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Local History MORIAC & Surrounds
History Group previous "get togethers" images
Monthly History 'get togethers'!
As part of the MCN commitment to get to know each other, to support each other, and to improve the place where we live, work and play, its important to look back at the history of where we live and share this with each other.
To do this, on the first Monday of each month the Moriac Community Network welcomes local community members to come and share and hear our joint local history for Moriac and Surrounds. We are also then capturing our rich history to share for all of our community past and present by building up a centralised collection of stories and photos on our website.
Check out some of our previous nights information and other history below.
We would love to see you and please bring along any photo's you might have for us to add to our website, we take copies on the night so you can take home with you. You can also email them to us or post on our Facebook page. This is everyone's History so please let us know if we have anything we need to change or update as sometimes the internet or our notes don't quite reflect the real life experiences.
Where: NEW Modewarre Fire Station thanks to the CFA
When: First Monday of each Month 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Upcoming meetings:
- Monday August 5th (7pm Start) at the NEW Modewarre Fire Station
- TOPIC - Barwon Park by Claudette Brennan (Property Manager of the Heights and Barwon Grange)
- Sunday 13th October (2pm Start) at the Modewarre Hall
- TOPIC - History of the Modewarre Hall and a picture history of Modewarre – by Margaret Anderson
- Special shared Positive Aging Month Event by MCN History Group and SCS
MCN History Group previous events 2022 :
- 1 AUGUST 2022 - Harvey Family History. Stuart and Bruce Harvey presented to us on the Harvey Family History as well as the Moriac Store and JWG Harvey truck company. Bruce shared with us a presentation on the history of how the Harvey's come to be in Moriac. Some amazing slides of Harvey 'Harriet and Jack (John William) Harvey'
- JULY - Discussion on the MOR-NEWs was a great way to go back in time and chat about local goings on. We've been scanning all of the issues and will be attaching them soon for everyone to have a look back on. Next stop Evan is getting copies of the MoriYAK to add to the stories.
- JUNE - Discussion on the Deppler family
- MAY - Norm Houghton and the history of the trainlines (see our local history page for a copy of his presentation) where Norm shared a wonderful presentation 'Moriac and district railways' (attached below) all about the Moriac and District railways including more amazing photos and images. Which included really interesting information on the Wensleydale line.
- APRIL - Geelong historical society
- MARCH - Modewarre Fire Brigade History
History Group previous 'get togethers' presentation files
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History of Moriac and Surrounds
MORIAC
Moriac is a rural town in Victoria, Australia located approximately 22 kilometres (14 miles) west of Geelong. It forms part of the Surf Coast Shire. A Post Office opened on 1 August 1854 as Duneed, was renamed Mount Moriac in 1864, and Moriac in about 1909.
The railway through Moriac opened in 1876, followed by the Wensleydale branch line which junctioned with the main line just past Moriac. The branch line opened in 1890 and closed in 1948 Moriac railway station was closed in October 1981.
The town was surveyed in the 1920s around the Moriac railway station, which had been provided to serve the adjacent community of Mount Moriac. The town was initially slow to develop, but has grown to house a population of several hundred. Though still heavily rural in nature, the town now serves as a satellite village of Geelong, with many residents travelling into the city to work.
Moriac has a Primary School, kindergarten, playgroup, local church and Moriac Community Network Group.
There is a tennis club and facilities, Lions Park rest stop (opposite the Store), local playgrounds at Clerke Court, the Football ground and Newling Reserve where the Community Centre and tennis courts are also located. The Community Centre now also has a free EV charger available 24 hours.
Small businesses include the Moriac Store with post office and cafe, the Moriac GP and Moriac Pharmacy, Vet Clinic, Brown Magpie Winery, Mt Moriac Wines, Ravens Creek farm, Saddlery and Hendy Main Road Honey.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriac,_Victoria
MORIAC RAILWAY LINE
Moriac opened for traffic on October 1, 1877 as Mount Moriac the name being shortened to Moriac by 1904. It was made a staff and ticket station on June 1, 1878 -but there was only one loop siding until January 1901, when number three road was added. The signalling between 1878 and 1889 was two home signals with hand worked locking bars on the facing points.
Moriac was made the junction of the short branch line south to Wensleydale in 1889. The lines diverged at the down end of the platform with the points facing Melbourne. A home signal was added to the branch line in March 1900 when the sections either side of the station were converted to large electric staff. The up end points were provided with plunger locking in 1909, with the down end following in 1910. The junction retained a hand locking bar until January 1915 when an Annett lock was fitted. The home signal levers were similarly fitted at the same time. In 1919 the Wensleydale line home signal was placed on the same post as the main line up home signal.
The 1929 track chart of the line showed the platform on the south (down) side of the line, with a three road yard and goods platform. Number two road had a dead end extension at the down end, while number three road had a dead end extension at the Geelong end.
The branch line junction points were spiked on September 27, 1949 with the connection abolished on June 29, 1952 but the home signal was not removed until February 1954. The compound points at the down end of number 2 road were placed by two simple crossovers in January 1958, the dead end extension at the up end of number 3 road was removed by August 1978.
The stationmaster was replaced by a porter in charge in July 1938. It was later worked under caretaker conditions, being made no-one in charge by January 1979. The station was one of five on the line closed to passenger traffic as part of the 'New Deal' on October 5, 1982 but was not closed as an electric staff station until April 13, 1985. The brick platform face remains in place today, as does part of the goods loading back, and a buffer stop at the up end.
Source: https://www.railgeelong.com/location/moriac/
MORIAC TOWNSHIP HISTORY
Geelong Advertiser Article on MORIAC DEVELOPMENT 4th October 1924 Page 9
"Moriac Development New Township Planned ON MODERN LINES"
A new township on modern town planning lines is to be established at the Moriac Railway Station.
The movement that has made this possible really started 18 years ago when two large estates aggregating about 7000 acres passed out of the hands of wool growers into those or agriculturalists.
The properties were subdivided into smaller holdings, new families came to the district, additional homes were built, and two State schools and a telephone bureau were erected by the residents themselves, who also spent £2500 in cash, material and labor towards making their own roads and then the Country Roads Board came to the rescue and completed the good work.
During the post few years the district has become famous for its wonderful clover and lucern paddocks and has now developed into a rich dairying district, and hopes to become a successful rival to Colac and Camperdown.
The old township of Mt. Moriac on the main Colac road was established in the days of the stage coach and before the railway line was built but in all modern townships the development is round the railway stations.
The only suitable site at Moriac was a farm of over 100 acres right opposite to the station entrance and which has been owned and occupied by the Bond family, for over (50 years. Mr. E. E. Hendy of Geelong, who has been closely identified with the Moriac district for many years, visualised the requirement of a township ten years
ago, and at that time he purchased the Moriac post office building from (the local Progress Association and has allowed it to remain in the railway reserve and free of rent to the Postal Department ever since.
A few months ago Mr. Bond, seiu. died, and the farm was sold by auction on the 10th ultimo and was secured by Mr. EE Hendy.
Almost the next day Messrs. Urbahns, Jacobs and Urbahns, surveyors. were on the ground laying out a modern township in quarter acre lots.
