HISTORY NEWS ISSUE.345 DECEMBER 2019

Chapel Street INSIDE THIS ISSUE Donor’s list Holsworth Heritage Trust grant Prahran 1889 President’s report History awards What’s on John William Taverner HSVG report Mayors of Kew Survey Remembering Heritage report in Fitzroy Hall of Fame: Bendigo Bookshop report John Waghorn Books received Windows: St Paul’s Around the societies

Roll call of honour President’s Between January and October 2019, we received donations from the following members and friends (sometimes multiple donations). Their generosity is unbounded and very much RHSV NEWS RHSV Report appreciated. Thank you one and all. Anonymous McKellar, Ian Strong not-for-profit organisations committees are engaged in helping the Adams, John McLelland, Jessica succeed because of excellent paid RHSV to fulfil its mission. Arnold, Heather McPhee Peter staff, generous members, enthusiastic Baillieu, Claire Menadue, Helen I am pleased to announce the creation Barnett, Darryn Moffatt, Gordon volunteers and committee members and of a magnificent self-help effort, a new Beckwith, Fiona Mohoric, Erika a self-help attitude among all involved that joint project of the Collections and Bede, Mandy Moore, Geraldine lifts the Society to greater achievements. Birtley, Margaret & Gerry Publications committees. A team of Blainey, Geoffrey Morton, Richard The RHSV has excellent staff in Executive four committee members, supported Blampey, Matthew Myers, Maria Officer Rosemary Cameron, Collections by ten RHSV members who authored Blizzard-Moore Netherway, Nina Manager Jillian Hiscock, Office Manager chapters of the book, has assembled a Marilyn Newman, Elisabeth Bowes, Helen Nixon, Rosemary Pankaj Sirwani and Marketing Officer magnificent new record of Melbourne, Bowler, Marilyn Ockwell, Margaret Jessica Watson. Each day they give Melbourne’s Twenty Decades, make it Braham, Jan O’Donnell, Jennifer service of high quality and of a duration one of your Christmas present selections. Broome, Richard O’Donoghue, Brown, David Vincent beyond that for which they are paid. I wish And a special pre-January price is being Buntine, Robert Pascoe, Jeremy & them a well-earned rest over the coming offered (excluding postage and handling), Burgess, Kenneth Lyndal Summer season. details of which are on the back page of Cain, John Paynesville Maritime this issue. Cameron, Alison Museum The many members who have donated Cavanagh, Wendy Peck, Patricia to the RHSV are listed here. Without their I wish you a safe and joyous festive Chambers, Loreen Perry, Michael & great generosity and thoughtfulness, the season and hope you enjoy the summer Chandler, Edna Jennifer History News Cini, Sienna Petkov, Lynette RHSV would not be able to carry out the reading of this issue of Clarkson, Richard Port Phillip Pioneers work we do to protect and disseminate and the December issue of the Victorian Cohn, Helen Group the history of this state to and for all Historical Journal. Cole, Harry & Valda Powell, Pauline Victorians and those beyond our borders. Craig, Jonathan Presland, Gary Richard Broome Davison, Graeme Pryn, Peter Each day that I come into the Drill Hall, Day, Eileen Quin, Lola Jane ‘History House’ as we now call it, I see Dettman Rachel Ralph, Barbara Dixon, Jim Richards, Phillip volunteers at computer work stations Dwyer, John Rickard John or at desks on various tasks to manage Ferguson, Robert Rowlands, Joyce our various collections. Most have their Fitzgibbon, Thomas Rubio Perez, Rusalka special day to attend, so each day of Ford, Olwen Russell, Lynette Foundation for Rural Sabbione, Anna the week presents new faces. Their & Regional Renewal Maria zeal and dedication are infectious. Our Gawne, V M Savage, Luke rooms also house committees of which Gengoult-Smith, Scherger, Adam we have seven officially operating and Jillian Scholtz, Frances Gibson, Pamela Shelmerdine, reporting monthly to Council, as well Gill, Catherine Stephen as some informal groups working on Goulding, Denise Spencer, Denise various projects. 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BOOK LAUNCH: the century significant engineering works had their particular suburb. LOCATING changed the very shape of the land. Footscray by Carmel Taig AUSTRALIAN A feature of the land, which had sustained Prahran by Steven Haby and Judith Buckrich LITERARY MEMORY Aboriginal people for millennia prior to European settlement in 1835, became a Heidelberg by Graham Thorley Thursday 12 December refuge for the down-and-out during the 1930s ‘Up Sydney Road’: Brunswick and Coburg by 5:30pm for 6pm launch depression. ‘Reclamation’ works continued, Cheryl Griffin RHSV Gallery Downstairs until the wetland is now represented by the This seminar is designed for those who want Dynon Road Tidal Canal, parallel to Dynon to deepen their understanding of Melbourne’s Free event Road, and a small Wildlife Reserve. development as well as those who are The RHSV is delighted This exhibition traces how a significant wetland researching their family or community history to host the launch of Brigid Magner’s Locating vanished from sight. and want to understand the why, who, when, Australian Literary Memory which explores what and how of Melbourne’s growth. the cultural meanings suffusing local literary Refreshments: Light lunch & refreshments commemorations. It is orientated around WORKSHOP: BORN DIGITAL DOCUMENTS provided throughout the day. eleven authors: Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Friday 24 January 2020 Lawson, A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Nan Chauncy, 10am-3pm LECTURE: JOHN Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P. $30 – $50 MARSHALL AND L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon: who have all been celebrated through a range Presented by the Royal Historical Society of BOUNTY MIGRATION of forms including statues, huts, trees, writers’ Victoria and Victorian Collections, this hands- TO PORT PHILLIP on workshop provides an introduction to the houses and assorted objects. Tuesday 18 February principles of acquiring, storing, cataloguing and John Arnold, book historian and former editor caring for born-digital material. This workshop 2020 La Trobe Journal of the , will launch this book is suitable for beginners who may have, or 5:15pm drinks, launch / and also there will be readings from the Henry plan to acquire, digital images, media files or lecture at 6pm. Lawson, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry documents in their collection. Handel Richardson societies (and maybe a FREE Participants are asked to bring along their own Banjo Paterson song!) Emeritus Professor laptop or contact the organisers to arrange Graeme Davison AO, Chair of the History Council a device upon booking. Morning tea and of Victoria, will launch Dr Liz Rushen’s book, John EXHIBITION: THE SWAMP VANISHES afternoon tea will be provided and we will break Marshall: Shipowner, Lloyd’s reformer and for a self-catered lunch. A casualty of ‘exigent and remorseless modern emigration agent. civilization’ After the launch, Dr Rushen will deliver a From 23 January 2020 SEMINAR: EARLY MELBOURNE SUBURBS paper which explores the significant role John 1835 Marshall played in the white settlement of the Curator: Lenore Frost Port Phillip District. When Port Phillip was first Saturday 1 February 2020 Before European settlers arrived in the Port opened up for settlement, Marshall was Britain’s Phillip district, a large wetland that lay between 10am–4pm most active emigration agent: in the three years the Yarra River and the Moonee Ponds Creek $45 / $60 1839-1841, he sent 21 ships containing nearly sustained the indigenous people and the 5000 bounty migrants to the new settlement. The RHSV and GSV co-present this full-day cultural traditions of the Kulin nation. A major London shipowner, Marshall instigated seminar which will give participants a deep reform of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping and It was known by the new settlers as Batman’s understanding of the forces and influences established Britain’s first emigration depot Swamp, later West Melbourne Swamp. In less which shaped Melbourne’s early growth. at Plymouth, but today his contributions to than 20 years that important wetland had been The seminar will open with an overview by the ship-owning and merchant worlds of the despoiled by European settlers, who turned it historian Gary Presland on how Melbourne’s nineteenth century have been largely forgotten. into a receptacle for sewerage and rubbish, geography influenced its development followed and shot large numbers of birds. By the end of by historians describing the development of John Francis Waghorn 1936-2019 John Waghorn worked for the Post Master both treasurer and vice president of the assisting me and General (PMG), as ’s postal Whittlesea Historical Society. others than on his service was then known, for nearly forty After amassing voluminous papers, John own inquiries. The years and this sparked his interest in postal built a second adjacent house as his RHSV presented history. He avidly researched this, and family grew. However, as each left home him with an Award other topics, and gave a comprehensive they were ultimately replaced by 80 of Merit in 2000. collection on the postal history of Victoria filing cabinets, which proved inadequate Although ill for the last few years of his 1837‒1901 to the State Library of Victoria. as stacks of newspapers evaded life, John remained cheerful. He died on In 1971 John married Phyllis Gribble and control. He typed up findings on an old 13 September 2019 and more than 100 they had four children, Rosemary, Peter, Olivetti typewriter and reused ribbons people attended his funeral at St Clare’s Suzanne and Michael. The family lived in by rewinding them upside down, thus Catholic Church, Thomastown West. the Lalor district for forty-eight years and producing records in red. John Rose, also owned a large block at Swift’s Creek. Always generous with his time, John Royal Historical Society of Victoria John was often seen pedaling around the helped numerous researchers including Whittlesea region, photographing and me. On my visits to the Public Record Office documenting changes. For years he was Victoria with John he often spent more time RHSV NEWS DECEMBER 2019 3 History Victoria Survey Many thanks to our affiliated historical societies which recently took part in our bench-marking survey. Every few years Support Group these surveys provide us with valuable

