Shire of Pakenham Residents' Action Group letter 1st November 1991 Emerald/ Cockatoo advisory committee meeting minutes, 7 pages 5th September 1991 letter from Michael Elg to Mr Tyrell Charter Emerald/ Cockatoo advisory committee 30th August 1991 letter from Michael Elg to Mr Horley 5th September 1991 letter from Michael Elg to Mr Horley Charter Emerald/ Cockatoo advisory committee Pacjenham Shire note card attached to 26th Feb 1992 Minutes of the Emerald/ Cockatoo advisory committee meeting, 3 pages 26th February 1992 letter from Graham Pankhurst to Mr Horley, 2 pagescont. 14th October 1991 Emerald/ Cockatoo advisory committee meeting agenda, 4 pages and 5 additional pages of appendices Pocket 2 20th May 1992 Minutes of the Emerald/ Cockatoo advisory committee meeting, 4 pages cont. below13th May 1992 Emerald/ Cockatoo advisory committee meeting agenda with three appendix pages including January/ February 1992 The Australian Municiple Journal 'Local Government's role in weed control' 11 March 1992 letter from Melbourne water to Mr Ray Canobie re. drainage 14th April 1992 letter from Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria and 26th March 1992 letter from Department of Conservation and Environment 26th Feb 1992 Minutes of the Emerald Cockatoo Advisory Committee Meeting, three pages with charter cont. belowemerald, victoria, australia, cockatoo victoria australia, shire of sherbrooke victoria australia, shire of pakenham victoria australia, resident action, emerald-cockatoo advisory committee

Printed as an extract from the Victorian Country Trades Directories by Universal Business Directories for circulation within the Dandenong Ranges area. Includes description of Emerald township and list of businesses in Emerald. The population of Emerald at the time was approximately 854. Refer to item for individual and business names.12-page booklet with paper cover printed in red and green. Contents printed in blue. Includes advertisements with illustrations.emerald, victoria, australia, dandenong ranges, victoria, australia, belgrave victoria australia, upwey victoria australia, ferntree gully victoria australia, gembrook victoria australia, cockatoo victoria australia, businesses, banks, bakeries, universal business directories

Map shows subdivision of Gembrook area and Cockatoo. Portion of area County of Evelyn, bordered by Nangana, Beenak, Tonimbuk. Landholders named. Postdates 1900 (shows train line).Survey map Sheet 4..L477+emerald, victoria, australia, gembrook victoria australia, cockatoo victoria australia, land surveys, maps, department of lands and survey

Stories, mostly from first-hand accounts, of the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Cockatoo, February 1983. The author lived in Cockatoo for 20 years and was at one time fire-risk contractor for the local council. Names used in the book are fictitious to protect privacy.94 p. : ill. ; DDC994.520922 ISBN 0908090595Paper'Donated to Emerald Museum by Robert Apedaile, 1995'bushfires, cockatoo victoria australia, edward mundie, ash wednesday 1983

Prepared by Gutterridge, Haslins and Davey. Shows Emerald district from Clematis to Gembrook showing residence, water board facilities and streets. Made in 1995 for Emerald, Gembrook and Cockatoo Water Board and donated to the museum when the Water Board disbanded.Map of Emerald District Residences mounted on to a retractable blind. Scale 1:5000Paper on clothemerald, victoria, australia, maps, water supply, cockatoo victoria australia, gembrook victoria australia, emerald, gembrook and cockatoo water board

Cuttings from Melbourne newspapers relate to 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfire.Scrap book containing 40 p. of newspaper cuttings relating to Ash Wednesday February 16th 1983bushfires, cockatoo victoria australia, ash wednesday 1983

Contains references to Gembrook and Cockatoo. Given to Gus Ryberg by the author. Includes a handwritten letter explaining donation.Soft cover, 30pp.:bound, ill.; includes index. ISBN 0646 28576 X. DDC 994.04With best wishes Marguerite Shovepioneers, cockatoo victoria australia, gembrook victoria australia, les wilson 1888-1971, emily wilson 1886-1972, marguerite shove, gus ryberg

Special editions of local newspapers published following Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983Newspapers. 1. Berwick-Pakenham Times 21 February 1983| 2. The Pakenham Gazette and Berwick City News| 3. Leader: Emergency Issue of Free Press, Lillydale Express, Knox-Sherbrooke News, Ringwood-Croydon Mail 17 February 19831. 44-page newspaper|2. 52-page newspaper|3. single sheet newsprint with photograqphs folded to 4 pages'bushfires, dandenong ranges, victoria, australia, cockatoo victoria australia, ash wednesday 1983, berwick-pakenham times, pakenham gazette and berwick city news, the leader

Interim telephone directory showing telephone numbers and dialling codes for Cockatoo, Emerald and Gembrook exchanges, December 1966. Soft cover, 8p.;Chris Brittondirectories and guidebooks, telephone services, emerald, victoria, australia, cockatoo victoria australia, gembrook victoria australia, genealogy

Collection of "SignPost" community magazines from Volume 1 Winter 2000 Edition to current dateemerald, victoria, australia, clematis victoria australia, avonsleigh victoria australia, macclesfield victoria australia, cockatoo victoria australia, gembrook victoria australia, magazines, community, church, st. mark's church, rev peter crawford

