Physical description

ESCo Employee Hours Work Record book that has been used by an ESCo/SEC inspector, H. P. James as a record / note book for his personal collection or papers or journal titled "In Other Days".



Book sewn with string in 36 page sections, blank end papers, board covers with stipple paper out sides and Rexene cloth binding. Comprising plain paper end papers and 104 printed pages (52 leaves), with each sheet printed in black on feint ruled paper for recording the hours worked and other details of drivers and conductors employed by ESCo. Printed for daily use, with Day and date page headings - made out for the 1930's. Text generically printed feint ruled paper.





Images:

Book - i1

Inside front cover - i2

Members Certificate - i3

Photo of H.P. James and index page - i4



Has been used to gather mementos such as photos, articles, newspaper clippings, letters and other miscellaneous documents on Ballarat local history. Newspaper cuttings etc often have side notes written by Mr. James.



Inside front cover has certificate recording Mr. James membership to the Ballarat Historical Society (on Australasian Historical Record Society paper) for 1937 - 1938. A side note records Mr. James elected as Vice President in 1939. Receipt signed by Edward Crimmins (See Reg. Item 2486)



Has a table of contents for pages 1 to 65. Opposite is a photograph of Mr. James dressed for the Ballarat Tramways Social Club function - See Reg. Item No. 506



Primary items are:

1 - Newspaper cutting "A stroll along Bridge St. 50 years ago" - Nathan F. Speilvogel.

3 - Newspaper cutting "What I Remember of Early Ballarat" - James Sainsberry.

4 - Newspaper cutting "Magnet that Made Ballarat - New Monument Marks Gold Discovery"

7 - Newspaper cutting "Romance of a Ballarat Street Block" - Speilvogel

9 - Newspaper cutting "Sixty years of Dana St. School"- Speilvogel

11 - Newspaper cutting "The White Flat - its Transitions of Service - Historical Review" - J. Hargreaves

15 - Newspaper cutting "Memories of Russell Square - Fireman's Carnivals" - James

16 - Notes on the Alfred Hall

17 - Newspaper cutting - "Alfred Hall" - James

21 - Letter re Russell Square dated 24/2/38, J. McLeish

23 - Newspaper cutting "The First Train to Ballarat"

25 - Newspaper cutting "Story of Ballarat's Horse Trams 1887 to 1913", James - see Reg. Item 2489.

27 - Photos and Newspaper cutting of items re horse trams, and photo of ESCo No. 18 - See Reg. Items

2490, 2491 and 2492.

28 - ESCo opening ticket (See other Reg. Items 608 for examples of this) ticket No. 1595.

29 - Newspaper cutting "Story of Ballarat's Electric Trams", James, See Reg. Item 2493.

30 - Poster - SEC - Ballarat "The New System of Fares and Sections" - 3/10/1997 - See Reg. Item 2494.

SEC - Tourist Ticket - See Reg. Item 2495

ESCo - 3d check ticket - See Reg. Item 2496

31 - Tickets and handwritten notes - with reference to page 51

ESCo 1d - See Reg. Item 2497 (2 No.)

ESCo/SEC? - lunch hour weekly ticket - See Reg. Item 2498

ESCo/SEC? - Morning and evening weekly ticket - See Reg. Item 2499

ESCo/SEC? - 3d Adult Transfer - See Reg. Item 2500

ESCo/SEC? - 2d child Transfer - See Reg. Item 2501

ESCo - 1.1/2 child ticket - See Reg. Item 2502

ESCo - 3d Adult ticket - See Reg. Item 2503

Extract of an item titled "History of Ballarat Tramways", SEC Magazine, Feb. 1939 - See Reg. Item 2504

2d ESCo token (See other reg items 1794 and 1943 for details of this object) - sewn into page.

33 - Handwritten notes "Alfred Hall"

35 - Handwritten notes "Russell Square"

36, 37 - miscellaneous cuttings from the Courier for 1939 and 1940

39 - Newspaper cutting "South Street Band Contests" - cutting dated 27/10/1932. (See images - i5 to

41, 43, - ditto - contest results

44 - Photo of the Tramway Shelter in Sturt Street being removed - Courier dated 18/12/1923 - see Reg Item

2523.

45 - Extract of April 1938 from SEC Magazine, photos of the launch of the illuminated Ballarat Centenary

tram - see Reg Item 2524.

