Work on paper - Vertical File, Empire Day Celebrations

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1. 1902 Coronation celebrations at Surrey Hills. Extract from Box Hill Reporter, 4.7.1902. (1 page).
2. Letter from W. Dimmick to Mr. Lucas, Canterbury Road. 21.5.1935. (1 page).
3. Letter from Mr. Dimmick to Mr. C.T. LUCAS. 26.6.1934. (1 Page).
4. From National Library of Australia Trove, printout of photo from Argus. 1.6.1935. (1 page).
5. From National Library of Australia Trove, printout of photo from Argus. (Druid’s float). 27.5.1935. (1 page).
6. Copy of Children’s Procession First Prize for decorated bike, presented to F. Dimmick (undated). (1 page).
7. ‘Empire day at Surrey Hills remembered’, newspaper and date unknown, includes photo. (1 page).
8. ‘Empire day at Surrey Hills’, newspaper unknown, 17.5.1907. Ref. A0032 (3). (1 page).
9. ‘What happened to the Box Hill line trains on Empire Night 1907’, Jack McLean, Ref. A0032 (3). (2 pages).
10. ‘Empire Day bonfire’, The Sun, 25.5.1936, copy of photo from Latrobe Library, SLV. (1 page).
11. ‘Empire Day flags to fly tomorrow’, The Argus, May, 1936 photo. (Ref. 31-348B Jocelyn Hall). (1 page).
12. ‘Empire Day flags to fly tomorrow’, The Argus, May, 1936. (1 page).
13. ‘Empire torch at Balwyn record crowd expected at huge celebration’, Canterbury Courier, 18.5.1949. (1 page).
14. Empire day at Surrey Hills, Jack McLean, (member of Railway Signals Historical Society), 1983. (2 pages).
15. A few memories of Surrey Hills in the 1930s and 1940s, Lorraine Carrington, October, 1979. (Her home is now Surrey Hills Medical Centre. There are photos of her house in 1937). (1 page).
16. Memories of Surrey Hills by John Reaburn, Mr. Vic ? Bowen, Stan Smith (Vincent Street), Jack Newell and Mr. Rawlings, undated. Covers celebrations from 1902. (3 pages).
17. Extracts from newspaper, probably B.H. Reporter, about 1907-9. (2 pages).
18. Notes on Empire Day and Arthur Brooks, Jocelyn Hall, undated. (1 page).
19. Celebrating Empire Day 1905, refer to photo re Hansen’s Exchange Building. (1 page).
20. Argus articles 28.5.1907 and 25.5.1909 typed by Jocelyn Hall. (1 page).
21. ‘Monster empire blaze at Balwyn’, Canterbury Courier, 25.5.1949 ? (1 page).
22. ‘First empire day - 1906’, Box Hill Reporter, 8.6.1908 (2 pages).
23. ‘Forty thousand people saw this show – Empire Day 1934’, AND ‘The first band formed in Surrey Hills’, Unknown paper (3 pages).
24. ‘Empire celebrations at Surrey Hills, Canterbury and Balwyn’, Box Hill Reporter, exact date unknown, between 1933-8 ((1 page).

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