Walhalla Heritage Review 2013

Walhalla Heritage Review 2013 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013 Walhalla Heritage Review 2013 CONTENTS Introduction Location: Right Hand Branch Road, Walhalla Walhalla Post & Telegraph Office and Residence, Later House 3 Salmon's house Location: Main Road, Walhalla Phillips house 3 Tricks Corner Stores, later Trembath's Corner Stores 8 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 86 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 86 90 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Spetts house 8 90 95 Wesleyan Church, Later Walhalla Masonic Lodge Hall (Number 69) 17 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 95 Tony (Antonio) Guatta's house 100 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla 100 Hoskin's house, later Barkley Square 106 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 106 17 Read's house site, later known as Foley's Location: Main Road, Walhalla 22 22 82 Walhalla Fire Station and Merryweather Manual Pump Fire Cart 25 Box's house, later George Francis Seear house, and Euroka 111 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 26 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Mountaineers' Brass Band Rotunda 36 George T Seear's house? later Hartrick's house Location: Main Road, Walhalla 36 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 117 Day's later Giovanni Guatta's House 123 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 123 St John's Church of England, later Anglican Church 40 Location: Church Hill Road, Walhalla Sabine's House 40 44 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Parry's property, later White's house, later Mill House 49 Location: Church Hill Road, Walhalla 49 Gloz House, later Windsor House 53 117 Frank Guatta’s house part? , later Magnolia Cottage - see also `magnolia grandiflora' (V33) adjoining 128 44 Location: Church Hill Road, Walhalla 111 128 Bartley later Busse house, and Monterey pine Location: Church Hill Road, Walhalla 131 Cummins house or Caravan Cottage 136 Location: Tramway, Number One, Walhalla 131 136 Location: East Branch Road, Walhalla 53 Wright's hut Tainsh House 139 60 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla Elliott's Bakery, Shop & Residence, later Shop & Residence 65 York Cottage also Walhalla Hospital Matron's cottage 141 Location: Church Hill Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla 139 60 141 65 Walhalla Precinct 147 Walhalla Hospital, later Walhalla Pearson Memorial Hospital, later House 71 Location: Church Hill Road, Walhalla 71 Bruni's Cottage, later Stone Cottage 77 Location: Right Hand Branch Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Church Hill Road, Walhalla 147 Walhalla Railway station sub-precinct: Walhalla to Moe Railway, Station Yard Reserve and Track Reserve Works 154 77 Hamilton's House, later Thomas house, later Linga Longa 82 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Chinese Gardens Precinct 161 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Graeme Butler & Associates 2013 154 163 Walhalla Heritage Review 2013 Vault and site of Bank of Victoria 170 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 170 Mining tramways: LTGMC No.1 tramway and feeder lines 240 Grand Junction Hotel and Shops sites, shop chimney, later called Junction Hotel site and fire place 174 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 240 Dry Stone Retaining Walls, House Terraces 246 Location: Various, Walhalla 246 174 Remains of timber walling or breasting to creek 249 Walhalla Cemetery 179 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla 179 249 Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company sites including machine bases 187 Empress Gold Mining Company Sites, later Great South Long Tunnel GMC Sites 252 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla 188 Walhalla Gold Mining Company sites, later part Long Tunnel Mine Company complex 193 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 193 Church Hill Road stone retaining wall 198 Mountain Spring Brewing, aerated Water and Cordial Manufacturing Company, later site of Lewis Loan's Star Brewery site, ruins 256 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, at Church Hill Road, Walhalla 198 252 256 Walhalla State School (SS957) and reserve Location: Main Road, Walhalla 261 Stringers Creek dry stone walling 203 Giovanni Guatta's wine shop cellar site 266 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 203 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Curved flight of steps to Walhalla Masonic Hall Location: Main Road, Walhalla 206 206 Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company sites: Boiler Blocks and Farmer, Robey, Brown & Co portable steam engine 208 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 208 Foundations of Empress Battery (Later part Great South Lt Mine) 215 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Tar-paved footpath remnants (original footpaths) 221 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 221 Dry Stone retaining walls to Stringers Creek Location: Main Road, Walhalla 224 224 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Cricket Ground Track, Walhalla 272 Walhalla Police station site 277 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla 232 Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company (Former North Hercules Co) Sites: Mullock Heap 236 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 236 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013 281 281 Walhalla GMC later South Long Tunnel GMC battery site 284 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla 278 Walhalla St Patrick's Catholic Church site Long Tunnel GMC offices site 289 Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company sites: ore dump or mullock heap 232 269 Walhalla Cricket & Recreation Reserve or Walhalla cricket ground and road reserve 272 House Ruins, Chinese Gardens (see P4) 227 228 266 Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company sites: Incline Tramway site 269 Location: East Branch, Walhalla 215 261 Leveridge's house site 284 289 292 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 292 London plane tree or `Platanus acerlfolla', former Bank Of Victoria Rear Garden 296 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 296 `Cordyline australis' or cabbage tree in former Bank of Victoria garden 299 Walhalla Heritage Review 2013 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 299 Fruit tree 302 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 302 Monterey pines x 6 (4?) Or `Pinus radiata' at Walhalla State School reserve (part removed) 338 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 338 Cedar, `Cedrus sp.' (`cedrus atlantica'?) 305 Horse chestnut or `Aesculus Sp.' and oak (`Quercus Sp.') at the Walhalla State School Reserve 341 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla 305 341 Lombardy poplar row X3 (Formerly 6 `Populus nigra' var.' Italica') 307 Douglas fir or `Pseudotsuga menziesii' at former Church of England parsonage site 344 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla 307 Oak or `Quercus Sp.' on Stringers Creek 311 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 311 Monterey Pines in group Or `Pinus radiata' on Stringers Creek 314 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 314 Lombardy poplars x2 or `Populus nigra' var. `Italica' 350 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 350 Two rows of Lombardy poplars x8 or `Populus nigra' var. `Italica' 353 Ca age Tree or `Cordyline Australis’ at Site Of Ro erts, Neill's and Miles store 317 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla 317 344 353 Southern Magnolia or `Magnolia grandiflora' 356 356 Camellia or `Camellia Japonica' at former Exchange Hotel site 320 Lombardy Poplar row x10 or `Populus nigra' var. `Italica' 360 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Location: Main Road, Walhalla 320 360 Pear or `Pyrus sp.' , removed (now Plum or `Prunus sp.) 325 `Cupressus torulosa' x2, or Bhutan cypress, Walhalla Cemetery 363 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 325 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Monterey pine or `Plnus radiata' 328 Conifer (redwood?) at James Gerrard's house site 366 Location: Right-hand branch, Walhalla 328 Fuchsia or `Fuschia magellanica' at Bruni's Cottage 331 Location: Right-hand branch, Walhalla 331 Narrow leaf peppermint or `Eucalyptus radiata') 334 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 334 Location: Main Road, Walhalla 363 366 Lombardy poplars x 4 former Wesleyan Church site 370 Location: Right Hand Branch, Walhalla 370 Conifer, mature (fir?) 373 Location: Right Hand Branch, Walhalla 373 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013 Walhalla Heritage Review 2013 INTRODUCTION The following is an extract from the Walhalla Bushfire, Heritage and Overlay Review undertaken in 2013 with Meinhardt Australia Pty Ltd. The Review The heritage review has included the following, as included in this attachment:        Preparation of an illustrated database including all identified individual places and areas (1984, 1999 reports), most of which are include in the heritage overlay; Brief site check if these places remain as identified on the ground, revealing a number that have been removed or altered; Brief review of the data used to assess these places in 1984 (the extra places listed in the 1999 report had no documentation) with reference to online primary sources and recent publications on Walhalla where available; Revision of the Statement of Significance of each contributory or significant place (Heritage Victoria format); Brief review of related heritage documents referred to elsewhere in this report, including the latest heritage review undertaken by Context P/L where it relates to Walhalla; Site visit for potential heritage places for future assessment; and Recommendations for the heritage management of each identified place or area. Results The review has found:        a number of the identified heritage places have been removed or altered (buildings, landscape); some extant identified places have been recently reviewed as no longer existing (cabbage tree palms); a number of new buildings has been added to the town; the heritage assessment documentation on many of the elements is minimal (particularly the landscape), a reflection in part on the dearth of readily accessible official records (such as rate books, land titles for Walhalla’s signifi ant period; the previous assessment relied on secondary historical sources which is not ideal, particularly for vernacular structures such as were common in Walhalla; few of the identified trees are protected in the planning scheme under heritage policy; mining sites have not been comprehensively assessed and the associated lease areas not within the heritage overlay despite the high significance of this gold field in the State context. Recommendations Recommendations include:       Proposed revision of the Walhalla Township heritage overlay 8 to include tree and external paint controls with local policy and an incorporated or referenced document within the Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme to reference all identified significant and contributory elements within the heritage overlay, as recommended ion this review; Recognition and protection in planning policy of contributory and/or significant status of identified places in this review and their key role within the Walhalla Township Heritage Overlay 8, separate or included in the Heritage Overlay Area; Investigate use of an incorporated plan that provides permit application exemptions for prescribed heritage outcomes based on the revised guidelines; Inclusion of unprotected previously identified places such as the Chinese Gardens and Walhalla cricket ground within the heritage overlay; Investigate protection of interiors where identified as potential significant in this review; Proposed mining heritage overlay to include significant lease areas as well as artefacts with own policies. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013 Walhalla Heritage Review 2013 Revised Statement of Significance for Walhalla Township HO8 What is significant? Settlement of Walhalla (originally known as Stringer's Creek) began after the discovery of gold by Edward Stringer in 1863. At first alluvial gold was found, which attracted a rush of prospectors, however, it was the discovery of a rich quartz reef that encouraged the establishment of a more permanent settlement. The town grew rapidly and was surveyed by 1866 when it was officially proclaimed 'Walhalla'. The first Mechanics' Institute and Public Library opened in 1867 and at first, served as a school before State School No. 957 took its first enrolments in 1868. Walhalla was proclaimed a Borough on 25 November 1872 and by 1878 the government had constructed the first section of the main road from Moe. By 1881 Walhalla was the second largest town in Gippsland, after Sale, and the population (including outlying areas) peaked at over 4,000 by the 1890s. The construction of the railway line to Walhalla began in 1904, after much community lobbying, and was completed in 1910. However, by 1911 a majority of the mines were closed due to exhausted resources, bringing to an end the prosperous days of Walhalla and it is said that the railway arrived just in time to 'take the houses out'. The town’s population declined rapidly over the ensuing decades and many buildings were either removed or destroyed by fire. Significant and contributory elements:            significant and contributory buildings, structures, trees, remnants of gardens and other features in Walhalla associated with the development of the town from c.1863 to c.1920. buildings including houses such as Barkley Square House, Windsor House and other surviving miner's cottages, St John's Church of England, Corner shops, the post office and residence, former Pearson Memorial Hospital, former Masonic hall and Wesleyan Church, bandstand, and recreated former fire station; significant trees that include a Magnolia grandiflora, a Douglas Fir, significant plantings within the cemetery and other mature exotic trees including Monterey pines and the signature Lombardy poplars singly, or in rows and groups scattered throughout the precinct; stone and timber retaining walls, particularly along the creek and road embankments but also retaining existing and former building sites; archaeological remains of buildings that have been removed or destroyed such as the former Bank of Victoria vault and the Junction Hotel chimney; archaeological remains associated with the gold mining and timber industry including remnant machinery and infrastructure, above and below ground; mining and other portable machinery such as the Farmer Robey Brown Co. Steam Engine, the former Horse Drawn Fire Cart; railway and tramways and associated infrastructure; market garden and associated house sites at the north end of Walhalla; tennis court and cricket ground sites; and Walhalla cemetery and associated fencing, buildings and monuments. The absence of buildings as much as the presence of the original remnant buildings is an important part of the historic character of Walhalla. The lack of visible development dating from post-World War I is also important. Buildings and other structures dating from after 1920 (including those that are faithful reproductions of original buildings) and non-original alterations and additions to contributory buildings and structures are not significant or contributory. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013 Walhalla Heritage Review 2013 How is it significant? The township of Walhalla is of historical, social and aesthetic significance to the Shire of Baw Baw and Victoria. Why is it significant? The township of Walhalla is significant: Historically and socially as a tangible reminder of the settlement associated with Gippsland's richest and most famous goldfield, as well as supporting Victoria's richest ever gold mine the Long Tunnel Gold Mine and one of the State's richest quartz mining areas. Of all the Gippsland towns associated with the gold mining Walhalla was by far the largest and is the only one that has significant surviving built remnants today. The remaining buildings and landscape provide evidence of the status of Walhalla, which was once one of the largest towns in Gippsland, while the space between the remnant buildings provides a vivid illustration of the decline of Walhalla after the closure of the gold mines. The associated objects have the potential to yield further information about life in Walhalla during the peak years of development up to c.1920. (Criterion A) Aesthetically, as a highly significant, picturesque and evocative cultural landscape, Walhalla is notable not only for its remnant buildings, scattered throughout the valley, but also for mature trees and other features such as the ruins, archaeological materials, abandoned mining machinery and infrastructure, and dry stone walls that provide an impression of the original extent of the town at its peak. (Criterion E) Walhalla is of scientific (archaeological) significance as a place with potential to yield artefacts and evidence, which may provide further information about the technological history of gold mining. (Criterion C) Brief list of sources The following were used in the heritage review. Adams, John 1980 Mountain Gold A history of the Baw Baw and Walhalla country of the Narracan AGC Woodward-Clyde Pty Limited, 1997. WALHALLA STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN Aldersea, John and Barbara Hood 2003 Walhalla valley of gold : a story of its people, places and its gold mines. Ashworth , Rob & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013. comments on existing conditions of Walhalla heritage places Ashworth, D.W. and Ashworth, R.I.1988. The Walhalla Mechanics Institute and Free Library – 18651988 Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013 Walhalla Heritage Review 2013 Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 Baw Baw Planning Scheme schedule to clause 43.01, heritage overlay maps 21, 11 Black, Leo 1899 Resurvey of the Township of Walhalla photo-lithographed at the Department of Lands and Survey, Melbourne by T. F. McGauran Conservation Study – planning collaborative and Graeme Butler October 1984 Context P/L, 2011 Baw Baw Shire Heritage Study Stage 1 Volume 1: Thematic Environmental History, Vol 2 Heritage place & precinct citations Flett, James 1970 The History of Gold Discovery in Victoria Forest Commission of Victoria (FCV) 1963 survey of Walhalla (VPRO) Gallop, Scott.2010 A day in Walhalla Goulding, Graham 2011 The Former Walhalla Post Office, Guatta, Win 2009 Mountain Heritage: the Guatta and De Luis families : their lives in Walhalla and their origins in Italy and Switzerland Guatta, Win.2000 The mountains call : Peter Guatta and his stories of Walhalla Harrington , Lawrie and John King 1975 Walhalla today. Hawker, John. 1986 Walhalla Cemetery: landscape and management study Hermes Heritage Database (DOI) and Victorian Heritage Database, Walhalla entries, including National Trust of Australia (Vic) citations History of Gippsland’s Jordan Goldfield Holdsworth, James; Morrison, Dianne; Schapper, Janet and Butler, Graeme. 1984 Walhalla James, G.F. and Lee, C.G. 1970 Walhalla Heyday Lardner, Helen. 