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In 2000 major renovation works were carried out on the Sunbury Bendigo Rail line to accommodate new and larger carriages which were going to replace older trains. Major work at Sunbury included extending the platforms and replacing an old wooden pedestrian bridge with a larger one the included a series of ramps and a clock tower as well as a new pedestrian bridge.

A non-digital coloured photograph of a series of ramps over railway tracks with a clock tower. The photograph was an entry in the Junior section of a photographic competition organised by the Sunbury & District Heritage Association in March 2001.

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The avenue of trees is along the main pathway of the old section of the Sunbury Cemetery. In 1862 the cemetery in Sunbury was laid out in Christian denominational sections. There were other sections set aside for paupers, heathens and pagans. Over the years the size of the cemetery has increased to keep pace with the growth of Sunbury's population.

Sunbury Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in the local area.

A non-digital coloured photograph of an avenue of trees in a cemetery. The photograph is one of a collection of images that was entered in a photograph competition organised by the former Sunbury & District Heritage Association in March 2001.

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The photograph was included in a completion organised by the former Sunbury & District Heritage Association in March 2001. It is photograph of the lake at The Nook that served as Sunbury's swimming pool from the time outdoor swimming became acceptable until 1965 when a new Olympic sized outdoor swimming pool and aquatic centre was opened in Ligar Street. The modern pool was built as a result of the Sunbury Community raising funds for the project. Since 1965, the local council has added an indoor pool and a heated pool to the site as well as a gymnasium.

Prior to the building of the new pool in 1965, The Nook site was where swimming carnivals and other aquatic events took place. It is now a popular passive recreation area.

A non-digital coloured photograph of a lake with trees growing around its banks and a hillside in the distance.

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The photograph of Sunbury Cemetery at sunset was entered into the Photograph Competition organised by the former Sunbury & District Heritage Association in March 2001.In 1862, land set aside in Cemetery Road for the Sunbury Cemetery was laid out in the following Christian denominational groups, Church of England, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Lutheran. Other non-denominational sites were set aside for paupers, heathens, Asians and pagans. Rebecca Jenkinson was the first person to be buried there in 1862. Over the years the size of the cemetery has expanded but it still occupies the original site off Shields Street in Sunbury and the names of the denominational divisions have changed over the years reflect a more inclusive outlook.

Sunbury Cemetery replaced other smaller graveyards that were situated in some of the local church grounds and the earlier cemetery that was at The Gap township.

A non-digital coloured photograph of a cemetery landscape with a number of old graves scattered across the open space. Some have small fences around them, while others simply display the headstones. There are trees in the background.

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The photograph was part of a collection from a photograph competition organised bye the Sunbury & District Heritage Association in March 2001. It is a view of the former vineyard growing area in Sunbury which was situated along Vineyard Road. One of the remaining vineyards is visible in the photo. From 1860 to the early 1900s many vineyards were operating in Sunbury. The east facing slopes along Vineyard Road were suitable for vine growing as was the flats along Jacksons Creek.

A non-digital coloured landscape photograph of a hillside showing some cultivation and grazing land and three houses as well as some native trees.

sunbury, vineyards, wine production

The wooden outhouse was erected in the former Sunbury Asylum grounds and was a popular outdoor building where the patients and staff relaxed while walking around the grounds.Patients were encouraged to spend time outdoors and the extensive and elevated grounds provided plenty of space. The photograph was included in a collection that was put together for a photograph competition organised by the former Sunbury & District Heritage Association in March 2001.

A non-digital coloured photograph of a wooden and corrugated iron outhouse with a trellis covering half of a wall. Two large cypress trees are behind the building.

sunbury asylum, outbuildings, sunbury

The photograph was included in an exhibition organised by the former Sunbury & District Heritage Association in March 2001. The red-brick Federation building for Sunbury State School No. 1002 in Macedon Street opened on 2nd May 1912. It replaced an earlier building that was on the same site. It originally had two classrooms and an office but as Sunbury's population began to grow another room was added. The school continued to function in Macedon Street until 1999 when it took occupancy of refurbished rooms at the former Industrial School in the Asylum Grounds at Jascksons Hill. The building in Macedon Street has been incorporated into the Sunbury and Cobar Community Health Centre.

The red-brick Federation Style Sunbury building has served the educational needs of the Sunbury Community for 112 years as it is now an Educational facility for people with disabilities.

A non-digital coloured photograph go a red-brick federation school building with cream trims around the windows and doors.Two trees are growing in the foreground.

