A-23-P; The Treasury view from Parliament House c. 1878.; Nettleton, Charles, 1826–1902; The Treasury view looking south along Spring Street and the top of Collins Street from from Parliament House c. 1878.
Gordon Reserve gardens in the foreground. Other prominent buildings include Alcaston House and the surgery of Dr. William Godfrey Howitt. Also shown are the temporary Homeopathic Hospital (Spring Street) and Government House is in the background.
The building was designed by John James Clark and erected by the Public Works Department (PWD) from 1857-62.
The Treasury precinct is on the Victorian Heritage Register H1526
It is one of approximately 50 photographs from the set 'Views of Melbourne" by Charles Nettleton. Complete set in RHSV collection A-10-C to A-50-C.
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A-24-P; Front and southern side of the former Treasury building in Spring Street, Melbourne c. 1878.; Nettleton, Charles, 1826–1902; Front and southern side of the former Treasury building in Spring Street, Melbourne c. 1878. This is Melbourne's second Treasury Building, completed in c. 1869. The architect was John James Clark. The first Treasury was in William Street.
A military guard is standing outside the building near a sentry box. To the right is a small section of the Treasury Gardens with the original corrugated iron fence. A number of gas street lamps are situated in front of the building and the fence.
The Treasury Precinct is on the Victorian Heritage Register H1526
It is one of approximately 50 photographs from the set 'Views of Melbourne" by Charles Nettleton. Complete set in RHSV collection A-10-C to A-50-C.
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GS-BCS-47; Wesleyan Church [Wesleyan Chapel], corner of Collins and Queen streets, Melbourne, c. 1855; Clarke, William; This photograph includes a much reproduced image of the second Wesleyan Church to be built in Melbourne, located on the north-west corner of Collins and Queen streets. The image looks to be taken from a church notice handed out to the congregation at the later Wesleyan Church built in Lonsdale Street.
The foundation stone of the Wesleyan Chapel, designed by John James Peers, was laid in May 1840, although the building was not completed until 1847. The site was sold in 1857, and, as explained in the notes at the bottom of the image, became the location of the Bank of Australasia. The Sands & McDougall Directory of 1860 records the bank at 396 Collins St (north side). According to the notes, the Parsonage became the Australian Alliance Insurance Company, which, according to the 1860 directory, was next to the bank at 402 Collins Street, and seen to the left of the chapel.
The picket fence around the chapel, and the entry arch with a central lamp, can also be seen in S. T. Gill's "Gt. Collins St. looking East from Wesleyan Chapel, Melbourne" of 1857.
The image includes many of the chapel's congregation on their way to a service, wearing bonnets and top hats.
The church notices are separated from the image by an elaborate band that includes the printer's name and address. Unfortunately, when the glass slide was made some end letters of the written lines were lost.
One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund.
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GS-IT-78; Bert Hinkler, Australian pioneer aviator, with his Avro Avian aircraft; In 1928, Bert Hinkler, originally from Bundaberg in Queensland, made history by becoming the first person to fly solo from England to Australia. He was born in Bundaberg in 1892, the son of a stockman. He became interested in aviation, joined the Queensland Aero Club and built two gliders.
In 1913 Hinkler went to England where he got a job with the Sopwith Aircraft Company. After war broke out in 1914 he joined the Royal Naval Air Service as an observer and gunner. Later, he qualified as a pilot and in July 1918 he was posted to No. 28 Squadron, RAF.
After the War, Hinkler bought an Avro Baby light aircraft and undertook a record-breaking flight from Croydon to Turin. He shipped the Avro to Australia and made several flights here. These included a non-stop flight from Sydney Bundaberg in eight and three-quarter hours, at the time the world’s longest solo flight. He returned to England, worked as test pilot for the Avro Company and bought his famous Avro Avian, registered as G-EBOV.
In February 1928 Hinkler flew his Avian from London to Darwin in sixteen days, becoming the first person to fly solo from England to Australia. He was given £2000 by the Australian Government and made an honorary squadron leader in the Royal Australian Air Force.
He went back to England and later went to Canada where he bought a De Havilland Puss Moth and flew it to England. He planned another flight to Australia in the Puss Moth. He left Heathrow on 7th January 1933 and disappeared. In April 1933 wreckage and his body were found in the Apennines between Florence and Arezzo. He was buried in Florence with full military honours.
