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
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 |