Shingle from Hyde Park Barracks, 1819-1842?, paving woodblock from George Street near Argyle Cut, 1888-1930s?, with microfilm copy of three albums belonging to Charles Gilbert, 1936-1944

R 2057
R 2058
MAV/FM4/10963

fonds

1819-1944

Objects, Graphic Materials, Photographs

1022828

1 shingle - approx. 35.5 x 10.5 x 1.2 cm. - casuarina
1 paving woodblock - approx. 19.5 x 15 x 7.5 cm. - hardwood
1 microfilm reel - 35mm. - positive

Charles Gilbert was a freemason and senior NCO in the 2/12 Australian Field Ambulance, AIF, attached to the 26th Brigade of the 9th Division for the invasion of Tarakan Island, Borneo, on 1 May 1945. He engaged with other freemasons and attended meetings of The Bagus Club (pronounced Bagush, meaning good in Indonesian). This was one of the Masonic clubs begun in Port Moresby in 1942 for personnel on active service and spread throughout the South West Pacific Area.

R 2057
1 casuarina (she-oak) shingle, approx. 35.5 x 10.5 x 1.2 cm.

R 2058
1 paving woodblock. Hardwood, approx. 19.5 x 15 x 7.5 cm. Appears to have a surface residue of tar or pitch.


MAV/FM4/10963
35mm. microfilm copy of three albums lent for copying by Charles Gilbert, 1983.

Listed by frame number below are captions not clearly shown on the microfilm.

First Album:
1-3. Holsworthy Camp '36 [No.3 : Observation Tower, Holsworthy German Concentration Camp]
4-6. Liverpool Camp '36
7. Medium Tanks 1937
10-12. Liverpool '36
13. S.U.R. Pipe Band [Unsigned, handwritten note attached to original contents list reads: "Frame 13 states S.U.R. (Sydney University Regt) - It really is at Coronation Review Centennial Park in 1937? The troops are [firing?] a "feu de joi [sic]""]
14. 1 A.A. Bty. Camp Nth. Narrabeen '37
19-20. Hill climbing
34. Victoria Barrack Brisbane (Funeral Party)
35. Pilot Boat Brisbane ("Matthew Flinders") off Cowan Cowan
36-38. All at Cowan Cowan
52. Barrels dumped from barge, man-handled into gun mountings
56. 2 x 6" MK X1 Guns - Barrels about 12 tons ... 20,000 yds.
57. Militia Homeward Bound
60-61. ... New fort at Cowan Cowan 1938. To command shipping channels in Moreton Bay approaches to Brisbane. Replaced old Fort Lytton - in Brisbane River near north.

Second Album:
62-64. King's Birthday Review Brisbane '38
65-66. 18 POR Guns - Mt. Walker, Q, '38
68-69. Sydney 1939
70-72. Liverpool '39
76-79. Thursday Island '39
80-83. DMF arriving Darwin 3/39
85-87. greeted by Garrison artillery
88. DMF SGTS
89. DMF Vesteys Barracks (meatworks) (now has highschool on site)
100 & 102. Cavanagh Street - (Chinatown), Darwin
105. New Darwin Hotel '40
106. Street scenes
107-109. Botanical Gardens area
112-113. 18 POR at full recoil
119. DMF SGTS

Third Album:
120-125. Darwin 1939
129-130. Lugger trips - Darwin Coasts '39 (Flinders Charts)
132. Troop-ship Zealandia - Darwin '39-40
139-143. Larrakeyah Barracks Darwin / Old & New. '39-40
144-146. Government laundry Kahlin Compound, part used by Army medical / New civil hospital '41
147-154. Parade ground Larrakeyah Barracks Darwin
155-159. Howard River / Darwin Area Barramundi Fishing
161. Darwin '41
162-167. The Town / Pine Creek N.T. '40 - Army Training Course in former bush hospital [165 - Pub]
168-172. 4th Light Field Ambulance Unit Burrawang NSW - '42 Unit Sports
173-178. Improvised field training Singleton area '43 / Paterson River
179-183. Paterson R. '43
184-185. Berrima Jail '43 - disused then army store
187-190. With tank brigade - Singleton areas '44

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Out of copyright: Created before 1955 - Applies to MAV/FM4/10963<br>
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

"In 1842 the shingle roof [of Hyde Park Barracks] was removed and replaced by a roof of Duchess slates" -- Source: "Hyde Park Barracks: many past changes", by "I.L.", Sydney Morning Herald, 20 July 1935 p.11, accessed via Trove Australian Newspapers Online, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper , 28/2/2013.

"Woodblocks began to be used by the Sydney City Council as a road surface from the 1880s, and by 1900 much of Sydney from Broadway to Dawes Point and from Darling Harbour to Kings Cross was paved in woodblocks. The last woodblocks were laid during the 1930s ... The section of George Street between Dawes Point and Argyle Street was paved in 1888 and used to trial various specifications for preparing and laying of woodblocks ... The best timbers for woodblocks were found to be Australian Class 1 hardwoods including blue gum, red gum, ironbark, black butt, tallowwood, mahogany and turpentine ..." -- Source:
http://thedirton.therocks.com/2010/03/telling-rocks-stories-historical.html , Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, accessed 28/2/2013