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Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper - Clipping, Southwood Primary School, Ringwood - "Students bring a variety of hobbies to school"
... variety of hobbies to school" ...Newspaper clipping from The Mail - 16th DEcember, 1987 by Ruth JonesTitle - Students bring a variety of hobbies to school -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Tool - Treadle Scroll Saw, Hobbies Ltd, Manufactured by Hobbies in England from 1928- 1965
... Hobbies Ltd...Manufactured by Hobbies in England from 1928- 1965. ...Since 1895, Hobbies Ltd have been supplying model makers and enthusiasts throughout the world with a wide range of quality model kits, accessories, tools, components and handbooks. The Hobbies Company began life in Dereham, Norfolk in 1881 with a London Office opened later (1922) at 65 New Oxford Street, WC1. In 1895 Hobbies began supplying model makers with their products and in 1897 were incorporated into a Public company. In 1922 at a British Industries Fair the company had a stand advertising their products as "The All-British Firm with a World reputation". Fretwork Outfits. Fretwork Machines. Carpentry Outfits. Strip work Outfits. Also manufactures of Fretwork Tools and Benches, Wood, Circular Saws, Lathes, Picture Framing Outfits, Tools, etc. In 1947 the company had expanded and was still making tools and materials for the amateur craftsman in wood. They had acquired a reputation as manufacturers of quality Fretwork Outfits, Tools, Treadle Machines, Model Maker's Tool Kits. The company also publishers of ‘Hobbies Weekly magazine’ and also sold plans for fretwork, model making and wooden toys. In 1961 they were still manufacturers and retailers of craft tools and materials, timber merchants, light engineers and Government contractors with around 500 employees. A vintage tool made for hobbyists and distributed throughout the world by a British company that is still in existence today. The item is significant as it catalogues the manufactures history at a specific time in the company's development.Foot operated treadle Fret saw called "GEM" subject item is a short saw , the stand in the background is the base for a Delta Q3 model scroll saw. Gem inscription cast into the cast iron frameworkflagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, saw, treadle saw, fret saw, pedal saw, the gem, tool, hobbies ltd, treadle, foot operated -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Boat Exhibits at Bill Patterson Motors Monster Hobbies Competition. Ringwood 1959
... Boat Exhibits at Bill Patterson Motors Monster Hobbies ...Written on back of photograph, "Some of the exhibits at Bill Patterson Motors Monster Hobbies Competition - Mail 6/8/59." -
Greensborough Historical Society
Advertisement - Digital image, Diamond Valley News, Greensborough Hobbies, 1964, 29/09/1964
... Greensborough Hobbies, 1964 ...Advertisement for Greensborough Hobbies, 65 Main Street, Greensborough 1964Digital copy of newspaper advertisement.main street greensborough, greensborough hobbies -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - ARTICLE: MR FRANK ROBERTS (AVIATION), April, 1931
Mr Frank Roberts ''native of Bendigo'' (Article re Aviation at Bendigo in ''Popular Hobbies'' April 1931 Mention of Bendigo Flying School and Bendigo Aero Club.Popular Hobbiesperson, individual, frank roberts -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - THE LIFEBUOY HOBBY BOOK
... hobbies ...The Lifebuoy Hobby Book 64 pages of instructions on how to participate in various hobbies with illustrations. With inscription name R Hodkinson.books, children's, hobbies -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Animal specimen - Australian Hobby, Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1860-1880
The Australian Hobby is a medium-sized falcon of the Falconidae family, similar in look to the larger sized Peregrine Falcon. This species is widespread and can be found across most of mainland Australia and Tasmania, preferring lightly wooded areas such as timbered wetlands, open wooded farmland, and some urban areas. Their diet consists of small birds, bats, and flying insects, which are caught mid-air. They sometimes hunt cooperatively to catch their prey. This specimen is an accurate depiction of an Australian Hobby. This specimen is part of a collection of almost 200 animal specimens that were originally acquired as skins from various institutions across Australia, including the Australian Museum in Sydney and the National Museum of Victoria (known as Museums Victoria since 1983), as well as individuals such as amateur anthropologist Reynell Eveleigh Johns between 1860-1880. These skins were then mounted by members of the Burke Museum Committee and put-on display in the formal space of the Museum’s original exhibition hall where they continue to be on display. This display of taxidermy mounts initially served to instruct visitors to the Burke Museum of the natural world around them, today it serves as an insight into the collecting habits of the 19th century.This specimen