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

  • Looking down to an overview of a one story flat roofed timber framed house with car port and VW Beetle parked

    View of house under construction with VW Beetle parked in car port

  • View of side of house under construction with stacked bricks and brick and building rubble. Children play on a dirt pile n the background with bushline in the distance

    View of side of house under construction with stacked bricks and brick and building rubble

  • View of bush block with young trees and dam in the foreground. Flat roofed house in the distance

    View of home with dam

  • Children jumping on a pile of dirt which surrounds similiar sized piles of brick rubble at the rear of the car port. VW Beetle is parked there.

    Zull children play on pile of dirt amid piles of brick rubble outside their house on their bush block

  • Wooden frame with flat roof forms shadows in the house. Externally, there are formal and informal piles of bricks ready to be laid.

    View of frame of house with roof in place. Piles of bricks ready for construction of the walls

  • A young child crouches on the floor beside an adult who is sweeping the concrete floor. He is looking out to the photographer past an area of flat hard dirt at the side of the house There is a roof, but no walls.

    Frame of house with roof under construction

  • External corner of the house with wrapping around windows as brick work is completed

    External brick wall is constructed

  • Two VW Beetles parked in front of the bricked house at the end of a dirt drive way surrounded by trees.

    Entry to property from Metery Road

  • A flat roofed one story bric k house sits on a rise in the background surrounded by bush. The foreground of the photo is relatively cleared of bush

    View of house in the background in the one acre bush block

  • A partial view of a house in the distance with prominant white framing. A dam is in the middle of the photo with two children standing near it. The block has long grass and sapling trees growing in the foreground. A rugged wire fence runs along the middle of the photo

    View of house in the distance with dam on the one acre bush block

  • Looking down to an overview of a one story flat roofed timber framed house with car port and VW Beetle parked
  • View of side of house under construction with stacked bricks and brick and building rubble. Children play on a dirt pile n the background with bushline in the distance
  • View of bush block with young trees and dam in the foreground. Flat roofed house in the distance
  • Children jumping on a pile of dirt which surrounds similiar sized piles of brick rubble at the rear of the car port. VW Beetle is parked there.
  • Wooden frame with flat roof forms shadows in the house. Externally, there are formal and informal piles of bricks ready to be laid.
  • A young child crouches on the floor beside an adult who is sweeping the concrete floor. He is looking out to the photographer past an area of flat hard dirt at the side of the house There is a roof, but no walls.
  • External corner of the house with wrapping around windows as brick work is completed
  • Two VW Beetles parked in front of the bricked house at the end of a dirt drive way surrounded by trees.
  • A flat roofed one story bric k house sits on a rise in the background surrounded by bush. The foreground of the photo is relatively cleared of bush
  • A partial view of a house in the distance with prominant white framing. A dam is in the middle of the photo with two children standing near it. The block has long grass and sapling trees growing in the foreground. A rugged wire fence runs along the middle of the photo

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 shows the one story house with its roof in place.

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 house had a concrete floor and a roof, but no windows..."

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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