The metal trades - RefereeBlue book "Lysaght's Referee' in black ink. 'Lysaght's Referee' is a handbook of useful information for The Metal Trades. Seventh Edition, with the compliments of John Lysaght (Australia) Pty Ltd. With dark blue ORB in centre page with cross on top and 'ORB' on circle.As abovelysaght's, john lysaght, metal trades

"Lysaght's Referee, a Handbook of Useful Information", seventeenth edition (with appendix). With the compliments of John Lysaght (Australia) Pty Ltd. Manufactured of galvanized iron. The book has a blue hardcover. A hole has been punched through the cover and the pages and a small piece of rope is tied to keep the pages and the cover together. Aileen and john Ellison Collection."L. John Ellison "Jacka Jacka" Tooan"manufacturing, lysaght

Originally built by John Hill, a shoemaker at Kangaroo Ground around 1878. In the late 1970s when our Society was the Shire of Eltham Historical Society, an offer was made to the Society regarding use of an old cottage at Christmas Hills. The cottage sat beside Watsons Creek just outside the then Shire of Eltham but following municipal restructuring it now lies within the Shire of Nillumbik. For various reasons the offer ultimately lapsed. At that time some research on the cottage was carried out for the Society by Keith Chappel as part of a larger research project that he was doing. Keith’s notes were taken from Lands Department records and showed that the property was the subject of a permissive occupancy of Crown land comprising the creek reserve. In 1903 a Miner’s Right of one acre in area was granted to Edwin Samuel Birch. In 1907 Birch applied to purchase this land but was unable to because it was part of the creek reserve. The documents show that the cottage existed at that time. Upon Birch’s death in 1932, his daughter, Honor Mary Birch was granted a permit to occupy the residence. Honor Mary Birch, known as Nora, was born 1900, the daughter of Edwin Samuel Birch and Honor (nee Young). In 1939 she married George Henry Williams (aka Henry). Honor died 8 July 1976. Her siblings were Margaret Martin (dec), Bert Birch and Brigidene Brinkkotter. In her will she gave and bequeathed “all the improvements on the land held by me at Christmas Hills under Permissive Occupancy from the Department of Land and Survey consisting of the house property thereon and all the contents of the said house to my nephew Brian Joseph Martin of Christmas Hills aforesaid farmer”. The will described the property as a four room, five square house, about 100 years old with enclosed verandah, including kitchen, combined lounge dining room, bedroom and store room; built of ‘bush slabs’ with a corrugated iron roof. A dairy had been erected in 1935. After her death, the property was acquired by the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works in 1978. The property is listed on the Victorian Heritage Database HO200-Hill, later Birch farm complex, 945 Eltham-Yarra Glen Road, Watsons Creek and described as: The house has a steep but simply gabled roof form clad with corrugated iron, vertical adzed hardwood slab front wall construction, split palings to the gable ends; rubble freestone chimney at one end (with added gsi flue), pole-framed Graeme Butler & Associates, 2006: 101 Shire of Nillurnbik Planning Scheme Amendment C13 Heritage Assessments verandah (rebuilt?); six-pane double-hung sash windows; T&G bead-edge boarded ledged & braced door; and paling clad rooms added at verandah ends. A slab-clad large fireplace is at the north corner of the house, with a gsi upper cladding added and an internal lining of rubble stone. The rear facade is different construction, being drop-slab, and sits beneath a rear skillion addition to the main gabled form: this may be more recent construction. The house appears to have been once set up for public display and may have been recreated in part for that purpose. Outbuildings are reached by a track along the east side of the house, including what may have been a creamery (typical standard inter-war design clad with corrugated iron and lined with 1938 Lysaght Queens Head Australia galvanised sheet iron) and a paling clad gabled out-house. Timber outbuildings of differing eras are to the north-west of the house, with pole framing and paling infill construction and Redcliffe brand corrugated iron. Post and rail (front) and split paling (rear) fence remnants line the front boundary. Pepper trees part of house yard landscape49 born digital images (includes one panoramic stitch and nine frames from drone video)birch cottage, christmas hills, early settlers, edwin samuel birch, honor mary birch, john hill, watsons creek

