Double storey bluestone hotel in Inverleigh, Victoria

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Photograph of Bendigo Cemetery.

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Photograph of the Guildford Big Tree around a month after two big limbs dropped.

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Lidded Ceramic Jar

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Stephen Drew was Nintingbool Potteries Stephen (Steve) Drew studied at the Ballarat Technical Art School (a division of the Ballarat School of Mines) and RMIT. He worked as a secondary school teacher for a short time before setting up Nintingbool Potteries in a bush setting at Smythes Creek, near Ballarat, in 1974. He made a wide range of functional pottery high-fired in stoneware and porcelain, later concentrating on one-off sculptural pieces. Steve Drew was instrumental in setting up the Ballarat Ceramic Group, which operated for twenty years, and is a member of the Golden Plains Art Trail. His pottery mark is recorded as an impressed 'N' in a circle, or an incised 'Drew'.

Bell shaped bottle by Nintingbool Potteries

Glazed jug with Aboriginal motif and the work 'Hepburn'.

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Grashir Pottery was based in Kyabram, Victoria, and between 1984-1999 was registered by ASIC under the trading name Grashir Handcrafts. The pottery was set up by Graham and Shirley Howard after Graham had worked for John Stroomer for many years. The pottery made functional stoneware marked with an impressed 'Grashir Pottery' or 'Grashir Kyabram' with a map of Australia.

Small hand thrown jug by Grashir Pottery

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Gembrook Pottery was based in Gembrook in the Dandenong Ranges of Victoria. The pottery, run by Ian and Robyn Burgher, was registered as a business from 1987 to 2007. Marks include Gembrook Pottery (impressed), Gembrook Pottery Wirilda (impressed) and Wirilda (painted).

Lidded bowl with incised carving.

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A lidded vessel

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Springmount Pottery is located in Creswick, Victoria, and produces and sells works designed by its owner, Tina Banitska, who also owns the Convent Gallery in Daylesford. Banitska came to Australia with her family from Greece in 1956. She trained at RMIT and Franklin State College, before taking over Doug Alexander's Springmount Pottery when he moved to Tharwa in 1976. Retaining the pottery name, she developed it as a workshop, employing throwers and decorators to make works to her design, and initially selling these through the Springmount Pottery Gallery on Main Street, Ballarat. The pottery now operates with its own gallery onsite. Banitska's initial interest in ash glazes is continued in the Pottery's ashware line and there has also been a wide range of other Springmount designs. Works are signed with a painted 'Springmount' often split over two lines.

A hand thrown, glazed and decorated vase.

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Robert GORDON Robert 'Andy' Gordon is a potter supplying ceramic wares to stores across Australia as well as exporting to Canada, the U.S.A. and New Zealand. to China. Robert and his wife Barbara started making pottery in 1979 in a tin shed at Gembrook in the Dandenongs, Victoria, which they called the Pack Track Pottery, selling their wares at the St Kilda markets. In 1987, they expanded to purpose-build premises in nearby Pakenham where they are still based today. Wares made at Pack Track Pottery are painted 'Robert Gordon' or 'Gordon' in oxide. Wares made at the Robert Gordon Pottery are stamped 'Robert Gordon Pottery Australia', 'Robert Gordon Pottery Australian Made' or 'Robert Gordon Australia'.

Glazed jug with cork stopper

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Robert GORDON Robert 'Andy' Gordon is a potter supplying ceramic wares to stores across Australia as well as exporting to Canada, the U.S.A. and New Zealand. to China. Robert and his wife Barbara started making pottery in 1979 in a tin shed at Gembrook in the Dandenongs, Victoria, which they called the Pack Track Pottery, selling their wares at the St Kilda markets. In 1987, they expanded to purpose-build premises in nearby Pakenham where they are still based today. Wares made at Pack Track Pottery are painted 'Robert Gordon' or 'Gordon' in oxide. Wares made at the Robert Gordon Pottery are stamped 'Robert Gordon Pottery Australia', 'Robert Gordon Pottery Australian Made' or 'Robert Gordon Australia'.

Glazed jug

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Giovanni Brusaschi was born in 1827 in Lombardy, Italy. He arrived in Victoria seeking gold in the 1850s. He was a pioneer viticulturist and a leading citizen of the Clunes district. Marrying Alice Mary O'Sullivan who was born in County Kerry, Ireland, she arrived in Australia in 1863. Settling at Dunach, about 10 km from Clunes, they had a vineyard, made wine, and kept pigs, sheep and cows. They had 4 sons and 4 daughters, and looked after a number of the orphaned Invernizzi family (there mother was Alices' sister)

An Italian born bearded man who settled at Dunach near Clunes.

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House at 49a Webster Street. 2020

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Chellowdene was demolished c1996, and four units were built on the block. It has two owners. The Wood Family and the Gervasoni Family.

A cream brick house in Wills Street, Kew. It was known as Chellowdene.

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Chellowdene was demolished c1996, and four units were built on the block. It has two owners. The Wood Family and the Gervasoni Family.

A cream brick house in Wills Street, Kew. It was known as Chellowdene.

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Chellowdene was demolished c1996, and four units were built on the block. It has two owners. The Wood Family and the Gervasoni Family.

A cream brick house in Wills Street, Kew. It was known as Chellowdene.

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A brick house at Armstrong Street South, Ballarat under restauration, showing lath and plaster..

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A brick house at 404 Armstrong Street South, Ballarat with an iron fence in bluestone.

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Colour photograph of Tenth Street, Hepburn Springs looking towards the Hepburn Springs War Memorial.

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Leather shoes

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The Big Tree is listed a a tree of State significance on the National Trust's Register of Significant Trees of Victoria for its outstanding size, curious fusion of branches, as an outstanding example of the species and as an important landmark.

A photographs of Guildford's Big Tree - a River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis). The tre-es is believed to be one of the largest examples of the species in Victoria, and has been recorded as having a height of 30 metre, a canopy spread of 34 metres, and a trunk circumference of 9.35 metres. The tree was already an ancient giant when white settlers first arrived in the 1840s. On Saturday evening, February 28th 2015, just as dusk was falling, Guildford was hit hard by tornado-like winds, felling the big cottonwood tree down by the river, and tearing limbs from the iconic Big Tree, reducing it by an estimated one third. The debris has been cleared since then and the tree seems to have survived its ordeal, though its size is certainly diminished.

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The Big Tree is listed a a tree of State significance on the National Trust's Register of Significant Trees of Victoria for its outstanding size, curious fusion of branches, as an outstanding example of the species and as an important landmark.

A photographs of Guildford's Big Tree - a River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis). The tre-es is believed to be one of the largest examples of the species in Victoria, and has been recorded as having a height of 30 metre, a canopy spread of 34 metres, and a trunk circumference of 9.35 metres. The tree was already an ancient giant when white settlers first arrived in the 1840s. On Saturday evening, February 28th 2015, just as dusk was falling, Guildford was hit hard by tornado-like winds, felling the big cottonwood tree down by the river, and tearing limbs from the iconic Big Tree, reducing it by an estimated one third. The debris has been cleared since then and the tree seems to have survived its ordeal, though its size is certainly diminished.

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Weary Dunlop Statue at the Australian War Memorial.

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Australian War Memorial

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Memorial Window at the Australian War Memorial, 2022

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Luigi Fanettu, Johanna Fanetti (nee Gervasoni) and Steve Fanetti

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Black and white wedding photograph of John Joseph Gervasoni and Santina Gervasoni on the steps of St Peter's Daylesford.

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