dial has inscriptions stamped around the edges. The inscriptions are nautical terms for direction and speed and include the maker’s details. The dial was made by Milne Bros. of Sydney. It was part of the equipment on the "SS Rip" in Victoria.Black paint around dial: "MILNE BROS. / MAKERS / SYDNEY" "FULL EASY STD. BY " "FIN ENG. EASY FULL" ""ASTERN" "STOP" "AHEAD"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, maritime museum, maritime village, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, marine technology, marine communications, engine order telegraph, e.o.t., ship’s telegraph, bridge section, engine room section, ship’s engine telegraph section, marine telegraph, milne bros., milne brothers, sydney, copper and brass works, ports & harbours ship, ss rip, gunboat albert, service ship, maintenance ship

The Ritz was situated near the corner of Lava and Liebig St. The site was originally a hotel which traded under various names, including The Prince of Wales Dining Room, The Stork The Red Lion and later the Princess Royal after a fire in 1880 and it was delicensed in 1900. it later became the Mia mia cafe before a change to the Ritz. A fragment from Warrnambool's past.Fragment of white plate with black and white check edge and logo of Ritz with Warrnambool in banner below it.Ritz Warrnambool.warrnambool, ritz cafe warrnambool

Myrtleford Ski Club is a non-commercial, family friendly club. It was one of the earliest lodges to be built at Falls Creek and was one of the earliest ski clubs formed and celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2013. In 1949, Myrtleford Ski Club obtained permission for occupancy and began planning the MSC Lodge. There were only three other huts on the mountain, Bogong Ski Club in an old Army hut, Skyline as the Ski Club of Victoria lodge and the Albury Ski Club lodge. The lodge was built mostly from donated materials. The basement was dug out and lined with stone from the Ruined Castle area, timber was cut (using cross-saws) from the Walpole properties and was milled then carted up to Falls Creek on either the Walpole or Calvert trucks. The iron on the roof was originally a tobacco kiln on Billy McNamara's property. The lodge has undergone many improvements over the years including a second storey added in the 1950’s, updating of accommodation, shower and toilet facilities to meet the changing needs of members. The lodge now caters for 38 people in a variety of shared rooms from two to eight beds per room. Toilet and shower facilities are also shared. The club has a Lodge Managers for the winter season. Myrtleford Ski Lodge was one of the earliest ski lodges built in the Falls Creek area in 1938. It is an excellent example of early sporting and community activities in the Upper Kiewa Valley area. Photograph shows family members, including women, involved in the construction.Sepia photograph of the building of the Myrtleford Ski Club about 1948Handwritten on the back of photograph in black pen - Building Myrtleford Ski Club (about 1948) Stamped on back of photograph - 6 2511myrtleford ski club, skiing, snow sports, victorian alps, falls creek

Notes by Jock Read who donated painting to the Society: “Site of present-day Eltham Mall The property was owned by a Mr David Harbison who was connected to one of the Melbourne daily newspapers who donated the property to the City Newsboys Society to be used as they required. The property consisted of two building blocks with one four roomed house known as the Cottage. The Secretary of the City Newsboys Society decided to use the property as a Rest Home for mothers of newsboys who needed a rest and could not afford a holiday. Miss Onians added another four roomed dwelling to the home which was known as the Bungalow. Another three roomed residence was erected at the rear of the cottage for the use of the Caretaker. The rear of the property was used as a camp area for the use of Troop of Boy Scouts known as the 13th Melbourne Troop which met at the Newsboys Society Hall in Little Collins Street. Later the name of the troop was changed to City Newsboys Troop who held their Christmas camps at Eltham and Hurstbridge alternating years. In 1930 the caretaker (Mr. Francis) became ill and resigned that position. I had been a member of the scout troop and offered the position as Honorary Caretaker which I held for eight years. The Homes were used regularly as such until the death of Miss Onians. It was sold later and used as private homes until the Eltham Mall was built.” Further research has determined that apparently, Harbison left £1,000 in his will for the City Newsboys Society and the Secretary, Miss Edith Onians built the rest home from these funds. It was opened on November 12, 1919. David Harbison Rest Home, Jock Read, City Newsboys Society, 13th Melbourne Troop, Boy Scouts, City Newsboys Troop, Miss Onions, Mr Francis, Arthur Street, Eltham, Eltham Mall, David HarbisonN.D. 16 x 36 cm Oil on Masonite board UnsignedInscribed on back "The David Harbison Rest Home
10 & 12 Arthur St. Eltham"

