One of 15 A3 sheets with copies of postcards on each page. Shirley Jones Collection.Copies of Postcards: Left side from top to bottom: 1. Cowes War Memorial with Jetty in the background. 2. View of San Remo from Cape Woolamai. 3. Cowes Sea Baths. 4. Douglas House Cowes. Right side from top to bottom: 1. Phillip Island Hotel Cowes. 2. Looking towards the Nobbies - man in horse drawn jinker with dog in front of horse. 3. People walking down the Cowes Pier after the departure of a boat. 4. Taken from the pier looking toward the Jetty Shed and Cowes.Left side from top to bottom: 2. "The Rose Series P680 - towards San Remo from Cape Woolamai P.Is". 3. "The Rose Series P660 - the Baths Cowes Phillip Island". 4. "H. Donn Proprietor Douglas House Cowes Telephone 25". Right side from top to bottom: 1. "Photo Shop Series No 29 - Phillip Island Cowes". 2. "the Rose Series P666 - Looking to The Nobbies Phillip Island Victoria". 3. "Valentine Series M4911 - After the departure of the boat Cowes P.Isl." 4. "The Rose Series P656 - From the Pier Cowes Phillip Island Vic."cowes war memorial, cowes baths phillip island, douglas house cowes, cowes pier phillip island, the nobbies phillip island, view san remo, shirley jones collection, thelma astbury

Aerial-Port Fairy 1972Coloured aerial photograph aerial, moyne river, douglas house, railway, water tower, traffic bridge, pedestrian bridge

This photograph shows Port Fairy from the air looking down on Douglas House across the rail lines showing Bank Street, Sackville Street, Cox street and to a lesser extent surrounding streetsThis photograph depicts the Streets and river during the 1940's and the buildings that were present at that time some no longer in existenceBlack and white PhotographALEX WILKINS PHOTOGRAPHER WARRNAMBOOL O.G.Powell Chemist Phone 88 Port Fairybank street, sackville street, railway

This item has been identified by David Nixon as the workbook of George Henry Douglas Russell (Doug) of Bete Bolong. He was the second son of John and Elizabeth Russell. John Russell wasblacksmith in Orbost. His family were Jack, Doug, Dave and Billy. Doug was in WW! where he was a Veterinary Sergeant. After the war he came bach to Orbost and his father gave him the farm at Bete Bolong to work. This farm is on the corner of Birkins Lane and Buchan Road (presently owned By Ginger and Helen Johnstone). He started farming tgere in 1920 and married Hilda Raymond in 1922. The slatted barn and house still exist. David Nixon, the donor, married a daughter of Doug and Hilda Russell and worked the farm from 1947-1973. He found the diary at the farm. This item is a valuable record of agricultural practices in the Orbost district during the 1920's.An exercise book with a worn black cover and a faded red spine. It contains hand-written records of farm accounts. russell- bete-bolong diary-farming agriculture

On Dec.25, 1940 Sylvia Vyanna Morgan passed away. Dorothy had married Roy Warren from Myrtlebank Guest House and Thomas had married Edna Kennedy. In 1942 Nina married Arthur Mangle and in 1946 built Mountain Grand Guest House opposite Grampian House. By 1950 Morgan decided to sell Grampian House and moved to Stawell. The new owners of Grampian House were Fredrick Charles Kingston, a successful bus company operator from Stawell and his daughter Ethel May Mathews who together with her husband Des built the adjoining famous Kookaburra Cafe in 1946. Fredrick had also built a bowling green next to the cafe. In the late 1950's Grampian House Guest House was leased to several people including Mr & Mrs. Hudousek, Paul Loren and people with surname Virtue. It was during this time that the front veranda and pergola were demolished and the house modernised. Nina Mangle and her two sons Arthur & Charles purchased the property and operated it as an overflow for Mountain Grand Guest House. Well known artist Neil Douglas operated a studio on the premises and Horsham identities Evan and Barbara Mackley housed a museum of furniture and artefacts on the site. Advertisement and photo of Grampian House. accommodation, guesthouses, accommodation, grampian house

