Hardback. Dark brown cover with the title in gold lettering. There is also a border in gold decorating the outer edge of the front cover. The spine is also decorated in gold along with the title and the volume number.non-fictionA history of the various colonies and districts of Victoria from the time of the discovery of Australia through until 1888.melbourne, victoria, pioneers, colonisation, history, fauna, flora, banking, finance, medicine, western district, south-western district, wimmera district, geelong district, ballarat district, avoca district, coliban district, campase district, loddon district, lower goulburn district, upper goulburn district, ovens district, north-east district, gippsland district, mornington district, westernport district, upper yarra district, evelyn district, bourke district

A free leisure guide to Marysville and the surrounding district published for Autumn and Winter, 1986. This was produced by Michael Cheshire as a free publication to promote tourism in Marysville and the surrounding district. It includes maps of the Big River Valley, Cumberland Valley, Lady Talbot Forest Drive, the Marysville area, and the township of Marysville. It was released in the autumn of 1986 and was sponsored by the Marysville Tourist & Progress Association. The Association was formed in November 1907 to promote tourism within the area. This included the physical creation of signage, parklands, roads, and walks to various attractions. A free leisure guide to Marysville and the surrounding district published for Autumn and Winter, 1986.marysville, victoria, australia, leisure guide, michael cheshire & associates pty ltd, marysville golf club, blackwood lodges, sir colin mackenzie fauna park, lake eildon, fraser national park, yarra valley wineries, marysville coach tours, kooringa, marylands guest house, lady talbot forest drive, wishing well, taggerty river recreation area, athols abbey, phantom falls, keppel falls, the beeches walking track, marylyn guest house, kufstein inn motel, the cumberland, marysville tourist & progress association, marysville newsagency & general store, crossways restaurant & motel, beauty spot walk, tree fern gully walk, michaeldene track, keppel track, woods lookout track, marysville hotel motel, lake mountain ski hire, marysville recreation and fun park, mytanta horseback safaris, upper big river valley, the big culvert, marysville mountain view horse hire, maryton park, amber view holiday lodges, cathedral restaurant, the top shop, tower motel, menzes garage, beauty spot nursery, marysville ski hire, lake mountain ski school, faraway forest, scenic motel, buxton trout farm, marysville hardware, timbertop steakhouse, marysville trout farm, healesville sanctuary, buxton hotel motel, nanda binya lodge, buxton antique and furniture mart, the black spur inn hotel, alexandra, lake mountain, geoffrey pope & associates

A pictorial book of the flora, fauna, rivers, waterfalls and rainforest in the Upper Yarra ValleyPaperback. Front cover has a main photograph of a creek running through a forest. There is also four smaller photographs. They are of a Red Coral Fungi, a Superb Lyrebird, a night time view looking upwards in a grove of trees and a view of a Soft tree fern. The back cover has a photograph of a Superb Lyrebird.yarra valley, upper yarra valley, flora, fauna, photography, rivers, waterfalls, rainforest, nature, donovan wilson

A pictorial book of the flora, fauna, rivers, waterfalls and rainforest in the Upper Yarra ValleyPaperback. Front cover has a main photograph of a creek running through a forest. There is also four smaller photographs. They are of a Red Coral Fungi, a Superb Lyrebird, a night time view looking upwards in a grove of trees and a view of a Soft tree fern. The back cover has a photograph of a Superb Lyrebird.yarra valley, upper yarra valley, flora, fauna, photography, rivers, waterfalls, rainforest, nature, donovan wilson