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The photograph of The Nook is one of a series of photographs that was included in an exhibition organised by the former Sunbury & District Heritage Association in March 2001 and displayed in the George Evans Museum. Local; people were invited to submit photographs for the exhibition. The Nook is a major recreational area in Sunbury and over the years out has been an areas where grazing and cereal growing was practised before it became the original town's swimming area before the Aquatic Centre was opened in Ligar Street in 1966.

Jacksons Creek at The Nook was the site of the original Sunbury Swimming Club for 49 Years from 1917 to 1966, when the Aquatic Centre opened in Ligar Street

A non-digital coloured photograph of river with trees growing along the banks and open ground across the river flats.

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The photograph was taken when an exhibition was mounted in the former George Evans Museum in Sunbury. The Sunbury & District Heritage Association researched the history of the Sunbury vineyards and mounted the display which ran from August 1996 to January 1997. The photograph is one of 18 images that were taken of the display that featured the wineries that were established in Sunbury in the nineteenth century and the early vignerons.

The wine producing industry was one of the first agricultural pursuits that European settlers established in Sunbury.

A non-digital coloured photograph of two glass display cabinets and two wallboards displaying a variety of documents and objects in a museum.

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The vineyards exhibition was mounted by the Sunbury & District Heritage Association in the former George Evans Museum from August 1996 to January 1997. It featured the establishment of the vineyards and the wine industry in Sunbury from the 1860s to the present day. From the early days of European settlement in Sunbury, it was found that the soils and climate suited the growing of grapes, especially the east facing slopes along Vineyard Road. A number of people of German origin established vineyards along there. By the end of the nineteenth century and limited spending power as a result of the 1890s depression, the demand for wine declined in Victoria with beer being the preferred beverage.While Phylloxera destroyed the vines in many areas of Victoria, Sunbury's grapevines were not affected. As the demand for wine increased in the 1960s - 70s, some vineyards in the Sunbury area were replanted.

The vineyards established in Sunbury in the 1860s were one of the earliest agricultural pursuits taken up by European settlers in the area and remained an important industry for 40 years.

A non-digital coloured photograph of a display board advertising an exhibition of vineyards in the Sunbury area.

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The school in the photograph is Bulla State School No. 46 and was originally known as the Government -funded Bulla Common School, built 1870 - 1871. With the passing of the Education Act in Victoria in 1873 it became known as Bulla State School No. 46. The original building comprised of a rectangular shaped bluestone building with a 3 roomed residence attached. As school enrolments began to increase in the district, a weatherboard classroom was added in 1881 and later extended in 1927 adjacent to the original building with a covered walkway between the two buildings. The modern portable classroom was added in the 1960s. Bulla Primary School closed in 1996 after much local controversy. The property is now privately owned. The photograph was taken in 1964.

The bluestone section of the school with residence is one of very few remaining in the state and is of local heritage classification in the City of Hume.

A non-digital coloured photograph of children in a school playground with the buildings visible in the background.

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The people in the photographed were honoured in the 'Heroes of Hume', exhibition that was mounted by Hume City Council in the George Evans Museum in Sunbury in May 2000. Each person featured had contributed to aspects of community life in the Hume City area over many years. The people are from Back L-: Gary Jungwirth, J.J McMahon, -------, Wayne Drew, Wally Maxwell, -------. Middle Row L-R: ---- , Bert Kelly, ----. Front Row L-R: Kath Tremlett, Roma , Glenda Wade.----- . Seated: Hilda Baird.

The exhibition, 'Heroes of Hume' featured members of the community who over the years had given much of their time to community work in their area.

A non-digital coloured photograph of 14 people standing two rows and one older lady seated.

heroes of hume, gary jungwirth, j.j. mcmahon, wayne drew, bert kelly, kath tremlett, glenda wade, hilda baird, george evans museum, sunbury, city of hume

The cottage in the photograph was situated at 13 Evans Street in Sunbury and was one of the last houses to be demolished along the business of Evans Street between Brook and Macedon Streets. The cream brick building on the RHS of the house is a Telstra complex. The cottage was demolished in the early 2000s and a fast-food outlet now occupies the site.

The cottage was one of a group of small attractive buildings erected along the northern end of Evans Street in the second half of the nineteenth century.

A non-digital coloured photograph of a small double fronted Victorian cottage with a slate roof and a verandah across the front of the house. A cream brick structure with a signal tower is on the RHS of the photograph and a large bare elm tree is growing on the nature-strip.

