Puffing Billy

The Newcastle  colliery steam engine 'Puffing Billy' was an important influence on inventor George Stephenson, who lived locally, and its success was a key factor in promoting the use of steam locomotives by other collieries in north-eastern England.

It also entered the language as a metaphor for an energetic traveller, and phrases like "puffing like Billy-o" and "running like Billy-o" are thought to derive from the locomotive's name.
In 1952 British light music composer Edward White wrote a melody named after the locomotive. The piece became ubiquitous in British media, being used on BBC Light Programme's 'Children's Favourites', a radio request programme, from 1952 to 1966 & also appearing in numerous commercials and radio shows. 

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Memories are made of this

On display as part of the 1960s exhibition at the National Library in Canberra, are a few  fine examples carpenter Fred Ward's original furniture for the Library. 
A feature for anyone who used it was the anachronistic cardboard Dewey index catalogue, exquisitely boxed with brass and hardwood by Ward as well as the new-fangled Library of Congress index. His furniture subtly contributed to the building's atmosphere and launch a thousand academic papers. 

Ah, remember the slide, click and flick that went with the chore of tracking down dusty gems hiding in the Book Stack somewhere in the basement?

Max Dupain (1911–1992) photgraphed the Card Catalogue at NLA in 1968