Children's Trail

Pair of silver napkin rings with Arts and Crafts styled repoussé motifs and the initials CLP and RLP, made by Ramsden & Carr, London, 1911. © From the estates of Ruth Lane-Poole’s daughters, Charlotte Ruth Burston and Phyllis Gainsborough Hamilton, by descent to their families

These napkin rings are decorated with the initials of Ruth Lane-Poole and her husband Charles. Each ring has a different botanical symbol. Use your imagination to invent your own family symbol.

Set of 82 timber books that belonged to Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro-Ferguson, PC GCMG, Viscount Novar of Raith, former Governor-General of Australia. Courtesy of The Australiana Fund © Gillian Vann Photography

What are these books made of? What might be the purpose of this library?

Queensland maple dining chair with PM monogram, made for ‘The Lodge’, 1927. Courtesy of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

This chair has two letters carved into the back – P and M. Whose house do you think it belongs to?

St Gabriel’s School, 1931. Courtesy of Canberra Girls Grammar School

Ruth and Charles Lane Poole lived in Canberra between 1927 and 1945. They had three daughters who went to school here and are in this school photograph. Can you find Charlotte, Mary and Phyllis?

Children's Trail

These napkin rings are decorated with the initials of Ruth Lane-Poole and her husband Charles. Each ring has a different botanical symbol. Use your imagination to invent your own family symbol.

What are these books made of? What might be the purpose of this library?

This chair has two letters carved into the back – P and M. Whose house do you think it belongs to?

Ruth and Charles Lane Poole lived in Canberra between 1927 and 1945. They had three daughters who went to school here and are in this school photograph. Can you find Charlotte, Mary and Phyllis?

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