Wedding of Antonio Polinelli and Louisa Gervasoni. Antonio Polinelli was born in 1850 at Bergamo, Italy. In 1892 Antonio Polinelli was listed as owning four acres of vines at Dunolly, Victoria. He died at Dunolly, Victoria in 1898, aged 48. Louisa was born at Yandoit Creek, Victoria, the daughter of Carlo Gervasoni (born San Gallo, Bergamo) and Annie Hallinan.antonio polinelli, louisa gervasoni, louisa polinelli, wedding, marriage, swiss/italian, yandoit, norman watson, les anderson, jack sanderson, will lyndon, teddy game, jack lewis, loyal prince alfred lodge, wally ball, t. miles, j. hughes, c. atherton, s. prew, ted smyth, ernie smyth, david miller, a. j. williamson, gallipoli

Christmas Greeting card produced by the Shillinglaw Cottage Preservation Society as a fundraising effort towards relocating and preserving the Shillinglaw Cottage. The card was sold for a shilling.On the inside in blue pen: "To Sadie, Wal Margaret & Elizabeth with lots & lots of love & best wishes from Mother"marg ball collection, greeting card, peter glass, shillinglaw cottage, shillinglaw cottage preservation committee

Fred looks back; Report: Linley Hartley, Picture: Ron Grant Teaching himself German again after 70 years is just one of the many tasks Fred Golgerth, of Greensborough, has undertaken and succeeded in during his lifetime. As the two year old tenth child of a German descendent, Fred learnt to speak German from an Aunt. But World War 1 was raging. Fred’s older brother had gone to Europe with the Australian forces, changing his name … to ….. to sound less German. “I used to get my bottom slapped for speaking German at home,” Fred said. Even his name was changed from Otto to the more anglicised Frederick. Fred claims his involvement with Eltham started two years before he was born! His sister, two years older than him, was a babe in arms when his parents bought a piece of grazing property in Mount Pleasant Rd. “It was about 24 acres on a spur of Mt Pleasant,” Fred said. “My parents bought it from Mr and Mrs Hughes. There was a two-room mud hut in wattle and daub that we lived in from time to time. “My parents had a dairy farm and dairy in West Coburg, and they bought the Mt Pleasant land to put the dry stock on. “At one stage my mother got very ill and my older sister took my younger sister and myself to Eltham for four or five months. I went down to Eltham Primary School then.” That wasn’t the only time Fred stayed in Eltham. His sister, Wilhemina, known as Willa, married Jim Watson who had the Eltham hotel for some years from the end of World War 1. Pillar to post living was the way Fred described his youth, when he stayed with one married sister after another. “After a while Will and Jim lived in the big house at the top of Pitt St, next to the Council depot, and the hotel was managed by Fitzsimmons who had a big place near the river down there on Fitzsimons Lane. There was no bridge in Fitzsimons Lane but we used to cross the river at a ford, rolling up our trouser legs so they wouldn’t get wet, and carrying our shoes. I’d o down to visit some friends I had in Templestowe. And sometimes Jim Watson took his horse drawn lorry across the ford on his way to the brewery, instead of going don through Heidelberg.” “The bridge across the Yarra in Fitzsimons was not built until 1961.” Fred Golgerth, was only a teenager when he was rolled off his pushbike under a car on the bend between Mt Pleasant Rd and the Diamond Creek bridge. He was hospitalised in the little hospital on the east side of Eltham village that served the district in those days. He still carries the scars of the burns he received from the exhaust pipe and recent x-rays have revealed several broken vertebrae. At the time of the accident he was treated for a dislocated neck and was in plaster from his hip to the base of his head for about seven months. But nothing daunted Fred. Bouncing back he began work as an apprentice to a motor mechanic in Bell St, Preston, a man who is still living (at 90) in Queensland and who still communicates with Fred frequently. “He was like a father to me,” Fred declared. He was a marine engineer as well, so I …. that as well as blacksmithing. They taught us properly then.” After finishing his apprenticeship, Fred bought himself a 30 hundredweight Fargo truck and began his own contract carting business, doing most of the work for a firm called