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Greensborough Historical Society
Container - Jar, Peck's paste jar, 1930s
... Peck's paste jar ...This bottle held "Peck's Fish Paste', The company, Harry Peck & Co., was founded in 1891 and soon began making potted meats and fish pastes in their factory in South London. Peck's Paste arrived in Australia in 1904. Peck's have been in Australia for over 110 years and manufacture food pastes. The principal product is a fish paste called Anchovette. This jar dates to the 1930's.Clear glass jar, embossed inscription.Jar with Pecks RD NO 30273 embossed on base glass bottles, peck's paste -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, George W. Bell, Peck's Pool, Eltham, c.1955, 1955c
... Peck's Pool, Eltham, c.1955 ...Also known as Peck's Dam, it is today situated in the Pedersen Way Reserve, MontmorencyBlack and white photographic print (8 x 10 inch)On reverse - "Pecks Pool Eltham. Geo. W. Bell"eltham, george w. bell collection, houses, montmorency, peck's dam, peck's pool, pedersen way reserve -
Greensborough Historical Society
Container - Jar, Peck's paste jar, 1930s
... Peck's paste jar ...This bottle held "Peck's Paste', The company, Harry Peck & Co., was founded in 1891 and soon began making potted meats and fish pastes in their factory in South London. Peck's Paste arrived in Australia in 1904.Clear glass bottle, embossed inscription.Inscription: "Peck's" on side of jar; the base has the design number as "7134 50=R.C. ...) The rest is missing because of a chip on base.glass bottles, peck's paste -
Orbost & District Historical Society
bottle, 1930 - 1950
Peck’s meat spreads were introduced in England in 1891. Thirteen years later, the British-based Harry Peck & Co. began exporting its products to Australia. By 1938, Peck’s set up in Australia and began making canned meat and fish products.This is an example of a food container used in the mid 20th century.A small clear moulded glass jar. It has a check pattern at the top and bottom with a smooth band in the middle. It has a wide opening tapering to the bottom. It is lipped for a rubber seal. It was used for Pecks paste.on base - PECKS with some indecipherable numberscontainer peck's-paste jar -
Greensborough Historical Society
Document, Judith Dodd?, Peck's Dam history, 1900o
... Peck's Dam history ...History of a parcel of land bounded by Bolton Street, Brougham Street, Main Road and Grand Boulevard purchased by Mr Orr around 1900. It may have been called Panorama Heights Estate, Montmorency Park and later, Orr's Park. Orr had a dam made, which was called Peck's dam by locals in the 1940s-1950s.2p. typescriptorrs park, montmorency, pecks dam -
Clunes Museum
Tool - MEASURE
Peck of Peas measure Stickers marked "107", "measure Peck of Peas, W. Harris".measuring, peas -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Ronald Peck
Papers relating to Ronald Peck, fruitgrower in Tally Ho, 1920-1933? under the name of R. & A. Peck and Mutual Distributing Company.Papers relating to Ronald Peck, fruitgrower in Tally Ho, 1920-1933? under the name of R. & A. Peck and Mutual Distributing Company. Comprising school work (1902), journals and ledgers 1920-1932 (4 vols), two letters written by son Geoffrey Peck to 'John', executor's letter to Mrs Peck 3 Feb 1934 and photos of Ronald and family (NP3331-3335)Papers relating to Ronald Peck, fruitgrower in Tally Ho, 1920-1933? under the name of R. & A. Peck and Mutual Distributing Company. peck, ronald, peck, geoffrey, r. & a. peck, orchardists, fruit industry -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Chris Illert, Early ancestors of Illawarra's Wadi-Wadi people. Part 1., The unacknowledged sources of traditional stories in C. W. Peck's book 'Australian legends, tales handed down from the remotest times--' (publ. 1925 and 1933), 2003
... . Peck's book 'Australian legends, tales handed down from the ...Includes stories about people and the languages, word lists,pronunciation and sources of stories.Maps, b&w photographs, b&w illustrations, word lists, newspaper articleswadi wadi, wulungulu, gundungara, korewal, south coast nsw, cooma -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Peck's Dam, Pedersen Way Reserve, Montmorency, c.Mar. 1989
... Peck's Dam, Pedersen Way Reserve, Montmorency ...35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 28) Mount - Kodak KodachromeProcess Date MAR 89Mpeck's dam, pedersen way reserve, montmorency -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Negative - Photograph, Peck's Dam, Pedersen Way Reserve, Montmorency, 1998c
... Peck's Dam, Pedersen Way Reserve, Montmorency ...Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 8 strips and associated 10 x 15 cm colour printKodak Gold 100-5montmorency, peck's dam, pedersen way reserve -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Fay Bridge, Peck's Dam, Pedersen Way Reserve, Montmorency, 8 February 2019
... Peck's Dam, Pedersen Way Reserve, Montmorency ...Part of the Nillumbik Art Collectionfay bridge collection, 2019-02-08, montmorency, peck's dam, peck's pool, pedersen way reserve -
Puffing Billy Railway
Bottle and Jars found at the Museum in the ground
Bottle and Jars found at the Museum in the ground Bottle with Pecks RD NO 30273 embossed on base - Peck's Fish Paste, circa: early to mid 20th century Historic - Bottle and Jars found at the Museum in the ground Bottle and Jars found at the Museum in the groundBottle and Jars found at the Museum in the ground Bottle with Pecks RD NO 30273 embossed on base - Peck's Fish Paste, circa: early to mid 20th century puffing billy, bottle and jars -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Functional object - Dry Measurement Container, Late 18th to early 19th century (before the standardised measurement was introduced in England in 1824)
