Woodlands Historic Park - Red Gums and Riders

Red Gums and Riders: A History of Gellibrand Hill Park. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Victoria 1993. A4 format with black and white photographs and maps.

For sale from Friends of Woodlands Historic Park

Contents
Foreword	iii
List of Figures	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
Preamble	1
1. Aboriginal Occupation	3
2. European Exploration and Settlement	5
3. The Greene Family at Woodlands 1842-1866	7
3.1 Emigration to Melbourne	7
3.2 Establishing Woodlands	8
3.3 Life at Woodlands in the Arcadian days	14
3.4 Life at Woodlands during and after the Gold Rushes	18
3.5 History of the Greenes' Servants	25
3.6 The Woodlands neighbourhood in the 1860s.	31
4. Subsequent Owners of Woodlands	33
4.1 Sutherland 1866-1872	33
4.2 Fisher 1873-1886	33
4.3 Mclntosh, Bent, Fink, Waxman, Moss, Croker 1886-1889	35
4.4 Croker 1889-1917	35
4.5 Chaffey 1917-1937	41
4.6 Kellow 1938-1939	47
4.7 Mitchell 1939-1978	49
4.8 National Parks Service 1979	49
5. Cumberland	51
6. Dundonald and Gellibrand Hill	59
7. Gellibrand Hill Park	65
8. The Future for the Park	71
Bibliography	81
Table 1 - Details of Greenes' Servants	83
Appendix 1 - The Woodlands Steeplechase	85
Appendix 2 - The Batey Manuscript	91

List of Figures

1	Locality Map	xii
2	Park landscape - red gums	xii
3	Gellibrand Hill	2
4	Moonee Ponds Greek	2
5	Scar tree in the park	2
6	Hume and Hovell Memorial, Oaklands Junction	5
7	Captain William Pomeroy Greene, R.N.	7
8	Mrs Anne Greene, nee Griffiths	7
9	Advertisement in Port Phillip Herald for prefabricated house	8
10	County Plan showing parishes around Woodlands.	9
11	Woodlands, from north west, c. 1860	11
12	Advertisements for other prefabricated buildings	12
13	Judge Martin's house, Parnell, New Zealand	13
14	Magnolia grandiflora in the courtyard	13
15	Tutor's cottage in 1988	14
16	St. Mary's Church, 1973	15
17	William Pomeroy Greene in later years	16
18	Woodlands from south west, c. 1860	19
19	Sir William F. Stawell	20
20	Lady Stawell and her children in 1892	20
21	Dublin: Trinity College, exterior and interior; Law Courts	21
22	Molesworth Greene	23
23	George Greene	23
24	Greenethorpe village, N.S.W., St Saviour's Anglican Church and Mt. Oriel	24
25	Rev. Charles Greene	25
26	Mary Lady Stawell	25
27	The Greenes' Ireland	25
28	Collon House	26
29	Village of Collon	27
30	Collon Courthouse and village green	27
31	Church of Ireland, Collon	27
32	Margaret Emerson, nee Martin	29
33	George Emerson	29
34	Woodlands - landscape setting c.l860.	31
35	C.B. Fisher	33
36	W.H. Croker at Victoria Racing Club Committee	36
37	Opening meeting of the Oaklands Hunt Club at Woodlands, 17 May 1890 - from south west	37
38	Oaklands Hunt club riders behind Woodlands homestead, 17 May 1890 - from south east	40
39	Ben Chaffey and daughter Mavis, c. 1916	41
40	Gowra Chaffey and Bess McPherson	42
41	Opening meet of the Oaklands Hunt Club at Woodlands, 1919	43
42	Mrs Chaffey and friend in Woodlands garden, 1920s	44
43	Entrance to Woodlands homestead, 1926	44
44	Group in Woodlands garden, including Ben Chaffey (left back) and his son-in-law, Albert Campbell (centre front).	45
45	Garden scene	46
46	Top stables, Woodlands, with unknown horse and rider, 1920s	46
47	Mr G. Kellow at the races	47
48	Woodlands neighbourhood in 1939	48
49	Mr F. Mitchell	49
50	Cumberland homestead from the south, c. 1926	50
51	Former site of St. Mary's Church on Woodlands	50
52	Red Gums on Woodlands, 1974	52
53	Cumberland homestead from the south west, c. 1926	53
54	Agnes and Ettie Johnston with pet sheep, Cumberland c. 1923	54
55	Prize sheep in front of timber wool shed and bluestone stables, Cumberland c. 1923	54
56	Oaten haystack near Somerton Rd., c. 1930	55
57	Wally Johnston and single furrow plough, c, 1924	55
58	Vegetable patch behind Cumberland, c. 1924	55
59	Tomatoes in vegetable patch, c. 1924	55
60	Moonee Ponds Greek in flood, c.1924	55
61	Johnstons in new Buick, Cumberland, c. 1922	56
62	Lily Hiscocks, Ettie and Blanche Johnston on ponies c. 1924	56
63	"Agnes Johnston on ""Topsy"", c. 1921"	56
64	Hunt club members riding away from Inverness Hotel, 1940s?	56
65	View from Gellibrand Hill, looking south west, c. 1924	57
66	View from Gellibrand Hill, looking south west towards airport, 1993	57
67	Quarry site on Glen Dewar, c. 1916.	58
68	Bayview Quarry, Moonee Ponds Greek, 1960s	58
69	Ruins at Cumberland, 1993	58
70	Dundonald, from the north east, c. 1916	59
71	Steps to verandah, Dundonald, from the east c. 1925	60
72	James Hatty in front garden	60
73	Stables, Dundonald, with James Hatty and Muriel Musgrove in buggy, c. 1914	61
74	David Hatty pushing pram, Dundonald stables in background, c. 1925	61
75	The Hatty family in front of Dundonald, c.1912	61
76	Granite tors, Gellibrand Hill, 1909, 1973 and 1993	62
77	Open woodland, Woodlands, 1974	65
78	Cycling through the nature reserve (Back Paddock), 1993	65
79	Woodlands front entrance, 1977 and 1993	66
80	House components - cast iron window frames	66
81	Looking towards the airport across front garden, 1977 and front garden, 1993	67
82	Cr. Frank Cox sets off to the opening of the Woodlands homestead on 25 November 1984	68
83	Andrew Thorn (left) explaining techniques of paint layer removal in Room 5, November 1984	68
84	Room 5 paint decoration of 1849 revealed in detail, July 1986	68
85	Room 4 showing Ionic columns and full 1849 paint scheme detail	68
86	Peter Lovell inspecting rot in kitchen base boards, May 1992	69
87	Woodlands courtyard, 1977, 1984 and 1985	73
88	Plan of Woodlands homestead showing interpretive features	74
89	Coach house/stables, 1977 and 1993	74
90	Men's Quarters, 1980 and 1993	75
91	Tutor's cottage, 1977 and 1992	75
92	Top stables, 1980, 1984 and 1993	75
93	Plan of Woodlands homestead and outbuildings	76
94	Close up of landscape south west of Woodlands homestead showing dense she-oaks on rocky ridge and eucalypts on slope, c.1860	79
95	Plan of Gellibrand Hill Park, 1993	80