Norval Guest-House Aginda and Wettenhall The original Norval The story of Norval begins in 1917 when it was built as a private residence for Mr and Mrs William Thompson. Mrs Thompson was a pioneer of the tourist business, having come from Ballarat to Hall's Gap in 1909 to manage Bellfield Guest-house According to Ida Stanton, in her history of Hall's Gap entitled "Bridging the Gap", Mr Thompson and his wife acquired the six roomed shearers quarters at "Hankelow", on land leased by the Wettenhall family, on the south side of Bellfield. Mr Thompson, she says, completely dismantled the quarters, carefully marking each board, then hired George McKeon to cart the material up to where the original Norval house stood. With great care, the rooms were rebuilt into a home for William and his wife Mathilda. Catherine Good, the daughter of Viola (nee Wettenhall) and niece of Dr Roland, in here "Recollections" entitled "Look to the Mountains - Viola's View 1887-1979", mentions Hankelow. Speaking of her days at Glen Holford, the Wettenhall home at Pomonal, Viola says "Verona and Francie Dennis, my cousins, and I went for one very exciting trip. Father (i.e Dr Roland's father) had bought 300 acres in the Gap to take sheep from Carr's Plains in time of drought, and had a little cottage there with one of the Glen Holford men and his wife in charge. It was called Hankelow. So we three set off over the Range from Glen Holford on foot and leading a pack horse with our night attire and no doubt sponge bags. "We stayed the night at Hankelow with Jim and Minnie. Minnie had been a housemaid at Glen Holford. I was very fond of her. It makes one laugh to think of the excitement of "roughing it"! Minnie gave us a lovely dinner with meringues, and cream, I remember, then early morning tea. After breakfast we were driven in the buggy to the foot of the Goat Rock (since renamed Mt Rosea) and off we went - walking in our long skirts and ankle boots. There was no track of any kind, nor blazed trail - we just made for the top. It was rather frightening at times because we couldn't see where the top was an it always seemed to get further and further away. The last mile was so terribly steep, with a lot of lose shale where you went up twelve inches and slipped back six. Now you motor to about a couple of miles from the top and then have a graded path. Anyway, we got there and back safely and were rewarded with a magnificent view" By a strange coincidence, Hankelow, the source of Norval Guest-house in times past (if the name can be applied to the property as a whole, which seems likely) is in fact also the source of our Wettenhall Campsite! Hankelow was named after a property owned by the Wettenhall family in England. In 1917 William and Mathilda retired to their newly built home (Norval) "to escape from the tourist business" However, so many people made requests to stay with them that they found it necessary to add several more rooms and sleepouts to their home. In this way, early in 1921, the guest-house began to take shape. Mr Thompson, a former librarian of the Mechanics Institute in Ballarat, named the house "Norval". The name "Norval" comes from a quotation from the play 'Douglas" by John Home. Written in the mid-16th century the play is set in the Grampian Mountains of Scotland. The story is of a boy who was parted from this mother during his early childhood, and was given to a shepherd who raised him. Some eighteen years later the mother by chance happens to meet here son, and not knowing his true identity, asks his name. He answers, "My name is Norval; and in the Grampian hills my father feeds his flocks." Perhaps it was simply because "Norval" was associated with the "Grampians" that it was chosen by Mr Thompson. He may also have been conscious of feeding "flocks" of tourists in his expanding, guest-house. Norval Guest-house prospered. It was known for its fine cooking and friendly atmosphere - a tradition which has carried through to the modern Norval! It closed between 1940 and 1949 because of the second world war. In 1949 it was decided to almost completely rebuild the house. Most of the old building (Hankelow plus) was demolished and rebuilt to a much larger and more modern plan. And then, on May 1, 1965, it was purchased by the Committee of Management of the Methodist and Presbyterian Conference Centres. At this time the guest-house was owned and operated by Marjorie and Lachland McLennan, Mrs McLennan being the daughter of William and Mathilda Thompson, the pioneers of the establishment. The McLennans had operated the Guest-house since about 1930.Photocopy 2 pages of article from book titled 'In the Making' title of article Norval guest House the original Norvalaccommodation, guesthouses, norval

Author Alan Marshall lived at Eltham from 1955 to about 1981. He owned land in Research on what is now the oval of Eltham College, beside the house of his friend artist Neil Douglas. He lived in the caravan while writing. See EDHS Newsletter No 151 July 2003Black and white photograph alan marshall, caravan

Photographs taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees. Neil's partner Abbie Heathcote is in first photo.Six black and white photographsbend of islands, neil douglas, artists, houses

Cardboard brochure with details of the opening and menuSee Regis No. 388-01. Also signatures of attendees including Jean Archibald, Maisie Clements, Norman Archibald, Keith R. Clements, Douglas Pitt, Norma Pitt, Beryl Hollins, Stuart Hollinsdocuments- menu, continental guest house,, keith and rhonda jobe, hotels, local identities

Air Vice Marshal (Rtd) John Douglas Gordon Lessels, Marshal in charge of disaster relief, was a municipal councillor at Mallacoota where he had a holiday house.A wooden shield with a badge in the centre. Inside an orange circle is " in paratus adversitatem" with a larger CD inside a blue triangle. It has gold coloured decorations . around the circle. There are two small metal plates above and below this badge. On the back is a cut out for hanging.On plate at top : "NATURAL DISASTERS ORGANISATION CANBERRA ACT" On plate below badge : " ORBOST & TOURIST ASSN PRESENTED BY AVM JOHN LESSELS DGNDO 30 NOV 84" shield disaster-organisation orbost-tourism

Diary details the journey from Melbourne on 8 May 1915 to England onboard SS Euripides as a Medical Officer (?), and time spent in England.Forty five typed, looseleaf pages in green, soft cover. Titled "Troop SS Euripides". ww1, diaries, ss euripides, alec douglas

8th Battalion embarked from Melbourne on board Transport A24 Benalla on 19th October 1914. Temple was awarded the Military Cross in mid 1918, and Bar to Military Cross in mid 1919. He returned to Australia in July 1919, and later (1920?) returned to France to marry and live.Collection of Alfred Temple (938 - 8th Battalion, H Company) includes 8th Battalion Christmas card, letter signed by General Birdwood congratulating Lieutenant Temple on being awarded the Military Cross, wedding invitation to the Paris wedding (on 26/2/20) of Lt Temple, and a letter dated 5 December 1941 from Temple - in occupied France - to his mother via a neutral source in USA.military cross, ww1, letters, 8 battalion, alfred douglas temple, general birdwood

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses, abbie heathcote

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses, abbie heathcote

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses

Photograph taken by Jack Gittins of W.J. Gittins & Associates who were consulting on the property's trees.Slide - 35mm colour positive transparencybend of islands, neil douglas, artist, houses