Letter to an unidentified Life Member asking for assistance in organising fundraising events to support Special Blind Appeal. The letter continues on to a second page, however this is missing. This is an example of a joint appeal between the RVIB and the AAFB, who usually preferred to work independently.1 photocopied letterTop left hand corner is a lighthouse with the words 'Education and Maintenance of Blind Children, Industrial Professional Training Etc of Blind Adults, Homes Etc for Aged and Infirm Blind' written on the tower. The light that shines towards a female child and an adult male who are both wearing blindfolds, contains the wording 'Special 50,000 (pound) appeal for the Blind Children & Adults of Victoria". To immediate left of the people is written "Blind/and seeking the light/your generous donation will help them find it'. To the right of the rocks upon the which the lighthouse stands "Kindly address donations Hon. Treas. of Blind Appeal, The Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Cr. Harold Luxton M.L.A., Town Hall, Melbourne". Underneath the lighthouse against the left edge of the paper "Institutes participating in this appeal - The Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind and the Association for the Advancement of the Blind - these organisations care for the blind of Victoria from the cradle to the grave. Please address all correspondence S.W,. Hedger, Secretary Blind Appeal, Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, St Kilda Road, Prahran, S.1. Vic, Phone W 6500. Blind Appeal Enquiry Office: Nicholas Building, 5th Floor Swanston Street, Melbourne, Phone F 6418."royal victorian institute for the blind

This may be the Swallow & Ariell's "Busy Bee" Novelty Night at South Melbourne Town Hall, Friday 30 June 1916. 1916 '"NOVELTY NIGHT."', Port Melbourne Standard (Vic. : 1914 - 1920), 8 July, p. 3., viewed 21 Oct 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91165168One of 44 black and white photos recording the work and contribution by Swallow & Ariell's "Busy Bee" for the First World War in Europe .33 - Audience of hundreds in an unidentified major civic hall. Dignitaries seated on stage also turned to face camera. built environment - industrial, business and traders, war - world war i, social activities, busy bee, swallow & ariell ltd, red cross

This may be the Swallow & Ariell's "Busy Bee" Novelty Night at South Melbourne Town Hall, Friday 30 June 1916. 1916 '"NOVELTY NIGHT."', Port Melbourne Standard (Vic. : 1914 - 1920), 8 July, p. 3., viewed 21 Oct 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91165168One of 44 black and white photos recording the work and contribution by Swallow & Ariell's "Busy Bee" for the First World War in Europe .38 - Probably the same social event as (.33) to (.37) taken from the rear of the hall towards the stage . Many of the audience are in fancy dress.built environment - industrial, business and traders, war - world war i, social activities, busy bee, swallow & ariell ltd, red cross

This may be the "Hard Up Wedding" set from the Swallow & Ariell's "Busy Bee" Novelty Night at South Melbourne Town Hall, Friday 30 June 1916. 1916 '"NOVELTY NIGHT."', Port Melbourne Standard (Vic. : 1914 - 1920), 8 July, p. 3., viewed 21 Oct 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91165168One of 44 black and white photos recording the work and contribution by Swallow & Ariell's "Busy Bee" for the First World War in Europe .34 - "Hard Up Wedding" set from a Swallow & Ariell's "Busy Bee" Novelty Night, probably held at South Melbourne Town Hall, Friday 30 June 1916. The "Clergyman" on the left of the group could be the character promiently mentioned in the Standard newspaper report of the night.built environment - industrial, business and traders, war - world war i, social activities, busy bee, swallow & ariell ltd, red cross

