Benjamin Heape and Richard Grice, with Charles Sherratt occupied a run of about 118,900 acres, called the Mount Alexander North Run. They set up their head station at what is now Lockwood South on the Bullock Creek and was in the centre of the run. ('Ravenswood Run 1839 - 2002', Rita Hull)One page photocopy of newspaper article 'Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney 1870 - 1907) Saturday 21st September, 1878, page 17: article headline ' Origin of the name Bendigo', regarding a letter from Mr. Grice stating that Bendigo was named by Tom Myers, Heap and Grice's overseer. ravenswood run, heape and grice, sherratt, bendigo, origin of bendigo name

William Abednego Thompson (11 October 1811 – 23 August 1880), also known as Bendigo Thompson, was an English bare-knuckle boxer who won the heavyweight championship of England from James Burke on 12 February 1839.[3] He was inducted into The Ring magazine Hall of Fame in 1955, the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991[3] and the Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011. His nickname of "Bendigo" lives on in the name of a city and creek in Australia. (Wikipedia)Front cover of forty-two page magazine: pink heading with 'Australian Ring' inscribed in black text. Jan-Feb 1962 and 2/6 in top right hand corner. Photo of two boxers fighting below title, which contains an article on William Thompson, listed on the front page as 'Bold Bendigo'. Article regarding William Thompson ' Did Boxer Give Name to Victorian City?' by James G. Harrison, President Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Bendigo and District Branch, on page 28 and 29, details Thompson's boxing story and allegedly, how his fighting name came to be the name of the city of Bendigo. The text is annotated in dark blue biro, refuting some of the claims made in it regarding the early days on the field, and particularly in relation to Tom Myers. Copy of article attached to foolscap lined paper, with brown adhesive tape, enclosed with magazine. On bottom of page 28, in pen, 'This is in conflict with Richard Grice's letters of the early 1840's. Thos Myers did not employ anyone. Myers worked for Heape and Grice who brought him out from England with them in 1839' ( arrow pointing to text where it is stated that a 'sailor abandoned his calling and followed him....after working for Myers for a year or two') Second annotation in right hand margin: ' An extraordinary confusion of facts! According to James Mouat, a reliable witness of the period, Thos Myers built Bendigo's hut (about early 1840) for Sherritt when he (Myers) was still Heape and Grice's overseer'.abednego thompson, william thompson, bendigo, boxer

Three President's Reports containing Club news, etc. One has the conclusion to a series titled 'Quadrilles'. Another has an article titled 'Vale Trevor'. Trevor Holt was a member of the Wedderburn Oldtimers.clubs, music, bush dance & music club of bendigo, peter ellis collection, mavis mcgregor, lex ottrey, latrobe university school board, whipstick parks advisory committee, bendigo field naturalist club, western victorian field naturalist clubs association, jack kellam, bert gibson, shirley andrews, trevor holt, myers, brash's, wedderburn oldtimers, morrie gierisch, ian johnson, jack condon, salvation army, carolyn marrone, wally & phyllis tugwell, peter hunter, pedre gurteen, jack stroud, max klubal, rae doudle, bob allen, alex fisher, tom brereton, colin silk, mary smith, ellen smith, harry mcqueen, joe byatt, beat klippel, bertie gibson, ron mcnally, anthony & lisa simon, tom adams, ted egan, geraldine doyle, les rankin, maree murrell, victor silvestor, ken hall

The newspaper was produced to celebrate the 100th year of the Ballarat Courier.96 page newspaper celebrating 100 years of publishing the Ballarat Courier Newspaper. Stories and images include: Robert Clark, Ballarat history, Sturt Street, Selkirk Bricks, Ballarat Industry, Thomas Bath, Royal Hotel, hotels, Begonia Festival, James Smith, Hollways, Myers, Ballarat Orphanage, Nazareth House, Lake Elsworth, Batches, libraries, Timken, Sunshine Biscuits, M.B. John, AMCAST, reservoirs, Ballarat Council,, Morsheads, Civic Hall, Alfred Hall, Art Gallery, Christies, 3BA, Paddle Bros, South Street, BTV 6, Memorial Theatre, Her Majesty's, Whitelaw-Monier, Coltman, costume, Messer and opie, politics, Dudley Erwin, Bill Stephen, Vance Dickie, Tom Evans, Murray Byrne, McKay - Macleod, Crockers, Ballarat Shire, Sovereign Hill. St Patrick's Cathedral, Christ Church Cathedral, Ballarat School of Mines, Mt Helen Campus, Ballarat Girls School. Ballarat North Technical School , Burke and Wills Memorial, Joe White Maltings, Ballarat Airport, Sunicrust, architecture, women, trams, transport, Faulls, Franklin Caravans, Olympics, football, history of Sunshine Biscuits robert clark, clark, ballarat, sturt street, selkirk bricks, industry, thomas bath, royal hotel, hotels, begonia festival, james smith, hollways, myers, ballarat orphanage, nazareth house, lake elsworth, batches, libraries, timken, sunshine biscuits, m.b. john, amcast, reservoirs, ballarat council, morsheads, civic hall, alfred hall, art gallery, christies, 3ba, paddle bros, south street, btv 6, memorial theatre, her majesty's, whitelaw-monier, coltman, costume, messer and opie, politics, dudley erwin, bill stephen, vance dickie, tom evans, murray byrne, mckay - macleod, crockers, ballarat shire, sovereign hill. st patrick's cathedral, christ church cathedral, ballarat school of mines, churches, mt helen campus, ballarat girls school. ballarat north technical school, burke and wills memorial, joe white maltings, ballarat airport, sunicrust, architecture, women, trams, transport, faulls, franklin caravans, olympics, football, bray raceway, coliseum motors, schoools, education, craig bros, dayelsford, clunes, beaufort, linton, skipton, heinz bors, villiers, flecnoe, jones, robertson, cowles, bulless, cronn, matthews, ballarat library, cowley's eureka iron works, john hollway and sons, ken webb, mayoral chain, ken flecknoe, a.e. flecknoe, bath's hotel, eureka stockade memorial park

Yields information about the special tram and the people involved at the time of the formation of the BTPS prior to closure of the SEC operated system.Set of three digital images of tram 36 advertising the Lake Tramway Preservation Meeting at the Town Hall 31/5/1971 by Chris Phillips. .1 - tram at Gardens loop with the motorman L Bird pulling the pole down - similar photo to that of The Age Newspaper, see Reg Item 2487. .2 - tram turning from Sturt St into Lydiard St North with the Post Office and the Mining Exchange buildings in the background. .3 - tram at the City stop, south side of Sturt St with the Town Hall and Myers in the background. Also has the tram stop signs in the photograph. See also Reg Item 1064 for the newspaper clipping, 2487 for a print of The Age photograph. See 7033i4 for notes on the tram and who made the banner - thought to be Tom Clark. Imagebtm7033i2bw - black and white version of the slide use in the Long Gallery imagebtm7033i2co - colour hi res scan.trams, tramways, lake wendouree, charters, museum establishment, btps, sturt st, gardens, lydiard st north

Gladys Maissie "Mace" Babb (b28/10/1889 d22/1/1982) married George Napier Myers (b29/10/1879 d23/9/1948) in 1912 in Victoria. Mace was the daughter of James Babb, a pioneer of Braybrook who worked as a caretaker and road contractor. This document is a summary of transcript of an interview between Mrs Mace Myers, aged 87 years old, of her memory of early Braybrook, Braybrook Junction and Sunshine in the early 19th century. Many of the early settlers of the Braybrook District are mentioned throughout the transcript.Interview with Mrs Mace Myers of 32 Monash Street, Footscray on 6th December 1976. Named mentioned during the interview. Lynn Myers Mr Collins (Business at back of home) Hilda Greig Newman's Land Tom Derham Newman (Blacksmith) Dempster Alf Barnett Bob Barnett Donald McLeod (Built stonework of the Braybrook School) Mrs. Holcroft (Fruit and Vegetable Shop) Tom Babb (Boot Repairer) George Costello (Stone Breaker for a Road Construction Gang) James Babb (Boss of a Road Construction Gang) Chinaman (Gardener) Darby Rockett Ted Mackie Mrs. Boyd Tom Cannon Tilly Minns (Braybrook Hotel) Miss Wolley Billy Derham Mary Jane Barnett Jack Derham John Flynn Miss. Harvey "Gabo" Jenkins Eugene Flynn Tribe Jackson Gough Mullenger Rolfe Craddock Dickson Middleton Munro (Cows, milk, etc) Freda Roberts Billy Roberts Cranwell (Grocer & butcher shop) Jack Babb Dr. Webb Gooley's Cracket Factory (Apparently later Phoenix Fireworks) Baker Mrs. Coomber Fred Hill Oscar Hill Lizzie Watson Lizzie Scott Lucy McDonough Rose Barnett Msud Barnett Victor Barnett Jimmy Barnett Alf Barnett Mary Barnett Ivy Steens Blanch Stevens Nurse Kerr Dr. Adamson Locations mentioned during the interview. Braybrook State School Braybrook Hotel Pennells Private School Pickett Street Footscray Sunshine Mechanics Hall Braybrook Public Hall Harrison's Hall (Next to the Deer Park Hotel) Maribyrnong River Fords (Mentions two fords across the river) Glengala Estatemace myers, george napier myrers, gladys maissie babb

