The Historic Buildings Act
On 13th April, Friedensruh, The Thiele homestead, was placed on the Register of Historic Buildings.This register must not be confused with the National Trust Register of Classified Buildings.
It is still a new introduction, for the Historic Buildings Act only became law in l974, and is yet not generally known or understood.
When a building is placed on the Historic Buildings Register, that building is protected by law. The building may not be demolished or altered in any way, without approval from the Historic Buildings Council. As this could cause problems for the owner, there are provisions in the Act to allow for compensation and rate relief.
To place a building on the Register, a submission has to be made to the Historic Buildings Preservation Council. Submissions can be made by any organisation or private individual. All bodies with an interest in the building, such as the National Trust and local council are consulted, and the owner has the right to give information or make an objection. The owner may also apply at any time to have the building removed from the Register. The Register of Historic Buildings can be inspected at the Council's offices at 500 Collins Street, Melbourne, or the M.M.B.W.
Friedensruh is the first building in our city to be designated an Historic Building. It appears in the Register "No. 143A 'Friedensruh', Waldau Court, Doncaster".
'Friedensruh' 1853
Friedensruh, the Thiele homestead has nestled on a quiet hillside overlooking Ruffey's Creek and the Lutheran cemetery on Waldau Hill, for more than a century.Johann Gottlieb Thiele, a pioneer fruitgrower, settled in Doncaster in 1853 after his return from the gold fields at Bendigo. Gottlieb Thiele had come from Germany in 1849. He set up a tailoring business in Bourke Street and received the patronage of Lieutenant Governor LaTrobe.
Thiele came to Doncaster for the sake of his health. He built a two-roomed house with an attic and detached kitchen which was named "Friedensruh", meaning "peace and rest" or "a peaceful resting-place".
As the family grew and the orchard prospered, additions were made to the house. The earliest part was built of wattle and daub with a shingle roof. Hand cut saplings were used as a framework, fastened together with hand cut nails. The outer walls have since been faced with stucco while corrugated iron covers the shingles. The original floor is still in sound condition, but interiors have been renovated. The children slept in the attic, which was reached from outside by a ladder leading to a small door at one end of the gable roof. Later a second stage was added. This was detached and consisted of a cart shed (now the scullery and washhouse), a small room behind with a cellar below and a loft above. This section was built of stone which was quarried on the property from a hill alongside Ruffey's Creek. The walls were built by Johann Gottfried Thiele, a brother a Gottlieb and a stonemason who learnt his trade in Germany. The roof originally of shingles has since been covered with iron, but the shingles are still in place underneath. On the north of the house, a drawing room with a kitchen alongside it and a third bedroom were added and a new roof enclosed the whole house. This kitchen is now the dining room. The final section to be added was built in 1898 and comprises the kitchen and bathroom. By this time a larger kitchen was needed to cook meals for the men employed on the property. Passages were added, joining the rear sections to the main building, making the house as it appears today.
In any orchard homestead, outbuildings grow around the home. At the rear are the stables. A large building with a gable roof and a skillion along one side. The stables are paved with brick and the workmen's room has walls plastered with mud. At the rear of the stables is the barn. It has a level floor to make handling of fruit cases simple. The lower side is built up with stone retaining walls which provide a loading platform. A refrigeration room was built into one corner, which contrasted with the iron roof built up with bush timber. Behind the barn, an open shed was built to house farm carts and implements. A feature of the old world garden surrounding the homestead is a century-old Cedar of Lebanon, a gift from Baron von Mueller, botanist and early curator of the Botanical Gardens.
Friedensruh is historically important. When Gottlieb Thiele came to Doncaster, he encouraged other Germans to settle in the district. Soon a German settlement grew up in the area. It was given the name “Waldau”, meaning a "clearing in the forest". Strong traditions grew up in the homestead from the first years when Lutheran services were held in the living room to the family Christmas celebrations and magnificent Christmas trees.
Friedensruh remains in a sympathetic environment, for the Thiele orchard has given place to the Ruffey Creek Gardens. The homestead now belongs to the City of Doncaster and Templestowe and is to be part of the gardens. It only remains now for the house and outbuildings to be given functions that retain the character of their original use.
