This file contains four items. Princes Park information kit (misspelled princess park) compilation (clipped together) of photocopied material about aspects of the park, beginning with Princes Park North East Ground, official report for Glen Eira Council on condition of the park and recommendations for improvements, with blueprints and maps of proposed development. No date but most recent dated page (two letters from Douglas R Aylen, Chief Executive Officer, City of Caulfield, to residents about Princes Park playground is dated 20/05/1991. Includes photocopies of official materials on the purchase of land for the Park beginning in 1920. About sixty pages in all of which several relate to Caulfield Football Club and its campaign for a new pavilion 1967-70. Community News featuring Caulfields Parks and Gardens cutting from Caulfield Contact, 12/1991, on improvements to the park. Photocopy of letter from Rohan Storey Campaigns Coordinator, National Trust of Australia, Victoria to Manager, Planning Section, Glen Eira Council, dated 13/09/2002, headed National Trust Classification of Tree at Princes Park, South Caulfield Quercus suber (cork oak) at Regional level. Includes attached assessment form. Two black and white photocopies of photographs of Princes Park undated from Glen Eira Library Princes Park file, handwritten verso.princes park, parks and resources, glen eira city council, wilson k.d, harris mr, bricker d.c, caulfield football club, victorian football association, princes park trust, evans tim, ladson w.t, dixon r.c, caulfield church of christ, lewis mrs. i.e, caulfield south bowling club, hawkins a.w, briggs j.a, mcdonald s.l, renouf l.s, patience geoff, little ajax football club, gardenvale football club, south east suburban football club, southern metropolitan police football club, caulfield city soccer club, christian brother old boys, caulfield bears cricket club, national trust of australia (victoria), cork oak, tree, storey rohan

Geoff Evans was the third generation to run Evans Brothers Sawmills that operated from the northern end of the Echuca Wharf from 1923 to 1983. His grandfather Richard James Evans orig. of England, settled in Victoria at a young age. He first worked as a butcher and later cut firewood in the Heathcote and Bacchus Marsh area. ‘R.J.’, as he was known established a sawmill at Barmah in the 1890s, before relocating to this site in 1923. It became known officially as the Evans Bros. Echuca Red Gum Sawmill. This site proved more economical due to its position at the railhead. Paddlesteamers towed barges carrying the logs from the surrounding forests to this mill. The Steamers that were owned by the Evans family were the Edwards (built 1875) and the Melbourne (built 1912). The Edwards was the main towing vessel. Outrigger barges at this mill were the Impulse (1885), Alison (1907), Clyde (once a paddlesteamer, built in 1884). Insider barges at the mill were old wool barges with iron topsides, the J.L.Roberts (1894), ADA (1899) and the Whaler which was of wooden construction. The Evans Mill cut both red gum and Murray pine. There was a main mill for the red gum and a second one for the pine on this site. Two new Marshall steam engines had been purchased by the family, one was used in the P.S. Edwards and the other for the Barmah mill and later this site. The Evans Bros. Mill was very much a family concern with it being owned and operated firstly by R.J., then his son Frederick. R. Evans and later grandson Geoff Evans. The mill employed 18 workers and operated until the 1980s, only briefly was it in the hands of other owners before the construction on part of the site of a tourist-oriented building known as the Red Gum Works which eventually made way for the Port of Echuca Discovery Centre in 2014.Knowledge of the redgum timber milling industry and associated mechanisms such as log slips is scant with little photographic representations to be found. The industry created alongside the Murray River in various places was very unique given the nature of red gum not floating and ingenuity and making use of local resources was required. Geoff Evans had firsthand knowledge of much of this process and how the Echuca Wharf area used to be in past decades. Geoff was also a popular musician and mayor of Echuca so had much knowledge of the local history and community.Digital recording of oral history interview with Geoff Evans of Evans Brothers Sawmill Echuca. evans bros, evans bros saw mills, evans' sawmill, geoff evans, log slip, log skid, p.s. edwards, p.s. melbourne, impulse barge, allison barge, clyde barge, j.l. roberts barge, ada barge, whaler barge, murray pine, redgum, marshall engines, r.j evans, f.j. evans, discovery centre, p.s. marion