Fred looks back; Report: Linley Hartley, Picture: Ron Grant Teaching himself German again after 70 years is just one of the many tasks Fred Golgerth, of Greensborough, has undertaken and succeeded in during his lifetime. As the two year old tenth child of a German descendent, Fred learnt to speak German from an Aunt. But World War 1 was raging. Fred’s older brother had gone to Europe with the Australian forces, changing his name … to ….. to sound less German. “I used to get my bottom slapped for speaking German at home,” Fred said. Even his name was changed from Otto to the more anglicised Frederick. Fred claims his involvement with Eltham started two years before he was born! His sister, two years older than him, was a babe in arms when his parents bought a piece of grazing property in Mount Pleasant Rd. “It was about 24 acres on a spur of Mt Pleasant,” Fred said. “My parents bought it from Mr and Mrs Hughes. There was a two-room mud hut in wattle and daub that we lived in from time to time. “My parents had a dairy farm and dairy in West Coburg, and they bought the Mt Pleasant land to put the dry stock on. “At one stage my mother got very ill and my older sister took my younger sister and myself to Eltham for four or five months. I went down to Eltham Primary School then.” That wasn’t the only time Fred stayed in Eltham. His sister, Wilhemina, known as Willa, married Jim Watson who had the Eltham hotel for some years from the end of World War 1. Pillar to post living was the way Fred described his youth, when he stayed with one married sister after another. “After a while Will and Jim lived in the big house at the top of Pitt St, next to the Council depot, and the hotel was managed by Fitzsimmons who had a big place near the river down there on Fitzsimons Lane. There was no bridge in Fitzsimons Lane but we used to cross the river at a ford, rolling up our trouser legs so they wouldn’t get wet, and carrying our shoes. I’d o down to visit some friends I had in Templestowe. And sometimes Jim Watson took his horse drawn lorry across the ford on his way to the brewery, instead of going don through Heidelberg.” “The bridge across the Yarra in Fitzsimons was not built until 1961.” Fred Golgerth, was only a teenager when he was rolled off his pushbike under a car on the bend between Mt Pleasant Rd and the Diamond Creek bridge. He was hospitalised in the little hospital on the east side of Eltham village that served the district in those days. He still carries the scars of the burns he received from the exhaust pipe and recent x-rays have revealed several broken vertebrae. At the time of the accident he was treated for a dislocated neck and was in plaster from his hip to the base of his head for about seven months. But nothing daunted Fred. Bouncing back he began work as an apprentice to a motor mechanic in Bell St, Preston, a man who is still living (at 90) in Queensland and who still communicates with Fred frequently. “He was like a father to me,” Fred declared. He was a marine engineer as well, so I …. that as well as blacksmithing. They taught us properly then.” After finishing his apprenticeship, Fred bought himself a 30 hundredweight Fargo truck and began his own contract carting business, doing most of the work for a firm called Carnegie’s and a subsidiary of that, Howard Radio. It was in the office Fred met his wife. “He taught me to drive the truck giving me lessons in my lunch hours up the Bourke St and Flinders St extension,” she said. “After work I’d have a driving lesson and all the girls from the Howard Radio would pile in the back to get a lift to Richmond Station.” In the 1939 bushfires, the Mt Pleasant Rd property was burnt out and the hut raised. Two years later, Fred and Dorothy were married. Fred paid £7.15.0 ($15.50) for the suit in which he was married. Dorothy had pulled out of the Women’s Air Training Corps to be married. Others with whom she trained went to Darwin and were in a convoy that was bombed. Fred went into the garage business in Brighton and continued his cartage business for a while. His company was employed to do all Brown Gouge’s motor repairs and factory maintenance. Because Fred had a certificate to do steam repair work he often got jobs maintaining