Historical information
This file contains three items:
1/A review of the ROSSTOWN RAIL TRAIL from LIVING IN GLEN EIRA, vol. 11, 2004, Issue 4, no. 25, date and author unknown. The review explains the purpose of the Rail Trail with a brief narrative of the history behind Rosstown Sugar Mill Railway line. Concluding with information on the location of the Trail and the expected time required to walk the entire track included in the review is a map of the Rail Trail, which marks significant sites along the trail with historic pictures.
2/A newspaper article from THE AGE, dated Tuesday 21/10/1980 and written by Iola Matthews, reporting on the circumstances that led to the publication of the book RETURN TO ROSSTOWN written by Des Jowett and Ian Weickhardt. The article begins with a brief biography of the authors before moving into details of the book’s content, providing a further biography of W. Murray Ross which includes information on his financial ventures – particularly the Rosstown Rail – his marriage and children. The article includes a black and white photograph of Weickhardt and Jowett walking along the route of the railway line, an illustration of the Rosstown sugar works and a map of the area surrounding the site of the mill.
3/Three photocopies of a black and white illustration of the Rosstown sugar works from the east, undated and artist unknown.
Subjects
- rosstown rail trail,
- rosstown,
- ross william,
- ross w. murray,
- ross murray,
- sugar beet mills,
- mills,
- elsternwick,
- land transport,
- railways,
- railway lines,
- railway routes,
- carnegie neville street,
- carnegie miller street,
- factories,
- market gardens,
- horticulture,
- peat,
- soils,
- land forms,
- topography,
- geology,
- civic issues,
- cone sugar industry,
- elsternwick plaza,
- elsternwick,
- glenhuntly road,
- parks and reserves,
- ee gunn reserve,
- caulfield racecourse,
- sportsgrounds,
- caulfield,
- carnegie,
- riddell parade,
- clarence street,
- aileen avenue,
- princes park,
- dover street,
- marara road,
- oakleigh road,
- rosanna street,
- murrumbeena crescent,
- north road,
- kooyong road,
- hawthorn road,
- booran road,
- koornang road,
- poath road,
- warragul road,
- railway platforms,
- railway buildings,
- bambra road,
- swamps,
- landforms,
- landfill,
- council landfill,
- railway bridges,
- bridges,
- railway underpasses,
- sporting clubs,
- tennis clubs,
- bowls clubs,
- rosstown railway,
- rosanna street reserve,
- maps,
- railway maps,
- living in glen eira,
- weickhardt ian,
- jowett des,
- caulfield south,
- curraweena road,
- oakleigh,
- caulfield technical school,
- return to rosstown,
- beet sugar industry,
- crops,
- land booms,
- land development and subdivisions,
- bent thomas,
- fink benjamin,
- sugar works,
- rosstown hotel,
- oamdenong road,
- rosstown dry cleaners,
- shops,
- rosstown road,
- rosstown plate,
- people by circumstance,
- migrants,
- accountants,
- occupations,
- professionals,
- the grange,
- real estate,
- grange road,
- financial agents,
- judges,
- rosstown estate,
- financial trouble,
- rabbit preserving,
- breweries,
- political debates,
- political issues,
- political electorates,
- politics,
- political science,
- debt,
- financial loans,
- court procedures,
- court cases,
- legal events and activities,
- malleson and riggall,
- widowers,
- seabeach railway,
- economics,
- economic deadline,
- depression 1890s,
- economic crash,
- mortgages,
- divorce,
- social problems,
- poverty,
- ross claude,
- ross roderick,
- world war 1914-1918,
- wars,
- military history,
- servicemen,
- australian flying corps,
- engineers,
- caulfield council,
- swagmen,
- homelessness,
- glenhuntly road,
- glenhuntly road tram,
- woornack road,
- leila road,
- wild cherry road,
- melten avenue,
- illustrations,
- steam trains,
- trains,
- horse and cart,
- horse-drawn transport,
- railway stations
References
- Living in Glen Eira, Vol. 2, 2004, Issue 4, no. 25