The Postal Department has given their approval of a new modern post office to be erected on the new town ship, and provision will be made for a money order office and for a large increase in the number of telephone subscribers.
Mr. Robert Purnell. Mayor of Geelong. is the owner of one of the largest and best farms near the Moriac station, and his brother, Lieut. Col. Fred C, Purneli. has been appointed architect for all the buildings to be erected by die new owner. These will include an up-to-date general store and dwelling with modern lighting, and
an effort will be made to inaugurate, a motor bus service between the new store and Geelong.
Sheep and cattle sale yards are also to be erected and will compare favorably with any public sale yards in this district. Tenders for these will be invited by the architect through these columns within the next few days, and they have been leased for a term of years to Messrs. Wilson, Bolton and Co.. of Geelong and an effort will be made to have the yards ready for a off-shears sale about the middle of November. The president of the shire of Barrabool (Or. S H McCann) is to be invited, on that occasion, to declare the new yards officially open for business.
The owner of the estate intends to properly construct and metal some of the new roads in the township at his own expense. This work will be put in hand as soon as practicable, and will be supervised by Mr. H. K. Moore CE. It is expected that one of the local banks will open a branch or a receiving office and it is hoped in the near future to build butchers and bakers shops, which are now urgently needed, and also a public hall for picture entertainments and motor garage.
"Moriac" is only 12 miles from Geelong and seven passenger trains per day stop there. It is hoped that be fore long suburban fares will come in to operation.
Mr. Hendy has offered prizes of £33 and £22 for the two best essays of ''How best to develop the Moriac Township."
The competition is open to scholars attending the Moriac and Paraparap State schools.
Messrs Horwood and Pincott, of Yarra Street, Geelong. have been appointed solicitors to the Moriac Townshin Estate.
The owner does not intend to offer any of the land for (sale until he has developed the township, and its future progress will be watched with much interest. It is not suggested that Moriac will ever be a suburb of Geelong, but that the foundations of another Colac or Terang are being laid."
Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/211551541
Moriac Structure Plan 2010
Aerial views from State Library of Victoria
Source: https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/arts/photography/aerial-views-of-melbourne-by-charles-daniel-pratt
MORIAC GENERAL STORE
https://www.facebook.com/moriac.general.store
Article from Geelong Advertiser 27 Mar 1924 ...
The Misses Harvey have decided to open a general store at a central site near the railway station at an early date and purpose handling also such lines as bread and meat. Good promises of support have been given them, and it is surprising that the* opportunity offered here has not been availed of before.
The Rev. L. Tait. superintendent of the Methodist circuit., made his quarterly visit round the Mt. Moriac, Paraparap and Moriac Rail churches on Sunday.
The combined Methodist Sunday school picnic passed off very successfully on Saturday afternoon.
The district State schools excursion to Royal Park on Friday next promises to be a great success.
The financial success of the train is already assured, and it only needs good weather to complete the enjoyment of the picnickers. Mr.- F. Richmond, the organising secretary, has arranged for a supply of hot water, free, at the. Zoo, and as the tickets are available for a week, the opportunity is being taken by a number to visit
Melbourne.
An in-memoriam service is being conducted at Mt. Moriac Methodist Church on Sunday morning in connection with the death of Mrs. Bond. Mrs Bond has been a worshipper at this church for over half a century.
Note:
Mrs Bond owned the land our town is situated on. It was purchased by Ebenezer Hendy who subdivided it.
Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166056653/19578412
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MORIAC PRIMARY SCHOOL
Moriac Primary School was established in 1922, built by the Moriac Progress Association on land donated by the Deppeler Family.
This original epitomizes the sense of community partnership that underpins the success of Moriac Primary School.
Source: https://moriacps.vic.edu.au/about
Photos provided by Jen Harvey
4117 MORIAC: School began in 1922 in a timber building on the present site, S of the Warrnambool-Melbourne railway line. The Department obtained the site free of charge initially but with possible repayment over seven years. The first HT Joseph M. Cahill served until Leo Ryan’s appointment in 1929. In 1924 and 1928 the school won ANA prizes. Among HTs who followed Ryan were E.L. Osborne, A.H. Riggall, John B. Allen, N. F. Peterson, Miss Lyn Worthy, Miss F. McCulloch, Brian Crowe, James Green and Gordon Chancellor. Niel L. Forge was appointed in 1957 and another ANA prize won in 1960.
Source: https://surfcoastheritagegroup.wordpress.com/schools-mount-moriac/
Moriac Primary School
MORIAC UNITED CHURCH
795 Hendy Main Rd Moriac
Source: https://victas.uca.org.au/church/moriac/
WENSLEYDALE RAILWAY LINE
The Wensleydale railway line was a railway branch line in Victoria, Australia. It ran for approximately 18 km from the Port Fairy railway line near Moriac, to Wensleydale, Victoria. It was opened in March 1890 and was used to transport firewood, gravel and brown coal out of the area.
Apart from troop trains during World War II the line saw very little traffic and was closed in 1948.
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Moriac is a rural town in Victoria, Australia located approximately 22 kilometres (14 miles) west of Geelong. It forms part of the Surf Coast Shire. A Post Office opened on 1 August 1854 as Duneed, was renamed Mount Moriac in 1864, and Moriac in about 1909.
The railway through Moriac opened in 1876, followed by the Wensleydale branch line which junctioned with the main line just past Moriac. The branch line opened in 1890 and closed in 1948 Moriac railway station was closed in October 1981.
The town was surveyed in the 1920s around the Moriac railway station, which had been provided to serve the adjacent community of Mount Moriac. The town was initially slow to develop, but has grown to house a population of several hundred. Though still heavily rural in nature, the town now serves as a satellite village of Geelong, with many residents travelling into the city to work.
Moriac has a Primary School, kindergarten, playgroup, local church and Moriac Community Network Group.
There is a tennis club and facilities, Lions Park rest stop (opposite the Store), local playgrounds at Clerke Court, the Football ground and Newling Reserve where the Community Centre and tennis courts are also located. The Community Centre now also has a free EV charger available 24 hours.
Small businesses include the Moriac Store with post office and cafe, the Moriac GP and Moriac Pharmacy, Vet Clinic, Brown Magpie Winery, Mt Moriac Wines, Ravens Creek farm, Saddlery and Hendy Main Road Honey.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriac,_Victoria
MORIAC RAILWAY LINE
Moriac opened for traffic on October 1, 1877 as Mount Moriac the name being shortened to Moriac by 1904. It was made a staff and ticket station on June 1, 1878 -but there was only one loop siding until January 1901, when number three road was added. The signalling between 1878 and 1889 was two home signals with hand worked locking bars on the facing points.
Moriac was made the junction of the short branch line south to Wensleydale in 1889. The lines diverged at the down end of the platform with the points facing Melbourne. A home signal was added to the branch line in March 1900 when the sections either side of the station were converted to large electric staff. The up end points were provided with plunger locking in 1909, with the down end following in 1910. The junction retained a hand locking bar until January 1915 when an Annett lock was fitted. The home signal levers were similarly fitted at the same time. In 1919 the Wensleydale line home signal was placed on the same post as the main line up home signal.
