HISTORY NEWS ISSUE.337 JULY 2018

Egypt

Postcard INSIDE THIS ISSUE See exhibition news inside What’s On Murders in Melbourne Donations One Hundred Years of Puddin’ Creswick Town Hall History House Historical Societies History Victoria Bookshop and Local Heritage Books Received Passion for Volunteering Around the Societies What’s On

PRESIDENT’S REPORT • The Cultural DiversityDiversity Award $1500 RHSV NEWS RHSV Our President is currently holidaying in Europe • The Multimedia History Award $1500$1500 WEDNESDAY 22 AUGUST - EVENING • The Historical Interpretation Award $1500 RHSV Members’ Special Preview of the BOOK FAIR. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS • The CentenaryCentenary of WWI Award $150$15000 Membership for most of our members falls • The History Article (Peer(Peer Reviewed)Reviewed) 11TH ANNUAL HISTORY WEEK OCTOBER due on the 1st of July and you should have Award $$500500 2018 received your membership renewal form by Forms http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/ now. If you have any membership queries programs/victorian-community-history-awards Each year the number of events and please contact us on 9326 9288 or offi ce@ participants increases as does the originality of their events. Open Days, exhibitions, historyvictoria.org.au SUNDAY 29 JULYJULY partnerships with local schools and OPEN HOUSE MELBOURNE local libraries, walks and talks and tours, UPCOMING EVENTS Time: 10am – 4p4pmm demonstrations, heritage cooking classes, TUESDAY 17 JULY CostCost:: FrFree.ee. conservation seminars, how-to workshops VICTORIA: THE MADDEST PLACE Venue: RoyalRoyal Historical SocietSocietyy of – the list is endless of what your historical ON EARTH Victoria Victoria,, 239 A’Beckett StSt,, society might do. If you are planning a history related event during October 2018 please Speaker: Jill Giese, clinical psychologist M Melbourneelbourne VIVICC 3000 include it in the offi cial History Week calendar. and writer We will offer tours of our home,home, the Drill REGISTER your event online at Time: Lunch-time lecture, drinks 12noon, Hall, which was built fforor the Australian Army www.historyweek.org.au lecture 12:30pm Medical CorpsCorps in 1938 and became our HQ inin 1999. The building, designed by architect History Week is generously supported by the Cost: Free for RHSV members, GeorgeGeorge Hallendal of the Department of the Vera Moore Foundation. $10 for non-members. Interior, is brick and plaster with strongstrong vertical Booking: https://www.trybooking.com/VYBF andand horizontal lines, fl uted pilasters,pilasters, arches, Venue: Offi cers’ Mess, Royal Historical key-stones,key-stones, cocoffff ered ceilings,ceilings, built-in seats Society of Victoria, 239 A’Beckett andand DutchDutch oror stablestable doors.doors. ThereThere areare twotwo St, Melbourne VIC 3000 symmetricalsymmetrical Drill Halls separated bbyy the fofoyeryer History Victoria with messes above the foyerfoyer and at each end Support Group ofof the buildinbuilding.g. FRIDAY 20 JULY 2pm ‘Moving Forward’ Applications for the Victorian Community TUESDAYTUESDAY 3311 JUJULYLY Sunday, 19 August 2018. 9am – 3pm History Awards close. ApplicationsApplications close for Holsworth Local Hosted by: RHSV at 239 A’Beckett St The Victorian Community History Awards HeritageHeritage Trust ggrants.rants. Melbourne have been held since 1999 and are organised Holsworth Local HeritageHeritage GrantsGrants of up to Topics include: managing digital archives; by Royal Historical Society of Victoria in $2,000$2,000 are available for the publicationpublication a case study of a local historical society- cooperation with the Public Record Offi ce ofof any specispecificfic or general local history or Lilydale & District; advice on Crown land Victoria. naturalnatural hhistoryistory in rurarurall anandd regionaregionall VVictoria.ictoria. leases; PROV’s Place of Deposit Program Entries must have been completed in the year It is expectedexpected that considerable research for local temporary public records; Q & from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018. will already have been undertaken beforebefore A session; tour of the Drill Hall and GSV records. The categories are: applying.applying. Applications close on 3131 JulyJuly and the Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/WIDD • Victorian Premier’s History Award $5000 applicationapplication forms can be downloaded from the RHSV website: http://www.historyvictoria.org.http://www.historyvictoria.org. Cost: $20 per person (includes morning tea, • The Collaborative Community History au/programs/holsworth-local-heritage-trustau/programs/holsworth-local-heritage-trust lunch and visit to the Drill Hall) Award $2000 Contact: [email protected] • The Local History Project Award $2000 WEDNESDAYWEDNESDAY 8 AAUGUSTUGUST or 9326 9288 • The History Publication Award $2000 ‘Vera Deakin’s World of Humanity’Humanity’ • The Local History – Small Publication exhibitionexhibition cclosesloses Award $1500 History News History News is the bi-monthly newsletter of the RHSV

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Our Heartfelt Thanks to these Donors Cole, Valda & Harry to the RHSV Cover, Simon & Clare, Vivienne Jillian Hiscock: The lists below are for donations in 2018 Gibb, Ann Right Skills unless stated otherwise. Without these Harley, Judith Deakin donations the work of the RHSV could Henwood, John for the Job not progress and cover new territory at Hiscock, Peter & Yvette Our new Collections Manager & such an impressive rate. HistorySmiths Pty Ltd (Helen Penrose, Volunteers Coordinator Jillian Hiscock A full list of donors to the RHSV Claire Levi, Barbara Pertzel and Fiona has a BA from La Trobe University, a Foundation since its inception in 2008 Walters) Graduate Diploma of Librarianship will be published in History News later Home, Rod from the University of Melbourne, and this year Howe, Renate qualifications in strategic thinking, Howes, Margaret & Sam RHSV (general donations) Hunt, Joan & Gary leadership and project management. January -June 2018 $6,187 Hyslop, Anthea Jillian has had a career in specialist, Adams, Beverly James, Rosemary public and government departmental Adams, Kevin Killip, Norah libraries, and in providing library, Anonymous Legge, Mary archival, intranet and research services Arnold, Jennifer Littlewood, George to government departments. More Bede, Mandy Martin, Merle in memory of recently Jillian has managed projects Bennett, Andrew McQuire, Elizabeth for several Victorian government Bishop, Marion Mellor, Ross & Anna departments to do with policy and Brkic, Lydia Myer, Baillieu systems management regarding Broome, Richard Myer Foundation, Family Grants the intranet, cloud computing, and Coker, Faye Program Craig, Ross communications tools in emergency Pascoe, Jeremy Groom, Douglas services. She is skilled in information Piper, Christopher Harley, Roger systems and technology, strategic Rasmussen, Carolyn Hopkins, Philip planning and implementation, stake- Ray, Andrew & Beth Hyslop, Anthea holder relations and team management. Smith, Maurice Johnston, Jessie All these skills will equip her to make Stephen & Kate Shelmerdine Family Land, Julian an important and ongoing contribution Foundation Orbost Historical Society to the management of our various Woods, Carole Peck, Patricia collections and the leadership of our Woods, David & Elizabeth Richards, Rosemary vital volunteer base. Ross, Craig Don Gibb RHSV Prize in Australian Richard Broome Rowan, Kay History at La Trobe University Scopel-Reed, Emily $10,000 donated in 2018 by three Sharp, Miranda daughters of Don Gibb: Susie, Sally Simpson, Isabel and Jane Sowerwine, Charles Jane Berry Sturmfels, Barbara Susie Gibb Thomson, David Sally Joubert Turner, Andrew Woods, Carole Victorian Historical Journal Patrons Woods, Joanne Future Fund since inception Founded Wydia January to June 2018 $4,850 Total 2016- June 2018 $18,150 Weston Bate Make History Live Fund Over 30,000 items of Victorian Broome, Richard 2017- June 2018 and interstate history, resources Craig, Jonathan Total $14,750 Davison, Graeme for family history and much Anonymous Dwyer, John more available for loan. Baillieu, Katharine Johns, Murray Birtley, Margaret Mullaly, Paul QC (His Honour) Blainey, Geoff rey 9510 3393 Rickard, John Brighton Foreshore Association Inc Russell, Lynette www.pmi.net.au Broome, Richard Smart, Judith 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran Cambers, Loreen Woods, Carole Charlesworth, Stephanie