Adamson, Dr. John Ahmadzai, Jalal Allen, George Anderson, Fred Andrewartha, Arlene Archabuz, Janina Argyle, Beth Armour Nee Ramson, Maria Elizabeth Atkinson, Harry Bajada, Melchior Bajada, Melchiorre "Mel" Baker, Ian Baker, Kevin Balacchino, Rebecca Barnett, William Corbey Basten, Al. Bayliss, Myrtle Beachley Nee Anderson, Valerie "Val" Elaine Beanland, Charles Howard Benjamin, Colin Bewsher, William "Bill" Bowery, Leigh Cameron, David Ross Campbell, Donald "Don" Murdoch Carlton, Norman "Norm" Harrison Carr, Cissie Carr, Phillip Carter, Francis "George" Chapman, Pamela Joy Chisholm, Caroline Choi, Dr. Windsor Cockerell, Mr. R. Comensoli, Leslie John Connie, Sister Connor, Thomas Coulson, Ted Coxhill, Stanley "Stan" Victor Cripps Nee Wilkins, Joyce "Joy" Beaudette Dang, Thuy Dawes, Ernest Deeble, Don Deveson, Donald Frederick Diele, Tom Doak, Avis Dobson Nee Gibon, Janet Lilian Drayton, Harold Dunkette, Shaikha (Life in Bahrain) Eland, Judy Ellingsen Nee Lowe, Elsie May Ellis, Lester family, Newman Family, Rimmer Fogarty, Bill Ford, Frank Ford, Olwen Gary, Don Gaylor, James "Jim" William Ginifer, Jack Godfrey, Allan Goedecke, Gwenyth Hampton, Ania Hayden, Frank Hollingsworth, Edna Hollingsworth, Herbie Hollingwood Nee Fowler, Mary & Prince Phillip Hope, Patrick Horton, Mabel Huynh, Alyssa Hyett, William Inkster Nee Wardle, Adella Katherine Ivory Nee Pengelly, Amelia Frances Ivory, Joseph "Joe" Sydney Jackson, Ina Jackson, John "Jack" Henry Horace John, Charles "Chas" Johnson, Desmond "Des" Johnston, Alexander Robert Kenneth, Albert King, Ernest Webster "Web" Krix, Johann "John" Adam Languiller, Telma Lassila, Lydia Ierodiaconou Lawrence, Brian Liersch, Audrey Maloney, Samuel Gifford Marion, Colleen Mason, Aunty Jean McGoldrick, Prue McIntyre, Tom McLauchlan, Peter McNeill, Dorothy Meale, David Michael, Andrew (Andy's Servo) Miles, Albert John "Jack" Mill, Cr. Ian Miller, Keith Mott, Melbourne Leander Mottin, Laurence "Laurie" Mousley, Gwendoline 'gwen" Mullenger, Miss S. Myers, Mace Naismith, Neil Neyland, Grace Nguyen, Mayor James Noble, John Noble, Leslie “Les” William Noonan, Graham Miles O'Brien, Peggy O'Brien, Walter "Wally" James O'Connor, Frank Pardy, John Parry, Craig Parsons Nee Gahon, Alice Saide Parsons, Robert "Bob" Eric Pengelly Nee Goodman, Irene Keziah "Elizabeth" Pengelly, John "Johnnie" Pengelly, Lawrene "Keith" Pentreath, Mervyn Pentreath, Mervyn Podczyk, Richard Porter, Kenneth "Ken" Power, David Power, Peter Raleigh Nee Thorpe, Priscilla Raleigh, Joseph Rasic, Ranka Rewell, Ivy Roach, William A. Robinson, Donald "Don" George James Rockett, James Rohner Nee King, Mavis Elaine Rohner, Beryl Rohner, William “Bill” John Roxon, Nicola Sheridan, Jack Shilson, Winfred Shimmin Nee Langden, Florence Rita Shorten, Eileen Shorten, Jack Singleton Nee Thorpe, Laura Elizabeth Spargo, Ann Spargo, Peter Tachos, Virginia Taylor, Headlie Shipard Thomas, Doris Thomas, Herbert Arthur "Bon" Thurling, Doreen Twentyman, Leslie "Les" Tyler, Richard Uhi, Alan Ure, David "Dave" Vccellin, Dominic Wallace, Shirley Weaver, Vic Wegener, Eric Wendt, Sylvie Whiting, Else Whiting, Richard "Dick" William, Sir William Williams, Allan "Titch" Williams, Isabella Williams, Kevin Winifred, Adelaide Wlodarcyzk, Joseph Zbigniew Yannacaros, Arthur

