Frank Wright was a renown resident of Smeaton, where he was born on 2 August 1901. He lived at Laura Villa, and attended Smeaton State School. His father William was a gold miner and his mother's name was Sarah. Their family won many singing and instrumental awards. Frank was tutored by Percy Code and was awarded a gold medal for the highest marks in the ALCM examinations in the British Colonies at the age of seventeen years. He became the Australian Open Cornet Champion by the age of eighteen. A year later, Frank conducted the City of Ballarat Band, and later the Ballarat Soldiers’ Memorial Band. He formed the Frank Wright Frisco Band and Frank Wright and his Coliseum Orchestra. These bands won many South Street awards, and Frank as conductor won many awards in the Australian Band Championship contest. In 1933 Frank Wright sailed to England to conduct the famous St Hilda’s Band and was later appointed Musical Director of the London County Council, where he organized many amazing concerts in parks, in and around the London district. He was made Professor of Brass and Military Band Scoring and conducted at the Guildhall of Music and Drama. Frank was often invited to adjudicate Brass Band Championships around Europe, in Australia, including South Street and in New Zealand. The Frank Wright Medal at the Royal South Street competition is awarded to an individual recognized as making an outstanding contribution to brass music in Australia.A black and white photo of Frank Wright leaning against a wrought iron fence at Hyde Park, London in October 1933. He is wearing a sports jacket and trousers.frank wright, brass bands, conductor, hyde park

At the beginning of the 1890s, the Kew businessman and Town Councillor, Henry Kellett, commissioned J.F.C. Farquhar to photograph scenes of Kew. These scenes included panoramas as well as pastoral scenes. The resulting set of twelve photographs was assembled in an album, Kew Where We Live, from which customers could select images for purchase.The preamble to the album describes that the photographs used the ‘argentic bromide’ process, now more commonly known as the gelatine silver process. This form of dry plate photography allowed for the negatives to be kept for weeks before processing, hence its value in landscape photography. The resulting images were considered to be finely grained and everlasting. Evidence of the success of Henry Kellett’s venture can be seen today, in that some of the photographs are held in national collections.It is believed that the Kew Historical Society’s copy of the Kellett album is unique and that the photographs in the book were the first copies taken from the original plates. It is the first and most important series of images produced about Kew. The individual images have proved essential in identifying buildings and places of heritage value in the district.Hyde Park is now a small recreation reserve bordered by Willsmere and Kilby Roads and White Avenue. In 1982, Hyde Park was cut off from the Yarra River by the construction of the Eastern Freeway. The building of the latter was to transform the natural landscape, including the Yarra, as well as Hyde Park. The construction of the Freeway makes it difficult to view the scene with the photographer’s eye. Today’s Hyde Park is located on land purchased in 1847 by John Cowell, and in 1851 Catherine Cowell, yet the scene selected by the photographer may well have been located on farmland owned by the Wills family. Farquhar’s point-of-view emphasises both the pastoral and recreational elements of the scene: the grazing cows, three boys, and in the distance two figures, seated on the bank with a parasol. By 1891, an environmental consequence of human activity, including farming, was deforestation, leading to the erosion of the south bank of the Yarra. In contrast, the land on the Alphington side of the river in 1891 included remnant bushland.The Yarra in Hyde Parkkew illustrated, kew where we live, photographic books, henry kellett, yarra river

Frank Wright was a renown resident of Smeaton, where he was born. He lived at Laura Villa, and attended Smeaton State School. His father William was a gold miner and his mother's name was Sarah. Their family won many singing and instrumental awards. Frank was tutored by Percy Code and was awarded a gold medal for the highest marks in the ALCM examinations in the British Colonies at the age of seventeen years. He became the Australian Open Cornet Champion by the age of eighteen. A year later, Frank conducted the City of Ballarat Band, and later the Ballarat Soldiers’ Memorial Band. He formed the Frank Wright Frisco Band and Frank Wright and his Coliseum Orchestra. These bands won many South Street awards, and Frank as conductor won many awards in the Australian Band Championship contest. In 1933 Frank Wright sailed to England to conduct the famous St Hilda’s Band and was later appointed Musical Director of the London County Council, where he organized many amazing concerts in parks, in and around the London district. He was made Professor of Brass and Military Band Scoring and conducted at the Guildhall of Music and Drama. Frank was often invited to adjudicate Brass Band Championships around Europe, in Australia, including South Street and in New Zealand. The Frank Wright Medal at the Royal South Street competition is awarded to an individual recognized as making an outstanding contribution to brass music in Australia.Black and white photograph of a rotunda situated in Hyde Park, London. A band is seated within the rotunda with the conductor standing at the front. In the foreground are seats with a couple of spectators. The band is St Hilda's and the conductor is Frank Wright.Written in pencil on back - Frank Wright Conducting St Hilda's Band, Hyde Park, London, May 1934frank wright, cornet, conductor, london, rotunda, st hilda's band