RHSV NEWS JULY 2018 3 Halls of Fame:

RHSV NEWS RHSV Creswick Town Hall Gold, Art and a Funeral

Sir Alexander Peacock laying in state 1933. Courtesy Creswick Museum Collection

When you travel down the Midland The Town Hall was used for political, Highway from Ballarat you reach the religious and theatrical events. It was part town of Creswick, an old mining town, of the Lindsay family’s life in Creswick. Dr with a rich collection of old buildings. Robert and Jane Lindsay had ten children, One building stands out from the others, fi ve of whom became noted artists and Creswick’s Town Hall. The hall was built writers. Percy Lindsay played in the on the site of the National School. The orchestra and painted scenery. The other Borough Councillors off ered a prize of siblings were involved in performing. On £50 for the winning design for a Town the stairways down to the dressing rooms Hall. Richard Creber won the prize, but there is a collection of signatures including unfortunately there are no records who a Lindsay. Graffi ti was around in the 19th the other contenders were. Tenders were century. The most unique use of the Town called, and the builder appointed was A. Hall came in October 1933. The day of his J. Bolton. The foundation stone was laid funeral on 10 October, the body of one of in February 1876 and was expected to Creswick’s noted sons, mine manager and be completed by November that year. Victorian Premier, Sir Alexander Peacock, Unfortunately, delays meant it was not laid in state there, for his constituents to offi cially handed to the Borough until April honour his service to the district. the following year. Mayor Cooper, who When the Town Hall was built it had was also the President of the Horticultural provisions for a clock to be installed. For Society, organised a fl ower show in the 94 years the tower overlooked the main hall for December. As soon as the last street of the town, lifeless, faceless and nail was hammered into place in the main timeless. There was a bequest in Henry hall of the morning of the 15 December, Hammon’s will for a clock but the fund a fl ower show was staged followed by was insuffi cient to purchase a clock. His a concert in the evening by local talent. gift was diverted to the local sports oval Creswick Advertiser The fi rst professional event in the Town which the Borough Councillors named in October 10 1933 Hall was a performance by the visiting his honour. The clock was not installed Georgian Minstrels in April 1877. until the 1970s.

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Vera Deakin’s Postcard from Cairo When writing this postcard (see front cover) to her Aunt Catherine, sister of Alfred Deakin, on 11 May 1916, Vera was secretary of the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau in Cairo. She told Catherine that, owing to the transfer of most of the Australian troops to the Western Front, she was preparing to move the enquiry bureau to London. Aged only 23, Vera had opened the enquiry bureau in Cairo on 21 October 1915. During her service in Cairo she was assisted by Winifred Johnson and Marjorie Syme, both granddaughters of Ebenezer Syme, an early proprietor of the Age. In addition to Red Cross work, Vera Creswick Town Hall late 19thC. explored her environs. Guided by Courtesy Museum Courtesy Creswick Museum Collection her friend, the eminent archaeologist James Quibell, Keeper of the Cairo Museum, she encountered the wonders of ancient civilisations. This The Town Hall, a two-storey building at the part of the hall to fulfi l the dream of ‘a postcard, showing a centuries-old way front, with a corner tower, is constructed museum to house a collection of items of life beside the Nile, distils Vera’s of local bricks rendered on a bluestone and records telling the story of Creswick fascination with Egypt. foundation. The slate roof of the tower and district’. After a deputation to Premier In 1920 Vera married Captain Thomas gives an eff ect of fi sh scales. The main Henry Bolte, a grant from the State White DFC, a former Australian military hall of the building has a fl at coved ceiling, Government of $20,500 was awarded pilot in Mesopotamia who had been with simple plaster wall decorations, towards the alterations. The front section captured by the Turks in Baghdad. He a timber dado, high windows and an of the Town Hall was converted, with had exotic adventures, but Vera’s life elaborate proscenium. Art-deco roses alterations, into the present Museum was also remarkable. Prior to Egypt, on the ceiling were installed in the 20th displaying the old Shire of Creswick’s she had studied music in Budapest and saw signs of the outbreak of the Great Century. The stage was extended over collection of artworks and memorabilia. War when in the Austrian Tyrol. the original orchestra pit. Over the years Internally the Museum has a timber ceiling the building saw major alterations, but and simple plaster walls. The outstanding An array of images illustrates the lives probably the most prominent was the feature of the interior is the winding spiral of Vera and Tom in the current RHSV cantilevered bio box added after the bluestone stair case with it elaborate exhibition ‘Vera Deakin’s World of Second World War to house the projector cast-iron baluster, supporting the elegant Humanity’, which runs until 8 August. When opening the exhibition on 26 for fi lm shows. curving handrail, leading up to the fi rst April, Roger Harley, grandson of Vera fl oor. Similar ironworks in the balustrade With the amalgamation of the Shire and Deakin White, movingly recalled Vera’s borders the cantilevered balcony over the the Borough of Creswick in 1934 the multi-faceted, philanthropic life. His Mining Gallery leading to the old Council offi cial Shire Offi ces were at Kingston. speech appears in the June issue of After World War Two the Town Hall Chambers, with the original furniture and History News together with this photo. photographs of bearded Councillors became the Shire Offi ce until 1968 when Roger Harley perpetuates the Deakin hanging high on the walls. it moved into new offi ces next door. tradition of support for the RHSV. In the 1960s, the Town Hall had become The Town Hall still stands proudly in Albert His mother, Judith Harley, has been inadequate and was in desperate need Street after 140 years watching over the a member for over 51 years and his of repair. Discussions were held whether Town. Flower shows, band concerts and great grandfather, Alfred Deakin, to demolish the building and rebuild, or functions are still held in the main hall prime minister, was an inaugural vice part demolish and change the entrance. of the building just as it did in Mayor president of the RHSV in 1909. In the end it was decided to build new Cooper’s days. Carole Woods Municipal Offi ces next door and convert Margaret Fullwood, Creswick Museum