When on his long flights Hinkler was known to sing to pass the time, leading C. J. Dennis to pen a poem about him called The Singing Ace.
One of the many slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund.
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GS-TM-16; Thomson family : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; Photograph of the memorial placed over the remains of Peter Thomson, a farmer, his wife, Harriet Clark, their two children, and William Thomson. The tall monument with its enclosing rail is at the centre of the image, with tall trees to the left, right and behind. More modest memorials can be seen in the background.
In his "Memorial History of Melbourne" (p.390, ref.270), Selby describes this as "One of the finest monuments in the Cemetery... A broken granite column on a pedestal which stands on a platform. A passage of scripture encircles the column... A spiral wreath around the column. There are inscriptions on each of the four sides of the pedestal."
From Selby we learn that the inscription, seen on the left face of the pedestal in the photograph, names Harriet Clark, wife of Peter Thomson, farmer, mother of Peter and Anna, who died 10th April, 1911, in her 89th year, who was a colonist of 69 years. The inscription on the right face is for her husband, Peter Thomson, farmer, who died 19th May, 1845, aged 37 years. He was formerly of Horn, Carse of Gowrie, Scotland. The other inscriptions, not seen in this image are for sister and brother, Anna Thomson, an infant who died in November 1842, and Peter Thomson, who died in May 1866, aged 26 years. And William Thomson who died in January 1855, aged 42 years. Selby doesn't say but William could be a brother of Peter.
Harriet Clark married Peter Thomson on 23rd April, 1842, at Errol, Perthshire, Scotland. She died at her home at 129 Gipps Street, East Melbourne. (Source: Find A Grave; Trove)
This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) around 1920 as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project.
One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund.
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GS-TM-18; John and Catherine Cowell : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; Photograph of the memorial placed over the remains of three people; John Cowell, Catherine Cowell, and their daughter Alicia Berry.
In his "Memorial History of Melbourne" (p.397, ref.394), Selby describes this as a "simple but expensive tomb of classic beauty." The image shows a large chest tomb on a stepped base atop a high rectangular plinth. A well constructed iron railing surrounds the monument. The inscription is in a recessed square on one of the long sides of the chest. A cross is carved on the two shorter ends. A tree frames the image on the right.
The inscription reads:
In Affectionate
Remembrance of the
Deceased, this Monument
Is Erected by his
Afflicted Widow
Catherine Cowell
According to Selby, the inscription on the other side of the memorial reads:
John William Cowell, 6th November, 1850, 44 years
Catherine, 2nd January, 1853, aged 28 years
Alicia M. Berry, 12th May, 1885
A notice in the Melbourne Daily News of November, 1850, states that John William Cowell was "late of Turin Villa, South Yarra." A Heritage Victoria report notes that Turinville is the oldest house in Kew, and is one of the oldest in Victoria. The report also states that Cowell was a wealthy hotelier, with the Royal Hotel in Collins Street being one of his properties.
Alicia Maria Berry was the couple's daughter. According to a report in The Herald of February, 1882, a curious case presented to the Equity Court concerned the will of a Rev. George Vincent Barry of Melbourne, and the will of George Chester Berry of California, sheep farmer. Both wills stated that the deceased left all his property to his wife, Alicia M. Cowell or Berry. The property included land at Kew to the value of £8000.
This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) around 1920 as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project.
One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund.
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GS-TM-21; William Pascoe Crook : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; Colourised photograph of the hardwood memorial placed over the remains of the Reverend William Pascoe Crook, missionary.
The image shows the upright, weathered, wooden marker surrounded by grass. The marker was fashioned from a slab cut from a gum tree. The top has been cropped in the image but, as seen in similar images, it has a triangular top, decorated with a sundial motif, and quarter-circular shoulders, decorated with fleur-de-lys.
The inscription reads:
In Memory (in Gothic script)
Of the REVd.
WILLIAM PASCOE CROOK
A Zealous and Devoted
Missionary.
In The Marquesas &
SOCIETY ISLANDS
A Faithful Preacher of the
Gospels In N. S. Wales.
Born in Devonshire, Engld.
On the 29th April 1775.