1993 Walhalla Heritage Design Guidelines or Planning and Design Guidelines Paull, Raymond 1963 Old Walhalla Portrait Of A Gold Town Permissive Occupancy files, Crown Lands, Department Of Environment & Primary Industries Prada , Lou de 1978 My Walhalla Quanchi, max Walhalla a Gold Mining Town Reynolds, Yolanda 2007 Walhalla graveyard to cemetery. Shire, Victoria Tisdall, Henry Thomas A Tale of Old Walhalla – How we fought the smallpox in Walhalla Tomlin, Owen F.; Bosa, Marysusan and Chamberlain, Peter G. 1979 Gold for the Finding – A Pictorial Tract Consultants P/L 1999, Walhalla Township Design & Development Guidelines. Victorian Government Gazette Graeme Butler & Associates 2013 Walhalla Heritage Review 2013 Voter's roll for the borough of Walhalla for the year ending October, 1884. Walhalla Vic : Printed by H. Witton, 'Chronicle' office [1884] Walhalla Historic Area Management Plan 1988 Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands/Shire of Narracan Walhalla Heritage & Development League panels at Walhalla sites 2000 Walhalla municipal rate books (VPRO) Walhalla Parish Plans, various Walhalla Photomap 1980 Department of Lands and Survey Watson , Stephen E. 1996 Moe-Walhalla railway plans / Victorian Railways. Cranbourne, Vic. : MoeWalhalla Railway Publications Graeme Butler & Associates 2013 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Post & Telegraph Office and Residence, Later House Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA23 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B01 Crown Grantee: Reserved for Colonial Government of Victoria Place type: Post Office Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Colonial Government of Victoria, Michaele Costello 1885, Isaac Scott 1888, James Keeley 1890, Doreen Hannan 19281963 Estimated creation date(s): 1885-6, 1898-9 Period representation: Figure 1 Place boundaries: B01 –pale blue outline, Heritage Overlay 5 – red outline (Baw Baw Shire cadastral map base) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 3 The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):    Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013   Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: A, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): A Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Reserved for buildings of major importance whose architectural intactness, quality of style is of very high standard; which represent significant stages in Walhalla’s development; or which have unusually strong social or historic associations. Of state-wide importance. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? Yes Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO5 Heritage Overlay name: Former Walhalla Post Office and Residence, Main Street Walhalla (within Walhalla Township Heritage Overlay) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 4 Figure 2 Baw Baw Planning Scheme: Heritage Overlay map 21 Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: History A petition in late 1863 secured a weekly mail service to Stringer's Creek by March 1864, when Alfred Hollingsworth secured the contract to bring the mail from Toongabbie. On 22 August 1864, Frederick Duval opened the first Post Office. The mail service was increased to three times weekly by 1866 from Toongabbie, but by 1870 the mail was coming from Shady Creek on Brown's Track. At a later date the mail route was from Moe. A telegraph line linked Sale with Walhalla in 1870 ... on O to er … By 1880, a further line had been erected to Woods Point' (Adams, p.55) Attempts were made to secure new buildings during 1882 after a marked increase in business. Builder, John Richmond, won the contract to build the present building in January 1885 and completed it by March 1886. Private letterboxes were added to the south west face of the building, under a verandah, in 1898. (Adams, p.70) The design was done under Public Works Chief Architect, Henry Bastow, possibly by JT Kelleher (District Architect) or his draftsman, J.R. Brown (Trethowan, p. 107-8). Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 A Post Mistress of long tenure, Doreen Hannan, purchased the building in 1948. After 1963, postal services were transferred to Trembath's corner store (CA 41) and then to Boswell's which was burnt. (D. Hannan) Description Like other Public Works designs of this period, the former post office and residence shows the Medieval influence in its gambrel profile and trussed gables and asymmetrical, bayed planning. Pertinent to the remote and wooded location, It is constructed and decorated with timber. Stone coloured weatherboards with carved barges, finials, king posts, eaves brackets, and oculi-vents, originally picked out in a dark brown, combine to promote a typical visual complexity of detail on what is already a picturesque building form. This was accentuated, in its original form, by window hoods and two verandahs to the west elevation and to the north-east face. Trefoil piercing also decorated the gable barges. Internally, the post office area, counter and fittings survive, the residence rooms have lacquered tongue and groove boarding to ceilings, with cast-iron roses, papered walls and marbleised timber mantels. Oil lamps, on pendants and brackets also survive. A club-head picket fence lined the front, whilst palings enclosed the rear. The formerly corniced chimney tops with their arcaded friezes above, have been modified; the verandah to the south-west bay removed when the same bay was extended to the street alignment (in matching detail) to accommodate an internal customer lobby and counter (1898); the previous west residential verandah was extended, at right angles, to shelter access to new double doors leading into the lobby; the residence verandah on the north face of the east wing has been removed; the verandah sheltering the private boxes on the south enclosed in c1963; and the picket fence has been cut back in part on the north and the paling side fence replaced. Internally, walls have been repapered, but the painted joinery of the post office area appears to be an early colour scheme. (Photos, James G.F. and Lee C.G., 1970 pps 36, 75-77, 50, 140) What is significant? Contributory elements include:   The Walhalla post office and residence interior and exterior, as adapted to 1900, and title land; 1930s era telephone box; Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 5  Restored elements based on original design. How is it significant? The former Walhalla Post Office and the Post Master's residence is aesthetically, socially and historically significant to the Shire of Baw Baw and Victoria Why is it significant? The former Walhalla Post Office and the Post Master's residence are significant: Historically, as Walhalla's only surviving former public building and, within Victoria, as highly evocative of the government presence within this significant gold town and for the building's relatively original condition given the timber construction and consequent ease of alteration (Criterion A); and Aesthetically, within Victoria, as an early and timber example of the ornate Medieval revival designs which emanated from Kelleher's district, under Bastow (Criterion E). Management:      Investigate restoration of residence rear verandah restore ridge finials (cast-iron) record counter and fitting layout for public record; reference as significant contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8; and assess if existing Heritage Overlay should cover adjoining CA22 (vacant, former Amor Store site). References: Survey Notes 2013: Chimneys, fence and colours reinstated. Note 1930s telephone box type. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Victorian Heritage Database Victorian Heritage Register H0583 Extent: Historic Building No. 583 Former Post Office and Residence, Main Street, Walhalla (to the extent of the whole of the building being Crown Allotments 22 and 23 in the Township of Walhalla). [Victoria Government Gazette No. 91 29 August 1984 pp. 2983-2984] Victorian Government Gazette Friday, March 27th 1885 New Post & Telegraph office (contract 1884-5, ₤ John Ri h ond. Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Friday, March 12th 1886 Extra works on new Post & Telegraph office (contract 1884- , ₤ John Ri h ond. Other sources Former Walhalla Post Office : a brief history written by Graham Goulding 2011 (cites Chris Smith Historic Places 1993 Conservation Analysis et al: 1885 Walhalla P.O. third busiest in Gippsland. 18 Dec 1884 tenders called by the Dept. Of Public Works Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: Classified by The National Trust, listed on Historic Buildings Register; Images cited: James G.F. and Lee C.G., 1970 pps 36, 75-77, 50, 140 Baw Baw Planning Scheme: Included on the Victorian Heritage Register under the Heritage Act 1995-Ref No H583 State Library of Victoria Image c1917-30: Accession No: H89.105/243, Image No: b25090: no telephone box. Australian Heritage Photographic Library Brian Lloyd image c1960s? Shows telephone box Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 6 Specification: red gum stumps, stud wall frame, square edge Baltic pine weatherboard, 4 moulded cemented chimneys, 3 bedrooms, bathroom with tin bath (existing), skillion weatherboard outbuilding with wash house and 2 earth closets (cites 1902 plan), 1937 plan shows 2nd outbuilding as wood shed and mechanics room. Cites Walhalla Chronicle 26 March 1886 description. 1887 addition of verandah to part front of building, maybe also a bedroom addition; 1898-9 gabled wing extended to street and verandah added to Post office wing, window changed to door as lo y entry osting ₤ Wigley & Sons and criticised by local press. 1898 private boxes put on south side verandah, now gone. Had servants bell system (existing), wall papers surviveconserved 2010, kerosene lamps used with lamp hooks existing, shutters to windows once, 1910 telephone exchange installed. 1918 status downgraded, ceased 1963; sold to D Hannan 1948. State Government & Shire purchased it in 1989- Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 managed by Walhalla Crown Reserves Board of Management Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013 Purchased by State Government 1988. Major restoration 2005-08 and extensive analysis of Internal wallpapers carried out. Southern porch cladding was removed as part of the restoration. Now open regularly as a museum. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 7 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Tricks Corner Stores, later Trembath's Corner Stores Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA40, CA41 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B02 Crown Grantee: CA 40 Cornelius Murphy 1866; James Allwood, 1866, CA 41; Cornelius Murphy, 1866 Place type: Shops & residences Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Frederick C. Tricks, Michael Trembath; William Trembath Estimated creation date(s): 1895-6 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Figure 3 Heritage Place B02 boundary (Baw Baw Shire cadastral base) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 8     Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013  Post Second War (1940)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of general heritage significance but which have little or no importance beyond the Walhalla area. (Of local importance.) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? Yes Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: History Cornelius Murphy opened the Shamrock Hotel on CA 41 (corner of Church Hill Road) in August, 1865 (Adams p.53).Murphy went to the Castlemaine Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 9 fields in the late 1860's (Bailliere's Directory 1868f) and licensees who followed him at Walhalla included John and Catherine Parry, from Matlock and Leo Kraetzer who took the hotel (renamed Long Tunnel Hotel) in November 1887. (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970 p.38) It was burnt in the following November leaving three brick chimneys. (ibid p.49) The adjoining CA 40 was also vacated that day. Frederick C. Tricks, mine manager and agent, commissioned the rebuilding of the rubble stone masonry shop on part of CAs 40-1, with photographs of c1895 show the timber Corner Store which presumedly Harris built to the north soon after completion of the first. (James G. F . and Lee C.G. 1970 pps 55-61, 70,75) The `Corners Stores' were first occupied in 1895 by a Mr. Roberts (James G.F. and Lee C.B. 1970 p.84 cites `Walhalla Chronicle' 29/11/1895) but soon were run by the Trembath family while still owned by Frederick C. Tricks, mine manager and agent. (RB1908-9, 1-3). Occupiers at 1908-9 were James McGeorge, stationer and Avis Oliver, seamstress. (Rate Books Borough of Walhalla loc. cit .) Frederick Tricks had managed the Tanjil Gold Mining Co., purchased and reformed the Toombon Mining Co. by 1892 and achieved the same for the old Long Tunnel Mining Co. (as the New Long Tunnel Co.) early this century . He was also a Walhalla Borough Councillor and mayor. (Adams pps. 30, 52, 82, 96, 119-20) At the early death of `retired miner' Michael Trembath in 1898, he is listed as having been born in Cornwall 51 years ago and the owner of a sixroomed weatherboard cottage on CA41A at Walhalla with a stable on CAs 41 &42 adjoining the corner stores. His sons, James and William H. Trembath were to acquire his property and the adjoining shops, living in one and operating at the corner (RB1909, RB1925; D. Hannan pers..comm.) Architect, Geoffrey Mewton, assisted in the refurbishment of these shops in the 1970s when they were reroofed, the verandahs rebuilt and some show window joinery replaced. What is significant? The stone store has the following contributory elements:  a stuccoed masonry parapeted facade decorated with Italian Renaissance derived ornament. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    a central pediment, with an acroterion at the apex and centrally placed vermiculation, propped by scrolled brackets and piers, on each side vermiculated piers at each end of the parapet; and timber framed show windows placed on a stuccoed and panelled plinth. The timber corner store has the following contributory elements:      similarly derived Classical ornament with pediments central to each face of the façade. timber ashlar-pattern boarding cladding the walls and panelled timber plinths timber-framed show windows above a bullnose sill moulding and a ventilated sub-plinth board. corrugated iron or steel sheet cladding to the exposed north wall. new timber verandahs are placed along the street façade. Historically, on a regional basis as drawn from the shops' association with both the Trembath family and Frederick Tricks who had Sate-wide prominence and, in turn, their association with local and Colonial Government and the Walhalla mining industry, itself of State importance. Of all buildings owned by these men at Walhalla, only these have survived (Criterion A); Socially, the Corner Stores have served as a meeting place next to the retaining wall, itself a meeting place, and also as the town post office (Criterion G); Architectural and historical significance are obtained from the main buildings' originality (part shop front, external ornament and internal lining) and their prominent representation (as a use-type) of the many shops that once lined Walhalla's streets. The Corner Stores also represents a small group of relatively original Victorian-era timber shops and shopfronts in the State and is rare in the Gippsland region (Criterion E). The unusual fretted timber verandah brackets (new) appear to have been originally placed at the time of the timber shop's construction. Generally the external fabric appears original, except for the colour scheme. Some original verandah details have not been replaced i.e. scalloped end fascia to the south end of the verandah and the absence of capitals and correct detailing to the posts and timber frame; ogeeprofile verandah roof guttering is also absent. General colouring is sympathetic but the south stone wall has been slurry-coated and painted. Internally, the corner shop is finished with beaded softwood lining, with a lacquered finish, now part overpainted. Reconstruction has occurred on the stone shop parapet since 1984. How is it significant? Corner Stores, later Trembath's Corner Stores is significant historically and aesthetically to Walhalla, the Gippsland region and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Corner Stores, later Trembath's Corner Stores, are significant: Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 10 Figure 4 James & Lee: 1890s view shows verandah detailing Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Figure 5 1966 view of shops (State Library of Victoria ) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Figure 6 1983 view of shops Management:       Restore verandahs to correct detail; find original colours and repaint as required; record original shop-front details and make publicly available; investigate removal of slurry to south wall; consider protection of corner store (CA41) interior (individual listing in Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme); and reference as significant and contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: Recorded by the National Trust James & Lee: 84 Corner Stores built on site of Long Tunnel Hotel, cites 29 November 1895, Walhalla Chroni le: … e known as the "Corner Stores . . . Mr Roberts starts business tomorrow." Victorian Titles Office: Vol.344 Fol. 767 Cornelius Murphy pays ₤ / / for CA41 at corner 26 June 1866 Sells to John Parry 28 June 1870 Survey Notes 2013: Reinstated externally, changed in part internally; some of the stained and lacquered boarding has been painted over in the corner store. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 11 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 State Library of Victoria Image: jc017008,9 1966: shows timber corner store with no parapet pediment (existing is recreation) or corner verandah splay. Image: jc017010, 1980: shows as existing with side wall signs. Title: F.C. Trick's Australian chronicle, mining & commercial review. Publisher: Melbourne: Centennial Printing and Pub. Co. Description: v. ; 65 cm. Circulating in Walhalla and Toombon. Description based on: No. 24 (6th Apr. 1889) Walhalla Heritage & Development League, 2000 Plaque The Corner Stores This site was first occupied by Cornelius Murphy who built the Shamrock Hotel in 1865. In later years it was renamed as The Royal, and then the Long Tunnel Hotel. It was destroyed in the major town fire of 1888. After the fire a Walhalla accountant, Mr Frederick C. Tricks, acquired the land, and the present Corner Stores were completed in 1894. James and William Trembath operated a general store out of the corner shop up until 1929. The shop was then purchased by William Trembath (Jr..) who operated it for many years. A timber mill operating in the old Long Tunnel Mine yards (1949-1970) purchased these three shops for accommodation for its workers. They rapidly -fell into a state of disrepair, and when the mill closed, were derelict. The buildings were purchased by the Walhalla Improvement League in March 1984 and fully restored. The League then moved its museum from the old Walhalla Fire Station into the corner shop. Tricks, Mary Ann d1906 widow of Frederick Cranch Tricks of 686 Malvern Road, Armadale, share broker. Births Deaths & Marriages Frederick m. Mary Ann (Lindrea) in 1874; Frederick dies in 1928 having been born c1836 to father William Rate Books 1907: 1 Trembath, WH storekeeper, occupier, owner Frederick Tricks of Armadale shop part allot 41 2 Cullinan, Thomas M stationer, (McGeorge, James written in), occupier, owner Frederick Tricks of Armadale shop part allot 41 3 Oliver, Avis occupier, owner Frederick Tricks of Armadale shop part allot 41 4 Colvin, Caroline fruiterer, occupier, owner Frederick Tricks of Armadale storeroom part allot 41 5 Colvin, Caroline fruiterer, occupier, owner Frederick Tricks of Armadale shop part allot 40 6 Hartirick, Henry, legal manager, occupier, owner Frederick Tricks of Armadale offices part allot 40 (9 Harris, Leopold Cuthbert occupier, owner Albert Harris, Hawthorn shop store room stable CA37) 1928 2869- Numerous properties under Trembath Brothers and James Trembath 2877 Trembath Brothers Walhalla storekeepers owner-occupier Shop part CA41, Shop part CA41 no.2, Shop part CA41, part 41A; storeroom CA39; house CA42A etc. State Library of Victoria Walhalla Valley of Gold: 85- 1966 views of shops derelict, missing details Born in Exeter 1836, son of William and Fanny. 