RHSV NEWS JULY 2018 5 Historical Societies and Local Heritage; A Call to Action RHSV NEWS RHSV

In the fi rst Weston Bate Oration at the for Planning to initiate a Planning Scheme works against heritage considerations and recent RHSV AGM, Professor Stuart Amendment for a Heritage Overlay. And they are often submerged by other planning Macintyre, Chair of the Victorian Heritage once the Planning Scheme Amendment considerations. So being prepared to Council, gave a thoughtful and insightful has been authorised and drafted, fear support your council if challenged at VCAT address, highlighting the importance of campaigns about property values can is the third way that local historical societies ‘local attachments’. ‘They create a particular derail it. This happened in Strathmore in can make a diff erence to preservation. kind of appreciation of heritage, of the 2009. It also occurred in Beaumaris in April But the issue is bigger. In his Bate Oration, things from the past that we treasure and 2018, when the local council reversed its Professor Macintyre called for a review wish to keep and pass on to subsequent decision to seek protection for the area’s of the arrangements for local heritage. generations. Heritage in this sense consists famous modernist homes after a fear The RHSV has taken two positions about of familiar landmarks that are dear to us, but campaign. local heritage. First, we have argued that also of the neighbourhood in which they Members of local historical societies it should be subject to state overview and are located, the ambience they create and through their local contacts can infl uence responsibility. The state should ensure the patterns of activity they support—both opinion as much as heritage experts or that councils are taking responsibility for the physical fabric and a whole way of life.’* speakers from the outside. They must local heritage and support them in doing This heritage is protected–if it is protected stand by the proposed Planning Scheme so. That support should include a section at all--not by Heritage Victoria but by local Amendment. Support the council with of Heritage Victoria devoted to supporting councils under Heritage Overlays. There letters to the local paper and through social local councils with advice. Second, we have are at least 150,000 places covered this media. Have a statement on your web site. argued that, when considering planning way, and uncounted places that locals Hold meetings. Talk to your neighbours. issues involving Heritage Overlays, local assume are covered, but are not. Even Once you have a Heritage Overlay in place councils and, especially, VCAT, should be those covered can be demolished illegally in the Planning Scheme, or if you’re lucky, required to seek advice from Heritage (for instance the Corkman Hotel, Carlton) the local places you value are already Victoria and take into consideration the or, much more frequently, legally, by covered, you can’t rest! A developer can long-term cultural impact of the proposal. decision of a local council or VCAT ruling. still ask council for a planning permit to alter Heritage matters most at the local level, The day after the AGM, the National Trust or demolish a building even if it’s covered because that’s where we experience it launched its Advocacy Toolkit at the by a Heritage Overlay. every day. Local historical societies need Drill Hall, in partnership with the RHSV; When that happens, you have to be ready to be at the forefront of local preservation. If google ‘National Trust Advocacy Toolkit’. to defend the building. If your council we don’t care about our heritage, who will? Comprising five guides, Nos 3 and 5 refuses a permit on grounds that include Chips Sowerwine, Chair, Heritage address Heritage Overlays, which will heritage, developers can and do challenge Committee prove useful in local heritage protection. the decision and take the council to VCAT, *Editor’s note: Professor Macintyre’s Bate Ensuring local heritage is covered is the where heritage issues often get short shrift. Oration will be published in the December first way that local historical societies The legalistic, case-by-case approach VHJ. can act. Is that lovely Victorian mansion, enshrined in the legislation creating VCAT, those Edwardian shopfronts or that 1950s modernist block of fl ats covered? All too often, locals assume that valued heritage is protected only to learn that it is under threat, by which point it’s hard to get heritage protection. Why not have a heritage night at your local historical society to discuss the heritage of your area in lieu of having a speaker? At this meeting, list the places members value and check later with your council to fi nd out if they’re covered by a Heritage Overlay. If not, talk to councillors about starting a heritage study to determine if a Heritage Overlay is warranted. Often, there will have been a heritage study long ago but many buildings won’t have been covered. Heritage studies in the 1980s, often assumed that hotels didn’t need protection because Victoria had so many or that schools and post offi ces were safe because they were run by the government. A heritage study is only the fi rst step. The Italianate mansion Ordsall, built in the 1860s, and extended in the 1880s with fi ne frescoed ceilings, was renamed Southesk by David Carnegie in 1905. Second, once a study is completed, council must seek authorisation from the Minister It was demolished in 1970. Courtesy of Kew Historical Society

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Wide

Experience Searching Property Sites for Individual Fun and and a RHSV Profi t Passion for Jeremy Pascoe commenced volunteering at the RHSV in 2003 doing cataloguing and Volunteering general library duties, and eventually became a Site Searcher. In 2015 he received an RHSV Award of Merit for his services. George Fernando immigrated to Australia of the Boroondara Historical Societies This is Jeremy’s own account of from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with his family Association and the Association of Eastern his valuable contribution. in 1963 aged eighteen and was in work Historical Societies Association. Site Searching is one of the interesting in a matter of weeks. He later gained a For the last thirteen years he has been tasks RHSV volunteers can do. This BA (psych) from Monash University as a the President of the Camberwell Historical service also helps fi nance the RHSV. mature aged student. George worked for Society, which aims to foster historical Most of the demand for site searching the State Electricity Commission in various interest and knowledge of the former City comes from consultants employed fi nancial roles for most of his working life. In of Camberwell. It does this by compiling by people or businesses wishing to his fi nal years of paid employment, George and maintaining historical records of the build on a property. Amongst the worked for Health Super, a company that district; and informing its members by information the consultants must managed the superannuation of public lectures, discussions, excursions and provide to the local council, is a history hospital employees in Victoria. other activities. It liaises with other history of what developments or activities In 1972-73 George was seconded to groups in the district and participates in have previously occurred on this the Electricity Commission, Papua New community projects. George organises and adjacent properties. With the resources available at RHSV we are Guinea and worked in Port Moresby. One one of the most interesting lecture series generally able to provide this. of his roles was to train the PNG staff in of any historical society in the state. Our most important resource for site preparation for their self-government and George Fernando joined the RHSV Independence from Australia. George searching are the Sands & McDougall’s in 2013 and now serves on Council. Directories. These directories were witnessed the momentous PNG elections He was appointed Convenor of the printed almost annually from the in 1972 that resulted in the formation History Victoria Support Group (HVSG) 1860s until 1974. For the Melbourne of a ministry headed by Chief Minister from 2014-16. During this time, he ran metropolitan area and, in many Michael Somare, who pledged to lead four highly informative and successful years, for Geelong, Ballarat and the country to self-government and then seminars each year – one in Melbourne Bendigo, they list the occupant of to independence. Papua New Guinea and three in country locations. At these every property, on every street within became self-governing on 1 December seminars, George covered topics relating every suburb that existed at the time 1973 and achieved independence on 16 to management of heritage, utilising of publication. Who the occupant was September 1975. technology in the management of gives us a strong indication of what From 1966-68 George served as a historical societies and, in conjunction with activity occurred on that property at National Serviceman. In 1967 he was Aboriginal Victoria, introduced the topic of that time. based in Vung Tau, South Vietnam Aboriginal cultural heritage management Because early Sands & McDougall’s with the Royal Australian Electrical and and protection. George highly values the editions only covered inner suburbs, Mechanical Engineers (RAEME). The 50th role the RHSV plays in supporting the and even in 1974 large areas of what anniversary of his Vietnam service was historical societies with the work they do, is now suburban Melbourne were not covered, we often require other last year. George maintains contact with in Melbourne and throughout Victoria. resources. These include some 1945 other Vietnam Veterans by attending their George is an avid reader, attender of aerial photographs of Melbourne in get-togethers, especially on ANZAC day. many history lectures and events across which individual properties can be While at work George was a member Melbourne, and is a keen photographer. seen. These photographs cover a of the National Trust and the Australian Many of his well-framed images have graced greater area than Sands & McDougall’s Conservation Foundation. In his retirement, History News over the past few years. did until some years later. Other he is an active member of the Friends of Richard Broome resources include: street directories Gardiners Creek, a group that restores form the 1920s-1950s; Melway Street native vegetation along the creek. George Directories 1966+; the Victorian now volunteers with other organisations. Municipal Directory (for out-of-town He is an active member of the Hawthorn sites); the Education Department’s U3A, recently co-organising its Summer histories of state schools; and other local histories. Lecture series. He is also a member

