Sketches and text relating to buildings, structures, wild life and plants in the Dandenong RangesSpiral bound paperback [54] p. in landscape format; chiefly ill.; ISBN 0959631704 (2 parts)best wishes, Clare Hutsondandenong ranges, victoria, australia, emerald, victoria, australia, buildings, art, clare hutson, emerald country club, emerald railway station

Items relate to 1921 when the Town Estate was being developed and includes other views of the areaPhotographs and reproductions of Newspaper Clippings relating to Emerald - 1921 1) Emerald railway station, 2) Heroes Avenue 1921, 3) View from the Estate 4) Main Country Roads Board Road and the post office 5) Locality plan showing Main roads and railways 6) Town Estate Auction notice 7) Town Estate locality Plan and advertisements.town estate, railway, heroes avenue

Photographs and reproductions of Newspaper Clippings relating to Emerald - 1921 1) Emerald railway station, 2) Heroes Avenue 1921, 3) View from the Estate 4) Main Country Roads Board Road and the post office 5) Locality plan showing Main roads and railways 6) Town Estate Auction notice 7) Town Estate locality Plan and advertisements.Original copy of advertisement for "Town Estate Emerald Auction - 122 Magnificent allotments". Auction set for Melbourne cup day 1/ 11 (also included is letter from Vic Racing Club confirming the cup was run on 1/11 in 1921) Original land title plans ( 1921) issued for the parish of Gembrook for the purchase by John R Phillips of 10 blocks - 5 Kings Ave and 5 Heroes Ave - back to back forming large block.phillips, john phillips, town estate, t.w. butcher, parish of gembrook, kings rd, heroes avenue, peacock, land titles

Produced as a souvenir for the Puffing Billy Preservation Society. A useful 'potted history'.Small cardboard souvenir booklet, 12 leaves plus cover, coloured photographs and text -some surface damage and soilingemerald, victoria, australia, rail services, railway stations, tourism, puffing billy, puffing billy preservation society, emerald lake park, emerald tourist railway board

The Gembrook Nurseries, informally known as the Nobelius Nurseries after the founder Carl Axel Nobelius, began with the purchase of sixty-three acres in 1886 and boomed in the 1890s due to opportunities provided by employment-promoting schemes to develop public parks and gardens and street shade by local and State Governments around Australia. Trees were sold to more than forty councils and Government organisations in the 1890s, including the Department of Agriculture, Lands Department and Victorian Railways. The need to transport nursery products by train via Ferntree Gully rather than by bullock dray to Narre Warren was a factor in the successful petition to develop what is now known as the Puffing Billy Railway. Railway developments in 1900 included the creation of a siding and Packing Shed, known as Nobelius Station, which is featured in this photograph. The Packing Shed was able to handle 250,000 cases of fruit each year at the height of the nurseries' activities. The image shows the Packing Shed with boarded-up windows, suggesting it was taken prior to the purchase of the facility for use in the Puffing Billy Railway service. Gembrook Nurseries had an indirect influence on the development of other farms and industries in the region. As a wholesale nursery with high sales volumes it was an important employer of local people. Peak season for employees was during the cooler months, during most farmers' off-season. This provided local farmers with a source of income while their own farms were becoming established.The photograph is significant because it depicts infrastructure associated with the Gembrook or Nobelius Nurseries, a business which was instrumental to the development of Emerald as a settlement in the 19th and 20th Centuries and also influenced the development of public and private gardens and the farming of several species in Australia and internationally. The Nobelius Nursery is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. The image appears to show the Packing Shed building prior to its restoration as a tourist facility.Black and white rectangular photograph printed on print media paper. The image depicts the Gembrook Nurseries Packing Shed building with boarded up windows.Obverse: NOBELIUS NURSERIES / . WEEKEND TRADING . /1970s, gembrook nurseries, puffing billy railway, carl axel nobelius, packing shed, railway stations, farming, agriculture

