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Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Earth moving machinery in quarry, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: no 15 (pencil, upper left) 12088 (blue pen, upper right) 52 % (pencil, centre) 41/4 x 6 (red pen, centre)port of portland archives -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - wheat storage construction, Portland, c. 1970
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: Southern Trench, wheat storage site, June 11th (pencil, upper left)port of portland archives -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Equipment - Equipment, Army, Entrenching Tool
Metal hinged shovel with green wooden handle which adjusts to various anglesentrenching tool -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Mining Scene with a gold rocking cradle
Miners around Big Hill area at work c 1860's. Note gold rocking cradle. This photo was amongst several mining photos, all of which were identified and catalogued under their correct mine name in 2010-2011.Three men with shovels around a gold mine cradle on a rocky hill side.stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia, c1910
Round mouth Metal Mining Shovel with short wooden handle belonging to William Chapmanstawell -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Photograph - Photo of sixteen men with shovels digging the channel, Photograph of boat channel creation series, 1934-36
QUEENSCLIFFE boat channel being dug out c1934-36Boat channel for fishing fleet protectionBlack & white photo of men with shovels digging the channel, aka The Cut, at the Bay end.Reverse - NILcommunity information, boat channel c1934-36, the cut -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Photograph, Digging in at Anzac Cove, est 1915
A black & white photo showing 14 Australian soldiers with picks and shovels digging in at Anzac Covephoto, gallipoli -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Badge
Cap badge brass, Royal Dutch Army Pioneer Battalion. Helmet, with crossed pick and shovel.badge/buttons, army -
Waverley RSL Sub Branch
Trenching Tool (head)
The intrenching tool of the Australian soldier was a British design. It is carried in an Australian leather infantry equipment blade carrier, commonly known as P15 equipment The Australian version was made of two pieces, riveted together with three rivets. The depth of the handle (helve) collar is considerably thicker than the accepted British pattern of the same time. http://www.grantsmilitaria.com/Steel trenching tool head with shovel enf and pick end Oval hole for fitting handleStamped AUSTRALIAtrenching tool. entrenching tool -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Cape Grant Quarry, 30/11/1953
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: Purple PHT stampport of portland archives, cape grant quarry -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - W. W. Sweetland, Chairman, Portland of Portland Authority, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)port of portland archives, shed -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph -W. W. Sweetland, Chairman, Portland of Portland Authority, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)port of portland archives -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - W. W. Sweetland, Chairman, Portland of Portland Authority, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: WW Sweetland/ Chairman/ PPAport of portland archives -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - W. W. Sweetland, Chairman, Portland of Portland Authority, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: BILL SWEETLAND (black pen, upper left)port of portland archives -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - W. W. Sweetland, Chairman, Portland of Portland Authority, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: WW Sweetland/ Chairman/ PPA (blue pen, lower centre)port of portland archives -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Slide, Ian McCann, Lake Bellfield Under Construction, 1965
Lake Bellfield Under ConstructioColour Slide: Showin tow trucks and a Steam Shovel on th eeastern side of Lake Bellfield. -
Mont De Lancey
Tool - Drainage Shovel, Unknown
Used by Wandin Sebire for an unknown purpose.A narrow goose necked drainage shovel with a very long wooden handle which was used to clean urban drains and prepare trenches for narrow pipes. A goose necked shovel is pulled towards the user by the very long handle. Used in the early 20th century.shovels, gardening tools, gardening equipment, tools, spades -
Stanley Athenaeum & Public Room
Functional object - Fire-tools
Metal Tongs - 70cm. Rusted cast iron. Metal fire-shovel - 59cm. Rusted cast iron. -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Slide, Ian McCann, Constructing the dam wall, 1965
Colour Slde. A Steam Shovel loaing a truck and tailer with rubble part wal up the dam wall.lake bellfield -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Shovel Head
Used to move dirt or to dig shallow holes.Used by the residents of the Kiewa Valley and of Ben Valley.Formerly KV060. Steel ,wide with a worn middle edge 'bowl' which is slightly concave.tool, shovel -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Framed Map and Newspaper
