The card relates to the Official Centenary Ball held in the Warrnambool Town Hall in March 1947 to celebrate the city's Centenary in 1947. Warrnambool was founded as a port settlement to service the farming interests in the area, with the first land sales held in Melbourne in July 1847. The leaflet is a programme of the Civic Memorial Service held in the Botanic Gardens in Warrnambool in February1952 on the occasion of the death of King George VI of England. Both items came from memorabilia held by the Bamford family of 8 Monash Avenue Warrnambool and it is presumed that one or more members of that family attended the events.

These items are of minor significance as mementoes of events in Warrnambool mid 20th century

.1 A white card with black printing and a logo .2 A sheet of white paper folded to make four pages with black printing and a photograph of King George VI of England

warrnambool memorabilia

This ledger contains a chemist's handwritten prescriptions from 1905 to 1910, giving the date, the name of the client and the prescription contents and measurements. The chemist is unnamed but the clients have Warrnambool names and a loose envelope in the ledger addressed to 'Mr H.F. Sambell' suggests that the chemist business may be that of Sambell and Son in Fairy Street Warrnambool. John Sambell established this business in Fairy Street about 1890. He died in 1906 but his son Herbert had joined the business and it was known as Sambell and Son for many years and later as Sambell, Son ad Granddaughter.

This prescription book is of interest as a record of a chemist's prescriptions in the early 20th century and it has considerable research value.

This is a ledger of 496 pages . It has a cream-coloured hard board cover with remnants of leather binding on the spine. It has ruled pages, an alphabetical index at the front and handwritten entries in ink. The cover is ragged at the edges and stained but the pages are in good condition.

Prescription Book

warrnambool chemists

Collection maintained by daughter of original owner.

Historical reasons

Collection of items in folder in chronological order

Correspondence from Government and legal sources

warrnambool housing post world war two

warrnambool housing post world war two

This photograph was taken when John Bennett was the Chairman of the North Western Woollen Mills Company of Stawell in 1926. English born John Bennett came to Warrnambool in1909 and was the first manager of the Warrnambool Woollen Mill. He went back to Yorkshire in England to purchase equipment before the opening of the Mill in 1910. He was manager of the Warrnambool Woollen Mill for nearly 20 years, finishing in 1928 and dying in the same year. The Warrnambool Woollen Mill was a major 20th Century industry, closing in the year 2000.

This photograph is of considerable significance as a memento of the first manager of the Warrnambool Woollen Mill one of the most important industries in Warrnambool's history.

This is a black and white photograph in a circular wooden frame, with a wooden mount covered with a concave glass. It has a plaque at the base with white printing.

John E. Bennett First Chairman of Directors North Western Woollen Mills Pty. Ltd. 1926

warrnambool woollen mill

This sheet music contains a song 'The Ideal Town' by AJ.Bates. It was composed in 1928 to commemorate the fact that Warrnambool won the Ideal Town competition in that year. This was the first Victorian Ideal Town competition which was sponsored by the 'Sun' newspaper and Warrnambool won in the large town section. Warrnambool's success was widely used as a tourist promotion tool during the 1920s and 30s.

This music is of considerable interest as a memento of Warrnambool's gaining of the title of Victoria's Ideal Town competition in 1928.

This is a four-paged piece of sheet music. The cover is beige with black printing and images of pastoral scenes and women. The pages are loose in the folding cover and there are some minor tears at the pages' edges.

warrnambool ideal town 1928

These three items are prescription books from a local Warrnambool chemist or chemists. The dates are 1895 to 1905, 1915 to 1918 and 1931 to 1935. The ledgers are untitled but at least one may come from the firm of R.F. Kennedy & Co, with this business situated in Timor Street. Richard Frank Kennedy commenced business in Warrnambool in 1880 as a wholesale, retail and manufacturing chemist and built up a large and important business. He died in 1903 but the business continued for many years with various chemists operating the business known as R.F.Kennedy and Co.

These prescription books are of considerable interest as they contain many local names and the prescriptions give us an insight into aspects of community health early in the 20th century

.1 A ledger of 502 pages with a hardboard cover, remnants of a spine with a red label, ruled pages with handwritten material in ink and an alphabetical index at the front. .2 A ledger of 502 pages with a tattered cover and leather binding and gold lettering on the spine. The pages are ruled with handwritten material in ink and an alphabetical index .3 A ledger of 500 pages with a hardboard cover. The spine is almost completely missing. The pages contain an alphabetical index, ruled red lines and handwritten material in ink.