RHSV NEWS JULY 2018 7 RHSV NEWS RHSV Murders in Melbourne

COLLINGWOOD

The Scene of the 1977 Easey Street Murders. Courtesy Noel Turner

Inner-suburban Collingwood has died when caught in the crossfi re during times in the frenzied attack. a long history of deprivation and that incident. Suzanne Armstrong was a single mother social disadvantage amidst its early Another murder in Wellington Street trying to make ends meet in Collingwood, manufacturing base, petty crime and SP occurred on Saturday, 1 January 1977 while Bartlett was a respected teacher betting. Not all crime was petty however. when Peter Fergeus, 32, was stabbed in at the Collingwood Education Centre. On Australia Day, 1962 Joseph Teicher, the neck in the driver’s seat of a vehicle. Armstrong had been born in Euroa and 61, was living with his wife, Asunta, 45, Fergeus and a group of people were was one of four children in her family. at a boarding house they owned named returning from a New Year’s Eve party She was educated at Boho State School ‘Cumberland House’ in Johnston Street in Reservoir when drunken arguments and then Benalla High School, where Collingwood. Asunta had a son, Lorenzo began. Alcohol was being consumed and she met Susan Bartlett. The two became Picone, 20, from an earlier marriage and bottles were broken during the melee. best friends until their deaths in 1977. he lived in the accommodation home, Neil Roland Bugg, 25, was seated directly Armstrong left school when she was along with boarder, Tervita Lo Presti, 17. behind Fergeus when he reached over sixteen and worked in a range of jobs, All four died in a shooting rampage at and struck Fergeus in the neck with a mixed with extensive overseas travel. She, 11.45pm by Teicher’s son, Joel, 26, who broken bottle. Bugg admitted to being with son Gregory, moved into the rented shot each of his victims at least five so drunk that he really didn’t know what Easey Street house in August 1976 and times in the head. Joseph was shot in had happened and he had also consumed Bartlett joined her there in October. an upstairs bedroom and Asunta in an marijuana. He was convicted of murder The case was also bizarre in that a number adjoining bedroom where she had been and sentenced to a minimum term of of men entered the home between the sewing. Lorenzo and Tervita had been twelve years and six months in prison. killings and the discovery of the bodies. sitting in the front passenger seat of a Easey Street became the site of one of On the Tuesday night, Bartlett’s boyfriend vehicle in the garage when they were shot Australia’s most iconic unsolved murder called at the home. Unable to raise through the passenger window. There cases when the bodies of Suzanne anyone, he entered via Bartlett’s bedroom was no clear motive for the murders but Armstrong, 27, and Susan Bartlett, 28, window but saw nothing and left. The Joel Teicher was acquitted of the murders were found in their home on 13 January next night, Armstrong’s boyfriend and on the grounds of insanity on 31 July 1962. 1977. Armstrong’s sixteen month-old son, his brother entered via the kitchen door. The notorious Painters and Dockers’ Gregory, was found unharmed in his cot. Finding nobody, they left a note on the Union brought mayhem to Wellington It is likely that Armstrong and Bartlett kitchen table. These visitors had failed to Street Collingwood on Tuesday, 20 were brutally murdered on the Monday see the bodies or to see or hear Gregory October 1970 when one of their members, night previously, 10 January, and that in his cot. The identity of who entered that Patrick Chamings was shot during a Gregory had been alone in the house for home on the night of 10 January 1977 and fight behind the Vine Hotel. The man three nights. Armstrong was lying naked stabbed the women a total of 84 times who allegedly fired the shot, Alfred on the fl oor of her bedroom at the front remains unknown, despite a reward of ‘Joe’ Gregory, escaped conviction on of the house, while Bartlett was found on $1m being on off er. the basis that the gun had accidently the hallway fl oor, close to Armstrong’s Collingwood may be best known for its discharged while Chamings was holding bedroom door. Armstrong was the likely football team but murders such as those the barrel. Patrick Chamings was the fi rst target as she had been sexually assaulted in Easey Street have given the suburb an of two brothers to die violently. Lawrence and it appears that Bartlett was killed undesirable place in Australian criminal Chamings, 26, was shot in the bar of the as she went to the assistance of her folklore. Moonee Valley Hotel in Fitzroy on 21 April housemate. Suzanne Armstrong was Dr Noel Turner, RHSV Councillor 1973 and ten year-old Nikola Kolovrat also stabbed 29 times and Susan Bartlett 55

