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        Old Colonists' Association of Ballarat Inc.
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        Accessed 17 January 2021

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        • Photograph - Photograph - Colour, Clare Gervasoni, Billiard Roomat the Ballarat Old Colonists' Hall, 2015, 23/03/2017
          Old Colonists' Association of Ballarat Inc.

          Photograph - Photograph - Colour, Clare Gervasoni, Billiard Roomat the Ballarat Old Colonists' Hall, 2015, 23/03/2017

          Colour photograph of one of the three full size billiard tables at the Old Colonists' Hall.

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        • Night View of the Old Colonist's Hal
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          Photograph - colour photograph, Old Colonists' Hall, Ballarat, 03/10/2029

          White night was held on 03 October 2019 and an event was held at the hall for members.

          Colour photograph of a night view of the Old Colonists' Hall in Lydiard Street North, on White Night 2019

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        • Photograph - Image, Old Colonists' Association of Ballarat Inc. Council Online Meeting due to Covid19 Lock Down, 2020, 02/07/2020
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          Photograph - Image, Old Colonists' Association of Ballarat Inc. Council Online Meeting due to Covid19 Lock Down, 2020, 02/07/2020

          Members of the Old Colonists' Association Council attend an online meeting during the Covid-19 pandemic

          old colonists' association council, covid 19, corona virus, pandemic, zoom meeting, andrew robson, gerald jenzen, travis hurst, vincent braybrook, gillian canavan, clare gervasoni, jo barber, travis hirst, geoff beechey, steve carter

        • Image, Zoom Association Council Meeting due to Covid19 Lock Down, 2020
          Old Colonists' Association of Ballarat Inc.

          Image, Zoom Association Council Meeting due to Covid19 Lock Down, 2020

          Members of the Old Colonists' Association Council attend an online meeting during the Covid-19 pandemic

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        • Book, Facsimile of Address From the Old Colonists of Victoria to H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh K.G, 1869
          Old Colonists' Association of Ballarat Inc.

          Book, Facsimile of Address From the Old Colonists of Victoria to H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh K.G, 1869

          Blue hard covered 35 page book with an address, a reponse from Prince Alfred, and a number of signatures.

          To his Rotal highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert Duke of Edinburgh K.G. &c &c &c May it please Your Royal Highness. We the undersigned, being Colonists of Victoria wirh expressions of a Century and upwards venture to approach you Royal Highness with expressions of unaltered loyalty to Her Majesty's throne and person, and our very sincere and heart congratulations to your Royal Highnedd on your auspicious visit to his distant dependency of the British Empire. We can confiently assure your Royal Highness that however attractive Republicans Institutions may be to many young communitites generally Victoria is in the main free from the taint of any such prediliction. The loyalty and attachment to Monarchial Government of those numbered amonst her older Colonists have been strenghtened bu their enlarged and by the deep connection ever increasing with their ripening years that their material interests will be best protected by the perpetuation of the intimate connexion with the Great Empire over which Her Majesty rules - an Empire the Language, Laws, Customs and Institutions of which it is their privelige to inherit. We may be allowed to esteem the visit of your Royal Highness to these shores as of teh utmost importance, regarded from the Imperial as well as from a Colonial point of view. Your Royal Highness has now had an opportunity of satisfying yourself, and may bear testimony on your return to Europe that the Colonists of Victoria, although they have left their Mother COuntry, have not lost the spirit of enterprise, the energy, the self-reliance, the love of law and order which distinguish the British Race - and that in common with their fellow countrymen at home they possess qualities, the possessoin of which by her peple has made England great and glorious amongst the nations - while your presence here proves to the Colony at large, be especially to our Colonial born youth that Her Majesty 's solicitude for our welfare is unabted. Wish a sincere hope that the visit of your Royal Highness to the other COlonies of the Australian Group may be gratifying to you, and your ultimate return to the Royal Circle safe and attended with every happiness. We beg leave to remain, With the greatest respect, Your Royal Highness' Most humble and most obedient servants, Signature Date of arrival in the Colony. Edward Henty Novr 19th 1834 Francis Henty Decr 9th 1834 John Pascoe Fawkner Oct 9th 1835 Many ignatures follow including John Wilson Novr 1841 Joseph Bickett 27 September 1842 Theophilis Dredge January 1839 Archibald Fisken August 1839 Samuel Legge April 1841 David Coghill March 1838 Joseph L'Estrange 1849 December Thomas W. Wills Dec 1839 James Cuthbert November 1840 John Lamb May 1838 John Hogan November 1839 William Higgenbotham Born Oct 19th 1840 Richard Winter January 1840 Alexander Aitken Born Melbourne June 30 1842 William Cross Yuille February 1837 George Black Decr 1840 Peter Scott Sept 1840 Robert Hoddle March 1837 Henry Darlot September 1839 W. Bacchus 1837 C.B. Hutton Feby 17th 1842 H. Gerrard Feby 1839 Thomas P. Scott 10 August 1838 William Rutledge 19th Decr 1829 in Sydney, at Melbourne in July 1838 Rodk Urquhart March 1842 Thomas Black Septr 1842 J.B. Were November 1839 Thomas Anderson 1839 John Bull June 1842

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        • Photograph - Photograph - Colour, Facade of the Old Colonists' Hall, Ballarat, 2020, 08/05/2020
          Old Colonists' Association of Ballarat Inc.

          Photograph - Photograph - Colour, Facade of the Old Colonists' Hall, Ballarat, 2020, 08/05/2020

          Colour photographs of the high facade of the Ballarat Old Colonists' Hall, featuring the heraldic device.

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        • Photograph - Colour, Centenial Plaque on the outside of the Old Colonists' Hall, Lydiard Street North, Ballarat, 21/06/1987
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          Photograph - Colour, Centenial Plaque on the outside of the Old Colonists' Hall, Lydiard Street North, Ballarat, 21/06/1987

          Old Colonists' Association of Ballarat This plaque was unveiled by Cr. J.E. Reeves, Mayor of the City of Ballaarat, on 21st June, 1987, to comemorate the centenary of the laying of the foundation stone of the Old Colonists' Hall B.R. Drennan J.E. Crocker President Secretary

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