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The photograph was taken on the property owned by the Beer family, situated on Lancefield Road. When Europeans first settled the area and the property was acquired by Michael Coolaton in the 1850s, it straddled either side of the Emu Creek. After the death of Michael Coolaton in 1896 and until the Beer family purchased it in 1953, the property was leased to a number of tenants who concentrated on a variety of grazing and cereal growing pursuits. The Beer family have raised cattle and a Clydesdale stud. Today there are remains of drystone fences and some stone buildings on the property.

The Clydesdale Stud raised on this property is of significance in the former Shire of Bulla.

A non-digital black and white photograph with a narrow cream border of a man driving a team of three Clydesdale horses pulling a wagon loaded with hay along a pathway . A row of gum trees is in the background.

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The students in the photo were attending Sunbury Common School No. 1002 which was first permanent government school building to be erected in 1871 in the town on the corner of Macedon and Stawell Streets with an enrolment of 32 students. Over the years faults appeared in the building and eventually after the local community made the government aware of the old building's many faults, a new two-roomed brick school was built on the same site in 1912.

A photocopied black and white photograph of an old school photograph of 22 children standing in two rows in front of a building with two windows on either side of the group.

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The photograph of the 30 pupils with their teacher was taken in 1968 at the Bulla S.S. No. 46. after they came first in the Greenvale and District School Sports Association. Other schools competing were Greenvale, Mickleham, Craigieburn, Broadmeadows Yuroke and Tullamarine. In 1968 all these schools were rural schools.

When this photograph was taken, Bulla State School was classed as a one-teacher rural school with 30 students in the one room.

A non-digital black and white photograph, with a cream border, of 30 students with their teacher. A girl in the centre front row is holding up a sports banner. There is a tree plantation in the background.

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St.Andrew's Presbyterian Church at Bulla was built on Crown land that the congregation received on 6th September 1858. It overlooks Oaklands Road and the surrounding farms as well as the Tullamarine Airport. The building at the rear is the former manse. It functioned as a place of worship for over 150 years and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2009. The entire property is now privately owned.

It was one of the first permanent church buildings to be built in the district.

A non-digital black and white photograph, with a cream border, of a blue-stone church with a high-pitched slate roof and a tall belfry its the main entrance. A smaller residence is visible in the background. The buildings have been erected in an open grassed area.

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The school photograph of the students attending Bulla State school No.46 was taken in 1930.

It was a one-teacher country school and functioned as a state school for over 120 years until it was closed in 1996.

A non-digital black and white photograph of a group of school children with their teacher posing for a school photograph in front of a bluestone building. The names of everyone in the photograph is written across the bottom of the photograph.

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The photo of the students at Bulla State School No. 45 was taken in 1893. The school was erected in stages in School Lane. The bluestone building was the first to be built followed by the weatherboard building and a teacher's residence. It closed in 1996 and is now a private residence. Details of the people on a typed sheet is included with the Media

Bulla State School No. 46 was one of the first schools to be established in the district.

A non-digital very old sepia photograph of an old photograph of children seated in front of a small weatherboard school, their teacher is standing behind the pupils. he photograph has been backed onto thick cardboard.

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The photograph of the waterfall tumbling over rocks in the Jacksons Creek are a feature downstream from the Macedon Street bridge and Craiglee when the there has been high rainfall. The steep escarpment on the LHS leads to Jacksons Hill and the line of trees in the distance are growing along Macedon Street (Sunbury Road).

After heavy rainfall, Jacksons Creek rises suddenly and small trickles over the rocky outcrops become fast flowing waterfalls.

A non-digital sepia photograph backed onto thick cardboard of a waterfall tumbling over rocks in a river with a high escarpment rising up from the watercourse. There are rocky outcrops across the hillside with a pipe down the hillside.

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Th members of the Sunbury Football team were photographed in the former sports ground that was on railway land bounded by Evans and Macedon Streets and the railway land. For many years that site was known as Sunbury's sports ground until 1949, when crown land facing Riddell Road was developed as a recreation and sport's ground and became known as Clarke Oval.

Sport has played a prominent role in Sunbury and district's social life since the mid nineteenth century.

A non-digital of a copied and enlarged black and white photograph of a team of football players standing and sitting in three rows in a sports ground.