An Australian Hero, his men and their two world wars. Soft cover book in brown and sepia colours, 498 pages. Front cover has photo of 4 soldiers walking towards the camera with building in the background. Written on first page: Donated by Len Buches Family.books-military-biography

Flooding of the Yarra Valley, including that section of the Yarra bordering Kew and Kew East in the north and west of the municipality, was a regular occurrence. Extreme flood events of the Yarra River are recorded to have occurred in 1891, 1901, 1916, 1923 and 1934. The Municipality of Kew's response to these floods was to enact planning decisions restricting residential development in flood prone areas following the floods of 1916, 1921 and 1934. While floods continued after the development of the Upper Yarra Reservoir (construction 1948-57), the regularity and extent of these inundations diminished. During the nineteenth century, the land abutting the south side of the Yarra in Kew was devoted to dairy farming. In the twentieth century, before and after the construction of the Eastern Freeway, much of this low-lying area was used as golf courses and public parks.Late example of the capacity of the Yarra Valley at Kew to flood, even though drainage works and the Upper Yarra Reservoir had reduced their regularity.Original black and white print photograph of the low-lying land at East Kew under floodwater on 16 May 1974. The photograph is of Hyde Park looking north-east.Annotation verso: "Hyde Park looking nth-east / Flood Level / 16 May 1974 11.15am / R.L. 46.61"floods, yarra river, hyde park

Sydney : Angus and Robertson in association with the State Planning Authority of N.S.W., 1965 48 p. : ill., map, plans ; 25 cm. non-fictionsydney (n.s.w.) -- historic buildings

Esso Collection of Australian Art. Donated by Esso Australia Pty Ltd, 2018Oil on boardgippsland, artwork, permanent collection

The piece of oak wood sample inside the case was obtained from Mr. H Cooper during the time he served as a shipwright for the British Royal Navy on Nelson’s flagship, HMS Victory, in 1891. By that time the H.M.S. Victory was around 100 years old having been built in 1765 and was currently in dry dock undergoing restoration. Cooper’s skills as a shipwright would have been well employed during this period. HMS Victory was and still does undergoing continuous restoration to preserve her for display as a museum ship, due to the vessel's significant naval history. It was during that time of early restoration that Cooper obtained the piece of Oak from HMS Victory believed to be from the ships hull. Cooper was in Australia in September 1891 serving on the HMS Wallaroo, a British Auxiliary Squadron commissioned to serve as part of the British Royal Navy contingent, tasked to operate in Australian waters. The photograph included with the donation of the wood sample is a portrait of Mr H Cooper taken in 1895 in Sydney. The inscription on the photograph describes him as a skilled shipwright from the H.M.S. Wallaroo, depicting Cooper as a young man in Royal Navy uniform, with the emblem of a petty officer third class. While Cooper was stationed on the H.M.S. Wallaroo in Sydney he presented the display case, containing the wood sample from H.M.S. Victory, as well as the exhibit labels to Charles Harding, ("Chas") late of the Royal Australian Navy. Harding had been based at the H M Naval Torpedo Depot at Williamstown, Victoria. Although not mentioned, it is believed the two men met whilst serving together in Australia in their respective assignments. It could have been a retirement gift from Cooper to Harding with the photograph of Cooper likely included with the case, and gifted to Harding in 1895, as the date on the photograph indicates. One of the exhibits labels indicates that Harding had the item on display whilst serving at the Naval Torpedo Depot in Williamstown. The label indicates: "This piece of Oak is part of the hull of H.M.S. “Victory” Lord Nelson’s renowned Flag Ship, which took such a prominent part in the Battle of Trafalgar. 21st October 1805. Exhibited by Charles Harding, H.M.V. Naval Torpedo Depot, Williamstown.” After Charles Harding died in 1931 the case containing the sample of oak from H.M.S. Victory was donated by his son Reg Harding to Mr. Murphy in 1962. The display case has since become a treasured item at Flagstaff Hill. A newspaper article dated 1905 included with the donation mentions that the city of Hamilton in Victoria was shortly expecting a mounted piece of the H.M.S. Victory, to be included in the city’s commemoration of the centenary of the "Battle of Trafalgar". Battle of Trafalgar: On October 21, 1805, twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships of the line under French Admiral Villeneuve. The battle took place in the Atlantic Ocean off the southwest coast of Spain, just west of Cape Trafalgar, near the town of Los Caños de Meca. The victory confirmed the naval supremacy Britain had established during the course of the eighteenth century and it was achieved in part through Nelson's departure from the prevailing naval tactical orthodoxy of the day. Conventional practice at the time was for opposing fleets to engage each other in single parallel lines, in order to facilitate signalling and disengagement, and to maximise fields of fire and target areas. Nelson instead arranged his ships into two columns to sail perpendicularly into the enemy fleet's line. During the battle, Nelson was shot by a French musketeer and he died shortly before the battle ended. Villeneuve was captured, along with his ship Bucentaure. He later attended Nelson's funeral while a captive on parole in Britain. Admiral Federico Gravina, the senior Spanish flag officer, escaped with the remnant of the fleet. He died five months later from wounds sustained during the battle. It was prior to this battle that Nelson had issued his now-famous final orders to his ships in 12 separate flag-hoists “England expects that every man will do his duty”. This wood sample is historically significant for its association with Admiral Lord Nelson the Battle of Trafalgar. Through Nelson’s leadership and unorthodox battle tactics, he secured not only a victory against the French and Spanish but reaffirmed Britain's naval supremacy opening the way for Britain to continuing the policy of colonisation of many countries including Australia.Wood sample adhered to the base of a hinged wood and glass display case. Wood is a sample of oak taken from the hull of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship, the HMS Victory, built in 1765. The case also contain two exhibit labels pinned above the wood sample. Other items donated with the display case, and relating to the wood sample: an 1895 photograph, a 1905 newspaper clipping, a 1962 donor's letter (two pages), and a handwritten exhibit label with a border of red lines. Photograph Front: printed- "Herbst" "28 Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Sydney", handwritten - "Mr Cooper", "see back". Back: handwritten - "Mr H Cooper, skilled shipwright, H.M.S. Wallaroo 1895" Exhibit labels still in the case: Left: handwritten- “PIECE OF OAK FROM THE HULL OF H.M.S. VICTORY”, Right: typewritten- “This piece of Oak was originally obtained by Mr. H. Cooper, skilled shipwright on H.M.S. “Victory” & afterwards on H.M.S. “Wallaroo” on the Australian Station in 1895, when he presented this exhibit to me. Chas. Harding, Late Victorian Navy.”flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, oak, hms victory, vice-admiral lord nelson, horatio nelson, lord nelson, oak piece, piece of oaknelson, battle of trafalgar, maritime technology, ship relics, 18th century warship, british royal navy, h cooper shipwright, hms wallaroo, herbst hyde park sydney, charles harding, hmv naval orpedo depot williamstown, sir home popham’s telegraphic code, admiralty official day signal book

Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope. These series of cards are made by one of the Pioneers families of the district who visited Sydney in April 1939.Made by one of the pioneer family in the City of Moorabbin9 Stereographic Cards - black & whiteDescription of each card written on bottomsydney, stereograph card, new south wales, city of moorabbin, sydney zoo, sydney harbour bridge, sydney royal botanic gardens, cronulla, hyde park sydney, shrine of remembrance, paramatta park, blue mountains, katoomba, three sisters, moorabbin

Photos taken by Frederick Gardner DAVEY whilst in UK, c.1942 Item re Frederick Gardner DAVEY DFC No 410533 RAAF. Refer Reg No 3536P for his service details.Series of 5 black / white photos depicting scenes of London & Brighton. .1) Tower Bridge with River Thames in foreground. .2) One of the Tower Bridge towers. People & vehicles crossing the bridge. .3) People sitting on the edge of the Serpentine River, Hyde Park. .4) Plaque. .5) View of a row of terrace houses in Brighton.Handwritten in black ink of back of each: .1) London Bridge .2) Tower Bridge, London .3) Serpentine, Hyde Park, London .4) Plaque in Tower of London .5) Roof top view of Brighton. End. 1942photography, london, wartime

Item re Frederick Gardner DAVEY DFC No 410533 RAAF. Refer Reg No 3536P for his service details.Photo, black / white, of a man, Frederick Gardner DAVEY in RAAF uniform. Mounted on cream card, embossed with designs in brown.Handwritten in pencil on back: Hyde Park, Sydney 19.4.42photography, raaf

Brass Plate racking engine ABT number 5N.B Loco .Co.Ltd hyde Park wks.Glasgow

This work forms part of the collection assembled by the historian Dorothy Rogers, that was donated to the Kew Historical Society by her son John Rogers in 2015. The manuscripts, photographs, maps, and documents were sourced by her from both family and local collections or produced as references for her print publications. Many were directly used by Rogers in writing ‘Lovely Old Homes of Kew’ (1961) and 'A History of Kew' (1973), or the numerous articles on local history that she produced for suburban newspapers. Most of the photographs in the collection include detailed annotations in her hand.The Rogers Collection provides a comprehensive insight into the working habits of a historian in the 1960s and 1970s. Together it forms the largest privately-donated collection within the archives of the Kew Historical Society.Single storey brick villa located in Park Crescent, Kew.First house in Park Cres. Area then known as Hyde Park. Now altered.park crescent, kew, dorothy rogers