Carnegie’s and a subsidiary of that, Howard Radio. It was in the office Fred met his wife. “He taught me to drive the truck giving me lessons in my lunch hours up the Bourke St and Flinders St extension,” she said. “After work I’d have a driving lesson and all the girls from the Howard Radio would pile in the back to get a lift to Richmond Station.” In the 1939 bushfires, the Mt Pleasant Rd property was burnt out and the hut raised. Two years later, Fred and Dorothy were married. Fred paid £7.15.0 ($15.50) for the suit in which he was married. Dorothy had pulled out of the Women’s Air Training Corps to be married. Others with whom she trained went to Darwin and were in a convoy that was bombed. Fred went into the garage business in Brighton and continued his cartage business for a while. His company was employed to do all Brown Gouge’s motor repairs and factory maintenance. Because Fred had a certificate to do steam repair work he often got jobs maintaining industrial boilers. While he was in Brighton, Fred bought an eight-seater 1925 Silver Ghost Rolls Royce from Sir Keith Murdoch. When the couple moved to Rosanna in about 1943, it became a delivery van for the dairy they operated. “I thought I’d like to get back into a dairy business” Fred said. “We used to deliver the milk in the Rolls. “But it was hard work. We couldn’t get the labour and we’d drive to the farm and pick up the milk cans, take them back to the dairy, cool the milk, bottle it and deliver it. The inspectors would come regularly and the walls for bacteria.” Fred was exhausted. The couple gave up the dairy and moved to Eltham to live on the old property where a weatherboard house had now been built. It wasn’t a big house and the glassed in Rolls Royce limousine became the daytime nursery for the Golgerth’s second daughter. We’d put her in there to sleep during the day.” “Dorothy Golgerth was known to drive the Rolls at breakneck speed along Mt Pleasant Rd. Fred took some time off work then began driving a little local bus run by the Lyon Brothers before taking a maintenance job at the Athenaeum Club in the city. He’d ride an old Harley-Davidson to the station and travel into the city by train. Later, when the family moved to Pryor St. (their house stood where McEwans car park is now) Fred could walk to and from the station. “There was no resident doctor in the early days of Eltham,” Fred said. “Dr Cordner used to come from Greensborough to a room in the old house next to the old grocery shop on the corner of York St and Main Rd, Eltham (the grocery shop is now the Eltham Feed and Grain Store). The Golgerths lived in Eltham until “Dollar Day” – the day decimal currency became official. They eventually moved to Greensborough, when they have lived since. Fred has had his share of interesting jobs since then, retiring at 65 seven years ago when he was working in the engineering department at Larundel. Recently, two of his older sisters and a brother died, within a month. They were all in their 80s. They all had a profound influence on Fred, especially during his youth. His sharp wit and amusing anecdotes are the richer for his having been the youngest of a family that made the best of every circumstance. And now, as he enjoys his retirement, he is concentrating on relearning the language of his infancy; teaching himself German from tapes and a ‘teach yourself’ manual. He is fiercely proud of his German ancestry and treasures the diary, written in German in Gothic script, kept by his grandparents during their journey to Australia. On the inside in blue pen: "To Sadie, Wal Margaret & Elizabeth with lots & lots of love & best wishes from Mother"marg ball collection, eltham hotel, herbert james watson, otto (fred) golgerth, wilhemina watson (nee golgerth)

L-R: - , David Essex, Faye Shepard, Sue Law, Peter Bassett-Smith, Irene Gerard, Harry Gilham, Margaret Ball, Alison Delaney, Jim Connor (back to camera), Wal Delaney, - ,. Two members centre front (back to camera) unidentified. 40th Anniversary Celebrations of the founding of Eltham District Historical Society (formerly Shire of Eltham Historical Society) in 1967 Colour photo print 100 x 150mm40th anniversary, alison delaney, celebrations, david essex, eltham courthouse, eltham district historical society, faye shepard, harry gilham, irene gerard, jim connor, margaret ball, peter bassett-smith, sue law, wal delaney