The St. Albans High School opened in 1956 and changed its name to St. Albans Secondary College in 19905527.01 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 7-1.jpg Back Row: Andrew Morphou, Michaek Rajek, Tom Koutsivos, Silvester Sodig, Jude Azzopardi, Ricky Mabic, Shaun Mizis Middle Row: Alistair Brian, Tania Ac, Louie Markovski, Marco Balderrama, Oliver Leopold Seated: Zeljka Loncaric, Barbara Loncaris, Dorothy Petkoff, Susie Dimovsko, Miss. Dubarry, Sinezana Hovancek, Bozica Pavlovic, Sonia Ceresoni Absent: Ante Filipovic, Sandra Aquilina, Susanne Todorovska, Maria Grivas, Taso Dimitrokokis 5527.02 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 7-2.jpg Back Row: Chris Romanus, Harold Tsakmaklis, Jane Cefai, Greta Spis, Zdenka Zajc, Robin Dordevic, Faye Lundberg Middle Row: Frances Venner, Fiona Munro, Leanne Borg, Mira Barun, Carmen Vella, Allison Carlton Seated: Cheryl Camilleri, Rosemary Bugeja, Nick Danoucaras, Peter Razbocan, Ms. Dubarry, Lorraine Mallia, Deborah Wilkie, Charlotte Bonici Absent: Karen Galea, Jim Pimpilidis, Betty Vangelovski, Edita Winter 5527.03 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 7-3.jpg Back Row: David Galea, Joseph Sultana, Tony Velyanovski, Harry Spiliotopoulos, Jamie, Watkinson, Markus Lanzendoerfer, Russell Goodman Middle Row: Jane Malkiewlcz, Keti Karovic, Maria Vuletic, Leanne Stephens, Lariss Collins, Tina Kacunic, Christine Spiteri Seated: Nevenka Micic, Judy Schober, Pauline Freeburn, Nilgun Seliba, Maria Misic, Amanda Duffy, Julie Pearce Absent: Maree Wreathman 5527.04 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 7-4.jpg Back Row: Michael Vasico, Athanastios Mirtsopoulos, Paul Contos, Jano Mego, Antonio Gilio, Osmond Callanan, Mustafe Hussein, Darren Beilby Middle Row: Scott Tassell, Angelo Scifo, Simela Karasavdis, Barbara Janosik, Cathy Kouscevic, Joza Krolo, Nicole Edwards, Samua Oudy Seated: Gina Apostolou, Vesna Baukovic, Maria Lesar, Tanya Stoyanovic, Debbie Gamer, Josephine Galea, Linda Tefouska Absent: Robert Hrestak 5527.05 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 7-5.jpg Back Row: Zelko Milic, Richard Scerri, Emil Lenc, Paul Zawadko, Zelko Hrga, Robert Magy, Adam Schwab, Stephen Codri Middle Row: Christine Mallia, Eileen McGregor, Sharon Swain, Michelle Palakszt, Julie Bottomley, Arthur Souvitslis Seated: Melina Oliver, Stella Dubravac, Fiona Zeegers, Mr. Mundy, Lily Sumigo, Mojda Drojenik, Susie Aced Conde Absent: Hasan Ihiz, Christine Sterlik, Tanya Bartolo, Tatjana Cufer, Zdenka Cufer 5527.06 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 7-6.jpg Back Row: Gulspka Dimcevska, Lillian Vella, Karen Lincker, Bruno Defreitas, Silvio Scheavi, Dino Yannakou, Frank Papanastasatos, Susic Tadic Middle Row: Sonia Petrovski, Tammy Wojcik, Andrew Pavlides, Vlado Perkovic, Mirko Viviv, David Cox, Olga Namtsou, Spasenija Rajkovaca, Annette Czarnecki Seated: Vera Accvska, Vesna Accvska, Carmel Gower, Ms. Spatsro, Lynette Van Arkel, Carmen Schembri, Snezana Kralic Absent: Josephine Camilleri 5527.07 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 7-7.jpg Back Row: Agron Bibay, Tania Attard, Martin Micallef, Jim Tsironis, Michael Elliot, Josip Budimir, Karen Reiger, Nick Sarris Middle Row: Christine Stylli, Hans Wabel, Anna Gabelica, Frank Rajkovic, Donjo Tasevski, Mark Sturmar, Josette Camilleri, Layda Doday Seated: Christine Mamo, Anna Louise Eichhorn, Helen Zachariou, Miss. Denison, Maria Bibas, Eva Boehm, Manday Jergovic Absent: Kathy Scibberas, Tom Galea 5527.08 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 7-8.jpg Back Row: Pauline Dimauita, Katarina Kolek, Thomas Havran, Zane Hema, Anton Duvnjak, Darko Dobrovsak, Sunday Alpaslan, Laurelle Cartledge Middle Row: Sophia Marchindam Monica Fordham, Elizabeth Rubino, Suzie Cuze, Mina Pastorc, Sonja Ivanovska, Denis Tedesco Seated: Sandra Vella, Athena Soloppotas, Lulli Balh, Helen Bouzas, Mr. Tarr, Diane Cutajar, Tina Brasalin, Zana Begacinoska, Tina Papageorgiou Absent: Vivienne Barbie, Fabrice Bocsch 5527.09 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 8-1.jpg Back Row: Stan Philp. Robert Misic, John Tintor, Tom Savic, Steven Savic, Gary Ponsold, Tony Lesar Middle Row: Louisa Kustura, Lisa Gugala, Tracey Stephens, Frida Ghiouros Seated: Michelle Hargraves, Faye Kyrou, Mahican Sumercan, Mr. Myers, Snezano Tadic, Pamela Johnson, Michelle Desira Absent: Margaret Bunioski, Anglea Depis, Andrew Kolberg, Vicky Stagno 5527.10 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 8-2.jpg Back Row: Giao Doan-Huy, Steven Major, Darko Vidmar, Domenic Romeo, David Craig, Jeff Mill, Stephen Grech, Jon Kambouropoulos Middle Row: Gordon Alincic, Violetta Gorglevska, lili Jonel, Natasha Kuzmanovic, Sharon Merritt, Lidia Mago, Katherine Vella Seated: Sharon Hansen, Julia Farrugia, Kerry Dordevic, Mr. Baber, Sue Angelevska, Marlene Fench, Sharon Sammut Absent: Milan Pekic, Eddie Farrugia 5527.11 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 8-3.jpg Back Row: Michael Witowski, Michael Defreitas, George Grigoriadis, Zlatko Jusup, Jim Apostolou, Peter Seychell Middle Row: Dianna Seisun, Rulla Tabban, Anna Janosik, Maria Papadopoulos, Jasenka Kalenik, Antoinette Debrincat, Lorraine Johnstone Seated: Anna Power, Milla Urban, Julie-Ann Taylor-Eggert, Ms. F. Thau, Tania Farrugia, Karen Hajduk, Anastasia Belehris Absent: Maggie Bartolo, Devina George, Daniyella Mijailovic, Steven Sistov 5527.12 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 8-4.jpg Back Row: Marcelo Rey, Sean McManus, George Bouliopoulos, Paul Crossley, Frank Todero, Con Stefanides, Shane Dunn, Baskel Sammut Middle Row: John Karasividis, Robert Kuc, Veronika Vasjuto, Hassen Chaouk Seated: Sandra Moakes, Vivene Sant, Angela Pepastergiou, Mr. Condello, Diana Loman, Vicki Skrepetis, Lydia Vika Absent: Samantha Perino, Tina Marrichiolo, Peter O'Garey, Theresa Aguilina, Susan Boreham, Rachell Bugg, Zaklina Latomanska 5527.13 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 8-5.jpg Back Row: Mirjana Tomac, Ivan Kacunik, Ivan Jusup, Nick Rajic, Slavko Kovacik, Slajan Ilic, Snezana Arbanas Middle Row: Marina Ulakovic, Sonia Maltaric, Paula Rigby, Julie Cross, Nicolene Duyker Seated: Mary Vella, Elizabeth Markovski, Soula Ghaitidis, Kim Oaly, Biliana Momcilovic, Cindy Zurowski, Sharon Deguara Absent: Rosa Bibay, Karen Borzer, John Klaic, Paul Schrape 5527.14 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 8-6.jpg Back Row: Daryl Andrews, Frank Spiteri, Robert Kalmar, Jason Wapling, Anthony Craus, Chris Golerzos, Sasha Mickic, Robert Gelder, Peter Bransperger Middle Row: Georgia Snieders, Poppy Gamitas, Slavica Dimcevska Seated: Susan Repinnet, Anna Romagnoli, Asma Chaouk, Mr. Baber, Sharon Watson, Leanne Cosgrove, Betta Grujovska Absent: Marina Klobas 5527.15 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 8-7.jpg Back Row: Patrick Azzopardi, Peter Tourountzis, Mica Rakonjac, Arthur Katselos, Peter Paney, George Dordevic, Brian Balzan Middle Row: Tracey Parsons, Sharon Zammit, Susan Camilleri Seated: Maria Kyratsis, Blazenka Pavlovic, Rosa Verescuk, Janice Barker, Voula Sbounias, Rosa del Casale, Helen Sensyn Absent: Veronika Avzin, Bruce Jackson, Clare Stapleton, Chris Bouthier 5527.16 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 8-8.jpg Back Row: Kathy Aquilina, Stacey koutroupis, Trang Tran, Venecio Kos, Ivan Polidano, Alice Cormick, Tanya Kovscevic, Mark Bugejs Seated: Jim Kafanelis, Mary Gauci, Kim McManus, Lidija Dimovska, Anna Rejkovaca, Linda Megna, Pauline Buttigieg Absent: Luisa Castellano, Sudo Cavkic, Carmen Curmi, Mary Spatari, Con Lagas, Maria Kotvas 5527.17 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 9-1.jpg Back Row: Michael Damoulakis, Nuge Nedim, Catherine Turner, Vicky Pavlicic, Ivan Verescuk, Sharon Wilkie, Andrea Stylli, Vesna Lomen Middle Row: Zineta Kapetanovic, Monica Koller, George Labbard, Frank Dimitrakakis, Rebecca Minou, Theoni Mitsarakis Seated: Susan Novak, Colleen Collins, Frances Cini, Mrs. Cunningham, Leonnie Dunn, Tsalime Ipek, Kerri Harvey Absent: Gavin Cross 5527.18 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 9-2.jpg Back Row: Martes Debona, Katherine Gontscharow, Andrey Dodaj, Christos Mirtsopoulos, Aki Missios, Mendo Kotevski, Richard Schaffer Middle Row: Anna Mikropoulos, Franca Romeo, Vera Gabelica, Jodie Perris, Wendy Delaney, Maria Horvat Seated: Blazenka Ciberlin, Carol Freeburn, Niki Valkanis, Debbie Thorpe, Angelia Dagianois, Andrea Freeman, Mariela Paz 5527.19 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 9-3.jpg Back Row: Mario Zmegiac, Daniel Brevnik, Chris Dziedzia, Frank Grcic, Duyo Anic, Martin Grannas, Paras Katsafados, Marcos Paolinos Middle Row: Vasilios, Gregory Thorpe Seated: Helen Papadimitrou, Gracie Gambin, Kathy Wrethman, Vicky Tzouhalas, Patricia Pavelic, Jennifer Silk, Rhonda White Absent: Caroline Aquilina, Dianne Borg, Jozica Kutin, Tanya Novosel, Anton Kustura, Andrew Toumpakke 5527.20 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 9-4.jpg Back Row: Carolyn Megna, Rade Delic, Fotios Alexopoulos, Steven Goodman, Paul Galbo, Angelo Kolak, Adele Cartledge Middle Row: Sharon Cini, Maree Brand, Shenine Edwards, Antoinette Vella, Julie Leimiehner, Deborah Honey, Lydia Ropar, Cindy Cavkis Seated: Selena Heaton, Sylvia Cefai, Diane Galea, Jenny Bubevich, Connie Cachia, Carol Aquilana, Pana Belehris Absent: Debra Lynd, Mera Micetic, Georgia Padela, Susan Grima 5527.21 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 9-5.jpg Back Row: Ester Veynovich, Anna Verescuk, Michael Korbut, Zdravko Kustura, Martin Vasica, Yoska Loncar, Nick Malarmas, Robert Tassell Middle Row: Susan Wojcik, Judy Allan, Alvena Cotter, Marie Sivec, Sofia Petkoff, Jenny Kondic, Vesna Addelkovic, Olina Adamek, Mara Klinko Seated: Jenny Farrugia, Jackie Mobbs, Janice Thomas, Mr. Ravenhall, Sharlene Carson, Maria Srblin, Emica Vukovic Absent: Tonia Daskaloff, Mary Korzenievask 5527.22 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 9-6.jpg Back Row: Max Gazzola, Joe Scerri, Milan Samanovic, Remo Delli Pizzi, Peter Delic, Pari Varnvakis Seated: Loukas Koutsiofis, Violetta Momcilovic, Nicoletta Papadopoulos, Maria Kissil, Doris Mallia, Colin Pike, Nicholas Koutras Absent: Nada Gavrilovic, Anne Buttigieg, Rita Cutajar, Mato Bulic, Dominic Borg, Terry Barbie, Raymond Darmanin, Leanne Lundberg Julie Peat 5527.23 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 9-7.jpg Back Row: Con Psihogios, Michael Dungina, Alan Sturmar, Damien Vunderl, Zeiko Venhardt, Paul Stidic, Nick Propadalo, George Cleanthous Middle Row: Drazen Loncaric, Steven Galea, Michelle Thornton, Coralie Grant, Elke Schwanita, Julie cook Seated: Erica Stovic, Due Bourotzis, Sandra Morris, Agathy Constantinou, Andrea Papageorgiou, Ann Harris, Despina Tsivgadellis Absent: Dominid Florenza, Darko Bobos 5527.24 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 9-8.jpg Back Row: Steven Grujovski, Michael Polizzi, Michael Cubela, Joseph Fenech, Stephen Scalzo, Elvedin Corhodzic, Rustem Bala, Tade Krolo, Zoran Grujovski Middle Row: Anna Colasante, Helen Christospoulos, Lynette Sudulic, Jedda Snieders, Sue Bijelic, Anne Havran Seated: Lorraine Mitchell, Antoinette Debrincat, Julie Skinner, Miss. Thau, Carol Camilleri, Mara Catalina, Diane Camilleri Absent: Juergen Kuehr, John A'Agatt 5527.25 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 10-21.jpg Back Row: Carmel Azzopardi, Brigitte Mago, Andrew Belzan, John Jovic, Steven Nedelkov, Tuncay Alpansan, Con Sarris, Tracey Caltichio Middle Row: Vesna Korpak, Carolyn Dower, Kathy Danoucaras, michelle Lloyd-Jones, Toni Romeo, Lisa Hopkinson, Rose Smoljko, Sophie Stefanidis, Anne Cassar Seated: Janet Andrews, Kathy Dagiandis, Barbara Sylvestrak, Stella Tsironis, ? Dowlsey, Leonie Dordevic, Sharon Farrugia, Susan Gibbs, Marion Garofolo Absent: Mark Ciric, Tony Matuszak, Anthony Tartaglia, George Kafanelis, Evelyn Farrugia 5527.26 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 10-22.jpg Back Row: Steven Zerafa, Sam Liassos, Boz Stipic, Mladen Janhovic, Bartolo Biviano, Tom Gojevic, Zoran Cvetanovski, John Forte Middle Row: Tina Maheras, Karen Perry, Gordana Jusup, Vera Kilakouski, Helen Fristrovic, Leanne Borg, Tracey Brian, Billy Farrugia, Kevin Cutajar Seated: Donna Harvey, Susan Kakol, Kathy Kokkinos, Sonia Maver, Kathy Carusana, Maree Gilham, Magda Diakekis Absent: Richard Caval, Peter Fenech, Anthony Galcin, Kenneth McAllister, Ingrid Marshall 5527.27 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 10-23.jpg Back Row: Robert Hunter, Paul Beranic, Ricky Moscatis, Dario Lazaric, Ronald Grampe, Aron Bensi, Thomas Korlevski, Andrew Brooks Middle Row: Paul Pavlidos, Zani Besim, Andjelko Sajn, Tom Thomson, Mario Attard, John Fenech Seated: Sharon Thorpe, Linda Toic, Donna Swain, Mr, Sinclair, Sandra Miljavec, Yotta Anagnostopoulos, Heidi Wimmer Absent: Viatko Vasica, Maree Sterlik, Jim Panoutsopooulous, Karl Mega, Robert Lulic, Chris Kolberg 5527.28 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 10-24.jpg Back Row: Bobby Krajinovic, Barry Philp, Freddy Furrugia, Oliver Gerick, David Lohmen, Frank Sertic, Joe Bilic, Robert Dominko, Eric Hein, Stravros Blasis Middle Row: Slavko Verescue, Kenny Gallanan, Darren Jackson, Olga Tonic, Ivan Marnic, Roy Hunter Seated: Bridget Stapleton, Sandra Maguire, Suzy Maltaric, June Flaherty, Dimitra, Mitsarakis, Clara De Freitas, Sandra Ebeyer Absent: Hudec Joseph, Leanne Kalwig, Linda Norris 5527.29 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 10-25.jpg Back Row: Edward Aquilina, Joe Meroica, Nick Kotevski, Danny Todero, Ivan Rakonic, John Sipple, Shane Braszell, Jim Georgiou, Slatko Jovanovski Middle Row: Pam Bouzas, Thuy Van Doan Huy, Shirley Oldenhus, Svetland Mijailovic, Drina Curic, Halina Lacinski, Vicki Delaney, Leanne Vosilaitis Seated: Anna Gentile, Maree Bugg, Dianne Seychell, Effie Mbekiasris, Mrs. Backa, Neriman Kalinkara, Lisa Centin, Lily Zajc, Katerina Konstantios 5527.30 - St. Albans High School Year 1981 10-26.jpg Back Row: Nada Brbot, Ximena Garrido, Svetlana Lomen, Suzie Baligac, Mendo Geogiou, Mary Scerri, Kay Tsakmaklis, Josette Baldechino Seated: Ruth Mahon, Sally Vukovic, Valentina Pasoska, Sofia Alexopoulos, Pang Dakaloff, Jeanette Unsworth, Josephine Zammit 5527.31 - St. Albans High School Year 1981 10-27.jpg Back Row: Spiro Vagias, Giorgio Romagnoli, Neil Passe, Rodney Brown, Tarry Mesinocis, Zoran Sajinovic, Peter Eliot, Zelko Sumic Middle Row: Derek Cutajar, Douglas Van Arkel, Steven Bramucci, Ratka Markovska, Sylvia Katselos, Lilly Savic, Jenny Petrovic, Nick Vagies, Sevdet Besimovski, Angelo Papanastasatos Seated: Mariella Uran, Vicky Serdaris, Rosanna Sabo, Mr. Trainou, Suzy Duvcevski, Gulcen Bicer, Angela Pavlovic 5527.32 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 10-28.jpg Back Row: Sandra Mobbs, Brigitte Arndt, Ramona Apinis, Lily Kovacevic, Moja Blatnik, Binsen Irek, Sandra Cossai, Kiro Mirceski Middle Row: Petra Moravek, Ljihana Bulic, Sonia Gabtshik, Annettee Farrugia, Branko Acimovic, Doris Haerer, Suzy Bell, Stella Petrides Seated: Rose Marie Spiteri, Debra Briggs, Pat Zammit, Miss, Leoni McGannon, Dorothy Papastratis, Tina Soumbasis, Cecilia Varas Absent: Katica Kosorog, Lidya Worona, Savas Ikis, Robert Plesse, Ruth Azzopardi 5527.33 - St. Albans High School 3981 Year 11-1.jpg No Names 5527.34 - St. Albans High School 1981 11-2.jpg Seated: Merv Monty, Darren Gravatt, Judy Eichorn, George Miljavec, Zdravko Avzin 5527.35 - St. Albans High School 1981 11-3.jpg Back Row: Wendy Urizio, Branka Posavac, Grace Scifo Seated: Ray Mizzi, Anthony Olinga, George Vella, Mladen Pufek, Carl Sneiders 5527.36 - St. Albans High School 1981 11-4.jpg Back Row: Andrew Tsaldaris, Lupco Jovanovski, Anna Vukovic, Maria ?, Joanne Bajada, Hugh Autic Seated: Marcelle Scinto, Angela Scifo, Helen Pavicic, Diane Camilleri, Carol Sant, Julie Gianette, Lynette Dewer 5527.37 - St. Albans High School 1981 11-5.jpg Back Row: Effi Soumbassis, Anna Greganic, Diane Neski, Penny Georgiou, Kieth Goodwin, Anastasia Vassilopoulos, Maria Pandali Middle Row: Oinos Georgiou, George Anagnastopoulos, Boris Troselg, George Kafantais, Ian Balzan Seated: Solange Labbad, Rosie Scrigna, Vesna Gorgievska, Mrs. Huckle, Maryanne Szanto, Carmen Vella, Mirriam Naim 5527.38 - St. Albans High School 1981 11-6.jpg Back Row: Iris Kos, Yasna Paulekovic, Flavia Mitsud, Wendy O'Shea, Nick Louloudakis, Biserka Gec Middle Row: Karyn Brash, Omer Ricer, Steven Galea, Nada Knezevis Seated: Jackie Appleby, Jeanette Apap, Vera Duvcevski, Alessa Conlon, Rose Galea, Gillian Iies, Gina Kanastas 5527.39 - St. Albans High School 1981 11-7.jpg Back Row: Anna Tkalcevic, Grg Vanarkel, Peggy Raitchevitch Seated: Val Stoilkovska, Rula Tsimiklis, Elizabeth Zazac, Curt Marshall, Leah Young, Eleitsa Stamatopoulos, Nicholette Valavanis 5527.40 - St. Albans High School 1981 11-8.jpg Back Row: Angie Kuutras, Sam Sartzetakis, Branko Kezerle Seated: Nada Rhukovic, Sumil Prasad, Wendy Allan, Dietmar Schaeffner, Con Bouroutzis, Denise Gatt, Lily Tomas 5527.41 - St. Albans High School 1981 Year 12.jpg No Namesst. albans high school, main road east, st. albans