This camera comes from the 1920s and originally belonged to a member of the Shadbolt family but no information has been found on this family. The Kodak junior camera was very popular in the first half of the 20th Century This camera has no known local provenance but is retained as an interesting example of an early Kodak camera This is KODAK junior camera in a leather covering with a leather handle. It has a concertina mechanism. It has an outer leather case with a leather strap and a broken metal catch. The cover is much scuffed and rubbed. The camera is rectangular in shape with curved ends.1. Kodak No.1a Autographic Kodak Jr. .2 Molly Shadbolt Ulverstone Tasmania M.A. Shadbolt Burnleigh Church Terrace Walkerville A Mitchell Hyde Park history of warrnambool, kodak cameras

Sent to Mrs A Terrill from son Dave while he was at army camps 1915, and from Bertie, Father of Dave.Post card showing coloured image of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, N.S.W., showing Hyde Park in the foreground."Made in U.S.A."

Two booklets produced for commemorative services held in London, 2015. 1.Service held in Westminster Abbey to mark the centenary of the ANZAC landings. 8 pages, printed blue on white pages 2.ANZAC Day Dawn service held Hyde Park, London. 6 pages, printed in black and white. Picture on cover.Both contain an order of service for ANZAC Day commemorative services held in London, April, 2015.commemorative service

A young lady and man use white canes to navigate Hyde Park North in Sydney, in front of the Archibald fountain.B/W photograph of two people using canes10/70103 M&O - Historical Mobility - historicalroyal blind society of nsw, white cane day

Frank Wright was a renown resident of Smeaton, where he was born on 2 August 1901. He lived at Laura Villa, and attended Smeaton State School. His father William was a gold miner and his mother's name was Sarah. Their family won many singing and instrumental awards. Frank was tutored by Percy Code and was awarded a gold medal for the highest marks in the ALCM examinations in the British Colonies at the age of seventeen years. He became the Australian Open Cornet Champion by the age of eighteen. A year later, Frank conducted the City of Ballarat Band, and later the Ballarat Soldiers’ Memorial Band. He formed the Frank Wright Frisco Band and Frank Wright and his Coliseum Orchestra. These bands won many South Street awards, and Frank as conductor won many awards in the Australian Band Championship contest. In 1933 Frank Wright sailed to England to conduct the famous St Hilda’s Band and was later appointed Musical Director of the London County Council, where he organized many amazing concerts in parks, in and around the London district. He was made Professor of Brass and Military Band Scoring and conducted at the Guildhall of Music and Drama. Frank was often invited to adjudicate Brass Band Championships around Europe, in Australia, including South Street and in New Zealand. The Frank Wright Medal at the Royal South Street competition is awarded to an individual recognized as making an outstanding contribution to brass music in Australia.An addressed envelope which is addressed to Frank Wright and a sheet of paper which is a letter from The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.On the top left hand corner of the envelope is "The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music, London (The Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music) 14 & 15, Bedford Square. London, W.C.I on the right hand side is an inked stamp in red with Great Britain a crown G v R Post Paid N 1/12d 99. The address is Frank Wright Esq LRSM. 226 Cambridge Street, Hyde Park W2 The letter is from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music London, altering Frank Wright that he is entitled to describe himself as a Licentiate of The Royal Schools of Music, London (L.R.S.M., London)frank wright, royal school of music, l.r.s.m.

Negretti and Zambra 1850-1980s were optical instrument makers and mathematical instrument makers based in London, England. The firm of Negretti and Zambra was established in 1850 by Henry Negretti and Joseph Zambra who had formed a partnership. Their skill was immediately apparent when exhibiting at the 1851 Great Exhibition at Hyde Park, they were the only English instrument makers to receive a prize medal for meteorological instruments, resulting in their appointment as instrument makers to the queen, Greenwich observatory, and the British Meteorological Society. In 1853, when the Crystal Palace was re-erected in Sydenham, Negretti and Zambra became the official photographers of the Crystal Palace Company, which allowed them to photograph the interior and grounds of the new building. The firm made use of this access to produce a number of stereographs. Between 1855 and 1857 Negretti and Zambra commissioned photographer Pierre Rossier to travel to China to document the Second Opium War. Although Rossier subsequently was unable to accompany to Anglo-French forces in that campaign, he nevertheless produced a number of stereographs and other photographs of China, Japan, the Philippines and Siam (now Thailand), which Negretti and Zambra published and that represented the first commercial photographs of those countries. In 1856 Negretti and Zambra sponsored a photographic expedition to Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia conducted by Francis Firth. In 1864 Negretti and Zambra (themselves) photographed Shakespeare's House at Stratford on Avon. A sepia photograph was then pasted onto card 4" × 2.5". This was then presented to visitors to the Crystal Palace to enable them to compare it with the model erected by Mr E. T. Parr in the Centre Transept. The card itself is headed "Crystal Palace April 23rd 1864." That year they also published a book, titled A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments, (which was reprinted in 1995). Throughout World War One Negretti and Zambra were entirely engaged in the production of various instruments for the Ministry of Munitions. They developed many instruments for the Air Ministry including a mercury-in-steel distance thermometer for taking the oil and air temperatures in aircraft which was patented in 1920. In 1946 the company went private and in 1948 the company was made public, and by 1950 Negretti and Zambra had 821 employees in Britain. In order to increase production and to safeguard future development in 1964, they purchased a modern factory at Aylesbury for all their production. In 1981 Negretti and Zambra were taken over by a group of financial institutions in the form of Western Scientific Instruments and in 1985 the company was acquired by Meggitt Holdings.The subject compass is just one type of the many marine and scientific, optical items this company produced over it’s life time. Negretti and Zambra were prolific manufactures of types of items as well as being very prominent in photography pioneering new innervation's and sponsoring expeditions to little known countries to document peoples daily lives and culture through photography.Azimuth compass on tripod in a fitted wooden box with a round spirit level included, lid of box has three indented circles where the legs of the compass fit when it is set up for use. Stamped "C.M.O. 9" on with Maker Negretti & Zambra London.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, azimuth compass, nautical instrument, negretti & zambra london, navigational instrument, compass