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‘A little bundle of piffl e,’ is how artist and pulling up a ladder every night so home author Norman Lindsay described his new becomes a warm and convivial place. book The Magic Pudding published in 1918. The book is divided into slices rather than Creswick, where Dr Robert Lindsay of chapters and contains many short songs, Dublin settled with his wife Jane Williams and sea shanties. It is an overtly Australian in 1864, raising ten children, is preparing story, using slang, and a mythologized to celebrate a century of wonder and version of the bush. It is part fantasy, part amusement created by this magical bush tale, part parody and is riddled with children’s book, written and illustrated playful digs at education and authority, Norman Lindsay. by their fi fth child Norman. The town is even at the government of a country at war. Courtesy Creswick Museum still partly defi ned by the Lindsay clan, And like all great children’s stories there fi ve of whom became leading writers and are many moments that make adults smile painters. Their works are displayed in without spoiling the magic for child readers. national and regional galleries, and stories The Magic Puddin’ is particularly notable abound to this day of their youthful antics for its visual and verbal emphasis on in the town. home. The fi rst edition was an expensive Norman Lindsay’s story has been called limited-edition art book, containing over ‘the funniest children’s book ever written.’ 100 drawings Lindsay made in pencil, ink The Puddin’ was conceived in 1917 and and watercolour. He disliked its format: ‘I written in the context of the Great War. wouldn’t have minded if it had come out Amid a bitter and ongoing national battle as a kid’s book, to be sold at a price that over conscription, and a great loss of life would allow the kid to tear it up with a clear at the front, Reginald, Norman’s younger conscience.’ brother was killed on the Somme in Lindsay may have believed that the France. This experience aff ected Norman ‘Puddin’ held him back as a serious writer, Left: Puddin’ book cover. Courtesy so deeply, that after requesting the return but throughout its 100-year history, it has Creswick Museum. Right: The of his brother’s blood-stained notebook, never been out of print, and exists in he wrote his first children’s story as a Japanese, French, Spanish and German Puddin’. Courtesy Creswick Museum. distraction from his own grief. translations. There is also an opera, a The story also arose out of a disagreement play, a puppet show, a ballet, as well as an between Norman and Bertram Stevens, animated feature fi lm. another Bulletin writer. Stevens argued To mark the special anniversary of Albert that fairies were the most popular subject and his friends, the Museum in Creswick is for a children’s story. Norman believed that hosting an exhibition of Norman Lindsay’s in the midst of soaring food prices (28 per art works, which will also incorporate a cent in one year) that it was food. Given Children’s Festival. The Lindsay Room the social and political context of the day, at the Museum will feature Norman’s 100,000 people marching on Parliament artworks on loan from the Ballarat Art House in Victoria to protest the price of Gallery. Upstairs, will be a collection of groceries, it’s not surprising that Norman works by present-day children’s author and was proven right. illustrator, Michael Salmon. The story of the ‘Magic Puddin’ is about a During the school holidays, there will be The Puddin’ characters. Courtesy grumpy pudding called ‘Albert’ who walks storytelling, art prizes, a photography State Library of Victoria. and talks and has astonishing powers. competition, and Michael Salmon will open Set in Australia, the story revolves the festival, awarding prizes and conducting around young koala, Bunyip Bluegum entertaining children’s workshops. Other and his search for his parents. On the works by Norman Lindsay, sculptures, toys way he meets Bill Barnacle (sailor) and and books, will be on display together Exhibition: Sam Sawnoff (penguin) and Albert the with costumes and paintings based on his Magic Puddin’. Other main characters books, and art, loaned by the State Library, Saturday 14 July - are Possum and Wombat, professional Melbourne Museum, Victoria Opera, and Sunday 14 October 2018 pudding thieves, who desire to own the National Gallery of Victoria. Together Albert the ‘Magic Puddin’ who, no matter with reproductions of the original ‘Magic how many slices are taken from him Puddin’ drawings, this will be a signifi cant Children’s Festival: ‘there was no sign from whence the slices celebration for a century of ‘Puddin’. And Friday 28 September – had been cut’. you never know, you might even hear how Sunday 30 September After plenty of adventures, Albert’s friends the world ‘came to own this remarkable decide that the only way to keep the Puddin’. 2018 puddin’ safe from thieves is to build a Rozzi Bazzani special house for him; up a tree. Keeping the Magic Puddin’ safe, is achieved by

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Sea Water Baths Warrnambool. Courtesy Warrnambool History House Committee. Courtesy and District Historical Society. Warrnambool and District Historical Society. History House Warrnambool

Established in 1966, Warrnambool & closed for renovations in 2008, Flagstaff as their business name. As well as sharing District Historical Society Inc. currently Hill Maritime Museum kindly offered the building, members of both groups has 150 members, inclusive of a school refuge, in shared accommodation with have access to a combined reference group and corporate memberships. Since the Warrnambool Family History Group library, all files and records within the 1971 the Society’s headquarters has been at the Mechanics’ Institute Reading Room research centre and all computers run on History House, formerly the site of the hot within the maritime village. The collection a single network. Both groups maintain and cold sea water baths at the south end was placed in storage at various locations their individual identities, membership and of Gilles St. This heritage listed precinct in the city during this time. governance structures as incorporated still contains many elements which refl ect When History House reopened entities. The stone cottage, now with the its former purpose. Although the outdoor after two years of refurbishments, it addition of a climate control system, is pool closed in the late 1950s and was became clear that all resource material the archive and display space, and the fi lled in, its concrete rim can still be seen and collections could no longer be relocated modules are used for research, in the lawn, the venue for the Society’s accommodated in this one building and offi ce, library and additional storage of Christmas celebrations, a ‘pool party’ other solutions were urgently sought. non- archival items. often with games and sports. The Family History Group had decided The combination of two groups in one When first established in the late to move with W&DHS from Flagstaff Hill, location has resulted in better access C19th , Warrnambool’s hot sea baths and so returning involved more people, for visitors and members. Through advertised as ‘the most complete bathing furniture and equipment than had been operation of a shared volunteer roster, establishment south of the Equator’. removed from the building two years HeritageWorks operates Mon-Friday There were two outdoor pools, one earlier. Various options and schemes 10am-4pm. At weekends and public for the men and a smaller one for the were bandied about and fortuitously holidays opening is by appointment. ladies, set a discreet distance apart and the Warrnambool campus of Deakin Some days there are members of both separated by high walls. An adjacent University advertised some portable groups available to assist with enquiries. building housed 18 cubicles, each with a buildings for sale in April 2011. W&DHS, When once historical society members heated marble bath where the townsfolk Warrnambool Family History Group Inc. were apt to say “I don’t do shipping” came to complete their ablutions. Many and Mozart Choral Group Inc. -the latter when faced with a genealogical enquiry, visitors to the W&DHS research centre group being long term tenants of the and family history members would look today reminisce about swimming at the hall which had housed the indoor baths- a bit alarmed when someone came baths before they closed in the late 1950s directed their combined energies towards in asking “who’s been sleeping in my and the stories they tell are of a far less sourcing funding to acquire and relocate house?” over time, rostered volunteers salubrious experience, poor water quality the buildings. have learned from each other where the being the strongest memory from those In May 2013 the eight ATCO modules, bodies are buried and how to interrogate pre-chlorinated pool days. including a toilet block, arrived on site the resources once viewed as the domain History House, a sandstone cottage and were lowered into position between of others. originally built in 1880s was the residence the hall and the sandstone walls of the When W&DHS moved temporarily to for the caretaker of the sea baths. For old baths, with a few inches to spare on Flagstaff Hill ten years ago, members of thirty five years from 1971 the council either side. The next few months were both groups referred to the arrangement owned, heritage listed building had been spent renovating the building, which was as ‘living together’. With the move back serving many roles, as a folk museum offi cially opened in March 2014. to HeritageWorks, they are now more displaying the eclectic collection of The entire complex is known as likely to say they are ‘engaged’. Like many donations and museum artefacts, an HeritageWorks, the operation of which is in modern living arrangements, it seems that archive and research centre, all in one the hands of a joint committee comprised there is no need to ‘haste to the wedding’. small Victorian cottage with a leaking of representatives of each group. W&DHS Janet MacDonald President W&DHS roof and damp walls. When this building and WFHG have registered HeritageWorks