is part of a significant and rare taxidermy mount collection in the Burke Museum. This collection is scientifically and culturally important for reminding us of how science continues to shape our understanding of the modern world. They demonstrate a capacity to hold evidence of how Australia’s fauna history existed in the past and are potentially important for future environmental research. This collection continues to be on display in the Museum and has become a key part to interpreting the collecting habits of the 19th century.This Australian Hobby has a dark brown cap and cream-coloured half-collar. The back feathers of the bird are also a dark brown colour, while the neck is a cream with lighter brown streaks. The flank is a dappled dark brown, rufous-brown and cream, which transitions back into cream with brown streaks near the legs. The underwing feathers appear to be a banded dark brown and cream. The tip of the hooked beak is black which recedes to light blue-grey and then to yellowish near the head join. The legs are also yellow. The specimen is perched on a wooden perch mount with a swing tag tied around its left leg.23. / Australian Hobby / See catalogue, page, 6 / taxidermy mount, taxidermy, burke museum, beechworth, australian museum, skin, reynell eveleigh johns, bird, australian hobby, australian birds, little falcon -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Plant Man, 2019
Xavier 'Plant Man' David will shortly be vacating 479 Mitcham Road, Mitcham.Xavier 'Plant Man' David will shortly be vacating 479 Mitcham Road, Mitcham after operating the Mitcham Hobby Garden and Nursery on site for 34 years.Xavier 'Plant Man' David will shortly be vacating 479 Mitcham Road, Mitcham.mitcham hobby garden and nursery, david, xavier, mitcham road, mitcham, no.479, rangeview shopping centre -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Tool - Steel Archimedes hand drill 'Hobbies', c1900
Archimedes drills, incorporate a bobbin sliding up and down a spiral shaft to bore a hole. Spiral-bit augers were precursors to modern drills, whose bits cleared the hole of chips as the user drilled. Some of the most beautiful Archimedean drills appear in English tool auctions replete with brass, rosewood and even ivory. A steel hand drill with fine bit and sliding bobbin'HOBBIES' on top of handletools, , metalwork, woodwork, carpentry, early settlers, pioneers, market gardeners, moorabbin, bentleigh, cheltenham, blacksmiths, bobbins, augers, hand drills, marples william, -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Hobby Horse, 1940's
Used by internee at Camp 3Wooden hobby horse with mane made from twinehobby horse, wied k, bissinger g, camp3, tatura, ww2, camp 3, toys, general -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Saw
Fret saw with metal frame and turned wooden handle. Hobbies patent blade tension mechanism.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, fret saw, saw -
Federation University Historical Collection
Booklet, Education Department Victoria Technical Schools Register of Attendances in Hobby Woodwork, 1984, 1984
Blue hard covered book with red tape spine. It lists students in Hobby Woodwork. The instructor was Brian Jacobson.ballarat school of mines, trades, building construction, brian jacobson, glenda dodds, jennifer thompson -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia, Orchid Society Trophies
... Hobbies ...Monthly Trophies won by Alan Tangey at Stawell Orchid SocietyOne Ceramic Mug and four wine glasses all with Stawell Orchid Society writingStawell Orchid Society & Image of Orchid.hobbies -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Magazine - LYDIA CHANCELLOR COLLECTION: MAGAZINES
Assorted magazines - 'Australian Women's Weekly Hobbies for Everyone,' (1969), 'The Star Weekly Magazine' (1958) and 'The Australian Women's Weekly' (1959.)magazine, organization, recreation, lydia chancellor, collection, magazine, 'the australian women's weekly, ' 'the star weekly magazine' -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Bucket list of rollouts, 2010
Article on Nunawading resident Margaret Rowe, using her hobby of patchwork quilting as the background for her Australian Challenge series of novels.Article on Nunawading resident Margaret Rowe, using her hobby of patchwork quilting as the background for her Australian Challenge series of novels.Article on Nunawading resident Margaret Rowe, using her hobby of patchwork quilting as the background for her Australian Challenge series of novels.patchwork, quilts, rowe, margaret -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Lowen family
Black and white photograph of three Lowen children outside in the garden, one on a hobby horse. From left to right; Thelma, Merle, Florencelowen merle, lowen thelma, lowen florence -
Clunes Museum
Document - MAGAZINE, THE LOCAL ISSUE 279
THE LOCAL ISSUE 279 DATED 8 MAY 2023, PAGES 20 AND 21. ARTICLE "BEE-SOTTED". HOW A BACKYARD HOBBY BECAME A BUSINESS". IAN MCFARLANE AND GRAEME GRIGSON."bee-sotted", bees, hobby turned industry -
Sunbury Family History and Heritage Society Inc.