This black and white photograph in Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village’s collection is of the steamboat “Lady Loch” towing 5 rowing boats on the Hopkins River, Warrnambool. Both the “Lady Loch” and the rowing boats carry many passengers. The Lady Loch is travelling from the riverbank near Jubilee Park downriver towards Warrnambool and the river mouth. Rowing on the Hopkins River was a very popular sport and recreational pastime in the late 19th and early 20th century. People would travel a long way to spend their weekends and holidays at Warrnambool. The photograph was taken between February 1907 and June 1910. It was taken by Mrs. A. G. Dawson from the Hopkins River Bank at “Allandale”, which was leased to her. At the time of the photograph, the Lady Loch was operated by boatshed owners Mr James Flett & Sons. The photograph is one of a pair that was taken by Mrs. Dawson and published in the Warrnambool Standard 24th March 1973. An item a few years earlier in the Warrnambool Standard of 1899 promoted an evening excursion to aid in a fund-raising event for the Warrnambool Hospital. The excursion on the steamer Lady Loch, towing boats, would leave Flett and Son's boatshed on the Hopkins River at 7:30pm travelling towards Jubilee Park. It can be presumed that both the Lady Loch and the rowing boats in tow were all from Mr James Flett & Son’s boating establishment. The Lady Loch was described as “a fine little steamer with capacity for about 70 passengers.” She was a screw-driven steamboat so hardly disturbed the waters of the Hopkins River, dismissing the fears of local mullet fishermen, as there was almost no wash from the steamer. She measured 52 feet in length, a beam of 9 feet and weighed about 7 tons. HISTORY OF “LADY LOCH” Mr. Mark Hooper purchased a new steamboat for his pleasure boating business in Colac. The boat, “Lady of the Lake”, was possibly made by one of the boatbuilders at Lake Wendouree, a very popular recreational venue in the 1880s. The little launch arrived at Lake Colac by road from Ballarat on 21st November 1887; her boiler and engine had been transported by rail the day before. On at least one occasion she was chartered for the entertainment of ladies and gentlemen on a moonlight excursion on Lack Colac. The steamboat was renamed the “Lady Loch” by her new owner Mrs. Fanny Nelson who purchased her in June 1888 for her business “Nelson’s Boating Establishment” on the Hopkins River, Warrnambool. Some people have wondered whether Mrs. Nelson re-named the boat in honour of the wife of the then-current Governor of Victoria, Sir Henry Loch, Governor from 1884 – 1889. It was stated by one of the local papers that the Lady Loch flew the Governor’s colours of yellow, black and blue on her first trip under Mrs. Nelson’s ownership, Sunday 12th August 1888. HISTORY ASSOCIATED WITH MRS. FANNY NELSON’S BOATING ESTABLISHMENT Frances (Fanny) Maria Mann was born in 1828, at Gloustershire, England. She married Andrew Abernethy II Nelson of County Downs, Ireland (born 1831) in July 1848. Their eldest child of six was born there in 1854. They emigrated to Australia in May 1855. The second child was born in 1856, the following children in 1859 and 1862 (both in Wangoom) 1866 and 1870 (both in Warrnambool). Mr. Andrew Nelson and his wife Fanny lived near the mouth of the Hopkins River from the late 1850’s. Andrew was a keen fisherman and also operated a boat hire business on the lower Hopkins River. He was mentioned in the local Warrnambool Examiner for a notably sized kingfish that he and his mate caught in the Hopkins River in 1859. Fanny was also well known for ‘hearty meals’ There were another boatshed and boat hire business on the Hopkins River, on the corner of Simpson and Bostock Sts., near the cemetery. It was owned by Joseph Aberline in 1871. Aberline’s boat business was taken over by Mr Charles Everett by August 1872. Mr Everett obtained a Colonial Wine Licence in October 1872 for ‘a house situated at the Hopkins’. In 1873 he sold the land and boating business to Mr Peter McGennan, who was granted the Colonial Wine Licence transfer in September 1873. He built a large boatshed in which the Warrnambool Rowing Club stored its boats. In October 1876 the main boatshed and a workshop nearby burnt down but the house, (known later as Hopkins Hotel) was saved. Mr. McGennan rebuilt the boatshed and continued with his businesses. Andrew Nelson passed away from a heart aneurism, June 21st 1875 aged 44. Fanny took over the McGennan business to support herself and her 6 children. It was now “Mrs. Nelson’s Boating and Fishing Establishment”. In 1877 the Hopkins Colonial Wine Licence was transferred to Mrs. Fanny M. Nelson. In 1878 she advertised that the renovated establishment now had boats, fishing gear and accommodation available at moderate prices. She renewed the Colonial Wine Licence for the Hopkins Hotel in December 1883. In 1884 she purchased four new clinker-built rowing boats, two