Historical information

These photographs, taken by The Advocate in 1991, are of Donald Wallace Gray, the son of the Sunshine Gardens Curator Harold Charles Gray.

Significance

Harold Charles Gray served as the third curator of the Sunshine Gardens, later known as the H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens, overseeing the site from 1939 to 1950.

His tenure spanned the wartime and early post‑war years, a period marked by limited resources and significant change in Sunshine’s industrial landscape.

Gray maintained the core layout established in 1909 and ensured the continuity of the gardens through a challenging era, preserving one of Australia’s earliest industrial garden designs for future generations.

Physical description

Collection of digitally scanned negatives

Inscriptions & markings

7369.01 - Donald Wallace Gray 1991 Photographs (Advocate 34.3).JPG

7369.02 - Donald Wallace Gray 1991 Photographs (Advocate 34.3).JPG