Compactus Listing
The museum currently has eight compactus sliding units, with five shelves each, and portable trolleys in the main section of the museum for research purposes. Original documents are stored separately including maps, photographs and rare books.
Below is an alphabetical listing (index) of items held within the compactus. The numbers indicate how many folders are available. Topics in red denote significant information, however this does not include books in the library, large maps, images. For any questions please email research@queenscliffe-history.org IndexARC Research Centres
Baillieu Family folders (7) Baillieu Collection- Index/Newspaper Abstracts (16) Bathing boxes, boat houses, piers and jetties (1) Baths (sea) (1) Beacon folders (Uniting Church Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale) (2) Benevolent Associations (3) Benito/Treasure Seekers (2) Bellarine Community Health Service (3) Boat club (1) Botanic Gardens, Queenscliff (1) |
Bowls (2)
Borough of Queenscliffe—Municipal elections, Borough community events, correspondence, controversial issues, crown land, significant people, picnic applications, planning, proposed amalgamation, 150th Celebrations, by-laws, minutes and ledgers, working parties, mayoral documents---very extensive and multiple folders/boxes to be accessioned
Buckley, William folders (4)
Buildings, including Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale Guest Houses (3)
Bullring, Shortland Bluff (1)
Businesses: (Vue Grand x 2), Lathamstowe (x 3), Ozone (x 4), Royal (x 2), other hotels (x1)
Churches (11)
Civic Association , Point Lonsdale (1)
Coastal Spaces (Studies)-geology and topography (6)
Cobb and Co (1)
Concerts and musicals (1)
Cosmopolitan Lodge (1)
Court of Petty Sessions (Licensing Applications) (1)
Cricket folder (1)
Customs (1)
Deakin Family (2)
Defence (14)
Drosten, Queenscliff Town Clerk (1)
Dugdale Family (6)
Early History of Queenscliff (1)
Early Victoria and Melbourne History (2)
Education (5)
Ferry (2)
Fire Brigade (3)
Fire Brigade and Police (1)
Fisherman’s Reserve (5)
Fishing industry, boats and builders (1)
Flora and Fauna (1)
Football (1)
Forester’s Lodge, Queenscliff (1)
Geelong Advertiser (1840-1998) Extracts (1)
Golf Club, Point Lonsdale (2)
Golf Club, Queenscliff (4)
Government Gazette Extracts (1)
Government Regulations, Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale (1)
Harbour, Queenscliff (15)
Heritage Assessment/Overlays (1)
High School, Queenscliff (1)
Hospital and Community Health Centre (1)
Land Sales, Queenscliff, Parish of Paywit, County of Grant… streets, surveys, Point Lonsdale Foreshore and streets, entrance to Port Phillip, sketchmap of Geelong and Queenscliff District (1 large)
Leggett Collection (8)
Lifeboats (2)
Lighthouses (7)
Lighthouses Correspondence (1)
Lighthouses, ‘White and Black’, Queenscliff (1)
Lighthouse Expenditure (1)
Lighthouses, History (1)
Lighthouse Keepers (1)
Masonic Lodge (1)
Memorials (7)
Municipal Library and Mechanics Institute (1)
Newspaper articles, selection (1)
Parks and Reserves, Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale (2)
Pilots (6)
Point Nepean (1)
Point Lonsdale Physical Environment (1)
Port Phillip Bay maps, also Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale (1)
Port Phillip History including Port of Melbourne (1)
Port Phillip Shipwrecks (3)
Post Office (1)
Progress Association, Queenscliff (1)
Quarantine (1)
Queenscliff Gas, Water Supply, Sewerage, Ice-works, Garbage and Utilities (1)
Queenscliff Families A-Z (many folders) with specific family folders on Hoppens, Jordan (3), La Trobe (3), Priddles (3), Roddick (4), Tobias (2), Tomlinson (3), Thwaites families (6), Ward (6)
Quilts (1)
Racing Queenscliff (1)
Railway (2)
Recipes (1)
Reserves and Recreation, Queenscliff (2)
Residential Developments (2)
Rip Rumour Extracts (1)
RSL, Queenscliff (1)
Rural Areas of Queenscliff (1)
Sentinel, Queenscliff Newspaper Index and extracts (1882-1919) –(1 large)
Shipping (7)
Ships Victoria (1)
Significant Women (1)
Scooter Races (3)
Sport (1)
Streets (general) including Point Lonsdale, Marcus Hill, Suma Park and Swan Bay
Streets (Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale)—(18) including 2 folders on main street, Hesse Street
Surfing (1)
Swan Bay Island, Swan Bay Marine and Wildlife Reserves (1)
Telephone (1)
