Surrey Hills Historical Society Collection
Photograph, 'Brenston', 22 Albion Street, Surrey Hills under construction, c 1907, c 1907
... kathleen martha mcfarland...) amelia jane spare kathleen martha mcfarland kathleen martha ...
BDM records: Birth: Harrison Walter Spare Buchanan b 1900, Surrey Hills, son of Amelia Jane Spare and William Tennant Buchanan; died 1977 at Box Hill.
Electoral roll records: 1924: Harrison Walter Spare Buchanan (clerk), Amelia Jane Buchanan (HD) and William Tennant Buchanan are listed at 22 Albion Street, known as ‘Brenston’.
This and No 24 ‘Thulecroft’ were built in 1907/08 by brothers-in-law Harrison Rotherham & William Buchanan. They used a process new to Melbourne at the time – making concrete bricks for which they used sand from Middlesex Road. Harrison Buchanan, son of William, is the small boy in the photo.
Black and white photo of a brick house under construction. The walls are complete and also the roof trusses and chimneys but there is no tiling. A group of 6 men and a boy pose in front of the house, on scaffolding and on the roof.SH732 in pencil on the rear.brenston, thulecroft, house names, (mr) harrison rotherham, (mr) william tennant buchanan, (mr) harrison walter spare buchannan, (mr) amelia jane spare, kathleen martha mcfarland, kathleen martha harrison
