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Excellent that the Victorian govt is funding this building restoration work. CI's historic buildings are the only 19th century buildings open 365 days per year to the public this side of Melbourne. They are in very good condition and need to be kept that way, given how rare examples of this built heritage are in our area. Sounds like a fascinating talk. Jarvis is very experienced at this sort of project management and 'knows his stuff'.

Thank you so much for visiting us at Banfields. The feedback was fantastic.

Good on you. Well done. Great to see volunteering can happen again. Keep up the graft work. History is so important.

Good to see the lace being shown again. The residents would have loved it. Just to clarify, there is quite a bit of detail about the lace pieces on their catalogue files. As curator I did a major display of this lace for an PINP Open Day, and it gathered a lot of interest. I have also used it in several talks at historical society, nursing homes, and a FOCIS GM. Years ago Patricia Baird and I took the whole collection up to the NGV for their textile curator to go through for us, then I took it to the Victorian Embroiderers' Guild for their lace group to run their magnifying glasses over. It was a fascinating day there because they had big archival drawers full of reference lace to help work out what was what for Kel's collection. PINP p/t receptionist Lyn Blom also did research work on the collection during lockdown. When I was first sorting it about 2012, I had nowhere to sort it and spread it out to archive it into acid free tissue, so my daughter PINP volunteer Karen Eddy and I booked the board room at the Penguin Parade and used the big table in there. While it was all spread out I invited many of the staff to come in and look, which they did. It is a wonderful collection. Let's hope we can some day have an appropriate display area to have pieces on display on rotation.

How wonderful Karen, l know you must be in your elect there.

That building was my office for 15 months as I catalogued 4500 odd historic archives. All 27 photo albums worth were found in that office in a multitude of boxes somewhere in Nature Parks various building or had been donated to FOCIS. Lin Starke

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Video – Carols at Churchill Island 2022

Video – Whispers from the Past

The Summer 2022 Newsletter is Now Available Online

Churchill Island: History and Her Story (Third Edition) Now On Sale

The Large Print Edition of Churchill Island: History and Her Story Now On Sale

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You can now pay online using Apple Pay

Results of the FOCIS Website Survey

Video – Working Horses on Churchill Island

Churchill Island Heritage Collection

Volunteering with Phillip Island Nature Parks

Churchill Island Museum Collection Recognised

A New Home for the Model of the Lady Nelson

Online Catalogue of Churchill Island Heritage Items Now Available

How to access the FOCIS web site

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