1976 08 DTHS Newsletter
Friedensruh - 10 Waldau Court, Doncaster
Of State significance as a fine early Picturesque Gothic pioneering homestead, one of perhaps only a dozen suburban houses of this date within a day's journey of Melbourne.
http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/22415/
FRIEDENSRUH
Place No. 162ADDRESS: 10 Waldau Court Last Update Doncaster
DESCRIPTION: Condition: Excellent; Integrity: Intact; Threats: Key elements
HISTORY: One of the earliest houses in the study area, it is an intact Picturesque Gothic house and was built for the pioneering orchardist J. G. Thiele.[101] Thiele arrived in Australia from Germany in 1849 and at Doncaster in 1853. He had started orcharding by the late 1850s, with the same orchards being run by his descendants on the land surrounding 'Friedensruh' up until 1966. The property has remained in the original family to the present time, except for a brief period of Council ownership. The house was built over two periods. The earlier Gothic section is constructed of rendered masonry with a gable roof. On the right of this early section is a timber, Italianate, hip-roofed addition and a hip-roofed addition and a hip-roofed verandah in the angle. The earlier section built c1853, has fretwork decorated bargeboards, a wrought iron finial, a round headed attic window, and at least one 12 pane double-hung sash window. There is also a chimney decorated with toothed brickwork. The Italianate wing, dating from c1865 (at the time of the split in the Lutheran church), has a frieze with brackets and a cornice mould, tripartite windows and Tuscan timber verandah posts. A rear kitchen wing and cellar were added c1895 and c1898. Presumably the earlier house faced north and the later wing covered most of its front. The garden is appropriately geometric with mature trees, including a large maple. Several of these trees have been identified as individually significant in this study (see Theme 1.05 "Landmark Trees"). The house has a cellar for storage of fruit.[102] There is an early packing shed, a stable and a cow shed on the same property. Architecturally, this building can be compared to (for example) Banyule, The Hawthorns, Ballam Park, Auburn House, Invergowrie gate lodge, Whitby House, Black Rock House, etc.
Creation Date c1853, additions 1860s, 19 Change Dates
Associations: Local Themes J. G. Thiele
SIGNIFICANCE: Of State significance as a fine early Picturesque Gothic pioneering homestead, one of perhaps only a dozen suburban houses of this date within a day's journey of Melbourne.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
[100] Historic Buildings register File 376; National Trust of Australia (Victoria) file.
[101] It is described in the listing citation in the Register of the National Estate as "the birthplace of the orchard industry of Doncaster"
[102] Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society Newsletter, November 1981; Paul Collyer, owner, pers. comm.
Manningham Heritage Study Context Pty. Ltd. page 101
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Friedensruh
Friedensruh, dating from 1853, is probably the oldest surviving house in Doncaster. It was the home of the Thiele family, who played a prominent role in the settlement of the Doncaster district. Johann Gottlieb Thiele arrived in Victoria from Germany in 1849 with his wife and two young children. He set up as a tailor in Bourke Street, one of his customers being Lieutenant-Governor La Trobe. After some success on the goldfield he bought a property on Ruffeys Creek at Doncaster, which he called Friedensruh. Nine more children were born at Doncaster, and several of the family graves are in the cemetery of the nearby former Lutheran Church. The area became a centre for a German settlement, later called Waldau, remembered now in the name of the street leading to the house. The family initially produced wheat, dairy products and berries, which they sold at the Eastern Market in Melbourne. They later developed an orchard, which became one of the first commercial orchards in an area which by the late nineteenth century they had helped to establish as the most important fruit-growing area in the state. Gottlieb Thiele also played a prominent role in the history of the Lutheran Church in Victoria. The earliest house at Friedensruh was built in 1853. Soon after this, Gottlieb's brother Gotfried, a stonemason, built a stone walled fruit cellar and packing room nearby. As the family and the orchard business grew the house was extended and new outbuildings erected, including a barn or packing shed, stables and implement sheds. Many of these were built in the off-season by the family and their workmen, using local materials and simple construction methods.