10 RHSV NEWS JULY 2018 History Victoria RHSV NEWS Suitcase part of Bookshop The Mick Ward Collection HT 48377 Melbourne Exciting Books in Museum store for July 2018 Mick Ward’s Suitcase The recent story of the ‘WW1 mystery suitcase’ purchased at auction by the Melbourne Museum caused a lot of interest on television and social media. They tracked down Pte 4138 Michael Ward Australian Imperial Force through his war records, but who was the 26-year old from Bunga Creek who enlisted at Lakes Entrance back in 1916? ‘Barney’ as he was known, was the fourth of eight children in Bitter Roots, Sweet Fruit: Coff ee Palace, The. Adele a family which selected a 166-acre block at Bunga Creek and a history of schools in Jones $25 established a farm there in the late 1890s. With many large Collingwood, Abbotsford families coming into the area, the selectors petitioned the State and Clifton Hill. Karen government for a school to be built. This was successful, and the Cummings $22 Bunga Creek Primary School was established on a corner of the block adjacent to the Wards, which had been donated for the purpose by their neighbour. The building was designed to also be used by the community for meetings and social gatherings. As Barney grew up he stayed home on the farm, cutting timber, fencing and working in the family’s market garden business. This last aspect included taking a horse-drawn cart loaded with produce through the Colquhoun Forest to Bruthen, where it was loaded onto the train for sale in Melbourne. Ford Australia, The Cars and Granville Stapylton: Australia Barney was still single in 1916 when he enlisted in the AIF – on the People Who Built Them. Felix 1836, second in the same day as his twenty-year-old cousin Charlie Ward, who M D Cook and D M Wallace command to Major Mitchell. lived nearby at Lake Tyers. After training and a fi nal home leave, $60 Gregory C. Eccleston $145 Barney was given a rousing send-off by the community with speeches and entertainment, and the presentation of a wrist watch and fountain pen. These events were organised for all the young men who enlisted from the close-knit Bunga Creek-Lake Tyers community, including indigenous Military Medal winner Harry Thorpe and Barney’s friend Tommy McNamara – both of whom were killed in action. A newspaper clipping regarding the death of Pte McNamara was among the items Melbourne Museum staff found in the suitcase. Barney fought on the Somme with the 38th Battalion, but his war ended near St Quentin on 15 April 1918, when his right knee was Hector. Rozzi Bazzani Landmark or Two, A: the shattered. He also lost a fi nger due to wounds received that day. $39.95 building record of Peter and Barney returned to Bunga Creek after the war and was presented David Rodger, 1889 to 1928. with a gold medal by a grateful community at an enthusiastic Vanessa Kiessling $45 ‘welcome home’ at the Bunga Creek school. He placed that medal in his suitcase of war memorabilia. Pte Michael Ward was not offi cially discharged from the AIF until February 1921, as he required ongoing treatment for his wounds. He moved to the market garden area around Bentleigh, possibly living near his younger sister Emma, and working in his old occupation with a wartime friend. In 1950, at the age of 61, he married Ellen Malane, the daughter of family friends – she was 49. They had no children and after Barney died in 1962, followed by Ellen in 1986, the suitcase passed down through Ellen’s Place Names of Portland Samuel Lazarus: Foreman of family until no-one had any recollection of who ‘Mick Ward’ was. and the Glenelg Shire of the Jury at Ned Kelly’s Trial. Many years later the suitcase was found during a clean out of a Victoria. Bernard Wallace Tim Gatehouse $15 deceased estate, and fortunately, those distant relatives realised $15 it was worth preserving, rescued it from the pile destined for the tip and sent it to the auction. To Order online go to www.historyvictoria.org.au/shop Judy Davies, Lakes Entrance Historical Society Ring 9326 9288 or visit the Bookshop at the RHSV RHSV NEWS JULY 2018 11 Books Received

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Authors, publishers and Historical Societies are invited to contribute books Contesting Catholic Identity: The Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla to the RHSV for the library Foundation of Newman College Migrant Centre. Alexandra Dellios, and for consideration for Melbourne, 1914-18. Michael Francis, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne inclusion in Books Received. Newman College, Melbourne Australia, Australia, 2017, pp. vi – 193, ISBN 2018, pp. 6 – 153, ISBN 9780646982014. 9780522870589. In Dellios’ book, she studies Bonegilla As part of the Newman college centenary Migrant Centre in the context of themes celebrations, Francis’ book introduces a such as nation making, personal memory discussion on the relationship between and post war immigration. Bonegilla has religious and national identity in the been the subject of much academic context of the opening of Newman discussion, some determining that the college in 1918. The polarising fi gure of migrant centre was a ‘place of no hope’, the Catholic archbishop of the time, Daniel while others maintain that it was a new Mannix plays a central role, combining the beginning. Dellios has chosen not to themes of Irish and Australian Catholicism, cast judgement either way, but instead and religious and secular national identity. focuses on controversial times during its These themes are still deeply personal operation. The book eloquently discusses and potentially contentious, but Francis tough subjects like malnutrition, poor care, enforced separation and the challenges of handles them with grace and provides a employment and assimilation. The reader compelling and thoughtful discourse on is encouraged to consider these issues in what it means to be Australian. Confl ict, Adaptation, Transformation: contrast to the established narrative of a Richard Broome and the practice of benevolent multicultural Australia. Aboriginal History. Edited by Ben Silverstein, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra Australia, 2018, pp. v – 242, ISBN 9781925302530 Richard Broome’s prolific career in Aboriginal history is recognised and celebrated in a collection of nine essays. The contributors: historians, academics Granville Stapylton: Australia Felix and members of multiple Aboriginal 1836 Second in Command to Major nations, discuss issues of victimhood and Mitchell. Gregory C. Eccleston, Evandale the frontier wars, paternalism, Aboriginal Publishing, Melbourne Australia, 2018, pp. education and Aboriginal agency. The vi – 250, ISBN 9780646983653. essays have been curated in such a Newman College, A History 1918 – This is an absolutely monolithic tome on way as to challenge the reader, as 2018. Brenda Niall, Josephine Dunin the life and work of Granville Stapylton. Richard Broome has done in his career, to & Frances O’Neill, Newman College, reconsider Aboriginal voices which were Eccleston has truly made this book his Melbourne Australia, 2018, pp. 1 – 270, traditionally passive in Australian history. life work, carefully researching and ISBN 9780646983004. He has written a chapter, ‘A Different compiling his sources over 35 years. Newman College celebrates its centenary Courage’, about Billibellari. This book Stapylton was second in charge to in 2018, and this book is a commemoration is a great example of active Aboriginal Major Mitchell during their trek through of the 100 years of change weathered by scholarship and an invitation to review Australia Felix in 1836, and this book is the institution. Niall, Dunin and O’Neill how Aboriginal history is taught. based around six volumes of Stapylton’s have very thoroughly researched the journal. Eccleston recreates their journey challenges of funding, construction, further with numerous letters, images, patronage and day to day running of the conversions, measurements, drawings college. They discuss the intersection of and descriptions. The book is absolutely the college with the Catholic church and beautifully designed and presented, and the University and the impact the college has had on the Melbourne community. well worth sitting down (at a rather large Newman has witnessed the economic table) to peruse. upheaval of the Great Depression, tackled the moral issue of conscription in war and tussled with equality and inclusiveness. It’s a physically beautiful book, the pages are 12 RHSV NEWS JULY 2018 rich and it’s satisfying to hold as you read. provided education and compassion to convicts. The study is incredibly thorough and off ers an alternative view on Australian nation making. BOOKS

