vic An important example of a nineteenth century hand tool, this horological lathe was used to turn metal when crafting the inside workings of a clock. This lathe has been identified by members of the Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc. as being one of the most important toolsmore
vic The Caroline and Charles Armytage lost one child during their married life together at Como. Ethel Maude Armytage, 1856-1872 died at the age of seven from diphtheria. The image taken of Ethel in this mourning frame shows her as a healthy child posed in a chair at the Johnstone O’Shannessy andmore
vic “We have received Port Phillip papers to the 11th February. The whole province had suffered from fearfully destructive bush fires, which raged worst on Thursday, the 6th, assisted by a furious hot wind… Vast numbers of sheep, cattle, and horses had been destroyed, and the loss in grain ofmore
vic After a life of adventure and adrenaline seeking, Bertram Armytage ended his life in his room at the Melbourne Club wearing the medals he was awarded for bravery and exploration. These included the Queen’s medal with three clasps from the South African campaign of the Boer War, the King’s Medalmore
vic Thomas Tyrwhitt Balcombe was born at St Helena, 1810, where the Balcombe family lived and befriended the island’s most famous resident Napoleon Bonaparte. He was the second son of William Balcombe and Jane Balcombe (née Cranston), and a brother of Alexander Balcombe who settled in Port Phillip at The Briars inmore
vic In June 2015, a beautiful sewing box once owned by Georgiana McCrae of McCrae Homestead, was generously donated to the National Trust by Georgiana’s great, great, great granddaughter. Born in London in 1804, Georgiana was the illegitimate daughter of George Gordon, 5th Duke of Huntley and Jane Graham. From amore
vic Alice Creswick Alice Creswick lived in The Hawthorns, the oldest house in the eponymous Melbourne suburb, and whose garden once swept down to the scrub along the Yarra River. A vibrant, active, and well-travelled woman, Alice was immortalised by writer Martin Boyd in his 1937 book The Picnic. Just like ‘Aunt Albania’more
qld The Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary was established by beekeeper and floriculturist Alex Griffiths in 1947 and is now home to an amazing collection of wildlife.more
qld Not only is this former Convent an interesting building, its walls enclose a wondrous collection of images and artefacts that pertain to the Cooktown region.more
nsw Art, publications and ephemera relating to Norman Lindsay and the Lindsay family are the basis of this collection of paintings sculptures, ship models and drawings.more
tas When a copy of the Strasbourg clock toured Tasmania in the 1930s, Sid Boon, a Longford local, was inspired to build a replica. Mr Boonís copy has all the features of the original clock.more
qld Together the Store and Collection constitute one of the nationís few surviving, intact, late nineteenth century stores which, in its fabric and collection, demonstrates past aspects of culture.more
tas In 1926 the church building was consecrated and renamed St James. As the only burial ground in the area the cemetery contains the graves of the pioneers of the district which stretched from Kings Meadows to Breadalbane and Relbia.more
tas In 2010, as a result of a grant from the Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme, the Trust was able to digitize eleven 19th century hand-written ships' logs held in its collections.more
tas The barque Runnymede was built in 1849 by John Watson of Hobart for the Bayley brothers, Charles and James, who are closely associated with the beginnings of off-shore whaling in the region.more
tas The content of the books are a mixture often found from those days, with hand-written messages, poems, both original and copied, illustrations and pictures of local scenes and wildlife drawn by the owner and her acquaintances.more
