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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:The PMI's afternoon historical book chat
DESCRIPTION:This is a casual drop in session where you can bring your afternoon tea\, listen and chat about the historical books that you are reading or projects that you are researching. To attend the session\, please book your tickets using the try booking link below\, and a Zoom link will be sent to you. \nIf you would like to speak for a couple of minutes\, email us using library@pmi.net.au before 12.30pm Wed 6th October\, with your name and title/topic. If we have more than 15 speakers\, we will host another session soon. \nTickets free but bookings essential\nClick on this link https://www.trybooking.com/BUMBY to book your tickets and receive the zoom link to attend. \nHaving difficulties booking to attend an event?\nPlease email library@pmi.net.au up to 1 hour before the event commences with your name\, phone number\, email address and the event that you want to attend. We will arrange your booking and email you the zoom link.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/the-pmis-afternoon-historical-book-chat/
LOCATION:VIC
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Prahran Mechanics' Institute Victorian History Library":MAILTO:library@pmi.net.au
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SUMMARY:Create a video using oral history recordings and images (online workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wanted to make a video from oral history interviews?\nAre your oral history recordings sitting in an archive\, not being showcased?\nHave you ever wanted to make use of interview files for displays or presentations\, or to put on a website?\nWould you like to make a digital story?\nHave you interviewed family members and would like to create a special video for them using the audio and family photos? \nIf so\, this workshop is for you. This hands-on workshop will:\n• teach you how to use PowerPoint software to create videos (or digital stories) using audio-only interviews\, sound effects\, music\, photographs and other images\, and\n• provide ideas about how to use your videos and digital stories. \nDuring the workshop\, you will practise making a digital video using files provided. You do not need\nto provide your own audio files or images. \nDetailed workshop notes will be provided. \nDate: Thursday 7 October 2021\nTime: 10:30am – 1:30pm (ACT\, NSW\, Vic\, Tas) 10am – 1pm (SA) 9:30am – 12:30pm (Qld) 9am – 12 noon (NT) 7:30am – 10:30am (WA)\nVenue: online. Instructions for installing and using the software will be provided upon registration.\nCost: $80 per person\, $60 for concession card holder/student \nBookings are essential. Please book and pay online using the link on this page:\nlisteningtothepast.com.au/online-workshops
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/create-a-video-using-oral-history-recordings-and-images-online-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Paving Our Ways: A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements
DESCRIPTION:Paving Our Ways: A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements\nIn partnership with Engineering Heritage Victoria\, the RHSV is excited to present this talk by Maxwell Lay\, co-author of the comprehensive history of world roads\, Paving our Ways. \nPaving our Ways provides a comprehensive international history of the world’s roads\, running from the earliest human settlements to the present day. \nIt examines the earliest roads in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa\, Crete\, Greece and Italy\, before a review of pavements used by the Romans in their magnificent road system. After its empire collapsed\, Roman pavements fell into ruin. The slow recovery of pavements in Europe began in France and then in England. \nAsphalt and concrete slowly improved as paving materials in the second part of the 19th century. Major advances occurred in the 20th century with the availability of powerful machinery\, pneumatic tyres and bitumen. The advances needed to bring pavements to their current development are explored\, as are the tools for financing\, constructing\, managing and maintaining pavements. This talk will trace the human and social aspects of pavement development and use. It will outline the heritage perspective in the changing technology across the world from China and Mesopotamia\, Europe\, Britain\, Australia and North America\, stretching from biblical times to the present day. \nThis talk should appeal to those interested in the history of engineering and transport and the sociology of engineering. \nDr Maxwell Lay is an engineering consultant known for his international contributions to road engineering and his acclaimed international road histories. He is a member of the Order of Australia\, former Executive Director of the Australian Road Research Board\, and past President of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and the Australian Automobile Association and former director of ConnectEast. He has been awarded the Moisseif Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers\, the Peter Nicol Russell\, Warren and Transport Medals of the Institution of Engineers Australia\, and the Gold Medal of Roads Australia. He is the author of Handbook of Road Technology \nThis event will be delivered by Zoom and Zoom details will be sent to participants 24 hours prior to the event. \n  \n  \nA HISTORY MONTH 2021 EVENT. Click on the logo for the full program of events\nImage (The Strand\, London\, being repaved with granite setts in Victorian England) provided by Maxwell Lay. 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/paving-our-ways-a-history-of-the-worlds-roads-and-pavements/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:What's On
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