Sketch Map of Bulldog-Wau Road New Guinea drawn to scale by 2/1 Aust Fd Coy dated 23.7.43 and signed by soldiers together with related newspaper article. Hand sketched by Peter Muncey VX10042 a Draughtsman who served in the Middle East Ceylon and New Guinea with the 2/2 and 2/1 Field Coy Royal Australian Engineers. The sketch contains 26 signatures including:- S/Sgt Raymond Hector Ibbotson NX14112 who served in the Middle East and New Guinea Lt Col Jack Graham Wilson NX 130646Bulldog Track also known as Bulldog-Wau road was longer, higher, steeper, wetter, colder and rougher than Kokoda Track. In 1943 Australian Army engineers; the 2/1 and 2/16 Field Company RAE, 9th Australian Field Company (AIF), veterans of Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Greece and Crete, the 1st and 3rd Australian Pack Transport Companies and local Papuan labour cut the road with pickaxes and dynamite over a period of eight months. During five months of operations over seventy per cent of the 2/1 Australian Field Company contracted malaria.Seventeen bridges were constructed; mostly single, but at least one with multiple spans. More than two thousand Australian army personnel and over two thousand Papuans and New Guineans were involved during nine months of construction. Thus the road, acclaimed as the greatest military engineering feat ever, was completed and for the only time in history motor vehicles crossed the high rugged mountains of Papua New Guinea. Carved brown timber frame with cream mount containing hand sketched map with soldiers signatures and two newspaper articles.Sketch Map of Bulldog-Wau Road 23.7.43 2/1 Aust Fd Coy Newspaper - Diggers pushed on with pick and shovelbulldog-wau road, map, new guinea, ww2 -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Navarre Primary School 1910
Date could be earlier based on clothing.Men on buggies, ladies and students in front of Navarre Primary School. Some with picks and shovels. Possibly working bee. education, students -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Navarre Primary School 1910
Date could be earlier based on clothing.Men on buggies, ladies and students in front of Navarre Primary School. Some with picks and shovels. Possibly working bee. education, students -
Bright & District Historical Society operating the Bright Museum
Fire irons
Brass stand in shape of a cobra, with four brass fireplace utensils - Long poker, short poker, tongs, shovelirons, fire, domestic, utensil -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Clay spade chisel
8415.1 - Metal rod that flattens out into a wide, shovel-like paddle. Used to break though hard clay. -
Linton and District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Building of Battery Dam, Undated
Sepia image of a group of men, some with shovels, some with horses and horse drawn vehicles. Two structures in background.dams, dam workers, horses, horse drawn vehicles, battery dam -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - discharging phosphate rock from the 'Baron Ardrossan', 1960s
Port of Portland Authority archives. The Baron Ardrossan was a geared bulk carrier completed by Haugesund Mekaniske Verksted, Haugesund (Yard No. 37) for H. Hogarth & Sons Ltd., Glasgow. Scottish Ship Management Ltd., Glasgow, managers. Decommissioned in 1986.Front: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)baron ardrossan, bulk carrier, cargo -
Mont De Lancey
Tool - Drainage Shovel, Unknown
A long swan necked steel scooped drainage shovel head with a long wooden handle, attached to the head by three rivets. It was used to prepare trenches for narrow pipe drains. A swan necked shovel is pushed away from the user by the very long handle. Used in the early 20th century.shovels, gardening tools, gardening equipment, tools, spades -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Handle
Ref: LA 6 67 311 HISTORY OF THE LOCH ARD The LOCH ARD belonged to the famous Loch Line which sailed many ships from England to Australia. Built in Glasgow by Barclay, Curdle and Co. in 1873, the LOCH ARD was a three-masted square rigged iron sailing ship. The ship measured 262ft 7" (79.87m) in length, 38ft (11.58m) in width, 23ft (7m) in depth and had a gross tonnage of 1693 tons. The LOCH ARD's main mast measured a massive 150ft (45.7m) in height. LOCH ARD made three trips to Australia and one trip to Calcutta before its final voyage. LOCH ARD left England on March 2, 1878, under the command of Captain Gibbs, a newly married, 29 year old. She was bound for Melbourne with a crew of 37, plus 17 passengers and a load of cargo. The general cargo reflected the affluence of Melbourne at the time. On board were straw hats, umbrella, perfumes, clay pipes, pianos, clocks, confectionary, linen and candles, as well as a heavier load of railway irons, cement, lead and copper. There were items included that intended for display in the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880. The voyage to Port Phillip was long but uneventful. At 3am on June 1, 1878, Captain Gibbs was expecting to see land and the passengers were becoming excited as they prepared to view their new homeland in the early morning. But LOCH ARD was running into a fog which greatly reduced visibility. Captain Gibbs was becoming anxious as there was no sign of land or the Cape Otway lighthouse. At 4am the fog lifted. A man aloft announced that he could see breakers. The sheer cliffs of Victoria's west coast came into view, and Captain Gibbs realised that the ship was much closer to them than expected. He ordered as much sail to be set as time would permit and then attempted