Walter Withers was a significant Australian landscape artist and a member of the Heidelberg School of Australian Impressionists. In 1903 Withers bought 'Southernwood', a house on 2½ acres (1 ha) at Eltham, to which he added a studio. Because of ill health, he lived during the week at his studio in Oxford Chambers, Melbourne, and on weekends and holidays with his family at Eltham until his death in 1914. The Eltham rail bridge is a unique and valuable historic relic of an earlier steam locomotive transport era in the Diamond Creek Valley and has long formed an important part of a magnificent Eltham landscape. When built in 1902 it was close to the terminus point of the Heidelberg-Eltham rail extension, on the route of the proposed Diamond Valley Railway that was then planned to continue much further up the valley towards Kinglake. This bridge is situated in attractive river-valley parkland amidst the tall and spreading manna gums and candlebarks of the Diamond Creek Valley. The Alistair Knox Park river-valley landscape, of which the timber trestle bridge is an important visual component, has been classified by the National Trust. Large manna gum and candlebark trees adorn the adjacent creek banks, and historic Shillinglaw Cottage is also part of this much-prized Eltham landscape. Eltham is home to a historic wooden railway trestle bridge. Mainly of timber-pier and timber-beam construction, but varied by a few longer steel-joists spans on timber piers at the main stream channel, this substantial bridge has almost two hundred metres of timber deck. Built in 1902, it is the only railway bridge of predominantly timber construction that is still in regular use as an integral part of Melbourne's metropolitan electric railway network and one of extremely few timber rail bridges in the State that still carry trains. Apart from its important continuing social function as a carrier of rail transport for the Hurstbridge line, this impressive bridge and its beautiful parkland environs contribute much to the character of Eltham township and that town's special reputation as an historic centre of environmental and conservation concerns. This section of the Diamond Creek Valley was the subject of a Walter Withers painting in the earliest years of the twentieth century and has strong historic links with our Heidelberg School of painters. Watercolour painting on paper of Eltham's Trestle Bridge in the middle of the day. A small section of the wooden bridge is located to the left of the painting. The focus is predominately on the wattle, manna gum and candlebark trees that is to the right of the bridge. The golden hues typically represent the australian sunlight and landscape. "W.W" in gothic script on the lower right side of the painting. Not dated. withers, eltham, trestle bridge, railway, watercolour

Norther Grampians Shire removed Gold Reef Mall arguing that it would revitalise the Shopping PrecinctTwo Colour Photographs of works demolishing Gold Reef Mall

Article on the development of 'Banksia Estate', former site of Blackburn South Primary School, Branksome Grove, by the Urban Land Authority. In Nunawading Gazette, 6 October 1992.Article on the development of 'Banksia Estate', banksia estate, victoria. urban land authority, blackburn south primary school, no. 4035, xeriscope, water supply, canterbury road, blackburn south, branksome grove, land subdivision

Article on the development plan of the Hale Estate, Mitcham.Article on the development planhale estate, mitcham, glenburnie road, orion street, vermont, grey street, malvern street, land subdivision

Article on the development of 'Banksia Estate', former site of the Blackburn South Primary School, Branksome Grove, by the Urban Land Authority. In Nunawading Post, 4 October 1992.Article on the development of 'Banksia Estate',banksia estate, victoria. urban land authority, blackburn south primary school, no. 4035, xeriscope, water supply, canterbury road, blackburn south, branksome grove, land subdivision

Report of two prominent sites in Nunawading having been sold to undisclosed buyers. The first was the remaining 4.8 hectare Winlaton site in Springvale Road and the second site was the former Blackburn Secondary College site, an area of 3.25 hectares in Koonung Road, Blackburn North.Report of two prominent sites land sales, winlaton, springvale road, nunawading, blackburn secondary college, koonung road, blackburn north, talbot, birner, morley (auctioneer), seventh day adventist church, campbell, tony (pastor), l. j. hooker