Call Number

HMSS 0057

Collection 

Downer Bicentennial History Project

Date Range

1952-1991

Quantity

1.02m  (6 manuscript boxes)

Access Conditions

restricted

File Number

- 

Related Collections

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DOWNER BICENTENNIAL HISTORY PROJECT COLLECTION FOR OPENING IN 2038

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SCHOOL BASED MATERIAL

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Downer Primary School (DPS) girl’s summer uniform

-original pattern for material

-not original style

-original material was 6 6d per yard

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Green T shirt (DPS)

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“plastic” cap (DPS)

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Rugby union pennant (DPS)

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3 fitness award badges (DPS)

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1 captain’s badge (DPS)

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1 ordinary school badge (DPS)

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P & C minute book (DPS)

13 Feb 1962–06 Feb 1966

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Purple yellow pennant (Stewart House) (DPS)

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North Canberra Women’s softball pennant (DPS)

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Bicentennial memento for school students

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World Interchange Project Newsletter (DPS)

-includes Downer Community Family Survey

Jun 1980

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Merit award card (DPS)

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Student Record System form

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Certificate o Graduation (DPS)

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DPS Group List

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DPS Canteen price list for lunches (plus one photocopied version).

 See also Watson Family Collections, in these boxes, for further school food information.

1988

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DPS Year 2A Student Descriptions (plus typed version)

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DPS Enrolment Movements

1962 – 1988

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DPS School layout plan

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List DPS Staff

1988

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Collection of drawings and essays by DPS students, including coverage of Bicentennial events. 40 items.

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LYNEHAM HIGH SCHOOL (YEAR 8 SOCIAL SCIENCE CLASS) PROJECT WORK:

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Origins of local population

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Ancestral originals

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Graphs

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Previous living places and years in Downer

1-2

People interviewed

1-2

Type of families

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Reasons to live in Downer

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Occupations

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Downer shops

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National Biological Standards Laboratory

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Eullalia Count

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Social aspects of change

(The above documents were produced via (limited) survey work, interviewing some residents, etc.)

GENERAL MATERIAL

3

Birds Eye View over Downer: 26 years of change

-produced by Downer Community Association

-sold for $4 per copy as a fundraiser,

includes short history of Downer and

2 aerial photos of Downer

1987

3

Canberra Historical Journal. New Series No. 1,

includes article on Dickson Experiment Station which covered the current Downer suburb 1941-1965

Mar 1983

3

7 Editions of Around Downer (Nos. 1,2,3,4,5,6,8) produced by Downer Community Association (DCA)

1986–1988

3

Downer Neighbourhood Watch Newsletter

Dec 1988

3

Bicentennial Bits (notes of Downer’s population, drawn from 1981 & 1986 Census)

3

Minutes DCA Executive Meeting

06 Aug 1988

3

382 Bus time-table – slightly revised time-table introduced early 1988, contained in a large ACTION Bus Book (not included)

Aug 1986–1988

3

Foodmaster (Downer) supermarket brochure – “specials”

28 Nov 1988-03 Dec 1988

3

Birdlife Notes

3

Collection of recipes provided to customers by Calear’s Downer Butchery

1988

3

Maps of Canberra:

1 Tourist Map (note ‘unfinished’ Downer)

1 Tourist Map

1 Street & Tourist Map, 18^th Edition, purchased

1962

1968

1988

3 

Collection of material from Downer Village Pharmacy:-5 page document on the pharmacy (ORIGINAL) **2088 has photocopy so original should be retained for 2088!**

-labels

-1 prescription cover

-used prescriptions

-repeat authorisation

-Facts about Pharmacy

-Downer Village Pharmacy News (undated)

-Financial Survey of Australian Pharmacy (1989)

-Pharmacy Travellers booklet

3

Unicorn Restaurant menu

3

Documents on Downer’s branch of the National Biological Standards Laboratory (see also Lyneham High School Material)

-History of Laboratory & Animal House Building in Frencham Street, Downer (from NBSL? undated)

-copy of 1988 article on NBSL’s future

-copy of P. Staples M.P. press release 25 Aug 1988

1988

3

Canberra Times article on Downer (in CT neighbourhood article series – no comment!)

1988

3

Canberra Realtor, includes Downer properties

20 Dec 1988

3

The Real Estate & Community Times, includes Downer properties

16 Dec 1988

3

Receipt for gas payment

1988

3

Receipt for electricity payment

1988

3

Record of telephone charges

1988

3

Housing Costs – information sheet

1960s

3

Canberra Times article on Downer “Postie”

15 May 1988

3

Co Research article (July 1985) on CSIRO history in Downer

15 May 1988

3

Canberra Chronicle article on opening of DCA office

1988

WATSON FAMILY COLLECTION

3

‘A’ Class Testing Requirements (for driving licence)

1963

3

Canberra Times? Article, “Differences in petrol cost…”

01 Jul 1963

3

MPR superette order list

pre 1966

3

“Your Crown Lease in the Seventies: residential land in Canberra”.

3

Australia: Department of Supply Stores & Transport Branch Handbook

1961

3

“Welcome to Lawley House” (includes tariffs from 20^th August 1961)

3

Australia: Department of the Interior Parks and Gardens Section: Trees and Shrubs 1963 (includes Lands & Survey Branch form, map and list of plants)

3

Receipt from Department of Works-£6.12.11, for sand, fill etc.

3

Note from the Electoral Register

06 Mar 1963

3

Receipt for firewood

27 Mar 1962?

3

Receipt from Commonwealth Motors for windshield

22 Mar 1963

3

Invoice McEwans garden edgings

31 Oct 1967?

3

Doctors practising at this hospital (Royal Canberra) in Canberra

04 Sep 1962

3

Downer Public School Tuckshop Committee

pre 1966

3

Downer Public School Parents & Citizens Association

29 Jan 1963

3

Downer Public School Tuckshop Roster

04 Mar 1963-12 Mar 1963

3

Population Count of Canberra & Queanbeyan – Instructions for filling in the Householders Schedule.

01 Jul 1963

3

Maintenance of Commonwealth Owned Houses & Flats: Tenants Responsibilities.

SOME MATERIAL ASSOCIATED WITH DOWNER’S BICENTENNIAL PROJECT (DBP)

3

Canberra Times Australia Day edition insert (includes article on DBP page 7)

3

North Canberra Searchlight article (see page 3 for DBP progress report) No. 2

02 Jul 1988

3

Bicentennial Bulletin (ACT & Island Territories) No. 10 (see page 2 for 2 paragraphs on DBP)

Dec 1988

3

DBP Working Party working documents

03 Dec 1988

3

Downer History Project (planning document)

1988

3

Downer Bicentennial History Project (DBHP) document on oral history activities

3

DBHP letter to Canberra Public Library Service re storage of history collection

06 Oct 1988

3

Press release on collections handover

21 Dec 1988

3

Australian Bicentenary stickers

OTHER

3

Information sheets on Downer Bicentennial History Project co-ordinators, Susan Dyer and Bob Phillips

N.B. PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION IS STORED SEPARATELY