L-R: - , Peter Bassett-Smith, Harry Gilham, Margaret Ball , Alison Delaney, Wal DelaneyColour photo print 100 x 150mm40th anniversary, alison delaney, celebrations, eltham courthouse, eltham district historical society, harry gilham, margaret ball, peter bassett-smith, wal delaney

Sepia photograph of workmen at Cohn Bros. Twenty five men and boys. Mounted on grey board. Inscriptions: hand written in ball point pen at top 'Cohn Bros'. On back - 'Back row: Jack Mitchell, Fred Mickles, Dave Geurin, Jack Jordon, Harry Rose Warne, Cal. Brown, Charlie Mills, W Nielsen, Marc Cohn, Bill Bannister'. 'Sue Burns, Ned Kinsman, Tom Mead, Ned Carter, Charlie Bartlett, Burt Patterson, Percy Marshall, Jack Davini'. J McEwan, J Bessetti, Bert Newell, Julius Cohn, Ted Hasker, Bill Emmerson, Wally Maxwell:. Circular stamp 'Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Bendigo Branch'.person, group, employees

Following are some of the names of the children. Back Row: Ruth? Humphries, Joy Odlund, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, Stan Goodall, George Goodall, ??, ??, ??, ??, Pat Barton, ??, ??, ??. Middle Row: ??, Lesley ?, Fay Shrieber, Alan Cleeland, Ruth? Humphries, ??, Coral McLardy, ??, Wally Goodall, ??, Eris Gawith, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??. Front Row: Heather McLardy, Diedre Cleeland, Charlotte Cleeland, Shirley Matthews?, Marie Regod, Verna Gawith, ??, Clarie Loton?, Betty Bradley, Vivian Cleeland, Enid Nelson, Lois Barton, Neville Cleeland, ??, George Regos, ??, Betty Bradley hopes someone can fill in the gaps and says she is not sure which one is Ruth Humphries (put in two places) but thinks it is the one in the top row. Black & White copy of a photograph of a children's fancy dress group in the early 1940's. Following are some of the names of the children. Back Row: Ruth? Humphries, Joy Odlund, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, Stan Goodall, George Goodall, ??, ??, ??, ??, Pat Barton, ??, ??, ??. Middle Row: ??, Lesley ?, Fay Shrieber, Alan Cleeland, Ruth? Humphries, ??, Coral McLardy, ??, Wally Goodall, ??, Eris Gawith, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??. Front Row: Heather McLardy, Diedre Cleeland, Charlotte Cleeland, Shirley Matthews?, Marie Regod, Verna Gawith, ??, Clarie Loton?, Betty Bradley, Vivian Cleeland, Enid Nelson, Lois Barton, Neville Cleeland, ??, George Regos, ??, Betty Bradley hopes someone can fill in the gaps and says she is not sure which one is Ruth Humphries (put in two places) but thinks it is the one in the top row. celebration, ball, festivities, fancy dress, children, stan goodall

L-R: - , David Essex, Faye Shepard, Sue Law, Peter Bassett-Smith, Irene Gerard, Harry Gilham, Margaret Ball, Alison Delaney, Jim Connor (back to camera), Wal Delaney, - ,. Two members centre front (back to camera) unidentified. 40th Anniversary Celebrations of the founding of Eltham District Historical Society (formerly Shire of Eltham Historical Society) in 1967Colour photo print40th anniversary, alison delaney, celebrations, david essex, eltham courthouse, eltham district historical society, faye shepard, harry gilham, irene gerard, jim connor, margaret ball, peter bassett-smith, sue law, wal delaney

L-R: - , Peter Bassett-Smith, Harry Gilham, Margaret Ball , Alison Delaney, Wal DelaneyColour photo print40th anniversary, alison delaney, celebrations, eltham courthouse, eltham district historical society, harry gilham, margaret ball, peter bassett-smith, wal delaney