With (great) respect: Forty homilies. Bill Strength in Battle: The Memoirs of Uren SJ, Newman College, Melbourne Joseph Anderson Panton, Goldfi elds’ Victoria, 2018, pp. 7 – 136, ISBN Commissioner and Magistrate. Edited The Maddest Place on Earth. Jill Giese, 9780646982021 by Hugh Anderson, Australian Scholarly Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, A homily is another word for a sermon. Publishing, Melbourne Australia, 2018, pp. Melbourne Australia, 2018, pp ix – 199, Read during mass, they are a commentary v – 345, ISBN 9781925588880. ISBN 9781925588958. following a piece of scripture. Father Uren, Fifty years ago, the late Hugh Anderson This is a brilliantly written book discussing rector at Newman college has put together was tasked by the State Library with mental health in the early days of the a series of forty homilies for a number of annotating and editing the personal Victorian colony. Giese has expertly woven diff erent occasions. Homilies for Sundays memoirs of Joseph Anderson Panton. together a haunting picture of asylum life throughout the year, for major Catholic This book is the result of his long work through three very different stories. A feasts, for occasions like ANZAC day, in between writing over thirty other mentally unwell young artist confined weddings or Christmas, and for particular books in a celebrated career. Panton was to Kew asylum takes the likeness of the people (with most having a connection the Bendigo Goldfields Commissioner Vagabond, who was working undercover to Newman). Father Uren has a way with and Magistrate, tasked with keeping to expose the injustices of the asylum words and tackles relevant modern-day lawfulness during an extremely turbulent system that an idealistic British doctor issues that will give food for thought for time. Panton travelled far and saw much, was attempting to reform. Giese captures Catholics and non-Catholics alike. This and his memoirs are an important addition the humanity, and inhumanity, of mental book is published as part of the centenary to Australian colonial literature. While health care during a time when insanity celebrations of Newman college. Anderson has expertly edited these was a by-product of a developing nation. writings, it is his dedication to annotation and description of people and places that are mentioned which gives the reader Enhance your next a deeper understanding of Panton’s experiences. book with an Index by Terri Mackenzie

The Master Gardener TR Garnett of Marlborough College, Geelong Grammar School, The Age and The Garden of St Erth. Andrew Lemon, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne Australia, 2018, pp. vii -632, ISBN 9781743793824. Lemon has been absolutely The Fountain of Public Prosperity: dedicated to the biography of his old Evangelical Christians in Australian Professional Back of Geelong Grammar headmaster, Thomas History 1740-1914. Stuart Piggin & Robert Book Indexer Ronald Garnett (or TRG). As the writer D. Linder, Monash University Publishing, can attest, TRG achieved much during his Member of Australian and Melbourne Australia, 2018, pp. ix – 674, long life, and Lemon has skilfully written ISBN 9781925523461. New Zealand Society of six separate books in one to pay due Indexers As a culmination of a decades-long diligence. TRG was a school headmaster historical study on Evangelical Christianity, in both England and Australia, served Honorary Victorian Piggin and Linder have produced one of in World War Two, became a prolific Historical Journal Indexer two books on the eff ects of Evangelicalism gardener and a celebrated writer. The on nation making in Australia. As a contrast book is hefty, justifi ably so, as the subject [email protected] to the popular history of early Australia is engaging and the writing extremely as a lawless and immoral place, this enjoyable. Lemon has written about TRG’s book instead argues that humanitarian life and accomplishments in such a way missionaries provided a platform for that endears both the writer and subject [email protected] women, protection for children and to the reader.

RHSV NEWS JULY 2018 13 We welcome Societies to submit Around the an article/event of around 50 words, or email your Newsletter to us and we will write up around 50 words for you SOCIETIES Societies around twice per year. Prepared by volunteer Glenda Beckley on behalf of the History Victoria Support Group.

ANGLESEA: July 19 will be our combined streets, and Faraday and Queensberry Base Records to receive and answer the Winter Feast when we join with the Surf streets. Some were church schools and correspondence of distressed families Coast Family History Group. Our speaker others National or Common schools. seeking news of missing loved ones. He will be Sergeant John Digby from Colac. There were also many smaller schools, personally wrote a condolence letter to John is the grandson of Constable Digby often run by women in their own homes. the family in every single instance where who lost his life in 1881 when he attended COBURG: Wanted - Memories of Peter one of our service men or women was the grounding of the ship the Hereford. Norman (1942-2006). Tuesday 16 October killed. Entry fee: members free; non- John will tell about this tragedy and the will be the 50th anniversary of Australian members $5.00. eff ect it had on his family. This promises Peter Norman winning the silver medal ELTHAM: July Excursion – Along the to be a great day. Combined meeting and in the 200 metre sprint at the 1968 Diamond Creek. This free walk on lunch with Family History Group: Cost $10 Mexico Olympic Games. In the medal Saturday 7 July will start at 2pm near the Venue: History House Anglesea 11.00am presentation ceremony, the Human Rights scout hall at the southern end of Youth BALWYN: Next meetings and speakers: Salute was carried out by two Negro Road (Melway ref 21 J 5). It is around 2km Thursday 8 August 2018 – 8 pm. Speaker: Americans, the gold medal winner Tommy and is open to the general public as well as Richard Peterson, ‘Bungalows in Balwyn’. Smith and bronze medallist John Carlos. society members. Dogs are not permitted. Richard, an architect and conservation Peter Norman supported the salute by Ring 0409 021 063 on the day if required. consultant has published six books and wearing a borrowed Project for Human The Diamond Creek is a major feature of many articles and papers. He will speak on Rights badge. Moreland Council will the open space spine traversing Eltham. Balwyn’s rapidly disappearing Californian commemorate Peter Norman’s action on From the fi rst European settlement most bungalows. October 16th 2018. The Society seeks of the land along the creek valley was memories of people who met Peter Thursday 13 September – 8 pm. Topic: private property extending to the centre Norman through his work, sport, teaching, ‘Back to the Flicks’, a presentation by the of the creek. Over many years land has acting or his residency in Moreland to Cinema and Theatre Historical Society of been purchased by the Council and the compile a Tribute book to share with Australia. This will explore when a night State government to create a continuous his family and the public. Please record out at the fl icks was a special occasion and open space system along at least one your memories, their place and date and side of the creek, from central Eltham to examine the picture palaces of yesteryear how you came to meet or saw Peter. Any the Yarra River. The area contains many in Balwyn and nearby suburbs. Meetings memories are relevant. If you have a places of historic interest. are held at the Balwyn Evergreen Centre, photo, please send us a duplicate copy 45 Talbot Avenue, Balwyn. GLEN EIRA: In a dusty box in a cupboard or email a scanned image(s). Please send in the Society’s rooms, almost 100 bottles BOX HILL: On Sunday 15 July our guest your memories, photocopies and images have been languishing for many years. speaker is Dr Roslyn Otzen who will speak to [email protected] titled ‘Peter Only in the last few months have they been on ‘Sport in girls’ schools from the 1870s’, Norman Tribute’, or post to ‘Peter Norman examined, and they can tell us all sorts of and girls’ sports in general. Roslyn is a Tribute, Coburg Historical Society’, Post things about what people were eating, former principal of Korowa Anglican Girls’ Office Box 295, Pascoe Vale South drinking and wearing in early Caulfi eld! School, and President of Whitley College, Victoria 3044. To allow for compilation These bottles were donated to the the University of Melbourne. of the Tribute, please reply no later than Society sometime in the 1980s and were CARLTON: Before the Education Act of Monday 3 September 2018. recovered during excavation works to 1872, education for children in Carlton DAYLESFORD: The Society was construct the ornamental lake in Caulfi eld and Melbourne was varied. Most children successful in having Bessie Harrison Park (formerly Paddy’s Swamp). Last year were enrolled at government-aided Lee (1860-1950) inducted into the 2018 they were all sorted and identifi ed. Each institutions, while others attended Heather Mutimer Women’s Honour bottle has now been scrubbed clean, private (independent) schools or schools Roll. Bessie Harrison Lee, née Vickery, photographed, and catalogued. The of religious denominations. A few born in Daylesford in 1860 and, despite bottles seem to date from the early 20th were educated at home by tutors or little formal education and a traumatic century and include everything from ink governesses. Before 1872 when schooling childhood, rose to become a world- bottles, beer bottles to medicine bottles. became free, secular and compulsory famous Temperance leader, suff ragette, INVERLOCH: Inverloch’s Historical some received no education. public speaker, writer and social reformer. Society & Clock Tower Committee joined The quality of schooling varied. Buildings She became known as the ‘Queen of forces to create a maritime precinct were often makeshift, badly ventilated, Temperance’, and travelled the world along the town’s foreshore. The lovingly inadequately heated and sometimes in her leadership role. She received restored Rocket Shed and replica of The designed for other purposes, such as posthumous acknowledgement of her life. Ripple sit side-by-side and showcase church services. Several classes might EAST MELBOURNE: On Wednesday 15 Inverloch’s connection to the water. be taught in one large room or hall. Often August, at 8:00pm at the East Melbourne The Ripple is responsible for delivering playgrounds were non-existent, especially Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne timber for the fi rst house built in Inverloch in inner suburban areas like Carlton. In the our speaker is Carol Rosenhain on ‘The and the Rocket Shed tells the story of 1860s, there were six offi cially recognised Man Who Bore the Nation’s Grief’. Carol’s a time when ocean rescues were less schools in the Carlton area between book describes the extraordinary work of sophisticated than in more recent times. Rathdowne and Madeline (now Swanston) James Lean. During WW1 it was his role in The Rocket Shed, which is one of only

