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SUMMARY:Tales from the MacRobertson International Air Races
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Victoria’s centenary in 1934\, Macpherson Robertson sponsored a great air race from England to Melbourne. There were originally 20 entrants of which only 12 arrived in Melbourne. The British winning entrants took a whisker under 3 days\, the last plane to arrive took some 4 months.\nThe Royal Historical Society of Victoria is mounting an exhibition which takes a close look at the entrants in the races (there were two races run concurrently – a speed race and a handicap race) including the Dutch entrant\, the Uiver. The Uiver (stork) is the most famous of the entries even though it came second. It was forced by bad weather to make an emergency landing in Albury where the locals used the town’s lights to spell A L B U R Y in morse code and then created a make-shift aerodrome on the racetrack using car headlights to con the plane down. Macpherson Robertson always maintained that the Uiver\, a commercial KLM flight that went to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies with a little extra hop to Australia\, came closest to his ideal as Robertson sponsored the race to encourage commercial flight not speed. \nThe first aircraft to finish was the De Havilland DH-88 Comet Grosvenor House\, a specially- designed racing aircraft flown by Charles W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black. Both pilots were much feted in Melbourne. Photos show a handsome pair being mobbed by thousands. The adulation didn’t last\, Campbell Black was killed by a plane propeller just 2 years later and Scott suicided. \nHarold Brook was the pilot with the least experience – barely the minimum 100 hours. He had a paying passenger\, the 28-year old Miss Ella Lay\, who knitted her way to Australia. She was a pilot herself and the only woman to travel the full race distance from Mildenhall in England to Melbourne. Ella stayed on in Melbourne\, took up nursing\, and in 1941 enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the very building where the exhibition is being held (the former Army Medical Corps Drill Hall). Ella died in 2005\, aged 99. The Times printed her obituary. \nThe race generated many more fabulous stories including C. J. “Jimmy” Melrose who at 21 was the youngest pilot and one of the few Australians. Jimmy was funded by his mother and his De Havilland Puss Moth was christened My Hildergarde in her honour. He too died\, too young\, just two years later in a plane crash. \nThe last plane to arrive was piloted by Ray Parer and Godfrey Hemsworth and funded by New Guinea miners. Another entry was owned by well-known Australian pioneer aviator Horrie Miller who at the time was managing director of MacRobertson-Miller Aviation. He engaged James Wood and Don Bennett to fly the race however they came unstuck in Aleppo. As Bennett wrote in his autobiography\, they “… hit the ground with a fair wallop and the undercarriage collapsed; down she went and the nose went in as we whipped over on our back. I was in the tail of the machine and my velocity from one end of the cabin to the other was remarkable. Even more astounding was the degree of “concertina-ing” of my body which took place at the far end.” That was the end of their race.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/tales-from-the-macrobertson-international-air-races/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Heritage Victoria Presentation with Geoffrey B. Austin
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in hearing about how some of the most curious things get on the Victorian Heritage Register? \nJoin Hobsons Bay City Council and like-minded heritage enthusiasts for an evening presentation by Geoffrey B. Austin\, Manager at the Heritage Register at Heritage Victoria\, who will be presenting about some of the remarkable and curious assets of the Victorian Heritage Register. Geoffrey will also discuss how the HMAS Castlemaine recently earned its entry on the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII. \nThis free event will be held online via Zoom. You can join on the day by following the link below at 6.30pm or you can register to learn more and receive a reminder on the day. The presentation will be approximately 20 minutes with a Q and A to follow.\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82522181336?pwd=ZzFkZW5WRmVUYVpZVFRWMjUvdHh4QT09#success \nFollowing the presentation Hobsons Bay Arts\, Culture and Heritage staff\, alongside Hobsons Bay Libraries will discuss how to be involved in the National Trust Heritage Festival in 2022 and will be able available to answer questions about the forthcoming festival in 2022.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/heritage-victoria-presentation-with-geoffrey-b-austin/
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CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:PIONEER REGISTER SEMINAR
DESCRIPTION:PIONEER REGISTER SEMINAR\nIn partnership with the Genealogical Society of Victoria\, the RHSV is holding a free Zoom seminar on one of the jewels in its crown – the Pioneer Register. This will be of great interest to those interested in family history or wanting to know more about this unique collection and how it can help your research. Jillian Hiscock\, the RHSV Collections Manager will be delivering the seminar. \nThe RHSV has collected and maintained a register of early colonists in the state of Victoria which is of great historical value. It contains more than 2200 forms. \nIn 1909 the Historical Society of Victoria (becoming the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in 1952) was formed by people determined to capture the history of the state of Victoria. This was to be achieved by creating the ‘Register of early colonists who arrived in Victoria before 21st November 1856′\, that captured information about early Victorians. Later this register was broadened to become the ‘Historical Register of Persons Who arrived or were born in Victoria before 1900\, and/or their descendants’. \nPeople were invited to fill in the forms of their relatives and associates in order to capture information about individual colonists as well as their familial relationships. \nInformation requested in the registers included: full name; date and place of birth; name of the parents and their residences; date of arrival in Victoria and name of ship; places of residences in Victoria and with dates; public offices held; literary work\, publications\, inventions or other work of public benefit; date and place of marriage; name of wife in full\, with parents names and place of residence; names of children; portrait if available; signature and relationship of the information provider. \nAlthough not requested\, many people sent in multiple photographs and longer letters outlining their family’s history. An RHSV volunteer\, Val Rohde\, has been working on the Pioneer Register catalogue for over 2 years. Val is enriching the catalogue by linking the Pioneer Register records to other appropriate manuscripts\, maps\, images and books in the RHSV Collection ensuring that researchers can maximise the value of the Register. \nJillian Hiscock has been the Collections Manager at the Royal Historical Society for over 3 years. She qualified as a librarian at Melbourne University after doing a Bachelor of Arts at La Trobe University. She has had a career working in public and special libraries\, and managing government department libraries and intranets. She ran the Department of Transport library which supported Heritage Victoria and the Planning portfolio\, this in role particular has given her relevant experience in managing collections that span manuscripts\, ephemera\, books\, images and non-print materials. \nThis free seminar will be offered via Zoom – details will be sent out 24 hours prior to the event. \nThe seminar will be offered on Thursday 14th October at 11am – 12noon and repeated that evening from 7pm – 8pm. \nPlease register your interest in either of the sessions below \n  \nThis is a History Month Event: click on the logo for the full program of events
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