The 1929 track chart of the line showed the platform on the south (down) side of the line, with a three road yard and goods platform. Number two road had a dead end extension at the down end, while number three road had a dead end extension at the Geelong end.
The branch line junction points were spiked on September 27, 1949 with the connection abolished on June 29, 1952 but the home signal was not removed until February 1954. The compound points at the down end of number 2 road were placed by two simple crossovers in January 1958, the dead end extension at the up end of number 3 road was removed by August 1978.
The stationmaster was replaced by a porter in charge in July 1938. It was later worked under caretaker conditions, being made no-one in charge by January 1979. The station was one of five on the line closed to passenger traffic as part of the 'New Deal' on October 5, 1982 but was not closed as an electric staff station until April 13, 1985. The brick platform face remains in place today, as does part of the goods loading back, and a buffer stop at the up end.
Source: https://www.railgeelong.com/location/moriac/
MORIAC TOWNSHIP HISTORY
Geelong Advertiser Article on MORIAC DEVELOPMENT 4th October 1924 Page 9
"Moriac Development New Township Planned ON MODERN LINES"
A new township on modern town planning lines is to be established at the Moriac Railway Station.
The movement that has made this possible really started 18 years ago when two large estates aggregating about 7000 acres passed out of the hands of wool growers into those or agriculturalists.
The properties were subdivided into smaller holdings, new families came to the district, additional homes were built, and two State schools and a telephone bureau were erected by the residents themselves, who also spent £2500 in cash, material and labor towards making their own roads and then the Country Roads Board came to the rescue and completed the good work.
During the post few years the district has become famous for its wonderful clover and lucern paddocks and has now developed into a rich dairying district, and hopes to become a successful rival to Colac and Camperdown.
The old township of Mt. Moriac on the main Colac road was established in the days of the stage coach and before the railway line was built but in all modern townships the development is round the railway stations.
The only suitable site at Moriac was a farm of over 100 acres right opposite to the station entrance and which has been owned and occupied by the Bond family, for over (50 years. Mr. E. E. Hendy of Geelong, who has been closely identified with the Moriac district for many years, visualised the requirement of a township ten years
ago, and at that time he purchased the Moriac post office building from (the local Progress Association and has allowed it to remain in the railway reserve and free of rent to the Postal Department ever since.
A few months ago Mr. Bond, seiu. died, and the farm was sold by auction on the 10th ultimo and was secured by Mr. EE Hendy.
Almost the next day Messrs. Urbahns, Jacobs and Urbahns, surveyors. were on the ground laying out a modern township in quarter acre lots.
The Postal Department has given their approval of a new modern post office to be erected on the new town ship, and provision will be made for a money order office and for a large increase in the number of telephone subscribers.
Mr. Robert Purnell. Mayor of Geelong. is the owner of one of the largest and best farms near the Moriac station, and his brother, Lieut. Col. Fred C, Purneli. has been appointed architect for all the buildings to be erected by die new owner. These will include an up-to-date general store and dwelling with modern lighting, and
an effort will be made to inaugurate, a motor bus service between the new store and Geelong.
Sheep and cattle sale yards are also to be erected and will compare favorably with any public sale yards in this district. Tenders for these will be invited by the architect through these columns within the next few days, and they have been leased for a term of years to Messrs. Wilson, Bolton and Co.. of Geelong and an effort will be made to have the yards ready for a off-shears sale about the middle of November. The president of the shire of Barrabool (Or. S H McCann) is to be invited, on that occasion, to declare the new yards officially open for business.
The owner of the estate intends to properly construct and metal some of the new roads in the township at his own expense. This work will be put in hand as soon as practicable, and will be supervised by Mr. H. K. Moore CE. It is expected that one of the local banks will open a branch or a receiving office and it is hoped in the near future to build butchers and bakers shops, which are now urgently needed, and also a public hall for picture entertainments and motor garage.
"Moriac" is only 12 miles from Geelong and seven passenger trains per day stop there. It is hoped that be fore long suburban fares will come in to operation.
Mr. Hendy has offered prizes of £33 and £22 for the two best essays of ''How best to develop the Moriac Township."
The competition is open to scholars attending the Moriac and Paraparap State schools.
Messrs Horwood and Pincott, of Yarra Street, Geelong. have been appointed solicitors to the Moriac Townshin Estate.
The owner does not intend to offer any of the land for (sale until he has developed the township, and its future progress will be watched with much interest. It is not suggested that Moriac will ever be a suburb of Geelong, but that the foundations of another Colac or Terang are being laid."
Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/211551541
Moriac Structure Plan 2010
Aerial views from State Library of Victoria
Source: https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/arts/photography/aerial-views-of-melbourne-by-charles-daniel-pratt
MORIAC GENERAL STORE
https://www.facebook.com/moriac.general.store
Article from Geelong Advertiser 27 Mar 1924 ...
The Misses Harvey have decided to open a general store at a central site near the railway station at an early date and purpose handling also such lines as bread and meat. Good promises of support have been given them, and it is surprising that the* opportunity offered here has not been availed of before.
The Rev. L. Tait. superintendent of the Methodist circuit., made his quarterly visit round the Mt. Moriac, Paraparap and Moriac Rail churches on Sunday.
The combined Methodist Sunday school picnic passed off very successfully on Saturday afternoon.
The district State schools excursion to Royal Park on Friday next promises to be a great success.
The financial success of the train is already assured, and it only needs good weather to complete the enjoyment of the picnickers. Mr.- F. Richmond, the organising secretary, has arranged for a supply of hot water, free, at the. Zoo, and as the tickets are available for a week, the opportunity is being taken by a number to visit
Melbourne.
An in-memoriam service is being conducted at Mt. Moriac Methodist Church on Sunday morning in connection with the death of Mrs. Bond. Mrs Bond has been a worshipper at this church for over half a century.
Note:
Mrs Bond owned the land our town is situated on. It was purchased by Ebenezer Hendy who subdivided it.
Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166056653/19578412
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MORIAC PRIMARY SCHOOL
Moriac Primary School was established in 1922, built by the Moriac Progress Association on land donated by the Deppeler Family.
This original epitomizes the sense of community partnership that underpins the success of Moriac Primary School.
Source: https://moriacps.vic.edu.au/about
Photos provided by Jen Harvey
4117 MORIAC: School began in 1922 in a timber building on the present site, S of the Warrnambool-Melbourne railway line. The Department obtained the site free of charge initially but with possible repayment over seven years. The first HT Joseph M. Cahill served until Leo Ryan’s appointment in 1929. In 1924 and 1928 the school won ANA prizes. Among HTs who followed Ryan were E.L. Osborne, A.H. Riggall, John B. Allen, N. F. Peterson, Miss Lyn Worthy, Miss F. McCulloch, Brian Crowe, James Green and Gordon Chancellor. Niel L. Forge was appointed in 1957 and another ANA prize won in 1960.