1854 came to Australia with brother William John Tricks. In business in Sale 1864 and in Walhalla 1866-7. 1872 registered the Melbourne GMC near Fultons Creek above the Aberfeldy R. Late November Australian GMC. Victorian Public Records Office: Probate Death of Michael Trembath 1898 Widow Elizabeth, daughters Elizabeth Friend, Emily, sons- William Henry, James general storekeepers; estate ₤ Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 12 `In January of 1872 a partnership with Mr. E S Gutteridge was dissolved, to be carried on by Tricks alone and so in 1873 the office of FC Tricks mine manager had been esta lished…In luded in it Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 were the Mountaineers GMC at Yarramans Crk ...the Coopers Creek Sluicing Company, in July and the New North Cohens GMC October. In February 1874 there was Cleverlands Reef GMC and the same month the Stirling GMC, Aberfeldy. In June he registered the Walhalla Copper Mining Company beside the Thomson River at Coopers Creek. This mine was still being worked as late as the early 1960s. The year 1875 saw Tricks back out at the Aberfeldy with the Waterloo GMC and then in September came the Fear Not GMC where we started this story. I believe that on having obtained the residence of Frederick Sly in 1873 in Walhalla, and with his interest in the Fear Not Mine, Frederick Cranch Trick's twenty year contribution to Walhalla's history began. The Fear Not mine kept Frederick busy for the next couple of years as he tried to make it pay. Following the Fear Not mine Frederick's interests turned to the north once again, when in October 1880 he was in charge of a company formed to work the Wealth of Nations gold mine, which in November he expanded to take in the old Scrat-abit mines. He titled it the New Venture. From then a steady flow of mining interests followed starting with the Tanjil GMC in September 1882, a deep lead north of and adjoining the Sporting Boys Leases, Tanjil. January 1883 saw tenders for packing thirty tons of quartz from the Scotia reef and October 1883 the Toombon GMC. September 1887 he went north again to the Pride of the Mountains and in December there was the Long Tunnel Mint west of the North Cohens. Continuing in the Aberfeldy area in February 1888 there was the Toombon Extended and the New Toombon, the North Blue Jacket GMC in May then the Volcano GMC and the Staff GMC, in June the Stockholm Star, in July the Harbinger Extended and the North Harbinger. The year 1889 saw him with the Cohens Reef Extended, 1890 the Golden Queen on the Lilly Spur all in the Aberfeldy area. In 1894 he was into the North Montezuma at Scratch-a-bit Creek. In April 1895 back out at Aberfeldy with Lock Fyne Consuls and the New Lock Fyne, in May the Bald Hills Dyke GMC at Gooleys Creek, in August the South Earles GMC, also at the Aberfeldy River. It was at this time Frederick announced his imminent retirement and although some other mines were registered under his name, his son Arthur H. Tricks was in control. All of this may not mean much to some people but I have used him as an example to point out the Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 13 influence he had over mining outside of central Walhalla. In most of the aforementioned mines F C Tricks was either the Company Manager, Secretary, or in some managerial capacity. He seemed to have a lot of faith in the Toombon area as in January 1891 he purchased all the Toombon Company mine and plant. Frederick Cranch Tricks contributed in many other mining activities, too many to mention here without becoming repetiti e… Beside his many mining interests, in 1875 Frederick Tricks' office in Walhalla became the local agent of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. His office was in the vicinity of, where today, the Walhalla Museum/Post Office and Long Tunnel Café stand. " F. C. Tricks took an interest in the local community becoming a shire councillor and in 1877 he was appointed the town mayor, an honour he was to fulfil again in 1883 and 1884. In 1879 he was honorary secretary of the Walhalla Public Cemetery. April 1881 as an auctioneer he sold up the then defunct Walhalla Gold Mining Company, the mine from which the town got its name He was also elected Shire President in 1887, 1889 and 1891. This was following the worst floods Walhalla had ever experienced. He was credited with the rebuilding of the town. Beside his council duties he was also appointed as a Justice of the Peace. The Walhalla Chronicle records the many hours he spent as a Magistrate in the Police Court. In October 1883 he was elected as a member to the executive committee of the Walhalla steam train league. At the same time he, along with Samuel Carver was appointed auditor at the Long Tunnel GMC. At that time he was the Mayor and Samuel Carver was the town clerk. In June 1884 following the tragic mine accident at the Tubal Cain, Frederick raised over one hundred pound in donations for the families of the miners killed. In September he was elected President of the Excelsior Cricket Club and in November formed the Walhalla Rifle Club of which he was to be prominent in both its administration, promotion and as a competitor. In May 1885 he was elected President of the Valhalla Football Club, where it was decided the team colours would be "nag blue with red stockings and cap". Unfortunately due to his many other commitments he had to forego the position. December 1886 saw him elected to the Prospecting Miners' Board something he felt was needed to encourage mining and recognition of Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 those people doing so. In October 1889 he was also appointed to the Board of Advice for the School District of the Shire of Walhalla. fire and purchased the Long Tunnel Hotel site adjoining at the corner. Newspapers: In February 1891 a prospectus was issued for the Mountain Spring Brewing Aerated Water and Cordial Manufacturing Company Limited, Walhalla, Gippsland. I believe this to have been the old Lewis Loan brewery in Walhalla. The provisional directors were listed as follows      Frederick C Tricks Esq. JP Councillor Robert Mill Empire Hotel Ramsay Thomson Esq. Walhalla JP President Shire of Walhalla Charles Amor Esq. Broker Walhalla J. Griffiths Esq. Griffiths and Co Merchants Walhalla During 1895 with his wife suffering poor health and his son Arthur Henry Tricks now established to take up the reins of the business, Frederick Tricks decided it was time to leave Walhalla. During the year he resigned from the council and all his other interests and on Tuesday 3 September 1895 the town gave him a farewell ban t Part of the evening's activities I have included here as the full report in the Chronicle of Friday 6 September, took up fi e full olu ns of spee hes and responses… (1995 farewell) There were many other speeches and presentation made on that evening all having the same vein. They came from the banking interests; commercial interests also the mining interests and his sporting interests. One can only presume that Frederick Cranch Tricks was a very well respected man. In August of 1897 Frederick returned to England for a holiday, returning to Australia in November the same year. I believe that in retirement in Armadale, Melbourne, he continued to operate as a mining consultant with one of his big investments being the Edna May Gold Mine in Western Australia. Frederick Cranch Tricks died peacefully at his residence Taberna, Malvern Road, Armadale on the 10 September 1928 in his ninetythird year. .….' Walhalla Valley of Gold: 118 Known as William & James Trembath's Corner Stores: cites family history that says Michael Trembath built the southern store after the 1888 Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918) Wednesday 21 September 1870 FRIGHTFUL CASUALTY IN GIPPSLAND-An accident which it 19 apprehended must terminate fatally, happened the other day to a young man named William Henry Trembath. He was engaged chopping some firewood for Mrs Richard Davis, who occupies a house by the Sideling track leading out of the township, when a stone of several pounds weight, which it is believed had been uprooted by some swine on the slaughter yard hill above him came hounding down the precipitous sideling with fearful velocity, gathering impetus as it proceeded, and struck him 011 the right side of the head, fracturing the skull, and actually forcing the fragments of the hone into the bruin. The sufferer was instantly carried into the dwelling, whilst a messenger was speedily despatched for Dr Macdonald. The doctor arrived with commendable promptitude, and upon proceeding to examine the patient found the scalp terribly torn, and the skull literally battered indeed, with the aid of his surgical instruments, be succeeded in removing several particles of bone, varying from the size of a shilling downwards, which had been embedded nearly an inch deep in the convolutions of the brain; and yet, marvellous to relate, the unfortunate sufferer, although totally insensible to pain, retained his consciousness throughout the whole operation. Upon inquiry at a late hour we learned that Trembath had sunk into a comatose state. - `Walhalla Chronicle'. Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Tuesday 27 September 1870 ... The young man Trembath, who was so severely injured last week by a stone which came rolling down the hill from the Slaughter Yards is progressing favourably. `The Argus': 17 Oct. 1890 Marriage: TRICKS - CLAY. - On the 22nd ult., at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. G. White, M.A., Fred. Tricks, manager of the Bank of North Queensland, eldest son of Frederick Cranch Tricks, Esq., J.P., of Walhalla, Victoria, to Jeannie, third daughter of Richard Clay, Esq., of Herberton, Queensland `The Argus': Monday 9 May 1898 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 14 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 TREMBATH.— On the 28th April, at his residence, Walhalla, Michael, the beloved husband of Elizabeth Trembath, and much loved father of William Henry Trembath, Mrs. E. Friend, James Trembath and Emily Trembath, of Walhalla, native of Cornwall, England, in his 51st year. Traralgon Record (Traralgon, Vic. : 1886 - 1932) Tuesday 16 August 1898 WALHALLA. Thursday, August 18. LAND, FURNITURE, &c. In the Estate of M Trembath, Late of Walhalla, Deceased. A M'LEAN & CO. have received instructions from the Perpetual Executors and Trustees Association of Australia Limited to SELL by AUC TION, on the above date, on the premises, at one o'clock sharp, All that piece of land being Crown Allotment 41A, township and parish of Walhalla. county of Tanjil, having a frontage of 77ft, to road and 66ft and 43 ft. to the Old-road, by a depth at the eastern end of 43ft. with a six-roomed W.B. cottage erected thereon; also all the household furniture and effects contained in the cottage. Also, all that piece of land, being parts of Crown Allotment 41 and 42, township and parish aforesaid, having a frontage of 46ft to a road by 551ft, together with old stable erected thereon. The above are for bona-fide sale. Terms at Sale. Tuesday 23 August 1898 Mr Farmer, of Messrs A. McLean and C Co.. conducted a sale at Walhalla on Thursday afternoon of the land, buildings, etc., in the estate of the late M. Trembath. There was no competition, and everything was bought in by the sons of the deceased at the upset price, the cottage, land and shop £320, buildings and stables £40 and the whole of the furniture at £20. `The Argus': 14 Sep 1928 Mr. Frederick Crouch (sic) Tricks, whose death has occurred, was aged 92 years, having been born in Exeter, England, in 1836. He was educated at Bristol, and arrived in Melbourne by the ship Mary Seaton in 1854, after a voyage of six months. He joined the late Sir Frederick Sargood's father in business, but like many others he left lor the diggings at Ballarat, and followed every new rush for many years with varying luck. Mr. Tricks went to Walhalla in Gippsland, in the early sixties, and was assistant secretary to the Walhalla mine, which was then under the management of the late Henry Rosales. He remained at Walhalla in business as a legal manager and accountant for Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 15 many years, and opened up some valuable mines, including the Toombon and New Loch Fyne. He took a very active part in municipal affairs, and was many times mayor of the town. He was a justice of the peace for all districts. On leaving Walhalla he joined the Stock Exchange of Melbourne, and was a member until his retirement a few years later. He floated a company to work the celebrated Edna May mine, which paid more than ₤ a share in di idends. He was an enthusiastic bowler, and was made a life member of the Armadale Club. He married a second time some years ago and his wife is living. He also leaves two sons, Messrs Fred and Arthur Trick, and a daughter. `The Argus': Thursday 28 February 1929 SHAREBBROKER'S WILL. PROBATE OPPOSED. Court Discharges Caveat. Further evidence was given before Mr. Justice Macfarlan, in the Banco Court yesterday in the action in which probate of the last will of Mr. Frederick Cranch Tricks, formerly of Walhalla, stock and share broker, but late of Taberna, Malvern road, Armadale, was challenged. The caveator was Arthur Henry Tricks, of Culcairn, a son of testator by his first marriage. The estate is valued at between £8,000 and £9,000. Mr. Tricks died on September 10, 1928. He was aged 92-1/2 years. Under the last disposition of his estate Mr. Tricks made greater provision for his widow than in his 1925 will, and less provision for the children of his first marriage. The objections to the grant of probate of the 1927 will were that it was not executed in conformity with the Wills Act, want of testamentary capacity, and undue influence exercised by Mrs. Mary Ann Tricks, wife of testator, and/or Francis Joseph Fiander, son of Mrs. Tricks by her first marriage. Mrs. Mary Ann Tricks said:-I was a widow with five sons when I married testator. Two of the sons have since died, and two are living out of Victoria. Francis Joseph Fiander is the fifth son. During the 12 months before the making of the 1927 will testator had the contentment of his home as his interest in life. He was very happy in his surroundings. He did not tell me of his intention to alter his will. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Mr. Justice MacFarlane accepted the evidence of Mrs. Tricks that she had no part in obtaining the will, and did not know its contents. He said that the order nisi calling upon the caveator to show cause the the caveat should not be discharged and probate granted would be made absolute, with costs, and the caveat would be discharged with costs. Liberty to apply would be given regarding the grant of probate of the last will. Mr. Walker and Mr. N. O'Bryan (instructed by Messrs. A. Glen Roberts and Dawson) appeared for the propounders of the will, and Mr. Gavan Duffy and Dr. Ellis (instructed by Messrs. Eggleston and Eggleston) appeared for the caveator. `The Argus': Tuesday 2 February 1954 Clue to `cache of gold' Discovery by two boys of a pile of ancient documents in a deserted shack at Walhalla, 30 miles north-east of Moe, has revived a man's hope of a secret cache of gold. REX ARTHUR...AND DESMOND .McKIBBIN, Rex Arthur, 17, of Dalgety st., St. Kilda, and Desmond McKibbin, 14, of Louise st., Melbourne, found the papers on Saturday, when they tore up the floor boards of the shack to make a fire. The papers included maps, private letters, and promissory notes addressed to William H. Trembath, of Walhalla. Some of the letters referred to the "Long Tunnel" goldmine, which stopped operating in 1914. Mr. Trembath died 14 years ago, but last night "The Argus" found his son, Mr. W. E. Trembath, at Morwell. Mr. Trembath said his father had been a storekeeper at Walhalla and the manager of several mines. "He died suddenly without telling us of his documents," Mr. Trembath said. Mr. Trembath plans to meet Rex and Desmond and take them to Walhalla for another search. Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013   Rubble parapet on the south shop condemned and demolished 1991. Replica concrete parapet built by Jim Anderson – 1992. (Plaster casts of decorative treatments were taken on the original parapet prior to demolition). Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 16  Substantial excavation currently underway at rear of Corner Stores for proposed extension. Victorian Public Records Office: Permissive Occupancy Ledger Walhalla CA41 James Trembath, Walhalla last dealing 21 /9/1898 CA40 1913 Frederick Tricks, Walhalla Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Wesleyan Church, Later Walhalla Masonic Lodge Hall (Number 69) Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA93C Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B03 Crown Grantee: Permanent Reserve for Wesleyan Church, 1871 Place type: Church, Hall Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Walhalla Wesleyans, Estimated creation date(s): 1866, c1890Period representation: Figure 7 Place boundaries: B03 –pale blue outline, Heritage Overlay 28 – red outline (Baw Baw Shire cadastral map base) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 17 The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):    Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013   Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: D, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Figure 8 Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme: Mapping does not include curved steps Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Heritage contribution or significance Buildings which are contributory to the overall historic character of Walhalla, but which have no individual historic significance. (Contributory to a precinct) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? Yes Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO28 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Masonic Hall (former Wesleyan Church), including Curved Flight of Steps leading to Wesleyan Church). CA 93C Left Hand Branch, Stringers Creek, Walhalla   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: History After the Rev. W. Brown had formed a Wesleyan Society during 1866, The Walhalla Wesleyan Chapel was built as the first church in Walhalla, being opened in December, 1866. It measured 30' ' and ost ₤120. Rev. D.S. Lindsay was the first minister and was appointed in September 1868. A photograph (c1868) shows the original church as typically gabled, with three side windows and two front windows on either side of a gabled porch; the lowest sash of each window was opaque.