Edwards – Van Cooten Voices https://vc.id.au/blog2 Van Cooten family history progress and collaboration Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:16:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Where was J. B. Edward’s Jewellers Shop https://vc.id.au/blog2/2020/03/where-was-j-b-edwards-jewellers-shop/ https://vc.id.au/blog2/2020/03/where-was-j-b-edwards-jewellers-shop/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:52:15 +0000 https://vc.id.au/blog2/?p=242 … Continue reading →]]> If you walk from Alexandra Fountain in Bendigo today, and head down Pall Mall towards the Law Courts, its a little hard to see where J. B. Edwards Jewellery shop at 3 Pall Mall was.
The picture below shows the scene in possibly the 1920s. J. B. Edward’s shop is the third down from the corner.

ALEXANDRA FOUNTAIN, BENDIGO, VIC. [picture]
Rose Stereograph Co [c1920-1954]
http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1644169

Here’s another photo showing staff outside the shop in 1911.

Creator: W H Robinson Studio Museums Victoria https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/770814

And finally, courtesy of Google streetview, is the scene today:
So it looks like the shop is about the third window from the right, with possibly some original features behind the modern facade, just behind the Aussie Cash logo.
]]> https://vc.id.au/blog2/2020/03/where-was-j-b-edwards-jewellers-shop/feed/ 2 J. B. Edwards Stereoscopic Photography https://vc.id.au/blog2/2020/03/j-b-edwards-stereoscopic-photography/ https://vc.id.au/blog2/2020/03/j-b-edwards-stereoscopic-photography/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://vc.id.au/blog2/?p=240 … Continue reading →]]> James Benjamin Edwards, jeweller of Bendigo, was a well connected and well respected citizen. He was also my wife’s great-grandfather.

He  was a stalwart of the Forest Street Methodist Church, including being a trustee, chairman of the Bendigo Chamber of Commerce, active in the Bendigo Horticultural Society, and an amateur photographer, including being president of the Bendigo Photographic Society.

An article in Trove entitled, “A PRESENTATION FROM BENDIGO.”, (1901, May 2). The Bendigo Independent (Vic. : 1891 – 1918), p. 2. relates:

A PRESENTATION FROM BENDIGO.
VIEWS OF UNDERGROUND MINING.
Mr. J. B. Edwards is an ingenious amateur photographer. For some time he has been experimenting to discover a satisfactory method of photographing underground workings of mines. Recently, by using magnesium, he was able to take some splendid stereoscopic transparencies. The mayor, per the town clerk, wrote to the Governor-General a few days ago suggesting that these views would be a suitable gift to the Duke and Duchess of York. Mr. Honeybone yesterday received the following reply:—“I am directed by His Excellency the Governor-General to request you to be so good as to inform his Worship the mayor of Bendigo that he is of opinion that the presentation of a number of views taken underground by Mr. J. B. Edwards would be a very pleasing gift. The presentation might be made by his worship immediately after the joint municipal address has been given. I may mention that none of the addresses will be read.—Yours, etc., E. W. Wellington, private secretary to His Excellency the Governor-General.” The transparencies include views of the underground workings of the New Chum Railway, Great Northern, Great Southern, New Moon, Garibaldi, and Goldfields mines, and should make an interesting souvenir of the Royal visit when the Duke and Duchess return to England.

This presentation album was sold at Bonhams auction house in May, 2006, for AU$ 1,635, described as follows:

Stereoscopic views: Goldfields: Australia
Six glass views of The Goldfields of Victoria G. M. Bendigo (An English Co.) taken by J. B. Edwards and captioned showing men underground using mining machinery, the views, together with a Holmes type viewer in a fitted velvet lined polished wood presentation box with a plaque ‘Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. Views of Underground Mining Bendigo at Victoria Australia By J.B. Edwards, Bendigo 7/5/01’.
This item seems to have been purchased by the Sate Library of Victoria – it appears in their catalogue as http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1800111. The images have been digitised and are freely available at https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1409431&mode=browse. An example appears below. If you are good at crossing your eyes you can view it without needing the viewer. I think that J. B. would have been amazed that his images had gone around the world, returned to Victoria, and then become available to the world! He would have been fascinated with this technology.
]]> https://vc.id.au/blog2/2020/03/j-b-edwards-stereoscopic-photography/feed/ 0 Not just Van Cootens https://vc.id.au/blog2/2009/01/not-just-van-cootens/ https://vc.id.au/blog2/2009/01/not-just-van-cootens/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:36:38 +0000 http://vc.id.au/blog2/?p=57 … Continue reading →]]> I know its been quiet here for a while, but that doesn’t mean that nothing has been happening on the family history research front. Over the next little while I’ll catch up with some of the progress that I’ve made on Maggie’s side of the family – Edwards, Gormans and Lacks. Stay tuned.

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