The house at Friedensruh was built in several stages. The first section, built in 1853, was a two-room wattle and daub hut with an attic in the gable roof which was lit by an arched window in the gable, and with a detached kitchen. In the mid 1850s three rooms, a drawing room, bedroom and kitchen, were added to the house. In 1898 a large new kitchen and a bathroom were added at the rear of the house, with a passage connecting them to the house, and a verandah was added around the 1850s addition. At about the same time the walls of the earliest section were stuccoed and the shingles covered with iron. Outbuildings include a weatherboard barn or packing shed, thought to have been built in the 1870s. It has a stone lined fruit cellar at one end, a storage loft in the roof, and once had an external platform for mixing sprays, a feature once common in the district. Additions were made to this building in 1928 and 1950s, for fruit washing and handling, as the orchard business grew. The original part of the stables was a weatherboard building with a hay loft in the gable, a brick floor, and a men's room at the end separated from the stable by mud walls. A skillion, buggy shed and cow shed were added later. In about 1915 a sleep-out with fly-wire walls was built, associated with the contemporary awareness of the value of fresh air. The gardens retain some of the early plantings, such as a Black Mulberry, Morus niger, a Himalayan Cedar, Cedrus deodara and a Pin oak, Quercus palustris. The remains of a very early dam, which once provided water for the orchard, are nearby.
How is it significant?
Friedensruh at Doncaster is of historical and architectural significance to the State of Victoria.
Why is it significant?
Friedensruh is of historical significance as an outstanding and rare surviving example of a pioneering orchard complex, which grew during the nineteenth and early twentieth century as the Victorian fruit industry, and the fruit export industry, grew. It is significant as a reminder of the Thiele family, who were among the first German settlers in the region, and who made an important contribution to the history of both the Lutheran Church and of the fruit-growing industry in Victoria. It is significant as a survivor of the 1850s German settlement of Waldau, one of several German settlements around Melbourne in the nineteenth century. Friedensruh, together with the nearby Schramm?s Cottage and former Lutheran cemetery, form the last tangible evidence of the settlement of Waldau. The former Thiele orchards along Ruffeys Creek are now a park, which preserves some of the original rural environment of the property.
Friedensruh is architecturally significant as the oldest house in the Doncaster area, and as a rare and possibly unique surviving example of an early group of vernacular industrial buildings. Its outbuildings are significant as a very early orchard complex which grew over the years as the need arose. The outbuildings are also significant as a demonstration of early vernacular building techniques using readily available materials.
http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/338
The house at Friedensruh was built in several stages. The first section, built in 1853, was a two-room wattle and daub hut with an attic in the gable roof which was lit by an arched window in the gable, and with a detached kitchen. In the mid 1850s three rooms, a drawing room, bedroom and kitchen, were added to the house. In 1898 a large new kitchen and a bathroom were added at the rear of the house, with a passage connecting them to the house, and a verandah was added around the 1850s addition. At about the same time the walls of the earliest section were stuccoed and the shingles covered with iron. Outbuildings include a weatherboard barn or packing shed, thought to have been built in the 1870s. It has a stone lined fruit cellar at one end, a storage loft in the roof, and once had an external platform for mixing sprays, a feature once common in the district. Additions were made to this building in 1928 and 1950s, for fruit washing and handling, as the orchard business grew. The original part of the stables was a weatherboard building with a hay loft in the gable, a brick floor, and a men's room at the end separated from the stable by mud walls. A skillion, buggy shed and cow shed were added later. In about 1915 a sleep-out with fly-wire walls was built, associated with the contemporary awareness of the value of fresh air. The gardens retain some of the early plantings, such as a Black Mulberry, Morus niger, a Himalayan Cedar, Cedrus deodara and a Pin oak, Quercus palustris. The remains of a very early dam, which once provided water for the orchard, are nearby.