to steer the vessel out to sea. On coming head on into the wind, the ship lost momentum, the sails fell limp and LOCH ARD's bow swung back. Gibbs then ordered the anchors to be released in an attempt to hold its position. The anchors sank some 50 fathoms - but did not hold. By this time LOCH ARD was among the breakers and the tall cliffs of Mutton Bird Island rose behind the ship. Just half a mile from the coast, the ship's bow was suddenly pulled around by the anchor. The captain tried to tack out to sea, but the ship struck a reef at the base of Mutton Bird Island, near Port Campbell. Waves broke over the ship and the top deck was loosened from the hull. The masts and rigging came crashing down knocking passengers and crew overboard. When a lifeboat was finally launched, it crashed into the side of LOCH ARD and capsized. Tom Pearce, who had launched the boat, managed to cling to its overturned hull and shelter beneath it. He drifted out to sea and then on the flood tide came into what is now known as LOCH ARD Gorge. He swam to shore, bruised and dazed, and found a cave in which to shelter. Some of the crew stayed below deck to shelter from the falling rigging but drowned when the ship slipped off the reef into deeper water. Eva Carmichael had raced onto deck to find out what was happening only to be confronted by towering cliffs looming above the stricken ship. In all the chaos, Captain Gibbs grabbed Eva and said, "If you are saved Eva, let my dear wife know that I died like a sailor". That was the last Eva Carmichael saw of the captain. She was swept off the ship by a huge wave. Eva saw Tom Pearce on a small rocky beach and yelled to attract his attention. He dived in and swam to the exhausted woman and dragged her to shore. He took her to the cave and broke open case of brandy which had washed up on the beach. He opened a bottle to revive the unconscious woman. A few hours later Tom scaled a cliff in search of help. He followed hoof prints and came by chance upon two men from nearby Glenample Station three and a half miles away. In a state of exhaustion, he told the men of the tragedy. Tom returned to the gorge while the two men rode back to the station to get help. By the time they reached LOCH ARD Gorge, it was cold and dark. The two shipwreck survivors were taken to Glenample Station to recover. Eva stayed at the station for six weeks before returning to Ireland, this time by steamship. In Melbourne, Tom Pearce received a hero's welcome. He was presented with the first gold medal of the Royal Humane Society of Victoria and a £1000 cheque from the Victorian Government. Concerts were performed to honour the young man's bravery and to raise money for those who lost family in the LOCH ARD disaster. Of the 54 crew members and passengers on board, only two survived: the apprentice, Tom Pearce and the young woman passenger, Eva Carmichael, who lost all of her family in the tragedy. Ten days after the LOCH ARD tragedy, salvage rights to the wreck were sold at auction for £2,120. Cargo valued at £3,000 was salvaged and placed on the beach, but most washed back into the sea when another storm developed. The wreck of LOCH ARD still lies at the base of Mutton Bird Island. Much of the cargo has now been salvaged and some was washed up into what is now known as LOCH ARD Gorge. Cargo and artefacts have also been illegally salvaged over many years before protective legislation was introduced. One of the most unlikely pieces of cargo to have survived the shipwreck was a Minton porcelain peacock - one of only nine in the world. The peacock was destined for the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880. It had been well packed, which gave it adequate protection during the violent storm. Today, the Minton peacock can be seen at the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum in Warrnambool. From Australia's most dramatic shipwreck it has now become Australia's most valuable shipwreck artefact and is one of very few 'objects' on the Victorian State Heritage Register. Flagstaff Hill’s collection of artefacts from LOCH ARD is significant for being one of the largest collections of artefacts from this shipwreck in Victoria. It is significant for its association with the shipwreck, which is on the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR S417). The collection is significant because of the relationship between the objects, as together they have a high potential to interpret the story of the LOCH ARD. The LOCH ARD collection is archaeologically significant as the remains of a large international passenger and cargo ship. The LOCH ARD collection is historically significant for representing aspects of Victoria’s shipping history and its potential to interpret sub-theme 1.5 of Victoria’s Framework of Historical Themes (living with natural processes). The collection is also historically significant for its association with Shovel handle. Has pieces of iron and concretion visible. Artefact Reg No LA/42. Recovered from the wreck of the Loch Ard.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, loch line, loch ard, captain gibbs, eva carmichael, tom pearce, glenample station, mutton bird island, loch ard gorge, shovel handle -
Bright & District Historical Society operating the Bright Museum
Fire irons
00062.1 : Brass fire tongs - ornate handle. 00062.2 : Brass poker - ornate handle. 00062.3 : Brass shovel - ornate handle.brass, fire tongs, fire poker, fire shovel