Died at Melbourne on
THE 14th JUNE 1846.
He was one of the first missionaries who
left England on the ship Duff, in the year
1796.
-unreadable verses-
According to Selby, influenced by the death of Captain Cook "by the natives", Crook aged 21, enlisted in the first cohort of missionaries to Polynesia, commissioned by the newly formed London Missionary Society. Most of the missionaries were set down at Tahiti, but Crook and a comrade, who soon deserted, were left at the Marquesas. Crook returned to England after a year during which he learnt the language of the islands. He sailed to Australia in 1803, and after laying the foundation of the Congregational Church in Sydney, he travelled to Tahiti and, with three others, translated the first Polynesian Bible. He spent eighteen years in Polynesia before settling in Melbourne. (pp. 48, 50)
This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) around 1920 as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project.
One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund.
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GS-TM-26; Lewis Hart : Old Melbourne Cemetery, Jewish section, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; Photograph of a large chest tomb with paneled sides and a horizontal stone with the inscription as the cover. The corners of the chest are decorated with rectangular inserts. There is another smaller chest tomb to the left of Hart monument, with a similar inscribed top. Both stones have Hebrew and English writing.
Selby tells us that, "Asher Hyman Hart applied for land in the Old Cemetery, and an acre was granted to the Jews. By a strange fatality, Lewis Hart (Asher Hymen Hart's brother) was the first interred... Lewis Hart was a clothier." (pp. 174-5, OPMHoM)
The inscription reads: (431 in Selby's grave index p. 399 OPMHoM)
7 lines of Hebrew
In Memory Of
LEWIS HART
Who Died On August 14th 5603-1843
Aged 40 Years
The First Jewish Interment In This Cemetery (carved along bottom edge)
According the newspaper reports under the heading of "Awfully Sudden Death" we learn that, "Mr. Lewis Hart, shopkeeper, at the corner of Queen and Collins streets, whilst walking in front of his establishment at about half past 9 o'clock on Monday morning, suddenly dropped down, and melancholy to relate before medical assistance could be procured, the vital spark had fled."
The other chest tomb, according to Selby's plan of the cemetery and his index (430), is named for Lewis Hart, son of Edward and Isabella Hart, who died on the 5th January, A.M. 5609, 1849, aged 18 months. (p. 399, OPMHoM)
From newspaper articles it can be deduced that Edward Hart, the father of baby Lewis Hart, was Lewis Hart's brither.
These two burials were among the few that remained in the Jewish section after the first market expansion in 1877.
This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) around 1920 as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project.
One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. Selby numbered this slide #15.
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GS-TM-29; Dr. Edmund Hobson and family : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; Colourised photograph of a tall Gothic stone structure topped with an urn, mounted on a stepped square pedestal. Within the structure are two tablets leaning backwards towards each other, one for the doctor's details, the other for his family. In the background are more monuments and trees.
Selby describes this memorial, erected by public subscription, as "a thing of Gothic beauty... one of the most striking works of art in the Old Cemetery."
Dr. Edmund Charles Hobson, a natural scientist, was the nephew of Captain Hobson, the first Governor of New South Wales. Dr. Hobson helped found the Melbourne Hospital movement, and was appointed chief-of-staff, but died before he could take up the position. He passed away after a short illness, at his residence, Bona-vista, in South Yarra. (pp. 194-5, OPMHoM)
The inscriptions read: (75 in Selby's grave index p. 377, OPMHoM)
This monument, in memory of Edmund Hobson, M.D., born at Parramatta, August 1814, died at Melbourne 4th March, 1848, has been erected by public subscription in honour of a distinguished fellow colonist, whose pre-eminence in his profession, and whose skill and attention were never solicited by the poor or distressed in vain. He united with rare medical and other attainments dispositions and virtues which endeared him as a man and a Christian to his friends. He died universally regretted in the 34th year of his age.
The other tablet:
John Edmund Hobson, accidently drowned in the Yarra, 1870, aged 30;
Edward Grant Hobson, 1860, aged 17;
Amy Elizabeth Hobson, 1866, aged 21;
Sons and daughters of Edmund Hobson, M.D.
Margaret Hobson died 17th July, 1894, aged 84 years.
This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) around 1920 as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project.
One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. Selby numbered this slide #52.
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