Looking south along Eltham-Yarra Glen Road towards intersection with Kangaroo Ground-Warrandyte Road, Kangaroo Ground, May 198835mm colour positive transparency (1 of 36) Mount - Kodak KodachromeProcess Date MAY 88Minfrastructure, roads, eltham-yarra glen road, kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground-warrandyte road

Built by noted artist Theodore Penleigh Boyd, father of architect Robin Boyd. Covered under National Estate, National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Local Significance and Heritage Overlay, Nillumbik Planning Scheme. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then /​ Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p111 The Robins at Warrandyte,* was once home to a member of a famous family and is also one of the first reinforced concrete houses in Victoria. The builder, Theodore Penleigh Boyd, born in 1890, was a talented painter1 noted for his works of the Warrandyte bush. He was the father of architect Robin Boyd, author of the Australian Ugliness and the uncle of painter, Arthur Boyd. Penleigh Boyd’s great grandfather was Sir William A’Beckett, Victoria’s first Chief Justice. Penleigh Boyd is considered by some to be an ‘unsung hero’ overshadowed by more famous members of his family. Mornington Gallery Director Andrea May said many believed Boyd ‘had never received the national acclaim that he deserved’.2 Classified by the National Trust3 and part of the Australian National Heritage,4 The Robins is set well back near the end of Kangaroo Ground – Warrandyte Road, unobserved by passers-by. Built in 1913, The Robins has some Art Nouveau influences and is a descendant of the Queen Anne style. It is covered in stucco and has a prominent attic, which Boyd used as a studio. Some parts of the house are up to 33 centimetres thick and built in part with pisé (rammed earth) and in part with reinforced concrete. Amazingly, Boyd built The Robins without an accessible driveway, and only a narrow track along which he had to cart building materials. The journey was uphill and Boyd terraced the land with Warrandyte rock5 without the aid of machinery. At only 33 years, Boyd was killed in a car accident in 1923. He was buried in Brighton near the home of his parents. Several people have since owned the house, including political journalist, Owen Webster. Boyd was born at Penleigh House, Wiltshire, and studied at Haileybury College, Melbourne and The Hutchins School, Hobart. He attended the Melbourne National Gallery School and in his final year exhibited at the Victorian Artists’ Society. He arrived in London in 1911 and his painting Springtime was hung at the Royal Academy. He painted in several studios in England and then worked in Paris.6 There he met painter Phillips Fox through whom he met artists of the French modern school and also his wife-to-be, Edith Anderson, whom he married in Paris in 1912. After touring France and Italy, the couple returned to Melbourne. In 1913 Boyd held an exhibition and won second prize in the Federal Capital site competition, then the Wynne Prize for landscape in 1914. In 1915 Boyd joined the Australian Imperial Force, and became a sergeant in the Electrical and Mechanical Mining Company. However he was severely gassed at Ypres and invalided to England. In 1918 in London Boyd published Salvage, writing the text and illustrating it with 20 black-and-white ink-sketches of army scenes. Later that year he returned to Melbourne, and, despite suffering from the effects of gas, he held several successful one-man shows, quickly selling his water-colour and oil paintings. In his short career Penleigh Boyd was recognized as one of Australia’s finest landscape painters. He loved colour, having been influenced early by Turner and McCubbin. His works are in all Australian state galleries, the National Collection in Canberra as well as in regional galleries.7 His wife Edith was also an artist having studied at the Slade School, London, and in Paris with Phillips Fox. After her marriage she continued to paint and excelled in drawing. In later years she wrote several dramas, staged by repertory companies, and radio plays for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, in which she took part. She was the model for the beautiful red-haired woman in several of Phillips Fox’s paintings and the family hold three of his portraits of her. *Possibly named after the Aboriginal words warran, meaning ‘object’ and dyte, meaning ‘thrown at’.This collection of almost 130 photos about places and people within the Shire of Nillumbik, an urban and rural municipality in Melbourne's north, contributes to an understanding of the history of the Shire. Published in 2008 immediately prior to the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009, it documents sites that were impacted, and in some cases destroyed by the fires. It includes photographs taken especially for the publication, creating a unique time capsule representing the Shire in the early 21st century. It remains the most recent comprehenesive publication devoted to the Shire's history connecting local residents to the past. nillumbik now and then (marshall-king) collection, kangaroo ground-warrandyte road, north warrandyte, the robins

Colour photograph showing landfill at Shire of Eltham Tip, Graham Road, Kangaroo Groundtips, eltham shire council, council, kangaroo ground, graham road

The 1993 Eltham Heritage Tour was enjoyed by a busload of members of the Historical Society on a fine, calm day, Sunday May 23rd. Between 10.00 am and 4.30 pm, except for a brief lunch stop at the Eltham Living and Learning Centre, members passed about thirty places of local interest and others recommended for the Historic Buildings Register and the Register of the National Estate. A number of significant trees and buildings were also highlighted along with the opportunity to explored some of the properties.35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 24) Mount - Kodak Kodachromeactivities, kangaroo ground-warrandyte road, north warrandyte, shire of eltham historical society, the robins, heritage excursion