A free leisure guide to Marysville and the surrounding district published for Spring 1986, and Summer, 1987. This was produced by Michael Cheshire as a free publication to promote tourism in Marysville and the surrounding district. It includes maps of the Big River Valley, Cumberland Valley, Lady Talbot Forest Drive, the Marysville area, and the township of Marysville. It was released in the spring of 1986. A free leisure guide to Marysville and the surrounding district published for Spring 1986, and Summer 1987.Kilmore Historical Society *10/183 *MDL.1.marysville, victoria, australia, leisure guide, michael cheshire & associates pty ltd, marysville golf club, blackwood lodges, sir colin mackenzie fauna park, lake eildon, fraser national park, yarra valley wineries, marysville coach tours, kooringa, marylands guest house, lady talbot forest drive, wishing well, taggerty river recreation area, athols abbey, phantom falls, keppel falls, the beeches walking track, marylyn guest house, kufstein inn motel, the cumberland, marysville tourist & progress association, marysville newsagency & general store, crossways restaurant & motel, beauty spot walk, tree fern gully walk, michaeldene track, keppel track, woods lookout track, marysville hotel motel, lake mountain ski hire, marysville recreation and fun park, mytanta horseback safaris, upper big river valley, the big culvert, marysville mountain view horse hire, maryton park, amber view holiday lodges, cathedral restaurant, the top shop, tower motel, menzes garage, beauty spot nursery, marysville ski hire, lake mountain ski school, faraway forest, scenic motel, buxton trout farm, marysville hardware, timbertop steakhouse, marysville trout farm, healesville sanctuary, buxton hotel motel, nanda binya lodge, buxton antique and furniture mart, the black spur inn hotel, alexandra, lake mountain, j l gould sawmills pty. ltd., geoffrey pope & associates, marysville crafts & gifts, olde yarra track shoppe, cumberland scenic reserve, tudor lodge road house, fruit salad farm, highwayman's retreat

A free leisure guide to Marysville and the surrounding district published for Winter and Spring, 1987. This was produced by Michael Cheshire as a free publication to promote tourism in Marysville and the surrounding district. It includes maps of the Big River Valley, Cumberland Valley, Lady Talbot Forest Drive, the Marysville area, and the township of Marysville. It was released in the winter of 1987. A free leisure guide to Marysville and the surrounding district published for Winter and Spring, 1987.marysville, victoria, australia, leisure guide, michael cheshire & associates pty ltd, marysville golf club, blackwood lodges, sir colin mackenzie fauna park, lake eildon, fraser national park, yarra valley wineries, marysville coach tours, kooringa, marylands guest house, lady talbot forest drive, wishing well, taggerty river recreation area, athols abbey, phantom falls, keppel falls, the beeches walking track, marylyn guest house, kufstein inn motel, the cumberland, marysville tourist & progress association, marysville newsagency & general store, crossways restaurant & motel, beauty spot walk, tree fern gully walk, michaeldene track, keppel track, woods lookout track, marysville hotel motel, lake mountain ski hire, marysville recreation and fun park, mytanta horseback safaris, upper big river valley, the big culvert, marysville mountain view horse hire, maryton park, amber view holiday lodges, cathedral restaurant, the top shop, tower motel, menzes garage, marysville ski hire, lake mountain ski school, faraway forest, scenic motel, buxton trout farm, marysville hardware, timbertop steakhouse, marysville trout farm, healesville sanctuary, buxton hotel motel, nanda binya lodge, buxton antique and furniture mart, the black spur inn hotel, alexandra, lake mountain, j l gould sawmills pty. ltd., geoffrey pope & associates, marysville crafts & gifts, olde yarra track shoppe, cumberland scenic reserve, tudor lodge road house, fruit salad farm, highwayman's retreat, beauty spot display gardens & nursery, ski lake mountain cross country ski hire & kitchen, buxton store, valley view marysville, acheron way, mt donna buang road, snow gum woodlands, alpine ash forests, mountain ash forests, stringybark forests, messmate forests, manna gum forests