Telegraphy (3)
Tennis Queenscliff (1)
Theses e.g. Brad Duncan (Marine)
Tourism (3)
Town Hall, Queenscliff (1)
Victorian Colonial and State Statistics (19th century)—(1)
Documents housed in 4 mobile trolleys in main area of museum include:
Borough of Queenscliffe—Municipal elections, Borough community events, correspondence, controversial issues, crown land, significant people, picnic applications, planning, proposed amalgamation, 150th Celebrations, by-laws, minutes and ledgers, working parties, mayoral documents---very extensive and multiple folders/boxes to be accessioned
Buckley, William folders (4)
Buildings, including Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale Guest Houses (3)
Bullring, Shortland Bluff (1)
Businesses: (Vue Grand x 2), Lathamstowe (x 3), Ozone (x 4), Royal (x 2), other hotels (x1)
Churches (11)
Civic Association , Point Lonsdale (1)
Coastal Spaces (Studies)-geology and topography (6)
Cobb and Co (1)
Concerts and musicals (1)
Cosmopolitan Lodge (1)
Court of Petty Sessions (Licensing Applications) (1)
Cricket folder (1)
Customs (1)
Deakin Family (2)
Defence (14)
Drosten, Queenscliff Town Clerk (1)
Dugdale Family (6)
Early History of Queenscliff (1)
Early Victoria and Melbourne History (2)
Education (5)
Ferry (2)
Fire Brigade (3)
Fire Brigade and Police (1)
Fisherman’s Reserve (5)
Fishing industry, boats and builders (1)
Flora and Fauna (1)
Football (1)
Forester’s Lodge, Queenscliff (1)
Geelong Advertiser (1840-1998) Extracts (1)
Golf Club, Point Lonsdale (2)
Golf Club, Queenscliff (4)
Government Gazette Extracts (1)
Government Regulations, Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale (1)
Harbour, Queenscliff (15)
Heritage Assessment/Overlays (1)
High School, Queenscliff (1)
Hospital and Community Health Centre (1)
Land Sales, Queenscliff, Parish of Paywit, County of Grant… streets, surveys, Point Lonsdale Foreshore and streets, entrance to Port Phillip, sketchmap of Geelong and Queenscliff District (1 large)
Leggett Collection (8)
Lifeboats (2)
Lighthouses (7)
Lighthouses Correspondence (1)
Lighthouses, ‘White and Black’, Queenscliff (1)
Lighthouse Expenditure (1)
Lighthouses, History (1)
Lighthouse Keepers (1)
Masonic Lodge (1)
Memorials (7)
Municipal Library and Mechanics Institute (1)
Newspaper articles, selection (1)
Parks and Reserves, Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale (2)
Pilots (6)
Point Nepean (1)
Point Lonsdale Physical Environment (1)
Port Phillip Bay maps, also Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale (1)
Port Phillip History including Port of Melbourne (1)
Port Phillip Shipwrecks (3)
Post Office (1)
Progress Association, Queenscliff (1)
Quarantine (1)
Queenscliff Gas, Water Supply, Sewerage, Ice-works, Garbage and Utilities (1)
Queenscliff Families A-Z (many folders) with specific family folders on Hoppens, Jordan (3), La Trobe (3), Priddles (3), Roddick (4), Tobias (2), Tomlinson (3), Thwaites families (6), Ward (6)
Quilts (1)
Racing Queenscliff (1)
Railway (2)
Recipes (1)
Reserves and Recreation, Queenscliff (2)
Residential Developments (2)
Rip Rumour Extracts (1)
RSL, Queenscliff (1)
Rural Areas of Queenscliff (1)
Sentinel, Queenscliff Newspaper Index and extracts (1882-1919) –(1 large)
Shipping (7)
Ships Victoria (1)
Significant Women (1)
Scooter Races (3)
Sport (1)
Streets (general) including Point Lonsdale, Marcus Hill, Suma Park and Swan Bay
Streets (Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale)—(18) including 2 folders on main street, Hesse Street
Surfing (1)
Swan Bay Island, Swan Bay Marine and Wildlife Reserves (1)
Telephone (1)
Telegraphy (3)
Tennis Queenscliff (1)
Theses e.g. Brad Duncan (Marine)
Tourism (3)
Town Hall, Queenscliff (1)
Victorian Colonial and State Statistics (19th century)—(1)
Documents housed in 4 mobile trolleys in main area of museum include:
- Baptisms Registry
- Births, Marriages and Deaths
- Cemetery Records
- Land Buyers
- Miles Lewis Architectural Queenscliff References
- Urban Conservation Studies
- Point Lonsdale and Queenscliff Schools…records
- Post Office Directories
- Queenscliff Heritage Review (10 folders)
- Queenscliff Urban Conservation Studies (Allom, Lovell and Associates)
- Rates
- War Memorials
- WW1, WW2, Crimean, Boer wars, Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Korean Commando Force
- Various newspaper cuttings