Prescription Book

warrnambool chemists

This skirt was made by the Fletcher Jones company as part of the uniform of the Penleigh Grammar School, Essendon, Melbourne. David Fletcher Jones (1895-1977) setup as a travelling hawker in the 1920s selling drapery in Western Victoria. In 1924 he opened a store in Warrnambool, moving into a two-storeyed building in Liebig Street in 1931. He manufactured and sold men's clothing at this site, opening a store in Melbourne in 1946 and a factory in Warrnambool in 1948. The company of Fletcher Jones and Staff, established in 1951, opened more stores and factories and operated Australia-wide and became well-known firstly for its production of men's trousers and later men's and women's clothing. By 2011 the Warrnambool factory was sold and the company dissolved.

This skirt is of interest as a fine example of the quality clothing made by the Fletcher Jones clothing company. This business commenced in Warrnambool and was a dominant one in Warrnambool (and Australia) during the 20th century.

This is a woman's tartan skirt in green and navy tonings. The skirt is pleated at the back and sides and has a silver-coloured metal buckle at the left side. It has metal clips and buttons that adjust the waistline size and a green cloth folder designed as a wallet with a press stud closer inside the front waist.

College Apparel by Fletcher Jones Australia

fletcher jones clothing stores

This book has a black cover with gold-coloured printing on the front and spine. The pages contain reprints of the Victorian School Papers of one year with printed text, black and white photographs, songs with music, maps and sketches. One page is partly torn

non-fiction

Children's Literature

vintage school reading material

This calendar has been produced in-house by the Warrnambool Women's Festival Inc. in 1990. The contents refer to women's activities and achievements from the past and present

This calendar is of minor interest as a memento of a women's organization in Warrnambool's past.

This 1991 calendar has a purple and green cover with printing and black and white photographs. It contains photocopied material - printed matter, black and white photographs, recipes, historical snippets and sketches. The calendar has a black plastic spiral binding.

warrnambool women

This glass carafe has been produced for the Warrnambool Golf Club either to sell to raise funds for the club or to use as a competition trophy or to give to members and visitors on a particular occasion. The Warrnambool Golf Club, established in 1895 at Albert Park in Warrnambool, was re-located to Merrivale, Warrnambool in the late 1920s.

This item is of some minor interest as a souvenir of the Warrnambool Golf Club, a prominent sporting body in Warrnambool.

This is a clear glass wine carafe with a round base and body and a funnel neck with a circular opening at the top. One one side there is gold lettering, a small portion of which has rubbed off.

WGC Warrnambool Golf Club

warrnambool golf club

This is a souvenir glass with an image of the Lower Lighthouse at Flagstaff Hill in Warrnambool. This lighthouse is one of two first situated at Flagstaff Hill in 1871, with the lower light being placed on the top of an obelisk that had been erected at an earlier date. The two lighthouses still operate today on Flagstaff Hill. The glass has been sold as a tourist souvenir or as a memento for local people.

This item is of minor interest as an example of a tourist souvenir of Warrnambool.

This is a clear glass circular tumbler with a heavy base and an indented section near the base where the hand grasps the glass. On one side of the glass is a multi-coloured sketch of a lighthouse.

Warrnambool Vic

warrnambool lighthouses

This is a book of 122 pages. The cover is green with a green and blue map on the front and white printing on the front and back. It contains a Foreword and Acknowledgements, an Epilogue, Appendices, Bibliography, Index and printed material, maps, sketches, tables and black and white photographs.

non-fiction

Port Fairy Early History

port fairy history

This item advertises and describes a power pumping head and other products made by Alderdice Brassfounders of Warrnambool. Brothers William and Charles Downing came from Melbourne to Warrnambool in 1898 and established the Atlas Brassworks. In 1901, with the involvement of John Alderdice, the Downing brothers began the Alderdice Brassfounders Company situated at 64 Henna Street in Warrnambool, the site of an old cordial factory. This business which produces fittings used in farming, factories, public utilities, Government departments etc., still operates at the same address.

This item is of considerable interest as an early example of the the business activities of Alderdice Brassfounders Co., a prominent business in Warrnambool for over 120 years.

