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Photograph - Photograph - Colour, Ballarat Observatory Stained Glass Windows, Ballarat Observatory window presented by the Sebastopol Cambrian Society and Welsh Residents of Ballaarat, 05/-7/2007

  • Ballarat Observatory window presented by the Ballarat Local Preachers Methodist Centenary A.D. 1915

  • A stained glass window at the Ballarat Observatory

    Ballarat Observatory window presented by the Sebastopol Cambrian Society and Welsh Residents of Ballaarat

  • A stained glass window at the Ballarat Observatory

    Ballarat Observatory window presented by the Sebastopol Cambrian Society and Welsh Residents of Ballaarat

  • A stained glass window at the Ballarat Observatory

    Ballarat Observatory window presented by the Ballaarat City Council in 1916

  • A stained glass window at the Ballarat Observatory

    Ballarat Observatory window presented by the Ballarat Teachers' College

  • A stained glass window at the Ballarat Observatory

    Ballarat Observatory window presented by the Ballarat Local Preachers Methodist Centenary

  • A stained glass window at the Ballarat Observatory

    Ballarat Observatory window presented by the Masonic Lodges of Ballarat Nov 1915

  • A stained glass window at the Ballarat Observatory
  • A stained glass window at the Ballarat Observatory
  • A stained glass window at the Ballarat Observatory
  • A stained glass window at the Ballarat Observatory
  • A stained glass window at the Ballarat Observatory
  • A stained glass window at the Ballarat Observatory

Historical information

In 1885, at the instigation of James Oddie, the Government reserved three acres (about 1.2 hectares) for an observatory in Cobden Street, Mount Pleasant, originally known as the Ballarat School of Mines Observatory. In March 1886 a committee was appointed for the care, protection and management of the reserve. Captain Baker, a retired sea captain, was invited to become the first Superintendent of the Ballarat Observatory.

Physical description

Six colour photographs of the stained glass windows in the Ballarat Observatory. The first stained glass window was installed from around 1915-16, and were probably associated with John Brittain. By 1929 sixteen stained glass windows had been installed. most the work of Ballarat craftsman W.J. Robson.

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