Source: https://surfcoastheritagegroup.wordpress.com/schools-mount-moriac/
Moriac Primary School
MORIAC UNITED CHURCH
795 Hendy Main Rd Moriac
Source: https://victas.uca.org.au/church/moriac/
WENSLEYDALE RAILWAY LINE
The Wensleydale railway line was a railway branch line in Victoria, Australia. It ran for approximately 18 km from the Port Fairy railway line near Moriac, to Wensleydale, Victoria. It was opened in March 1890 and was used to transport firewood, gravel and brown coal out of the area.
Apart from troop trains during World War II the line saw very little traffic and was closed in 1948.
"THE SADDLE LINE" - DOWNLOAD PDF
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MOUNT MORIAC
MOUNT MORIAC HOTEL
In progress ...
SIR ARTHUR STREETON
The monument commemorates landscape painter, Sir Arthur Streeton (1867 - 1943).
Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton was an Australian landscape painter and leading member of the Heidelberg School, also known as Australian Impressionism.
Streeton was also made an Australian Official War Artist with the Australian Imperial Force and he travelled to France in 1918 and was attached to the 2nd Division.
More works of art on view at NSW and VIC Gallery websites ...
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=streeton-arthur
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/540/
Address
Ervins Road & Princes Highway, Mount Moriac, 3240
Front Inscription
In memory of Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton
Famous Australian artist.
Born at Mount Moriac 8th April 1867.
Died at Olinda 1st September 1943
Biography
Born: Duneed, Victoria, Australia 8th April 1867
Died: Olinda, Victoria, Australia 1st Sept 1943
One of Australia’s best known and most influential landscape painters, Arthur Streeton was a key member of the Heidelberg school of Australian impressionism – the first distinctively Australian school of painting. For many people, Streeton’s paintings defined a unique image of this country. He spent much of the early 20th century in Europe and served as war artist during the First World War, but later returned to Australia, where he also worked as an art critic.
Streeton received little formal training in art beyond night classes at the National Gallery of Victoria school in Melbourne from 1882 to 1887, but his career developed after he met fellow artist Tom Roberts. Along with Frederick McCubbin, and later Charles Conder, he joined Roberts’s camps at Box Hill and Heidelberg in Victoria. Painting in the open air, they worked on representing Australia’s light, heat, space and distance. Streeton himself established an ongoing artists’ camp in 1888 at Eaglemont on the outskirts of Melbourne.
In 1889 Streeton was a key contributor, with Roberts, McCubbin, Conder and others, to The 9 by 5 impression exhibition in Melbourne, which consisted of impressions of bush and city life rapidly painted on cigar box lids – including The national game 1889 and A road to the ranges 1889. Scorned by conservative critics, this groundbreaking show reinforced the group’s claim that they were creating a new type of art in Australia.
After the Art Gallery of New South Wales bought his painting ‘Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide’ 1890, Streeton moved to Sydney in the early 1890s where he painted views of the city, harbour and beaches and established an artists’ camp in Mosman, producing works such as From my camp (Sirius Cove) 1896. In search of more dramatic scenes, he travelled to the Blue Mountains and the Hawkesbury River. From 1890, his paintings became increasingly large and ambitious and his visions of the Australian bush became more powerful and lyrical. It was during this period that he painted perhaps his greatest evocation of the country’s light, heat and dust – Fire’s on 1891. His growing critical success culminated in a solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1896.
Streeton travelled to London via Cairo in 1897, where he lived for the next three decades, with frequent return visits to Australia. Enlisting in the Australian army medical corps in 1915, he was appointed an official war artist in 1918. In paintings such as Villers Bretonneux 1918, he documented the Western Front, focusing on the devastated terrain rather than the drama of human suffering.
Returning to Victoria in 1923, Streeton won the Wynne Prize in 1928, and in 1929 became art critic for the newspaper The Argus. He was knighted in 1937 and died at his property in Olinda, Victoria, in 1943.
Other biography information at
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/streeton-sir-arthur-ernest-8697
Sources
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/streeton-arthur/
https://www.monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/arts/display/32771-sir-arthur-streeton
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/540/
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/streeton-sir-arthur-ernest-8697
Photographs by Kent Watson
Former MT MORIAC PRIMARY SCHOOL
Mount Moriac (Primary School No 1608) opened about 1875. Merged with Moriac Primary School.
1608 MOUNT MORIAC HT Richard Grey opened the school about 1875. Succeeding HTs included McAlister, Reid, Miss Stapleton, Joseph Dunstan in 1911, Miss Walker, Frederick Fedtlerson, Norton, Downing, Fred Ailseman (1925-28), Fitzpatrick (1929-33), Misses Welsh then Lynch during 1934 followed by Wyeth, Elliott in 1935, Brown, Firth in 1941, Miss Penwarden, Stanley Arthur (1948-50), Wall, Cherry, Smithson. The Hon. J.F. Rossiter, MLA, opened the new one-room, brick building on 15th of November 1968. Two former pupils of note are D. Anderson, forty years a Barrabool Shire Councillor and five times Shire President, and K. Onley, Barrabool Shire Secretary and Engineer.
https://surfcoastheritagegroup.wordpress.com/schools-mount-moriac/
Source photos: Surf Coast Heritage Group
Mt Moriac Primary School
MT MORIAC GENERAL STORE
Mt Moriac General Store - 200m down from Mt Moriac Hotel
MT MORIAC ST PATICKS CHURCH
In 1856 Fr Patrick Birmingham formerly of Fiery Creek was direct by Bishop Goold to reside at Mount Moriac with the charge of Colac. This continued for just one year when he left Melbourne and travelled to Sydney. Father Barrett took over his parish.
The original church was located in Chapel Street and built in 1860. A new Church was built in 1883 and opened by Archbishop Carr but this was demolished in March 1979. The new church is of a square design with a pyramid like structure over the centre of the building.
It was rebuilt in 1953 after the community fundraised to resurrect the building when it was damaged in a storm.
1191 Princes Highway, Mt Moriac
Source: https://www.churchhistories.net.au/church-catalog/mt-moriac-vic-st-patricks-catholic
Photos source: https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/
MOUNT MORIAC
MOUNT MORIAC HOTEL
In progress ...
SIR ARTHUR STREETON
The monument commemorates landscape painter, Sir Arthur Streeton (1867 - 1943).
Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton was an Australian landscape painter and leading member of the Heidelberg School, also known as Australian Impressionism.
Streeton was also made an Australian Official War Artist with the Australian Imperial Force and he travelled to France in 1918 and was attached to the 2nd Division.
More works of art on view at NSW and VIC Gallery websites ...
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=streeton-arthur
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Ervins Road & Princes Highway, Mount Moriac, 3240
Front Inscription
In memory of Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton
Famous Australian artist.
Born at Mount Moriac 8th April 1867.
Died at Olinda 1st September 1943
Biography
Born: Duneed, Victoria, Australia 8th April 1867
Died: Olinda, Victoria, Australia 1st Sept 1943
One of Australia’s best known and most influential landscape painters, Arthur Streeton was a key member of the Heidelberg school of Australian impressionism – the first distinctively Australian school of painting. For many people, Streeton’s paintings defined a unique image of this country. He spent much of the early 20th century in Europe and served as war artist during the First World War, but later returned to Australia, where he also worked as an art critic.
