DONATIONS and APPEALS
MARINE HOTEL HITCHING POST CAP
OUR NOVEMBER 2018 APPEAL FOR $500 TO CAP THE HITCHING POST OF ADAM LINDSAY GORDON AT 215 NEW STREET BRIGHTON VICTORIA
Organisations involved:
- Permission has been obtained from the Marine Hotel
- Permission has been obtained from the National Trust/Victorian Heritage
- Planning Fee paid to the Bayside City Council
- Contractor Greg Harris Sheet Metal Ballarat.
The plaque reads:
“Protective cap donated by The Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee Inc. January 2019”
A POEM SUBMITTED TO OUR APPEAL BY TIM SHAW:
There was a young man called Gordon
– Tim Shaw
Who had a memorable life but a short one
Trials and tribulation
By his own creation
Saw Bridges , his love, long gone.
DONATIONS:
| Joan Moore | $20 |
| Lorraine Day (Freestyle Publications) | 100 |
| Robert Buntine (Owner Avenel Honey) | 50 |
| Brigid Magner | 25 |
| Beth Sampson | 50 |
| Joan Pretty | 30 |
| Tim Shaw | 100 |
| Anon. | 15 |
| D Nicholls (Royal Grammar Worcester Alumnus) | 50 |
| Dr Christopher Reynolds | 250 |
| Virginia Barnett | 50 |
| Total: | $740 |
EXPENSES:
| Application for copy of title | $21.24 |
| Application for planning certificate | 195.10 |
| Cost of work – cap etc. | 561.00 |
| Total: | $777.34 |
OUR APPEAL FOR THE HITCHING POST WILL REMAIN AS A PERMANENT FUND FOR THE POST.
THE ADAM LINDSAY GORDON GRAVE RESTORATION APPEAL
Completed in April 2009
To The Project Officer
Heritage Grants Section
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601
FINAL REPORT BY
THE ADAM LINDSAY GORDON COMMEMORATIVE COMMITTEE INC. FOR THE PROJECT NAMED
THE ADAM LINDSAY GORDON GRAVE RESTORATION APPEAL
THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING $1518
PLUS CEMETERY FEES WAIVED BY CEMETERY TRUST 48
LESS PROJECT MANAGEMENT (IN KIND) 300
ACTUAL FUNDS RECEIVED $1266
As far as records show there has been no professional maintenance performed on the monument of Adam Lindsay Gordon since the column was blown over by a cyclone in 1918.
Since the second world war, interest in the grave and monument waned.
In 2005 it was noticed that one of the marble plaques had fallen off due to water seepage behind and had been stuck back on by blobs of what looked like carpenters glue.
Lodge Brothers Pty Ltd were employed to repair the memorial of Adam Lindsay Gordon in the Brighton General Cemetery, Melbourne, Church of England U no 21 to re-point the existing 6 panels and clear out old pointing first, then seal the pointing: re-fix the lower panel that has come off completely. Repairs have also been made to small chips in the memorial. Mulch and fertilisers have been purchased to build up the soil around the monument and plants have been purchased :
3 Golden Fairytale Hybrid Rose bushes.
3 Ground hugging bushes- Pultenaea Pedunculata Pyalong Gold
2. Trailing Acacia Cootamundra Wattles.
These will be planted after we get a decent shower of rain.
Receipts and photographs of the project are attached.
The project has been completed with thanks to the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts- Heritage Grants Section.
20th April 2009
DONATIONS TO APRIL 2009 TOWARDS THE UPKEEP OF THE GRAVE OF ADAM LINDSAY GORDON IN THE BRIGHTON (VIC) GENERAL CEMETERY IN – PERPETUITY
LIST OF DONORS
TOTAL DONATED, WITH THANKS, TO OUR ADAM LINDSAY GORDON GRAVE RESTORATION APPEAL – $4649.40
ANNIE LINDSAY GORDON BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE
OUR 2016 APPEAL TO INCLUDE AN ENTRY INTO THE BALLARAT CEMETERIES “BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE AIMED TO RAISE $300
Link to her re-interrment from Ballarat to Brighton Cemeteries
DONATIONS:
| Allan and Jenny Childs | $50 |
| Gerard Kennan | 50 |
| Wally and Beth Sampson | 50 |
| Yvonne and Lawrence Low | 20 |
| Marumi Smith | 30 |
| Dr Helen Dehn | 25 |
| The Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee Inc. | 80 |
| Total: | $330 |
The item below appears on the page opened for the 14th of April, with the text by a calligrapher:
