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Site management review. Letter from John Brandenburg, City of Nunawading, enclosing copy of site management review prepared for Schwerkolt Cottage and draft reportschwerkolt cottage, brandenburg, john p, city of nunawading

Photographed by Betty CROMB, who lived at corner of The Boulevard and Barak Road, after wetlands had been created by the cleanup of the BP site. Before the building of Beacon Cove.One of two colour photos Port Melbourne foreshore, taken and sent by Elizabeth CROMB: Beacon Cove site pre-development. City skyline in background. View toward inland beacon and temporary wetlands soon to become Beacon Cove (The supplementray file is a letter from the donor)natural environment, beacons, town planning, built environment, piers and wharves - station pier, piers and wharves - princes pier, transport - ferries, elizabeth cromb, beacon cove

George Young arrived in Australia in 1856-7 and settled in Eaglehawk where he was the mining manger in a firm that extracted gold from tailings using cyanide. In 1917 it was recalled by the Eaglehawk manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia that he employed about 70 men in his firm. In 1884 he successfully applied through Sergent John Gleeson for Victorian naturalisation. His application was processed along with five others. According to an article in the Australasian he was 'highly respected' in Eaglehawk for his 'uprightness and integrity'. The Bendigo Advertiser described him as being 'held in high esteem' and being 'a kind and benevolent man'. He made donations to the Bendigo Benevolent Asylum and Hospital on a number of occasions and was involved in organising the Chinese performance in the Bendigo Easter Fair in 1879. In June 1900, after his elder brother's death in 1899, George Young returned to China at his father's request to manage the family property. His Chinese-born wife and six Australian-born children accompanied him. Prior to his departure a portrait of the Young family was published in the Australasian and given to prominent citizens of Eaglehawk. A banquet was also given by the citizens of Eaglehawk to see the family off and George Young was presented with an illuminated address.The Faces of China - Bendigo, a presentation author unknown, photo copy of Seo (George) Young and his family with two paragraphs description of Chinese mines and missionaries on the gold fields. Seo Young of Eaglehawk was a wealthy mine tailings manager believed to be the only known Chinese to have occupied a position of authority over both Caucasians and Chinese workers.Handwritten on the rear is "found in "Chinese Footsteps" Historical sites of Bendigo.history, bendigo, eaglehawk, chinese, chinese mine managers, chinese missionaries