Streeton received little formal training in art beyond night classes at the National Gallery of Victoria school in Melbourne from 1882 to 1887, but his career developed after he met fellow artist Tom Roberts. Along with Frederick McCubbin, and later Charles Conder, he joined Roberts’s camps at Box Hill and Heidelberg in Victoria. Painting in the open air, they worked on representing Australia’s light, heat, space and distance. Streeton himself established an ongoing artists’ camp in 1888 at Eaglemont on the outskirts of Melbourne.
In 1889 Streeton was a key contributor, with Roberts, McCubbin, Conder and others, to The 9 by 5 impression exhibition in Melbourne, which consisted of impressions of bush and city life rapidly painted on cigar box lids – including The national game 1889 and A road to the ranges 1889. Scorned by conservative critics, this groundbreaking show reinforced the group’s claim that they were creating a new type of art in Australia.
After the Art Gallery of New South Wales bought his painting ‘Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide’ 1890, Streeton moved to Sydney in the early 1890s where he painted views of the city, harbour and beaches and established an artists’ camp in Mosman, producing works such as From my camp (Sirius Cove) 1896. In search of more dramatic scenes, he travelled to the Blue Mountains and the Hawkesbury River. From 1890, his paintings became increasingly large and ambitious and his visions of the Australian bush became more powerful and lyrical. It was during this period that he painted perhaps his greatest evocation of the country’s light, heat and dust – Fire’s on 1891. His growing critical success culminated in a solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1896.
Streeton travelled to London via Cairo in 1897, where he lived for the next three decades, with frequent return visits to Australia. Enlisting in the Australian army medical corps in 1915, he was appointed an official war artist in 1918. In paintings such as Villers Bretonneux 1918, he documented the Western Front, focusing on the devastated terrain rather than the drama of human suffering.
Returning to Victoria in 1923, Streeton won the Wynne Prize in 1928, and in 1929 became art critic for the newspaper The Argus. He was knighted in 1937 and died at his property in Olinda, Victoria, in 1943.
Other biography information at
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/streeton-sir-arthur-ernest-8697
Sources
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/streeton-arthur/
https://www.monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/arts/display/32771-sir-arthur-streeton
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/540/
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/streeton-sir-arthur-ernest-8697
Photographs by Kent Watson
Former MT MORIAC PRIMARY SCHOOL
Mount Moriac (Primary School No 1608) opened about 1875. Merged with Moriac Primary School.
1608 MOUNT MORIAC HT Richard Grey opened the school about 1875. Succeeding HTs included McAlister, Reid, Miss Stapleton, Joseph Dunstan in 1911, Miss Walker, Frederick Fedtlerson, Norton, Downing, Fred Ailseman (1925-28), Fitzpatrick (1929-33), Misses Welsh then Lynch during 1934 followed by Wyeth, Elliott in 1935, Brown, Firth in 1941, Miss Penwarden, Stanley Arthur (1948-50), Wall, Cherry, Smithson. The Hon. J.F. Rossiter, MLA, opened the new one-room, brick building on 15th of November 1968. Two former pupils of note are D. Anderson, forty years a Barrabool Shire Councillor and five times Shire President, and K. Onley, Barrabool Shire Secretary and Engineer.
https://surfcoastheritagegroup.wordpress.com/schools-mount-moriac/
Source photos: Surf Coast Heritage Group
Mt Moriac Primary School
MT MORIAC GENERAL STORE
Mt Moriac General Store - 200m down from Mt Moriac Hotel
MT MORIAC ST PATICKS CHURCH
In 1856 Fr Patrick Birmingham formerly of Fiery Creek was direct by Bishop Goold to reside at Mount Moriac with the charge of Colac. This continued for just one year when he left Melbourne and travelled to Sydney. Father Barrett took over his parish.
The original church was located in Chapel Street and built in 1860. A new Church was built in 1883 and opened by Archbishop Carr but this was demolished in March 1979. The new church is of a square design with a pyramid like structure over the centre of the building.
It was rebuilt in 1953 after the community fundraised to resurrect the building when it was damaged in a storm.
1191 Princes Highway, Mt Moriac
Source: https://www.churchhistories.net.au/church-catalog/mt-moriac-vic-st-patricks-catholic
Photos source: https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/
PETTAVEL
OLD PETTEVEL RAILWAY STATION
Pettevel and Waurn Ponds were very close communities. Pettevel no longer has a railway station, schools, church etc.
Pettevel is near Geelong on the Colac rail line, located where the Waurn Ponds cement Works is now.
The building was removed many years ago and is now privately owned.
Patrick Donohue was station master. (2nd from Left)
Source photos: Waurn Ponds Memorial Facebook group
THE PETTAVEL MURDER - 22 JAN 1884 - FRANCIS BEECH
Article from The North Eastern Ensign (Benalla) 25 March 1884
Article Transcribed:
The Age correspondent at Camperdown states:— Detectives Ward and Potter passed through Camperdown on Thursday in search of an escaped lunatic named Bourke, alias Irwin, who is supposed to be in the district.
The man, who is said to be armed with a revolver, is reported to have been traced from Camperdown to Panmure, and it is thought that he has since made for the Lang or Nirranda forests.
The detectives have gone to the locality. The mounted police of the district are scouring the country in very direction. The lunatic is suspected of having been connected with the Pettavel tragedy. The description given of Bourke in the Police Gazette corresponds in every particular with that of the man who has been traced into this district.
—Important news regarding the capture of the escaped lunatic is hourly expected.
Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/70745925
WEEBLY BLOG CREATED BY GWEN THREFALL 22 JUN 2016
Francis Beech arrived in Sydney in 1844 as a private soldier in the 11th regiment. He came to Geelong in 1849. In 1864 he was appointed manager of the Little River and Duck Ponds Farmers' Commons, a position he held until he resigned as he was leaving the district. By the 1870s he was living at Moorabool on land known as Hendre's Farm. In 1881 he was granted a slaughtering license by the Barrabool Shire Council.
On 21 January 1884, Francis Beech spent the day in Geelong, travelling by train, to attend the funeral of his friend George Hiscox who died on 19 January. He lived ¼ mile from the Pettavel Road station which had opened the previous year. He retired to bed with his wife Jane about 9:30pm. It sounds dramatic to be "murdered at midnight" but this wasn't the case. They were awakened around 1am when the dressing table fell to the floor. Mr Beech called out "Who's there?" Mrs Beech heard gunshots and her husband called out as if he was seriously hurt. She had a less serious bullet wound. Later she found it difficult to recall what happened next, but thought she woke the two servants, Amanda Clark and Frank Haworth who slept at the other end of the house about 40 feet away. Haworth rode to alert the neighbours and on returning and finding Mr Beech had died he rode to Mount Moriac to inform police, then to Geelong to get Dr Reid, then to inform Geelong police. It was then 5am.
Geelong police went to Pettavel after sending for detectives from Melbourne who arrived on the midday train. Two undersized black trackers arrived from Benalla at 7pm. They were of little use as there had been too much rain by the time they arrived. There seemed to be no motive for the murder and nothing was stolen.