Sanders was a well-known local potter who worked for a time with David Boyd at the Martin Boyd Pottery, before returning to Melbourne where he had some association with Arthur Boyd, at the pottery in Murrumbeena. Sanders set up a studio in Eltham in the early 1950s and made the first of a series of architectural ceramic murals with painter and print maker Lawrence Daws in 1956. In 1957 he left for Europe and while there was inspired by the Spanish artist Joan Miro’s unconventional painting style and large scale murals, in particular Wall of the Moon (1957). After returning from his travels in Europe to Australia in 1964, he began to work solely on creating ceramic murals, some of which were commissioned for Southland Shopping Centre in Cheltenham, Melbourne, 1968 (now demolished), the National Mutual Centre, Melbourne,1964-5 (now demolished), Dee Why Library, Sydney 1966, Woden Valley High School, ACT, 1967, Tullamarine Airport Melbourne, 1969-70 (now demolished), Perth Concert Hall, 1971 and The University of Melbourne,1975 (with John Olsen). This mural is one of only three remaining in the public realm by Tom Sanders (the others are at the Perth Concert Hall (1971) and at the University of Melbourne (1975). Ceramic mural (earthenware tiles) consisting of a playful/organic abstract design similar in style to the Spanish artist Joan Miro. Shades of blue, yellow and black glazes are layered onto matte black and shiny bronze tiles. N/Amural, public art, earthernware, pottery, ceramics, glaze, eltham, ekphrasis2017, eltham town square, joan miro

No 114 MARCH 2016. Public and Private Gardens / Robert Baker p1. What's On March to June 2016: Exhibitions, Future Events p3. Kew Festival 2016 p4. Cobblers of Kew / Robert Baker p4. Kew Goes to War: Part 1 Kew men enlist, or not / Andrew Frost p5. Questions & Answers p7. The Remarkable A.W. Dakin / Robert Baker p8. Baldur [Grammar School] and the Art of 'Female Muscle Culture' / Suzanne McWha p9. More Examples of Lost Kew: Elm Lodge, Kew Lunatic Asylum, Range View, Reno p11. Membership & Donations p12. The newsletters of the Kew Historical Society contain significant research by members that explores aspects of the Victorian and Australian Framework of Historical Themes. Frequently, articles on people, places and artefacts are the only source of information about an aspect of Kew, and Melbourne’s history. The contents of each newsletter as such is often significant historically, aesthetically, socially and or spiritually. khs newsletters, historical society newsletters, history -- kew (vic.), gardens -- kew (vic.), john carson, clutha - studley park road, horticulture society of victoria, john pascoe fawkner, w.r. rucker, george pockett, alexandra gardens -- kew (vic.), sir reginald talbot, kew horticultural society, kew recreation hall, w.h. richardson, villa alba - walmer street, james broadbent, kew garden club, exhibition -- victorian fashion, cobblers of kew, john witchell, bootmakers -- kew (vic.), national bank of australasia, les witchell, ww1 -- kew (vic.), ww1 -- recruitment, ww1 -- demographics -- kew (vic.), kew town council, f.r.ratten, kew central patriotic league, major general j.w. mccay, sir robert best, hon. g. swinburne, cr j.h. hewison, kew brass band, ww1 -- conscription referendum, j.e. bailey, sir frank madden, working men’s college, fairyland, dutch migrant hostel, fr. maas, malinda -- cotham road, bella vista -- cotham road, kew baseball club, christopher robinson, frank littlefield, north kew football club, kew football club, willsmere park, h.l. barclay, a. brierley, h. ely, j. marshall, stradbroke park, kew high school, arthur william dakin, francis f. dakin, lucy dakin, biggin -- fellows street, biggin -- princes street, 33 princess street -- kew (vic.), victorian racing club, australian stud book, ww1, kew war memorial, holy trinity church, trinity grammar, francis edward dakin, ross sea relief expedition, ship -- aurora, sir ernest shackleton, aurora” antarctic re- lief expedition of 1916- 1917, captain john king davis, captain aeneas macintosh, sir david hennessy, c p. de la motte, dr. f.o. middleton, islands to ice, andrea magritte tuxen, baldur girls grammar school, ailsie villa -- carson street, 15 wellington street -- kew (vic.), 17-19 denmark street -- kew (vic.), emily muriel grace davies, grace-park ladies college, emily davies, victorian institute for the advancement of plain needlework, association for the advancement of plain needlework, miss e. webster, australian exhibition of women’s work, mary slight mills, villa baldur, francis ferdinand dakin, lucy dakin (nee chapman), margaret lucy dakin, dorothy dakin, elm lodge -- wellington street, arthur septimus king, madford, st anthony’s home for babies, range view - mont victor road, genazzano, faithful companions of jesus, reverend lawton, st andrew’s college, redemptorist fathers, kew lunatic asylum, willsmere, charles nettleton, reno -- st john's parade, samuel cocking, baron von mueller