industrial boilers. While he was in Brighton, Fred bought an eight-seater 1925 Silver Ghost Rolls Royce from Sir Keith Murdoch. When the couple moved to Rosanna in about 1943, it became a delivery van for the dairy they operated. “I thought I’d like to get back into a dairy business” Fred said. “We used to deliver the milk in the Rolls. “But it was hard work. We couldn’t get the labour and we’d drive to the farm and pick up the milk cans, take them back to the dairy, cool the milk, bottle it and deliver it. The inspectors would come regularly and the walls for bacteria.” Fred was exhausted. The couple gave up the dairy and moved to Eltham to live on the old property where a weatherboard house had now been built. It wasn’t a big house and the glassed in Rolls Royce limousine became the daytime nursery for the Golgerth’s second daughter. We’d put her in there to sleep during the day.” “Dorothy Golgerth was known to drive the Rolls at breakneck speed along Mt Pleasant Rd. Fred took some time off work then began driving a little local bus run by the Lyon Brothers before taking a maintenance job at the Athenaeum Club in the city. He’d ride an old Harley-Davidson to the station and travel into the city by train. Later, when the family moved to Pryor St. (their house stood where McEwans car park is now) Fred could walk to and from the station. “There was no resident doctor in the early days of Eltham,” Fred said. “Dr Cordner used to come from Greensborough to a room in the old house next to the old grocery shop on the corner of York St and Main Rd, Eltham (the grocery shop is now the Eltham Feed and Grain Store). The Golgerths lived in Eltham until “Dollar Day” – the day decimal currency became official. They eventually moved to Greensborough, when they have lived since. Fred has had his share of interesting jobs since then, retiring at 65 seven years ago when he was working in the engineering department at Larundel. Recently, two of his older sisters and a brother died, within a month. They were all in their 80s. They all had a profound influence on Fred, especially during his youth. His sharp wit and amusing anecdotes are the richer for his having been the youngest of a family that made the best of every circumstance. And now, as he enjoys his retirement, he is concentrating on relearning the language of his infancy; teaching himself German from tapes and a ‘teach yourself’ manual. He is fiercely proud of his German ancestry and treasures the diary, written in German in Gothic script, kept by his grandparents during their journey to Australia. On the inside in blue pen: "To Sadie, Wal Margaret & Elizabeth with lots & lots of love & best wishes from Mother"marg ball collection, eltham hotel, herbert james watson, otto (fred) golgerth, wilhemina watson (nee golgerth)

One of a series of videos "Stories from the Nillumbik Shire with Geoff Paine" A brief overview of the Skipper Cottage or Whitecloud and the Bootmakers cottage (mid 1850s) with Sue Thomas, partner of Adam Skipper who have lived there for about 40 years. Includes a view inside the Bootmaker's cottage. Discusses the flood plain and how the house was moved to its present site on high ground due to flooding. The high ground came about due to dumping of rubble from the quarry where the school car park is which was used to source stone to build the schoolhouse across the road. It was moved on horse and wagon approximately 200 metres. The cottage was previously a Cobb and Co stopping station for mail. When Montsalvat was being built in the 1940s, Lena Skipper who was originally from Sydney invested her money into buying Whitecloud rather than putting money into Montsalvat like many others. Upon her death, Matcham Skipper inherited the house. Seaweed was used as insulation in the ceiling and after Matcham owned it a spark from the fireplace set the seaweed on fire and gutted the front of the house which is now all one big room. Also illustrates some of the changes to the house over the years and its construction. The Elm forest has grown naturally from suckers spread from one tree.MP4 Digital file 00:05:50; 674MBvideo recording, bootmakers cottage, lena skipper, lena thomas, matcham skipper, school residence, skipper house, whitecloud cottage