RHSV NEWS RHSV program-planning information and also A sincere thank-you to all the groups exciting plans for the future. We know shape how we use our (admittedly limited) who replied to the on-line survey. There that some groups have experienced resources to assist historical societies. was a great response. A report on the extreme disasters and issues in the We are very conscious, with some 400 survey will be published separately in recent past, and some are facing hard historical societies across Victoria, that our this edition of History News. Thank you and difficult challenges for the future. workshops only reach a small proportion to Rosemary Cameron, EO of RHVS for These include: governance of societies, each year and we are constantly looking for the distribution, compilation and analysis aging memberships, techniques for ways to value-add to our whole membership of the survey data. attracting and retaining volunteers, wherever they are located in the state. training of volunteers, the need for During September, Sue Thompson and Historical Societies I undertook a road trip to Mildura and computer systems and software, scanning throughout the Mallee and Wimmera and cataloguing collections, writing grant Almost 50% of our affiliated historical regions, visiting as many societies as and funding applications, succession societies responded giving us a great sample. we could humanly fit into a very tight planning and financial viability. The vast majority of the responses described schedule. Our heartfelt thanks to all With the information and data gained themselves as a combinations of museums who made us feel so welcome and we from our survey and road trip, the RHSV and archives with some including library. Very apologise that our visits were all too short. Council and members of HVSG are few include advocacy for the preservation of We were very impressed with the quality hoping to better address the needs of our local heritage in their descriptions. of the museums, archival collections and societies in 2020. Collections the very innovative methods of fund- Please remember to check the RHSV The largest proportion of historical societies raising activities used by the groups. website for helpful advice on many and (38%) described their collection as evenly Visually, it was evident that many hours varied topics. There are templates of spread between museum, library and of hard work had been performed by various policy documents which can be archives. A further 27% said that their the members of the twenty-six or so downloaded. If you are having difficulties collection is mostly their own archives and societies we visited and contacted. accessing the data, make contact with the 17% described their collection as mostly Congratulations to all societies, well done RHSV by email or by phone. museum. However, 6% of historical societies and keep up the good work! Alleyne Hockley don’t have a collection; we might presume Thank you to the members who willingly Convenor HVSG (RHSV) that they are within the 8% that don’t have shared their past achievements and a home? To maintain collections, spreadsheets remain supreme as a cataloguing tool (25%) followed by Inmagic’s DB/TextWorks (22%) and Victorian Collections (16%). A Home 92% of historical societies have a home. Of those 92% with a home, an impressive 13% reported that they own their home. 48% of those historical society homes are provided by local government, while 22% are provided by state governments. Income sources HVSG members on 8 November at 2020 planning meeting. It was encouraging to see the diversity Back row left to right: Alleyne Hockley, Pauline Hitchins, Larina Strauch, George and inventiveness of income sources Fernando and Professor Don Garden Front row left to right: Sue Thompson, Bernard Bolch and Judy Richards – whilst local government remains the Absent: Jane Nigro major income source, grants, sponsorship, donations, fundraising, membership, research fees, merchandise and ticket sales are consistently important as income sources. Just 24% of societies have Deductible Gift Recipient status (they can issue tax- deductible receipts for donations of $2+) Founded and the RHSV hopes to launch a scheme early next year to assist the other 76% of Over 30,000 Oitemsver of, Victorian items of Vic9510toria 3393n societies access tax-deductibility. and interstateand history,intersta tresourcese history, resouwww.pmi.net.aurces for Memberships for family historyfami landy his muchtory and much39 mo Str eEdmonds Road, available for loan. The good news is that the majority of more available for loan. Prahran historical societies are travelling well. 30% reported that their membership is growing, www.pmi.net.au 45% that membership is steady and only St Edmonds Road, Prahran 23% reported that membership is declining.

4 RHSV NEWS DECEMBER 2019 RHSV NEWS 5 DECEMBER 2019 DECEMBER NEWS RHSV to our members. This result augurs to our members. This result augurs well for grassroots participation in preservation issues as well as helping the Heritage Council to formulate some The recommendations for the Minister. complete report can be located on the RHSV web site. The survey results fed into the review process, along with surveys of Council Officers and Heritage Professionals. The Heritage a at discussed were results of on the ‘State Council Workshop 2019. November 1st on held Heritage’ Judith Smart, Ian Wight and I attended as representatives of the RHSV. A major subject of discussion was how the at protection heritage improve to were limited because ‘an local level. We analysis of the regulatory framework and is beyond the terms ofplanning scheme’ addressed but the workshop reference, some significant issues raised by our survey. discussed restoring grants to We advice,and studies heritage encourage especially in regional areas and less wealthy urban areas, but also requirements that Councils update their heritage also discussed We coverage regularly. ways to reduce the cost and complexity of heritage studies, improvements to the to ways and studies, these of governance better integrate heritage protection into the planning system. The final report will year. be published next are still anxious if not alarmed by the We state of local heritage but as 2019 ends we can be alert and hopeful of some improvement. Charles Sowerwine, Heritage Committee. Chair, Early morning scene at Victoria Market, Melbourne; scene at Victoria Market, Early morning crowding street delivery vans showing horse-drawn c. 1900 Street), or Peel Street (possibly Queen Collection NEG-1573] [RHSV and visitors perceived the goods, produce, the people at other and environments site, with implications for display and interaction with goods for sale. This was comprised of many different elements: a mix of adults and children of different physical abilities and habits; cars, trucks and forklifts; trolleys, prams and scooters; and other aspects. bins and boxes; search in QVM the to come not do People of a modern, hygienic environment, greener cleaner, lighter, ‘a brighter, and more pleasant environment that is clearly historic, yet subtly contemporary’ (Melbourne City Council, Precinct 16). They come Master Plan, p. Renewal generated atmosphere the of because thatoperates, and market by the way the we are arguing, ‘intangible social value’, operates It value. heritage its of part is today as when it began operation in 1878, with stallholders bringing goods to theirtheir stall in their vehicles, putting up stalls and operating from their vehicles. The shift to central distribution and, uniform steel counters in place especially, of the current beloved hodgepodge goes completely against what is valued in the Our photo shows how the market Market. andhas always functioned around traders’ vehicles. patrons’ but there heritage is still a problem Local The Heritage Council is is some hope. of Heritage currently conducting a State On behalf of the Heritage. on Local Review Council, we administered a questionnaire theiron societies historical all member to of local heritage issues. experience Of our The survey closed on 17 May 2019. three hundred and forty-three member societies, an amazing one hundred and sixteen responded, proving to us that heritage is a very important topic