Poster of the 2012 Essendon players and coachesColour poster of the 2012 Essendon players and coaches. Players are in sleeveless Essendon jumpers, black shorts and white boots; coaches are in grey short-sleeve shirts and black shorts. Players and coaches are standing and sitting in four rows; large "2012" in background, "Essendon Bombers" in large red text across top, Essendon logo in centre at bottom with premiership years on either side; names in small print at bottom of poster; Essendon, Melbourne Airport, Kia and True Value Solar logos in bottom corners. Reverse has printed names, numbers and signatures. > Back row: Sam Lonergan, Jake Melksham, Dyson Heppel, Anthony Long, Ariel Steinberg, David Myers, Tayte Pears, Nathan Lovett-Murray, Stewart Crameri, Michael Hibberd, Brent Prismall, Jason Winderlich. Third row: Mark Thompson, Simon Goodwin, Michael Ross, Ben Howlett, Kyle Hardingham, Jake Carlisle, Scott Gumbleton, Cale Hooker, David Hille, Thomas Bellchambers, Dustin Fletcher, Patrick Ryder, Luke Davis, Alex Browne, Kyle Reimers, Matthew Egan, Sean Wellman, Dean Robinson. Second row: Alwyn Davey, Leroy Jetta, Ricky Dyson, Angus Monfries, David Zaharakis, Brent Stanton, James Hird, Jobe Watson, Mark McVeigh, Heath Hocking, Michael Hurley, Courtney Dempsey, Henry Slattery. Front row: Elliott Kavanagh, Mark Baguley, Cory Dell'Olio, Brendan Lee, Hal Hunter, Jackson Merrett, Lauchlan Dalgleish, Nicholas O'Brien, Travis Colyer. essendon football club; sam lonergan; jake melksham; dyson heppell; anthony long; ariel steinberg; david myers; tayte pears; nathan lovett-murray; stewart crameri; michael hibberd; brent prismall; jason winderlich; mark thompson; simon goodwin; michael ross; ben howlett; kyle hardingham; jake carlisle; scott gumbleton; cale hooker; david hille; tom bellchambers; dustin fletcher; paddy ryder; luke davis; alex browne; kyle reimers; matthew egan; wellman, sean; robinson, dean; davey, alwyn "froggie"; leroy jetta; ricky dyson; angus monfries; david zaharakis; brent stanton; james hird; jobe watson; mark mcveigh; heath hocking; michael hurley; courtney dempsey; henry slattery; elliott kavanagh; mark baguley; cory dell'olio; brendan lee; hal hunter; jackson merrett; lauchlan dalgleish; nicholas o'brien; travis colyer