Hawthorn hedges are important reminders of Kangaroo Ground's Scottish heritage. They are Registered on the Victorian Heritage Register. They are "historically significant because the planting of hawthorn hedges reflects the adoption of Eurorpean farming techniques by the Kangaroo Ground population in the period following settlement and because the grid pattern of paddocks that the Hawthorn hedges define is very different to today's farm landscapes." Covered under Heritage Overlay, Nillumbik Planning Scheme. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then /​ Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p21 Hawthorn hedges bordering Kangaroo Ground’s gently rolling farmlands are important reminders of its Scottish heritage and are rare so close to Melbourne.1 As early as the 1840s newly arrived farmers from Scotland planted hawthorn hedges around their properties, to protect crops from the numerous kangaroos and wallabies. Many of these hedges survive today. These farmers had the good fortune to settle some of the most fertile land available for cropping in the Colony of Victoria. At that time the black volcanic soil could sustain an amazing two crops a year. By the mid 1850s, 500 acres (202ha) of wheat were growing in Kangaroo Ground. But the crops were threatened by kangaroos, which were so plentiful, that Surveyor-General, Robert Hoddle, named the district Kangaroo Ground in 1838. As post-and-rail fences proved inadequate barriers for the bounding kangaroos, the Scots planted hawthorn hedgerows as they had done in Scotland. Some also used the hedges to net birds, presumably for the table. Interestingly the farmers in the bordering townships of Panton Hill and Christmas Hills, did not plant hawthorn hedges around their properties. Perhaps it was because by the time they settled in the 1860s and 1870s most of the wildlife had been gunned down by residents.2 The canny Scots planted the hedges on public land outside their own farms, as the hedgerows could spread to about five yards (five m) in width. With this impenetrable barrier Kangaroo Ground’s industrious farmers flourished to gain the economic power that saw the Shire of Eltham governed from Kangaroo Ground for 79 years (1858-1937). The Scots jealously guarded their land, so hard to get in Scotland. That is why they refused to release any of it ‘for local roads to follow easier grades as was the case in surrounding districts where roads generally followed ridgelines or streams’.3 Instead the roads were built in accordance with the magnetic bearings of their first survey in 1847 whether that suited the steep topography or not. This could force traffic to diverge when wet through Greensborough and Diamond Creek. Until 1921, the Eltham-Yarra Glen Road beside Wellers Restaurant, ‘dipped down into the upper reaches of Stony Creek’.4 Later some corners were compulsorily cut for the increasing motor traffic. As late as the 1960s, corners were cut to form sweeping curves above and alongside the Kangaroo Ground Cemetery and opposite the Emergency Operations Centre. In the latter case, the farmers – understanding their hedgerows as important heritage – insisted upon their reinstatement to conform to the altered road alignment. Kangaroo Ground’s ancient manna gums also point to the district’s history and to that of the hedgerows. The Aboriginal people had transformed the original forests into grasslands with the fires they lit to attract kangaroos, (which the Scots were to exclude by planting hedgerows). But the Wurundjeri hunters left the gums (Eucalyptus vimminalis cygnetensis), on the grasslands as ‘stalking trees’ to hunt kangaroos. The hawthorn hedges in Kangaroo Ground were neglected for around 60 years from about the middle of the 20th century. Bushfires had created gaps and the hedgerows were not trimmed. Then in late 2005, local historian Mick Woiwod, formed a group to lobby the Nillumbik Shire to restore the hedges, which could last for many centuries. Some hedges in parts of Britain date back to AD 800.5 Although the original Scottish farmers have gone, the hedges are a reminder of when they flourished in the district, which has changed little in 150 years.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, eltham-yarra glen road, hawthorn hedgerow, kangaroo ground

non-fictionPrior to 1901 the men working in the forests of the Upper Yarra Valley were mainly paling splitters and shingle cutters. When the Warburton-Lilydale Railway was completed in 1901, sawmilling became a major industry and one of the main employers in the Upper Yarra Valley. The railway enabled the sawmillers to get their timber to the Melbourne markets easily and economically. The mills were built, usually in the allotted logging area. Tramlines were used to bring timber from the mills to the railway. In the Upper Yarra Valley the tramlines were mostly horse drawn, or if it was too steep a combination of winches for lowering and then horse to complete the journey. Steam locomotives were used on the Powelltown to Yarra Junction tramline and Ezard-Richards' tramline at Starvation Creek. Donald Ambrose Reid has been a son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, Shire Councillor, firefighter and friend but through it all a Sawmiller. This is Don Reid's story. A story of a sawmilling family. Don's memories also give an insight into the early history of Upper Yarra Valley and the changes that occurred in the sawmilling and logging industry. VAL SMITH 1996/97.upper yarra valley (vic.), don reid, donald ambrose reid

