Story of Scammell House Article & Photos

Interview with Margaret Ganley about Scammell HouseArticle & PhotoArticle from Real Life Magazine by Michelle Ednacott & Barbara Maher

Reports address to local Probus Club by Carleen ThornbergArticles and photos

View of front Scammell House

Photograph of deck house room downstairs (Eastern Side )scammel deckhouse

Photograph of Scammell House as it was in 1936

Family photo at Scammell House Private residence Black & White Photographshipwrecks great ocean road victoria

Family photo at the rear of housePrivate residenceBlack & White Photcopy shipwrecks great ocean road victoria, scammell house

Private residenceFamily photo in front of house looking towards the oceanshipwrecks great ocean road victoria

Scammell House Photograph from womans Weekly Writing short stories in the ships house

Family PhotoPride family in front of deck house

Interior of house original wallsScammell HouseScammmell Houseshipwrecks great ocean road victoria

Original walls and portholesScammell housePhotocopyNil

Scammell house Photocopy of original walls and doorsscammel deckhouse, wreck of joseph h scammell

Scammell HousePhotocopy of residents in front of house

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Scammell HousePhoto of front of house & Drivewaywreck of joseph h scammell

Pride Family on picnic at AngleseaPhotocopy of Pride family Pride family on picnic at Angleseapride family

Pride Family dressedin Britanica costume at Centenial ball at TIAPhotocopy

Photo of Martha Pride Pride Family Photocopy

Pride sisters -Margarets Aunties Photocopy scammell house, pride family

Photograph is of Herbert Winkler of the 13th Australian Light Horse.Another Torquay district soldier who served his country in WW1.Black and white photographanzac torquay

Possibly members of the Pride Family watching tennis at Beales Street during 1920.sScammell HouseSepia copy photo1920s tennis spectators

Photograph of William Prides house at 10 Latrobe Terrace Geelong in 1890,SWilliam prides home in GeelongSepia copy photo Nowilliam pride

Photograph is of Mary Gundry (nee Watson)Mary Gundry was the wife of Joseph Gundry, She was born on 23 July 1816 in Hobart Town and married Joseph at Hamilton, Tasmania. She died in 1905 and is buried at Jan Juc. (Bellbrae). Her grandmother was Rachel Hoddy who was transported to Australia on the Lady Juliana in the Second Fleet. The women of the Second Fleet were transported and recruited to Sydney to restore the imbalance to "civilise" the colony. Rachel married Isaac Williams who had been transported to Norfolk Island and later Tasmania. Her child Hannah Williams as the first generation would be referred to as a Currency Lass. She later married a convict Richard Watson. Hannah is buried at Watsons Marsh in the Derwent Valley in Tasmania. Their child Mary was to become Mary Gundry. Joseph and Mary arrived in Victoria with two children, John William and Joseph James. Mary had another child, Mary, when she married Joseph.Charles was the first child born at Jan Juc in 1844. Black and white photograph

Joseph Gundry was born at Lopen ,Somerset England circa 1810.He arrived in Van Dieman's Land 1832from England ,followed by his brothers,William 1837,and Charles later .Joseph died a Jan Juc in 1878 and is buried it the Bellbrae Cemetery .Black and white photograph of Joseph Gundry

Photograph shows a gathering in front of the original Bellbrae school. The Bellbrae school was the seat of learning for the children of the Bellbrae pioneers.Black and white photographbellbrae victoria pioneer families

Photograph shows Llanberris House, built by Joseph and Mary Gundry on Iron Bark Station, west of the Anglesea Geelong Road, off Menzels Road above Spring Creek. The Gundrys took up Iron Bark station in 1844 and subsequently bought up more surrounding land. Just prior to Joseph's death in 1878, the property comprising 7721 acres was offered for sale as well as conditional rights to adjoining land. Llanberis House was a substantial stone dwelling of 2 storeys with 11 rooms.The Gundry family was one of the pioneering European settlers in the Bellbrae Torquay area.Black and white photographbellbrae victoria pioneer families

Photographs donated by Valda ConnellyGundry descententsIron Bark Station was purchased by Joseph Gundry in 1844 The property consisted of 7721 acres plus conditional rights to adjoining properties.The station housed 6000 sheep and 60 cattle . In the top left hand corner of the photograph you can see the LLAMBERIS House built by Joseph Gundry. It was thought that later the property was sold and Roderick Impey Murchison was the buyer,he later offered it for sale in 1885 and later that year A N Hassall invited tenders for lots of Liamberis.C j Cook was the listed owner in 1888 ( land of the Magpie)

Photograph shows members of the Bubb family cutting ironbark logs in the Anglesea forest for their sawmill. The sawmill was established after WW2 to provide work for his sons. The sons who worked at the mill were Arthur, Harold (aka Jimmy), and Robert all of whom are buried at Bellbrae cemetery. As well as providing timber for their own use, Bubbs' timber was used in many homes around the Anglesea and Bellbrae areas.The Bubb family was a prominent pioneer family in the Bellbrae district.Black and white photographbellbrae victoria pioneer families