Rebecca Madgin, Professor of Urban Madgin, Professor of Urban Rebecca at the University of Glasgow, Studies at the Schoolspent the last three months Studies, of Historical and Philosophical She brought a . we are doing well, bracing optimism that value’ ‘social particularly in protecting aspects of historic and the ‘intangible’ sites, such as Fed Square and the Queen Victoria Market. But we face new challenges on both problem fundamental The cases. these is governance by private corporations to pay for a profit whose aim is to make the current Fed Square, On maintenance. review accepts the current model. We believe that public space should not be operated with profit as the main motive. Melbourne On the Queen Victoria Market, City Council refuse to go back to the drawing boards and develop a vision for on its heritage. that would build the market implement to seek still they Instead, the discredited plan, put forward by Robert Mayor, former Lord Melbourne’s underground facilities minus the Doyle, which were rejected by Heritage Victoria. no longer bring their would Traders fromoperate and their stalls to produce their vans. Instead they would unload at transport it to their stalls bycentral docks, electric trolleys. Visuals show neat rows of identical stainless-steel counters; but, not have visuals these understandably, been made public. Council faced a rising tide of In 2017, plan. To popular opposition to Doyle’s communitythe persuade that they were being heard, Council commissioned an Victoria Market: report, ‘Queen excellent which highlighted ‘the Intangible Values’, most common anxiety was around the or “sanitised,”’ being “cleaned up” Market a “food hall” and ‘made to look like That would rather than a “working site.”’ of being there’ ‘diminish the experience 8, 24). The transformation of the (pp. lead will planned now operation market’s what people have opposed to exactly all along. The attempt to hide ‘back of house’ operations by central unloading and discreet movement of goods goes value of movement, which, against the the report found, is part of what shoppers and visitors value: The Market never stops moving. Movement was crucial to how shoppers Value in Heritage Value Social Social Heritage: Threatened Local Local Threatened RHSV NEWS 6 of theexisting Mechanic’s Institutewere In 1871plansto completethe‘otherhalf’ for classes,lecturesandpublic meetings. proved veryfunctional,providing avenue floor waswellusedandthefine hallabove the libraryandreadingroomon ground Day 1865andsomefinancial difficulties, one account.Despiteafireon Christmas brick ‘looked like abrickyard’, according to a disappointment.Itsdrabfacadeofred the presentbuildingwas,byallaccounts, McCrae Street andofwidth exactly half completed in1865,withafrontageto 1864. Initiallythetwo-storybuilding, the laid yesterday, withgreatceremony,’ Mechanic’s Institute, Sandhurst,was ‘The foundationstoneofthenew preparation workcommencingin1863. were contracted,withtheirdesignandplan architects Vahland andGetzschmannn new and more appropriate building and Committee decidedontheerectionofa four hundred.At thispointtheInstitute of library membership had risen in excess the miningboomof1860-611862 the introductionofgaslighting.With assisted byGovernmentgrantsand library facilities were greatly expanded, During theperiod1859to1861 on 5August 1856. Mechanic’s Institute, wasofficiallyopened erecting aninstitute. This,Bendigo’s first on McCraeStreet forthepurposeof Government providedagrantofland Institute committeeformedandthe known, April1854sawaMechanic’s Here inBendigo, orSandhurstasitwas Kingdom, AmericaandAustralia. a widespreadmovementintheUnited these twobecametheforerunnersfor institutions aimedatthe‘workingman’, term openuniversitiesandmechanics’ year. Whiletherehadbeenearliershort- by anotherinLondon laterthesame Mechanic’s Instituteopenedfollowed and science. In1823theGlasgow and needforeducationintechnology many consequenceswasthedesire mechanization ofindustry. Oneofthe many advancementswhichsawthe This wasatimeofgreatchangeand the IndustrialRevolution infullswing! Imagine Britainintheearly1800swith Bendigo Schoolof Mines MacGillivray Hall and the Herald reported on the July 22 RHSV NEWS DECEMBER 2019 year hemigrated toMelbourne. College ofSurgeonsin1855. Later that achieved Membershipofthe Royal sciences butchangedtomedicine and Aberdeen. Heinitiallystudied natural Marischal College in the University of in Edinburgh in 1834 and educated at Paul HowardMacGillivraywasborn in particular. general andtheBendigoSchoolofMines episode in the history of Bendigo in intersect andprovideanintriguing unfolding. Thestorieswouldeventually ‘colonial’ Australia, astoryinScotlandwas Whilst this activity was underway in Italianate facade, exactly asweviewittoday. refurbishment included a completely new having passedawayin1875.Thismajor building; hispartnerRobert Getzschmann, an architectforanotherincarnationofthe Charles Vahland wasagainengagedas finished in1872.Then,1878,William drawn upandthisextension waslargely L NJacksonCollection2019 Three Storey Building,1889, MacGillivrayHallongroundfloor struggled financially and it was hoped that struggled financially and it was hoped that As earlierdescribed,theInstitute had Mechanic’s InstituteandFreeLibrary. to thecommitteemanaging Sandhurst talented MacGillivraywasin1867 elected It was not surprising that the extremely Bendigo SchoolofMinesScience Society. presented theinauguraladdressto Linnaean SocietyofLondon. In1881he Royal SocietyofVictoriaandFellowThe member ofthePhilosophicalInstitute, later During his life held positions as elected a range of topics including natural science. MacGillivray maintainedkeen interests in Medical SocietyofVictoria. in 1874 hewaselectedpresidentof the papers andessaysonsurgicalmatters; was stillnaturalscience, hewrotemany private residence. Althoughhisgreatlove up private practice from his substantial at theBendigoHospitalandalsotook MacGillivray wastheresidentsurgeon Between theyears1862to1873, RHSV NEWS 7 Right: Dr. P H MacGillivray P Right: Dr. DECEMBER 2019 DECEMBER NEWS RHSV and teacher. Under his guidance there and teacher. of painters local of group a emerged considerable ability. for McGillivray’s In 1893, as recognition to science and wonderful services of Aberdeen education, the University Honary Doctorateconferred on him an passed away MacGillivray Paul of Laws. in 1895. With the growth of the School of Mines, the Institute role of the Sandhurst Mechanic’s and Free Library greatly diminished so that in 1904 all the remaining assets theby over taken were Institute the of School of Mines. The hall, on the ground floor of the new building was originally illuminated by gas lamps, the unique being manufactured ‘Sunlight’ ‘gasoliers’ today is of The illumination in Bendigo. thisfrom apart but electricity by course that it officially little has changed except became ‘MacGillivray Hall’ in 1854. A lovely marble plaque at the entrance MacGillivray as the commemorates Dr. founder of the Science Society. Many school balls and social functions are recalled by the author but today the being the hall is little used, exceptions gatherings of the MacGillivray Clan and a display by the Bendigo Woodturners each Easter. Lindsay Jackson The Original McGillivray The Original McGillivray Hall – note the Gasoliers Mines, London and more recently of Trinity Trinity of recently more and London Mines, Mackayof Melbourne, University College, qualified of a highly was another example a Bendigo School person attracted to consulted aboutof Mines post. He was Board for which heventilation of Mines with payment. This led to a rift expected waswho McGillivray with and the council now its President, Mackay telling them ‘to mind their own business’. Animosity between the two Scots, Mackay and MacGillivray developed, as without by led fathers’ ‘founding the doubt their let to reluctant were MacGillivray authority be undermined. In particular, MacGillivray held a deep concern for the welfare of the School. Expansion by way of an adjacent grand new three story building was planned and the foundation stone laid in 1889 by the Minister for Education, the Honorable this time the At Charles H Pearson. important teaching of art was extremely with a major section of the new building being devoted to this area - Professor ‘the drawing stating at the time, Pearson classes at the Sandhurst School of Mines were the most efficient in the colony’. On this theme it may be noted that the Council appointed the very talented as head Englishman, Arthur T Woodward of the Art School in 1893. Woodward sculptor was an accomplished painter,

