Locations – Friends of Churchill Island Society Inc.

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

Churchill Island Heritage Farm

Churchill Island Visitors’ Centre

Join Us Online

Koala Conservation Centre (Chisholm Room)

Meeting Room, Churchill Island Visitors’ Centre

Nobbies Centre (Upstairs Meeting Room)

Phillip Island Nature Parks, Phillip Island

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