This set of photos is from a leather bound album bearing the inscription "HUME RESERVOIR AUSTRALIA" plus 'The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, P. C., M .P.' all inscribed in gold. It was presented to The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, P. C., M. P, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs on the occasion of his visit to the Hume Reservoir on 2nd November 1927. This album is of local and national significance as it documents the planning and development of the Hume Reservoir up to 1927. It was the largest water reservoir in the British Empire. The album records the pioneering engineering work that went into its construction.DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, N.S.W. RIVER MURRAY WATERS SCHEME. HUME RESERVOIR. 33. Concrete Slabs on Embankment. The upstream face of the embankment is being protected from the effects of wave action by concrete slabs 12 inches thick laid in squares in situ. The thrust at the toe of the bank is taken care of by a body of granite blocks and spalls. Victoria. August 1927.hume reservoir australia, river murray waters scheme, hume reservoir construction

Pipes at gas explosion, Sydney Road, 20 Sep 1958. Next to Hoyts Cinema (Padua), Grand Final Day Collingwood beat Melbourne). Gas main under Sydney road exploded. Fusion. Vol 18 no 4, November 2004. Sydney Road gas pipe explosion (2 photos - 2024-065 and ) / Jim Spall p5. Plus Wendy Harvey's memories of the event on page 4.

Four people looking at the damage caused by gas explosion. Parking meter still standing. Gas explosion, Sydney Road, 20 Sep 1958. Next to Hoyts Cinema (Padua), Grand Final Day Collingwood beat Melbourne). Gas main under Sydney road exploded. Fusion. Vol 18 no 4, November 2004. Sydney Road gas pipe explosion (2 photos - 2024-065 and ) / Jim Spall p5. Plus Wendy Harvey's memories of the event on page 4.

Gas and Fuel Corporation of Vic shop. Shows damaged footpath and shop eaves. A few people look at the damage. Gas explosion, Sydney Road, 20 Sep 1958. Next to Hoyts Cinema (Padua), Grand Final Day Collingwood beat Melbourne). Gas main under Sydney road exploded. Cinema. Fusion. Vol 18 no 4, November 2004. Sydney Road gas pipe explosion (2 photos - 2024-065 and ) / Jim Spall p5. Plus Wendy Harvey's memories of the event on page 4.

This set of photos is from a leather bound album bearing the inscription "HUME RESERVOIR AUSTRALIA" plus 'The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, P. C., M .P.' all inscribed in gold. It was presented to The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, P. C., M. P, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs on the occasion of his visit to the Hume Reservoir on 2nd November 1927. This album is of local and national significance as it documents the planning and development of the Hume Reservoir up to 1927. It was the largest water reservoir in the British Empire. The album records the pioneering engineering work that went into its construction.DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, N.S.W. RIVER MURRAY WATERS SCHEME. HUME RESERVOIR. 35. Quarry. View along the face of the quarry. Granite is being quarried here for the concrete material. Blocks from 2-8 tons in weight are reserved for “plums”. Quantities of large size spalls are sent to Victoria for the toe of the embankment and other purposes but the greatest proportion of the stone is crushed at the quarry to 2½ inches gauge for concrete aggregate. Two steam navvies and two steam travelling cranes are at work on the face. New South Wales. August 1927.hume reservoir australia, river murray waters scheme, hume reservoir construction

Shops in Sydney Road near site of gas explosion. They include a shoe shop, 'Staley Laundry', Currier? and parking meters. Gas explosion, Sydney Road, 20 Sep 1958. Next to Hoyts Cinema (Padua), Grand Final Day Collingwood beat Melbourne). Gas main under Sydney road exploded. Fusion. Vol 18 no 4, November 2004. Sydney Road gas pipe explosion (2 photos - 2024-065 and 2024-068) / Jim Spall p5. Plus Wendy Harvey's memories of the event on page 4.