No 115 JUNE 2016. What Price Memory? / Robert Baker p1. What’s On - June to September: Exhibitions, Monthly meetings p3. Heritage Issues: Dorothy Rogers Reserve / Brad Miles p4. The Great War in Kew 1916: The conscription debate / Andrew Frost p6. Historic Gardens Exhibition p6. Victorian Collections [Hat collection] / Robert Baker p7. More Examples of Lost Kew: Studley Park Toll Bridge, Salvation Army Citadel, Harp of Erin Hotel, Kew Recreation Hall p9. Membership & Donations p10. The newsletters of the Kew Historical Society contain significant research by members that explores aspects of the Victorian and Australian Framework of Historical Themes. Frequently, articles on people, places and artefacts are the only source of information about an aspect of Kew, and Melbourne’s history. The contents of each newsletter as such is often significant historically, aesthetically, socially and or spiritually. khs newsletters, historical society newsletters, history -- kew (vic.), alma figuerola, carmen figuerola, d'estaville, fred mcardle, ed mcardle, sacred heart church - kew, catholic young men’s society, cyms, sacred heart tennis club, oral histories, whs dickinson, frances dumaresq, dorothy rogers reserve, 4 studley park road, cr n.j. whiting jp, dorothy rogers, country roads board, vicroads, ww1, wwi, wwi conscription debate, kew town council, canon sutton, holy trinity church - kew, arthur wills, billy hughes, referendum 1916, victorian collections, marion blatchly, vaughan - victoria, middleton’s reef gold quartz mining company, smokers caps, r&m dower, milliners -- kew, anne harrison of kew, 146 high street -- kew, kathleen gervasoni, trove, dione mcintyre, dorothy benyei, penny bridge, studley park toll bridge, harp of erin hotel, edward glynn, melbourne hunt club, salvation army citadel -- kew, kew recreation association, kew recreation hall, henderson & smart

No 110 MARCH 2015. Unexpected gifts / Robert Baker p1. Exhibitions; Meetings & lectures; 2015 meeting calendar; New members / p3. The Kew Festival / p4. Tribute: Graeme Frank Lindsay (1933-2015) / p5. News from the past: 150 and 100 years ago / p5. Gallipoli & Beyond 2015 / p6. Heritage issues: 'Fairyland' 57 Malmsbury Street; The 'Electric House' Harp Road / p7. Kew in the 1890s Depression: Part 3 relief efforts /Andrew Frost p8. Membership & Donations p10. The newsletters of the Kew Historical Society contain significant research by members that explores aspects of the Victorian and Australian Framework of Historical Themes. Frequently, articles on people, places and artefacts are the only source of information about an aspect of Kew, and Melbourne’s history. The contents of each newsletter as such is often significant historically, aesthetically, socially and or spiritually. khs newsletters, historical society newsletters, history -- kew (vic.), kew historical society -- collections, fintona, g&p baker, paradise bird design, tourmont, david york syme, r. w. appleford, kew festival, cr. gerard petrie, graeme frank lindsay, kew athenaeum, kew town hall, gallipoli & beyond 2015, boroondara remembers: stories from world war i, josiah earl barnes, embarkation photographer, fairyland -- 57 malmsbury street, electricity supply stations, 1890s depression, the kew ladies benevolent society, kew borough council

