.1 PHOTOCOPY OF HISTORY OF GLENDONALD POST OFFICE GLENDONALD POST OFFICE WAS OPENED ON 15 JANUARY 1868, AND WAS MADE A RECEIVING OFFICE ON 19 AUGUST 1894. IT WAS CLOSED ON 1 JULY 1917. IT USED BARRED NUMERAL CANCEL 639. GLENDONALD WAS A SMALL RURAL SETTLEMENT LOCATED ON THE INTERSECTION OF TH CRESWICK-CLUNES ROAD AND MINER'S REST-CASTLEMAINE ROAD BETWEEN CLUNES AND CRESWICK. IT WAS SITED AT THE FOOT OF CATTLE STATION HILL. BETWEEN 1874 AND 1885 THE POST OFFICE WAS CONDUCTED BY THE CATTLE STATION STATE SCHOOL HEADMASTER POST OFFICERS AT GLENDONALD WERE: WILLIAM B. LANGDON 1868 E S LANGDON 1868 - 1870 ELISABETH GOOD 1870-1874 ALEXANDER GILLIAN 1874-1885 ARTHUR W BEAN 1885 CHARLOTTE VALINS 1885 THOMAS DUNSTON 1885-1894 ELIZABETH PEARCY 1894-1901 EDWARD PEARCY 1901-1913 NOT KNOWN 1913-1917 .2PHOTOCOPY OF HISTORY OF GLENGOWER/MIDDLE CREEK POST OFFICE GLENGOWER POST OFFICE OPENED ON 13 JANUARY 1868 AS MIDDLE CREEK. ITS NAME WAS CHANGED ON 1 JUNE 1881, WHEN IT BECAME A RECEIVING OFFICE. A MIDDLE CREEK POST OFFICE WAS OPENED NEAR ARARAT IN 1881 AND THE POSTMASTER GENERAL HAD A POLICY OF NOT HAVING POST OFFICES HAVING THE SAME NAME. GLENGOWER WAS UPGRADED TO POST OFFICE ON 1 JULY 1927, IT CLOSED ON 30 JUNE 1952 BARRED NUMERAL CANCEL 632 WAS USED AT GLENGOWER POST OFFICERS AT GLENGOWER WERE: S IRWIN 1868-1869 DONALD FRASER 1869-1871 JOHN KEMP 1871-1873 JOHN NEWTON 1873-1876 W POTTER 1876-1887 ANNIE MCIVOR 1887-1892 JESSIE MCIVOR 1892-?? UNKNOWSN ????-1927 DJ FRASER 1927-1939 JAMES CAMPBELL 1939-1952middle creek post office, glengower post office, glendonald post office

Images of; Horse Trough & Wagon Residence 94 Bailey Street Former Presbytery St. Thomas Aquinas Former Clunes Free Library Residence 25 Camp Street Monument 100 years of gold Clunes in Melb Monument Former butcher's shop Fraser Street Residence & shops 41-43 Fraser Street Clunes School of Mines Clunes War Memorial Residence 32 Leslie St Clunes Former suspension bridge Former St Paul's Vicarage 42 Service Street Former Police Office Former Police residence Portable Lock Up Former Dow Residence 9 Hill St Former Hall & Fire Station 2 Hill St St Paul's timber Church hall St Paul's Church Masonic Lodge 23 Service St St Paul's Pulpit Masonic Lodge interior Everhard cordial bottles Scythes in Clunes Museum Ascot Blacksmith shop Former Ascot hotel MIA Hall Ascot The Coghill Monument Former Methodist Church Coghills Creek Clunes Cemetery Chapel Maiden Hill Homestead shearing shed Beckworth Court stables Beckworth Cour shearer's quarters Former School Evansford Glengower Outbuilding Amerst Former Mortuary 46-50 Fraser Street Wood fired heater Beckworth court farm shed Gold mine trolley Servant's bells Maiden Hill cow bail Former South Clunes school 29 George Street 70 Fraser Street Former Post Office "Allowah" Clunes Street Ascot "Homestead" Beackwith Court "The Meat House" Beckwith Court "Shearing Sheds" Beckwith Court Evansford Community Hall 54 watercolours remaining from the 2003 exhibition held at Clunes, all unframed, depicting Clunes and surrounds architecture and streetscapes.BY DAVID WILLIAMSwatercolour, 2003 exhibition