Maldon Pottery was established in 1973 by Neville Wilson (1946-1996), Tom Metcalf (1948- ) and Graham Masters (1950- ) on Barringhup Road, Maldon, Victoria. Tom Metcalf and Graham Masters Masters graduated from Bendigo College of Advanced Education all Bendigo graduates. Wilson ) He was a skilled drawer and did all the brushwork. Metcalf (1948- ) graduated in 1968, did two years' work experience at Non-porite in Melbourne, then worked as a thrower and decorator at Bendigo Pottery from 1971-73. He is T.M. on Epsom ware. Masters (1950- ) graduated in 1973 and established the Enterprise Pottery at Myers Flat with Morris Hesse in 1974, so must have joined the partnership later than the others. He left in 1984 to set up his own Sweenies Creek Pottery. Metcalf left in the late 1980s, leaving Wilson to operate the pottery by himself until his death in 1996. As well as using the Maldon Pottery stamp, Wilson signed some of his work with his name or an impressed 'N'. Photograph of a hand thrown ceramic bottle, with glaze design depicting an Australian landscape in the 'continuous trees' pattern.maldon pottery, ceramics, australian studio pottery

This document is has been compiled by Wendy Barrie daughter of Ernest (Bon) and Edna Barrie and granddaughter of Charles E and Jessie M Barrie. I was born in during WW 11 and the first child of my generation to live on the ‘ Darlingsford’ property at Melton. My grandfather was well known in the district and was mostly referred to as Ernie. He shared the same initials as his second son Edgar. His three eldest sons lived and farmed in Melton for their entire lives. His descendants are still associated with farming, engineering and earthmoving in Melton. Ernie Barrie operated a travelling Chaff Cutter in the St Arnaud area where his parents William and Mary Ann had taken up land at Coonooer West in 1873. Ernie commenced his working life with a team of bullocks and a chaff cutter. The earliest connection he had with Melton was in 1887. By the beginning of the 20th century Ernie and his father William and brothers, William, Samuel, James Edwin,[Ted] Robert, Arthur and Albert have been associated with farming and milling in the Melton district. In the early 1900’s Ernie and his brother Ted were in partnership in a Chaff cutting and Hay processing Mill on the corner of Station and Brooklyn road Melton South. The mill was managed by William for a time. By 1906 Charles Ernest and James Edwin were in partnership in the Station Road mill when a connecting rail line across Brooklyn Road for a siding was constructed to the Melton Railway Station. In 1911 the Mill’s letterhead shows C.E. BARRIE Hay Pressing and Chaff Cutting Mills. Melton Railway Station. Telephone No 1 Melton. This Mill as sold to H S K Ward in 1916 and stood until 1977 when it burnt down in a spectacular fire. Ernie built a house at Melton South beside the Chaff Mill at Station Road in 1906 and married Jessie May Lang in August at the Methodist Church. Jessie’s father was Thomas Lang. He came to Melton in 1896 and was the Head Teacher at Melton State School No 430 until he retired in 1917. They had 9 children with 8 surviving to adulthood. Jessie and Ernie had 6 sons and 3 daughters. All the children lived at Darlingsford. In April 1910 the family left Melton for a brief period and moved to a farm in Trundle in NSW. They returned to Melton and purchased Darlingsford in May 1911. For a time during WW1 they lived at Moonee Ponds near the Lang grandparents at Ascot Vale. Mary and Bon attended Bank St State School. The children developed diphtheria in 1916 and their youngest boy, Cecil died of complications. Mary and Bon were taken to Fairfield Hospital and both recovered. At the end of the war influenza broke out the family returned to Darlingsford and shared the home for a short while with the Pearcey family who had been working the farm. By 1922 the family had and grown and Edgar, Tom, Horace, Jessie, Joyce and Jim were living a Darlingsford. Ernie continued during the 1920’s working the farm and attend his many civic and community commitments. Two 8 clydesdale horse teams were used to work the land which meant early rising for the horses to be fed and harnessed to commence the days work. In 1916 Ernie also became involved in a Chaff Mill on the corner of Sunshine and Geelong Road West Footscray, which at the time was being run by John Ralph Schutt. It was known an Schutt Barrie. A flour mill was added at a later stage. Other Schutt and Barrie mills were situated at Parwan and Diggers Rest. Another mill was situated beside the railway line at Rockbank. The Footscray mill ceased operation in 1968 Ernie spent a lot of time and energy at the Parwan Mill and travelling around Parwan and Balliang farms, where he came to know many of the families in the district. Ernies commitment to the civic development to the Melton and district was extensive, he was involved with a number of large events during the 1920’s such as the Melton Exhibitions and the 1929 Back to Melton Celebrations. He was a member of the Australian Natives Association at the turn of the century. He was Chairman of the School Committee at Melton State School 430 and the Melton South State School in thw1920s. He donated the land for a Hall for Melton South in 1909, known as Exford Hall and later in 1919 renamed Victoria Hall. The Hall was demolished in 1992. He was a Councillor, JP, and Vice President and President of the Melton Mechanics Institute Hall Committee in 1915- 1916. He was a member of the Methodist Church and later the Scots Presbyterian Church. He was Superintendent of the Sunday School of the Methodist Church to 1910 and later Scots Presbyterian Church until 1931. This is reflected in the theme of children in the stained glass window which was dedicated in his memory by his wife Jessie as a gift to the Scots Church. Charles Ernest Barrie made many generous donations to many charities who supported young people and children. In 1918 Jessie and Ernie made the first donation to a very prominent Victorian charity whose work still continues. Yooralla. In July 1931 Ernie’s untimely death was a major blow to the family and the Melton community. To this day people still vividly recall the day they lined the streets for his funeral. The day of the funeral is recalled as the day Melton stood as two of their prominent citizens who tragically died on the same day. Their eldest daughter Mary had married Keith Robinson in 1930 and had just moved to Heatherdale Toolern Vale with their year old baby son. Bon the eldest son was 22, Edgar 18, Tom 16, Horace 15, Jessie and Joyce 10 and Jim 8 years old. A heavy burden of responsibility fell on the shoulders of the two eldest children, Mary particularly for her mother and Bon stepped in assuming head of the family for his mother, brothers and sisters living at the Darlingsford homestead. In the early 1930’s the three eldest sons took on many of the Civic and Church commitments which their father had held. This community involvement extended well into the 1980s. In 1941 Bon married Edna Myers and they moved into a house shifted from Harkness Lane to Harkness Lane on the eastern section of the Darlingford property. Edgar married Margaret Hodgkinson a Primary school teacher at Melton in 1949 and they lived in the Darlingsford house. Earlier Tom married May Ferris and lived on the eastern side of Ferris Lane in the Ferris home. Bon , Edgar and Tom often operated as a team effort, in particular at harvest time when a larger team of workers was needed. The three farms cultivated wheat, barley and oats and supplied the Mill with sheafed hay. They continued using horse teams until mechanisation in the 1940’s made the horses redundant. By the 1960s their five sons continued with farming. Many loads of hay were transported to the Mill in Footscray. Well into the 1960s hired harvest hands along with agricultural university students were involved in bringing in he harvest. Stacking was an art form in itself and Tom held the expertise for building and shaping the sides and roof. The stacks built in the district each had their own unique shape and could be recognized by their builders. The Barrie brothers developed a mechanical fork lift for picking up complete stooks and moving them to be loaded to the elevator to build the haystack. The prototype built by Bill Gillespie was attached to a Bedford truck. Later refinements in a collaborative effort with the Gillespie brothers a multi pronged fork was attached to the front of tractor which was hydraulically operated to raise each stook onto trucks to be transported to the site of the haystacks. This method of handling sheaves significantly reduced laborious pitchforking individual sheaves. This invention was soon taken up by farmers far and wide and was a common sight in the district at harvest time in the stacking season. I recall visiting farmers calling in at the house at Ferris Road farm to inspect this break through invention. The Clydesdale horse teams were used into the 1940s but by the 1950s the Barries’ farms were fully mechanised. When the demand for sheafed hay declined other crops were introduced these included barley, lucerne, wheat and peas. Sheep were added to the mix in the 1950s in an attempt to keep the farms more viable. In the 1970s part of the Barrie’s farms were facing a major disruption with the impending compulsorily acquisition of a strip of land for the construction the freeway bypass, which divided access between the Darlingsford homestead with those on Ferris Lane. Charles Ernest Barrie and Jessie May Lang's children: 1. Mary Ena BARRIE was born on 07 October 1907. She died on 29 April 1999. 2. Ernest Wesley BARRIE was born on 29 April 1909 in Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia.He died on 25 December 1985 in Melton, Victoria, Australia. 3. Cecil William BARRIE was born on 23 February 1911.He died on 25 May 1916. 4. Charles Edgar BARRIE was born on 01 June 1913.He died on 06 October 1975. 5. Thomas Lindsay BARRIE was born on 25 November 1914.He died on 14 September 1990 in Melton, Victoria, Australia. 6. William Horace BARRIE was born on 11 October 1915.He died on 19 December 1950. 7. Jessie Maud BARRIE was born on 06 November 1920 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia.She died on 26 February 1994. 8. Dorothy Joyce BARRIE was born on 06 November 1920 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia.She died on 18 March 2003.. 9. James Edward BARRIE was born on 17 January 1922 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia.He died on 23 August 2004Family Photo with Edgar, Tom, Mary, Ernest (Bon), Horace, Jim, Charles Ernest, Jessie and Joycelocal identities