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three remaining in Victoria, is 115 years Jubilee (50th) in 1887, and was originally younger ones aware so that they might old. In the early 1900s, the Rocket Shed called the Jubilee Hall. In May 1902 plans return in their later years. We recently housed equipment used to rescue crews were being made by the Malmsbury hosted a series of Open Days for Year 8 from distressed ships along the Inverloch Borough Council to plant one or more students from Nagle College as part of coastline. Rockets with lines attached trees in the Malmsbury Botanic Gardens their camp. Some were interested in the were fi red to the ships, and then a Bosun’s to commemorate the coronation of King maritime history on the Lakes. Most tried Chair was pulled aboard and used to Edward VII. If the planting eventuated, the interactives, but most popular was to rescue crew members. those trees would now be 116 years old. wind the foghorn to summons the group KILMORE: Meetings are held in the MARYBOROUGH: Wal Richards for Q&A at the conclusion. Thanks kids, Old Kilmore Court House at 7:30 Exhibition June 23-July 29. The exhibition you are welcome anytime. pm. Upcoming meetings:- Tuesday 4 will be held at the Central Goldfi elds Art PORT MELBOURNE: Save the date September AGM with guest speaker Gallery, Neill Street, and will be opened on 27 August. This year’s AGM will Bruce Smith, who is the hospital archivist by Clare Gervasoni, historian, author and celebrate the 25 years of achievements digitising Kilmore Hospital’s records. researcher from Federation University. since the founding of the Port Melbourne Tuesday 2 October Marion Stott will The exhibition is a fresh look at Wal Historical & Preservation Society. Of the speak on the family of Rev Singleton of Richards’ sentimental journey into the 39 individuals who signed up to form the Kilmore. Tuesday 13 November Allan weddings of the late 40’s, 50’s and 60’s Society in 1993, 13 are still members who Stute will speak on the Stute family. in black and white photography and then mostly remain active volunteers. Original Meetings are not held June-August. Our through the explosion of colour through founders, and others more recently joined, website contains now has a notice board the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. It is about fashion, are planning a celebration for our 27 providing the latest news on activities, portraiture, cars, bridesmaids, after August AGM that will feature a video and meetings, check on dates etc. at www. parties, bridal parties, fl owerchildren and an exhibition made for the occasion. kilmorehistory.info of course, the brides. LEARMONTH: The guest speaker for MORWELL: On 3 April 2018, the Society our upcoming July AGM on Sunday 8 received a certifi cate and accreditation July will be Don Moss FRACS, Chairman as a Welcoming and Age Friendly group, RESTORING COOK’S LEGACY of the Albert Coates Memorial Trust. after participating alongside 27 other PROJECT 2020 Don will be speaking on the life of Sir local organisations in a program off ered A weekend to commemorate Lt James Albert Coates, born in Ballarat in 1895 by the Latrobe City Council. The Council Cook’s departure from Plymouth on 26 and educated at the Mount Pleasant developed the program to improve August 1768 (passing Ram Head, Cornwall State school. He served as a medical older people’s connection with the local as he exited Plymouth Sound) will be held orderly in World War 1, at Gallipoli and community and to address their feeling at Mallacoota on 25/26 August. Events as a Senior Surgeon in Malaya in World of social isolation and loneliness. The include an illustrated talk ‘Lt James Cook War 2. Albert became a Prisoner of War Welcoming & Age Friendly logo will on the coast of Victoria – a comedy of and an inspirational war hero. indicate to community members that we errors’; a walk (and possible boat trip) to MALMSBURY: On the 4 August the are a ‘senior-friendly’ group - visitors will remote Little Rame Head, the real Cook’s Malmsbury Town Hall will be open to be greeted with a smile, shown around, Ram Head, the fi rst land feature named by community representatives, locals and introduced to others and supported to Cook on the Australian coast. visitors to mark the 150th anniversary become a member of our Society. Trevor Lipscombe of the opening of the venue. There will PAYNESVILLE: Open Day at the PMM [email protected] be the unveiling of a plaque, music and Display Facility in Gilsenan Reserve is PO Box 40, Civic Square, ACT 2608 many more activities. The supper room 8 July 9.00 to 12.30. Involvement with of the Malmsbury Town Hall was added the community is the lifeline of the to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden history movement, particularly to get the

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