Schramm's Cottage in 1979, photographed from the cemetery. (Photo: DTHS)
Doncaster Hill painted by Louis White in 2000 from old photographs. The beautiful brickwork of White’s corner store is depicted on the left, behind which is the Shire Hall and State School. On the right is the Box Hill Doncaster Tram Shelter and Refreshment Rooms. The corner was known variously as Crofts, Serpells, White’s and Miles’s corner. (Reproduced with permission of the artist)
Fruit-packing box label for Tower Brand export pears. The export trade was very lucrative, outstripping the local market for many years before being curtailed by the advent of the European Common Market in 1958. (Eric Collyer)
Evelyn Tunnel, Pound Bend, 2001. (Photo: Peter Hanson)
Adit mine in McIntyres Road, Park Orchards, 2001. (Photo: Peter Hanson)
Remnants of the Caledonia Mine shaft (New Haven 1903), 189 metres deep, in Tills Drive, shown here in 2001. (Photo: Peter Hanson)
Patrick Geraghty and William Moores mine on Fourth Hill, first sunk in 1839, shown here in 2001. (Photo: Peter Hanson)
Re-enactment of the discovery of gold at Warrandyte, 30 June 2001. Clockwise from top: Warrandyte Theatre Company; the town crier on his way to the performance; an old timer with his timber bicycle; a stockman and other locals in the crowd; gold diggers watched by the crowd during the performance. (Photos: Helen Penrose)
Miners hut on the Manton gold lease on Fourth Hill, used from 1953 to 1965, shown here in 2001. (Photo: Peter Hanson)
The opening of the Park Orchards BMX Bike track, 4 May 1985 (Photo: Irvine Green; Doncaster/ Templestowe Album, MCC)
Evening, Templestowe 1897, oil on canvas, 43.4 x 34.4 cm. David Davies born Australia 1864, died Great Britain 1939. Purchased with the assistance of a special grant from the Government of Victoria, 1979. (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
Till’s Orchard by Frank Crozier (Reproduced with permission from Shirley and Ted Rotherham and the WHS)
Left: Inge Kings sculpture Sentinel,which stands on the corner of the freeway and Doncaster Road. (Photo: MCC)
Inge Kings sculptures in the garden at their home, 1990s. (Photo: Grahame King)
River Peel on Porter Street, soon after it was installed in October 2000, by Michael Bellemo and Catriona Macleod. (Photo: Michael Bellemo)
Aboriginal dancing, painted by Barak around 1900, black and red ochre pigments on paper. (RHSV)
Tin cow at Heide II. (Photo: MCC)
Poster for CA Night on the Ranch’ held at Warrandyte Hall in 1942. (Joyce Bellingham and Murray Houghton)
The Warrandyte Bridge, painted by Robyn Cassaigne from a 1920s photo. The bridge, built in 1875 and replaced in 1955, was the focal point for the community’s New Year celebrations. (Photo: WHS)
Jo Sweatman 1872-1956 Australia. The Village c. 1931 oil on canvas 48.0 x 73.0 cm. Felton Bequest, 1939. (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
Lyn Harris’s home in Templestowe, the first commercially built solar house in Australia. (Photo: The Age, 31 May 1997)
Glenfern, Amberley Court, Bulleen, an early farmhouse built in around 1858 for Alfred M. Caldecott on land purchased from the Carleton Estate. (Photo: Ruth Campbell)
The autumnal vines at Kellybrook Winery, 2000. (Photo: Farley Kelly)
Contemporary estate development in Manningham, 2001. (Helen Penrose)
Meg Henderson’s house at 232 Greenslopes Drive, Lower Templestowe, photographed one summer in the early 1990s. (Photo: Meg Henderson)
Source: Barbara Pertzel & Fiona Walters, Manningham: from country to city, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2001. Manningham Council granted permission to reproduce the book contents in full on this website in May2023. The book is no longer available for sale, but hard copies of the original are available for viewing at DTHS Museum as well as Manningham library and many other libraries.
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