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/374477 was one of the Bendigo Advertiser, School of Mines Bendigo c 1950 The 1878 Facade of the Sandhurst Mechanics Institute and Free Library. 2 storeys is on the left whilst the 1889/1890 3 storey structure plus Two tower is on the right SLV the newly formed committee of 1867 with1867 of formed committee newly the would initiateAngus Mackay as president as editor of Mackay, a vast improvement. the in Sandhurst. most influential citizens Commission In 1869 the Technological first official established Australia’s organization for technical education. This led to discussions concerning establishing a school of mines. A new autonomous governing council to school a of development the oversee Mechanic’s existing the from formed was MacGillivray was Institute Council. Dr. one of the five elected members. The financial provided Mines of Department as a result of Mackay’s very likely help, successful lobbying! The major increase in the size of the Mechanics Institute building with the of 1872 provided extra extensions museum with whilst the teaching space, its growing collection was provided with its own room. The Bendigo School of Mines officially opened for students on MacGillivray was an April 21, 1873 and Dr. important member of the Administration day-to-day the with charged Council running of the school. In July 1887 J B Lillie Mackay was appointed to the new position of Director Scientific Head of the School. A Scot and Royal School of formerly on the staff of the RHSV NEWS RHSV

The Ferguson & Urie stained glass window at St Paul’s Anglican Church, Humffray Street, Bakery Hill, Ballarat, 1862

The Ferguson & Urie company was 23rd April 1865 with the Ferguson & Urie commercial stained-glass production in originally founded in 1853 as a Plumbing, window erected in the chancel. 1861 was in response to the outrageous Slating & Glazing firm, by three Scots, In the centre-light of the window is the prices being charged by European James Ferguson and his brother David inscription; “Blessed are they that dwell in stained-glass firms and exorbitant from Ayr, and James Urie from Kilmarnock. the house, they will be still praising thee shipping costs to Australia. In 1861 they saw a business opportunity - Psalms 84 Verse 4”. The text is twisted After securing the talents of a Scottish and transformed the North Melbourne around a beautiful crimson floriated Cross stained-glass artist named John Lamb company towards the production of on a rich blue background. Lyon in early 1861, the company started ecclesiastical and secular stained-glass The parishioners of St Paul’s are aware experimenting with their colonial versions windows and commercial glazing. of the window’s historical significance, of the medieval stained-glass craft. Lyon In March 1862, St Paul’s Anglican Church but outside the church there are few who stated in an interview for the Australasian at Bakery Hill, Ballarat, became the know it exists or of its importance to our Decorator and Painter in 1909, that when custodian of one of the earliest Ferguson colonial history. he joined Ferguson & Urie in 1861 they & Urie stained-glass windows. Whilst a made their own colours and acids and When the three-light window was installed lot of the company’s early decorative fired the glass in a colonial camp oven. in St Paul’s in March 1862, it was said to windows can be attributed to the wealth be the very first of its kind in Ballarat. In 1862 a Sturt Street decorator named generated from the gold rush, the historic Ferguson & Urie supplied the following Thomas Robson had undertaken to be window at St Paul’s nearly met its demise description: the Ballarat agent for Ferguson & Urie because of it. stained-glass and this window for St Paul’s …The triplet window in the chancel is gave his decorating firm great prestige, as The site of St Paul’s has its own infamy in designed in accordance with the style well as creating considerable exposure for Colonial history. In proximity to a flagpole of the recent additions to the building, Ferguson & Urie across eastern Australia at the rear of the church is a brass star that of the latter half of the fourteenth and New Zealand. marking the historic assembly point of the century – a period of transition from ‘Monster Meeting’ at Bakery Hill which the decorated, or middle pointed style, Different parts of the window were gifted preceded the Eureka Stockade Rebellion into the perpendicular. It is filled in with to St Paul’s. Ferguson & Urie donated in December 1854. The miners won their a pattern in keeping with the principals the upper tracery windows and Thomas demands but ten years later their gold of the glass painters of that period. Robson donated the centre lancet which digging would contribute to the demise Their details were taken from flowers contains the biblical verse wrapped of St Paul’s. and leaves. So, in this design is seen around the cross. The two outer lancets In early April 1864 the liturgical east the passion flower and its leaf; the vine, were paid for by the church committee. end of St Paul’s began to subside due maple, and thistle leaves. In the top The donation of the tracery lights was to gold mining activity and heavy rain. piece of tracery is the Paschal lamb and a significant financial and marketing Fortunately, the historic window was banner, and in the largest piece of tracery decision for Ferguson & Urie. At this rescued before it was damaged. In late are monograms of our Saviour… fledgling stage of their stained-glass 1864 the church reconstruction began a Star, 31st March 1863, p2. business they desperately needed the few metres in front of the original tower; advertising exposure. Tabloid articles Ferguson & Urie’s transformation towards the church was formally re-opened on began to appear across the colonies