of which were outriggers with sliding seats, to join her sculling boat. Her premises also included the local Post Office. In August 1885 Mrs. Fanny Nelson called for tenders for a boathouse to be built on the Hopkins River closer to the river bank and near the Nelson house. It would be “specially built for housing of eight-oared boats, with dressing room and bath for the rowers. There will be a platform on one side and two jetties into the river.” It became known as The Nelson’s Boathouse. In December 1885 Fanny Nelson was granted a Hotel Licence for Hopkins Hotel; this was her home but also had six rooms that were separate from the Nelson family’s rooms. She was now proprietress of both the Hopkins Hotel and the Nelson’s Boating Establishment. Fanny Nelson, the proprietress of the Hopkins Hotel, received a very favourable mention in the esteemed book ‘Victoria and its Metropolis” in1888, one of the very few women mentioned. Andrew Nelson (the third), son of Fanny and Andrew Nelson, was by trade a baker and confectioner. He was also a keen member of the Warrnambool Rowing Club and was a member of the team that won the Colac Regatta in 1887. He occasionally helped his mother and brother with the boats and later with a ‘small steamer’. Mrs. Nelson was looking for a suitable steam launch to run on the Hopkins River in conjunction with her “Nelson’s Boating Establishment” business. It was Messers St. Quintin and M. McDonald of Warrnambool who then sold Mr. Mark Hooper’s steamboat “Lady of the Lake” to Mrs. Fanny Nelson of the Hopkins. She had it transported overland from Colac to Warrnambool by Messrs. Stansmore Bros.. The following day, Sunday 5th August 1888, a large crowd of people were on the Hopkins River to have a look at the steamer, which was still to have her fittings, such as the boiler, installed. This was done by the former owner (Mr Hooper) and Lady Loch was ready for a trial run on Saturday 11th August 1888. Lady Loch’s first trip took place the following day to Jubilee Park and the ‘islands’ at Allansford. Mr Hooper was on board, along with John Steel, her future engineer, Mr. T.H. Osborne at the wheel and there were over 70 passengers. She made the trip back to Mrs. Nelson’s boatshed at an “easy steam of six miles an hour. The whole trip took one and three-quarters of an hour”. Mrs. Nelson sold her complete business “Hopkins Hotel and Boat Establishment” in 1890 to Mr E.S.V. (Edward Samuel Vincent) Chapman. She moved to Melbourne and in 1896 was living in Napier St. South Melbourne, where she catered for her daughter Clara’s wedding. Later her address was Mills St, Albert Park. On 26th May 1900 she died from a burns accident and was buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery. [A photograph in the State Library of Victoria; ID 7022, 1889 - “Hopkins River” shows a picture of the Nelson’s Boatsheds, with Fanny Nelson holding her granddaughter Ruby’s hand. Another photograph shows the boathouse taken from the river. Its title is “Chapman’s on Hopkins (River)” c. 1890, Image No: b22487 and shows what the boathouse looked like around the time that it changed hands from Fanny Nelson to Mr Chapman. .] Mr. Chapman ran advertisements in the Colac Herald for Sunday afternoon Excursions on the Hopkins River from his boatsheds to Jubilee Park, where participants disembarked on the landing and walked up the steps to enjoy a picnic before returning to Chapman’s boatsheds at the end of about a one and a half hour journey. In February 1892 the Hotel was transferred to Mrs. Chapman, Edward’s wife. In July 1893 Mr George Coate received the transfer of the Hotel Licence and ran it for nine years. It was then purchased by Arthur Hyde in 1903. During this year there were two separate earth tremours, in which the Hopkins Hotel suffered some damage, but the embankment behind the boatshed was torn away. The Hopkins Hotel changed hands again in July 1907, the new owner being Thomas David Lindsay. The hotel closed its doors in June 1911 after a fire. The building was re-erected but never again became a hotel. The boatsheds, owned at this time by Mr Flett, were unharmed. Hopkins Hotel changed owners and the accommodation was then called Hopkins House. It changed hands several times until it was purchased by the Warrnambool City Council and demolished in 1974 and became part of the Hopkins River Recreation Reserve now King Park. On New Years Day 1895 a newspaper item announced that the Lady Loch would run from Chapmsn’s Jetty at 10:30am and 3pm. [Warrnambool and District Historical Society have a photograph in their collection showing Chapman’s Boat House on the Hopkins River with the Hotel on the hillside in the background.] Mr. James Flett & Sons purchased the boating business from Mr. Chapman in January 1897. James Flett had already been involved in boating. In 1875 he had “erected a large blackwood lighter on the Jetty Flat for Spencer Smith & Co. All the lighters owned by Mr John Young were built