John Warren Glover was a significant operator of cyanide re-processing works in the goldfields from around 1900. He lived at 123 Webster Street for many years, and operated quite a substantial three roomed private laboratory on the grounds for assays associated with his operations. This balance was used at that laboratory. The Webster Street property is believed to be the first brick fronted house in Ballarat and the bricks were ballast from a Scottish Ship. The property remained in the Glover Family until it was sold in 1955. John Warren had car or licence registration no 12. A German made beam balance that would have been an extremely sensitive, and top of the line for its time (probably 1910 – 20’s). It has a long beam and a complex system of jewel knife edges and bearings. Plaque on front with C. Staudinger & Co. Machf, Gisssen (Gibben)mining, goldfields, beam balance, german, c. standinger & co., jw glover, john glover, warren glover, john warren glover, john w. glover, weights and measures, c. staudinger and co, carl staudinger, scientific equiment

Donated to the Society by the Sunshine Library. Many of the photographs have been used in displaysNewman J : Blacksmith and Wheelwright Ballarat Rd Braybrook H.V. McKay Workers : hats on and off H.V. McKay : Highland band in front of his home at Toorak Sunshine Harvester Works : ploughs tractors etc Harrison men : Harrison's Fram Werribee RSS & AILA Sunshine (Returned Sailors' Soldiers' & Airmen's Imperial League of Australia (RSL R.S.L.) Coles Hampshire Rd Sunshine Opening Day C1951 (Replaced the store of JW McGrath & Co) ICI Deer Park C1920's|Old Braybrook Shire Hall Hunt Club Hotel Deer Park House photos and street photograph perhaps of Sunshine includes 179 Morris St Sunshine Melbourne Meat Preserving Works (later Hume Site) Maribyrnong River Raleigh's Castle Maribyrnong River (Highpoint West nowadays) Maribyrnong Swimming Club and Syd Dunne 1921 AIF Lighthorse Camp or Remount Depot Maribyrnong C1920 (Later ordinance factory site) Riverview Tea Gardens Tennis Etc Maribyrnong River Angler's Hotel Maribyrnong River Maribyrnong River near Ordinance Factory area early 1900's Maribyrnong River in flood 1906|Other area of Maribyrnong River photos Female workers Women hand sewing gloves ammunition workers Kororoit Creek in flood with Parson's house and horsehair factory in the black ground Gum tree and sheds