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P e n F o l k P »» RHSV NEWS 10 Courtesy ofPROV. PhilRoberts, winner oftheVictorianPremier’s HistoryAward, andCatherine Andrews.CourtesyofPROV winner ofaJudges’ SpecialPrize. Courtesyof PROV. RichardBroomeandCarolynRasmussen, winnerofthePublicationsAward Left toRight:DanielaRiachi,left,andElizabethTriarico, winners oftheHistoricalInterpretationAward. CourtesyofPROV. DavidSornig, features producerforABCRadio National, Dr Gallacher, afeaturesproducer, a VCHA entrants. reality’. Shecongratulatedallofthe119 described historyas‘aliving,breathing by story-telling since childhood, Catherine to attendaCabinetmeeting.Fascinated Minister ofState, GavinJennings,whohad historian’ herself, representedtheSpecial Catherine Andrews,‘apassionate Advisory Council. Maddigan, president of thePublicRecords Ensor. TheMCfortheeventwasJudy (convenor), DrGaryPreslandandBelinda year. ThemainjudgeswereCaroleWoods Davison; theydidnotgiveanawardthis Thomson andEmeritusProfessorGraeme Professor Joy Damousi, Professor Alistair peer-reviewed articlecategory, namely organization, andthejudgesof Public Record OfficeVictoriafor excellent as VCHA projectofficer, of TaraOldfield for hermeticulousandcooperativework on 14October. Hethanked AmyMiniter, to The Pavilion atArts Centre Melbourne Richard Broome, welcomed200guests The RHSV President,EmeritusProfessor belonging, andrevealedwidertruths. further projects,reinforcedasenseof profile of community history, stimulated undoubtedly raised the standard and the influenceiselusive, the Awards have across Victoriaover21years.Although attracted nearly3,000projectsfrom competition, uniqueinAustralia, has ripples throughthehistoryworld.The which hasnevermadeabigsplash,but could wellbeappliedtotheVCHA, oral history‘TheRippleEffect’. This Lyn Gallacher, titledherdiscussionof The VCHA guestspeaker for2019, Dr Community HistoryCommunity Awards 21Years of the Victorian ‘The RippleEffect’: RHSV NEWS DECEMBER 2019 the OralHistoryAward, capturesthe Peg Fraser’s Alexandra Avenue and Lake Catani. projects suchastheSt Kildaforeshore, people togethertohonourCatani’s many prize. Thisexhibition broughthundredsof Catani wontheHistoricalInterpretation brilliant, Italian-bornengineerCarlo Historical Society’s exhibition onthe Continuing the Italian theme, the Italian togetherness ofcommunityoccasions. provincial city, marriage, childrenandthe troubled land,employmentinapeaceful album asitportraysdeparturefroma of Ballarat; the book resembles a family Award, focusedontheItaliancommunity which claimedtheCulturalDiversity La NostraStoria byJanMcGuinness, Cain andJoanKirner. councils and the governments of John Port MelbourneandSouth social welfare workers, tenants, the former to singlepeopleinneedboundtogether The projecttoprovidelow-costhousing Housing, winnerofSmallPublications. exemplified in the book characterized theVCHA. This yearitwas A bindingtogetherhasalways of togetherness’. different kindofunderstandingand‘a argued thatoralhistoryproducesa the powerofhumanvoice, DrGallacher Multimedia Award in2018.Reflecting on the Mallacoota an oralhistoryprojectonSecretsfrom of theVCHA hadprompted her tobase a floweringofthegenre. Therippleeffect inexpensive recordingdeviceshasledto recent insofarastheinventionofsmall, which is at once ancient and modern; mused ontherichtraditionoforalhistory, , which won Black Saturday,whichwon Bunker, winnerofthe More ThanJust Chair oftheVCHA Judges’ Panel 2019 Carole Woods albums/72157711342755036 public-record-office-victoria/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/ Note: Agalleryofphotoscanbefoundat with thiseditionofHistoryNews. A copyoftheVCHA bookletisincluded ripple effect,‘theafterlifeofpublication’. related projectsashespeculatedonthe his prize, David mentioned ideas for dwellers atDudleyFlats.Whenaccepting of the BlueLake with the lives of fringe David Sorniginterweavesthemythology and thesearchforTheArsonist. the 2009bushfiresin Latrobe Valley perspectives assheevokes thehorrorof subjects. ChloeHooperadoptsmultiple wrote creatively to conjure up their the establishedcategories.Bothauthors prizes for books that did not sit easily in year thejudgesawardedtwospecial of theVCHA, anotherisoriginality. This While bindingtogetherisonehallmark ‘Lucas factorygirls’. officialdom butagroundswellledbythe Australia. The impetus came not from longest avenueofremembrancein community toplantandpreservethe the bindingtogetherofBallarat This handsomebookdescribes Roberts, authorofAvenue ofMemories . Victorian Premier’s HistoryAward toPhil Catherine Andrewspresentedthe pervades thebook. community inthefaceofcatastrophe chapter onThePoetry Tree. Asenseof ways, bestillustratedbythepoignant voices ofbushfirevictimsininnovative RHSVSOCIETIES NEWS 11 DECEMBER 2019 DECEMBER NEWS RHSV House’. He recommended a location on He recommended a location House’. on which thoroughfare, a key the Strand, headquarters to build the future official of State the of and Commissioner High the that if an AustralianAgents. He suggested the Agents- building were erected, the the ground floor, General should have the and first floor, the High Commissioner be let as offices.other floors should a prominent islandHe favoured a block on County site belonging to the London eastern end. This Council at the Strand’s horn of land ran out into a point opposite new the where Church, Danes Clement St thoroughfare of Aldwych debouched into the Strand. The Council divided the land it owned persuaded Taverner In 1907, there. Premier Thomas Bent to build Victoria’s headquarters on a corner plot, fronting Strand, so onto the across twenty-five feet of Victoria and its resources that the State The London. in prominently figure should House Victoria purpose-built six-storey building Taverner’s 1909. March in opened of has served the interests of the State Victoria since then. Being the first to build a permanent London, Victoria office in the centre of led the other Dominion and Colonial building, Victoria’s representatives. Like premises that they subsequently built into the 1950s, or developed nearby, reflected the altering nature of Imperial with relationships, and invested London that it assumed the Imperial complexion through the greater part of the twentieth initiative, By John Taverner’s century. Victoria signalled what could be achieved. remained Taverner Knighted in 1909, Agent-General until 1913, and returned to Victoria in 1922, where he died the following year. Eileen Chanin Australian Institute, Studies Australian National University latest book is Capital Eileen Chanin’s House and Visions of Designs, Australia Scholarly Australian an Imperial London, Publishing, 2018. Image: John William Taverner, Image: John William Taverner, Library of image from State Victoria, https://viewer.slv.vic.gov. au/?entity=IE1900246&mode=browse

with a with a Investors’ Review, Review, Investors’ readership of bankers, financiers, financiers, of bankers, readership merchants and ship-owners to which promoted Victoria, laid bare the Taverner problems and financial reality of Victoria’s Wilson, A. J. editor, prospects. The paper’s a financial editor of great integrity known scoped the shallowness for his probity, He singled out ‘prosperity’. of Australian debt rising with stagnant, being as Victoria and a declining population. Canada was Mindful of how extensively concertedwhere represented in London, effective for required was action proposed that representation, Taverner a designated ‘Australia build Australia for agriculture in the Irvine governmentfor agriculture in the governmentthat was intent on reducing advocated that should spending. Taverner for each state be an Agent-General of the appointmentretained in the event all should of a High Commissioner, to more efficientlywork under one roof resources. advertise Australian a with appointed was Taverner 1904 In limited expenses, reduced salary and receiving less than was paid to his The downgrade of the predecessor. position indicated Agent-General’s High expected of the importance the Commission and signalled that the Agents-General should adopt a more commercial role. to reorganize instructions were Taverner’s office on a the Victorian Agent-General’s Victorian for commercial basis. Markets produce should be developed, useful disseminated knowledge about the State and misinformation as to its people and resources corrected. With emphasis on than rather markets, building on set up office in immigration, Taverner with a staff of seven. With Victoria London its more aggressively, to be marketed freshly appointed Agent-General was the right man for the job. attended Shortly after arriving, Taverner the inaugural banquet of Australian merchants in London. This association commercial better for desire the expressed similar among was and representation groupings that came together in a bid to improve commercial opportunity. a preferentialist regarding trade, Taverner, directly introduced Victorian products to agents and distributors. London-based It was essential to counter English press reports which concerned Australians. London’s 1908–9, through articles In influential