(painted) (James G.F. and Lee, C.G. 1970,p.7) Another of c1874 shows a bellcote added to the gable. (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970, p.19) As with other mining areas with Cornish inhabitants, the Wesleyan Church had a strong following in Walhalla and so in 1877 a new church was built on the flat across Main Road on CA47. The old church, meanwhile, was purchased in late in 1877 by the Walhalla Masonic Lodge, which had been formed on 28 July, 1876 (Adams, 1980:59). The Lodge was first known as No. 1700, following English Constitution, but adopted Victorian Constitution in 1889 and became No. 69 (Walhalla Masonic Lodge interpretive sign). It was one of several lodges and friendly societies established in Walhalla in the nineteenth century (Adams, 1980:59). The Lodge improved and extended the building. By c1890, the south-east gabled wing has been added Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 18 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 and the original south-facing gable has been extended at a lower level, to the south, reaching the line of the new south-east wing: (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970, p.55) the bellcote and porch have gone. Between c1906-10 a further gabled wing was added to the south-west and the former south facing gable eventually removed to allow continuous ridge from one wing to the other. This last wing possesses an unusual dentilated fascia and appears to be of an earlier construction date. During the 1890s, a fence was built at the south boundary. Today, the Walhalla Masonic Lodge is the only one of the halls built by the various friendly societies to survive and is one of Australia's longest operating lodges (Walhalla Masonic Lodge interpretive sign). What is significant? Wesleyan Church, later Walhalla Masonic Hall includes the following contributory elements:           clear expression of its historic multistaged construction, while adhering generally to the steep-gabled, weatherboarded vernacular used for rural halls and churches; the north wing with its stone rubble footings indicating its great age; A new central four-panel door, presumably similar to the original; two six-pane windows on the south elevation, one on the east; architraves moulded, typically as for the 19th Century; added ridge vents; three new east side windows on the north wing, reduced in height from the original; one double-hung sash windows with multi-paned glazing on the east end of the south wing; An unsympathetic skillion extension on the west of the north wing that has blocked the other two original windows; Internally, hessian and paper has apparently been replaced with or covered by timber sheet (no inspection has been made). Paint colours have been altered, new nonmatching gutters and flashing added, corrugated iron replaced boarding on part of the wall, glazing painted over, the fence removed and sundry additions made. A metal service box has been added to south. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 19 How is it significant? Wesleyan Church, later Walhalla Masonic Hall significant historically, socially and aesthetically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Wesleyan Church, later Walhalla Masonic Hall is significant: Historically, part of the north wing of this building was Walhalla's first church and public building and remains its oldest building. The wing has regional historical importance as Gippsland's second Wesleyan Chapel, but it retains only its general external form and lacks period detail. Nevertheless, it is one of a small group of 1860s and older, timber public buildings, which includes Christ Church; Tarraville (1856), the Port Albert Wesleyan Chapel (1865), both being near to original. Also as one of Victoria's longest operating and most distinguished Masonic Lodges. (Criterion A) Socially, as a meeting place over a long period, for both groups and prominent on the town's skyline as landmark (Criterion G); Aesthetically It is prominently sited and has always been a landmark in the town from near its inception (Criterion E). Management:        . Extend Heritage Place controls to external paint control and reassess HO28 place description or mapped boundary; encourage repainting in original colours (sampled from 1866, or c1890 section) encourage repairing of cladding and spouting; inspect interior and consider extending Heritage Place controls to Internal Alteration Control in Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme; and reference as contributory and significant element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Figure 11 1970s view (James & Lee, 1970: 142) Figure 9 1875 view of church before sale to Masons in 1877 (detail Museum of Victoria) Figure 12 View from west 1983 showing dentilated barge of last addition (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) References: Survey Notes 2013: Doors on south elevation are new. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Figure 10 c1891 view with part added south wing (detail Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 image collection) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 20 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Newspapers: Gippsland Times (Vic.: 1861 - 1954) Monday 8 September 1879 Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: Register of the National Estate as part of "The Bandstand Group" Classified by the National Trust. Baw Baw Planning Scheme: Basic Controls Apply- No external paint control The annual installation of officers for the ensuing year, of the Walhalla Masonic Lodge, No. 1700, E.C , took place on Wednesday evening, the 3rd inst., at the Lodge Rooms, Walhalla. 'The ceremony was conducted by P.M. Bro. D. Thomas, assisted by P.M. Bro. R Thomson and visiting Bro. P.M. Walters. The following are the names of the officers elected : Bro. E. S. Gutteridge, WM.; Bro. W. J. Stitt, S.W; Bro. W. Callow, J.W.; Bro. H. Rosales, Treasurer ; Bro. B H. Gummow, Secretary; Bro. R. Pascoe, S.D.; Bro. J. M'Lachlan, J.D.; Bro. H. Locht, J.G. ; Bro. Anderson, Tyler. The business of the evening having been gone through, the WY.M., Bro, B. S. Gutteridge, on behalf of the members, presented P.M. D. Thomas with a very handsome Past Master's jewel and a purse of sovereigns; and P.M. R Thomson with a very handsome Past Master's jewel. After which the brethren adjourned to the as accustomed banquet, where the usual toasts were drunk, and a very pleasant evening passed. Walhalla Heritage & Development League 2000: plaque near site: c1898 image shows south wing addition Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013 Walhalla Masonic Lodge (Number 69) Unchanged and deteriorating… The first official meeting of the Walhalla Branch of the Freemasons was held in the Oddfellows Hall on July 26th 1876. This building was constructed in 1866 and was originally the Wesleyan Chapel. In 1878 it was purchased by the Freemasons who spent a further £176 on various modifications. Originally the Freemasons operated under the Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger English Constitution (Number 1700) but in 1889 adopted Victorian Constitution (Number 69). Many of the building's furniture and fittings date from the town's gold rush era. Lodge Number 69 is one of Australia's longest operating and most distinguished Lodges. Victorian Government Gazette Friday, May 12th 1871 Site for Wesleyan Place of Worship CA93C Site for Wesleyan minister's dwelling CA137A adjoining CA138A Hermes Heritage Database (Department of Infrastructure) Number 162191 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 21 CA93, 93A 1904 Margaret Jane Gerrard school mistress of Walhalla -Masonic Hall Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Read's house site, later known as Foley's Figure 13 View from east 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984), since demolished Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA 93C, SOUTH OF Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B04, S37 Crown Grantee: Crown Place type: house site Integrity to creation date? Poor Condition: Poor Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: George Read, foreman for the Long Tunnel Mine Co, Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Figure 14 Place boundary (pale blue) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 22      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): D Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of general heritage significance but which have little or no importance beyond the Walhalla area. (Of local importance.) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. The house is shown in a view of c1884 a s a simple gabled structure with verandah ( a s CA160). By c1890, the gable western wing has been added, but no bay window is shown. A verandah was on the west face of this addition and a picket or paling fence had defined the west boundary for some time . By c1895 the bay window had appeared, a gabled shed placed near the south-east corner with a sign 'Undertakers' painted on it and the house's western verandah replaced with a skillion. By c1899 an established garden existed on the south side, which was fenced, and a complex of out-buildings lay on the west of t h e house. (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970,pps. 39, 69, 70-1, 55, 84, 73-4, 140) What is significant? Terrace and rubble stone retaining wall in the hillside as former house site, south west of former Wesleyan Church. How is it significant? Contributory historical significance to Walhalla. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Why is it significant? Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Historically as the site of a former significant house in the town with potential to recreate the structure (Criterion A). Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: History Reputedly the house on this site was owned by George Read early this century. He was a carpenter by trade and worked as a foreman for the Long Tunnel Mine Co. Read was at Walhalla from at least c1895-1908. He also made some furniture for the Church of England and the Masonic Hall. A later occupier was a Mr. Neilson. (D. Hannan; Rate Books, Borough of Walhalla 1908-9; Walhalla Cemetery Register: George Read 1895, 1898, D1901) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 23 Management:   Reference site as contributory to Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8; reserve site for reconstruction as evidence allows (see Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 images of house and Graeme Butler collection) References: Survey Notes 2013: Vacant ground above creek, with stone edge terrace Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Read, who had it brought to Walhalla by train for repairs. (Criterion A) Read contemplates making the first trip when the new North road is completed to Beardmare's. in his up-to-date conveyance. The "Chronicle" is doubtful if any other members of the Council are eager to accompany him. The Horsham Times (Vic. : 1882 - 1954) Tuesday 11 January 1910 A remarkable piece of -workmanship in the shape of a sideboard constructed of Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 cedar and pine, and containing over 2,000,000 pieces, his been executed by Mr. George Read,' assistant engineer at the Long Tunnel mine, Walhalla. It is to be on view at the forthcoming A.N.A. Exhibition in Melbourne. Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: 1993 - Destroyed by fire Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Crown Land Site 11 Panel in fire station 2013: `Foleys' burnt down 24 Oct. 1993 Newspapers: The Maffra Spectator (Vic. : 1882 - 1920) Monday 11 November 1912 Dr Crooks, of Walhalla, accompanied by his son, was recently driving a motor buggy from Moe, and whilst negotiating a series of sharp turns on the Smile of Fortune track, between Gould and Moondarra, the vehicle came to grief. The turn out was so damaged that it had to be left on the road, whilst the occupants trudged the remainder of the distance to their destination. The buggy was subsequently purchased by (Criterion A) George Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 24 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Fire Station and Merryweather Manual Pump Fire Cart Figure 15 Fire station from north-east, 2013 Figure 16 From Horse Drawn Fire Cart place report by Context P/L 2011 (Baw Baw Shire) Location: Main Road, Walhalla Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 25 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B05 Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: D, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings which are contributory to the overall historic character of Walhalla, but which have no individual historic significance. (Contributory to a precinct) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme Figure 17 Place boundary B05 -pale blue, Heritage Overlay boundary HO20, 29 – red (Baw Baw Shire cadastral base) Crown Allotment: CA 41A, NORTH OF Crown Grantee: Crown Place type: Fire Station Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Country Fire Authority,     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? Yes Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO20, HO29 Estimated creation date(s): 1901-, c1945, 1992 apprx. Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elopment period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Figure 18 Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme Heritage overlay map 21 detail Heritage Overlay name: Museum (former Fire Station) Crown Site 12, Main Street, Walhalla and Horse Drawn Fire Cart Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 26 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 From 1901 the building has had varied uses, as a public hall and social dances. A fire in 1945 caused the reorganisation of the brigade and renovation of the engine house. Other reconstructions have taken place since. (.James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970, p 87). A photo from c1960 shows the building with the cladding missing from its east elevation and severe structural damage to the entire frame (Gallop 2010:23). The Walhalla Fire Brigade was deregistered in 1961 (Walhalla Fire Station interpretive sign). Figure 19 Walhalla aerial image 1980 shows station relative to cadastral survey The fire engine house has since been recreated to resemble its original 1901 form and further additions have been made. The building is currently used as a museum, housing objects such as the significant horse-drawn fire cart (HO29), a portable steam engine that gave water pressure to hoses and hose carts. The original bell that hung in the fire engine house was lost for many years, but has since been returned and is housed in the museum collection. What is significant? Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: The reconstruction of the former Walhalla Fire Station includes the following contributory elements:  Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: Fire Station History A Walhalla Volunteer Fire Brigade was formed in 1871 and attempts had been made to reform the fire brigade in 1882 and 1887, but it was the devastation fire of 1888 which inspired a meeting to form a volunteer brigade in early 1889. Their engine (steam pump) house was completed by September 1889 and sited in the old battery yard of the Long Tunnel Mine. The Long Tunnel Mine required use of the land, so the fire brigade were required to move (Gallop 2010:24). The brigade came under the Country Fire Authority by 1892 and seven years later commenced a new engine house on the present site which apparently was not completed until 1901. (Adams, J. 1980,pps. 71-2, 130-1) Mr P. Carey won the contract to construct the building on the current site in the centre of town, at a cost of £55 (Walhalla Fire Station interpretive sign). The current site, straddling Stringer's Creek, was apparently chosen due to a lack of land in the centre of town with main road access. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 27         Generally all fabric that promotes the external resemblance to the building of c1901 in scale and form, being gabled, weatherboard clad, and with a corrugated iron or steel roof; the unique siting of the 1901 building with heavy angle-braced supports over Stringers Creek; a main façade to Main Road with two double-door entrances, with symmetrical horizontal timber panelling. an east elevation with three double-hung, four-paned windows and a side-door with a small balustraded landing, over the creek. a west elevation with three evenly-spaced double-hung, four-paned windows; recent rear skillion extension in a sympathetic design; gable sign with three words 'Walhalla Fire Station' painted on the weatherboards and two wooden panels above each double-door; a corrugated iron clad gabled out-house to the north; stone retaining walls on the creek bank either side of the facade Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Internally, non contributory elements include new half-glazed, timber partitions have been constructed, dividing the interior to convert the space into a museum with a walkway and exhibition space. Floorboards run the length of the building. How is it significant? The reconstruction of the former Walhalla Fire Station is significant historically, aesthetically and socially to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? The reconstruction of the former Walhalla Fire Station is significant: Historically as symbolic of the building that housed the Walhalla Fire Brigade between 1901 and 1961 and as a now rare example of an early rural fire station that demonstrates the fire-fighting facilities available in Victoria at the beginning of the twentieth century. Also for its unusual siting over the creek reflecting the need for it to be located in a central location in town and have direct access to the main road despite the shortage of vacant land in Walhalla during its heyday, a fact that is not evident today (Criterion A) Socially, as a major public utility in the town over a long period, used for fire training and social purposes over time (Criterion G); Aesthetically for its uncommon and picturesque construction involving angle-braces, necessary for its unique location over the creek. (Criterion E) Management for fire station:     Clarify reconstruction status on interpretive panel (not built 1901, rebuilt or recreated c1992); apply external paint controls in Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme; restore changed fascia; and adjust Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme Heritage Overlay map 21 to correct boundary. Statement of Significance: Fire cart (Derived from Hermes Heritage Database) History Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 28 Built in 1903, the Merryweather manual pump fire cart was built to be horse-drawn or manually pulled. Locals report the fire cart was never towed by a horse during brigade operations, as the Walhalla Fire Brigade found their response time to be shorter if they instead pushed the pump to the site of the fire (Historic Walhalla, 'The Great Walhalla Fire Cart Trip of 1955', accessed 23/6/2011). This fire cart was a manual water pump that was operated by a group of firemen see-sawing the long horizontal, timber handles on each side. Two delivery hoses were connected to the outlets on each side of the cart, and a suction hose was connected to the back of the pump, which extended to the creek. This cart held no water itself (Walhalla Fire Cart interpretive sign) In 1955, the first Moomba festival made the call out for a horse-drawn fire cart and Walhalla was able to provide their museum object for use at the festivities. Draft horses and a groom were brought to Walhalla by Norm Cakebreak, a horse dealer from Frankston, and the journey from Walhalla to St Kilda began, commentated by on site announcers from 3DB radio show. Reaching Berwick on day three, it was decided that the cart, exhausted horses and crew were to be taken by truck the remainder of the way. However, it never appeared in the Moomba procession, after a shaft was broken whilst being towed by a tractor (Historic Walhalla, 'The Great Walhalla Fire Cart Trip of 1955', accessed 23/6/2011). The fire cart is part of the Fire Engine House Museum (HO20) collection, which includes a portable steam engine that gave water pressure to hoses and hose carts, as well as a number of early hose carts. Description The manual pump fire cart is a large, four-wheeled cart constructed of timber. Long handles are fastened to the main body of the cart, running the length on either side, and are able to double back at the rear. Above these are hooks to hang ladders on the body of the cart. There is a platform with bronze handles, behind a raised driver's seat. In early images of similar fire carts there are lanterns fitted to either side of the driver's sear, however there is no evidence of these. Apparatus connects the horse gear to the front wheels, underneath the driver's seat, however the full extension to attach the horse is missing. There are two hose connections on the sides and two at Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 the rear of the cart, near the valve box. A hose is exhibited with the fire cart but it is not known if this is original. of fire cart survive and it is of particular significance as an object associated with the former Fire Station, where it is housed. The cart has 'No. 15.' painted on each side at shoulder height, and '1903' painted on the body underneath the handles. Underneath the driver's footboard is a plaque with 'Merryweather, London' inscribed. At the rear, near an internal hose connection is another patent mark 'Merryweather Patent London', with similar in the centre of the four wheels. Also external, on the rear of the cart is a plaque, inscribed 'Merryweathers improved valve box patent No 4869, 1890' (dating the patent, not the year of construction). Socially, the fire cart is also remembered as an object associated with the revival in interest in the history of Walhalla when it was pulled by a draft horse from Walhalla to Berwick as part of Moomba celebrations in 1955. (Criteria A & G) The fire cart was restored by the Walhalla Heritage League in the 1980s (Walhalla Fire Cart interpretive sign) It has been painted in a scheme similar to the original detail. Traces of this painting detail are also evident on the portable steam engine, also in the museum collection, which has not been restored. References: Survey Notes 2013: Interior has display with Horse Drawn Fire Cart Walhalla `Merryweather Fire Cart No.15 (1903)'; also early image of a fire station with single door; Exterior reconstructed or recreated. Construction removed part of retaining wall from 1873. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Merryweather and Sons was established in 1690 and still operates today in England. They specialise in fire engines and exhibited at the 1862 London Exhibition. The catalogue read, for an earlier, but very similar fire cart: MERRYWEATHER and SON'S IMPROVED LONDON BRIGADE FIRE ENGINE, to be drawn by horses or men; with gun-metal pumps, pistons, and valves in separate valve- chambers; spherical copper air vessel, folding handles for 30 men, wrought-iron fore carriage, patent axles and springs, and delivery screws on both sides for 2 lines of hose. Fully equipped with suction-pipes, hose, branchpipes, jet-spreaders, wrenches, etc. (Grace's Guide, accessed July 2011). Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 What is significant? The Merryweather horse drawn fire cart, which is situated within the former Walhalla Fire Station, now the Museum, Main Road, Walhalla. How is it significant? Further references: The Merryweather horse drawn fire cart is of local historical significance to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? The fire cart is significant. Historically, as an original and rare example 1903 Merryweather fire cart. Few examples of this type Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 29 Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: Register of the National Estate as part of "The Bandstand Group'. Crown Land Site 12 State Library of Victoria Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Image: jc017001 1966: shows as rebuilt (2 windows per side, one entry door pair) before existing recreation. Baw Baw Planning Scheme: HO20, HO29 Basic Heritage Place controls James & Lee: 140-3: shows original and changed version- since reconstructed- central double doors. Old Walhalla 1963: Image shows central door, gabled weatherboard and corrugated iron roofing, also as seen in James        Walhalla Today 1975: 23 1974 fire station extensively renovated for use as public hall with a country style dance held in Spring; brigade won State championship in 1907 as nadir of career. Image shows similar form to c1945 rebuild with rear skillion.  Context 2006, Baw Baw Heritage Study Stage 1, Volume 1: Thematic Environmental History. Historic Walhalla, History http://www.walhalla.org.au/p3.htm Scott Gallop (2010), A Day in Walhalla, Traralgon. The Herald Sun. Walhalla Fire Brigade's Merryweather Fire Cart No. 15 (1903) interpretive sign on site, June 2011 Grace's Guide, The Best of British Engineering. 1750-1960s, http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/1862 _London_Exhibition:_Catalogue:_Class_VI II.:_Merryweather_and_Son (accessed July 2011). Walhalla Fire Brigade's Merryweather Fire Cart No. 15 (1903) interpretive sign on site, June 2011. Walhalla: Its People 1982: Illustration shows form as above Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: as c1945 version with 2 double-hung sash windows on each side wall, central double doors. Gallop, 2010: 23 Undated image shows station in very poor repair but form as seen above, central double doors. Walhalla Heritage & Development League 2000 Site Plaque Built 1901, Walhalla Volunteer Fire Brigade formed July 1871- registered March 11 1889. Bowden captain, original station in Long Tunnel Mine yard. P Carey uilt e isting at ₤ - over creek because of no vacant flat ground in central Walhalla- brigade deregistered 1961. Used as public hall and now museum - `fully restored in recent years.' Hermes Heritage Database (Department of Infrastructure) Number 162188 Fire Station Hermes Heritage Database (Department of Infrastructure) Number 162192: Horse Drawn Fire Cart Sources cited by Context Pty Ltd: Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 30 Figure 20 View from James & Lee:105 from c1906 showing original form State Library of Victoria Walhalla Fire Station [picture] 1903 similar form 1946 view shows similar to existing Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 1902. (Leo Black 1899 survey), State Library of Victoria: Not shown Figure 21 View from c1946 (State Library of Victoria) 1966. Collins, John T., 1907-2001, (photographer.) shows similar gabled weatherboard building on this site BUT with one door (now 2) , 2 windows on south side (now 3) - showing has been rebuilt. Figure 22 View from 1966 in rebuilt form after 1940s fire (State Library of Victoria) Forest Commission Survey 1963 Victorian Public Records Office: Shown Newspapers: Gippsland Times, Tuesday 4 July 1871 The necessity which exists in every town or borough for having always in readiness some means of extinguishing fire, should such unhappily break out, is thoroughly understood, although the people of Sale seem singularly callous on the subject. We have so often in these columns directed attention to our defencelessness against the ravages of fire, and we regret to say with little effect, that we are almost tired adverting to the matter. Figure 23 View from south 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) Resurvey of the Township of Walhalla (Black 1899) Photo-lithographed at the Department of Lands and Survey, Melbourne by T. F. McGauran printed Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 31 But the energetic action of our neighbours at Walhalla in preparing. themselves for the exigencies of-a fire, should, almost make us blush on, account of our sleepy inertness. The men of that stirring little place, not caring to be without the means of battling with, fire, and knowing very well that a blaze would ruin their place, have organised a fire brigade, and issued a complete code of laws and regulations for its order and Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 guidance, defining the duties of its various officers, so that it may become a drilled body of men as thoroughly, under discipline as a company of soldiers. In doing this the Walhallians have shown their sound sense, and consequently have outstripped the people of this borough, who, as has been said, think a special Providence protects them from a configuration. If a goodly slice of our town were burnt down, what a fuss there would then be to have a fire engine as much likely as about the boat for flood time... Monday 17 February 1890 re brigade: THE WALAHALLA VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE FANCY FAIR AND BAZAAR The above movement in aid of the local fire brigade was opened on Thursday after noon, 6th inst., with great edit. 'Mr. F. C. "Tricks, the shire president, per formed the opening ceremony, and, during the course of his remarks, alluded to the members of the brigade in very complimentary terms. He eulogised the spirit which had induced so many young me-' to come forward and form a brigade for the protection of the town, and for the noble efforts they had made on every occasion when called on to carry their colors to the front. He said that for many years the town had been left totally unprotected from the ravages of fire, and that too much could not be said in praise of those who had come for ward voluntarily to aid in controlling the fiery element. The ravages of that serious Walhalla fire of Nov. 24th, 1888, had brought the necessity of having some means of extinguishing fires very prominently before the public, and when the call to form a brigade was given out in Walhalla it was nobly responded to. A Mr Tricks also spoke in very eulogistic terms of Captain J. Alain land, and presented that gentleman with a uniform coat, suitable to his rank in the brigade, on behalf' of Mr W. Brine, one of our local tailors. The bazaar and fancy fair was held in the Oddfellow's Hall, Walhalla, on the 6th, 7th, and 8th inst. Entering the hall at 2 p.m. on Thursday, the appointed day and hour for the opening ceremony, a sight met my gaze which beggars description!; The first object to catch the eye was a beautifully executed design with the motto "ever ready, always willing" in white letters on a red ground., On the left hand side the stall was presided over by Mrs W. Cromb and Mrs P. H. Miles, and Miss B. Tainsh, and their assistants. Mrs R. H. Cowl who was to have taken a prominent part' in the management was unfortunately prevented from' attending through illness. The stall on the right was under the control of Mrs J. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 32 Renshaw and Miss F. Thomson, assisted by a number of young ladies. At the far end the refreshment stall groaning with its variety of creature comforts was under the supervision of Mrs C. Brockwell and Miss Martin, their assist ants. The stalls were loaded with nick necks of every description, useful and ornamental, at all prices; and tastefully arranged so as to captivate the eye, the beautiful colors blending in rich contrast, and in harmony with this brilliant display was the gay costumes of the ladies who had donned fancy dress for the occasion. It was truly a quaint sight to see the rough miner come in to see the bazaar with his billy in his hand and in his shirt sleeves just coming off shift, the dainty housewife out for the afternoon, the schoolboy returning from school, the visitors from other places all crowding in to see the sight, and mixing among them with smiling faces and bright dresses were the stall attendants each vieing with the other as to who would do the most business, and all going merrily as a marriage hell. Towards night the crowd thickens, and at 8 p.m. business in full swing and the hall is crowded every evening. Time and space will not permit of the particularising of the numerous articles exposed for sale, but the very greatest credit is due to all concerned for the excellent workmanship shown, and the tasteful manner in which the articles were displayed. Last but not least of all came the side shows " Zingari" the, Gipsy Queen being capitally portrayed by a local young lady, also Mr John T. Jones, artist, with his "Art Gallery" comprising numerous collection of works of art, and Mr F. Gerrard's and E. Featherby's grand prize distribution, all of which had an extensive patronage. The price of admission on the two last nights was sixpence, the first night being free. Each ticket holder was en titled to sixpence worth of anything he or she chose on presentation of the ticket, so that virtually there was no price for admission. Mrs R. Thomson was to have taken a prominent part in the management of one of the stalls, hut was prevented from doing so on account of an unfortunate buggy accident, in which Mr Ramsay Thomson was somewhat seriously injured, and which necessitated Mrs Thomson's absence from Walhalla, during the time fixed for the bazaar. Very great praise is due to all the ladies for the very energetic and persevering manner in which they carried out their respective parts. Warragul Guardian and Buln Buln and Narracan Shire Advocate 28 /4/1891 DISASTROUS FIRES. CONFLAGRATIONS AT BAIRNSDALE AND WALHALLA. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 ...A disastrous fire broke out at Walhalla on Saturday morning, whereby the State School was destroyed. Mr. Stewart, the head teacher, reports that everything was secure when he left at 6 o'clock on Friday night, and that he was awakened about 4 o'clock in the morning and found the school in a blaze from end to end. There were no fires alight in the school after about 10 o'clock in the morning; and strong suspicions are entertained that it is the work of an incendiary. All the records and about £20 worth of school prizes were burnt. The authorities are endeavouring to procure different tenements in the town, so that. the school, which has an average attendance of between 800 and 400, may be carried on during rebuilding. The destroyed building cost £2000. WALHALLA, Monday.-At a meeting this after noon, presided over by Mr. H. Hartrick, a strong bush fire brigade was formed. Mr. W. M. Chellew, chief officer of the Country Fire Brigade Board, explained the necessity for bush brigades. Mr.D. Ingle, Inspector of Forests, also spoke. The following officers were elected:-Captain, Mr G. Young; vice-captain, Mr. O. Kleeman; secretary, Mr. F. Ramus. Warragul Guardian and Buln Buln and Narracan Shire Advocate Friday 11 November 1892 The picturesque old time mining township of Walhalla... - in threatened by a huge bushfire today, and was saved only by the strenuous efforts of a large party of fire fighters. The Gippsland Fire Brigades' annual demonstration was held at Walhalla on Wednesday, with the following results :-Representative Fours.--Sale, 1; Walhalla, 2 etc. Warragul Guardian 24 March 1896 The Fire Brigade Demonstration. The trophy won by the members of the Walhalla Fire Brigade for Engine Practice for three men has been on view in Mr. Cowl's window during the past week. It consists of a double silver inkstand, with a representation of St. George standing over a dragon whilst above him is raised a glass bowl, the whole being valued at £4 4s. Three sets of very handsome carvers, in cases, accompany the trophy, and are intended for each of those who took part in the contest. The successful competitors were Messrs. Alf. Willis, Alf. West and J. Davidson, the time occupied being 21sec. `The Argus': Monday 11 February 1901 ...-A new fire station has been opened, and a s oke night in honour of the e ent was held… `The Argus': Wednesday 30 October 1912 Dedman's Walhalla Hotel of 24 rooms burnt …totally destroyed. Very old..burnt like match sticks. `The Argus': All present formed themselves into a committee. Messrs. Chellew and Ingle expressed appreciation of the meeting, and afterwards inspected the fire station. Recorder (Port Pirie, S.A.) Tuesday 26 January 1932 Fire swept down from the surrounding hills, and at one time all hope of saving the town was practically abandoned. Walhalla is set in the midst of bush country, and when the flames reached the hills all around the whole population of 400 turned out. HOSPITAL DAMAGED Despite their efforts, however, the fire reached the hospital and set alight to one corner of the building. Nurses rushed out and assisted in checking the blaze, but their efforts looked like being in vain until help came in the shape of carloads of volunteers from Erica, Moe, and Cooper's Creek. Firebreaks were burnt in a deep gully, and these prevented the progress of the flames. A later survey of the damage showed that railway bridges had been destroyed and the railway station had been burned..... ." Standard (Frankston, Vic.: 1939 - 1949) Thursday 19 June 1947 (Frankston Council) Cr. Firth said Baxter Fire Brigade wanted a bell. (Criterion A). Pratt said they should inquire about the bell on the unused fire station at Walhalla.-Application to be made to Bush Fire Authorities. Tuesday 8 February 1927 `The Argus': PREVENTING BUSH FIRES. Monday 8 December 1952 Brigade Formed at Walhalla. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 33 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 There's a spark in Walhalla’s ruin WALHALLA can die in a year or so, or it can live to be a splendid holiday play- ground. It is only a few miles farther from Moe, Yallourn, and Morwell than the Dandenongs are from Melbourne. And these three towns form the heart of Gippsland's rapidly developed and industrialised Latrobe Valley, which will, before "? long, become one of the most important rural parts of Victoria. Moe and Morwell have become dusty, ugly, closely populated "settlement" towns. A little imagination, courage, and action now could give them the escape their people need, and could save Walhalla from the creeping death that threatens Walhalla is still dazed and scarred from the deluge which almost killed it in June, and is fighting for life, with a mixture of optimism and pessimism. Six months ago phenomenal rains and earth slips slashed at the heart and beauty, of what then remained of this romantic old gold-mining town. The normally placid Stringer's Creek, jammed by washed-out rocks, gravel, soil, and logs, ran wildly through the base of the narrow valley, tore out the road, and left chaos from end to end of the town. (Pictured TWO of the five houses made derelict by the flood. Stringer's Creek ate under them, left them perched precariously. They've been abandoned, but there's still furniture and even a piano in the farther one.) Country Roads Board men and machines rebuilt the road and turned the creek back to something approximating its old course. The flood made derelicts of five houses, now abandoned. A handful of people left the town, reducing its population to 50, of whom only nine are youngsters at the fine little school. The hotel, which was destroyed by fire round Christmas, is a mess of tottering chimneys and rusted iron. No one is looking for gold except casually among the rubble the flood swept out of the mullock heaps. A few found promising specks in odd bits of quartz, but nothing that really mattered. Today, Walhalla's life depends on a sawmill using less than a score of men, on a handful of Country Roads Board men, and on the faith of a few who Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 34 believe that it can become an important tourist centre. It is sad, half-haunted, almost depressing yet the spark of a bright future glows in it. The West Melbourne Timber Co. Pty. Ltd., which runs the sawmill, intends to increase production, drawing its timber from a good stand hardwood in the hills beyond the town. The Country Roads Board has put the road to Walhalla in good condition, and says it will maintain that condition. Time should enable residents to remove the scars left by the flood and to clothe the place again in green. AND there is the colossal opportunity to make Walhalla a holiday resort-a national asset of beauty and historic interest. Perhaps supreme believer in this possibility is Mr. Allen Creighton, who is putting his money and , hard labor into expansion of his guest house. He sees Walhalla as the Dandenongs of midGippsland. With others, he sees hope in the wish of a group of Melbourne business men - interested in railways merely for the love of .railways-to reopen the narrow-gauge line between Erica and Walhalla. They have asked the Railways Department to let them clear the line and-use it. This dozen miles of track is probably the mast scenically perfect in all Victoria. The road is beautiful enough, but it runs high on the hilltops in the drier open growth, while the railway drops into the depths of the steep valleys, twists with the streams, and passes through the lush ferns and shrubs of the gullies. The bridges and rail track are in excellent condition except for encroaching undergrowth and a few small landslides. Rolling stock will be available. Open the line, and Victoria will have again one of the most fascinating sections of railway tracks it ever had. What little of historic Interest we have allowed to remain in Walhalla could be preserved - a trace of the old Long Tunnel mine, the bank strongroom, the lovely stone-faced embankments, the fire station that straddles the creek. A little imagination and help, perhaps some cutting of red tape, and a delightful place could be preserved for all time as a national asset. There could be more guest houses, weekend homes, and Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 a good camping area with a swimming-pool on the lines of the excellent reserve at Buchan. Why not? Walhalla is too good to lose. Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013 c1992: Major renovation – two 1950s side windows on north & south elevations replaced by three sympathetic replacements. Door & entry provided on north side wall in same place as original building. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 35 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Mountaineers' Brass Band Rotunda Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA62, South of Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B06 Crown Grantee: Crown: Permissive occupancy Place type: Bandstand Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Mountaineer Brass Band, Estimated creation date(s): 1896 Period representation: Figure 24 Place boundary B06 –pale blue, Heritage Overlay boundary- red (misallocated) The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):  Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 36 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013     Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of lesser historic or architectural significance, or important buildings which have been altered or modified from their original state. Of regional importance (Gippsland region). Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? Yes Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions Figure 25 Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme Heritage contribution or significance   Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: (Derived from Victorian Heritage Register) History The Walhalla Bandstand is a domed, timber structure, built in 1896. Designed by Frederick Meyer, of the photographic firm Langhorne and Meyer, the building became a focus for recreational activities in the Walhalla district soon after its construction. Images show that the rotunda was once accessed via a timber bridge from Main Road, opposite the Junction Hotel, as well as from the north side. What is significant? The bandstand includes the following contributory elements: B: Possession of uncommon rare or endangered aspects of our cultural or natural History  Heritage planning status:  Heritage Overlay number: HO3 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Bandstand, Main Road Walhalla Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes  iron-roofed cupola on an elevated and balustraded octagonal timber-framed platform a highly ornamental cupola finial, supported by scrolled brackets; a square timber framed base and stairway which has been largely rebuilt using steel and timber sections. How is it significant? The Walhalla Bandstand is of architectural, historical and social significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 37 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 The Walhalla Bandstand is significant. Architecturally, as an intact and outstanding example of a late Victorian rotunda (Criterion E). Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 The all-timber construction of the bandstand distinguishes it from other 19th century rotundas and the richness of its decoration, drawing on Germanic influences, results in the structure being of great architectural significance. The rotunda is now a relatively rare example of what was once a common building type (Criterion E, B). Historically, the timber rotunda is extraordinarily well-preserved, particularly in light of the dearth of other timber structures in the vicinity, and is amongst the oldest rotundas in the state (Criterion A). Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Management:   Reassess and revise Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme Heritage Overlay mapping to match existing fabric; Consider restoration of bridge to Main Road, as evidence allows. References: Survey Notes 2013: Reconstructed Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 38 Crown Land Site 17 James & Lee: 67, 84 Shortly afterwards (Nov 1895) the Mountaineer Brass Band offered a prize of £3.3~. for the best design for a rotunda. Mr F. Meyer, of the photographic firm of Langhorne and Meyer, was the successful competitor (Chronicle, 15 May 18g6), and by the end of June a tender for the sum of ₤ . s. d. Had een a epted for its ere tion. "When erected," the Chronicle remarked (3 July), "the Rotunda will be quite an ornament to the junction end of town, and it will be found that property in its immediate neighbourhood will not deteriorate in value as was anticipated by those who were opposed to the erection of the building. Completion was celebrated by a torchlight procession on the evening of 29 October, followed by a concert - in the Oddfellow’s Hall! Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 `.…. By it was a thri ing town, with , happy people living in houses which stretched along the two-mile long main street, and which perched high on the hill sides. It had a brewery, a vine- yard, schools, churches and 14 hotels. Until this week there still stood the rotunda where the town's famous Mountaineers Brass Band played; a fading tablet recorded a crumbling ruin as the strongroom of the Bank of Victoria, through which passed 72 tons of gold, valued, even at only £4 an ounce, at £10.000,000. The town's decline was as sudden as its rise, and within years it had become a ghost town.' Victorian Heritage Database: Victorian Heritage Register National Trust of Australia (Vic): Figure 26 From James & Lee: 135, c1910 File Number: B0766 State Library of Victoria Level of Significance: State Image c1901-5 shows a timber bridge from roadway to east side of rotunda as well as one from north side. Statement of Significance Group Statement of Significance: A group of structures of the late 19th century mining revival at Walhalla comprising the following: File Numbers B3552 Stone Retaining Wall, B3247 Wesleyan Church (former), B314 8 Fire Engine Shed & B3582 Bandstand Area Group Classified:19/12/1974 Town Buried by Landslide The Walhalla Bandstand is of historical and social significance for its association with community life in the Walhalla township and as a symbol of the prosperity and leisure once enjoyed by the townspeople. From the 1870s to the early 1910s, Walhalla was a wealthy gold mining town with a growing population, however by the 1920s the mines had ceased operating and Walhalla more closely resembled a ghost town. The Walhalla Bandstand was an important part of social and recreational life in the town's days of prosperity and it remains as a tangible reminder of the celebrated place of music in community life. The rotunda also has important associations with the Mountaineers Brass Band, a band which formed in 1885, and it describes the important role of voluntary bands within country townships. Of interest is the association with the artisan Frederick Meyer, a man who later became renowned as a designer of luxury yachts.' WALHALLA, once fabulous Gipps-land mining town, has been wiped out by landslides. Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: 2008 Major restoration. Figure 27 Detail from c1901-5 image (State Library of Victoria) Newspapers: Saturday 21 June 1952 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 39 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 St John's Church of England, later Anglican Church Location: Church Hill Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA 148 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B07 Crown Grantee: The Lord Bishop of Melbourne, 1872. Place type: Church Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Church of England, Anglican Church Estimated creation date(s): 1919 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):    Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 40 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013   Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: D, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings which are contributory to the overall historic character of Walhalla, but which have no individual historic significance. (Contributory to a precinct) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? Yes A church was constructed here in 1872-3 and consecrated in the name of St. John the Evangelist in 1878 after its opening in 1873 by Bishop Perry. (Adams, J, 1980,p.59) The Rev. G. W. Kelly was offered the role of first resident minister in 1873 but went to Rosedale. Instead the Rev A Brown was the first. A parsonage was erected on the Left Hand Branch in 1882, serving clergy such as Rev. J, Standrin from 1883-94, (Ibid pps. 78-9) and a picket fence enclosed the yard. However, with the sudden decline after 1913-14, St. Johns was removed to Wonthaggi and reerected there with a corner bell tower, replacing the bellcote at the gable apex. The Sunday School building was moved to Childers in 1917. Another smaller Anglican church was opened and dedicated in its place, in 1919 (Ibid p.114): being reputedly built with materials from the old parsonage, (National Trust File 2113; Lee C.G,(1957) although Canon Cox in the Church of Our Father states that the parsonage was removed to Thorpdale (see corner of Johnstone Street and Railway Road, Thorpdale). The old organ and two silver alms dishes dated 1887, reputedly remain. (ibid) Heritage criteria satisfied: What is significant? A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . St John's Church of England built in 1919 includes the following contributory elements externally: G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status:      Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct weatherboarded walls; corrugated iron or steel clad roof; simple, high gabled form typical in rural churches and halls; ornament in the form of Gothic pointedarch windows in the church front and side-walls and arrow head in the porch. strutted and gabled bellcote placed in parallel with the main gable. The interior includes the following contributory elements:      Internally beaded soft-wood lining boards placed horizontally and diagonally in the apse; pulpit, organ, oil lamps and general furnishings in keeping with the simplicity of the church design. Statement of Significance: History Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 41 The internal, originally lacquered lining has been painted and externally, new spouting, downpipes and concrete steps have been installed. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 How is it significant? Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963’ St John's Church of England significant historically, socially and aesthetically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? St John's Church of England is significant Historically and socially as near to its original creation state, at the end of Walhalla's main development phase, and symbolic and evocative of the former St. Johns that dominated the town over many decades. It has been a place of worship in the town over a long period.(Criterion A, G) Aesthetically, for its prominent siting and the archetypical general design commonly used in rural assembly buildings of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. (Criterion E) Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Management:    Fence the boundary with simple arrow head pickets; consider for individual Heritage Overlay with external paint and interior control as described above, given importance of interior in expressing the historic use; locate and archivally record former church buildings at Childers. References: Survey Notes 2013: Figure 29 Church interior 1984 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) Reinstated. Newspapers: Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Saturday 26 April 1873 It is pleasing to notice that the Bishop of Melbourne has mado provision for filling the vacant pulpits in the Church of England in Gippsland. During the last week the Rev. G.W. Kelly has preached at Toongabbie and Rosedale to large congregations. It is stated that he will proceed to Walhalla on his return, and eventually elect one of the above mentioned townships as the pla e where he will e per anently lo ated.…. Saturday 26 April 1873 Figure 28 Former church Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 42 The Rev. G. W. Kelly of Sunbury, preached at Toongabbie last Sunday morning to a congregation Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 many of whom had come a considerable distance to hear him, and again at St. Mark's Rosedale in the evening to a numerous assemblage of the residents about. Mr Kelly appears by his pulpit powers well suited to the district. It remains, however, for the district (seeing that be has also the choice of Bairnsdale and Walhalla), to come forward, and by its earnest endeavours in backing up the pecuniary position and efforts of the committee, enable that body to offer Mr Kelly a stipend worthy of his acceptance. There is plenty of room yet on the subscription list. 13 may 1873 (Rosedale) Things are looking tup in an Ecclesiastical point of view, the Church of England Committee have made a definite offer to the Rev. G. W. Kelly, of £230 per annum, and undertake to put the parsonage in complete repair. Tuesday 20 May 1873 The committee of the Walhalla Church of England have decided to offer the Rev. G.W . Kelly £280 per annu to e o e a resident inister… Tuesday 23 September 1873 Rev. A. Brown has arrived at Walhalla, as resident Church of England minister... The Yarragon, Trafalgar & Moe Settlement News (Vic. : 1902 - 1922) Thursday 29 May 1919 SHIRE OF NARRACAN, ENGINEER'S REPORT. Mr. A. W. D. Brown, engineer, reported as follows... Walhalla riding. I have inspected the new Church of England building at Walhalla and reported to the Board of Health that all their requirements have been complied with.-Board's consent received. (See also Victorian Public Records Office Health Department public building file) Walhalla Heritage & Development League 2000 Plaque The Rev. W.H. Cooper conducted Church of England services on the Stringer's Creek Goldfields as early as 1866. In 1872 land was acquired for a permanent place of worship. Considerable fundraising then followed to finance the construction of a building. In 1873 Peter Tainsh completed the church which was opened on April Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 43 6th of the same year by Bishop Perry. The Rev. A. Brown was appointed its first resident minister. Due to the decline of the town's population, the original church was relocated to Wonthaggi in 1918. The current, smaller church was built from materials from the dismantled vicarage soon after, and was opened in 1919. Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013 1988 - Stained glass window erected behind altar 1996 - Two coloured windows from the original St Johns returned from Wonthaggi when that church was demolished – placed on each side of western façade 2004 – Dry stone memorial wall erected Hermes Heritage Database (Department of Infrastructure) Number 32365 extract (Context 2011): ST MARKS CHURCH OF ENGLAND ...In 1922 Thorpdale and Walhalla were proclaimed one district and the old Walhalla vicarage was purchased and moved to a site at the corner of Johnstone Street and Railway Road (Thorpdale). Hermes Heritage Database (Department of Infrastructure) Number 32008 extract: ST STEPHENS CHURCH OF ENGLAND ...Following the demise of mining in the town (Walhalla), the Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian buildings were moved elsewhere. St John's Anglican Church building was moved to Wonthaggi, and replaced in Walhalla by a smaller building; its Sunday School building was moved to Childers in 1917. The Catholic Church was destroyed in the fire that swept the town in 1945 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Sabine's House Location: Church Hill Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA160 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B08 Crown Grantee: J.L. Sala 28/2/1982 Place type: House Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Unknown, Herbert Sabine, Clerk of Courts at Walhalla Estimated creation date(s): 1860s? (pre 1874); c1892-6 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 44 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of general heritage significance but which have little or no importance beyond the Walhalla area. (Of local importance.) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Walhalla Mechanics Institute and secretary to the Government Battery Trust after its erection at Walhalla in 1920. (Adams, J. 1980,p.119) Sabine left Walhalla and his miner's right occupation went to Mrs. Eileen O'Connor by 1936. Subsequent occupiers include Myrtle Maley, A. W. Tisdall, the columnist and author Keith Dunstan and finally the Spanish Vice-Consul, J .L. Sala, purchased the freehold in 1982. (P.O. File CP 105600) The gabled and verandahed section at the west end of the house is pictured in an 1874 view of Walhalla. A later view of 1887-8 shows the verandah valence and five posts, as exist: (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970,p.24, 34) a freestanding chimney is at the east end and a fine picket fence trims the embankment edge to the north of the house. A view of c1896 shows the eastern added bay which closes off the verandah: this wing was built c1892-6. This had a finialled gable and two large pane windows with Venetian blinds internally. Comparison may be made with identified timber cottages at Port Albert (Refer Butler, 1982, Port Albert Conservation Study, Building 39). What is significant? The Sabine house includes the following contributory elements:     weatherboarded cladding; two roof shapes (gable and transverse gable) each expressing a development stage and clad with corrugated iron or steel; a wide almost flat roofed verandah across the front with an original scalloped valence; and multi-pane Victorian-era windows, with associated window details such as architraves and hung sashes. Finials are missing; the verandah may have been rebuilt. The colours have changed and the verandah balustrade is gone as has the picket fence to the north. How is it significant? Statement of Significance: History This house was occupied and later owned by Herbert Sydenham Sabine, Clerk of Courts at Walhalla, from at least the 1890s to the 1930s; before that it was owned by Augusta Newton(RB, E.R., D. Hannan). Sabine was a trustee of the Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 45 The Sabine house is significant historically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? The Sabine house is significant: Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Historically as the residence of one of Walhalla's more distinguished public figures, Herbert Sabine, and other distinguished persons who were known on a State-wide basis. Also externally typical of Walhalla's nineteenth century construction form and construction sequence, of added gabled wings (Criterion A); Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Aesthetically the verandah valence is now rare but once was a typical, element from early timber construction in the State (Criterion E). Management:     Restore original north fence; record verandah construction as public restoration resource; research original owners and construction date; and reference as a significant and contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Further references: 1866 Directory Sabine, Herbert S clerk of courts at Walhalla State Library of Victoria References: 1887 view b22943: shows police station and church with house at rear with no gable Survey Notes 2013: Voters Roll 1884 well-preserved, colours sympathetic No Sabine or CA160 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Figure 30 View c1873 detail (Museum of Victoria, b22948) James & Lee: Front end paper (c1901- 1914) shows gabled east bay 24:1874 view shows west end of house- built before this date Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 46 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 1903 HS Sabine at Church Hill, Walhalla clerk of courts also Sarah Ellen as above HD 1936 HS Sabine at Church Hill, Walhalla clerk of courts also Catherine Frances, Walhalla, HD 1937 at 10 Greig St South Melbourne also Catherine Frances Rate Books Figure 31 James & Lee, 1970: 24 c1874 RB1907-8, 460 Herbert S Sabine, clerk of courts occ owner- Augusta Newton of Bright, house Chur h Hill ₤ RB1908-9, 448: Herbert Sabine clerk of courts occ owner- Augusta Newton of Bright, house Church Hill (no CA160) RB1928 no Sabine or O'Connor RB1935, 3016Sabine, C Trustee of Mechanics Institute 4 shops, CA28 Sabine, Herbert House CA , NAV ₤ House (White's) Land CAs 94, 95, 96a, 49, 64, 65, 140 RB1939, 3137- Herbert Sabine 35 St Vincents Place, Albert Park CAs94, 95, 96a, 49, 64, 65, 140 RB1939, 3086 Mrs Eileen O'Connor, 6 room house, Chur h Hill, ₤ State Library of Victoria Figure 32 James & Lee, 1970: 34 c1888: first stage of house 74: c1896 shows gabled east bay 105: c1906 shows gabled east bay 104: c1895 shows no gabled bay Victorian Public Records Office 1959 Parish Plan lot not shown 1881 survey plan shows lot but no grantee c1903 (b48247) image shows gabled east bay Newspapers: Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Monday 5 December 1892 Next issue Mr H Sabine of Walhalla gives 5s to Gippsland Hospital. See CP105600 The Maffra Spectator (Vic.: 1882 - 1920) Probate: Mrs Sarah Ellen Sabine d 31 May 1922 ₤1912 estate granted to HS Sabine, retired clerk of courts Births Deaths & Marriages Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950: Herbert Sydenham Sabine m. Victoria Mawbey in 1884 Death Index: Herbert Sydenham Sabine d at Albert Park 1947, aged 84, father Thomas Sabine, mother Elizabeth Kendall Electoral Rolls: Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 47 Thursday 18 June 1896 On Monday a five-bird pigeon sweep was shot off on the Walhalla recreation ground. Some good shooting was done, and G. T. Ryan (25yds) and H. Sabine (25yds) divided on five birds each. It is not a steadier to the nerves to climb the tortuous ascent leading to the ground, but no doubt shooters will become used to it in time. Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle (Vic. : 1882 - 1918) Tuesday 6 October 1896 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Another interesting discovery in connection with the development of gold mining in Gippsland is announced in a telegram from the mining registrar at Walhalla, Mr H. Sabine, in a telegram to the Minister of Mines. The North Long Tunnel Company at Walhalla has been working for three or four years to strike the reef which it was confidently believed traversed its lease, and about £60,000 was called up for that purpose. Now, according to the official intimation to Mr Foster, " Good gold-bearing stone was struck yesterday evening, estimated over ounce to ton." Mr Sabine adds, “Reef over foot same level." Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Monday 14 August 1911 `A Trip to Papua' Mr Gustavo Sabine, the chief Government surveyor, showed us an interesting map of the survey or the boundary line between our territory and German New Guinea , which was carried out by the Anglo-German Boundary Commission in 1909. Mr Sabine (who is a brother of the Clerk of Courts at Walhalla) was the British Commissioner, and is, I believe, the only Australian who ever took part in surveying and marking off an international boundary. `The Argus': Saturday 24 February 1923 WALHALLA. Miss Eileen Meehan has commenced duty as postmistress at Walhalla, in succession to Miss Seymour, who recently resigned, On February 13 Miss Frances Seymour was married to Mr. Herbert Sabine in the Roman Catholic. Church, by the Rev. Father O'Hara, of Cowwarr. SABINE. —On the 31st May, 1922, at Walhalla, Sarah Ellen, loving wife of Herbert Sabine, aged 54 years. At rest `The Argus': Tuesday 21 July 1931 LOST IN THE BUSH. Walhalla Women's Ordeal. WALHALLA, Monday. -Much anxiety was felt last night when two residents, Mesdames F. Jamieson and H. Sabine, failed to return home after a walk in the afternoon. They intended to return by Greenwood's track, but took the turning which led them to Deep Creek, eight miles from Walhalla. Darkness having fallen they decided to spend the night in the bush, and wait assistance. Several search parties were sent out, and at 2 o'clock this morning Messrs. G. Young, L. Burns, and N. Fordham discovered them. It was 6 o'clock before the party returned to Walhalla, when the fire bell was rung to acquaint the other parties of the discovery. Neither of the women suffered ill effects Thursday 14 January 1932 WALHALLA -Heavy rain fell on Saturday the first for more than three weeks. At the annual meeting of the Mechanics Institute the following officers, were elected -President, Mr H Hartrick secretary Mrs Sabine, treasurer Miss C Spett auditor, Miss Hannan committee. Mesdames Hartrick and Griffiths, Misses Hannan and Spett, Messrs Sabine and Seear. `The Argus': Friday 2 June 1922 p 3 Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013 DEATH. Unchanged. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 48 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Parry's property, later White's house, later Mill House Location: Church Hill Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA44B Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B09 Crown Grantee: C Parry 1885 (see also J Parry 1873 CA44A) Place type: House Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Mrs White?, Estimated creation date(s): 1896 after Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):     Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 49 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013  Post Second War (1940-)? No as a convenient residence close to the top level of her hotel. What is significant? Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: E, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): D Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings which are recognisable as being from a particular period in Walhalla's history , but lacking integrity and not contributive to the general character of the area. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No The house includes the following contributory elements:     original painted, horizontally weather-boarded walls, six-pane windows and a four-panel door of the east wing; architrave details evident from a later date; . roof is corrugated iron or steel clad and simply gabled; verandah that has been extended/rebuilt. A vertical boarded (originally stained now painted) inter-war addition placed on the west end which is not contributory. How is it significant? Parry's house is contributory historically to the Walhalla township precinct. Why is it significant? Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Heritage planning status: Historically, the house is contributory to the significant period of Walhalla as in part an identifiable remnant building from the nineteenth century (Criterion A). Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Management:  Conserve and enhance the eastern wing, with option to remove or replace the west addition to allow better expression of the earlier small wing. Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct References: Statement of Significance: Survey Notes 2013: History Stained boarding on west end wing has been painted sympathetic colours. New Victorian-era picket fence. Sited on land granted to the local Walhalla identity and Junction Hotel proprietor, Catherine Parry in 1885 and adjoining the lot purchased by Catherine's husband John in 1871, this house was later owned by a Mrs. White who was Mrs. Tunnecliffe's mother. (D. Hannan). The eastern part of the cottage is shown in views of c1896 onwards. (James G.F. and Lee, C.G. 1970,end papers, p.74) but may date from Parry's ownership Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 50 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Figure 33 James & Lee, 1970: endpaper detail, c1901st 14: shows 1 stage Walhalla Valley of Gold 68: pictured at rear of Herman Gloz image. Adams, Mountain Gold Catherine Parry (Mrs John) 53, 70; John Parry 53, 60 Mrs Parry, ran Grand Junction Hotel to 1890s, built mid 1860s at junction Electoral Rolls 1914 Isabella White HD Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Crown Land Site 18 Walhalla Parish Plan Only Parry lots shown. James & Lee 74: c1896 not shown Front end paper (c1901-14) - shows early gabled verandahed weatherboard cottage with a skillion brick chimney and two tanks abutting to the east end and a (metal?) chimney at the west end. Rate Books RB1907-8, 463 Isabella White, laundress, ownero upier house Chur h Hill ₤ also owns adjoining huts occupied by miners) RB1908-9, 463 Isabella White, laundress, ownero upier house Chur h Hill ₤5 RB1928, 2855 Herbert Sabine House Walhalla Town ₤ see elow- White's?) RB1935, 3016Sabine, Herbert House (White's) Newspapers: Traralgon Record and Morwell, Mirboo, Toongabbie, Heyfield, Tyers and Callignee Advertiser (Traralgon, Vic. : 1883 - 1886) Friday 12 June 1885 TOWN LOTS. to Walhalla, parish of Walhalla, county of Tanjil, at the sites of the improvements of H. Florance, James Mitchell, Catherine Parry, John Neil, Eugene O'Donnell, ...Upset price £2 per lot, charge for survey £1. Lot 1, area 6p, allotment Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 51 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 42s, valuation £60. Lot 2. ... allotment 42c, valuation £20. Lot 3, area 3 3-1op allotment 44B, valuation £100. Lot 4. area 13p, allotment 81A, aluation £ . Upset pri e £ per lot. .... Lot , … 114b, valuation £25, Lot 6 area £20 5-10p, allotment 114c, valuation £145... `The Argus': Tuesday 19 August 1890 THE Friends of JOHN and CATHERINE PARRY, of Walhalla, are respectfully invited to follow the remains of their beloved eldest Daughter, Mary Josephine (Pollie), to the place of interment, St. Kilda Cemetery. The funeral will leave the residence of her brotherin-law, Mr. G. A. Taylor, 19 Hotham-street, Windsor, THIS DAY (Tuesday, 19th inst.), at halfpast 2 o'clock. `The Argus': Thursday 26 March 1891 WALHALLA, WEDNESDAY. The man Harrington, who is charged with the murder of his wife on Sunday, was bailed out yesterday by Catherine Parry, of the Grand Junction Hotel, and John Newton Jacomb, of the Criterion Hotel, in the sum of £500 each, which the police approved of. Warragul Guardian and West Gippsland Advertiser (Warragul, Vic.: 1894) Tuesday 16 January 1894 TO HOTELKEEPERS!!! FOR POSITIVE SALE. THE GRAND JUNCTION HOTEL, WALHALLA. THE Proprietoress, Mrs. Catherine Parry who is retiring from business, has decided to offer for absolute Sale this valuable, old-established, and well-known hostelry, together with the good-will, furniture and fittings. Sto k to e taken at aluation.…. Traralgon Record (Traralgon, Vic. : 1886 - 1932) Tuesday 23 March 1897 A NOVEL APPLICATION.-- that was described by opposing council as a most unusual application was made to the Chief Justice in the Supreme Court last week when Catherine Parry, of Walhalla, widow, applied for an order that all proceedings in an action being brought against her by Henry George James, of Beaconsfield-parade, Albert Park, mining expert, for alleged breach of agreement, should be stayed for 12 months. Mr. M'Arthur, who appeared for the defendant, said that prior to the date in which the alleged cause Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 52 for action arose she had secured her passage for England by the P.and O. Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW: 1888 - 1954) Wednesday 6 December 1899 MELBOURNE, Wednesday Afternoon, Alice Fraed was committed for trial at the City Court. to-day on a charge of larceny by a trick of goods and money, valued at £100, from Catherine Parry, an elderly widow, formerly of Walhalla. Plaintiff is a wealthy woman, but illiterate. She told an extraordinary story to the court of how Fraed as a medium, while in a trance, caused the spirits of her deceased family to commune with her, and how the spirit of the Mother of God told her (Parry) to always pay the medium £1 per week to buy her clothing and furniture, and lastly to pay the passage of herself (witness), the medium, bar maid, and her son to England, America, and the Holy Land. Werribee Shire Banner (Vic. : 1911 - 1952) Thursday 18 September 1924 Land owned at Truganina, County of Bourke, Catherine Parry, of Walhalla, married woman, licensed victualler, is the registered proprietor. Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013 c2009 – Extension to eastern end to incorporate bathroom 1950s addition remains, now painted Unsympathetic Windsor picket fence & signage Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Gloz House, later Windsor House Location: East Branch Road, Walhalla Place type: House, boarding house Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B10 Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Johannes (John) Gloz, Hermand & Ethel Gloz Estimated creation date(s): 1890?, 1899 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Crown Allotment: CA66 Crown Grantee: CA 66, Johannes Gloz, 1867 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 53 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: A, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): A Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Reserved for buildings of major importance whose architectural intactness, quality of style is of very high standard; which represent significant stages in Walhalla' s development; or which have unusually strong social or historic associations. Of state-wide importance. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO7 Heritage Overlay name: Windsor House Right Hand Branch, Walhalla Figure 34 Heritage Overlay 7 on Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme map: Heritage Overlay 8 (Walhalla township) is marked as the adjoining block Heritage contribution or significance  Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 54  Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: (From Victorian Heritage Register) What is significant? Windsor House at Walhalla was built between 1890 and 1899 by Johannes Gloz, a stonemason who had emigrated from Switzerland in 1863, and his son Herman, a carpenter. Johannes was one of Walhalla's earliest residents. He worked in Walhalla as a miner before turning to brick-making and bricklaying. He purchased land on Stringers Creek at the eastern end of Walhalla, and had built two houses there by 1884, remnants of which probably still exist. In 1870 Gloz had planted a vineyard above these earlier residences, and made wine from the grapes, as well as selling some at local sporting events. The wine was stored in a cellar cut into the hillside at the rear of the house. Johannes and Herman built Windsor House themselves, and also built some of Walhalla's more prominent buildings, including the former hospital. Windsor house was built in two stages. The east end, of three bays with a temporary stair on the west side, covered at first by a skillion, was reputedly built in 1890, and the western half of the house was added in 1899. It is possible that the central stair hall at first remained open, with a gate where the front door is now. The bricks were made by Johannes and Herman at a site about a kilometre away from the house. Gloz faced the banks of the creek in front of the house with stone to protect it from erosion, and there was a footbridge leading across the creek to the house. From 1900, soon after its completion, until 1942 Windsor House was used as a boarding house. It was owned by the Gloz family until the 1970s. Windsor House is a symmetrical brick house of two storeys with an attic under the gable roof, which is covered with corrugated iron. This two-storey plus attic form is unusual for houses in Victoria, being more commonly associated with flour mills (for example Smeaton and Oxley mills), though it was used for some early houses in Tasmania (such as Fairfield at Cressy, 1852) and in South Australia (for example Woodhouse at Piccadilly, c1848). This form might be associated with Gloz's origins in Switzerland. On the front facade, each floor has three windows, two pane sashes with relieving arches over, each side of the central entrance. There is a brick string course at the storey level, Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 where it was probably intended that a balcony should be, though this was probably never built. The front door has an arched opening, though the 1 fanlight has been filled in . The plan is unusual: the ground floor is only one room deep, but the first floor is two rooms deep, and is built back against the hillside and over the cellar. The house had living rooms and a kitchen on the ground floor, nine small bedrooms for the family and guests on the first floor, and maids' rooms in the attic. The steep central stair appears to be of brick, and rises in one straight flight from a small landing inside the front door to the first floor. A remnant landscape of fruit trees (pears and figs), basket willows, a large Lombardy poplar and groundcovers of ivy and periwinkle survives, some of which might be original.   