The peck has been in use since the early 14th century when it was introduced as a measure for flour. The term referred to varying quantities until the modern units of measurement were defined in the 19th century. Cities in England used to have official standard weights and measures for that city or area. These containers were marked with the city's name and emblem, merchant’s weights and measures would then be checked against this to make sure they weren't trying to cheat their customers. The item in the collection is a standard measure approved by Bristol City and used by that City’s grocers to measure dry goods such as peas, beans, sugar, flour, meal etc., and its metal banding ensures that the measure cannot be reduced in size to cheat customers. Additional Information: The British Imperial System evolved from the thousands of Roman, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and customary local units employed in the middle Ages. Traditional names such as pound, foot, and gallon were widely used, but the values so designated varied with time, place, trade, product specifications, and dozens of other requirements. Early royal standards were established to enforce uniformity took the name Winchester, after the ancient tenth century capital of Britain. King Henry VII reaffirmed the customary Winchester standards for capacity and length and distributed royal standards throughout the realm. This process was repeated about a century later in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. In the 16th century, the rod (5.5 yards, or 16.5 feet) was defined (once again as a learning device and not as a standard) defined by the length of the left feet of 16 men lined up heel to toe as they emerged from the church. By the 17th century usage and legal statute had established the acre, rod, and furlong at their present values together with other historic units such as the peck. Establishment of the System: The Weights and Measures Act of 1824 and the Act of 1878 established the British Imperial System based on precise definitions of selected existing units. The 1824 act sanctioned a single imperial gallon to replace the wine, ale, and corn (wheat) gallons that were in general use. The new gallon was defined as equal in volume to 10 pounds avoirdupois of distilled water weighed at 62°F with the barometer at 30 inches, or 277.274 cubic inches (later corrected to 277.421 cubic inches). The two new basic standard units were the imperial standard yard and the troy pound, which was later restricted to weighing drugs, precious metals, and jewels. In 1963 an act of parliament abolished archaic measures as the rod and chaldron and a metric system was adopted. An early example of a dry measuring container giving a snapshot of how imperial weights and measures developed in England to evolve the British measurement system into the metric arrangement that most countries have adopted today including Australia. It has social significance as an item that was in everyday use by grocers and other merchants to measure dry goods in the late 18th to early 19th centuries and used specifically in the Bristol region of England as an officially recognised measurement.Wooden measurement container with iron banding and hand made rivets container is a Quarter Peck official measurement container. Inscriptions are impressed into the sides of the wooden body. The container has the official crown and emblem of the City of Bristol, indicating this item was the Bristol City standard quarter peck measurement.Impressed into the timber on the front, a crown emblem over "C B G / CITY OF BRISTOL / QUARTER", on one side "HALF" , another side "PECK". Handwritten in white chalk on the base is "1458"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, weights and measures, quarter peck, measurement container, dry grocery measure, bristol city measurement standard, city of bristol, british weights and measures, 18th and 19th centure standard measures -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Equipment - Standard measure, Mid to late 19th Century
The beginning of standardised weights and measures began In Victoria when the Melbourne Observatory received sets of standard weights and measures, which had been tested in Britain against the then British Imperial standards. These included the primary standard yard and pound for the Colony of Victoria. Other standards of weights and measure held by shires and the administrative body's within the colony could then be compared to these primary standards. A Weights and Measures Act was passed in Victoria in 1862, establishing local inspectors throughout the colony. By the 1870s each local council and shire in Victoria held a set of standards that were used to test scales, weights and dry measures used by wholesalers, factories and shops. Every ten years the councils’ standards would themselves need to be rechecked against the Victorian Standards. The checking was done by the Victorian Customs Department in the 19th century, but with the transfer of responsibility for customs to the Federal Government in 1901, weights and measures function was retained by the Victorian Government and was shifted to the Melbourne Observatory. In 