This is a sheet of paper describing a power pumping head one side and other products of the Alderdice Brassfounders Company on the other. It contains black printing and black and white illustrations on both sides of the paper. Three of the illustrated items have been crossed out.

warrnambool industries

Private collection

Business interest

no particular order

brochures, advertisements, photocopies, illustrations of machines

warrnambool industries

warrnambool industries

This is an item of vintage interest as it dates from the1950s. Binoculars were and still are used for bird watching, travel, some sporting events and other activities requiring some magnification.

This item is retained for display purposes.

A pair of black binoculars made of metal composite material and glass. The cover is brown leather with a metal clip and a shoulder strap which is broken.

Carl Zeiss Jena

vintage personal item

Private Collection

Historical Record

No Particular Order

W.A.I.E Annual Reports, Student Magazines, Programs, Site Plans, Principal's Report, Various Booklets

warrnambool tertiary education

warrnambool tertiary education

Business owners collection

Collected for archival reasons

Material in folder

newspaper cuttings, certificates, photographs, articles re the business operations

western district industries

western district industries

The business connected to this ledger, dated from 1904 to 1907, is unknown. There are some local Warrnambool and district names but most refer to other places in Victoria and interstate. The entries mostly deal with the sale of produce - onions, potatoes, barley, oats etc. and the names of ships are usually appended . One can guess that the ledger comes from a Steamship Company, a produce buyer or a cartage contractor.

This ledger is of minor interest and is retained for research purposes.

This is a ledger of 755 pages. The cover is charcoal-coloured hard board with brown leather on the spine and the edges of the cover. The spine has a red label with gold-coloured lettering. The pages have ruled red lines and handwriting in black ink. The ledger is much stained and tattered at the edges.

Day Book

western district produce

This is a programme of 24 pages with a black cover with black and yellow printing and black and yellow images of rowers.The pages contain printed text, including many advertisements. The pages were originally stapled.

non-fiction

Warrnambool Rowing Club Regatta Programme

warrnambool rowing club

This is a book of 146 pages. The cover is black with two black and white photographs and white and yellow printing. The pages contain printed text and black and white and colour photographs.

non-fiction

Biography of Mary Fiorini-Lowell

life and work of koroit -born mary fiorini-lowell

These two ledgers, used between 1913 and 1926, come from the Haberfield family. James Haberfield came to the Warrnambool area from England in the mid 19th century and with his wife established a property, 'The Briars' at Dennington, near Warrnambool. Two sons, James Bertram and William, were cartage contractors and cash produce buyers in the first half of the 20th century with the business based in Fairy Street and Farnham ('The Briars'). These two ledgers contain the business dealings of the Haberfield Bros. business in the 1910s and 1920s.

These ledgers are of considerable interest as they record the business details of an important early cartage and produce business in Warrnambool. Also the Haberfield family was a prominent one in Warrnambool in the 20th century. The building that contained the produce store run by William Haberfield at the corner of Fairy and Lava Streets still survives.

.1 This is a ledger with a black cover with a beige leather spine and edges and a red and gold label. The pages are ruled with red and blue lines and contain handwriting in black ink. The spine is a little scuffed. .2 as above but with an alphabetical listing at the front section and with no scuffing

Cash Book Ledger Haberfield, J.B. Ledger From Folio 270

warrnambool produce stores

This ledger contains the business accounts from 1883 to 1885 of an unknown Warrnambool business. There is one page allotted to the accounts of each individual client.

This ledger is of some interest because of the many names listed of people of Warrnambool and district in the late 19th century and so it has some value as a research tool.

This is a 19th century ledger of 894 pages. It has a beige cover with some evidence of leather edging. The ledger is much stained. The pages contain handwritten material in ink.

Ledger

warrnambool business ledger

The person or business that used this ledger in Warrnambool is unknown. It contains accounts for sale of goods (one person per page) from 1878 to 1883.

This ledger is of some interest because of the local 19th century Warrnambool names it contains but unfortunately the business name is unknown.