by him at the jetty some years before”. A tragedy occurred on Jan 7th 1899 when William Grayson drowned after he had been boating on Hopkins River with a companion, a jockey named Style. William had fallen into the river and his companion was unable to save him. The boat had been hired from Flett’s shed. In 1904 the Camperdown Chronicle advertised excursions to Warrnambool including a trip on the “Lady Loch”. [There is a photograph in the State Library of Victoria titled “Jubilee Park Landing Stage and S.S. “Lady Loch” Warrnambool”, taken circa 1908. It shows a group of 4 ladies on the landing beside the “Lady Loch” and other people still on the boat.] [The website “Picture Victoria” displays a photograph “Mouth of the Hopkins” that shows the Hopkins River mouth, bridge, Proudfoot’s boathouse and the rear of [the former] Mrs Nelson’s Hopkins Hotel, [once] occupied by Frances Maria (Fanny) and Andrew Abernathy Nelson Snr. ]. (narration for the photo on the website incorrect, in that it was the former’ home of Fanny and Andrew Nelson, and it dates approximately 1910-1915.) Sunday 12th November 1911 it was reported as ‘one of the busiest days of the season’ in Warrnambool. A special train, for the ‘Camperdown Church of England Sunday School’, was run from Camperdown to Warrnambool and Port Fairy, returning in the evening. It was ‘largely availed by all denominations, and the general public from Camperdown district, fully 600 adults and children and about half that number spent the day in Warrnambool. A large number of boats were on the river and the Lady Loch was well patronised. Flett’s boating business was still in operation until Mr. Flett advertised everything for sale in January 1916, including the boatshed and the steam launch “Lady Loch”. Until that time, both the Flett’s boatsheds and Proudfoot’s boathouse operated boat hire businesses alongside each other. In 1921 there was a new passenger boat on the Hopkins River; the motor launch “Nestor”. This new boat was owned and built by Mr. Edward Geary himself and completed on 23rd December 1920. She was licenced to carry up to 80 passengers. Unfortunately “Nestor” met with disaster when she sank in the Hopkins River on 9th January 1921. She was on her way from the Jetty near the Rowing Club to Jubilee Park on a fine and calm Sunday afternoon when, 10 minutes into the journey, she sprung a leak. There were about 80 adults and children on board, resulting in the loss of 10 lives. Dr. Henderson (Koroit St. Warrnambool) attended the scene and resuscitated some of the passengers. The survivors were taken to Flett’s boatshed where a large number of people had gathered. (Perhaps the name ‘Flett’ was still in use as a local name for the boatshed, as Mr. Flett had sold it in 1916.) The boatsheds erected by Mrs Fanny Nelson became the headquarters for the Warrnambool Ski Club but was demolished in 2004 when a new club building was erected nearby. (NOTE: In 1885, Thomas Proudfoot also began building his boathouse, at the same time as Fanny Nelson’s new boathouse. In 1886 Proudfoot’s started offering afternoon teas as well as operating their fishing and boating business. Proudfoods boathouse was closer to the mouth of the Hopkins Rive than Fanny Nelson’s. In 1893 he added other buildings.) [References; The Warrnambool Standard; Colac Herald; Mann Family Tree website; Warrnambool Past and Present, Vidler; State Library of Victoria; Warrnambool Hotels, E. O'Callaghan; 140 years on the Hopkins River, Warrnambool Rowing Club; Warrnambool Examiner; The Australasian; Trove, National Library of Australia; Fanny M. Nelson's great-great-granddaughter LC; The Age; South West Genealogist; Camperdown Chronicle; John Lindsay; Australian Postal History and Social Philately website]The photograph of Lady Loch pleasure steamer represents the social and recreational activities of late 19th century people from Warrnambool and the local district. It shows and example of pleasure craft of that era. The history of the Lady Loch includes the history of fishing and boat hire businesses of that period.Photograph, black and white, of the river steam boat “Lady Loch”. The “Lady Loch” is towing five rowing boats on the Hopkins River from Jubilee Park towards the river mouth and carrying many ladies and gentlemen. It was taken from the south river bank, from a property called “Allandale” by Mrs. A. G. Dawson between February 1907 and June 1910. During these years the “Lady Loch” was owned by Mr James Flett & Sons. Her previous owner was Mrs. Fanny Nelson.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, lady of the lake, lady loch photograph, lady of the lake steamer, lady loch steamer, lake colac steamer, hopkins river warrnambool, jubilee park warrnambool, proudfood's boat house, francis maria mann, andrew abernathy nelson iiird, hopkins hotel, nelson's boathouse, chapman's boathouse, flett's boathouse, proudfoot's boathouse, fanny (francis) nelson, james flett & sons, nestor, ferry