John William Taverner became the thirteenth John William Taverner in London in Victoria for Agent-General representatives1904. Among the official Australianof the several newly-federated promoting theirstates, each separately future pursuits, he anticipated state’s express direction to more constructively interests.Australian was a bullishly-built police Taverner aged 11, son. In 1864, when sergeant’s small the in land on settled family his in agricultural settlement of Kerang, northern Victoria, 279 kilometres north he engaged in There west of Melbourne. local government and presided over the Natives’ the Australian branch of Kerang Association. Ever championing agricultural for concerns, he became a spokesman Legislative Victoria’s in settlers Mallee he quickly took In Melbourne, Assembly. to senior ministerial responsibilities and Premier. was tipped to be a likely Board of presided over Victoria’s Taverner while also commissioner and Works, Land and minister for for public works Turner’s in Premier George agriculture, progressive government (1893–1899) that pulled Victoria out of the 1893 economic Melbourne- proudly were crash. Both men Australian- first as Victoria’s born. Turner, was determined to redeem born Premier, financial disgrace. Victoria’s Similarly, set to recover commercial Taverner opportunity for Victoria; he aimed to by reputation, and so, repair Victoria’s Australia, of reputation the association, for financial risk. was a liberal federationist, John Taverner who believed that centralising meant In 1895 he urged for better efficiency. the establishment of a central Australian butter trade, for the depot in London for Victoria. As a lucrative export Commissioner of the Victorian Court at The Greater Britain Exhibition of colonial he displays held at Earls Court in 1899, promotedCanada assertively noted how its resources; he argued that a central products should depot for all Australian be built in London. With Federation, it was proposed that a High Commissioner be appointed in trade and the heart of global London, finance and the Imperial capital. In was again 1902 and 1904, Taverner vice- commissioner for public works, president then president of the Board commissioner for and Works, of Land and minister crown lands and survey, John William Taverner John Taverner William Honourable The in London SOCIETIESRHSV NEWS 12 RHSV NEWS DECEMBER 2019 by photographic studios such as Melba by photographic studiossuchasMelba Other portraitswere taken orrecreated Port Melbournetofightin World War I. many photographsofsoldiers leaving the ‘embarkationphotographer’ forhis 1912. Barneslaterbecameknown as images bytheKew Council fromabout to make copyphotographsofearlier (1858 -1921),whowascommissioned earlier imagesbyJosiahEarlBarnes to havebeentaken orrecreated from Lewis (1863). It is one of many portraits The firstmayoralportraitisofGeorge unknown artist. Halfey andhiswifeAnnie, paintedbyan HS owns a pairofsmalloil portraits of portrait in the exhibition, althoughKew 63). Heisalsonotrepresentedbya could befound,andJohnHalfey(1862- Wharton (1861- 62), of whom no portrait of theMunicipality. These wereGeorge included mentionofthefirstchairmen on this collection; the exhibition also recently puttogetheranexhibition based of Kew from1863to1969. TheSociety photographic portraitsofthemayors hold acollectionofeighty-threeframed Kew Historical Society is fortunate to Chairmen andMayors of Kew 1861 -1994 From Municipality to City: On 7October2019wewalked tothe of Australia. entered histhirdtermasPrimeMinister on 21 May 1909; a fortnight later he attendance atapreliminarymeeting he apologizedforprobablenon- has ahand-writtennoteinwhich was originally known, and the society Historical SocietyofVictoria,asRHSV inaugural vicepresidentsofthe Alfred Deakinwasoneofthethree Royal HistoricalSocietyofVictoria. residents as therepresentative of the I joinedthesmallgroupofFitzroy Deakin’s earlyassociationwithFitzroy. organized awalkinremembranceof president of the Fitzroy History Society, October 2019Mike Moore, former 1919. Onehundredyearslateron7 his homeinSouthYarra, on7October Alfred Deakindiedaged63atLlanarth, in Fitzroy Alfred Deakin Remembering Chairmen and MayorsofKew 1861 The book,FromMunicipalitytoCity: publication wouldhavebeenpossible. the exhibition noritsaccompanying gratitude; without their support, neither these organisationsweexpress our and theRotary Club ofBalwyn.To awarded bytheCityofBoroondara to aStrengthening CommunitiesGrant professionally photographed,thanks and theirframes.Theywerethen and restorationofthephotographs Record Office Victoria, for the cleaning History Grant, administered by the Public Kew HSsuccessfullyappliedforaLocal City ofBoroondara. Camberwell andHawthorntoformthe and 1994, the year of amalgamation with women whoheldofficebetween1964 portraits are of the twenty men and three kindly loanedbyfamilymembers.These images areownedbyKew HS,orwere 1968 until1969. Morerecentmayoral series isofHenryWiltshire, mayorfrom the 1960s.Thelastportraitinframed and C. Stuart Tompkins from the 1940s to and Burlingtoninthe1920s 1930s, corner siteisnowoccupiedbyRose or fortressforhisplays.Fittingly, the stables onthestreetcornerintoaship he transformedawagonbelongingto love ofbooks and theatricsflourished; they livedfrom1859‒ the cornerofGertrudeStreet, where Fitzroy homeat72GoreStreet near to thesiteofDeakins’ second After leaving George Street we walked demolished in1978. of Deakin’s birth.Thecottagewas cottage in1956tomarkthecentenary Deakin descendantsoutsidethe cottage, andsocietymembersjoined a memorialtablettobefixed tothe three. In1926theHSVarrangedfor older sisterCatherineuntilhewas parents SarahandWilliamDeakin was bornin1856andlivedwithhis site of90GeorgeStreet. HereAlfred 62. HereAlfred’s Fitzroy, 7October2019. PhotocourtesyofMegLee. at thesiteofformerDeakinhomeinGoreStreet, Peter Woods, CaroleWoods (norelation)andMike Moore Curator, Kew Historical Society Judith Scurfield December 2019andJanuary2020. to 29February2020, excluding late Street Kew, from 18 October 2019 Kew CourtHouse(upstairs),188High Saturdays between11amand1pm,at The exhibition isopenonFridaysand RHSV Bookshop. HS atKew CourtHouseandfromthe The publicationisavailablefromKew with acomprehensivereferencelist. photographers areincluded,along of timeandplace. Briefnotesonthe introduction setting Kew inthecontext each decadeprefacedbyauseful are arrangedchronologically, with hundred andeightbiographies.These and images,tocompileatotalofone published information,familyhistories Robert Baker. Thecontributorssought Kew HSmembers,ledbyourarchivist research effortonthepartofmany - 1994,istheresultofathree-year Carole Woods referred toFitzroyas‘mynativeplace’. hall. Inaspeechonthisoccasion,Alfred was anextension tothegrandtown stone of the Fitzroy courthouse, which December 1888helaidthefoundation government. Aschiefsecretaryin to aleadershiproleintheVictorian The youngboyfromFitzroyrose home, 13GoreStreet. teacher, HerrLouis Hattenbach,athis performing intheconcertsofhercello the scene of his early boyhood when gifted youngest daughter, Vera, visited Wales. Much later, Alfred’s musically an ancestralhomenearGrosmont, where itwasnamedTheElmsafter house toAdamsStreet, SouthYarra, The Deakins moved their Gore Street weaves itsowntransformingmagic. Chong’s costumehireshop, which BOOKS 13