The Gembrook Nurseries, informally known as the Nobelius Nurseries after the founder Carl Axel Nobelius, began with the purchase of sixty-three acres in 1886 and boomed in the 1890s due to opportunities provided by employment-promoting schemes to develop public parks and gardens and street shade by local and State Governments around Australia. Trees were sold to more than forty councils and Government organisations in the 1890s, including the Department of Agriculture, Lands Department and Victorian Railways. The need to transport nursery products by train via Ferntree Gully rather than by bullock dray to Narre Warren was a factor in the successful petition to develop what is now known as the Puffing Billy Railway. Railway developments in 1900 included the creation of a siding and Packing Shed, known as Nobelius Station, which is featured in this photograph. The Packing Shed was able to handle 250,000 cases of fruit each year at the height of the nurseries' activities. The image shows the Packing Shed prior to the purchase of the facility for use in the Puffing Billy Railway service. Gembrook Nurseries had an indirect influence on the development of other farms and industries in the region. As a wholesale nursery with high sales volumes it was an important employer of local people. Peak season for employees was during the cooler months, during most farmers' off-season. This provided local farmers with a source of income while their own farms were becoming established.The photograph is significant because it depicts infrastructure associated with the Gembrook or Nobelius Nurseries, a business which was instrumental to the development of Emerald as a settlement in the 19th and 20th Centuries and also influenced the development of public and private gardens and the farming of several species in Australia and internationally. The Nobelius Nursery is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. The image appears to show the Packing Shed building prior to its restoration as a tourist facility.Black and white rectangular photograph printed on print media paper. The image depicts the Gembrook Nurseries Packing Shed building. The building is made from weatherboard and features a brick chimney. There is also a tall tree standing next to the chimney.Obverse: IUS NURSERIES / TRADING ... /gembrook nurseries, puffing billy railway, carl axel nobelius, packing shed, railway stations, farming, agriculture

The township of Emerald was settled after gold was discovered in the area in 1858. Emerald's 'square mile' was established and roads between the township, other towns in the region and Melbourne were established (with alterations to the original layout in the intervening years). From these first years of the settlement roads and services to support the transport of goods (from businesses making and repairing carts and drays to mechanics' workshops to service cars and industrial vehicles) were integral to the economic survival and development of the township. Closely associated with the history of Emerald is the history of the Gembrook or Nobelius Nurseries, which transported trees and other plants to parks and private gardens in Melbourne, in other Australian locations and in many other countries. Impassable roads to transport goods in Winter, and the difficulty of transporting goods by bullock team or horse and cart over a route that at that time went via the railway station at Narre Warren led to Carl Axel Nobelius and other local business owners successfully lobbying the Victorian Government to build the narrow gauge railway to the Ferntree Gully line that is now operated as the tourist attraction 'Puffing Billy.' Puffing Billy was primarily a goods transport service, but did transport passengers in both directions of travel for both everyday needs and recreational purposes. The Puffing Billy service did not remove the need for local families and businesses to provide their own transport options, however, whenever they needed to move smaller loads or to access places not served by the railway lines or stations. In the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries transport options included carts of various sizes pulled by horses, oxen or bullocks. In the 1920s and 1930s cars (which had existed in Australia in early forms from approximately 1896) began to replace horses as the primary mode of transportation across Australia. By the end of the Second World War cars dominated transport options in rural areas as well as urban. Correspondingly, businesses to service vehicles shifted from focusing on repairs and maintenance of harnesses and cart structures to the repair and servicing of cars and other vehicles. Museum records indicate that the image was taken in the Shell Service Station in Emerald in approximately 1990. There is still a Shell Service Station in Emerald, located at 336-338 Belgrave-Gembrook Road, though it is now part of the Coles Express network.This image is significant because it provides insights into the development of automotive and engineering workshop businesses in the region, part of the progression from wheelwright and cartwright businesses in the days of oxen drays to businesses servicing cars and other vehicles. As part of this, it also provides insight into the equipment available at the time the photograph was taken, which is speculated to be the late 1980s or early 1990s. Identification of the two men pictured may also help ascertain the significance of the image.Black and white rectangular photograph printed on print media paper. The image depicts two men standing in front of a piece of mechanic's workshop equipment on which a Bridgestone tyre has been loaded. One of the men is wearing long-sleeved overalls, the other is wearing dark trousers and a polo-neck T-shirt. Museum records indicate the photograph may have been taken at the Shell Service Station.Obverse: BRIDGESTONE / SF-340 EAGER /emerald, victoria, australia, transport, automotive services, shell service station, cars, motor vehicles, puffing billy, businesses, local business

Collection of items related to the return of Puffing Billy to Gembrookemerald, victoria, australia, rail services, railway stations

Plan of subdivision of Bay View Estate. T.R.B. Morton and Son, Auctioneers, 80 Swanston Street, Melbourne and Box Hill. Local Agent, T.W. Butcher (1920's). Commencing 8 chains from Railway Station. Bounded by Beaconsfield Road (old) Shire road, 30th April, 1925. Includes description of Emerald Easter Monday 13 April 1925. Terms of Sale Two Pounds deposit, One Pound per month, Interest 6% per annum.Bayview Estate Emerald: Photocopy of original real estate subdivision plan.emerald, victoria, australia, land sales, real estate agencies, maps, bay view estate, t.w. butcher