Showing 4 items matching "p. bird timber merchant"
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Eltham District Historical Society IncPhotograph, Warrandyte Bridge, c.1860, 1860c
... ...P. Bird Timber Merchant...Note sign in background for P. Bird Timber Merchant Box Hill. Photo has been damp at some stage and image has stuck to glass causing some damage to image in a number of areas....Note sign in background for P. Bird Timber Merchant Box Hill. Photo has been damp at some stage and image has stuck to glass causing some damage to image in a number of areas. ...Old timber trestle bridge before it was washed away. Note sign in background for P. Bird Timber Merchant Box Hill. Photo has been damp at some stage and image has stuck to glass causing some damage to image in a number of areas.Black and white photograph mounted in thin black framebox hill, p. bird timber merchant, warrandyte bridge, yarra river -
Box Hill Historical SocietyPhotograph - P. Bird, Box Hill, c.1930s
... Staff of P. Bird, Timber Merchants, c.1930's....Box Hill Historical Society Box Hill Heritage Centre Suite 7 Town Hall Hub Box Hill melbourne Staff of P. Bird, Timber Merchants, c.1930's. Bird> P. Timber merchants Clothing and dress Employees B&w photo Photograph P. ...Staff of P. Bird, Timber Merchants, c.1930's.B&w photobird> p., timber merchants, clothing and dress, employees -
Box Hill Historical SocietyPhotograph - P Bird's timber merchant
... P Bird's timber merchant brick premises established 1918 and original building with staff lined on the street....Box Hill Historical Society Box Hill Heritage Centre Suite 7 Town Hall Hub Box Hill melbourne P Bird's timber merchant brick premises established 1918 and original building with staff lined on the street. ...P Bird's timber merchant brick premises established 1918 and original building with staff lined on the street.Sepia photo mounted on cardboardHandwritten family history of original donor "Ruby Sweetland daughter of Frederick & Emma Sweetland Hay N.S.W./ granddaughter James & Mary Ann Adelaide Collier, Box Hill./ now wife of Alexander Thomas Gunn of Hepburn Springs Vic 1976/Mary Ann Adelaide Collier nee Britnell, was born on way out/to Australia in the St. Vincent Gulf in a sailing boat near Adelaide/ Sth Australia, hence the name of Adelaide/ Alexander Thomas Gunn's grandfather owned the No 1 Country Hotel Licence at Kangaroo Flat "The Glasgow Arms/Hotel. near Bendigo Victoria, about 1840./ They had a family of 6 boys & 5 girls/4 boys Tom, Dan, Jack & Alexander took up land in Thorpedale/ Victoria about 1860 & paid 1 [pound] an acre for it. This land was covered/ in dense forest fern tree & fern gullies & would rain for 6 months/ in this district was the tallest tree in the world height 365 feet./ Palling splitting was main source of living for many years after being/ cleared now produces the best potatoes in Victoria. Very pretty hilly country"bird's timber yard, businesses, bird> p., timber yards, timber merchants, employees -
Box Hill Historical SocietyPhotograph - Businesses - Saw Mills, 1911
... The premises and employees of P. Bird, Timber merchant, Clisby Street, Box Hill (site of Box Hill Plaza Shopping Centre) taken in 1911. ...Box Hill Historical Society Box Hill Heritage Centre Suite 7 Town Hall Hub Box Hill melbourne The premises and employees of P. Bird, Timber merchant, Clisby Street, Box Hill (site of Box Hill Plaza Shopping Centre) taken in 1911. ...The premises and employees of P. Bird, Timber merchant, Clisby Street, Box Hill (site of Box Hill Plaza Shopping Centre) taken in 1911. See Page 17 "The days before Yesterday". One version of the photograph appears to have been used in some sort of advertising either a flyer or newspaper advertisement. B&w photo; & Bromide2 copies of same photograph with different inscriptions: (a) 'With Mr P. Bird's Compliments, 1911',(b) 'Ring Up Tel. 120 Canterbury, Send for Price List' clisby street, industries, businesses, bird> p., bird's timber yard, whitehorse plaza, timber yards, advertising, "the days before yesterday", timber industry establishments