Photographer : Jack Coe, Bacchus Marsh. Scots Church Review 1947, page.8Allan Rogers(Rodgers?), Walter Barrie, Malcolm Cameron, Bon (Ernest) Barrie, Bruce Myers, Hugh Barrie, Tom Barrie and Robert Macdonald standing in front of Scots Church.churches, local identities

Eldest daughter of Edna and Bon Barrie, born on 03 November 1943 in Melbourne, Victoria, Memoirs of Wendy Barrie, recalling the early formative years of life in Melton: In 1949 I started school at Melton State School no 430 and was driven the 2½ miles to there by my parents at first. Later we walked home in the afternoons or were picked up by car as we made our way home along the Western Highway. In 1956 I went to Bacchus Marsh High School. There were 4 students in grade 6 and 3 of us went to the High School. The students from Melton, Melton South and Toolern Vale State Schools went by bus to Bacchus Marsh High School as far a fifth form. My parents drove me to the pick up point and during the five years of travel to High School. The bus travelled via Toolern Vale and later went through Exford and through Parwan. On the return journey in the afternoon the bus went in the reverse direction. The bridge at Exford was an old narrow wooden one, and the students had to get off the bus and walk across, with the driver crossing in the empty bus for safety reasons. There was a travelling allowance paid to parents and it was estimated from the distance the crow flies, a straight line. We lived a Ferris Lane, just where the Harness Racing entrance is now situated about 2 ½ miles by road to school too close to qualify for the subsidy. While at State School Melton we would walk home in a group with the Nixon and Gillespie children, along the main road over the bridge near the Shire Offices and down a hill. I was being dinked on Joyce Gillespie’s bike while holding onto the seat, toppled off the bike striking my chin and teeth on the bitumen and cracking my jaw. I was about 9 years old and stayed a couple of days in the Quamby Hospital in Bacchus Marsh, it seemed like and eternity at the time and quite traumatic being separated from my family. I can remember contemplating how I could get out of the window and run away but realised it was too far to walk home. Often we would cut across the Common on our way home from school picking up stray golf balls and collecting them from the creek when it dried out. We were warned about not accepting lifts from strangers passing along the Melbourne/ Ballarat Road. The only danger we faced was being swooped by the magpies particularly on the open ground on the Common. We were also fairly cautious when the Gypsies camped on the Common in the area just about opposite the small reservoir. “Mum” grandma Myers loved to have us call in on our way home, and usually would cut a slice of Jongebloed’s bread and spread it with home made butter. Sometimes we waited there until we were collected by car, usually driven by our mother. Margaret Nixon and Joyce Gillespie were a few grades ahead of me and Barbara Nixon was born just two months earlier than me. Our mothers were great friends for over 6o years, born in the same month three years apart. They lived within a few days of the same age as each other at the time their deaths. Dad and George Nixon attended Melton school at the same time. Sarah nee Hornbuckle Nixon and my grandfather Frederick Myers Snr were at school together at the same in the 1880s. The Nixon family lived in Keilor Road just past the Toolern Creek near the turnoff. Tom and Ann Collins lived on the southern side of the Western highway and Keilor road intersection. Jim and Ruby Gillespie’s house was further long Keilor road on the right. They backed onto the Myers who lived on the north side of Western Highway east of Myers Gully (Ryans Creek). The Bridge over the Toolern Creek as very narrow and as truck traffic increased there were accidents. One truck took out the side railing and plunged upside down into the bank and into the shallow water. Another fatal accident happened between a car and a truck right in front of the Myers house. Grandfather Fred had been a bike rider all his life, as far as the Riverina in his younger years, wryly made the comment about the drivers the speeding along the Ballarat Road were setting out to kill themselves. The road was busy particularly after the Races at Ballarat when the crowds were hurrying home to Melbourne. Train travel had changed very little from the time my mothers generation to mine. The timetable meant the usual rush to Melton South by bike in her case and if she was running late the train pulled up on the crossing. I was driven to the Station from home past Keith and Mary Gillespie’s house near the Ferris Road rail crossing to Bridge road to Melton South for the 7.32 train. While attending Sunshine High School in 1961 I would meet up with three other students, two of whom I knew from Bacchus Marsh High School days. We usually got into the same compartment on the train, it was a typical country train with a corridor along the side and compartments with a door, roof racks and sometimes heated metal containers for the feet in the winter. Some of the trains came through from Horsham and Ballarat, and the Overland from Adelaide passed through in the evening, we could hear it in the distance from the Ferris Lane home. The carriages had 1st and economy class compartments showing photographs of county scenes and holiday destinations. The engine was the large A class diesel. They are still running to Bacchus Marsh 50 years later, due to the need for the greatly increased number of commuters travelling to work in the city. Sometimes the carriages were pull by a Steam engine, these were a problem in the summer time because the sparks caused fires along the train lines and then quickly spread into the dry grass, crops and stubble. The Motor Train left Spencer Street at 4.23 pm and was the best train for me to catch. Ferris Road was a designated stop and train pulled up on the road crossing. It had steps at the door and rungs to hold while alighting to the ground. The ballast along the tracks was rough and uneven and awkward to land on. The train was painted blue and yellow with the letters VR pained on the front. This saved may parents the afternoon trip to collect me from the Station. On the walk home on the gravel road I would pass Uncle Tom and Aunty May’s house before reaching home. Melva Gillespie was studying at Sunshine Technical School and we sometimes both got off the train at the same time. On other occasions the Motor Train was replaced with a diesel engine with carriages, it was also required to stop and the driver had to be notified in advance. This meant getting into the guards van a Rockbank. It was more difficult alighting from the carriage as the gap was greater and more precarious to swing out and land on the ground. A few times in my last year of study at Melbourne Teachers College in Grattan Street Carlton. I managed to catch the 2.30 pm train to Serviceton, it was express to Melton and was very quick trip. The last train, was the 5.25 pm diesel to Ballarat and I usually caught this train to Melton South Station. On one occasion after being held up on the tram in Bourke street I had to make a mad dash to the platform chasing the train as it was just moving off and yelling to the guard, fortunately I was noticed and the train ground to halt. I scrambled into the end door and took most of the journey home to recover. After the last year at High School I continued to travel on the train, 2 years to Prahran Technical School changing at North Melbourne. There were a lot school children travelling to private schools and some at the primary level and mainly from Bacchus Marsh. Rockbank children also travelled by train from the beginning of their high school years, quite a few went to Sunshine High School. During my third year of teacher training I travelled to Flinders Street to RMIT for ceramics classes and Grattan St Teachers College located in the grounds of Melbourne University. There were many teachers being trained at the Secondary Teachers College due to the baby bulge creating a great shortage of teachers. Sunshine High School was very well represented amongst the different courses in Primary, Secondary and Art and Crafts. I attended Melbourne University lectures, studying a Fine Art subject. Bernard Smith was the most notable of the lecturers. he replaced Professor Joseph Bourke who had taken leave for the years. In 1962 he published the art book “Australian Painting”. The secondary art and craft student teachers from the College were in the majority, taking this subject and were well regarded due to their practical art and craft methods and their teaching round experience. In December 1964 I graduated as a Trained Secondary Teacher – Art and Crafts. The graduating ceremony was held at Wilson Hall. I received my appointment to work at Maryborough High School. Uncle Max and Aunty Rosemary Myers arranged my accommodation. Uncle Max was a teacher at the Maryborough Technical School fat the time. The appointment was suddenly changed when just before the school year was about to start when I received notification that I was now required to move to Warracknabeal High School. I was subject to a bond for the three years of training and three years of teaching and was under an obligation to comply with the directive of the Education Department. My father stood as guarantor when I was accepted as student at the Melbourne Teachers’ College, thus enabling me to receive my teacher training, and a 5 pounds a week allowance for expenses. After teaching for two years at Warracknabeal High School I was fortunate enough the gain a transfer to Sunshine West High School, returning to live at home in Melton and travelling by car to work with a fellow colleague, Jock Smith who lived at Station road Melton. I completed bond obligation and resigned at the end of the year. The employment regulations at that time did not allow the option of leave of absence for, indefinite overseas travel. I returned to Australia in October 1969. Visiting Arthur Hart the Principal of Sunshine High School he arranged with the Education Department for my re-employment at Sunshine High School until the end of the year. In 1970 I was transferred, and returned to Sunshine West High School where I worked for the next three years. In January 1968 I sailed on the “Oriana” to South Hampton with two teaching friends from Warracknabeal High School on a travelling and working holiday. Doreen Kiely, a former Bacchus Marsh High student and fellow train traveller from Bacchus Marsh, was already working in London, had arranged our accommodation at the London Travellers Club Hotel, Braham Gardens, Earls Court SW5. We based our stay at this address in London and travelled around Scotland, Ireland and England. In the summer we took a four month trip around the Continent and the Mediterranean. I registered with The Royal Borough Of Kingston Upon Thames as a Supply teacher, and worked at Chessington School form autumn to spring the following year and living with Mrs Rose Gillies at Kinross Avenue, Worcester Park, Surrey. In the spring of 1969 visiting Norway, Sweden and Finland joining an organised camping group to the Artic Circle, entered Russia at Leningrad (St Petersburg) Moscow, Minsk, to Poland and Czechoslovakia. In August returning to Worcester Park for the flight to Montreal to stay with cousin Lynette and husband Jurgen. A side trip was taken to Toronto, Niagara Falls and New York. The flight home from Montreal to Melbourne took 52 hours. A ½ day break in Vancouver before boarding the Qantas boeing 707 via San Francisco, Honolulu, Fiji, Sydney to Melbourne. Around the world in 21 months. Photographs of Wendy local identities