Sunshine Illustrated 1860–1960 was a special souvenir issue of the Sunshine Advocate newspaper, published in 1960 to commemorate 100 years of the district’s development. Most of the photographs in this edition were taken C1950's.5640.01 - Hampshire Rd 44 Sunshine - Richards Dairies.jpg 5640.02 - Hampshire Rd 83 - 85 Sunshine - Richards Model Dairy.jpg 5640.03 - Hampshire Rd 85 - 89 Sunshine - Richards Model Dairy.jpg 5640.04 - Hampshire Rd 266 Sunshine - Morton Arcade.jpg 5640.05 - Hampshire Rd 330 Sunshine - Sunshine Fire Station.jpg 5640.06 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine - Church of Christ.jpg 5640.07 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine - Crittall Manufacturing Company.jpg 5640.08 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine - Masonic Temple and Hall.jpg 5640.09 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine - McKay Workers.jpg 5640.10 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine - Patersons Store.jpg 5640.11 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine - State Savings Bank.jpg 5640.12 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine - Sunshine State School.jpg 5640.13 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine - Sunshine Town Hall.jpg 5640.14 - Hampshire Road Sunshine Looking North And South.jpg 5640.15 - Maribyrnong - Commonwealth Ordnance and Explosive Factroy.jpg 5640.16 - Market Rd Sunshine - Western Metropolitan Pig Market.jpg 5640.17 - McIntyre Rd 45 Sunshine North - Lysaght.jpg 5640.18 - McIntyre Rd 51 Sunshine North - Taubmans.jpg 5640.19 - McIntyre Rd 93 Sunshine North - Armstrong York Engineering.jpg 5640.20 - McIntyre Rd 133 - 135 Sunshine North - Southern Cross Machinery.jpg 5640.21 - Millers Rd 11 - 27 Brooklyn - Sidney Cooke.jpg 5640.22 - Monash St Sunshine - Our Lady's Catholic Church.jpg 5640.23 - Selwyn St Albion - Selwyn Park.jpg 5640.24 - South Rd Braybrook - Invicta Mills.jpg 5640.25 - South Rd Braybrook - Tottenham Technical School.jpg 5640.26 - Stafford St Sunshine - Sunshine City Band Hall.jpg 5640.27 - Stafford St Sunshine - Sunshine Park.jpg 5640.28 - Sun Cres Sunshine - Crescent Furnishings.jpg 5640.29 - Sun Cres Sunshine - Deneys Drapery Store.jpg 5640.30 - Sun Cres Sunshine - State Savings Bank.jpg 5640.31 - Sun Cres Sunshine - Sunshine Advocate.jpg 5640.32 - Sunshine Rd 207 Tottenham - Olympic Cables.jpg 5640.33 - Sydney St Albion - John Darling and Sons Flour Mills.jpg 5640.34 - Talmage St Albion - Sunshine Businessmen's Club.jpg sunshine, maribyrnong, hampshire road, market road, brooklyn, mcintyre road, sunshine north, albion, selwyn street, millers road, south road, braybrook, stafford street, sun crescent, sunshine road, tottenham, sydney street, talmage street, richards dairies, morton arcade, sunshine fire station, church of christ, crittall, masonic temple, state savings bank, sunshine state school, sunshine town hall, commonwealth ordnance and explosive factroy, western metropolitan pig market, taubmans, armstrong york engineering, southern cross machinery, sidney cooke, our ladys catholic church, selwyn park, invicta mills, tottenham technical school, sunshine city band hall, sunshine park, crescent furnishings, deneys, sunshine advocate, olympic cables, john darling and sons flour mills, sunshine business man's club, lysaght