No. 118 MARCH 2017: Women's History / Robert Baker p1.Society news p2. Women working: a short history of the Kew Ladies' Benevolent Society / Suzanne McWha p4. Dwellings for people of small means / David White p6. Remembering Kew [Kew Town Hall 1865-1971; Ordsall 1858-1970] / Kerry Fairbank & Robert Baker p8. William James Runting / Desley Reid p.9. Mayoral mementoes in the collection / Robert Baker p10. Recent donations / Robert Baker p10.The newsletters of the Kew Historical Society contain significant research by members that explores aspects of the Victorian and Australian Framework of Historical Themes. Frequently, articles on people, places and artefacts are the only source of information about an aspect of Kew, and Melbourne’s history. The contents of each newsletter as such is often significant historically, aesthetically, socially and or spiritually. khs newsletters, historical society newsletters, history -- kew (vic.), women - kew (vic.), mrs. cecil alley, mrs. guy bakewell, lady best, mrs. t. davis, mrs. w.k. fullagar, mrs. j.t. gazzard, mrs. hugh hamilton, mrs. a.c. hurlstone, mrs. h. larcher, mrs. john mills, mrs. arthur norman, mrs. e.w. outhwaite, mrs. h.h. smith, mrs. d. readdie, mrs. g.c. scantelbury, who’s who in the world of women, kew ladies’ benevolent society, voluntary aid detachment, east kew women’s club, lionesses of kew, lioness club of kew, the australian women’s register, mrs. w. warren kerr, jane buchanan gosman, mrs. wharton, mrs. dunn, w. warren kerr, mr. merfield, mrs griffiths, conference of all the independent metropolitan ladies’ benevolent societies, ladies’ benevolent association, charity organisation society, georgina emery, violet odgers, ravenswood, commonwealth social services act, kew elderly citizen’s relief fund, housing and reclamation act 1920, state savings bank houses, workers dwelling act 1914, housing conditions of the people in the metropolis and in the populous centres of the state, harry lawson, george burridge leith a.r.v.i.a., george brown leith, arthur cedric leith, g. b. leith, leith & bartlett pty ltd, kew town hall, ordsall, southesk, william james runting, annie matthews lilly, mary dixon lilly, james lilly, queen victoria, susannah kidd, emerald hill borough council, waratah -- st chad's, south melbourne cricket club, kew borough council, mayors of kew, president of the victorian cricketers association, clarke masonic lodge, melbourne philharmonic society, amoe, anne lilly, william thomas wright, the australian mortgage land and finance company, runting & wright, kew hyde park estate company, kinord, s.s. wairarapa, president of the federal institute of accountants, princes park bowling club, lauriston, jim tutt, herbert morgan, cr mcconchie, sir stanley seymour argyle, josiah earl barnes, cr. alan hutchinson, inner east group training

No. 117 DECEMBER 2016: Mayors of Kew / Robert Baker p1.Society news [Vale Jill O'Brien] p3. Ratting on the Yarra / Suzanne McWha p4. Saving the [Yarra] river parklands / Valerie Bourke p5. Vale - Marjorie Orr p8. Vale Bill Reeve p8. Mayors of Kew - Robert Morgan Young / Felicity Renowden p9. Mayors of Kew - Henry Francis Phipps / Robert Baker p9. Mayors of Kew - Job Smith / Felicity Renowden p9. Mayors of Kew - Henry Francis Mogg / Margaret Robinson p9. The Great War in Kew - Those that stayed / Andrew Frost p10. New to the Collection [Photographs and clothing donated by Micky Ashton relating to Cr John Marshall and his family] p11.The newsletters of the Kew Historical Society contain significant research by members that explores aspects of the Victorian and Australian Framework of Historical Themes. Frequently, articles on people, places and artefacts are the only source of information about an aspect of Kew, and Melbourne’s history. The contents of each newsletter as such is often significant historically, aesthetically, socially and or spiritually. khs newsletters, historical society newsletters, history -- kew (vic.), mayors of kew, kew town hall, josiah e barnes, ann carew, jill o'brien, family planning association of victoria, powerline action group, studley park conservation society, yarra bend park trust, villa alba, yarra river - fauna, rakali, hydromyini chrysogaster, kew where we live, henry kellett, j. f. c. farquhar, merri creek, state electricity commission of victoria, young street -- kew (vic.), natural resources and environment committee, merri yarra municipal protection committee, studley park association, prue sibree, hon robert fordham, transmission lines task group, national trust of victoria, australian conservation foundation, dr john colbatch, peter mcintyre, richmond high school, gerry hand, john halfpenny, victorian trades hall council, jan wade, powerline review panel, marjorie orr, bill reeve, valerie bourke, 2016, robert morgan young, henry phipps, woodlands, thornbury farm, job smith, berrington, 29 sackville street, herbert francis mogg, world war 1, ww1, the home front, 1916 conscription referendum, mrs e ratten, alexandra gardens, kew recreation hall, kew golf club, kew horticultural society, trinity grammar school, xavier college, 1st kew boy scouts, kew rifle club, patrick o’connor, kew band, cr john marshall, micky ashton

