Celebrating Research Football Club's 1959 Premiership. From the mid-1950s the Eltham Horse and Pony Club held the Eltham Easter Fair at Eltham Park (now Eltham Lower Park). In the late 1950s the fair was named ERSILAC and included a procession along Main Road from the town centre to the park.Black and white photographersilac, fairs, festivals, floats, football, eltham, easter, research (vic.), research football club

Panton Hill Football League match resultsDigital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match resultsDigital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results On reverse of clipping is an article "Old document gift to Shire" (partially cut off) is about the presentation of a portrait of C.S. Wingrove and an illuminated address presented to Mr Wingrove prepared in 1868 by the Eltham District Road Board. Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanc.s. wingrove, charles symons wingrove, charles wingrove, eltham district road board, lew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club, shire of eltham

Panton Hill Football League match results On reverse of clipping "Eltham has new Health Officer" about the appointment of Mr C.J. (Barry) Gaudion in succession to Mr W.U. Hughers who retired the previous month.Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanc.j. (barry) gaudion, health officer, lew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club, shire of eltham, w.u. hughers

Panton Hill Football League match results On reverse of clipping another story "Petrol Warriors" about Eric Giggins and John Sternbergs who acquired a petrol station in Montmorency and initiated a petrol price warDigital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loaneric giggins, john sternbergs, lew howard collection, match details, montmorency service station, panton hill football league, petrol price war, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

1. Letter from the Secretary of Shire of Eltham Historical Society to Ben Hall of Tullamarine, 11 August 1986 - Enquiry (11 Aug 1986) as to whether Ben Hall would be interested in partnering with the Society in the 1986 Eltham Festival (8-9 November) to participate in the parade and then offer rides after the parade to recover costs of entry. 2. Copy of letter (8 Apr 1987) offering payment in recognition of Ben Hall's efforts for the parade in 1986 3. Eltham's festival celebrates International Year of Peace, Diamond Valley News, Tuesday, October 14, 1986 (on reverse, advertising for opening of The Photo Centre at Shop 11, Eltham Mall, Arthur Street) 4. Firewaorks brilliant, Diamond Valley News, Tuesday, November 11, 1986, p12Letter A4 x 21986, ben hall, eltham festival, eltham town park, parade, phyllis macdonald, russell yeoman, 11 bridge street eltham, advertising, banner project, eltham clubs, eltham combined service clubs, eltham community centre, eltham community festival, eltham hotel, eltham police, eltham pre-school, lions club eltham, pine connection, plenty valley montessori school, research football club, research oval, research pre-school, research primary school, research scout group, sgt arthur traynor, shire of eltham banner project, shire of eltham historical society, 953 main road eltham, wattle studios

The material will be used for research for the 'History of ERFC' book.

Robert Pullar Cameron was a Shire Councillor for many years. He married Penuel Hossack and had a family of James, Flora, Penuel and Alex. William Cumming was a prominent Orbost identity. He was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, in 1866 the son of William Cumming and Mary Ann Montgomery. He came to Australia, aged 28, and to Orbost in 1890. He farmed at Bete Bolong and during WW1 ran a butcher's shop on his farm. He was a shire councillor and served as a South Riding representative for 38 years. He was a keen Newmerella football supporter, a member of the Orbost Bowling Club as well as a director of the Orbost Butter Factory. Cumming was married to Ellen Louise Mundy and had four children ( Harold, Mary, William and Gordon).This item is an example of a hand-written account for a local early 20th century business in Orbost. It is a useful research tool.A white paper account with blue lines and black ink . It has a pink receipt attached as well as a yellow duty stamp. It is from W. Cumming, butcher, to R.P. Cameron.cameron-robert-pullar cumming-william-butcher

