The building is the stables at 'Harpsdale', at Mickleham. The land was used for grazing by nearly European settlers from as early as 1836. The Brodie family purchased the property along with others in the area in 1864 and remained there until 1906. The homestead was built on the property in 1875 and the stables were built in 1883. Since the Brodie family left the property it has had various uses over the years.Many properties like 'Harpsdale' were established in the Bulla Bulla, Sunbury area by Europeans and were used for grazing cattle and sheep.A non-digital black and white photograph of a double storey brick building with a wooden post and rail fence at the rear of the building.harpsdale homestead, yuroke, farming, mickleham, stables, brodie family

Frederick Steele Ferguson (1861-1938) married Beatrice O'Brien in 1898. Originally they lived at 19 Brodie Street, Quarry Hill, but by 1925 they were registered as living on the corner of Rodney and Reginald Street with their son Frederick Steele McNair Ferguson and his wife Amelia, and later with their daughter Maude. It appears the family continued to live at this address following Frederick snrs death. Frederick and his son Frederick jnr were wool merchants.Black and white photograph mounted on rectangular brown board. House, weatherboard and rough cast, verandah with brick balustrade and rough cast pillars, corrugated iron roof, 1 chimney with 2 pots, double front door, small bay window at RH side, bay window under verandah, sleepout/sunroom attached at back right, established garden, concrete path, hedge at front, woven crinkled wire fence. On back of photo' F. Ferguson, £1800 corner Rodney and Reginald Streets, 15.4.30 corner Rodney and Reginald Streets. 2012 photo of house attached to record.Frank A. Jeffree Bendigobendigo, business, t c watts & son