Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic.) Sat 24 Aug 1935 Page 6 - 1800 Chickens Burnt. Starting in the incubator room, a fire at the Ashleigh Poultry Farm, Whitehorse Road Blackburn, early on August 20, incinerated 1800 young chickens and 1000 eggs. The incubator room and the chicken pens were reduced to ashes, but a large drum of kerosene standing in the room was undamaged! The owners of the farm, Mrs N. Foote and her sons, have suffered a severe setback, as practically all their chickens and eggs are gone, and it is too late to start hatching again this season.Two maps mounted on green cardboard. 1. Ashleigh Poultry Farm - Layout of weatherboard house and six residential allotments on Whitehorse Road and Ashleigh Street (later Ashburn Place), Blackburn, Victoria. 2. 140 allotments with frontages on Deep Creek Road, Warnes Road, Range View Grove, Tarrangower Avenue, Prince Edward Avenue, James Avenue and White Horse Road, Mitcham, Victoria.

Black and White photograph of a house surrounded by bush, with a large tree on the left and hills in the distance. The house belonged to the Till family and was situated in Clive Street, Mitcham.till family, mitcham - 1930s, mitcham, clive street

Advertisement for the sale of two homes, 265 Mitcham Road, Mitcham and 534 Mitcham road, Mitcham a 1930s timber home. Agent, drakes real estate. Photographs. Cutting from Nunawading Gazette, 18th April, 1984.Advertisement for the sale of two homesmitcham road, mitcham, no. 534, mitcham road, mitcham, no. 265, houses, drake & co.

Used at 41 Orient Ave, Mitcham in the early 1930s.An iron pointed at both ends. A wooden handle with a clip on it so that it could be clipped to the iron heated on the stove. The handle would be removed when the iron was being heated. Also known as 'Mrs. Potts' iron.Gibson Tool Aust 3 50domestic items, irons

Mullard Limited was a British manufacturer of electronic components. The Mullard Radio Valve Co. Ltd. of Southfields, London, was founded in 1920 by Captain Stanley R. Mullard, who had previously designed valves for the Admiralty before becoming managing director of the Z Electric Lamp Co. The company soon moved to Hammersmith, London and then in 1923 to Balham, London. The head office in later years was Mullard House in Torrington Place, Bloomsbury, now part of University College London. In 1923, in order to meet the technical demands of the newly formed BBC, Mullard formed a partnership with the Dutch manufacturer Philips. The valves (US vacuum tube) produced in this period were named with the prefix PM, for Philips-Mullard, beginning with the PM3 and PM4 in 1926. Mullard finally sold all its shares to Philips in 1927. In 1928 the company introduced the first pentode valve to the British market. Mullard opened a new manufacturing plant at Mitcham, Surrey in 1929 and in late 1930s Mullard opened a new plant in Blackburn, Lancashire. By 1949 Mullard had produced a number of television sets, such as the MTS-521 and MTS-684 and in 1951 Mullard was producing the LSD series of photographic flash tubes. In the early 1980s, Mullard manufactured the SAA5050, some of the earliest teletext decoding modules made in the UK. In 1957 Philips-Mullard helped to set up the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) at the University of Cambridge. Philips continued to use the brand name "Mullard" in the UK until 1988. Mullard Research Laboratories in Redhill, Surrey then became Philips Research Laboratories. As of 2007, the Mullard brand has been revived by Sovtek, producing a variant of the ECC83 and EL34. The Z Electric Lamp Co. continued business into the 1970s operating from premises in Thornton Heath, south London, manufacturing lamps of specialised design but it closed due to the recession in the mid 1970s. Sovtek is a brand of vacuum tube owned by Mike Matthews's New Sensor Corporation and manufactured in Saratov, Russia. They are often used in guitar amplificationA box with a 'Mullard' valve for a radioTop of box : MULLARD / ELECTRONIC VALVE / Side of box; GAURANTEED ELECTRONIC / VALVE / MULLARD ( in a shield) : mullard radio valve co. ltd., london, mullard captain stanley, electronic equipment, moorabbin, bentleigh, cheltenham, early settlers

Archie Harker and Ruby Wilson (whose sister Amy married Stan Wieland) conducted their courtship between England and Melbourne.in the early 1930s.Colection of letters from The Myer Emporium to Archie Harker and 4 receipts for goods bought. 1 receipt for pearl necklet from Ciro Pearls , Cheapside London. !

Wooden box used to advise other stations - Box Hill and Ringwood when the Mitcham train was departing. Acquired when the Mitcham station was demolished in 2014. Handset altered c. 1970s.Metal plate with switches. Wooden box 1930s. Handset altered C.1970s as used by trains as they departed from Mitcham to Box Hill and Ringwood. Switches Black - Up to Box Hill and Down to Ringwood. Red "UP" Bell to Box Hill Red "Down" Bell To Ringwood To advise the train had left Mitchammitcham, box hill, ringwood, victorian railways, railway stations, trains, railway signals