The crime scene was contaminated by the delays. As news of the murder spread throughout the district, hundreds of people turned up from as far away as Winchelsea to see the body and the horrendous scene. The Geelong Advertiser described it as "the ghastly spectacle of the dead body, with rigidly set eyes and firmly-clenched hands".
The inquest was held at the deceased's house. The following jury was empanelled: Colonel Conran, Daniel Dean, William Ham, R L Fletcher, W Fletcher, W Irvine, F B White, Sproule Bryan, A Young, T Harding, G Rogers, A McIntyre and F Marendaz. The inquest was resumed the following week at the Pettavel Road State School. Mr Beech had sustained 5 gunshots each of which could have been fatal.
Suspicion fell on a stranger, who turned out to be an escaped lunatic from Yarra Bend Asylum, who was named William Bourke but who used the alias Captain Donovan. He was arrested on 24 March at Mortlake. At the trial the evidence was circumstantial, and the prisoner maintained that he had stolen things in Melbourne which would prove he was there for the whole of January. The jury unanimously decided to discharge the prisoner. He was then sent back to the asylum from which he had escaped the previous July.
In 1885 Jane Beech and Frank Haworth were charged with the murder. The prosecution alleged that they had been romantically linked, despite their 23-year age difference.
John Ralph, a carpenter, stated that Mrs Beech had told hem a few weeks prior to the murder that "Mr Beech has made his will, and I have got everything." She was concerned a girl named Fanny Young, who had worked for them for two years and left six months prior “in consequence of the state of her health,” would return. She did not know what she would do if this happened.
Fanny, now Mrs Thomas told the court she had to leave the Beech's employment because of her pregnancy. Just before she left Mrs Beech had asked her who was the father of the child and she answered, "time will tell." She told the court that Mr Beech was the father. The bench ruled this evidence could not be included as it had never been proved in Beech's lifetime. The prosecution case was now crumbling, and the prisoners were discharged. Mrs Beech fell on her knees crying, "Jesus, Jesus, my precious Jesus, I am saved. My God, my God, I am innocent."
A murderer was never found.
Source: https://mdpa.weebly.com/blog/the-pettavel-murder
OLD PETTEVEL RAILWAY STATION
Pettevel and Waurn Ponds were very close communities. Pettevel no longer has a railway station, schools, church etc.
Pettevel is near Geelong on the Colac rail line, located where the Waurn Ponds cement Works is now.
The building was removed many years ago and is now privately owned.
Patrick Donohue was station master. (2nd from Left)
Source photos: Waurn Ponds Memorial Facebook group
THE PETTAVEL MURDER - 22 JAN 1884 - FRANCIS BEECH
Article from The North Eastern Ensign (Benalla) 25 March 1884
Article Transcribed:
The Age correspondent at Camperdown states:— Detectives Ward and Potter passed through Camperdown on Thursday in search of an escaped lunatic named Bourke, alias Irwin, who is supposed to be in the district.
The man, who is said to be armed with a revolver, is reported to have been traced from Camperdown to Panmure, and it is thought that he has since made for the Lang or Nirranda forests.
The detectives have gone to the locality. The mounted police of the district are scouring the country in very direction. The lunatic is suspected of having been connected with the Pettavel tragedy. The description given of Bourke in the Police Gazette corresponds in every particular with that of the man who has been traced into this district.
—Important news regarding the capture of the escaped lunatic is hourly expected.
Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/70745925
WEEBLY BLOG CREATED BY GWEN THREFALL 22 JUN 2016
Francis Beech arrived in Sydney in 1844 as a private soldier in the 11th regiment. He came to Geelong in 1849. In 1864 he was appointed manager of the Little River and Duck Ponds Farmers' Commons, a position he held until he resigned as he was leaving the district. By the 1870s he was living at Moorabool on land known as Hendre's Farm. In 1881 he was granted a slaughtering license by the Barrabool Shire Council.
On 21 January 1884, Francis Beech spent the day in Geelong, travelling by train, to attend the funeral of his friend George Hiscox who died on 19 January. He lived ¼ mile from the Pettavel Road station which had opened the previous year. He retired to bed with his wife Jane about 9:30pm. It sounds dramatic to be "murdered at midnight" but this wasn't the case. They were awakened around 1am when the dressing table fell to the floor. Mr Beech called out "Who's there?" Mrs Beech heard gunshots and her husband called out as if he was seriously hurt. She had a less serious bullet wound. Later she found it difficult to recall what happened next, but thought she woke the two servants, Amanda Clark and Frank Haworth who slept at the other end of the house about 40 feet away. Haworth rode to alert the neighbours and on returning and finding Mr Beech had died he rode to Mount Moriac to inform police, then to Geelong to get Dr Reid, then to inform Geelong police. It was then 5am.
Geelong police went to Pettavel after sending for detectives from Melbourne who arrived on the midday train. Two undersized black trackers arrived from Benalla at 7pm. They were of little use as there had been too much rain by the time they arrived. There seemed to be no motive for the murder and nothing was stolen.
The crime scene was contaminated by the delays. As news of the murder spread throughout the district, hundreds of people turned up from as far away as Winchelsea to see the body and the horrendous scene. The Geelong Advertiser described it as "the ghastly spectacle of the dead body, with rigidly set eyes and firmly-clenched hands".
The inquest was held at the deceased's house. The following jury was empanelled: Colonel Conran, Daniel Dean, William Ham, R L Fletcher, W Fletcher, W Irvine, F B White, Sproule Bryan, A Young, T Harding, G Rogers, A McIntyre and F Marendaz. The inquest was resumed the following week at the Pettavel Road State School. Mr Beech had sustained 5 gunshots each of which could have been fatal.
Suspicion fell on a stranger, who turned out to be an escaped lunatic from Yarra Bend Asylum, who was named William Bourke but who used the alias Captain Donovan. He was arrested on 24 March at Mortlake. At the trial the evidence was circumstantial, and the prisoner maintained that he had stolen things in Melbourne which would prove he was there for the whole of January. The jury unanimously decided to discharge the prisoner. He was then sent back to the asylum from which he had escaped the previous July.
In 1885 Jane Beech and Frank Haworth were charged with the murder. The prosecution alleged that they had been romantically linked, despite their 23-year age difference.
John Ralph, a carpenter, stated that Mrs Beech had told hem a few weeks prior to the murder that "Mr Beech has made his will, and I have got everything." She was concerned a girl named Fanny Young, who had worked for them for two years and left six months prior “in consequence of the state of her health,” would return. She did not know what she would do if this happened.
Fanny, now Mrs Thomas told the court she had to leave the Beech's employment because of her pregnancy. Just before she left Mrs Beech had asked her who was the father of the child and she answered, "time will tell." She told the court that Mr Beech was the father. The bench ruled this evidence could not be included as it had never been proved in Beech's lifetime. The prosecution case was now crumbling, and the prisoners were discharged. Mrs Beech fell on her knees crying, "Jesus, Jesus, my precious Jesus, I am saved. My God, my God, I am innocent."
A murderer was never found.
