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Work on paper (item) - Photograph, 2 Metery Road, Eltham South

  • bush block

    The one acre bush block at Metery Road, Eltham

  • bush block

    The one acre bush block at Metery Road, Eltham

  • Wet concrete slides out of a concrete truck along dug out footings where men work to spread the concrete

    Concrete footings being poured

  • A woman sits on a temporary wooden structure at the edge of the cleared flat block of land close to the concrete base of the house

    Ada Zull watches the concrete being poured

  • Members of the Zull family stand at the rear of the the completed concrete pour

  • A young girl and two boys stand in front of a large sqaure of concrete on a flat block of land

    Zull children stand in front of the completed concrete pour

  • The frame of the house takes shape

  • The timber frame of the house takes shape

  • bush block
  • bush block
  • Wet concrete slides out of a concrete truck along dug out footings where men work to spread the concrete
  • A woman sits on a temporary wooden structure at the edge of the cleared flat block of land close to the concrete base of the house
  • A young girl and two boys stand in front of a large sqaure of concrete on a flat block of land

Historical information

Robert and Ada Zull built an Alistair Knox designed house at 2 (lot 8) Metery Road, Eltham, a one acre property for their family of five in the mid 1960s.

This series of photographs show the bush block before construction, concrete footings and base being poured and the timber frame takes shape. The house had a concrete floor.

Susan Bennett, nee Zull's reminiscences are published in EDHS Newsletter, February and April 2020.

".. the block was big.. Building the house was slow going. The plans had to be discussed, then drawn up, finance found, council permits obtained and labourers engaged. "

Significance

This series of photographs together with the account of personal remiscences provide a unique document of the construction of an Alistair Knox designed home. Knox was a pioneer in the use of mudbricks and recycled materials and is significant to his contribution of this style of architecture in Eltham and the wider Shire of Nillumbik.

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