Photograph, Playground equipmemt, c1994
In the early 1990s, many indoor and outdoor improvements were undertaken at the Bulla Primary School which included updated playground equipment. the children in this photograph are using one of the pieces of equipment that was installed in the school ground at that time. A coloured non-digital photograph of three children outdoors in a playground playing on a low hobby horse with another child approaching them. It is a rural setting with gently rolling bare hill in the background. playground equipment, bulla primary school -
Greensborough Historical Society
Tin, Humbrol Ltd, Humbrol paint tin, 1960c
... hobbies ...This type of paint was used to paint models, hence the small size.Paint tin, yellow 88, 14 ml, printed in blue, red and black on whiteHumbrol colorpaint, hobbies, models -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Photography, Camera Kodak Flash 11 with leather case c1940, c1940
Kodak was founded by George Eastman and Henry A. Strong on September 4, 1888 in New York USA. During most of the 20th century, Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film. Kodak began to struggle financially in the late 1990s, as a result of the decline in sales of photographic film and its slowness in transitioning to digital photography, despite developing the first self-contained digital camera. The first model of the Kodak camera appeared in 1888. It took round pictures 6.4 cm (2.5 in) in diameter, was of the fixed focus type, and carried a roll of film enough for 100 exposures. Its invention practically marked the advent of amateur photography, as before that time both apparatus and processes were too burdensome to classify photography as recreation. The first films had to be loaded into the camera and unloaded in the dark room, but the film cartridge system with its protecting strip of opaque paper made it possible to load and unload the camera in ordinary light. The Brownie camera was introduced in 1900, creating a new mass market for photography. This Kodak Brownie Box Camera is typical of the cameras used by amateur photographers c 1940A metal Kodak Brownie Box camera with a leather case, and an empty folder for negatives and prints Front ; KODAK / 'KODET' LENS / Brownie Flash 11 / CAMERA / MADE IN ENGLAND BY KODAK LTD LONDON Folder The Pleasures of PHOTOGRAPHY / Make Photography Your Hobby kodak ltd, eastman george, strong henry, photography. brownie box camera, digital photography, -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, E.J. Barker, Keep on Keeping On: Jack Barker's Memoirs, 2018, 2018
Grey soft covered book with a photographic image of E.J. (Jack) Barker on the front. The contents include family history, teaching at the Ballarat School of Mines, Principal of the Ballarat School of Mines, inaugural Director of Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, Committees hobbies and travel.e.j. barker, jack barker, winsome barker, ballarat school of mines, ballarat institute of advanced education, ballarat college of advanced education, higher education council, williamstown, edward john barker, footscrat technical school, engineering, joe barberis, baseball, tennis, john barker, queenscliff, david gordon, emine karakan, robby main, dick richards, r.w. richards, laboratory, thermodynamics laboratory, fluid mechanics laboratory, harry arblaster, warren perry, ballarat school of mines museum, derek wooley, ed phillips, ballarat gaol, gaol tunnels, mount helen campus, geoff harrison, lindsay pryor, tree planting at mt helen campus, ballarat technology park, 1870 founders hall, john beaumont, initiations, goon's gift, raft races, bath tub push, centenary appeal, prince charles visit, philip law, fourth university committee, ballarat teachers' college, ballarat school of mines motto, caro conference centre, creswick school of forestry, ballarat hospital nurse education, aquinas catholic teachers' college, family history, genealogy -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Animal specimen - Australian Hobby, Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1860-1880
Hobbies are mainland birds that prefer to spend their time in forests and woodlands. They are widespread in Australia's colder eastern states, particularly Adelaide, Victoria, and Southern NSW. With a diet of bats, insects, and small birds, they use their refined wing structure, which is long and narrow in shape, more suited to speed than precision, and sharp reflexes to catch prey in mid-flight. Because they are members of the Falconidae and Falconiformes raptor families and have similar characteristics, they are frequently confused with their relative, the Peregrine Falcon. Close inspection reveals that they are half the size and have a more pronounced dark masking around the eyes. This specimen is part of a collection of almost 200 animal specimens that were originally acquired as skins from various institutions across Australia, including the Australian Museum in Sydney and the National Museum of Victoria (known as Museums Victoria since 1983), as well as individuals such as amateur anthropologist Reynell Eveleigh Johns between 1860-1880. These skins were then mounted by members of the Burke Museum Committee and put-on display in the formal space of the Museum’s original exhibition hall where they continue to be on display. This display of taxidermy mounts initially served to instruct visitors to the Burke Museum of