Historic pioneer farm house Mount Waverley - Scoresby, built 1841 and trees planted 1874.

This old farm house was built in 1841 on part of a large tract of land including the modern suburbs of Melbourne: Wantirna, Bayswater, Ferntree Gully, Upwey, Selby, Emerald, Upper Beaconsfield, Lysterfield and Rowville, established for farming by Rev. James Clow in 1838... the first permanent settlemnt in the Port Phillip District had only begun in 1835.

In 1874 the huge Bunya Pines were planted at the front of the Chesterfield Homestead.

This farm and house was called Chesterfield Park by a new owner in 1859.

Some roughly hewn wood carvings of animals and people are around the farm too.

It is now a farm in suburban Melbourne! It is open to the public and demonstrates working sheep dogs, hand feeding lambs, and whip cracking, cows being milked and cream being made ...all this within about 100 meters of the Eastlink Toll road.

[sheep can be seen on the green paddock near the Tollway close to a factory, in the last photo]

Inga King sculpture "Red Rings" west side of Eastlink Toll road, north of Ferntree Gully Road, Mount Waverley,Vic.

"Red Rings" are made of painted steel rings 2.5 meters in diameter. Note far right, bicycle on Eastlink Trail, west of Toll road, Mt Waverley. Melways ref p 72 C9.

Clifton Hugh's Dunmoochin - now an artists retreat near Cottles Bridge, Arthur's Creek, Strathewen, Diamond Creek.

The Dunmoochin Foundation artists retreat is about 43 KM north east of Melbourne, Victoria. This was set up by Clifton Pugh before his death in 1990 to provide residencies at his heavily treed bush property for artists, writers, sculptors and conservationists. It was not affected by Black Saturday bush fires which raged as close as 12 km away but left a big impression on the artists in residence who all left the area well before.

It is not easy to find at 105 Barreenong Road, down a gravel track labelled Fire Access Only. This "road" is off the Strathewan / Arthurs Creek, Whittlesea Road is off the Kinglake - Heidelberg road. See www.whereis.com and maps.google.com.au

Dunmoochin art centre Cottles Bridge near Kinglake Hurstbridge

Recorder Players in Hall ... Carved Emu eggs... Kangaroo with her joey drinking milk

in Hall.

Yering wine bar Restaurant

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