2/1farm buildings, machinery, dairy, animals, cows

Black and white photograph. Hand tinted photograph of farm buildings, hill in background. 1960's station wagon next to building. Windmill in centre of photo. Two tanks in centre (L) of picture. Gate swung open. Chicken wire fence. History: With note 'Photographs from Mrs Ella Bourke, 131 Barnard St, Bendigo, Ph 438269', Photographs Francis (Frank) Thomas Kennedy:.Francis (Frank) Thomas Kennedytopic, farming, see also 2001.152.01, 2001.153.01, 2001.154.01, 2001.157.01, 2001.158.01, 2001.160.01, 2001.161.01, 2001.162.01

Buildings at Lennister Farm near Eltham Lower Park shortly before Nillumbik Shire Council demolished them.jim connor collection, eltham lower park, lenister farm area

Brochure publicising Fairfield House, Cellars and grounds after its purchase and restoration by Mrs Melba Slamen, the Great-Granddaughter of the original builder, George Francis Morris.Brochure printed on orange paper, folded into four pages, publicising the newly restored Fairfield Property.fairfield house, melba slaman, george francis morris, morris family

4 colour photographs taken from a small aeroplane. Views of countryside, river, valley, mountains, dams, farm buildings countryside, aerial views, river, valley, farm buildings, dams, mountains

Photograph of the Mt Derrimut stone farm building Deer Park Depicts type of building erected and made generally of blue stone blocks Building is thought to date back to the 1850s and 1860s when Richard and Septimus Morton developed a shorthorn cattle stud This picture appears in the publication Glimpses of early Sunshinemt. derrimut, deer park, building

A black and white photograph with a narrow cream border of a two storey brick farm building with attached stable. A wooden fence with a cyclone wire fence is in the foreground.farm buildings

The mud brick cottage and outbuilding was possibly built by James Waylett in the 1850's and it is only one of three remaining mud brick buildings in the Oaklands-Greenvale which were constructed in the late 19th Century.A coloured photograph of farm scene. A dam is in the foreground and the remains of a mud brick cottage and timber and corrugated building in the middle distance. Further farm buildings can be seen in the distance.mud brick buildings, waylett, james, farm buildings, sherwood, somerton road, oaklands hunt club, george evans collection

The disused farm building is part of a larger farm complex in the Bulla area.A coloured photograph of a disused building. The walls are timber with a corrugated iron roof. Various items of rubble are scattered around the outside of the building and the remains of a 40 gallon drum is in the foreground. Some native trees are growing on either side of the building.farm buildings, george evans collection

Hay Baling Thornton-Kanya. Two Black and White Photographs.

Black and White Photograph of Reg, Glad & Edna Rae on horseback & photograph of sheep grazing with car & dead trees in background.

Black and White Photographs of Reginald Thornton on horseback & Eliza Thornton standing near fence.

Black and White Photographs of farm late 1800's and two coloured photographs 2015.

House sites in colour at top. 2015 Bottom Houses with Eliza Thornton wife of Charles. Left hand side house was re-located to Ligar Street Stawell in 1900's.

Kanya farm scenes 2018 in colour and B/W approx. 1890

Farm shed at Thornton's Kanya still standing in 2018. B/W photograph on horseback Reginald Thornton, Edna Rae Thornton (Married Frank Coward) smallest child Gladys Thornton.

The photograph was taken from the rear of the Emu Bottom Homestead and its outbuildings. George Evans, one of the earliest European settlers in Sunbury, built Emu Bottom homestead in the 1830s. The original building was made from Silurian sandstone cut from the surrounding hills. A black and white landscape photograph with a cream border of farm buildings.homesteads, emu bottom, george evans, settlers, jackson creek

Black and white photograph of a cactus in a rock garden. Farm buildings in the background."See 6.1." E M Gibson (B10.0030 197)903 6/2e. m. gibson collection, cactus, rock garden, dairy, commonwealth reconstruction training scheme students

Colour photograph of brick and tin farm buildings in rural setting, with dam in foreground.buildings, woolsheds, agricultural activity

These 4 postcards show various aspects of the Orbost district - dairying, railways, buildings, Snowy RiverThese postcards are significant because they show aspects of the Orbost district, c.1920s-1940sFour postcards, all b/w of Orbost scenes. 3345.1 shows a river in the foreground, farm house and buildings. 3345.2 farm buildings, barns, people and a dairy herd 3345.3 shows a long railway bridge across flat land, farm buildings 3345.4 shows a large building on the corner of two streets. 3345.1 Snowy River, Orbost 3345.2 Dairy Herd, Orbost 3345.3 Railway Viaduct, Orbost Flats 3345.4 G & N Stores, orbost orbost, railway, snowy river, gippsland & northern, dairying

Colour photograph of black and white original (behind glass) of old farm building, location unknown (reflections evident)buildings, sheds, farming