Sutton: The Innovative Man. Man. Sutton: The Innovative DECEMBER 2019 DECEMBER NEWS RHSV Henry Branch, Ballarat, 2018, pp.vii-397, Lorayne ISBN 9781925332346. of Henry Sutton’s This detailed account the with encounter his with begins life recentlyuntil Tesla, Nikola Serb-American another largely forgotten inventor from a Lorayne golden era of scientific discovery. great-granddaughter Branch is Sutton’s thefrom him elevate to bid her is this and relative obscurity that has seen his name of the with the formation more often linked business. and the family music store RACV in the fields of telephony, Sutton worked electrical engineering, microscopy, aeronautics, photographic processing, automotive engineering, wireless, and in early elements of television technology. One hindrance to local acceptance during for he worked his lifetime was the fact that much of his career in isolation. Darren Darren No regard for the Truth. i-198, ISBN pp. Arnott, Melbourne 2019, 9780648679608. The sub-title of this book provides a friendship neat summary of the text: and kindliness, tragedy and injustice. of war. Italian prisoners Rowville’s That there ever was a camp for Italian outer east prisoners in Melbourne’s II has largely War at the end of World been forgotten. That it was the scene of A unnecessary tragedy even more so. Arnott Darren by unraveled story sorry tells of bored camp guards and PoWs, a love doomed by unnecessary brutality, the generosityand others of stupidity the of ordinary people in a time of fear and loathing. With the war already over and awaiting repatriation, a young Italian Bartoli, Rodolfo prisoner from Florence, is shot dead by the commandant of the The Captain John Waterston. camp, circumstances are muddled further by the unsatisfactory investigations and Far from the prosecutions that follow. military history. Australia’s finest hour in century social experiment. century social experiment. th Authors, publishers and Historical Societies are invited Societies Historical and publishers Authors, library and for the RHSV for the to books to contribute Received. in Books for inclusion consideration Please note: these books listed are not necessarily offered to offered listed are not necessarily these books Please note: shop catalogue. please check the by authors, the bookshop Jessica North, Allen & Unwin, & Unwin, Jessica North, Allen Esther. ISBN pp.vii-277, 2019, Sydney, 9781760527372. on the story of Esther This is a new take Julian (also known as Abrahams), a First Fleet convict, transported for the theft of black silk lace at the age of sixteen. In time she rose to become the wife of Lieutenant- briefly Johnston, George after he Governor of New South Wales William Governor irascible the deposed Bligh in a military coup that came to be was Esther Rebellion. Rum the as known in arrive to women Jewish first the of one Assigned to Johnston as the new colony. common became his lover, servant, she a law and many years later legal spouse. North has constructed an engaging, though partly imagined, narrative of story. remarkable Esther’s Steve Steve Dickens. Boys of Mr The Lost Melbourne Harris, Melbourne Books, 1-254, ISBN 9781925556988. pp. 2019, was Peninsula Puer on the Tasman Point a dire 19 Britain sent three thousand child convicts from the old world and dumped them Central to this on the fringes of the new. pitiable tale of child transportation are and Charles Campbell. Henry Sparkes Each was sentenced to seven years, for stealing a halfpence and Sparkes Campbell for housebreaking. They were as their prison records ‘disposed of’, noted, along with hundreds of other land Diemen’s unwanted children, to Van Along with in 1840 and 1841 respectively. they hundreds of ‘depraved little felons’, a unique Puer, became inmates of Point constructed hastily reformatory juvenile well This is a bleak tale, Arthur. near Port Harris, a former Melbourne told by Steve newspaper editor and publisher. Elsbeth Elsbeth Derrinallum Lismore AssociationDerrinallum By John John Schauble By Books Books Received was a merchant ship Lady Shore was a merchant ship Derrinallum & Lismore: A Spoken Derrinallum & Lismore: A Spoken History. Inc. History Group, Terang 2017, pp. ii-100, ii-100, pp. 2017, Terang Group, History Inc. ISBN 9780648168508. This collection of stories is the product history” events held in of two “spoken the communities of Derrinallum and Lismore in 2003 and 2004. A decade trust grant has a heritage and a half later, theseCapturing their publication. enabled personal recollections is important, a fact underscored by the fact that some of have since died or moved the speakers There are intergenerational and away. personal stories here of settlement, family drama, returning soldiers, the wool boom, churches, farms, sporting clubs, businesses and bushfires. One storyteller grandfather’s his from entry an quotes Then, on 1869 diary: ‘Married today’. around wife ‘Took day, following the There are other precious paddocks.’ from family correspondence extracts along with many individual memories. The Passage of the Damned. Damned. the of Passage The Hardie, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Publishing, Scholarly Australian Hardie, ISBN pp.v-245, 2019, North Melbourne, 9781925801651. The converted in 1797 to transport a load of mostly female convicts to New South The vessel never made it past Wales. shipwreck through not America, South mutiny. but more unusually because of the ship had been crewed in Oddly, part by a contingent of French and who were German prisoners of war, press-ganged into service in the New to act as guards Corps South Wales account, This detailed during the voyage. drawing in part upon recently unearthed the fate of the primary material, explores mutineers, the crew and the prisoners who found themselves dispersed far and wide after the event. BOOKS

Not For Self But For All. Anne Beggs- Stories from Under the Carpet. Jane Bungalows of St Albans. Joseph Sunter, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat Turton and Lynn Mather, Tablo Publishing, Ribarow, Community Research and 2018, pp. 1-254, ISBN 9780648162193. 2019, pp. 1-201, ISBN 9781925880694. Management Services, Ascot Vale, 2018, Ballarat Art Gallery is a real jewel in This is an assortment of “tragic tales pp. 1-86, ISBN 9780987435378. regional Victoria: the first regional art from Waverley and surrounds 1850- This is one in a series of brief local gallery in Australia and now home to a 1950” is largely based on genealogical histories of the suburb of St Albans, superb collection of Australian art. This probing into an unrelated set of sad perched on the elevated basalt plain book is a history of the Art Gallery of Ballarat Association. This is a story of tales from the past. Waverley or to Melbourne’s west. The story of St both those who drove the foundation thereabouts has for some years been Alban’s bungalows is one of hope. This of the gallery, notably James Oddie, close to the demographic centre of was a time when Australia welcomed and those who nurtured and grew its modern greater Melbourne, covered refugees, these from the desolation collection, including Margaret Rich, Ron in sprawling eastern suburbia that took of post-war Europe. Many came via Radford and, briefly, James Mollison. off in the 1950s. But until the mid-20th Bonegilla or other migrant hostels and It is also the story of the remarkable century, it was still out in the bush … they were a varied lot: Poles, Germans, collection itself and the building in which in the beginning, hours on horseback English, Serbians, Maltese, Russians, it is housed. An interesting additional chapter is devoted to the Eureka flag, from civilization. There was farming, Italians and the rest. What linked them perhaps the gallery’s most famous market gardening and eventually acres in the beginning on that inhospitable exhibit. In 1927 the gallery’s Crouch Prize of orchards. These tales start with the plain with practically no amenities was was instituted by Richard Crouch – also untimely deaths of a range of characters: a fresh chance, and usually in a simple an executive member of the RHSV and some shady, some just humble folk. bungalow to which were added more a regular contributor to the Victorian Their dramas and maladies – often rooms until they became a home and Historical Magazine – in honour of his fueled by grog – range through robbery part of a community. Several of the late father. to murder, sickness and accident. These family stories here have appeared vignettes of a sorrier part of Melbourne’s previously elsewhere, but there is much past will be of interest to those with an new material and much to celebrate in interest in the slightly offbeat. their achievements. History Victoria Bookshop New Books in store for December 2019

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article/event of around 50 words, or email your SOCIETIES Around the Newsletter to us and we will write up around 50 words for you around twice per year. BOOKS Societies FOR THE FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE please send details to Prepared by volunteer Glenda Beckley on [email protected] behalf of the History Victoria Support Group. by 8th January 2020.