Vol. 4, No. 6, Nov-Dec 1999 CONTENTS ALBERT TUCKER AO 29.12.1914- 23.10.1999 3 MIETTA'S Eating and Drinking in Melbourne 4 MIRKA MORA 'Where angels fear to tread' 6 THEATRE Normie & Tuan Finding the River 7 CD REVIEWS 8, 9 MR MOON IS DEAD The new face of Luna Park 10 PUBLIC ART OR DECORATION Mark Henry 12 ELTHAM FESTIVAL 14 OPEN STUDIOS PROGRAMME 15 LOCAL BLUES/ROCK CULTURE Rob Harwood 27 INTERVIEW Kim Tarpey 22 SHORT STORY 24 ARTS SPONSORSHIP 29 BOOK REVIEW 27 ARTIN' ABOUT 28 OPERA Dialogue with the Song of Songs 22 WINING AND DINING 30 ARTISTS SERVICES 30 "Peter Dougherty has been involved in the local art scene for many years. As publisher and editor of the arts magazine Artstreams, his comments on the various branches of the arts are widely respected. His "The Arts" column in the Diamond Valley Leader presents a brief summary for a much wider cross section of the local community. Peter also operates his own gallery and the Artstreams Cafe at the St Andrews market. Peter has a wealth of knowledge about present day and historical aspects of local art and artists." - Eltham District Historical Society Newsletter No. 161, March 2005Colour front and back cover with feature articles and literary pieces with photographs and advertisements printed in black and white. 36 pages, 30 cm. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Nov. 1996) - Vol. 10, no. 5 (summer ed. 2005/​06) art streams, clare kurth, alicia clark, albert tucker, carlucci's, mietta's, adams of north riding, plenty views golf park, mirka mora, alan marshall short story award, james shaw, thanh vuu nguyen, victorian artists supplies, miriam hyde, lisa young, bluehouse, debbie morrow, clive dickson, luna park, montsalvat, dymocks booksellers, public art, mark henry, spectators sports bar, fleur de feliss florist, eltham festival, sebastian jorgensen, nillumbik artists' open studios, eltham pottery studio, muddy waters studio, studio 30, peter accadia, piers bateman, jenneke kortweg, janet boddy, dave bradley, melita jansen, jules christian burns, damian fitzgerald, jill forest, ona henderson, syd tunn, veronica holland, sally nihill, michael skewes, elizabeth vercoe, annie keil-taggart, alan martin, jenni mitchell, grace mitchell, mervyn hannan, peter oyston, chris pittard, mary lou pittard, jane viola, john hewish, nel ten wolde, rob harwood, st andrews hotel, kim tarpey, recherche, jessie howard, artspeak studio gallery, la trobe university art museum, willy wonka's ice cream gourmet food, arts sponsorship, john fry, winsome mccaughey, bostik, lucy sussex, alice's bookshop, were street cafe, thomsons pharmacy, know & grow, volumes

This small program was produced for a Massed Bands event held at Elsternwick Park on the 14th of September, 1952 involving brass bands from all over Metropolitan Melbourne and one band from Geelong. Held under the patronage of the Victorian Bands' League, this event involved bands marching from Elsternwick Station to the oval, and then performing a selection of items either on the march or in massed band format. The event was adjudicated by Mr George Harris with trophies awarded to various brass bands. The Massed Bands event was held to raise funds for the Caulfield Citizens' Band who had recently lost their band room due to fire.This little program is of significance as it highlights a typical brass band event in Metropolitan Melbourne. These programs are rare and it indicates the popularity of them and the range of bands that would travel long distances to participate. In a dual purpose, this event also raised money for the local band and was obviously a highlight for the municipality. A small program printed on paper.caulfield district band, city of caulfield, victorian bands' league, caulfield citizens' band, williamstown city band, essendon citizens' band, ringwood citizens' band, malvern municipal band, geelong city municipal band, brunswick city municipal band, prahran city band