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The National Trust Heritage Register is the most comprehensive single heritage register in Victoria, covering all types of cultural and natural heritage, including buildings, trees, landscapes, gardens, public art and pipe organs. Each classified place has an archival file that contains historical material, media articles, photos and sometimes plans. Thesemore
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Robert Hoddle is remembered for his work as a surveyor. Melbourne’s grid layout is attributed to him, although there is some question about whether his plan was built upon an earlier scheme by the man he replaced Robert Russell. Appointed head surveyor by the governor of Port Phillip Sir Richard Bourke inmore
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The site has been described as “a model for collaborative digitization projects and serves to inform cultural heritage institutions building both large and small digital collections” and the reach of Trove’s newspaper archives makes the service attractive to genealogists. Many of the digital public libraries in the United States camemore
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Made from human hair, this wreath of artificial flowers was donated by Marie Isobel Buesst, who with her husband Tristan were well-known collectors of Australiana. The box containing the flowers holds a clue to who the original artisan was. Handwritten in pencil on the back of the box are themore
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Message from the Hon. Greg Hunt MP, Minister for the Environment I am pleased to be able to provide this message to you today for the National Trusts Education Heritage Conference at the National Museum in Canberra. Firstly, I apologise for not being there in person to deliver my message,more
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‘Black Opera Cloak, Muff and Collar, 2 Baby’s (sic) Dresses, Lace Nightcap, Caramel Silk Dress …’ With this generous donation, from Matron E.M. Sage in 1961, the National Trust began acquiring moveable cultural heritage. The collection now contains over 35 000 objects, many of which are displayed at the Trust’smore
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This Deed for £900 is dated 23 July 1880 and was drawn up by the Crown Solicitor’s Office …for the benefit of the children of Sergeant Kennedy and Constable Lonigan murdered by the Kelly Gang for investment by the Kelly Gang for investment by trustees to be appointed by the Governmentmore
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Although published in 1850, it is unknown whether Georgiana McCrae was still living at Arthur’s Seat when she acquired this book. Despite the family’s contentment at Arthur’s Seat, the shadow of dispossession was ever present. The land’s mountainous terrain made cattle grazing difficult. It was better suited to sheep grazing,more
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Labassa is an exuberantly ornamented boom-style mansion in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield. Built for the wealthy and privileged in the nineteenth century, its twentieth century history tells a different story. After Labassa was sold in the late 1900s, the mansion was converted into a tenement house and for themore
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Elizabeth Austin, of Barwon Park, wore this costume to a fancy dress ball at the Exhibition Buildings given in honour of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, Monday 23rd December 1867.more
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The National Trust called on the State Government to implement a moratorium on the disposal of W Class trams while a plan can be developed to inform decisions about reuse. The National Trust supports the retention of W Class trams to service dedicated tourism routes – giving Melbourne’s famous heritagemore
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A partnership between the State Government, the National Trust and developer AV Jennings has been announced to secure the future of the historic Fort Largs while allowing for a new residential development in Adelaide’s western suburbs. Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Stephen Mullighan announced the partnership at the fort on 17 June. The Trust hasmore
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The Trust will be lobbying against proposed legislation which, in the Trust’s view, would dramatically increase land clearing in NSW with major adverse impacts on biodiversity conservation and efforts to deal with climate change. This is an unusual step for the Trust, but, in the past we have joined withmore
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Henry Handel Richardson (H.H.R.) was the pen name of Ethel Florence Richardson (1870-1946), author of The Getting of Wisdom (1910), The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (trilogy 1930), and Maurice Guest (1908). H.H.R. communicated with the spirit world on a daily basis. The Ouija board on display at Lake View, wheremore
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John William Twycross purchased this camera in 1918. With this purchase he became a pictorialist photographer, capturing scenes in Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. Many images document life at Arthur’s Seat where his family would holiday, visiting their Aunt Kate. This photograph was taken of his son, John, on themore
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With this purchase he became a pictorialist photographer, capturing scenes in Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. John Twycross took every opportunity to record the world around him, using his lunchtime breaks to capture the streets of Melbourne. Many images document life at Arthur’s Seat where the family would holiday, visitingmore
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Louis Australia Whyte and his son Louis Melville Whyte had much in common – both were avid sportsmen. Louis senior was a champion golfer and tennis player, and his son a surfer, swimmer and car enthusiast. Louis Melville also had a penchant for ice skating and he is notedmore
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Painter Arthur Merric Boyd (1862 – 1940) and his son Theodore Penleigh Boyd (1890 – 1923) made many watercolour studies of the Como grounds. As members of the artistic dynasty, they also socialised with the Armytage family of Como. Penleigh’s cousin Joan Lindsay (nee a ‘Beckett) told of how hermore
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Take a virtual visit of our historic sites using new 3D technology. This application lets you wander around our sites and see them just as though you could really walk around from room to room or place to place. We have scanned two very different properties and made them available for youmore
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Very little is known about Caroline Pounds, other than she was the wife Dr. James Baker Pounds, who settled in Ballarat and opened a medical practice. Her son married Lilias Ibbotson, eldest daughter in the Ibbotson family, of The Heights Geelong. Caroline Pound’s watercolour studies were found at The Heights, which remainedmore