Ticket, two examples, to the Shamrock Hotel Centenary Dinner and Ball. Both noted as being for the 'McGregor Party' but one with 'Wal McGregor' written in top left corner and one with 'Lesley McGregor' also written in top left corner. Found tucked inside event menu - 4732.25

A typed letter addressed to 'Wal' (Dr McGregor) from the Shamrock Hotel written to accompany tickets purchased to the Centenary Dinner and Ball held in April 1997. Found tucked inside the event menu - 4732.25

Coloured image of the intersection of Sturt and Lydiard Streets looking north along Lydiard St. North giving a high view of the Post Office building with its tower. Has an ESCo tram southbound in Lydiard St North, a motor car and several horse-drawn vehicles. Shows the verandahs along Lydiard St, centre poles, and looks towards a rather desolate Black Hill following extensive mining works. The Post Office time ball is in the down position. Possibly c1910. Summerscales building - photographer, postcards is next door to the Post Office in Sturt St. On the rear is a handwritten note from Wal Jack to Ken Magor about the tram in the photo, the time ball on the post office flagstaff, Railway station tower to the left of the Post Office, carriage sheds in the long building behind the oval type roof of old mining exchange. See item 8411 for a coloured version. Yields information about the intersection of Sturt and Lydiard Streets in the early ESCo era and the Post Office building.Postcard - black and white- divided back, undated - Valentine & Sons, Printed in Great Britain. Card Number "20-2"Notes by Wal Jack on the rear - see image 2nd image.sturt street, post office, ballarat, tramways, lydiard st, esco, black hill

ICI Fabrics Deer Park Opening 1928 E Thorne 22 Thompson StREET Sunshine 3020 93111034 Photograph Accompanying paper lists in separate book photographic subjects L-R. Back Row Jack Smith Jock Burgess Jack Davidson Tom Shaw Bill Power Roy Furzer Jock McLeod Stan Harding Ernie Bevers Tom Brumley Albert Sidell Jim Livingston Abe Thomas Albert Millership Bill Stephenson Bill Millership Jim Valentine Jack Smith Jack Ray Don Paxton John Smith Clarrie Hughes Norm Self Ron Govett Lance Neville Clarrrie Turner George Salmon Tom Strong Hec Ross George Peart Arthur Nicholson Frank Jenkins Dick Otoway Scotty Hood Jim Lawrence Alf Clayton Ted Roberts Lou Roberts Charlie Johnson Jack Broown Eddie Jock Buchan Bill Turner Jack Capper Cyril Reid Unknown Dan Maloney Bill Roberts Middle Row Unknown Joe Briggs Sen Ted Gorham Bill Baker R Shepherd Alf Ferringdon George Russel Jack Dockerty Andy Flannagan Mac Rodrique Jack Neil Union Delegate Harry Bowman Percy Smith George Clayton Mick Storey Jack Horan Ben Matthews Alf Hayes Tommy Hill Ted Hing Bob Norris Harry Hingus Spears Jim Reidy Joe Wilson Bill Robinson Wally Catton Jock Charmers Arthur Ayton Tom the Pom McIntyre George Farnsworth Fred Lewis Eddie McIntyre Jack Allen Reg Murphy Jess Ball Dan Mahoney Bill Roberts Front Row Annie McLeod Ruby Githens Elsie Wrigley Dorrie James Mrs Burland Lindsay Morton Trevor Frazer Bill Kendrick Bill Wilson Russ Matthews Bill Bailey H Jones Mr Gregg Jim Mace Tony Cox Unknown Bert Stewart A Stoneham Girlie Sturgess Winnie Burwood Bill Grogan Manager Miss Guthrie Dorothy Frazer Horace Ockley Harry Sutherland Alan Digger Slee Supervisor Mr Eckland Joe McIntyre Bill Pope Frank Stephens Fred Foley Jim Phillips Percy Spratling Dick Perry Jean Salmon Eza Wilson Pat Monahan Mrs Farrerdeer park, ici, employee, industry