Source: https://mdpa.weebly.com/blog/the-pettavel-murder
GNARWARRE
Gnarwarre is a rural locality in the Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia.[2] In the 1800s, the locality was alternately known as Shankhill.[3] In the 2016 census, Gnarwarre had a population of 267 people.[1]
HistoryThe area was first settled by squatters in the late 1830s.[4] The Gnarwarre Parish was first advertised for sale in 1839, with the parish, consisting of 22 lots of 640 acres or bigger, put up for sale on 10 June 1840. The sale was dramatically less successful than the February sale of blocks in the Barrabool Parish, with only four blocks being sold; virtually all of the remainder would be eventually sold in the 1850s.[5] The Gnarwarre Parish did not see the same significant subdivision that occurred in the nearby Modewarre and Duneed parishes, which Wynd attributes to the land being seen as more suitable for grazing.[6]
The population in the Gnarwarre area, as opposed to areas further east, was largely Catholic. A Catholic school was established at Gnarwarre in 1853, and was used as a church on Sundays.[7] A more permanent school building was slowly constructed over several years, and finally opened on 2 February 1862; Wynd suggests that poverty on the part of the local population had meant that further work was only done when funds became available.[8] An Anglican school also opened at Gnarwarre in November 1856, and a Primitive Methodist church opened around 1865.[8] The Catholic school became a common school, then in 1872 the first Gnarwarre State School, but was closed down at the end of 1874 as it was to be replaced by a new school on a new two-acre site.[8]
The Shankhill Hotel was opened by James Murphy in 1856, but was burned down in 1864 and not rebuilt. The Gnarwarre Hotel was opened by Patrick Corbett in 1864 on a site "a little distance west" of the former hotel.[9] A post office opened on 1 October 1857.[10] In addition to the hotel, in 1861, Gnarwarre had a butcher, a blacksmith, and store.[9] The former Catholic church and school ceased being used for services from around 1900, was used as a dance hall during World War I, and was demolished in 1959. The Gnarwarre Hotel closed in 1922 and was demolished in 1968.[9] Gnarwarre Post Office closed on 30 June 1963.[10]
Gnarwarre State School would outlive the remainder of the village, but closed and opened numerous times with changing student numbers. The school, having opened on a new site from the old Catholic school at the start of 1875, closed in 1879–80, reopened in 1881, closed again from 1950 to 1956, and was re-opened again in 1957. It was replaced by a new school in the 1960s, but closed permanently in 1991 because of falling student numbers.[8] Wynd, writing in 1992, states that some of Gnarwarre's buildings survived until the 1960s, but that a motorist would see "absolutely nothing to recall the existence of Shankhill/Gnarwarre."[9]
There were also three unsuccessful attempts at founding other settlements within the modern Gnarwarre locality: Lanark, Barwon, and Pollocksford. Lanark was advertised as being at the junction of what is now Mount Pollock Road at Gnarwarre; a street pattern was laid out, and a land auction took place on 23 January 1854. Wynd notes that there is "no record of who bought land, and no evidence that any settlement ever developed there".[11] Barwon was auctioned on 9 March 1854, advertised as being "on the Ballarat Road". It was described in the Geelong Advertiser in 1874 as being "a sort of no man's land where anybody and everybody runs their stock" and had disappeared by the 1880s.[12] Pollocksford, straddling the Barwon River in modern Gnarwarre and Murgheboluc, was marked for a settlement, and an Anglican school was proposed there in the 1860s, but was never built.[12]
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnarwarre,_Victoria
Gnarwarre is a rural locality in the Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia.[2] In the 1800s, the locality was alternately known as Shankhill.[3] In the 2016 census, Gnarwarre had a population of 267 people.[1]
HistoryThe area was first settled by squatters in the late 1830s.[4] The Gnarwarre Parish was first advertised for sale in 1839, with the parish, consisting of 22 lots of 640 acres or bigger, put up for sale on 10 June 1840. The sale was dramatically less successful than the February sale of blocks in the Barrabool Parish, with only four blocks being sold; virtually all of the remainder would be eventually sold in the 1850s.[5] The Gnarwarre Parish did not see the same significant subdivision that occurred in the nearby Modewarre and Duneed parishes, which Wynd attributes to the land being seen as more suitable for grazing.[6]
The population in the Gnarwarre area, as opposed to areas further east, was largely Catholic. A Catholic school was established at Gnarwarre in 1853, and was used as a church on Sundays.[7] A more permanent school building was slowly constructed over several years, and finally opened on 2 February 1862; Wynd suggests that poverty on the part of the local population had meant that further work was only done when funds became available.[8] An Anglican school also opened at Gnarwarre in November 1856, and a Primitive Methodist church opened around 1865.[8] The Catholic school became a common school, then in 1872 the first Gnarwarre State School, but was closed down at the end of 1874 as it was to be replaced by a new school on a new two-acre site.[8]
The Shankhill Hotel was opened by James Murphy in 1856, but was burned down in 1864 and not rebuilt. The Gnarwarre Hotel was opened by Patrick Corbett in 1864 on a site "a little distance west" of the former hotel.[9] A post office opened on 1 October 1857.[10] In addition to the hotel, in 1861, Gnarwarre had a butcher, a blacksmith, and store.[9] The former Catholic church and school ceased being used for services from around 1900, was used as a dance hall during World War I, and was demolished in 1959. The Gnarwarre Hotel closed in 1922 and was demolished in 1968.[9] Gnarwarre Post Office closed on 30 June 1963.[10]
Gnarwarre State School would outlive the remainder of the village, but closed and opened numerous times with changing student numbers. The school, having opened on a new site from the old Catholic school at the start of 1875, closed in 1879–80, reopened in 1881, closed again from 1950 to 1956, and was re-opened again in 1957. It was replaced by a new school in the 1960s, but closed permanently in 1991 because of falling student numbers.[8] Wynd, writing in 1992, states that some of Gnarwarre's buildings survived until the 1960s, but that a motorist would see "absolutely nothing to recall the existence of Shankhill/Gnarwarre."[9]
There were also three unsuccessful attempts at founding other settlements within the modern Gnarwarre locality: Lanark, Barwon, and Pollocksford. Lanark was advertised as being at the junction of what is now Mount Pollock Road at Gnarwarre; a street pattern was laid out, and a land auction took place on 23 January 1854. Wynd notes that there is "no record of who bought land, and no evidence that any settlement ever developed there".[11] Barwon was auctioned on 9 March 1854, advertised as being "on the Ballarat Road". It was described in the Geelong Advertiser in 1874 as being "a sort of no man's land where anybody and everybody runs their stock" and had disappeared by the 1880s.[12] Pollocksford, straddling the Barwon River in modern Gnarwarre and Murgheboluc, was marked for a settlement, and an Anglican school was proposed there in the 1860s, but was never built.[12]
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnarwarre,_Victoria
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BARRABOOL
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BARRABOOL HILLS CHURCH
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Barrabool Hills Uniting Church
1133-1135 Barrabool Road, Barrabool
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BARRABOOL HILLS CHURCH
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Barrabool Hills Uniting Church