Joan Gay (nee Ramsdale) was the daughter of Charles and Vera Ramsdale who owned the Research General Store.Digital file only - A4 photocopy of page on loan for scanning by EDHSbranton, brinkotter poultry farm, bus services, charles ramsdale, collingwood football club, ingrams road, ivy reynolds, joan gay (nee ramsdale), jupps piggery, linden strike drive, lyon bros, milk bar, mrs hill, neil mann, research (vic.), research cricket club, research hall, research primary school, research tennis club, reynolds road, rodda, tram, vera ramsdale, wests bakery, reminscences

FELDBAUER / TEAGLE Theodore Albert ‘Curly’ Feldbauer was born 15 October 1909 at Melbourne, the son of Theodore Henry (a naturalised German) and Jessie Margarette Feldbauer. The family moved several times during his childhood but before he was 20 he was living and working in the Eltham district. He became a well-known local sportsman. He played cricket for the Montmorency Imperials in 1929 and 1930 in the Eltham Cricket Association and excelled as a footballer and football coach. There are press references at the time to minor misdemeanours and accidents: evidently he was up for a brawl or two, but he was also able to do a recitation at a social night to launch the Eltham Girls Club in 1932. He married a local girl, Violet Amelda Teagle, in 1933, the 12th of 13 Teagle offspring who lived in Frank Street. Curly and Violet’s first child, June, was born the following year. By 1935 Curly was honorary secretary of the Research Cricket Club. He continued playing cricket regularly, mainly for Research, through till the 1940 season, after the war had begun. The girls started at Research State School in 1939 and 1940, respectively. They lived near Violet’s parents in Frank Street. Curly and Violet’s daughter, Valerie Waller recalls: “We lived near my Teagle grandparents, who had a cow. Dad took over the milking. He would rest his head against the cow and sing to her. When he left to join the army, it took weeks before she would settle down to allow anyone else to milk her.” Curly’s service record is not yet accessible from the National Archives of Australia. Valerie Waller gives us some insight into that period between Curly joining and ultimately embarking for Singapore: “Before he sailed to Singapore, Mum would travel by train, to Seymour, to spend a few hours with him. He sent her postcards and called her his “dear love”. His idea was that the sooner everyone eligible joined up, the sooner the war would be over. He had a great love for Australia.” “While he was a prisoner, Mum received a few postcards from him, not in his neat handwriting, but in block letter printing, to tell her he had received no mail or parcels from her. He must have felt we’d forgotten him, because, of course, Mum had sent lots of parcels and letters, and the Japanese hadn’t handed them on.” Theo was one of over 2,000 Allied prisoners of war held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as part of B Force. The 1,494 POWs that made up B Force were transported from Changi [Singapore] on 7 July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arriving in Sandakan Harbour on 18 July 1942. Sergeant Feldbauer, aged 35, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 27 March 1945 at Sandakan Number 1 Camp. The Japanese recorded his death from Malaria. He has no known grave, but it is believed to be at Sandakan Number 2 Camp. His death was not reported in Australia until some months later. Valerie noted: “I will never forget the sound my mother made when she received the telegram saying Dad had died months earlier, ostensibly from Malaria, but he died during the march. The sound still haunts me.” Violet’s husband Theo is recognised on the Eltham Roll of Honour, which was commissioned by the Eltham War Memorial Trust to be hung in the Baby Health Centre opened in 1952; the first of three buildings, the others being the Eltham Kindergarten and Children’s Library, that were established as the Eltham War Memorial a living memorial, with a specific focus for the welfare of children of the district. Violet and Theo’s son Albert, being the youngest child of the children of soldier fathers attending a school in the district, was given the honour of turning the first sod for the Eltham War Memorial Building, 15 July 1950. In Loving Memory of Violet Feldbauer Died 7. 11 .1982 aged 88 Loved wife of Theo (Curly) Died P.O.W. Borneo 1945 Re-united Alongside Violet lay her parents, John Thomas and Margaret TeagleBorn Digitaleltham cemetery, gravestones, charles louis layfield, edwina may layfield (nee teagle), john thomas teagle, margaret teagle, theodore feldbauer, violet feldbauer (nee teagle), annie lillian devine, frederick raymond devine, eltham war memorial, honour board, roll of honour