Family Groups on rock face (possibly Grampians) Picnic at Concongella, In foreground Papa (J H) & Gran Rathgeber (Sarah Anne)

Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo Group o Men women and children at Henry Best's Concongella vineyard, Great Western with horse and cart loaded with barrels of grapes. Two lads have musical instruments.winery, wine making

Concongella State School No 1136 2nd Class Reward for Sarah Walsh. Xmas 1885stawell education

Concongella School No 1136 9th Prize for Attendance awarded to Patrick Walsh. Xmas 1884stawell education

Concongella School No 1136 6th Class 4th Prize to Patrick Walsh. Xmas 1886stawell education

Concongella School No 1136 6th Class 4th Prize to Patrick Walsh. Xmas 1887stawell education

Concongella State School No 1136 3nd Class 7th Prize to Sarah Walsh. Xmas 1886stawell education

Concongella State School No 1136 4th Class 8th Prize to Sarah Walsh. Xmas 1887stawell education

Concongella State School No 1136 5th Class 9th Prize to Sarah Walsh. Xmas 1888stawell education

Concongella School No 1136 2nd Class 1st Prize for Attendance awarded to Patrick Walsh. 1882stawell education

Concongella School No 1136 5th Class 3rd Prize awarded to Patrick Walsh. Xmas 1885stawell education

Site of Childe Home Concongella 1994 showing where well was.stawell

Concongella School No 1136 2nd Class 1st Prize for Attendance awarded to Patrick Walsh. Xmas 1882stawell

Group of men and boys picking grapes at Henry Best's Concongella vineyard Great Western c1900wine, winery

Moved to Ballarat East 1980Colour photograph of Locomotive Steam Engine D3 608 at Cato Park Taken September 1975 by Geoff Pianta. Kiosk of swimming pool in background. Two boys Tim and Peter Pianta Great Great grandsons of Martino Pianta an early settler from Concongellatransport, railways, tourism

Blue Plastic covers with black Plastic spine.Great Western and District Cemeteries The Great Western Cemetery The Allanvale Station Cemetery The Concongella Station cemetery The Armstongs Diggings Cemeterystawell

This Book is most interesting - Melbourne's Beginnings. The Inscription in front of this book M.G. Phillips (nee Taylor), taught school at Concongella during World War II.Soft Card cover of a green and cream colour Three Separate Panels on front cover. Top panel contains a drawing of a ship moored at shore with trees in background. Send Panel Is a Shield with curled side inside is The Title and Authors Name in Brown print. The Lower Panel is the largest contains a drawing of a river with a bridge crossing it, also a church and domed building with a clock tower in the distance. Back Cover contains a drawing of a series of books, in the shape of question mark with a Kookaburra sitting at the top.Inside front cover hand written M.G. Phillipsstawell education

Sepia photograph of men and boys outside the cellars at Henry Best's Concongella vineyard, Great Western. Two horses with a cart and large barrel are shown. Late 1800's

Group of grape pickers at St Peters vineyard, Great Western. Taken on the slope on north side of Concongella Creek, looking towards the house with Invines Vineyard in the background. Emile Blampied on the right. c1890

The First Edition of the "The Reef" a Magazine for Local State Schools, Stawell, Black Range, Green's Creek, Illawarra, Pomonal, Glenorchy, Deep Lead, Morrl Morrl, Joel Joel, Concongella, Salt Creek, Great Western, Wallaloo East, Campbell's Bridge, Callawadda, Warngar, Frechman's, Landsborough West and Landsborough.733: Grey Card Cover with black Design Balck Text Inside 733A: Purple Card Cover with black Design Balck Text Inside 733B: Fawn Card Cover with black Design Balck Text Inside Badly Torn 733C: Brown Card Cover with black Design Balck Text Inside 733D: Brown Card Cover with black Design Balck Text Inside Cover torn Bottom Right Missing 733E: Brown Card Cover with black Design Balck Text Inside Cover torn Bottom Right Missing 733F:Brown Card Cover with black Design Balck Text Inside Cover torn top Right MissingOctober 1921 Vol 1 ...... No.1 The Reef 733A; No. 5 October 1927 The Pinnacle Stawell Inspectorate School Magazine. Not Failure But Low Aim Is crime R.L. Henerson Price One Shilling 733B: No. 2 October 1924 The Pinnacle Stawell Inspectorate School Magazine. Not Failure But Low Aim Is crime R.L. Henerson Price One Shilling 733C: No. 1 September 1923 The Pinnacle Stawell Inspectorate School Magazine. Not Failure But Low Aim Is crime R.L. Henerson Price One Shilling 733D: No. 3 October 1925 The Pinnacle Stawell Inspectorate School Magazine. Not Failure But Low Aim Is crime R.L. Henerson Price One Shilling 733E: No. 4 October 1926 The Pinnacle Stawell Inspectorate School Magazine. Not Failure But Low Aim Is crime R.L. Henerson Price One Shilling (Cynthia Bodey Top Right Hand Written) 733F: No. 6 October 1928 The Pinnacle Stawell Inspectorate School Magazine. Not Failure But Low Aim Is crime R.L. Henerson Price One Shilling stawell education