Mary Tolhurst M&DHS - March 29th Dunvegan Willows Park Melton 1992 Ladies Oral History Day Graham Minns President Ray Radford MC Sound recording transfer to CD 2011 by Tom Wood Edited typescript by Wendy Barrie 2013 I was born in Rockbank, and when I was five years old moved to Toolern Vale and started and finished school there. Toolern Vale only consisted of the Store, Post Office and shop, where you could buy your fodder, and pollard supplies, the Hall, the little Church and the bluestone School. The School changed shape three times from the 1800s[1869] til the time I went there. There was four generations of my family that went there and it was destroyed by fire in 1965. Marjorie nee Myers Butler. Yes, I remember along with it your lovely Ronisch piano. Mary, quite true! Marj what you say about the Ronisch piano. When I came the age to learn music my mum and dad couldn’t really afford it, but still what parents do for their children. They had Marj go along with them and pick this lovely Ronisch piano. It was known round the district. Everyone commented about the loss that lovely piano. After leaving school it was war time, 1939, then it was work, When I was 7 year old I was put out into the cow yard. In 1940 when the soldiers were going away our milk was confiscated it had to go to Bacchus Marsh. It used to go the Sunbury to be brine cooled and then go to Melbourne. Then they took it then to the Lifeguard Milk Factory at Bacchus Marsh. It had to go as condensed milk to the soldiers. This year is 50 years of the Land Army. I was an unofficial Land Army but they still kept check on me. I went onto married life and I followed the cows right through [howls of laughter] and we went on until the 1965 fire. That’s when we got out of the cows. Marjorie asks, was Granny Watts your grandmother or great grandmother? Mary: She was my great grandmother, the midwife of Melton. The 1965 fire started ¾ of a mile above our place, Frank Ryan’s sheds were burnt and his house was saved, then it wiped the School out, the Hall, the Church the Post Office and Store and little house that was Charlie Charlton’s in the early days. Mrs Wilson’s place was saved by the Fire Brigade by pulling boards off the side, and from there it went over the hill and it was stopped at the Rockbank Railway Station. If it had of got over the railway they said it would have gone into Werribee. A lot was burnt out in that strip. Mary nee Nixon Collins: 18 houses burnt that day. Audience question, did Melton get burnt that day? Ray: No. It came down through the Toolern Vale road and cut across about a mile and a half from the cross roads at Toolern Vale from north westerly to the south east and cut through over the Keilor road. Mary: It came in across the creek at Funstons in Toolern, then through Jim Minns. Dorothy was it your place then [nee Knox Beaty] to Ken Beatty’s and from there it went through to Doug McIntosh’s and to Cockbills and the wind changed and it came across to the railway line, and that is where they stopped it. [the cause of the fire was controversial, they had been burning off the night before and there was some talk of someone starting it. It was very hot and very strong wind, it was a terrible day] Ray: When the fire went through McIntosh’s they had a haystack on the north side of their house and the haystack got caught and the fire burnt a hole through the side of the house and the boys pyjamas on the bed. The house was saved. It came through like and express train roaring at you, I was at McIntosh’s when it went roaring past. You couldn’t see, dust and ash and tremendous heat. The fire started about 12 o’clock Jack [husband] said to me, fire, I said where, where? Just up the road, what have I got to do? and he went out and he had gone to the fire and left me. I tried to get the animals and I put out buckets of water, putting the buckets of water out saved my life. Chas Jones and another friend of his came in and they picked up the buckets of water, I thought I had better get out because the fire was on the haystack up the paddock and when I went to go out through the north side of the house and couldn’t get out, I’ll go through the front gate so I went around the other side of the house. I got caught there and Chassy Jones and his friend came round carrying the bucket of water and I panicked. He threw the bucket of water over me. Well that is what saved my life because I was damp, whenever we tried to leave the ball of fire came over me and over my shoulder and my hair was scorched. Chassy Jones lost his truck and Keith Watt his big truck because he had the water tank on it and they couldn’t get out of the yard. Granny Watt’s house, the first private hospital had condemned and Jack and I pulled it down and had it moved up to Toolern and had it in the yard a fortnight and it was all burnt and we didn’t get the shed we wanted. Every 13 years right up until Ash Wednesday fires, there has always been fire close at hand. The 1952 fire went down the back of the house, the 1965 fire took the house, and the house that I live in now, it is the third house that has been on that spot. When the Hunters owned it, Mrs Hunter was nearly burnt in her bed. They had a 13 roomed house. In 1924 the house burnt down, and there was another house was built there and that was the one that burnt down. Edna: So Mary built a brick veneer house. Marjorie: like the three little pigs [laughter] Collins - Mary M &DHS - March 29th 1992 Ladies oral history day at Dunvegan, Willows Park Melton. Graham Minns President Ray Radford MC Sound recording transferred to CD 2011 Edited typescript by Wendy Barrie 2013 Mary Collins nee Nixon born in Terang 1907 down in the Western District and we shifted to Melton when I was 5 and a half then I started school here in Melton, and spent all my school life at Melton State School, next to the Church of England, it’s called the Primary School now. I got my Qualifying and Merit Certificate then I left School because there wasn’t a High School. When I was 16 I got and job in the Melton Post Office and I worked there, I was the first girl in Melton to deliver the mail, and worked on the telephone and the Bank business. Mrs Ross and myself behind the counter, there were about 500 – 600 people in the Shire at that time and now when I go into the new Post Office there is 36,000 here there’s still 2 people behind the counter [laughter from the audience] and wait in a queue right out to the door. Times haven’t changed much have they! There was a manual telephone and you had to ring the handle, and there were eight subscribers when I went there and when I left there were 46 I had coaxed that number to join the telephone, even the police station didn’t have the phone on. The two Hotels and the two Chaff mills and Mr Ernie Barrie, Parkers the butcher, the Shire Office was No 8, and the Police house was next to the Courthouse on the corner. They were number 9. I can remember a lot of the numbers still. The Post Office was the Agency for the Commonwealth Bank [comment from audience member] I used to do the Bank business too, I left after four years there, mother wasn’t very well. The Inspector who used to come up to the Post Office asked me if I would take up casual Post Mistress and to go around the different districts but I refused and when Mrs Ross’s holidays were due I was the replacement. I wasn’t 21. I loved my work meeting everybody and most people had horse and jinkers and when the elderly would come in there would be Mr Tom Morrow, he only had one arm and Mrs Dunn came from Bulman’s road in their horse and jinker. They were elderly I would see them pull up out the front and quickly get their mail and run out to them because they didn’t have to get out of the jinker to tie up their horse. If someone had a baby in arms I would tear out and hold the baby while they got down. Mrs Ross was very very strict. I had to sweep the Post Office, she had a couple of mats and there would be a threepence or a sixpence under the mats show she knew whether I lifted the mat, I was whether I was honest or not. Graham: How much were your wages? I got 27/7 pence a week for a 52 hour week. I had to work every holiday except Good Friday and Christmas Day and even when it was Monday holiday I always had to go to work from 9am - !0 am, the Post Office was always open. In the winter I had to wait until twenty past six in case there were any telegrams to deliver. I delivered them on a push bike. One time Tom Barrie told me this years afterwards. I used to go home for lunch. We lived on the Keilor road and I used to ride my bike home. On the hot days the boys used to go and swim in the swimming pool down near a turn in the creek there was a hole where the boys would swim in the nude, they didn’t have any bathers and they didn’t have any watches in those days. Tom Barrie said they always used to watched for me as I was always about 3 minutes past 1, my lunch hour was from 1-2. One particular day they missed seeing me and swam on, and of course they were all late for school when they got back and were all kept in a night. I did get a fortnight holiday. I loved my work and I knew everyone in the district right from Toolern Vale to the Marsh and everybody at Melton South. Did you listen into conversations on the Switchboard? Oh no. [laughter] Melton did not have electricity then. I had to fill the lamps everyday with kerosene. The Staughton Memorial was outside the Post Office. It had four posts with the chain looped around it, and that’s where the people used to tie up their horses. Marjorie nee Myers Butler comments about sitting and swinging on the chains. Mr Fred Coburn lit the acetylene gas light in the Memorial. It was the only streetlight in Melton. There was no electricity until 1939. Ray Radford comments about another gas street light which was on the corner of Station road. [later] Mary passes around her school photos. Mary mentions the names of those who have passed away, Maisie McDonald, ,Marian Wraith, Hilda McCreey, and Valda McDonald. I have written the names on the back. Marjorie comments about Marie Jongebloed and Greta are the only two girls left out of big family of ten I think there were [hesitates] 4 or 5 girls and the rest were boys. Mary. Flora Woodley, Dorrie Flynn and Margaret McDonald are still alive. They are my age we were all born about 1907. Marjorie points out herself in a later photo [1921 and 1922 School ] Mary mentions the name Walsh and identyfies following names, the Parker boys, Ken Beaty, Malc and Linda Cameron, Maisie Mc Donald, Ted Radford, George Nixon, Norman Minns, he was later the Shire Secretary of Werribee. One of the Woodley girls. [Maisie Arthur] Marjorie: Rosie Shearwood, June Whiting Mary. Lily Mc Donald, she has passed away. Isabel Harrison nee Tinkler, she lives at Werribee, Doreen Rogers, Marjorie Walker, Jess McIntosh, Mary Gillespie. Mr Malone was the Junior teacher Mr Roe and Miss Cooke. Fred Myers, my sister [Elizabeth] and the year was 1921. Myers (Barrie) School Photo Collection. Many of the names were identified at the 1970 Centenary of Melton State School No. 430. Edna Barrie organised, compiled and typed the lists to accompany these photos for the year 1921. The 1922 photo shows the higher grades. Ladies Oral History Day event held by Melton and District Historical Society, article featured in the Telegraphlocal identities, local special interest groups

