Historical information
One of three scrapbooks created by Eva Grant, a past member of the Kew Historical Society which were donated by her niece, Julie Thomson, in 2013. The scrapbook includes photographs and descriptions of the following sites. (Many of these are now demolished and so the photographs and descriptions may be rare records of a site.)
Sites include:
Abbotsford (Vic) - Abbotsford Convent, Mayfield (c.1962), prefabricated house - Church street
Armadale (Vic) - church (c.1959) - Thomson & Wattletree Roads
Arthur’s Seat (Vic) - McCrae homestead
Ballarat (Vic) - Memorial plaque on site of Bentley’s Hotel, Memorial on site of Eureka Stockade, Early municipal buildings - East Ballarat, Adam Lindsay Gordon’s cottage - Botanical Gardens, View from Sovereign Hill, Shell house
Broken Hill (NSW) - panorama (1963), Flying Doctor’s base (?1963)
Eltham (Vic) - Hassell’s outdoor art gallery
Essendon (Vic) - Niddrie Homestead and stables (1963)
Geelong (Vic) - first Bishopscourt
Hawthorn (Vic) - Convent (1930), The Hawthorns,
Keilor plains (Vic) - pioneer homes, pioneer cemetery
Kew (Vic) - Roseneath (1951), Tarring - Ruyton, Turinville, house - Foley street (c.1960).
Malvern (Vic) - church
Mount Ridley (Vic) - Summerhill
Melbourne (Vic) - Old Brewery - Custom’s House Lane (1960), Customs House,
Scott’s Hotel (1962), Western market (c.1960)
Phillip Island (Vic) - Grave
Toorak (Vic) - Mandeville Hall, Merna (sic) - Arthur Streeton’s house, Toorak House
Wentworth (NSW) - Harvey’s Hotel, Sturt Memorial, Sturt’s Tree, Wentworth Gaol
Williamstown (Vic) - Williamstown Dairy
Yan Yean (Vic) - Bear’s Castle (c.1947)
Beveridge/Big Hill (Vic) - Kelly’s cottage
Significance
Important photograph record (and notes) about historic buildings in Victoria.
Physical description
38-page scrapbook with additional text created by Eva Grant, a past member of the Kew Historical Society. In addition to the 68 photographs, there are two postcards and a number of publications/handouts.collected by Eva on her trips to heritage sites in Victoria and New South Wales. The pages of the album can be viewed in the image carousel above. Most of the photographs of heritage buildings were taken in the early 1960s.
Inscriptions & markings
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