Friedensruh is architecturally significant as the oldest house in the Doncaster area, and as a rare and possibly unique surviving example of an early group of vernacular industrial buildings. Its outbuildings are significant as a very early orchard complex which grew over the years as the need arose. The outbuildings are also significant as a demonstration of early vernacular building techniques using readily available materials.
http://www.onmydoorstep.com.au/heritage-listing/338/friedensruh (Site Closed)
The house at Friedensruh was built in several stages. The first section, built in 1853, was a two-room wattle and daub hut with an attic in the gable roof which was lit by an arched window in the gable, and with a detached kitchen. In the mid 1850s three rooms, a drawing room, bedroom and kitchen, were added to the house. In 1898 a large new kitchen and a bathroom were added at the rear of the house, with a passage connecting them to the house, and a verandah was added around the 1850s addition. At about the same time the walls of the earliest section were stuccoed and the shingles covered with iron. Outbuildings include a weatherboard barn or packing shed, thought to have been built in the 1870s. It has a stone lined fruit cellar at one end, a storage loft in the roof, and once had an external platform for mixing sprays, a feature once common in the district. Additions were made to this building in 1928 and 1950s, for fruit washing and handling, as the orchard business grew. The original part of the stables was a weatherboard building with a hay loft in the gable, a brick floor, and a men's room at the end separated from the stable by mud walls. A skillion, buggy shed and cow shed were added later. In about 1915 a sleep-out with fly-wire walls was built, associated with the contemporary awareness of the value of fresh air. The gardens retain some of the early plantings, such as a Black Mulberry, Morus niger, a Himalayan Cedar, Cedrus deodara and a Pin oak, Quercus palustris. The remains of a very early dam, which once provided water for the orchard, are nearby.
How is it significant?
Friedensruh at Doncaster is of historical and architectural significance to the State of Victoria.
Why is it significant?
Friedensruh is of historical significance as an outstanding and rare surviving example of a pioneering orchard complex, which grew during the nineteenth and early twentieth century as the Victorian fruit industry, and the fruit export industry, grew. It is significant as a reminder of the Thiele family, who were among the first German settlers in the region, and who made an important contribution to the history of both the Lutheran Church and of the fruit-growing industry in Victoria. It is significant as a survivor of the 1850s German settlement of Waldau, one of several German settlements around Melbourne in the nineteenth century. Friedensruh, together with the nearby Schramm?s Cottage and former Lutheran cemetery, form the last tangible evidence of the settlement of Waldau. The former Thiele orchards along Ruffeys Creek are now a park, which preserves some of the original rural environment of the property.
Friedensruh is architecturally significant as the oldest house in the Doncaster area, and as a rare and possibly unique surviving example of an early group of vernacular industrial buildings. Its outbuildings are significant as a very early orchard complex which grew over the years as the need arose. The outbuildings are also significant as a demonstration of early vernacular building techniques using readily available materials.
http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/338
Friedensruh
What is significant?
Friedensruh, dating from 1853, is probably the oldest surviving house in Doncaster. It was the home of the Thiele family, who played a prominent role in the settlement of the Doncaster district. Johann Gottlieb Thiele arrived in Victoria from Germany in 1849 with his wife and two young children. He set up as a tailor in Bourke Street, one of his customers being Lieutenant-Governor La Trobe. After some success on the goldfield he bought a property on Ruffeys Creek at Doncaster, which he called Friedensruh. Nine more children were born at Doncaster, and several of the family graves are in the cemetery of the nearby former Lutheran Church. The area became a centre for a German settlement, later called Waldau, remembered now in the name of the street leading to the house. The family initially produced wheat, dairy products and berries, which they sold at the Eastern Market in Melbourne. They later developed an orchard, which became one of the first commercial orchards in an area which by the late nineteenth century they had helped to establish as the most important fruit-growing area in the state. Gottlieb Thiele also played a prominent role in the history of the Lutheran Church in Victoria. The earliest house at Friedensruh was built in 1853. Soon after this, Gottlieb's brother Gotfried, a stonemason, built a stone walled fruit cellar and packing room nearby. As the family and the orchard business grew the house was extended and new outbuildings erected, including a barn or packing shed, stables and implement sheds. Many of these were built in the off-season by the family and their workmen, using local materials and simple construction methods.The house at Friedensruh was built in several stages. The first section, built in 1853, was a two-room wattle and daub hut with an attic in the gable roof which was lit by an arched window in the gable, and with a detached kitchen. In the mid 1850s three rooms, a drawing room, bedroom and kitchen, were added to the house. In 1898 a large new kitchen and a bathroom were added at the rear of the house, with a passage connecting them to the house, and a verandah was added around the 1850s addition. At about the same time the walls of the earliest section were stuccoed and the shingles covered with iron. Outbuildings include a weatherboard barn or packing shed, thought to have been built in the 1870s. It has a stone lined fruit cellar at one end, a storage loft in the roof, and once had an external platform for mixing sprays, a feature once common in the district. Additions were made to this building in 1928 and 1950s, for fruit washing and handling, as the orchard business grew. The original part of the stables was a weatherboard building with a hay loft in the gable, a brick floor, and a men's room at the end separated from the stable by mud walls. A skillion, buggy shed and cow shed were added later. In about 1915 a sleep-out with fly-wire walls was built, associated with the contemporary awareness of the value of fresh air. The gardens retain some of the early plantings, such as a Black Mulberry, Morus niger, a Himalayan Cedar, Cedrus deodara and a Pin oak, Quercus palustris. The remains of a very early dam, which once provided water for the orchard, are nearby.