1904, a new building was erected at the south end of the Great Melbourne Telescope House, where the standard weights and measures and testing equipment was installed. This room had a large whirling apparatus for testing air meters and became known as the Whirling Room. When the Melbourne Observatory closed in 1944, the Weights and Measures Branch was formed to continue and this branch remained at the Observatory site unit until 1995. J & M Ewan History: J&M Ewan was a Melbourne firm that began by selling retail furniture and wholesale ironmongery. They had substantial warehouses situated at the intersection of 81-83 Elizabeth and Little Collins Streets, the business was established by James M Ewan in 1852. Shortly afterwards he went into partnership with William Kerr Thomson and Samuel Renwick. When Ewan died in 1868 his partners carried on and expanded the business under his name J & M Ewan. The business was expanded to provide a retail shop, counting-house and private offices. Wholesale warehouses adjoined these premises at 4, 6 and 10 Little Collins Street, West. This company provided and sold a large and varied amount of imported goods into the colony that consisted of agriculture equipment, building materials, mining items as well as steam engines, tools of all types and marble fireplaces. They also supplied the Bronze measuring containers in the Flagstaff Hill collection and the probability is that these containers were obtained by the local Melbourne authority that monitored weights and measures in the mid to late 19th century. The company grew to employ over 150 people in Melbourne and opened offices at 27 Lombard St London as well as in New Zealand and Fiji. The company also serviced the Mauritius islands and the pacific area with their steamship the Suva and a brig the Shannon. Robert Bate History: Robert Brettell Bate (1782-1847) was born in Stourbridge, England, one of four sons of Overs Bate, a mercer (a dealer in textile fabrics, especially silks, velvet's, and other fine materials)and banker. Bate moved to London, and in 1813 was noticed for his scientific instrument making ability through the authority of the “Clockmakers Company”. Sometime in the year 1813 it was discovered that one Robert Brettell Bate, regarded as a foreigner in London had opened a premises in the Poultry selling area of London. He was a Mathematical Instrument maker selling sundials and other various instruments of the clock making. In 1824, Bate, in preparation for his work on standards and weights, leased larger premises at 20 and 21 Poultry, London, at a rental of four hundred pounds per annum. It was there that Bate produced quality metrological instruments, which afforded him the recognition as one of one of the finest and principal English metrological instrument-makers of the nineteenth century. English standards at this time were generally in a muddle, with local standards varying from shire to shire. On 17 June 1824, an Act of Parliament was passed making a universal range of weights, measures, and lengths for the United Kingdom, and Bate was given the job of crafting many of the metrological artifacts. He was under instruction from the renown physicist Henry Kater F.R.S. (1777-1835) to make standards and to have them deposited in the principal cities throughout the United Kingdom and colonies. Bate experimented with tin-copper alloys to find the best combination for these items and by October 1824, he had provided Kater with prototypes to test troy and avoirdupois pounds, and samples with which to divide the troy into grams. Bate also cast the standard for the bushel, and by February 1825, had provided all the standards required of him by the Exchequer, Guildhalls of Edinburgh, and Dublin. In 1824, he also made a troy pound standard weight for the United States, which was certified for its accuracy by Kater and deposited with the US Mint in 1827. Kater, in his address to the Royal Society of London, acknowledged Bate's outstanding experimentation and craftsmanship in producing standards of weights, measures, and lengths. An example of a dry Bronze measuring container made specifically for J & M Ewan by possibly the most important makers of measurement artifacts that gives us today a snapshot of how imperial weights and measures were used and how a standard of measurement for merchants was developed in the Australian colonies based on the Imperial British measurement system. The container has social significance as an item retailed by J & M Ewan and used in Victoria by the authorities who were given legal responsibility to ensure that wholesalers and retailers of dry goods sold in Victoria were correct. The container was a legal standard measure so was also used to test merchants containers to ensure that their distribution of dry goods to a customer was correct. Bronze round container with brass two handles used as a legal standard for measuring dry quantities & is a 'peck' measurement. "IMPERIAL STANDARD PECK" engraved around top of container with " VICTORIA" engraved under.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, standard measure, bronze, peck measurement, j & m ewan, victorian standard dry measurement, bronze container, victorian standards, melbourne observatory, robert bettell bate -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Port of Portland staff, n.d
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: Noel Peck, Safety Officerport of portland archives, safety officer, safety, accident -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Skirt, 1940s