A black and white photograph of one of the Bantick Bros's trucks hauling some large logs on a timber jinker. Bantick Bros. Pty. Ltd. was a prominent, multi-generational logging and transport business originally based in Marysville, Victoria.The company is a major part of the regional forestry and timber history of the Yarra Valley and North East Victoria. Formed by the Bantick family (including D.V., V.L., and R. Bantick), the company operated commercial heavy goods vehicles and hardwood logging trucks. They held licenses dating back to at least the 1940s through the 1970s and 80s to haul massive timber logs from forest landings across the Niagaroon and Upper Yarra forestry districts, as well as the North Big River area. In addition to their core logging and transport divisions, the family name was heavily tied to the local community—including running Bantick's Garage in Marysville during the mid-1970s.A black and white photograph of one of the Bantick Bros's trucks hauling some large logs on a timber jinker.marysville, victoria, australia, bantick bros pty. ltd., yarra valley, north east victoria, david victor bantick, vernon (roy) lewis bantick, r. bantick, bantick's garage, niagaroon, upper yarra, north big river, photograph

A digital copy of a black and white photograph of one of the Bantick Bros's trucks hauling some large logs on a timber jinker. Bantick Bros. Pty. Ltd. was a prominent, multi-generational logging and transport business originally based in Marysville, Victoria.The company is a major part of the regional forestry and timber history of the Yarra Valley and North East Victoria. Formed by the Bantick family (including D.V., V.L., and R. Bantick), the company operated commercial heavy goods vehicles and hardwood logging trucks. They held licenses dating back to at least the 1940s through the 1970s and 80s to haul massive timber logs from forest landings across the Niagaroon and Upper Yarra forestry districts, as well as the North Big River area. In addition to their core logging and transport divisions, the family name was heavily tied to the local community—including running Bantick's Garage in Marysville during the mid-1970s.A digital copy of a black and white photograph of one of the Bantick Bros's trucks hauling some large logs on a timber jinker.marysville, victoria, australia, bantick bros pty. ltd., yarra valley, north east victoria, david victor bantick, vernon (roy) lewis bantick, r. bantick, bantick's garage, niagaroon, upper yarra, north big river, photograph

A digital copy of a colour photograph of one of the Bantick Bros's trucks hauling a large log on a timber jinker. Bantick Bros. Pty. Ltd. was a prominent, multi-generational logging and transport business originally based in Marysville, Victoria.The company is a major part of the regional forestry and timber history of the Yarra Valley and North East Victoria. Formed by the Bantick family (including D.V., V.L., and R. Bantick), the company operated commercial heavy goods vehicles and hardwood logging trucks. They held licenses dating back to at least the 1940s through the 1970s and 80s to haul massive timber logs from forest landings across the Niagaroon and Upper Yarra forestry districts, as well as the North Big River area. In addition to their core logging and transport divisions, the family name was heavily tied to the local community—including running Bantick's Garage in Marysville during the mid-1970s.A digital copy of a colour photograph of one of the Bantick Bros's trucks hauling a large log on a timber jinker.marysville, victoria, australia, bantick bros pty. ltd., yarra valley, north east victoria, david victor bantick, vernon (roy) lewis bantick, r. bantick, bantick's garage, niagaroon, upper yarra, north big river, photograph

A digital copy of a colour photograph of two of the Bantick Bros's trucks hauling large logs on timber jinkers. Bantick Bros. Pty. Ltd. was a prominent, multi-generational logging and transport business originally based in Marysville, Victoria.The company is a major part of the regional forestry and timber history of the Yarra Valley and North East Victoria. Formed by the Bantick family (including D.V., V.L., and R. Bantick), the company operated commercial heavy goods vehicles and hardwood logging trucks. They held licenses dating back to at least the 1940s through the 1970s and 80s to haul massive timber logs from forest landings across the Niagaroon and Upper Yarra forestry districts, as well as the North Big River area. In addition to their core logging and transport divisions, the family name was heavily tied to the local community—including running Bantick's Garage in Marysville during the mid-1970s.A digital copy of a colour photograph of two of the Bantick Bros's trucks hauling large logs on timber jinkers.marysville, victoria, australia, bantick bros pty. ltd., yarra valley, north east victoria, david victor bantick, vernon (roy) lewis bantick, r. bantick, bantick's garage, niagaroon, upper yarra, north big river, photograph