1133-1135 Barrabool Road, Barrabool
BUCKLEY
Buckley is a rural locality in the Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia.[2] It was formerly known as Laketown.[3] In the 2016 census, Buckley had a population of 211 people.[1]
LaketownA hotel called the Lady of the Lake Hotel opened on Barrabool Road at what is now Buckley in 1854, and the area began to be known as Laketown. The hotel reportedly flourished, being located on the road to Colac, and became a social centre for the area. The hotel was a coach stop on the road to Colac, and the Duke of Edinburgh reportedly stopped there in 1870 while his party's horses were being rested. A post office opened at Laketown on 15 March 1872, and a store as added around the same period.[4][5]
A school was opened in 1878 close to the hotel, initially known as Mount Moriac State School (No. 2063), but renamed Laketown in 1883. A Laketown Football Club and Laketown Cricket Club existed in the 1870s, and had a sports ground west of the hotel. Laketown declined thereafter; the school closed in 1893, and was later used as a church and private residence. Laketown Post Office closed temporarily from 1 July to 1 October 1895, and then closed permanently on 1 October 1897.[4] The Lady of the Lake Hotel's license lapsed in 1912, when it became a private home, and it burned down in 1962. The former school is the only surviving remnant of the former Laketown settlement, and is listed on the Surf Coast Shire heritage inventory as having state significance.[4][6]
BuckleyThe first school in what is now Buckley, which had predated that at the Laketown settlement, had opened in 1867 as Lake Modewarre School No. 926, a Catholic school. This school was located at the corner of Buckley School Road and Buckley School South. Wynd reports that it closed in 1874, but that some sources suggest it continued to 1883 and that its students were sent to the Laketown school. A second school, initially also named Lake Modewarre, opened in 1874 as School No. 1481; it changed its name to Buckley's Road State School in 1890, and again to Buckley State School in 1936.[7] Buckley Primary School was closed and merged into Moriac Primary School, on the Moriac school site, in 1993.[8][9]
The locality once had a railway station on the Port Fairy railway line. It was successively named Laketown, Modewarre, and then Buckley railway station, as the name of the area changed over the years, but has now closed.[10] The station also had its own post office, separate to that at the Laketown settlement. That post office was opened as Lake Town Railway Station Post Office on 1 May 1884, renamed Modewarre Railway Station PO on 10 March 1885, Buckley's Road PO on 15 August 1890, Buckley Railway Station PO in 1910, and Buckley PO on 18 October 1848. It closed on 30 June 1970.[11]
Buckley today remains a small rural locality. The Buckley Tennis and Social Club is among the last community institutions remaining in the town.[12] The Erinvale Thoroughbreds stud, based on the historic Carawartha property, is at Buckley.[13]
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley,_Victoria
BUCKLEY SCHOOL
Situated on the corner of Mt Pollock and Boundary Rds, Buckley, this began as an Independent School. Known as Lake Modewarre in 1875, then Buckley’s Rd SS in 1890, it became Buckley in 1936. Enrolment in 1875 reached 63. A timber residence was built in 1896. HTs early in the century included Rosie Gill (1901), J.A. Powell (1902), Alec McKenzie (1904-06), J. Davis (1907), Mrs Julie Phelan (1912-17). Among those who gave long years of service were Reginald Garbeck (1919-26), Mrs Winifred Robertson (1926-31), Arthur Ward (1932-37), Mathew Rohan (1940-46), H.J. Hart (1946-52). In 1965 when J.R. Ward was HT, the Department had a new school built and the old demolished. Enrolment reached 44 when Allan J. McMillan became HT in 1968. Department Inspector Joseph Powell, (Colac Inspectorate 1928-34) was a former pupil.
Source: https://surfcoastheritagegroup.wordpress.com/396-406-modewarre/
Buckley is a rural locality in the Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia.[2] It was formerly known as Laketown.[3] In the 2016 census, Buckley had a population of 211 people.[1]
LaketownA hotel called the Lady of the Lake Hotel opened on Barrabool Road at what is now Buckley in 1854, and the area began to be known as Laketown. The hotel reportedly flourished, being located on the road to Colac, and became a social centre for the area. The hotel was a coach stop on the road to Colac, and the Duke of Edinburgh reportedly stopped there in 1870 while his party's horses were being rested. A post office opened at Laketown on 15 March 1872, and a store as added around the same period.[4][5]
A school was opened in 1878 close to the hotel, initially known as Mount Moriac State School (No. 2063), but renamed Laketown in 1883. A Laketown Football Club and Laketown Cricket Club existed in the 1870s, and had a sports ground west of the hotel. Laketown declined thereafter; the school closed in 1893, and was later used as a church and private residence. Laketown Post Office closed temporarily from 1 July to 1 October 1895, and then closed permanently on 1 October 1897.[4] The Lady of the Lake Hotel's license lapsed in 1912, when it became a private home, and it burned down in 1962. The former school is the only surviving remnant of the former Laketown settlement, and is listed on the Surf Coast Shire heritage inventory as having state significance.[4][6]
BuckleyThe first school in what is now Buckley, which had predated that at the Laketown settlement, had opened in 1867 as Lake Modewarre School No. 926, a Catholic school. This school was located at the corner of Buckley School Road and Buckley School South. Wynd reports that it closed in 1874, but that some sources suggest it continued to 1883 and that its students were sent to the Laketown school. A second school, initially also named Lake Modewarre, opened in 1874 as School No. 1481; it changed its name to Buckley's Road State School in 1890, and again to Buckley State School in 1936.[7] Buckley Primary School was closed and merged into Moriac Primary School, on the Moriac school site, in 1993.[8][9]
The locality once had a railway station on the Port Fairy railway line. It was successively named Laketown, Modewarre, and then Buckley railway station, as the name of the area changed over the years, but has now closed.[10] The station also had its own post office, separate to that at the Laketown settlement. That post office was opened as Lake Town Railway Station Post Office on 1 May 1884, renamed Modewarre Railway Station PO on 10 March 1885, Buckley's Road PO on 15 August 1890, Buckley Railway Station PO in 1910, and Buckley PO on 18 October 1848. It closed on 30 June 1970.[11]
Buckley today remains a small rural locality. The Buckley Tennis and Social Club is among the last community institutions remaining in the town.[12] The Erinvale Thoroughbreds stud, based on the historic Carawartha property, is at Buckley.[13]
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley,_Victoria
BUCKLEY SCHOOL
Situated on the corner of Mt Pollock and Boundary Rds, Buckley, this began as an Independent School. Known as Lake Modewarre in 1875, then Buckley’s Rd SS in 1890, it became Buckley in 1936. Enrolment in 1875 reached 63. A timber residence was built in 1896. HTs early in the century included Rosie Gill (1901), J.A. Powell (1902), Alec McKenzie (1904-06), J. Davis (1907), Mrs Julie Phelan (1912-17). Among those who gave long years of service were Reginald Garbeck (1919-26), Mrs Winifred Robertson (1926-31), Arthur Ward (1932-37), Mathew Rohan (1940-46), H.J. Hart (1946-52). In 1965 when J.R. Ward was HT, the Department had a new school built and the old demolished. Enrolment reached 44 when Allan J. McMillan became HT in 1968. Department Inspector Joseph Powell, (Colac Inspectorate 1928-34) was a former pupil.
Source: https://surfcoastheritagegroup.wordpress.com/396-406-modewarre/
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