Shows damage to footpath and eaves due to the gas explosion. A worker is climbing a stepladder and a few people are looking on. Hoyts sign is visible next door (Padua). Gas explosion, Sydney Road, 20 Sep 1958. Next to Hoyts Cinema (Padua), Grand Final Day Collingwood beat Melbourne). Gas main under Sydney road exploded. Fusion. Vol 18 no 4, November 2004. Sydney Road gas pipe explosion (2 photos - 2024-065 and ) / Jim Spall p5. Plus Wendy Harvey's memories of the event on page 4.

View of Sydney Road showing damage caused by the explosion. People looking down through hole in pavement. Three men and three children outside Sturrocks, watchmaker and jeweller. Gas explosion, Sydney Road, 20 Sep 1958. Next to Hoyts Cinema (Padua), Grand Final Day Collingwood beat Melbourne). Gas main under Sydney road exploded. Fusion. Vol 18 no 4, November 2004. Sydney Road gas pipe explosion (2 photos - 2024-065 and ) / Jim Spall p5. Plus Wendy Harvey's memories of the event on page 4.

Shows damage caused by gas explosion on Sydney Road. Groups of onlookers. Frontage of Seaview Wine merchant shop. Also Crisp Woods & Co on left side of photo. Gas explosion, Sydney Road, 20 Sep 1958. Next to Hoyts Cinema (Padua), Grand Final Day Collingwood beat Melbourne). Gas main under Sydney road exploded. Fusion. Vol 18 no 4, November 2004. Sydney Road gas pipe explosion (2 photos - 2024-065 and ) / Jim Spall p5. Plus Wendy Harvey's memories of the event on page 4.

Damaged footpath - looks to be a side street off Sydney Road. Two cars, a few people looking on and hat placed barrier (wooden?) on the front left hand side of image. Gas explosion, Sydney Road, 20 Sep 1958. Next to Hoyts Cinema (Padua), Grand Final Day Collingwood beat Melbourne). Gas main under Sydney road exploded. Cinema. Vol 18 no 4, November 2004. Sydney Road gas pipe explosion (2 photos - 2024-065 and ) / Jim Spall p5. Plus Wendy Harvey's memories of the event on page 4.

Holden - registration number Vic ZU-111, damaged in the explosion. Damage to front headlight, slight damage to front bumper bar and front passenger side hub cap gone. Also bonnet is sitting up on passenger side - where it was parked. Note venetian blind in rear window. Car appears to be parked in a side street. Gas explosion, Sydney Road, 20 Sep 1958. Next to Hoyts Cinema (Padua), Grand Final Day Collingwood beat Melbourne). Gas main under Sydney road exploded. Fusion. Vol 18 no 4, November 2004. Sydney Road gas pipe explosion (2 photos - 2024-065 and ) / Jim Spall p5. Plus Wendy Harvey's memories of the event on page 4.