47 - Newspaper cutting "Peeps into the Past"

48 - Listing of "Members of Returned Soldiers Band", Ballarat, dated 18/11/1919.

49 - Newspaper cutting "Ballarat, The Home of the Band Contests", dated 27/10/1932.

51 - Handwritten notes - "Tram Fares methods of collection" - See Reg. Item 2505.

53 - Newspaper cutting "100 years ago", Port Phillip Herald for 1840.

54 - Black and white photo of a gathering of people (tramway?) at the Showgrounds - See Reg. Item 2506

55 - Six black and white photos with handwritten notes

ESCo 19 or 20 - See Reg. Item 2507

Group of ESCo employees by ESCo tram - See Reg. Item 2508

Photo of ESCo employee, Si Barker - See Reg. Item 2509

Photo of ESCo company bus - See Reg. Item 2510 (See also Reg Item 3813)

Photo of No. 25 - Barkly St - See Reg. Item 2511

Photo of two ESCo employees - See Reg. Item 2512

56 - Loose newspaper cutting "San Francisco Struggle Buggies" - cable trams - The Age 15/3/1947

57 - Letter from Mr. Pringle of ESCo to Inspector James and Handwritten notes on ESCo management -

See Reg. Item 2513

Handwritten notes on the token systems - See Reg. Item 2514

59 - Page titled "Bundy clocks and meters" but no notes

61 - Hand drawn map of Ballarat tramways with notes on tracks - horse, SEC and ESCo and loops -

See Reg. Item 2515.

63 - Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings and photo of the Arch of Victory

64 - Photo of W. J.K. Dunstan ??? (has notes written on back, but difficult to read)* - Notes on rear of photo p64.

"49 years in service

W.J.K. Dunstan

Office Manager

Ballarat Branch

Retired 18/3/46"

65 - Newspaper cutting "Old Victorian Schooldays, letters and reminiscences by past scholars".

67 - Newspaper cuttings - photo of Ballarat Choral Union and Urquhart St. school

69 - Newspaper cutting "Saint with a top hat"

71, 73 - Newspaper cutting "District Mining Disasters of By-Gone Days" - John Hargreaves

75 - Newspaper cutting "The Ballarat Courier" banners for 2/9/1939 - outbreak of World War Two -

normal and a special edition.

77, 79 - Newspaper cutting "My Youth in Ballarat" - T.P. Long.

81 - Two photos and handwritten notes showing trams in Sturt St and the line up of horse trams -

See Reg Item 2516.

83 - Newspaper cutting "Theatrical History - The Charlie Napier" - Speilvogel

85, 87 - Newspaper cutting "Story of the Eureka Stockade Monument" - Speilvogel

89 - Newspaper cutting "The Beginning of Buninyong" - Speilvogel

91 - Newspaper cutting "St. David's Day"

93, 95 - Newspaper cutting "From 1856 to 1894, Ballarat's Foremost Citizen Major (William Collard) Smith

Recalled - J. Hargreaves.

97 - Newspaper cutting "All Electrical Exhibition / Ballarat's Electric Supply, its development" - 1936,

See Reg. Item 2517.

98 - Loose photo of the ESCo Power station chimney and steeplejacks - See Reg. Item 2518.

98 - Loose sheet of paper about the origin of the ESCo trams - See Reg. Item 2525.

99 - Newspaper cutting - about Electricity in Ballarat and tramway services, and handwritten notes on ESCo

Inspectors - See Reg. Item 2519

100, 101 - Newspaper cuttings - "Mr. Melbourne Day by Day" cartoon series and the artist's death notice

dated 22/8/1939.

102 - Poster - Dana Street School Jubilee Re-union, has N. Speilvogel and H. James as joint secretaries.

103 - Newspaper cutting of various photos and a scene of a gold train at Bendigo

104 - Newspaper cuttings - Bob Menzies and Adolph Hitler and backs of Melbourne tram tickets - "School

Boy Howlers".

105 - Letter in an envelope to H.P. James dated 11/10/1937, by a person about the building of the tram

sheds at Wendouree - See Reg. Item 2520.

Newspaper cutting of the opening of the tramway to Lydiard St. North from Gregory St. -

See Reg. Item 2521

Loose item - 1/- SEC Tourist Ticket No. A2676 - See Reg. Item 2522.

Inscriptions & markings

Many in pencil and ink