Hard cover book, A Sydney-Side Saxon Author: Pen Name Rolf Boldrewood For (Thomas Alexander Browne) Publisher: Macmillan And Co Date: 1891 Blue cloth hardcover and spine with spine lettering in black texter. The spine has a Library label with inscription.fiction"A Sydney-Side Saxon" is a novel by Rolf Boldrewood (pen name of Thomas Alexander Browne, 1826–1915), first published in 1891 by Macmillan & Co. as No. 124 in Macmillan's Colonial Library. It's a single-volume work (unlike many of his other novels, which ran to three volumes) of 12 chapters, centring on the Claythorpe family of "Applegate" station and the pastoral world of colonial New South Wales squatters, station life, courtship, and the social texture of rural Australia in the late 19th century. Chapter headings such as "Job Claythorpe, of Applegate, ploughman", "Jesse Claythorpe, crowboy", and "Jack Leighton, swagman" reflect its episodic, character-driven structure typical of Boldrewood's pastoral fiction. Boldrewood drew heavily on his own experience some 25 years as a squatter and pastoralist in Victoria and the Riverina, followed by decades as a police magistrate and goldfields warden in NSW which gives his fiction its documentary feel for colonial bush life.book, a sydney-side saxon, rolf boldrewood, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, great ocean road

The Kiewa Valley was a farming district being developed by clearing and farming the land with cattle.The Reid family were early settlers of the Kiewa Valley.. Their property was known as 'Willowdene' in Reid's Lane, Tawonga. Reid's farm in Tawonga - photos showing building methods in the early days. The builder (the local bush carpenter) ,Jack Platt was well known in the area having built the Reid's home and the shed. A full account of the Reid family is on Pages 100 -to 102 of "A History of the Kiewa Valley", by Esther Temple.6 A4 sheets, 5 photocopied coloured photos and one typed page with explanation. Reid's shed and the Reids familyreid family, tawonga farm, jack platt builder

Thomas Briggs was a pioneer of the Tawonga District. He worked on his parent's farm, selling goods, droving pigs and travelling to Yackandandah and Bright. He worked with pick and shovel on the Tawonga to Bright Road in 1902. He took up 320 acres of wild forest in Tawonga at 10 cents per acre per year for 20 years. He built a slab and shingle hut and a boundary fence. In 1886 he married Annie Maria Platt parenting 5 sons and 2 daughters until Annie died in 1953, aged 86 years.Thomas Briggs was a pioneer living in the Kiewa Valley with his parents and then with wife and family. This article is a history of his life from 1862 until 1887. See KVHS 0850 for information on the dray used to make the Tawonga Gap road - owned by John Briggs.Newspaper article Page 34 Border Morning Mail, Saturday, March 5, 1988 - Thomas Briggs Born 3rd Nov. 1862 who lived with his family at Upper Gundowring. His travels in the area including the Tawonga Gap and its construction in 1902 and his taking up of land in Tawonga in 1880. The article finishes in 1887 when he married Annie Maria Platt. The Thos Briggs story continues next week.thomas briggs; tawonga; kiewa valley; annie platt