In an article dated 26 March 1963, the Warrnambool Standard reported: “A cannon which has lain on the ocean floor since the barque, Children, was wrecked at Childer’s Cove on January 15, 1839, was raised by three Warrnambool skindivers at the weekend … The cannon, weighing about 750 lb. and 4-ft. 6-in. in length … is in excellent order considering the length of time it has remained underwater”. No conservation measures were taken at that time, other than chipping off the marine growth with hammers and cold chisels. The minutes for the 4 February 1974 meeting of the Flagstaff Hill Planning Board recorded that “a cannon recovered some time ago was lying in the garden of [one of the three original divers] and that it could be picked up at any time”. Peter Ronald, past Manager and Diver for Flagstaff Hill, notes that the CHILDREN cannon would have been recovered by the other divers around 1964. When the cannon came into care of Flagstaff Hill, it was given basic conservation relevant to the time. (At the same meeting, the Board was advised of the recovery of an anchor from the wreck of the CHILDREN by Flagstaff Hill divers (Peter Ronald, Colin Goodall and Gary Hayden, and Hank Howey and Andrew Coffee), and its interim relocation in the sea at the end of the Warrnambool Breakwater while awaiting conservation). About the ship CHILDREN 1825-1839: The sailing ship Children was a wooden, three-masted barque constructed of pitch pine in 1825 at Liverpool. It was felt sheathed and was coppered during an upgrade in 1837. The ship was only 29 metres long and 254 tons in weight; it had two decks and a square stern. The James Henty & Co., a pioneering family from Portland, Victoria, purchased the Children in 1837 for use as a coastal trader. The Children, under the command of Captain H. Browne, was on a voyage from Launceston to Adelaide when it foundered in rough conditions at Childers Cove, west of Peterborough, on 14 January 1839. On board were 14 crew members and 24 passengers, including 9 children. The ship’s cargo was awkwardly balanced: it carried 1500 sheep, 8 bullocks, 7 horses, 5000 London house bricks, 6 whaling boats with associated gear, and general trade goods including beef, pork, tobacco, tipe, butter, lime juice, horse hair, curtains, lead shot, beer and spirits. The hurricane-force winds drove the Children into the limestone stack at the entrance to the cove. The seas smashed it into pieces within twenty minutes. The bodies of sixteen of those who had lost their lives were spread across the shore, along with wreckage from the ship and the cargo of animals. Those who survived suffered injuries; they were rescued and taken by horse and cart to Campbell’s farm, near the whaling station at Port Fairy. They arrived at Portland eleven days after the wreck. The wrecking of the Children is one of colonial Victoria’s earliest and most significant maritime disasters. Little is left to mark the tragedy, apart from some house bricks intended for the Henty family’s Portland Bay settlement. Artefacts recovered in the 1960s to early 1970s include this signal cannon, an anchor, the bottom half of her ship’s bell, and two portions of a ship’s fitting, at one time thought to be a brass porthole frame, London housing bricks and timber flooring. Despite its poor condition, the CHILDREN’s signal cannon remains an important and interpretable record of its demise. From 2015, the CHILDREN cannon has been undergoing the first stages of further conservation.The signal cannon recovered from the Children's wreck is significant as part of the original fittings of the early 19th-century barque. It is an example of maritime defence in the early to mid-19th century. The 1839 wreck and recovered artefacts are examples of the construction methods and materials used in that era and can be used to study the evolution of shipbuilding methods and principles. The wreck of the Children is of state significance as one of colonial Victoria’s earliest and most significant maritime disasters, and one of the first vessels lost in the Western District. This is recognised by its inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register, VHR No. S116. Little is left on the seabed to mark the tragedy, apart from some of the house bricks intended for the Henty settlement. Signal cannon: a 1.3 metre iron 6pdr cannon recovered from the wreck of the CHILDREN. The shape of the cannon tapers from a thick round breech to a flared muzzle, with an 8-centimetre bore, and two side trunnions for pivoting on a wooden gun carriage. It was recovered from the shipwreck site of the CHILDREN by local divers in 1963. This small muzzle-loading signal cannon is in poor and unrestored condition. The cannon’s upper profile of smooth grey metal casing has corroded off, leaving an extensively oxidised rough red surface of crumbling iron. The bottom half of the cannon remains intact, although the outer smooth casing also appears to be separating from the iron core of the barrel. The original grey casting is also missing from the breech and muzzle ends of the cannon. Corrosion and spalling of the upper surface layer of the cannon have removed the maker’s marks and specificationsflagstaff hill, flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, maritime museum, maritime village, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, shipwreck artefact, children, barque, three-masted, liverpool, childer’s cove, port campbell, 1839 shipwreck, 1939 wreck, james henty and co, henty brothers, captain h. browne, first mate t. gay, second mate w. wentworth, portland, portland bay, 1939, ship’s cannon, signal cannon, conservation of marine artefacts, 6pdr small bore cannon, defence