Document - SPECIMEN COTTAGE COLLECTION: VARIOUS DOCUMENTS

Physical description

Various documents in plastic folders.
The topics are:
1. The Myer story - articles on the history of the Myer family and business.
2. The history of the Bendigo Railway and memoirs of early train travel by Bob Carr.
3. Victorian history of railway and Bendigo, linking a state.
4. A brief history of steam locomotives R711 and R766.
5. Bendigo Advertiser article: coming of the railway with 4 photos.
6. Celebrating 150 years of rail in Bendigo brochure plus postcard and Bendigo Railway Museum newsletter.
7. Phoenix FM radio interview 13th September 2011. interviewer John Hall, guest: Garry Long, Convenor friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore rail trail.
8. Mail by rail by Tom Luke and Railway history Leo Hogan.
9. Document on the Red Ribbon Movement.
10. Document - Sport in Bendigo in the early days.
11. History of the Girton Church of England Girls' Grammar School with a list of prominent students.
12. Bendigo's loss-Chinese secret society's gain? Talk given by Carol Holsworth.
13. Document - Bendigo in the fifties.
14. Jones, Miller & Co. history.
15. Transcript of an audio tape by Cyril Michelsen, black and white photo and newspaper article.
16. A garden history by Ken Maes.
17. Document - Marsh and Scholten Coach builders.
18. Notes from the diary of Thomas Ninnes, newspaper articles on the restoration of the Ninnes grave.
19. Sandhurst 1853-54 The Southern world Rev. Robert Young.
20. Correspondence from Cobb & Co. Royal Flying Doctor Service 1963 coach run and the 1963 coach run itinerary.
21. Various newspaper clippings on Rosalind Park.
22. Rosalind Park discovery walk brochure and heritage mosaic Rosalind Park lookout brochure.
23. Camp Reserve, Rosalind Park, used and abused by James Lerk, also newspaper articles by James Lerk about Rosalind Park and various other documents relating to the Park.
24. Rotary Club History - A bulletin from 1971 and two cards in the name of Albert Richardson.
25. History Lives: Bendigo east's Anzac Avenue photographs and documents.
26. Short biography of John Walker.
27. Restoring our heritage - The Beehive story.
28. Documents about the Bendigo Advertiser, including historical notes by Carol Holsworth and notes given in 2005 by Leanne Younes.
29. Document - National Trust of Australia: City of Bendigo abattoirs (form, 47 Lansell Street.
30. The Alexandra Fountain by Lucy Williams also newspaper clippings and a document from the RHSV.
31. Newspaper clippings and correspondence on the demolition of the A.N.A. building.

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