2008.01 - Letter to Mr Zielinski 4 Dec 1958 Sunshine City Council Award for 2 pounds for excellent work in Grade 6 from Head Teacher Sunshine North He bought a chemistry set with the money|2008.02 - Sunshine High School Honour Award to Wieslaw Zielinski 2B 1960 Reached Honour Standard|2008.03 - Sunshine High School Dux of Form to Wieslaw Jan Zielinski 1D 1959|2008.04 - Sunshine High School Honour Award to Wieslaw Jan Zielinski 1D 1959 Reached Honour Standard|2008.05 - Sunshine High School Honour Award Zielinski Wieslaw Jan 3B 1961 Reached Honour Standard|2008.06 - Photograph 1 First Holy Communion Breakfast for Grade 2 Students of St Teresa Catholic School Albion 24 October 1954 Father James Egan at Head of Table|2008.07 - Photograph 2 First Holy Communion Breakfast for Grade 2 Students of St Teresa Catholic School Albion 24 October 1954|2008.08 - Photograph Mary & Wislaw Grade 2 Students at St Teresa Catholic School Albion at the School Ball in the Sunshine Town Hall|2008.09 - Reward Card from St Teresa Albion Awarded to Wieslaw Zielinski for First Place Grade 3 SM Malachi Head Teacherwalter "wally" zielinski

Photograph Layout of original employees and possibly others at opening of Leathercloth ICI Fabrics Pty Ltd Deer Park Taken 1930 Front row Annie McLeod Ruby Githens Elsie Wigley Dot James Mrs Burland Lindsy Morton Trever Frasser Bill Kendrick Bill Wilson Russ Matthews Bill Bailey H Jones Frank Grigg Jem Mace Tony Cox Unknown Bert Stewart A Stoneham Girlie Sturgess Winnie Burwood Bill Brogan Miss Guthrie Dot Fraser Horace Ockley Harry Sutherland Alan Slee Brian Cornell Joe McIntyre Bert Pope Frank Stephens Fred Foley Jim Phillips Percy Spratling Dick Perry Jean SalmondIza Wilson Pat Monahan Mrs Farrah Middle Row Bob Bryant Joe Briggs Ted Gorham Bill Baker R Shepherd Alf Farringdon George Russell Jack Docherty Andy Flanagan Mac Rodriquez Harold Weeding Jack Neal Fred Lee Harry Bowman Percy Smith George Clayton Mick Storey Jack Horan Ben Matthews Alf Hayes Tom Hill Ted King Bob Norris Harry Spear Jim Reidy Joe Wilson Bill Robinson Wally Catton Jock Chalmers Tony McConville Arthur Ayton Tom McIntyre Jack Farnsworth Fred Lewis Eddy McIntyre Jack Allen Reg Murphy Jess Ball Dan Malloney Bill Roberts Back Row Jack Smith Senior Jock Burgess Jack Davidson Tom Shaw Bill Power Roy Furzer Jock McLeod Stan Harding Ernie Beever Tom Bromley Albert Sydall Jim Livingstone Abe Thomas A Millership Bill Stephenson Bill Millership Jim Valentine Jack Ray Don Paxton John Smith Junior Clarrie Hughes Norm Self Ron Govett Lance Neville Clarrie Turner George Salmon Tom Strong Hec Ross George Peart Arther Nicholson Frank Jenkins Dick Ottaway George Hood Jim Lawrence Alf Claughton Ted Roberts Lew Roberts Charlie Johnson Jack Brown Eddy Buchen Bill Turner Jack Capper Cyril Reed J Fowlerleathercloth, station road, deer park

Helen Giles at ball in Stawell 1962. Wally Pickering in suit. Right is Alan Giles in Suite. Norm Blackmans dance band in background

Black and white negative, by Wal Jack, of SW6 854 turning from Church St into Swan St. Note the other curves for the opposite direction at the intersection. In the background is M Ball & Co. building, drapers, men and ladies clothing advertising war savings certificates and 5/- National Savings Stamp. Also an advert for Persil soap? Photo dated 23-7-1944 in the Wal Jack album along with details of the location and the tramcar.trams, tramways, church st, swan st, sw6 class, richmond, world war 2, tram 854