How is it significant?
Friedensruh at Doncaster is of historical and architectural significance to the State of Victoria.Why is it significant?
Friedensruh is of historical significance as an outstanding and rare surviving example of a pioneering orchard complex, which grew during the nineteenth and early twentieth century as the Victorian fruit industry, and the fruit export industry, grew. It is significant as a reminder of the Thiele family, who were among the first German settlers in the region, and who made an important contribution to the history of both the Lutheran Church and of the fruit-growing industry in Victoria. It is significant as a survivor of the 1850s German settlement of Waldau, one of several German settlements around Melbourne in the nineteenth century. Friedensruh, together with the nearby Schramm?s Cottage and former Lutheran cemetery, form the last tangible evidence of the settlement of Waldau. The former Thiele orchards along Ruffeys Creek are now a park, which preserves some of the original rural environment of the property.Friedensruh is architecturally significant as the oldest house in the Doncaster area, and as a rare and possibly unique surviving example of an early group of vernacular industrial buildings. Its outbuildings are significant as a very early orchard complex which grew over the years as the need arose. The outbuildings are also significant as a demonstration of early vernacular building techniques using readily available materials.
http://www.onmydoorstep.com.au/heritage-listing/338/friedensruh (Site Closed)
The Thiele family of Doncaster : a history of Johann Gottlieb Thiele and Johann Gottfried Thiele and their descendants, 1849-1989
Written and compiled by Eric Collyer and David Thiele.
http://library.pmi.net.au/fullRecord.jsp?recnoListAttr=recnoList&recno=11869
"Friedensruh," Doncaster.
National Trust of Australia (Victoria) . Published
[Melbourne : National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1967?] . Physical Description:
5 leaves ; 26 cm.
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[Melbourne : National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1967?] . Physical Description:
5 leaves ; 26 cm.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35582363?q&versionId=44269036
Manningham’s link to the past through heritage listed buildings is thanks to the people who have stepped in to protect them
PAUL and Edna Collyer own Friedensruh, a former fruit farming orchard complex, built by Paul’s great-grandfather Johann Gottlieb Thiele in 1853.
Mr Collyer, 79, says he and his brother Eric, 77, are the fourth generation to live at the settlement, which was home to Doncaster’s first Lutheran settlers.
Their mother’s family, the Thieles, pioneered irrigation, were the first to build dams in the area and were one of the first to use cold storage for fruit.
The property, part of which is now in Ruffey Park, is classified by the National Trust because of its traditional wattle and daub construction method. It was faced with stucco in about 1900.
Paul and Edna Collyerith and Paul's brother Eric Collyer outside Friedensruh homestead.
The garden’s main feature is a cedar of Lebanon, given to Johann by original Melbourne Botanical Gardens director Ferdinand von Mueller.
Extensions were added in the 1860s and 1898.
Johann arrived from Germany in 1849 and tailored uniforms for Governor Charles La Trobe from his shop in Burke St.