Mary Tolhurst M&DHS - March 29th Dunvegan Willows Park Melton 1992 Ladies Oral History Day Graham Minns President Ray Radford MC Sound recording transfer to CD 2011 by Tom Wood Edited typescript by Wendy Barrie 2013 I was born in Rockbank, and when I was five years old moved to Toolern Vale and started and finished school there. Toolern Vale only consisted of the Store, Post Office and shop, where you could buy your fodder, and pollard supplies, the Hall, the little Church and the bluestone School. The School changed shape three times from the 1800s[1869] til the time I went there. There was four generations of my family that went there and it was destroyed by fire in 1965. Marjorie nee Myers Butler. Yes, I remember along with it your lovely Ronisch piano. Mary, quite true! Marj what you say about the Ronisch piano. When I came the age to learn music my mum and dad couldn’t really afford it, but still what parents do for their children. They had Marj go along with them and pick this lovely Ronisch piano. It was known round the district. Everyone commented about the loss that lovely piano. After leaving school it was war time, 1939, then it was work, When I was 7 year old I was put out into the cow yard. In 1940 when the soldiers were going away our milk was confiscated it had to go to Bacchus Marsh. It used to go the Sunbury to be brine cooled and then go to Melbourne. Then they took it then to the Lifeguard Milk Factory at Bacchus Marsh. It had to go as condensed milk to the soldiers. This year is 50 years of the Land Army. I was an unofficial Land Army but they still kept check on me. I went onto married life and I followed the cows right through [howls of laughter] and we went on until the 1965 fire. That’s when we got out of the cows. Marjorie asks, was Granny Watts your grandmother or great grandmother? Mary: She was my great grandmother, the midwife of Melton. The 1965 fire started ¾ of a mile above our place, Frank Ryan’s sheds were burnt and his house was saved, then it wiped the School out, the Hall, the Church the Post Office and Store and little house that was Charlie Charlton’s in the early days. Mrs Wilson’s place was saved by the Fire Brigade by pulling boards off the side, and from there it went over the hill and it was stopped at the Rockbank Railway Station. If it had of got over the railway they said it would have gone into Werribee. A lot was burnt out in that strip. Mary nee Nixon Collins: 18 houses burnt that day. Audience question, did Melton get burnt that day? Ray: No. It came down through the Toolern Vale road and cut across about a mile and a half from the cross roads at Toolern Vale from north westerly to the south east and cut through over the Keilor road. Mary: It came in across the creek at Funstons in Toolern, then through Jim Minns. Dorothy was it your place then [nee Knox Beaty] to Ken Beatty’s and from there it went through to Doug McIntosh’s and to Cockbills and the wind changed and it came across to the railway line, and that is where they stopped it. [the cause of the fire was controversial, they had been burning off the night before and there was some talk of someone starting it. It was very hot and very strong wind, it was a terrible day] Ray: When the fire went through McIntosh’s they had a haystack on the north side of their house and the haystack got caught and the fire burnt a hole through the side of the house and the boys pyjamas on the bed. The house was saved. It came through like and express train roaring at you, I was at McIntosh’s when it went roaring past. You couldn’t see, dust and ash and tremendous heat. The fire started about 12 o’clock Jack [husband] said to me, fire, I said where, where? Just up the road, what have I got to do? and he went out and he had gone to the fire and left me. I tried to get the animals and I put out buckets of water, putting the buckets of water out saved my life. Chas Jones and another friend of his came in and they picked up the buckets of water, I thought I had better get out because the fire was on the haystack up the paddock and when I went to go out through the north side of the house and couldn’t get out, I’ll go through the front gate so I went around the other side of the house. I got caught there and Chassy Jones and his friend came round carrying the bucket of water and I panicked. He threw the bucket of water over me. Well that is what saved my life because I was damp, whenever we tried to leave the ball of fire came over me and over my shoulder and my hair was scorched. Chassy Jones lost his truck and Keith Watt his big truck because he had the water tank on it and they couldn’t get out of the yard. Granny Watt’s house, the first private hospital had condemned and Jack and I pulled it down and had it moved up to Toolern and had it in the yard a fortnight and it was all burnt and we didn’t get the shed we wanted. Every 13 years right up until Ash Wednesday fires, there has always been fire close at hand. The 1952 fire went down the back of the house, the 1965 fire took the house, and the house that I live in now, it is the third house that has been on that spot. When the Hunters owned it, Mrs Hunter was nearly burnt in her bed. They had a 13 roomed house. In 1924 the house burnt down, and there was another house was built there and that was the one that burnt down. Edna: So Mary built a brick veneer house. Marjorie: like the three little pigs [laughter] Mary Tolhurst member of the Melton & District Historical Society in the Melton and Moorabool Leader local identities, local special interest groups

non-fictionBacchus Marsh by Bacchus Marsh is an anecdotal history of the town and district of Bacchus Marsh. It is a collection of memories of 49 residents recorded in oral history interviews and then adapted into a written record. Most of the interviewees had lived in Bacchus Marsh for many decades and are from a variety of occupations and backgrounds. The oldest interviewee was born in 1890 and the youngest was born in 1938. The interviews were conducted by Geoffrey Camm who then transcribed them and edited them for this publication. A black and white photographic portrait of each interviewee accompanies each chapter. The book includes maps and an index of individual and family names. Publication citation: Camm, Geoffrey, compiler, Bacchus Marsh by Bacchus Marsh: An anecdotal history, Bacchus Marsh, Vic. : Shire of Bacchus Marsh in conjunction with ; Melbourne: Hargreen Publishing, 1986. 392 pages.bacchus marsh, bacchus marsh history, biographies, anecdotes