This skirt belonged to Joan Elizabeth Peck who served with the Royal Australian Air Force in the Second World War. Joan was born on 27 July 1919 in Acton England and enlisted in Echuca on the 6 January 1943. At the time of her discharge from the RAAF in 1945, Joan was serving as an Aircraftwoman with the 2 Air Observers School in Mount Gambier. Throughout the war, the Mt Gambier base operated under the Empire Air Training Scheme.This skirt was donated by the owner, Joan Peck, and has significant provenance. The inscriptions throughout facilitate significant research ability, though records are not publicly accessible and digitised at this time. Joan Peck’s uniform is also significant as an item of social history, revealing the role of local women in the home front war effort. Light khaki coloured skirt in cotton fabric. A-line skirt constructed of four panels with two darts on the back and two pockets on the front (as per photograph in Supplementary File). Side fastening on the left side with a series of four steel hook and eye fasteners. Two fasteners on the back waistband which are tightened by pulling through two steel rings. Peach-cream coloured bias binding on interior of hem. Label attached to the interior waistband of the skirt back, to the left and right of which is a handwritten inscription.Waistband label reads: “V298/MADE IN/AUSTRALIA/1942/SIZE PECK” Inscription handwritten on waistband interior: “105135.” To the right of the interior label: “J. E. PECK”skirt, uniform, second world war, royal australian air force, world war ii, women -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Geoff Peck
Black and white photograph on card of Geoff Peck, son of Tally Ho orchardist Ronald Peck. See also ND5539peck, geoff, orchardists, fruit industry, tally ho -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia, Shire of Stawell Weights & Measures Grain Measuring Cylinder, 1870
Large Round Brass Container with a handle on each side with glass lidsImperial Standard Peck Victoriastawell, standards -
Numurkah & District Historical Society
Tool - Branding Iron
Cast iton with ring at the top. Brand name "Peck" -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Peck, Geoff
Black and white photograph of Geoff Peck, son of Tally Ho orchardist Ronald Peck, receiving a trophy for winning the Grand National Hurdle at Flemington in 1967. From left to right: - Rohan Delacombe, Governor of Victoria, Ross Grey-Smith, Ray Dowen and Geoff Peck See also ND5539peck, geoff, delacombe, rohan, governors, grey-smith, ross, dowen, ray, ronald, orchardists, fruit industry, tally ho -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Peck family
Black and white photograph of Geoff Peck, son of Tally Ho orchardist, Ronald Peck. Two women in the photograph most likely to be his wife and mother. See also ND5539peck, geoff, ronald, orchardists, fruit industry, tally ho -
Shepparton RSL Sub Branch
NAVAL CHIEF PETTY OFFICER CAP, COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT COTTON FACTORY
BLACK PECK. CROWN AND ANCHOR ON BLACK BAND. BLACK CHIN BAND AROUND WHITE NAVAL CAP. -
Tennis Australia
Page from Magazine, Sep 1890
A page from 'Century' magazine, advertising tennis products from Peck & Snyder. Materials: Paper, Inktennis -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, C W Peck, Australian legends : tales handed down from the remotest times by the autocthonous inhabitants of our land : parts 1 and 2, 1925
Peck has collected a range of myths and legends from Aboriginal people, and also stories of the early pioneers in Australia.b&w illustrationscreation stories, myths and legends -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Eltham Shire Council, Proposed subdivision of five approximately equal areas of 5 acres, Vol. 4061, Fol. 061, Overbank Road, North Warrandyte, 1969
35mm colour positive transparency blue Agfacolour Service plastic mountD4, 55341, Peck subdivision, Mount Pleasant Road, 4 August 1969infrastructure, map, planning, subdivison lots, overbank road, mount pleasant road, north warrandyte -
Tennis Australia
Page from Magazine, May 1882
A page from 'Century' magazine, advertising tennis products from Horsman, Wright & Ditson, and Peck & Snyder. Materials: Paper, Inktennis -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Hen - Wooden, 1940's
Made by internees at Camp 3, Tatura. Handpainted by Georg Hoffmann in Camp 1Wooden carving of a hen positioned as if pecking something on the ground. Green painted base. Hen coloured brown/black, red and yellowhen, wood, hoffmann g, kazenwadel k, camp 1, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camps 1 and 3, handcrafts, woodcarving, toys, general -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph - No 28 Camp Hospital, Staff
Sister D Evans; Sister Robinson; Sister E Chalmers; Capt P Gorman MD; Sister M Morrison; Sister M Peck -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Audio - 3LO interview with Kate Shaw and Robert Peck re Sandridge City Bayside Development, Pat Grainger, 10 Mar 1988
Extract from ABC radio 3LO program presented by Romona Kovall, interviewing Kate Shaw and Robert Peck re the proposed Sandridge City Bayside DevelopmentDuration 00:17:40town planning - proposals shelved - bayside, romona kovall, kate shaw -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, No 28 Camp Hospital staff
Sister E Chalmers; Sister M Peck; Sister S O'Shannessy; Sister D Evans; Sister L Danson; Sister Robinson; Sister M Morrison