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The first recorded football match played injured Sunbury was in 1881 when Sunbury played Keilor on Munro's Ground which was located on land bordered by Barkly, Shields, Harker and Evans Streets.By 1892 Sunbury Club officially became known as 'The Swifts". A later game was recorded in 1895 but it wasn't until 1897 that it became a recognised football team at a meeting convened by W.A. Eadie in the Royal Hotel. Later football matches were played on railway land in Evans and Macedon Streets. In 1949 the Shire of Bulla Council passed over 26 hectares of Crown land for a new recreation ground, now the Clarke Oval. Since that time that site has been Sunbury's home ground.

Sporting clubs have played an important part in the Sunbury's social life from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

A non-digital copied black and white photograph of a men's football team standing and seated in two rows in front of a picket fence.

sunbury football club, "the swifts', football, sporting clubs

The War Memorial was erected in Sunbury. On 11th November 1919, on the first anniversary of the end of WW1, it was announced that there were plans to erect a memorial. On 15th December 1919 a final peace celebration took place at the newly erected memorial which was sited between Stawell and Barkly Streets. Since then Anzac services have terminated at that site where wreaths are laid.

A non-digital sepia photograph with a cream border of a memorial which has wreaths of flowers placed around it.

Stamped on the back - 'Velox' and 'Kodak Print' and handwritten S8798

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The group of men in the photograph were marching in file along Brook Street and were making their way to the War Memorial in Stawell Street. They were approaching the intersection of Brook, O'Shanassy and Stawell Streets, known locally as the 5 ways.

A non-digital sepia photograph with a cream border of men dressed in suits and hats marching in file along a tree-lined street. One man holds a wreath to place on a memorial. A service station with petrol pump are to the RHS of the photograph.

The words 'Kodak Print' and S579 are stamped on the back of the photograph.

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The photograph was taken in 1915 at the opening of the Starkie Memorial Fountain that was erected at the intersection of Brook, O'Shanassy and Stawell Streets in Sunbury Township. Joseph Starkie was instrumental in establishing a reliable water supply which was turned on 13th March 1905. The fountain was erected in recognition of his contribution to the town 10 years later on 26th February 1915. As the town grew and the main shopping strip became busier, it was relocated to a memorial site opposite the Memorial Hall.

The Starkie Fountain is one of Sunbury's important memorials erected to celebrate an important development in the town.

A non-digital black and white photograph of a crowd of people are gathered around a monument for a ceremony. Flags are festooned above the crowd and an open parkland is in the background as well as a church. Details of the event are handwritten on the back of the photograph.

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The damaged building in the photograph is the former Diggers Rest Hotel which was built in on that site in 1854 It was a popular place during the 1970s Sunbury Pop Festivals as it was the closest hotel to the Pop Festival site. It was partly destroyed by a suspicious fire on 30th October 2008, which left the walls and chimney intact but the roof caved in. Since then there have been moves by the local community to either rebuild and reopen the venue or to demolish it.

The Diggers Rest has been one of the few early surviving hotels that were built along the former Mount Alexander Road, now Calder Highway, during the 1850s gold rush years.

This a non-digital coloured photograph of a double storey hotel building, which has been damaged by fire. The exterior walls are intact but the roof has collapsed.The building is beside a main road.

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The former blue-stone Bulla Store and Post Office was damaged by fire in September 1992. Unfortunately it was not restored despite its heritage listing and the fire-damaged building was finally demolished. A house now occupies the site.

The Bulla Store was one of the first buildings to be erected in the little township.

A non-digital coloured photograph of a damaged blue stone building. There is no roof and the windows and doors are covered in with sheets of corrugated iron.

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The homestead featured on the postcard is 'Emu Bottom', which is claimed to be Victoria's oldest homestead, although over the years sections of the homestead have had to be rebuilt as result of fires so little of the original materials remain in the building. The homestead was built by George Evans in the 1830s when he squatted on a tract of land in the Jacksons Creek valley in Sunbury.

A non-digital coloured photograph in post card format of a single storey homestead with a timber shingle roof. A timber post and rail fence is across the front of the property. The post card has a crinkled edge.

'emu bottom', george evans, homesteads, jacksons creek, sunbury

The postcard shows the kitchen at 'Emu Bottom' which is almost the same as when the homestead was built in the 1930s when George Evans acquired the land and built the homestead.

Images like the one on the postcard provide visual information relating to past domestic living and life.

A non-digital coloured photograph in post card format with a crinkled edge, of a lady in a kitchen cooking over a Firestone. A large dresser is to her right and had a display of china plates and bowls on the open shelves.

kitchens, emu bottom, george evans, sunbury