The 1993 Eltham Heritage Tour was enjoyed by a busload of members of the Historical Society on a fine, calm day, Sunday May 23rd. Between 10.00 am and 4.30 pm, except for a brief lunch stop at the Eltham Living and Learning Centre, members passed about thirty places of local interest and others recommended for the Historic Buildings Register and the Register of the National Estate. A number of significant trees and buildings were also highlighted along with the opportunity to explored some of the properties.35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 24) Mount - Kodak Kodachromeactivities, kangaroo ground-warrandyte road, north warrandyte, shire of eltham historical society, the robins, heritage excursion

Looking southeast, Kruses Road on left.Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 7 stripsFuji 100eltham shire council, infrastructure, kangaroo ground-warrandyte road, kruses road, north warrandyte

Looking northwest.Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 7 stripsFuji 100eltham shire council, infrastructure, kangaroo ground-warrandyte road, north warrandyte

Looking northwest.Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 7 stripsFuji 100eltham shire council, infrastructure, kangaroo ground-warrandyte road, north warrandyte

Looking northwest, Floods Road on left.Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 7 stripsFuji 100eltham shire council, infrastructure, kangaroo ground-warrandyte road, north warrandyte, floods road

Tom Ellis was the great grandson of pioneer William Ellisfay bridge collection, 2021-11-13, kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground-st andrews road, tom ellis house

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 5 strips Kodak GA100 5095infrastructure, kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground horse and pony club, kangaroo ground-st andrews road, streets

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 5 strips Kodak GA100 5095infrastructure, kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground horse and pony club, kangaroo ground-st andrews road, streets

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 5 of 7 stripsKodak GA 100 5095shire of eltham, kangaroo ground-st andrews road, kangaroo ground emergency operations centre, kangaroo ground

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 5 of 7 stripsKodak GA 100 5095shire of eltham, kangaroo ground-st andrews road, kangaroo ground emergency operations centre, kangaroo ground

Morrison Kleeman Real Estate sales information material4 documents, 10 pages A4 gayle blackwood collection, houses, morrison kleeman real estate, wongalea, kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground-st andrews road

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 3 of 7 stripsKodak GA 100 5095kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground-st andrews road

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 3 of 7 stripsKodak GA 100 5095kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground-st andrews road

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 3 of 7 stripsKodak GA 100 5095kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground-st andrews road

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 3 of 7 stripsKodak GA 100 5095kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground-st andrews road

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 3 of 7 stripsKodak GA 100 5095kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground-st andrews road

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 3 of 7 stripsKodak GA 100 5095kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground-st andrews road

35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 28) Mount - Kodak KodachromeProcess Date MAR 89Mkangaroo ground, donaldson road, eltham-yarra glen road, kangaroo ground state school, kangaroo ground store, kangaroo ground-warrandyte road, presbyterian church

The Age, Saturday, April 15, 1989, Page 72 OPEN SAT SUN 2-4 WOODHAVEN ESTATE A sample of house and land packages for your consideration: 3 br Ige rumpus $159,950 4 br tri level $169.9S0 4 br split level $169,500 Colonial with verandahs $199,950 Big 4 br dble garage $235,000 Huge exec 5 br S266.000 Meet our representative on site 2-4pm Sat and Sun in Booth Court, Eltham. off Reynolds Rd. Melway ref 22.E.335mm colour positive transparency (1 of 23) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcess Date MAY 88Mincident control centre, kangaroo ground, kangaroo ground-st andrews road, ness lane

35mm colour positive transparency Mount - Black and Whitekangaroo ground-st andrews road, panton hill, panton hill hotel

The Shire of Eltham was introducing a number of traffic calming measures throughout the shire such as speed humps, roundabouts, chicanes and took a photographic record of various new installations.35mm colour positive transparency (4 of 11) Mount - whiteProcess Date "Apr M"infrastructure, roads, bishops road, panton hill, roundabout, merritts road, kangaroo ground-st andrews road

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 5 of 7 stripsKodak GA 100 5095shire of eltham, kangaroo ground-st andrews road, roundabouts, merritts road, panton hill, roads

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 5 of 7 stripsKodak GA 100 5095shire of eltham, kangaroo ground-st andrews road, roundabouts, merritts road, panton hill, roads

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 5 of 7 stripsKodak GA 100 5095shire of eltham, kangaroo ground-st andrews road, roundabouts, panton hill, roads, rodger road, church road

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 5 of 7 stripsKodak GA 100 5095shire of eltham, kangaroo ground-st andrews road, roundabouts, panton hill, roads, rodger road, church road

From a collection of 35 photos taken by Doug Orford at 35 specific locations along the exact boundary of the then Shire of Eltham.Colour photographkangaroo ground - wattle glen road, wattle glen