Grace Watson married Arthur Cowley at Holy Trinity Anglican Church Murtoa on May 22nd, 1954. Alice Watson, her sister was bridesmaid. Alice was a dressmaker in Murtoa, Victoria and made both their dresses as well as the dresses of the two flower girls, nieces Helen Cox and Alison Watson.Coloured photograph of a bridesmaid in 1954Front of folder: Alice Watson bridesmaid for Grace and Arthur Cowley's Wedding May 22nd 1954wedding photograph 1954, bridesmaid 1954, alice watson

Standing L-R: Ernest Samuel Shillinglaw, John Thomas, Min Bergin, Leslie Ernest Shillinglaw, Alva Shillinglaw (Nee Thomas), Doug Way, Don Richards, Cecil Thomas Seated L-R: Frances Thomas, Melva Richards (nee Shillinglaw) ENGAGEMENTS The Engagement is announced of Alva Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Thomas, Mt. Eliza, to Leslie Ernest, only son of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Shillinglaw, Healesville. Family Notices (1948, November 13). Healesville Guardian (Lilydale, Vic. : 1942 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved December 4, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60678669marg ball collection, 1949, alva elizabeth shillinglaw (nee thomas), cecil thomas, don richards, doug way, ernest samuel shillinglaw (1888-1958), frances thomas, john thomas, leslie ernest shillinglaw, melva lucy richards (nee shillinglaw), melva lucy shillinglaw, min bergin, wedding

Beverley, daughter of Padre Oliver, married Robin Kent on Tuesday 20 April 1954. The ceremony was held in the St Peter Chapel. The Bridesmaids were Rachel Dowel, Dorothy (Dot) Veitch and Ailsa Halliday. Best man was Rodney Oliver, Beverley's brother, David Fisher and Reverend W.R Dowel were groomsmen. The reception was held at Berkeley Hall, St Kilda.Written in blue ink: names of the persons on photo Stamp of photography studiobeverley kent nee oliver, robin kent, st peter chapel, weddings, marriages, rachel dowel, dorothy veitch, ailsa hallliday, john rodney oliver (1931-2010), david fisher, berkeley hall, st kilda

Five B&W family photographs 3a Holden photograph with woman driver 3b family group of three, Horrie, David & June Dated 1954 3c two teenagers on motorcycle - Leigh Campbell (18 years) and Bill Campbell (16 years) 3d Luxton wedding family group (bride and groom, two bridesmaids, two groomsmen, & two mothersbaggaley family, wedding, holden

The family group photograph was taken at the wedding of Jim Vlassopoulos (Kioukiouris) and Melita Zavitsanos. Pictured are - back row from L-R: Helen Stratos, Ioannis (Jack) Vlassopoulos (Kioukiouris), Jim and Toula Kandiliotis, Jim and Melita Vlassopoulos, Nick Defteros (Melita's uncle from Brisbane), Vicky and Orpheus Kandiliotis and Fotoula Moraitis, Jim's cousin. Flower girls/page boy: Christine, Clem Jr and Joanne Kandiliotis. Jim was born in Melbourne and Melita arrived in Australia from Ithaca in 1954. Jim and Melita met in Melbourne and were married in 1955. A black and white studio photograph of a wedding group which includes 5 men, 5 ladies, two little girls and a young boy. There are white trellis screens behind the group.

Arthur Koutsouvelis and his wife Aspasia nee Raftopoulos at a social function in 1954 shortly after their wedding which took place in February 1954.A black and white photograph of a couple dressed in formal attire and sitting at a table at a social function.

The bridal couple in the photograph are Arthur Koutsouvelis and Aspasia Raftopoulos on their weeding day in Melbourne in February 1954. Aspasia was the daughter of George and Ioulia Raftopoulos (nee Sicotis). A black and white studio photograph of a bride and groom.