Source: Herald Sun Online
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Friedensruh c1910 homestead, off Victoria street, Doncaster, the home of the Thiele family since 1853, The gable section on the left was built by Gottlieb Thiele in 1853. Pictured is the east side of the house. DP0344
"FRIEDENSRUH”, DONCASTER
Historic Homesteads. No 4Friedensruh, home of the Thiele family in Victoria Street, Doncaster, has nestled on a quiet hill-side overlooking Ruffey's Creek and the Lutheran Cemetery on Waldau Hill for more than a bentury.
Johann Gottlieb Thiele, a pioneer of the fruit industry,in Victoria, settled in Doncaster in 1853 after his return from the gold fields at Bendigo.
The name, Friedensruhn (pronounced Free-dens-roo) means "peace’s rest” or "a peaceful resting place", and was the name given the place from its earliest days.
The house as it is now has been aided to at various stages to meet the needs of a growing family. The earliest part was of very modest proportions and consisted merely of two small rooms, an attic and detached kitchen, (later demolished). The walls were wattle and daub while the roof was of shingles. Hand cut saplings were used as a framework and it is interesting to note that all the nails used in its construction were hand made, no doubt in a blacksmith’s shop. The outer walls have since been faced with stucco, while corrugated iron covers the shingles. The original floor is still in sound condition, but interiors have been renovated in recent years.
Access to the attic in bygone days was by means of a wall ladder through a small door in what is now the front hall. It is not known who built this section of the homestead.
Later a second stage was added. This was detached,and consisted of a cart shed (now the scullery or wash house), a small room behind, with a cellar below and a loft above. The walls of part of this section are of stone which was quarried on the property, and were erected by Johann Gottfried Thiele, a stone-mason by trade in Germany, and a brother of Gottlieb. The roof, originally of shingles has since been covered with iron although the shingles are still in place underneath.
The drawing room was added for the purpose of conducting Lutheran services in the years before the first church on "Waldau Hill” was dedicated in 1858. The present dining room was formerly a kitchen. A third bedroom was added probably some time later, but it is not known exactly when this addition was made.
The final section to be added was built in 1898 and comprises the present kitchen and bathroom. A larger kitchen was needed to cook meals for the men employed on the property. The stained walls are a feature of the kitchen. A passage was incorporated to connect the back portion of the house with the front.
There are two underground wells, one of which is still in use today.
Practically none of the original furniture remains today but there are a few interesting relics and family heirlooms in the house.
A feature of the old world garden surrounding the homestead is a century old Cedar of Lebanon, a gift from Baron Von Mueller, botanist and early, curator of the Botanical Gardens.
Eric Collyer writing in 1969 04 DTHS Newsletter
This is a rare insight in 2020, of this cared for with meticulous love by the original family of this historical home. It still has its outhouses and well cared for gardens. It is such a privilege to be given permission to share these amazing photos. The feelings I have cannot be expressed but now having these memories connected together allows me and all who want to, to savoir and dwell here anytime. Enjoy!
Dot Haynes 2020.
Eric Collyer has left Manningham but his heart and memories still live in him and with us. His memories are to be shared. In June 2023 Deslea and myself visited Eric and spent 3 days sharing stories and tours and making our own memories in and around Adelaide. Eric is always a phone call away and will return to see the Doncaster and Templestowe Historical Society Museum finally erected. Eric is a great host and long term friend.