This is a 19th century ledger of 888 pages. It has a hardboard cover that is tattered. It once had a red-coloured spine. The pages contain handwritten information in ink.

warrnambool business ledger

This is a book of 278 pages. It has a yellow cover with black printing, an image of a country home and surrounds and a photograph of the author. The pages contain printed material and black and white photographs.

non-fiction

This is the story of the lives of David Jellie and his ancestors. It contains the history of the Cassady, Bligh, Jellie and Rankin families and other associated families in Warrnambool, Colac and Geelong.

family history of david jellie, early western district settlers

These cards have been used as an accounting system by the Warrnambool firm of J. Mainland and Co. This firm of watchmakers, opticians and manufacturing jewellers was established in Liebig Street in the late 1890s and continued on into the 20th century at 166 Timor Street. The cards date from the 1920s and 30s. It is noted that in 1932 one customer purchased a Clarice Cliff ash tray for six shillings and sixpence

These cards are of considerable interest firstly they give us some details of the many customers of the Warrnambool jewellery firm of J. Mainland and Co and secondly because they provide us with much information on a great number of residents of Warrnambool and district in the 1920s and 30s (addresses etc)

This is a collection of paper invoices, some original, some copied, with some in alphabetical order and some in number order. The invoices are separated by pieces of cardboard with either numbers or letters on the front. The collection is only portion of a larger set of cards. The invoices were originally held together by small pins.

warrnambool jewellery stores

This album contains cut-outs and newspaper illustrations that date mainly from 1915 and 1916. The compiler is mainly interested in animals and agricultural shows etc bu there are also images of World War One deceased soldiers and local Warrnambool cuttings, including some of an Australia Day parade showing the floats. No information has been found on the compiler, George Bennett.

This album is of interest, firstly because it is a good example of a young boy's album compiled in early 20th century times and secondly because it has some local content - images not hitherto seen.

This is an album with a red cover decorated with mauve and orange flowers and greenery. The pages contain children's cut-outs of animals, mainly horses and dogs, newspaper illustrations and images of World War One deceased soldiers. All the items are pasted in. The edges of the cover are slightly worn and the binding is a little loose. There are some blank pages.

George Bennett 1915

album with warrnambool cuttings

Official Recording of Warrnambool Meteorological Observations

Two bound ledgers and one paperback exercise book

warrnambool weather

warrnambool weather

This sports coat was made at a Fletcher Jones factory about the 1970s. David Fletcher Jones (1895-1977) served in World War One and in the 1920s set up as a travelling hawker selling drapery in Western Victoria. In 1924 he leased three shops in Liebig Street, Warrnambool and in 1928 opened his Man's Shop at the intersection of Koroit/Liebig Streets. He manufactured men's clothing on site in a new building erected in 1931. In 1946 a Fletcher Jones shop was opened in Melbourne and in 1948 a factory was established in Warrnambool with a new company Fletcher Jones and Staff established in 1951.This company then operated in other States and known Australia-wide firstly for its production of men's trousers and later for men's and women's clothing. By 2011 the Warrnambool factory was closed and the company dissolved. This coat was bought by Lew Officer, a member of a family with pastoral interests in the Western District.

This item is of considerable historical interest as an example of the high quality work produced by the Fletcher Jones and Staff Clothing Stores. This company was a key industry in Warrnambool in the 20th century

This is a man's sports coat made of Harris tweed hand woven in the Outer Hebrides made from Scottish-grown wool. The checked material is in brown tonings. The coat has a brown material lining and there are two brown buttons down the front and two on each sleeve. The collar has a grey felt lining.

fletcher jones clothing stores

These two exercise books contain notes on Methods of Teaching and were produced at a Teachers' College in Victoria sometime in the 20th century. They belonged to Claire O'Keefe who may have come from the Winslow area.

These books are of some interest as examples of tertiary education notebooks from the past

.1 A black-covered exercise book with ruled pages and handwritten notes in blue ink. .2 A red-covered exercise book with ruled pages and handwritten notes in blue ink

C. O'Keefe Method of Teaching

vintage school exercise books

This school exercise book contains mostly English Literature material produced by Ena O'Keefe at St. Ann's College, Warrnambool and dates from the 1920s. It seems to be about Year 10 standard. St. Ann's College began in 1872 as a Convent of Mercy School for Girls, changed its name to St. Ann's in 1888 and amalgamated with the Christian Brothers' College in 1990 to form the present-day Emmanuel College. No information is available on Ena O'Keefe but she may have come from the Winslow district.

This book is of interest as a school exercise book from the early 20th century

This is a school exercise book of 100 pages. The black cover is somewhat scuffed. The pages are ruled and contain handwriting in blue ink.

Ena O'Keefe St. Ann's College Warrnambool

warrnambool schools