A report on the history of the Yarra Track by John Waghorn, a local amateur historian.A report on the history of the Yarra Track by John Waghorn, a local amateur historian. John Waghorn was an amateur historian, an authority on the history of Victoria's postal services. He could tell you how mail was delivered in the high country in the 1880s, where the town of Gobur was, or when the overland Melbourne-Sydney mail service began. He admitted that his hobby has got a little out of hand. He had 30 filing cabinets, and indexes of more than 70,000 postal workers over the past 160 years crammed into three rooms at his home. If an ancestor was a postmaster in a Victorian town, he may have been able to reveal the person's occupation, income and working conditions.yarra track, john waghorn, victoria's postal services, wood's point, sydney road, longwood, merton, mansfield, postmasters, bonnie doon, melville merton mansfield, eltham, healesville, marysville, walhalla, melbourne-warburton-wood's point line, loose bags, heidelberg post office, eltham post office, kangaroo ground post office, yarra glen post office, marysville post office, healesville post office, mansfield post office, jamieson post office, gaffney's creek post office, wood's point post office, postal department, george rieck, stockman, jones, beecher, stockman's reward, big river, mary mcdonald, upper yarra river, donovan's creek, cornelius donovan, bridget buggy, matlock, alexandra, william farrell, jordan diggings, new chum, watts river, black spur, narbethong, granton, acheron river, mount strickland, paradise plains, mount grant, mount arnold, jordan goldfields, william robley, robley's spur, big river crossing, great dividing range, cumberland valley, james mcguigan, w elliot, christopher harrison, james marsh, cobb and co, box hill, lilydale, fehrings, koehlers, shaws, bear creek, cairnsville, cumberland creek, walkers, golden bower mine, collins' mountain home hotel, walsh's creek post office, rosa mcveigh, frank barton, hitchins, matthew kennedy, william morris, e r nichols, t woods, tom burchell, peter kerr, henry kuyper, william podlech, george koehler, henry brockmann, henry petty, thomas smith, jacob butchart, john perry, slingsby davis, royal mail hotel, walter gray, john summers, travellers rest hotel, lockington, the oaks, the springs, st clair, thomas crawford, springvale hotel, john sinclair, saint clair hotel, gould, mathews, willie we have missed you hotel, germany, johan fehring, adelaide, linton, ballarat, gunbower, murray river, anna katerina fehring, 1890s depression, land boom, fehring place, fred baker, alf sparke, fehring's hotel, mcveigh's hotel, wood's point mountaineer, l cox, victorian country directories, letson cox, coburg, maria hayes, setson, fitzroy, richmond, john cox, jordan river, jericho, e. norris, le poidevin, newell, o'brien, alhambra, sinclair, parker, ellis, tripp, quin, vernon, thompson, charsley, james fahie, george locke, william chester, chesterville, kirwan, cumberland reserve, blue spruce, e.s. and a bank, selby joyce, selby charles joy, selby joseph joyce

One document about this property: 1/Photocopy of Caulfield Conservation Study by Andrew Ward dated August 1994 - gives architectural features of 133 Kambrook Road, and notes that original 1858 house is still visible. The article also mentions that further additions to the house from 1860 to 1925 eventually upgraded the home to mansion status. The history lists all owner/tenants from 1858 to 1925. Includes two poortly reproduced photos.kambrook road, 'nithsdale', house names, mansions, italianate style, architectural styles, crouch thomas, caulfield north, chambers j., glen eira road, stables, ironmongers, maxwell charles, ogilby james, bambra road, hobbys william, smith dudley, grazier, ward andrew, millers, brockhoff adolph

This file contains 3 items relating to Caulfield historian Agnes Paton Bell: 1/Newspaper article (undated and unsourced) on a history of Caulfield, written by Mrs George Bell to mark the Centenary of Caulfield. This was published prior to 14/02/1966 as the reverse shows prices in pounds sterling. 2/Research notes by GEHS volunteer, dated 11/07/2014, listing items held in the GEHS collection written by Agnes Paton Bell regarding the histories of Melbourne and Caulfield. 3/Copy of an article from the Australian Women's Weekly, dated 27/10/1965 titled 'History is Her Hobby', obtained from the National Library of Australia. The article details Bell's university studies, her historical work, including about the history of Caulfield, and her childhood in Scotland. The article includes two photos - one of Bell at her desk, the other of her and her husband George Bell in his woodworking workshop.glen eira, crotonhurst, rosecraddock, caulfield, caulfield military hospital, harleston, grimwade house, centenary of caulfield, mansions, bell george mrs, bell agnes paton, nelson h g, grimwade, caulfield john, ricketson, webb, langdon, webb-langdon violet, 'melbourne - john batman's village', 'the victorian historical magazine', caulfield road, 'the origin of the name of caulfield', 'naming of caulfield', kilpatrick anne, university of melbourne, bell gavin, 'road district', bell nan dr., australian women's weekly, adult education, students, tertiary education, templeton william j.p., melbourne harbour trust, elsternwick, historical writing, suffragettes, bell george mrs