AUSTRALIAN GARDENS: Spring brings The host Society provides a guest speaker; LINTON: Special event - On Sunday 22 March renewal and so too the Victorian branch in this case our secretary Helen Harris OAM, 2020, our Society member Chris Grigg will committee has been renewed and invigorated will speak on the history of women in local conduct a guided tour of Linton and surrounds. for our big anniversary year in 2020. Australian government. This will be a timely topic, as next This will be instead of our March History Gardens Historical Society turns forty in year marks the centenary of election of the first Night. Chris’s family has several generations 2020. Our efforts since 1980 in conservation, woman Councillor, in November 1920. Helen, of connection with Linton, and Chris has advocacy and research could not have a former Councillor herself, is well qualified an encyclopaedic knowledge of the town’s been as robust and enduring without the to speak on the subject, having extensively highways, byways, residences and notorious contribution of our members. We are grateful researched it, and as the author of The right ‘characters’ of the twentieth century. Put this for your continuing support and participation. to vote; the right to stand. date in your diary. Grouped under the theme of ‘People, Places and Plants’ we have planned lectures, walks, CAMPERDOWN: Halfway house – Stony Rises MIDDLE PARK: All meetings are at 7:30 pm day trips and a weekend bus trip as celebratory Hotel – information needed. Known as the at the Albert Park Baptist Church Hall, corner activities. Further details will be available on the Stony Rises Hotel in past days, this old building Kerferd Road and Richardson Street (entry website at https://www.gardenhistorysociety. stands beside the winding road through the through office door in Richardson Street) and org.au/branches/victoria/ Stony Rises. Busily researching previous are followed by supper. Upcoming speakers: owners, publicans, etc. for his eventual book, Monday 3 February 2020, Steven Haby, BACCHUS MARSH: One hundred years after Rob would like to ask our readers if they Secretary Librarian, Prahran Mechanics’ Institute: the creation of the Avenue of Honour, the have any stories or information about its ‘Sparks to St Kilda, trams to the beach and buses Bacchus Marsh RSL has initiated an exciting history. You can email any information to us at through Middle Park: A look at train, tram and bus new project. An art installation, ‘The Resting [email protected] services through Middle Park since the 1850s’. Poppy’, will commemorate the service of the Monday 6 April 2020, Dr Sophie Couchman: four hundred and sixty-four WWI volunteers CARLTON: Interested in local history? Then ‘Mee How Ah Muoy, Architect’. now known to be associated with the Bacchus join us in the Carlton Community History Group Marsh district, thus enhancing and adding and help preserve our past for the future. Are MONBULK: Monbulk Historical Society’s When Roads Were Tracks, to the two hundred and eighty-one names you interested in working on projects such latest publication, A history of the roads of Monbulk, Kallista, commemorated in the Avenue of Honour. as: ‘Researching your own family history as The Patch and Sherbrooke The lives and service of these soldiers are it relates to Carlton’, ‘Helping to maintain our by Jill A’Vard and described in the Bacchus Marsh & District Facebook page’ or ‘Publicising the Group and Armin Richter won the Local History Project Historical Society’s publication, Honour to its activities’? Then contact us to see how you Award at the Victorian Community History whom Honour is Due (2018). The book is can be involved. Awards in October. ‘The names of the roads available for purchase from the Society. Email: [email protected] and tracks are a window into the history of the Designed by sculptor Dean Bowen, the bronze Website: www.cchg.asn.au area and the families that have made it what sculpture will comprise of scattered petals of it is today.’ The book also includes the history ESSENDON: What a red-letter day Tuesday of the tourist tracks, the tracks throughout a Flanders poppy, the largest standing three 22 October 2019 was for the society. After metres high. The sculpture will enable people Sherbrooke Forest, and brings together a 1,246 days (41 months), members were able to unique collection of historic photographs and to follow a path of names woven through the return to the renovated and restored building petals as they move through the installation, maps. When Roads Were Tracks, is available that had been so badly damaged by fire. We through the society’s website. encouraging reflection on the human cost of are extremely grateful to all our supporters, in war. Viewed from the front, the petals come all their capacities. The Moonee Ponds Court https://monbulkhistoricalsociety.org.au/ together as a symbol of unity and peace. House and exhibition ‘History Reclaimed’ will MOUNT EVELYN: 2020 events include: BENALLA: A major new exhibition is now be open to the public on Saturday 7 December Working bee at Hardy House, Friday 17 January on display at the Benalla Costume and Kelly from 2-5pm. 2020, 10am-12pm with lunch at Passchendaele Museum: home of the Benalla Historical FRIENDS OF CHELTENAHAM AND Café to follow. Business meeting on Monday Society Inc. Titled ‘Suitably Clad’, the exhibits REGIONAL CEMETERIES: Our latest book: 17 February, 7.30pm at Hardy House. Douglas demonstrate the great variety of suits that The Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery: Where Knox, ‘Log Cabins and the Mitchell Tram Tracks’ have evolved over the years for both men History Rests is the fifth book published by on Saturday 21 March, 1.30pm at Hardy House. and women. There are a large number of the ‘Friends of Cheltenham and Regional costumes exhibited, the majority being formal PORT PHILLIP PIONEERS: February 29 is the Cemeteries Inc.’. It features over eight hundred date for our next meeting, the last Saturday in and semi-formal wear. In addition, there names of people from the local community are many examples of children’s clothing, the month. Do you have a question, a discovery in the index. There is a limited print run of or disappointment to share, anything you think swimsuits, and even a baby in its ‘birthday just one hundred copies, each individually suit’! There’s a costume worn by the Master of would be interesting? Maybe you would be numbered. For more information visit our happy to ‘show and teIl’ some historical item. the Hunt contrasting with a Formula 1 driver’s on-line shop. http://www.focrc.org/shop.htm competition suit. One suggestion put forward is family history For more information about the ‘Friends of programs for dummies, especially charting the This exhibition was opened on 25 October Cheltenham and Regional Cemeteries’ and tree. Wesley Hall, St. Andrew’s Uniting Church, 2019 by former Mayor of Benalla, Mr Geoff the work we do visit our site. http:/focrc.org/ cnr Burke and Malvern Rds, Gardiner. Oliver OAM. Mr Oliver, together with his father aboutus.htm WILLIAMSTOWN: Our January 23 speaker before him and now his son, has been the KEILOR: The society has received a grant proprietor of a menswear shop for many years will be Shelley Wood, Curator, Williamstown for the re-establishment of the prefabricated Botanic Gardens. The topic is ‘A 160 year and he entertained Society members with Police Station. The historic Keilor Plains Police stories from a life selling gentlemen their suits, journey through the Williamstown Botanic hut will be rebuilt at the Harricks Cottage site Gardens’. Our meetings are held in the Council not only in Benalla, but also in London and in Keilor Park. Built from prefabricated iron, the even in the mid-Atlantic on the Queen Mary. Chamber in the Town Hall. Also, please note hut was imported during the 1850s gold rush our hard-working volunteers will be taking a BOX HILL: The Association of Eastern Historical to form part of the Police Station. After the well-earned break from 5 December until 3 Societies has accepted the Committee’s offer project is completed, Keilor Historical Society February. to host the first meeting in 2020 of fellow will manage the hut and make it available to members of the Association. This event will the community. take place on Saturday, 22 February 2020.

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