Mount Martha House Historical Collection aims to collect, preserve and protect the people, history and heritage of Mount Martha House and community and make it available to everyone.
A Historical collection of Objects, Photos, items related to the House and its community.
Themes: Peopling Victoria's Places & Landscapes, Building towns, cities and the garden state, Building community life, Shaping cultural and creative life
This is the type of uniform worn by the women who attended 30 WRAAC Barrack Mount Martha
This uniform is an example of what was worn at 30 WRAAC Barrack, Mount Martha, Victoria.
WRAAC soap green colour summer uniform, black Army issue lace up shoes and a WRAAC issue hat. c 1970's Uniform which consisted of a dress, belt, the original bakerlite buttons and plastic insignia and a black hat.
wraac, uniform, mount martha house, 30 wraac barrack, 1970's
This little milk jug was in use when Mount Martha House was a hotel. It was offered to the Historical Collection by Rosemary Murray who found it in a box of items which her grandfather has purchased at an auction.
This is the only item which has returned to the Historical Collection, it was verified by a local resident, Jean Male, who was a waitress during 1947 - 1950, who said she remembers spending her weekend cleaning the silverware. This was typical hotel ware of the era.
A small silver plated milk jug with lid and handle attached. Engraved with Mount Martha House on one side.
Mount Martha House (diagonal and in cursive script).
hotel, silverware, tableware, milkjug, midcentury, 1940's, 1950's