the natural world around them, today it serves as an insight into the collecting habits of the 19th century.This specimen is part of a significant and rare taxidermy mount collection in the Burke Museum. This collection is scientifically and culturally important for reminding us of how science continues to shape our understanding of the modern world. They demonstrate a capacity to hold evidence of how Australia’s fauna history existed in the past and are potentially important for future environmental research. This collection continues to be on display in the Museum and has become a key part to interpreting the collecting habits of the 19th century.The Australian Hobby is a medium-sized bird with a falcon-like appearance, long wings, and a commanding posture and presence. This bird has a distinctive brown/black helmet on its head, as well as a mask-like face that is highlighted by the prominent white half collar. Over the top of reddish brown underpart feathers, streaks of black lined patterns decorate the protruding chest. With its squared off tail feathers, the bird's back is dark brown and appears elongated and domineering. It is perched on a wooden stand and is secured with wire that does not obscure the talons.No swing tagtaxidermy mount, taxidermy, animalia, burke museum, beechworth, australian museum, skin, reynell eveleigh johns, bird, australian birds, falcon, falconidae, falconiformes, peregrine falcon -
Otway Districts Historical Society
Book, Train Hobby Publications, Victorian Railways Narrow Gauge, Part 2, March 1999
An historical series setting out Garratt engines and running stock running between Colac and Crowes (just past Lavers Hill), and then between Colac and Beech Forest in the Otways between 1958 and 1962 when the line closed.Victorian Railways Narrow Gauge "G" Class. "Garratts in the Otways" Part Two. A photographic profile - 1958-1962. Emile D. Badawy (ed.); John Sargent (ed.). 1999; Train Hobby Publications. ii, 56 p.; illus., map. Soft cover. colac; beech forest; crowes; garratt; victorian railways; narrow gauge; emile d. badawy; john sargent; -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Postcard, 1905
... hobbies ...Posted 31.7.1905 from N. S. W. to Miss Laughton Kalimna Lakes Entrance Victoria Message says Please keep this card for my collection am getting a few more Yours GBlack and white postcard of suspension bridge North Sydney showing bushland in distance Sydney Australiabridges, city, correspondence, hobbies -
Otway Districts Historical Society
Book, Steam in the Otways, November 2005
Engineman and historian Norman De Pomeroy took photographs in first half of 1962 of the Garratt engine and its rolling stock running on the narrow gauge line between Colac and Weeaproinah until its closure on 30 June 1962.Steam in the Otways from the collection of Norman W. De Pomeroy. A photographic profile. Neville Gee (ed.); John Sargent (ed.). 2005; Train Hobby Publications; Studfield (Vic). ii, 48 p.; illus. Soft cover. ISBN 1 921122 02 1colac; beech forest; weeaproinah; norman w. de pomeroy; narrow gauge; victorian railways; -
Otway Districts Historical Society
Book, Train Hobby Publications, Victorian Railways Narrow Gauge, Part 1, March 1998
The first in an historical series showing the Victorian Railway narrow gauge line from Colac to Crowes, and then from Colac to Beech Forest, in the Otways from 1954 until 1962 when the line closed.Victorian Railways Narrow Gauge "G" Class. "Garratts in the Otways" Part One. A photographic profile - 1954-1962. Emile D. Badawy (ed.); John Sargent (ed.). 1998; Train Hobby Publications; Studfield (Vic). ii, 48 p.; illus., maps. Soft cover.colac; beech forest; crowes; victorian railways; garratt; narrow gauge; emile d. badawy; john sargent; -
Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch
Textile - Tape lace, Late 19th Century
Home made or hobby lacePocket flap. Machine made tapes with needle made fillings. A narrow piece of machine Valenciennes has been added to the top edge. -
Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch
Textile - Tape lace, Late 19th or early 20th Century
Home made or hobby laceHandkerchief Machine made tape with needle made filling stitches -
Otway Districts Historical Society
Book, Victorian Railways Narrow Gauge, Part Three, March 2001
The third in the historical series outlining the narrow gauge Victorian Railways line from Colac to Crowes, and then Colac to Beech Forest, in the Otways between 1954 and 1962 when the line closed. Victorian Railways Narrow Gauge "G" Class; "Garratts in the Otways" Part Three. A photographic profile - 1954-1968. Emile D. Badawy (ed.). 2001; Train Hobby Publications; Studfield (Vic). ii, 48 p.; illus. Soft cover. ISBN 1 876249 41 2colac; beech forest; crowes; victorian railways; narrow gauge; garratt; emile d. badawy; -
Puffing Billy Railway
Carriage Sign - Early Puffing Billy Volunteer Advertising, 1970s
Carriage Sign - Early Puffing Billy Volunteer Advertising These signs were fitted to NBH style carriages. Historic - Puffing Billy Railway Carriage Sign - Early Puffing Billy Volunteer AdvertisingCarriage Sign - Early Puffing Billy Preservation Society Volunteer Advertising Grey timber sign with black painted text.Looking for a Hobby if you like - steam trains - meeting people - handy man jobs - working outdoors Become a Puffing Billy Volunteer Enquire at Puffing Billy's Belgrave Station on your return puffing billy, nbh, advertising