The Kew Civic Centre (A K Lines, MacFarlane & Marshall, 1972) was built next to the Kew Civic Hall (C Leith & Bartlett, 1960) on the site of the former mansion Ordsall (later renamed South Esk). Whereas the entrance to the Civic Hall was positioned off Civic Drive, the main entrance to the Civic Centre faced Cotham Road, as shown in the undated perspective drawing of the proposed building. The Civic Hall was used for public functions and performances, while the Civic Centre was used for civic offices. It also contained the Council Chamber. The building opened in 1972, following the relocation of the councillors and council officers from the former Town Hall in Walpole Street (now a Woolworth's supermarket). Following the amalgamation of the former City of Kew into the City of Boroondara in 1994, the Civic Centre was sold to Trinity Grammar School. The Civic Hall now houses the Kew Library. The exterior of the Centre has been modified by Trinity Grammar.A report for Heritage Victoria (date) describes how two architectural firms dominated the designs for new civic buildings in Victoria during the post war period. The report claims that: "An interesting sub-theme in the erection of post-war municipal offices in Victoria is that a considerable proportion were designed by the same three or four Melbourne-based architectural firms, who established themselves as the leading specialists in this type of work. The two most prolific firms in this regard were A K Lines, MacFarlane & Marshall, and A C Leith & Bartlett; both, in fact, had made names for themselves as designers of local government offices prior to the Second World War. Lines' office, for example had designed the Eltham Shire Offices in 1941, while Leith's firm had been responsible for the celebrated Heidelberg Town Hall in 1937). Both practices parleyed this early experience into a lucrative post-war career, designing numerous municipals offices well into the 1970s." (Survey of Post-War Built Heritage in Victoria, Built Heritage Pty Ltd, 2010.) The perspective drawing importantly captures the original design and function of the exterior of the building and its public entrance.Hand-coloured perspective sketch of the new Kew Civic Centre, completed in 1972 to designs by A K Lines, MacFarlane & Marshall; and located on the corner of Charles Street and Cotham Road, Kew. The sketch represents the front elevation of the building and its relation to the preexisting Kew Civic Hall at right. The three storey building features strong vertical concrete buttresses that extend across the three levels. kew civic centre, a.k. lines, macfarlane & marshall, architectural drawings, civic buildings -- kew (vic.), town hall -- kew (vic)

Kew achieved independence from the Boroondara Roads Board in 1860. As a new municipality, its first three leaders were designated as chairmen. On becoming a borough in 1863, its leaders were identified as mayors. The earliest photographs date from ca.1906, when the Town of Kew commissioned the noted local photographer Josiah E Barnes to produce standardised portraits of former mayors to be displayed in the Mayoral Chamber of the Town Hall. The collection also includes photographs by other well-known photographic studios such as Burlington Studios, Melba – Melbourne, Stuart Tompkins, Spencer Shier and Talma & Co. The majority of mounts identify the photographer. Eighty photographs are housed in their original frames.This portrait is one of a series of mounted and framed photographic portraits of mayors and town clerks of the former Borough, Town and City of Kew. The portraits were transferred by the City of Kew to the Kew Historical Society in March 1989. A Significance Assessment in 2018, funded by the National Library of Australia confirmed the historic, and often artistic significance of the series.Framed portrait of Cr. Henry F. Phipps, Mayor of Kew 1876-7. The mounting and framing of the photograph follows a typical layout or style in that each is framed in dark wood, glazed, and laid down on an inscribed board. The inscription identifies the name of the mayor and the year/s that he/she served.[Inscription] "Henry F. Phipps, Mayor 1876-7" [Photographer] "J. E. Barnes, Kew"mayors of kew (vic), australian photographers - josiah earl barnes, cr. henry f. phipps, kew (vic.) — municipal collection