Transcript: Eric Collier who was it that built frieden's room well he built the first part too what was his name again Johan okay well Eric I would like you to share more about after he built the first two rooms what then happened although something to come around here at that stage he only had two children but then another seven or eight arrived and so the house had to be extended right so the next Edition was the lounge room and the dining room in another bedroom right and then subsequent to that after his son took the property over that was my grandfather Alfred Tilley he was the youngest son of Gottlieb he then built a new kitchen right and that's really the the three stages in which that house was developed wow and and the gardens around the house please tell us a bit about this the dominant feature of the garden is the cedar tree at the front and that was a gift to my great grandfather by Baron varmula of the botanic gardens the first director of northern's botanic gardens planted in 1862. that's amazing and tell us a bit about the furniture within the home a lot of the furniture There was not much there that dates back to my great grandfather's time certainly from my grandparent parents ride and um they furnished the place very nicely it wasn't opulent but it was typically a family home they had a lovely sideboard in the dining room and an extendable table and then the lounge room which they always referred to as the drawing room right it was just a comfortable room with chairs right and a cabinet or two and I remember the older uh the red gramophone the old 78 program I found in a cabinet they had that there right and then apart from that it was just a typical country Homestead wow and when did you move in we moved back in 1981. my brother Paul and his wife Edna actually bought a property ultimately from the council at the time we moved back there it was still owned by the council right and then subsequent of that six months later the council decided not to retain the property and put it up for sale right so that's when my brother Paul had brought that at the end of 1981 from the council did you actually build that Garden yourself I didn't not the layer was as it was it had always been in terms of Pathways right and little garden beds but in my time I restocked but um you know because a lot of the original Plants had died right and so I I sort of cleaned the garden out and and reestablished it and in 2020 was when a covert was on and I took the photos of you in that Garden when it was absolutely amazing at that point and so now that you have moved out of there where is the furnishings and things from your grandfather not your great-grandfather well one of the furniture that I remember from my grandparents time after their deaths right one in 1960 and the other in 65 right a lot of that furniture was um divided amongst various grandchildren right so everyone got something from the family home right [Music] Paul actually got the lovely sideboard that I have now and my family room and I've had a few things I'm locking sharing a few other things but then of course we also had our own Furniture which we had taken from where Paul previously lived in Box Hill right and I added to that too over the years where are you living now about well I live in Aberfoyle Park which was a southern suburb of Adelaide rod and um about 30 Mark 30 30 minutes out of Adelaide by car up in the hills Adelaide Hills which have I was famous for and the lunch that he fed us it was Supreme I can't believe a man who's been a bachelor for all those years served beautiful three-course meal with wines everything was in its position everything was excellent it was just a treat absolute treat beautiful vagina the table was set perfectly there's nothing that is my life now is a life of retirement but I have bought my own home and I'm very happy with with that and I've been able to furnish it with much of a of the belongings that came out of food and food and so that's reminded me a reminder really of Times Gone by and I still feel that I'm part of that um Homestead when I look at all of those lovely things it's excellent it's a valley the well-known Barossa Valley of Adelaide right we're all with grapes and the wineries are and we've come up here just for a Sunday outing I've been delighted to entertain some here including glennis and Catherine her daughter and today Desiree and Doc and it's just been a real treat for me to have that contact with the with the people deer people that I've come to love right what else would you like to add and share well first of all I would like to extend my very warmest greetings and Fondest Memories of those dear people in the Historical Society whom I miss very much I want to thank you for hosting us for the last three four days pleasure I would say to you both come and go and there you go and we want to thank you for having us come again the final farewell what was the word you'd like to say is your final farewell yes I think of you people you dear people often Shake getting all the emails which you could get yes and I'm the cc'd to me and I've so I still feel I'm very much part of the organization which I am I renewed my membership and uh and I do hope when the new building is finally a reality that they'll be able to come over and be there and be there for the opening there is a great note to finalize on thank you God bless bless you.
Source: Dot Haynes 2023. View on Dot Haynes YouTube Channel
Mother does best in Doncaster
10 WALDAU COURT, DONCASTER SOLD $3.08m
A TOORAK man has paid $680,000 more than the reserve for Doncaster's oldest home so his mum and mother-in-law can move into it together. The result at a private auction on Friday was a huge windfall for the descendants of those who built the cottage in 1853, ending their family's ties to it almost 170 years later. The $3.08m sale even smashed a multimillion-dollar pre-auction bid from the City of Manningham to buy the 10 Waldau Court property adjoining Ruffey Lake Park.
The council had owned the property for a few years in the 1980s, but sold it back to the current vendors.
Kay & Burton executive director Scott Patterson called the private auction that started with a $1.88m opening bid and was called on the market at $2.4m with three parties bidding. Mr Patterson said another two buyers, including the council, were outbid before making offers.
"The buyer was a fellow from Toorak who has bought it for his mother-in-law and his mother to live together," he said. "I have never seen that. But my immediate reaction was that he is a very astute person."
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