Cup has been blackened by bushfire, glass has melted and fused onto cupCup with flower design - a glass object has melted onto the top of the cup - cup has been blackened by firecockatoo victoria australia, bushfires, domestic life

The cross depicted in the photograph is stated to be from the Uniting Church in Upper Beaconsfield in the Museum's registration records but may instead be from St John's Anglican Church which burned down in the Ash Wednesday bushfires as no Uniting Church site is recorded in Upper Beaconsfield. Forty-seven people were killed in the Ash Wednesday fires in Victoria, including twenty-seven from the Cardinia Shire area. Twenty-one of the people killed were located in Upper Beaconsfield; twelve of the people killed in the area were fire-fighters, along with nine residents. 186 homes and countless livestock were also lost in the fires which ranged through Victoria and into South Australia due to a combination of dry, hot and windy weather. The date of the fires corresponds with the the date of the Christian religious festival of the same name that year. St John's Anglican Church was rebuilt on the same site within the next three years. The design, by local architect Paul Reid, combined elements of the previous building with the style of village churches Reid had observed in Austria and Bavaria after his graduation from Melbourne University. The cross, which buckled in the heat generated by the fires, is believed to be on display at the Ash Wednesday Bushfire Education Centre in Cockatoo, which was itself constructed as a memorial on the site of a kindergarten in which 300 Cockatoo residents sheltered from the fire. The specific occasion on which this photograph was taken is not known.This item is significant because of its association with the Ash Wednesday bushfires, one of the worst natural disasters in Victoria's history. The Ash Wednesday fires occurred on 16th February 1983. Twenty-seven people from the Cardinia Shire area were killed in the fires, including twenty-one who died within a kilometre of the church in which the cross depicted resided.Black and white rectangular photograph printed on photographic paper. The photograph depicts a plain dark-coloured metal cross on a stand. The cross has buckled forwards. The item is resting on a table covered with a pale-coloured table-cloth. A bouquet of flowers is visible to the left-hand side of the image. Chairs and three women in special occasion-style clothing are visible at the rear of the image. The cross featured in the photograph is from a church in Upper Beaconsfield which was damaged in the Ash Wednesday bushfires in February 1983. The specific occasion on which this photograph was taken is not known.ash wednesday 1983, bushfires, churches, st john's anglican church, uniting church, upper beaconsfield victoria australia, cockatoo victoria australia, cross, deceased persons, natural disasters, ash wednesday bushfire education centre, paul reid, cardinia shire council

Published by Cockatoo History and Heritage Group 2019 Collated/written by Dot Griffin,Jan Shaw, Ruth South, Arthur Wintle

Research of dated sightngs of Big cats in Victoria from 1868-1989. australian mythical animals collection, david waldron, dse, big cats, panthers pumas, nuggety, gippsland, black cats, tasmanian tiger, marysville, wood's point, thylacine, south gippsland, felid, gippsland big cat, kelvin healey, peter hall, sherbrooke forest, woodside, walaces flat, mountain lion, heyfield, mt taylor, walhalla, mt selma, warrnambool, kyneton, korumburra, canadian forest, grampians, panton hill, beaconsfield, apollo bay, forrest, victoria valley, rapanyup, dargo, inglewood, doncaster east, tidal river, cape bridgewater, walkerville, dooen, st arnaud, lake bung bong, mitta mitta, moliagul, emerald, kinglake, cape otway, dereel, leonard's hill, daylesford, korweinguboora, lal lal, noojee, eltham, lancefield, trentham, daisy hill, tanjil south, wonthaggi, cockatoo, warrenheip, greendale, howqua, lake buchan, melville caves, portland, mt elephant, morwell, navarre, yarram, yandoit, moonambel, maryborough, taravale, coghill's creek, trentham, carisbrook, inglewood, warrenmang, yarragon, creswick, emerald, stawel, clunes, majorca, heathcote, talbot, daylesford, newham, broadford, peter chapple

DVD titled created by Bill Fordemerald, victoria, australia, cockatoo

Sketches of historic buildings and sites in the Dandenongs with descriptions of their history and the districts they belong to.Soft cover, landscape format, xii, 116p.:ill., maps, 21x29cm. Includes bibliography. ISBN 0958793514 2 copiesdandenong ranges, victoria, australia, emerald, victoria, australia, historic sites, historic buildings, david williams, lysterfield, churchill national park, belgrave, selby, menzies creek, clematis, cockatoo, gembrook, yellingbo faunal reserve, macclesfield

Map shows selections taken after Emerald gold discovery on Woori Yallock Creek and Macclesfield-Cockatoo areas, Roads. Includes creeks.Paper on cloth original map of area showing West Emerald bordered by Wandin Yallock, Narree Worran and Gembrook.Gaz 85/1322emerald, victoria, australia, land settlement, maps, gold mining

A potted history of Emerald and its postal services, produced to commemorate the opening of a new post office in Emerald on 17 February 1987.Soft cover booklet, [8]p.: ill.; printed in red and greenPaperemerald, victoria, australia, post offices, australia post, emerald post office