Edmund Craigie Grant died 1894 63 years. Married 1862. The firm Grant, Lamont & Coy were the first to erect Quartz Crushing machinery at Concongella Creek and later in Stawell at what became North Park. They built a house called "ALVIE" 39 Darlington Road (still standing 2005).Black & white photograph of Edmond Craigie Grant sitting in a chair holding a manuscript or magazine. Creelwaut Co (?) Burlington Galleries, corner of King & George Sts. Sydney Arcadestawell portrait

Portrait of Jean Pierre Trouette who planted vines at St Peters Great Western 1862. Jean Pierre Trouette, was a Frenchman who had difficulty obtaining a block of land at Great Western about 1862. He was permitted to purchase a small allotment on the Concongella Creek in 1863. In 1863 Jean Pierre and Mr. Blampied began planting grape vines. The winery that Trouette and Blampied established was called St Peters. Jean Pierre was Shire President in 1876. E. Blampied was also Shire President in 1887.Black and white photograph setting oval in a rectangle, mounted in a brown folder. The male is neatly dressed, trimmed hair and beard.great western shire president

Great Western. Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866. Great Western began as a changing station on Concongella, northeast of the present Township. The gold rush in Great Western began in 1858 and soon after a post office and store opened. A Township was surveyed and lots sold in October 1858. The gold soon passed and the diggers went on, leaving a small settlement. In 1863 Jean Pierre Trouette and Emile Bampied, his brother-in-law, planted the first vines and build the first winery, thus setting a firm foundation upon which the present wine industry has been built. Telegraph poles and wires visible. Bakery visible in distance on right of road, looking west. stawell

Fountain Head Brewery Armstrong's. Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866. The brewery, a three-storey high building, was established close to two streams which joined the Concongella Creek near Armstrong, although the water required to run the brewery was obtained from a natural underground spring which is still visible. Further findings of Gold in Victoria around 1859-1860 brought a large rush of miners to the area. Some stayed on to become merchants, farmers, etc. Jens Kofoed, a shipwright from the Netherlands, was one who came to the area at this time. He and his family move to Armstrong in 1860, establishing the Fountain Head Brewery, which employed quite a number of people for about 40 years. stawell industry

Allanvale Home Station. Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866. Allanvale was taken up about 1841 by John Allen, who was the son of George Allan of Allanvale, near Launceston in Van Diemen's Land. He selected 80,000 acres between present day Stawell and Ararat. The property was gradually reduced in size, with the first split occurring in the 1840s with the annexation of Concongella Selection due to a land dispute. J.S. Davidson was the occupier of Allanvale at the time this photograph was taken. The homestead pictured here was destroyed by fire at the end of the First World War and replaced by a new building around 1923. The present owners of Allanvale are the Kilpatrick family A note on the Allan family. On the 15th of March 1845, John Allen's 26 year old wife died at the birth of their third child, a daughter, who also died several weeks later. Elizabeth Allen had been a dear friend of Mrs Horatio Wills of neighbouring Lexington station. Eliza and her daughter were buried side by side in the garden of Lexington homestead. She was said to have been the first white woman to have died in the district. Homestead and stables on left with people on verandah and orchard in foreground.stawell great western