Closing time for the Theatre Royal Melbourne’s Theatre Royal opened 16 July 1855 at 236 Bourke Street, between Swanston and Russell, in the heart of the city’s entertainment district and it was comparable in size to London’s Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It was rebuilt in 1872 following a fire, remodelled in 1904, and demolished in 1933, due in part to the Great Depression, and also to the growing popularity of moving pictures. On the site was erected Manton’s department store, then Coles, Target, and now Kmart. The Quaker Girl, a 1910 Edwardian musical comedy with long running success in London, Paris and Broadway, opened in Melbourne at the Theatre Royal on 22 July 1933. Stars Cyril Ritchard and Madge Elliott were to become husband and wife, their Sydney wedding photograph now an iconic Australian image of that time. The theatre closed 13 November 1933. MCK080 Published: The Age 4 November 1933 Featured in "Newsworthy: Melbourne in photographs 1933-1936" exhibition at East Melbourne Library, October to December 2023. Exhibition caption by project volunteer, Louise McKenzie. THEATRE ROYAL (1933, November 4). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved October 16, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203364238 Additional research by project volunteer, Fiona Collyer and librarian, Fiona Campbell: The Theatre Royal closed on 13 November 1933. During demolition in December, a worker was pinned by the legs under two tons of collapsing ceiling concrete. Miraculously he escaped with only a broken leg. A commemorative plaque was unveiled in 1937, displayed at the front of Manton's department store. The event was covered in The Age on 20 Dec 1937. It was a beautiful blue enamel and brass with the comedy and tragedy masks, one crying and one laughing, at the top with a timeline of the theatre underneath. Its whereabouts became unknown after the multiple changes with department stores on the site. In 2019 Greg Sampson set out on a mission to find it and in 2021 eventually tracked it down, on a wall behind the door of a staff tea room in Kmart. After much arduous lobbying by Greg it was eventually relocated to the Kmart arcade on the site where the Theatre Royal was originally located. Annette Cooper's history of Manton's and the Bourke Street site described the process of acquisition and demolition of the theatre: "Around 1933, the theatre came on the market – ‘a gift from heaven’ for its enterprising neighbours. Manton’s acquired the theatre and started planning for its demolition to enable the expansion of the store. William Manton and his sons, Jack and Ivor, watched the final production at the theatre, Harold Fraser-Simson’s musical comedy The Maid of the Mountains. 'It was, for the theatre-goers, a nostalgic last appearance, an emotional night, the end of an era. There were those who were mortified at the prospect of a store taking the place of their palace of dreams.' Even Whelan the Wrecker sensed the importance of the occasion and donated four bricks from the theatre to the National Museum of Victoria. They are the oldest bricks in the museum’s collection and form part of its Whelan the Wrecker collection." UNDER BIG FALL OF CONCRETE (1933, December 8). The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved April 14, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243215969 The Relocation of the Theatre Royal Plaque, Greg Sampson, https://theatreheritage.org.au/on-stage-magazine/news/item/989-the-relocation-of-the-theatre-royal-plaque Photo of theatre interior, Arts Centre Melbourne, https://collections.artscentremelbourne.com.au/#details=ecatalogue.184409 OLD THEATRE ROYAL (1937, December 20). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 10. Retrieved March 25, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205554847 AMATEUR ATHLETICS -- LIFE SAVING DISPLAY MEMORIAL PLAQUE UNVEILED (1937, December 20). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 15. Retrieved March 25, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205554863 It's smart to be thrifty: the story of Manton's department store, Annette Cooper, https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/3%20Annette%20Cooper%20-%20It%E2%80%99s%20smart%20to%20be%20thrifty%2C%20the%20story%20of%20Manton%27s%20department%20store.pdfPhotographer notations on slide: "Theatre Royale 1933 B4". theatres, 1930-1939, fires, musicals, films, department stores, demolished buildings, commemorative plaques, incidents, concrete, whelan the wrecker, bricks, kmart, bourke street melbourne, manton's department store, theatre royal, coles, target

Items put together by Melchior Bajada for Elizabeth Lynch's family research. Martin Baird Lynch was GrandfatherTyped Letter from Elizabeth Lynch 12 March 2013|Typed Notes Martin B Lynch Sunshine Advocate Vic 1924 to 1954|Booklet Sunshien Cavalcade Commemorating the Proclamation of the City of Sunshine|Newsletter The Sunshine Recorder September 2012 Series 5 No 23 Sapper Martin Lynch|Website Extract Family Notices 7 June 1924|Website Extract Obituary Mrs Charlotte Ann Lynch 7 June 1924 siccumbed as the result of a chill|Website Extract Sunshine Advocate 1 July 1932 Familty notices Sterling Martin Lynch|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 2 June 1928 Sunshine Garage Broken Into|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 10 November 1944 Death Martin Lynch|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 6 May 1938 Field Gun Club|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate12 November 1943 Ballarat Road Death Trap Lynchs Corner a menace to Safety|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 19 November 1943 The Village Blacksmith|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 1 July 1932 Old Pioneer Passes|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 8 October 1943 St Albans Purse|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 3 November 1944 Wedding Bells|Timeline|Handwritten letter to Sunshine Advocate 5 March 2013|Photograph of Lynches Service Station November 1954|Photograph of 3 men and a child outside blacksmith shop which is a corrugated iron building on corner of Hampshire and Ballarat Road in 1950|Photograph of MB Lynch Garage on corner of Hampshire and Ballarat Road built in 1950 after previous corrugate iron shed was demolished Lynch Garage was demolished in 1988 Now 711 store.|Photograph of MB LYnch Blacksmith shop Ballarat Road view from rear of property looking north c1915|Photograph of rear view MB Lynch blacksmith shop|Photograph of MB Lynch and Sons Pty Ltd|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 9 April 1927 Advertising Coach and Motor Body Works Mr MB Lynch|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 23 August Safe Driving Road E 0|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 23 June 1928 Garage and Service Station MB Lynch|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 16 January 1964 Be confident of your car|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate18 August 1928 Our Prices will fit your purse|Newspaper Article Sunshine Cavalcade MB Lynchs Garage Ballarat Road|Newspaper Article Advertisement For the First Time in Sunshine Petrol 24 Hours a Day|Newspaper Article Historic Tools for Society|Brochure Blacksmithing in Sunshine|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 15 September 1960 MB Lynch and Sons proudly present the Ford Falcon|Newspaper Article Sunshine Advocate 4 August 1960 Immediate delivery of anglia Zodiac and Zephyr from as low as 200 pound deposit MB Lynch and Sonslynch, ballarat road, sunshine

Taken at the wedding of Jean Margaret Mathie to John Caldwell Wells at Presbyterian Church, Burwood, NSW in 1929. Bride's daughter wore same dress at her wedding in 1954. See Photo NA34871929 Wedding photo in wood frame with glass. Photo hand tinted, photo of bride in front of brown curtain. See also NA3485.1.2 - Gloves; NA3484.1.2 - Headdress and veil; NA3483 - Wedding dress; NA3487 - Photo of daughter in bridal outfitSidney Riley Studios Pitt St. Sydneyphotography, photographs / slides / film