Gillies Bros Timeline 1929 Leslie Graham Gillies is born on July 12, 1929 in Charlton, Victoria, son of Donald John and Agnes Maud Gillies. 1943 At age 14, Les Gillies goes to work at the Aunt Sally Milk Bar. His employer is Les McClure of Dad’n’Dave Café and Four’n’Twenty pie fame. 1950 Les Gillies, with brothers Alan and Norm, opens a bakery and the Rosebud Tea Rooms in Mitchell Street, Bendigo. 1951 The Gillies brothers. open on the corner of Hargreaves and Mitchell Streets. Over fifty six years of trading this corner becomes known as the Gillies Pie corner. The brothers also run the Kentucky Café from this site. 1954 Les Gillies marries 3CV radio announcer, Yvonne Smith. 1958 The Gillies brothers purchase the Black Swan Hotel in McCrae Street and turn it into a factory and retail outlet. 1976 The Gillies brothers open up a new factory in Garsed Street, Bendigo. 1985 The Gillies brothers purchase Kay’s Cakes in Geelong and the pie making part of the business relocates to Geelong. The Garsed Street factory is used for packaging and distribution. 2007- The Gillies business is sold. The Pie corner changes hands and the Garsed Street factory becomes empty. 2015- Les Gillies passes away at the age of 86 years. 2026 The Garsed Street factory is empty and derelict. The pie window in Hargreaves Street is still operating under the banner of the ‘Bendigo Original Pie Shop’. Four-page Gillies Bros. inhouse newsletter "Beneath the Crust", undated. B&W printed text only newsletter.gillies, inhouse newsletter

This set of magazines is a vital tool for those researching the early days and later development of ATCV and CVA. It was modelled loosely on the magazine "Conserver" of the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV). Issues become more sophisticated in format over time and each includes news, project reports, lists of upcoming projects, and stories. The editor for 62 issues was Mr Alf Bailey (staff 1987-current (2010)who edited the Conservator from Mar 1987 to mid-2006.Alf was a former high school principal and set a high standard. Since 2006 a more compact and economical newsletter "Conservation Volunteer" has been mailed to CVA and CVNZ members and is also downloadable from the CVA website.This set of magazines is significant because it is the most comprehensive record of all aspects of the establishment, growth, expansion, and nature of ATCV/CVA and its activities. It reveals the change from a local charity to a nation-wide corporate structure engaging thousands of volunteers tackling hundreds of projects a year in Australia and New Zealand in the present day.This was the final issue of a magazine produced by ATCV/CVA from 1982-2006 (c. 90 issues). This issue was a high quality, profusely illustrated colour magazine, representing a quantum leap in professionalism from the earliest photocopied editions. magazine, conservator, conservation, volunteer, promotion, alf, bailey

A collection of Victorian Railways Newsletters.non-fictionFrom 1930 until 1973, Victorian Railways News Letter was the inhouse journal for what is now Vicrail. Being a railway family with three stationmasters many copies remain in the family home, Hymettus Cottage.railways, railway family, journal, community