A black and white photograph of a farm buildings at Rupertswood with Jackson Creek in the near background and the Caloola Training Centre on the hill in the background.sunbury asylum, rupertswood, farming, clarke, william (sir), farmbuildings, salesian order, caloola training centre, george evans collection

The children were spending the day at Woodlands Homestead learning old skills such as fire building and fire care at a Colonial Day.A non-digital coloured photograph of children building a small pile of sticks with an adult helping them. There are farm buildings in the background. wise, fay., linton, candice, brown, courtney

Colour photograph of the wedding party at marriage of Chris and Lisa Whelan taken at farm building Nyerimilang Park Nungurner Victoriacelebrations

Stuchbery Farm was situated on the Plenty River bounded by Smugglers Gully to the north and La trobe Road, Yarrambat, to the east. Alan and Ada Stutchbery moved to the valley in 1890, first living in a tent where four children were born. Alfred built a home and outbuildings around 1896. They planted an orchard, then a market garden and developed a dairy. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then /​ Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p179 The dramatic steep-sided Plenty Gorge lies along the divide of two geological areas, and separates the Nillumbik Shire and the City of Whittlesea. On the Nillumbik side are undulating hills and sedimentary rock, and in Whittlesea, lies a basalt plain formed by volcanic action up to two million years ago. This provides the Plenty Gorge Park with diverse vegetation and habitats, making it one of Greater Melbourne’s most important refuges for threatened and significant species. The park, established in 1986, consists of around 1350 hectares, and extends 11 kilometres along the Plenty River, from Greensborough to Mernda. It provides a wildlife corridor for around 500 native plant and 280 animal species. The area’s plentiful food and water attracted the Wurundjeri Aboriginal people and then European settlers. By 1837 squatters had claimed large runs of land for their sheep and cattle. The Plenty Valley was among the first in the Port Phillip District to be settled - mainly in the less heavily timbered west - and was proclaimed a settled district in 1841. But by the late 1880s, the settlers’ extensive land clearing for animal grazing, then agriculture, depleted the Wurundjeri’s traditional food sources, which helped to drive them away. Many Wurundjeri artefacts remain (now government protected), and so far 57 sites have been identified in the park, including scarred trees, burial areas and stone artefacts. Pioneer life could be very hard because of isolation, flooding, bushfires and bushrangers. Following the Black Thursday bushfires of 1851, basalt was quarried to build more fire-resistant homes. Gold discoveries in the early 1850s swelled the population, particularly around Smugglers Gully; but food production made more of an impact. In the late 1850s wheat production supplanted grazing. In the 1860s the government made small holdings available to poorer settlers. These had the greatest effect on the district, particularly in Doreen and Yarrambat, where orchards were established from the 1880s to 1914. Links with a prominent early family are the remains of Stuchbery Farm, by the river’s edge bounded by Smugglers Gully to the north and La Trobe Road, Yarrambat, to the east. The Stuchberys moved to the valley in 1890, and the family still lives in the area. In 1890, Alfred and Ada first lived in a tent where four children were born, then Alfred built the house and outbuildings around 1896. They planted an orchard, then a market garden, and developed a dairy. The family belonged to the local Methodist and tennis communities. Their grandson Walter, opened the Flying Scotsman Model Railway Museum in Yarrambat, which his widow, Vi, continues to run. Wal was also the Yarrambat CFA Captain for 22 years until 1987. Walter sold 24 hectares in 1976 for development - now Vista Court - and in 1990, the remaining 22.6 hectares for the park. Remaining are an early stone dairy and remnants of a stone barn, a pig sty and a well. Until it was destroyed by fire in 2003, a slab hut stood on the Happy Hollow Farm site, at the southern end of the park. The hut is thought to have been built in the Depression around 1893. This was a rare and late example of a slab hut with a domestic orchard close to Melbourne. Emmet Watmough and his family first occupied the hut, followed by a succession of families, until the Bell family bought it around 1948. There they led a subsistence lifestyle for 50 years, despite encroaching Melbourne suburbia. The Yellow Gum Recreation Area includes the Blue Lake, coloured turquoise at certain times of the year. Following the 1957 bushfires, this area was quarried by Reid Quarries Pty Ltd for Melbourne’s first skyscrapers, then by Boral Australia. However in the early 1970s water began seeping into the quarry forming the Blue Lake and the quarry was closed. The State Government bought the site in 1997 and opened it as a park in 1999.This collection of almost 130 photos about places and people within the Shire of Nillumbik, an urban and rural municipality in Melbourne's north, contributes to an understanding of the history of the Shire. Published in 2008 immediately prior to the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009, it documents sites that were impacted, and in some cases destroyed by the fires. It includes photographs taken especially for the publication, creating a unique time capsule representing the Shire in the early 21st century. It remains the most recent comprehenesive publication devoted to the Shire's history connecting local residents to the past. nillumbik now and then (marshall-king) collection, ada stuchbery, alan stuchbery, dairy, stuchbery farm, farm buildings, yarrambat, plenty gorge park