restore entry door case; revise Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme map HO21: Heritage Overlay 8 (Walhalla township) is marked as the adjoining block. References: Survey Notes 2013: Little changed since the 1980s except new door case with former mouldings removed or changed.. Construction date of house in dispute as are movements of Gloz family in Walhalla Valley of Gold. How is it significant? Windsor House at Walhalla is of architectural and historical significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? Windsor House at Walhalla is of architectural significance for its domestic building form which is unusual in Victoria. It has two-storeys and an attic under a gable roof, and the second storey is built back into the hillside, forms which might reflect the owners Swiss origins. It is also significant as the largest residence built in Walhalla's boom period, one of the few masonry houses, and one of only two now surviving, built in the town. (Criterion E) Windsor House at Walhalla is of historical significance as a reminder of its owner, builder and designer Johannes Gloz and his son Herman, who were of local importance as builders of some of the town's more prominent buildings and structures. It is historically significant as an unusual survivor of a late nineteenth century boarding house, a type of building once relatively common but now rare, and which reflects a way of life which has now disappeared. It is also historically significant as a reflection of the success of European immigrants to Victoria in the nineteenth century. (Criterion A) Management:   1 Remove added window hoods; research origins further to verify construction date and ownership; 2013- fanlight door, rebuilt. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 55 Figure 35 Door case as viewed in 1983, now changed or gone (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 ) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Figure 37 Image 1890s, detail (H90.161, State Library of Victoria) showing basket willows identified in 1983 (now gone) Further references: Figure 38 Image 1900s (67279, Museum of Victoria) Baw Baw Planning Scheme: Included on the Victorian Heritage Register under the Heritage Act 1995? Yes Ref No H326 Mapping (21HO) wrongly shows east wing as HO8 Victorian Heritage Database WINDSOR HOUSE Location RIGHT HAND BRANCH ROAD WALHALLA, BAW BAW SHIRE Figure 36 View from 1890s - first 1890 stage of house (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 collection) Victorian Heritage Register Number H0326 Heritage Overlay Number HO7 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 56 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: Notes: brick size 195x75x110mm explaining the door on the second floor. The attic contained two bedrooms used as accommodation for the maids. An extensive vineyard extended up the hill behind the building. The wine was stored in a cellar cut into solid rock at the rear of the ground floor. According to Gloz family history, the best seasonal yield was 900 bottles. After the gold era, Windsor House was operated as a boarding house until 1942, when the Gloz family left Walhalla. Since then it has been used as a museum, private `residence and guest house Figure 39 Image 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 ) showing dry stone wall to creek and poplar (now gone) Figure 41 Image 1971 (Museum of Victoria) Walhalla Valley of Gold Herman, 55, 68: Figure 40 Image 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 ) shows remains of rear skillion Classified by the National Trust - Register of the National Estate Walhalla Heritage & Development League 2000 Plaque 55-6: Cites diaries held by family and 22 newspaper articles by Charlie Gordon Lee (b. at Walhalla 1885) published in 1957 and used in Walhalla Hey Day: Herman arrived at Walhalla aged 5, John & son Herman then 9 built first part of Windsor House in 1878, 45000 bricks; Herman returned to Germany back to Walhalla aged 16then finished Windsor House using 45000 bricks. The foundation stone held coins and copy of the Walhalla Chronicle - held in 1957. Herman built most of the Guest House Hotel -still alive at Erica in 1957 (aged 88) told of locking up first prisoner at new Walhalla police station in 1878; vineyard on hill behind house, wine made in house. Windsor House (1890) Johannes Gloz came to Stringer's Creek in the 1860's, He was a stonemason and along with his stepson Herman, who was a carpenter, commenced Windsor House in 1890. An estimated 90,000 hand made bricks were used in its construction. The section of the house on the left was first built, hence the different coloured bricks. A verandah was planned but never built, Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 57 68: Herman pictured - builder of hospital 1909 and arrived at Walhalla with father in 1874 John 56, 155: `Jon Gloz' noticed fire at South Long Tunnel engine house on way to cemetery to dig grave. (Graeme Butler 2013 note: James & Lee p.104 say 1890 for construction) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Births Deaths & Marriages Johannes Gloz m.. Sophia 1875 (2864); m.. St Omer Ethel Dentry 1908 (she died 1949) Herrmann Gloz m.. Annie Rawson 1894 (3871), he died in 1960 aged 91 (b. 1869) Wuerttemberg, Germany Emigration Index about Hermann Gloz: born at Boeckingen 27 Apr 1869; application to emigrate Dec 1886 to Australia. Probate, VPRO Johannes Gloz d. June at Walhalla ₤ estate; Sophie widow, son Johannes (John) then 21 and a stoker by occupation CAs 16, 69, 138A, 149, 142 with one room timber house, with a roo ri k house ₤ alueall at Walhalla Rate Books 1908-9, 371 Johannes Gloz, mason, house & ineyards, CA ,₤ RB1939, 2926Annie Gloz (now Thos Talbot, Erica) of 68 Bruce St, West Coburg 84a 5d Moondarra; Ethel St C Gloz, Yallourn part 4d, Moondarra Hermand Gloz, Erica House 31 of 4 Erica town and allot John Gloz estate, Yallourn, 76a 4c Moondarra; 5 blocks 142-149, 67, 69, 138A; House 66 Walhalla T Gippsland Farmers Journal (Traralgon, Vic. : 1914 1918) Friday 4 December 1914 Quite a prominent feature in the recent building additions to Erica is the Union Church. This structure, which has been contributed to by all denominations. and is therefore for the use of all 'denominations, occupies a most commanding position on the hill hear the railway bridge. The site vas kindly given to the Methodist authorities by Mr. John Gloz, whilst the obtaining of the building and the erection was solely due to the energy and enterprise of Major Rigg, in charge of the Walhalla Methodist-district, The major was assisted in his efforts by subscriptions from persons representing all religious persuasions, the object being to- supply a much-needed .want in Erica, viz., at general place of worship. It has been wisely decided that as all have assisted in providing the building, it may be used for religious purposes by all, of whatever creed or persuasion Thursday 30 March 1933 Fatal Accident AT YALLOURN A fatal accident occurred at Yallourn, on Monday last, when John Gloz, 55 years of age, a well- known resident of Yallourn, was killed through being run down by a coal truck on the haulage trestle- way leading to the briquette factory. After being struck by the truck Gloz fell about 30ft to the ground. He was hurried to hospital but died shortly after being admitted. Deceased, who was an old pioneer of Walhalla, leaves a widow, son and two daughters. The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982) Newspapers: Wednesday 20 August 1969 Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) WALHALLA A peaceful place of ghosts Wednesday 5 April 1911 Deaths GLOZ.-On the 3rd April, at Walhalla. Victoria, William, beloved husband of Bertha Gloz, of Eastwood, aged 42 years. Saturday 6 April 1912 GLOZ. —In loving memory of our dear husband and father, Wilhelm Gloz, who died at Walhalla, April 8, 1911. Dearest father, so good and kind, Your equal we shall never find; Beloved in life, regretted gone. We humbly say, Thy will be done. —Inserted by his loving wife and children Morwell Advertiser (Morwell, Vic. : 1888 - 1954) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 58 `... In contrast, the old brick house standing almost flat against the mountain, and reached by a rickety little bridge across a now-dry creek, looks as if it will endure for ever, despite its neglected air. This house, I was told, was built of 90,000 hand-made bricks. The thought of such energy gave me a very healthy respect for those pioneers. The bricks, made by a Mr. Gloz and his son, have mellowed to a soft reddish pink. I could see the house with gay window awnings and a garden of bright flowers, the bridge repaired and repainted and making a welcome gate- way. My husband prised me away when I wondered if it would e for sale…' Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: 1990s – extensive renovation, now a guest house. Replica carpenters building erected on right hand branch at the time Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger Dealings 1949: Jack D Gloz of Yallourn, industrial chemist; Honor Evelyn St Omah Gloz of Yallourn, spinster; Ethel M Paynter of Neerim South Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 59 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Tainsh House Figure 42 Image shows earliest wing as hipped roof and verandahed cottage, 1890s gabled wing on north Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA85 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B11 Crown Grantee: Peter Tainsh, 1873 Place type: House Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Peter & Ellen Tainsh, Estimated creation date(s): 1872-3 apprx., 1890s Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):    Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 60 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013   Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C,D, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . B: Possession of uncommon rare or endangered aspects of our cultural or natural History Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Southern Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History Peter Tainsh, born in Perth Scotland and skilled as a carpenter, purchased this lot in July 1873, having travelled to Walhalla from Port Albert in c1870. (D. Hannah, Title Vol. 622, Fol. 260) Tainsh aided William Callow in the construction of Walhalla's first Anglican Church in 1872-3, prior to purchasing the lot (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970,p.25) and presumedly then constructed the first hipped-roof section of the above house for his wife Ellen and himself. Tainsh died five years later in 1878 and his window, who was a laundress in the town, was granted title to the house in 1890. She died in Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 61 1896 presumedly after having had constructed the gabled and hipped roof extension to the north and east sides of the original house, in place of skillions added progressively to the house since construction. Ellen's daughter, Mary, married Patrick Hannan, to die many years later in 1948. (Deed of Sale; Voters' Roll, Borough of Walhalla 1884; James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970,pps 67-8) The oldest section possessing a simple hip roof clad once with shingles and iron over, which covers two rooms. In 1984 the rafters were of saplings, whilst other framing timbers were pitsawn hardwood. Wall framing was of irregularly placed tenoned studs which hold split nogs or grounds for hessian and papering (now incomplete). External weatherboarding was of hardwood and fixed with large-headed nails. The doorway (then without a door) was full height and two unglazed windows were placed on either side. No spouting or verandah existed. The c1890-3 section was typically weatherboarded and timber framed, with window and door architraves, and possessed a corrugated iron-clad hipped and gabled roof. Spouting had been removed and replaced in part with a non sympathetic profile. One of the old skillions to the south was in bad repair. Originally, the first part possessed a verandah to the west side, supported on four slender duplex posts. The verandah roof was near flat and typical of other small cottages of the 1860-80's. The existing single-hung sashes appear to have been multi-paned and the front door, four-panelled. Balustrading along the verandah (vertical slats) appeared in a photograph from c1900. (James G. P. and Lee C.G. 1970,p.68) The second section once possessed a skillion roofed porch, supported on cast-iron posts with frieze work and balustrade attached, at the door on the north. (Photos held by D. Hannan) Split palings once encircled the yard on the west, and steps, cut into the hill, reached the flat near the present hotel. Similar examples exist at Port Albert from an earlier period (Refer Butler, 1982). Walhalla once consisted almost wholly of this type of cottage but, as a type, It is not represented in any numbers today. (Refer Crown Land Site 6) What is significant? Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 The Tainsh house, when observed in 1984 and 2013, includes the following contributory elements:    the first central wing, with a simply hipped roof, double-hung sash windows either side of a door, new timber framed skillion front verandah with paired posts, square-edge weatherboard wall cladding and corrugated iron or steel to the roof and a rebuilt brick chimney to the south end; weatherboard clad gabled wing addition to the north with rear hipped roof section, double-hung sash windows and convex verandah on the north end supported on Edwardian-era type turned posts; a gabled wing behind the central hipped roof wing, with rebuilt brick chimney on the east side.  reference as a significant and contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8 References: Survey Notes 2013: House renovated since 1980s with an unknown extent of renewal. Not obvious from within the Heritage Overlay Area - nearby former Police Reserve Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) The skillion roof additions made to the south are not contributory. How is it significant? The Tainsh house is significant historically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw and for its rarity in the Shire. Why is it significant? Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 The Tainsh house is significant: Historically, the first hipped roof section of this house as one of the few simple rural cottages surviving, of a verified construction date which , precedes the second boom period of the 1880's and thus shows the simple construction methods employed, prior to the establishment of saw mills and the importation of building materials. Walhalla's isolation prolonged this type of construction into the 1870's and 1880's (Criterion A). For its rarity, as Walhalla and other Gippsland rural settlements once consisted almost wholly of this type of cottage but, as a type, It is not represented in any numbers today (Criterion B). Further references: 1866 Directory Management:  Verify extent of renewal since 1984 and reassess as required; No Tainsh 1884 Voters Roll Ellen Tainsh laundress, house CA85 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 62 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black 1899 survey Shows lot as opposite former Police Reserve Rate Books RB1928, 2863 Frederick Tainsh, labourer, House Allot ₤ Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger CA85 last dealings 1890 Mrs Ellen Tainsh Walhalla , paid by Doreen Hannan Walhalla Birth: 1874 - Walhalla, Victoria Father's Name: Peter Tainsh Mother's Name: Ellen Brien Name: Peter Tainsh Age: 53 Father's Name: Alexander Mother's Name: Catherine Connely-whiles Registration Year: 1878 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1825 Name: Ellen Tainsh Birth: abt 1843 Death: 1896 - Walhalla, Victoria. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Births Deaths & Marriages Peter & Ellen Tainsh: Name: Alexander Tainsh Birth: 1855 - Alberton, Victoria Father's Name: Peter Tainsh Mother's Name: Ellen Doyle Name: Helen Tainsh Father's Name: Peter Tainsh Mother's Name: Helen Doyle Birth Place: Port Albert, Victoria Registration Year: 1856 Name: Daniel Tainsh Father's Name: Peter Tainsh Mother's Name: Hellen Doyal (sic) Birth Place: Port Albert, Victoria Registration Year: 1858 Name: Mary Tainsh Father's Name: Peter Tainsh Mother's Name: Ellen Brian Birth Place: Victoria, Victoria Registration Year: 1863 Name: Peter Tainsh Father's Name: Peter Tainsh Mother's Name: Ellen Brian Birth Place: Palmerston, Victoria (Port Albert) Registration Year: 1865 Name: Arthur Alexander Tainsh Father's Name: Peter Tainsh Mother's Name: Ellen Brian Birth Place: Port Albert, Victoria Registration Year: 1867 Name: Isabelle Tainsh Father's Name: Peter Tainsh Mother's Name: Ellen Brian Birth Place: Port Albert, Victoria Registration Year: 1869 Name: William Edward Tainsh Birth: 1871 - Walhalla, Victoria Father's Name: Peter Tainsh Mother's Name: Ellen Brien Name: Susan Ann Leves Tainsh Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 63 Figure 43 Thought to show first hipped roof stage of this house (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 collection) Figure 44 Image 1983 before renovations. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Figure 45 View 1983 interior: sapling rafters, shingle roof. Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: 2006 – significant renovations completed. After 2006 – ...prominent deck erected on south side Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 64 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Elliott's Bakery, Shop & Residence, later Shop & Residence Location: Main Road, Walhalla Historical associations with persons or events? Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B13 Major owners or occupiers: Richard Elliott, Estimated creation date(s): 1872Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading Crown Allotment: CA12, CA12A Crown Grantee: Part CA 12 W. Johns 1866, Part CA 12A, 12B, Richard Elliott 1873, 1876 (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C, Place type: Shop & residence Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Fair Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 65 Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of lesser historic or architectural significance or important buildings which have Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 been altered or modified from their original state. Of regional importance (Gippsland region). Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Richard Elliott was listed as a baker in Walhalla, for 1875: a previous directory of 1871-2 having placed him at Mt. Prospect as a carpenter. The present building appears in a photograph of c1870. (Bailliere's Directory 1875, 1871-2, James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970 p.25). Rate Books of 1908-9 list Richard's son, Alfred, as the occupier of a '...shop, house, baker's oven and stable', owned by Rosena Elliott and sited on CA12, 12A: Alfred was noted as a labourer, reputedly in the mines. (D. Hannan) The 1901 Wise Victorian Directory had listed both Mrs. E. Elliott and Alfred as bakers. What is significant? B: Possession of uncommon rare or endangered aspects of our cultural or natural history E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Southern Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History Stringer's Creek originally (1867) cut through this site and formed an ox-bow by its return to its present course between CA7 and 6. (Township of Walhalla, Parish Plan 27/1/67). Walhalla baker, Richard Elliott purchased this site 12/8/1872 and immediately took out a series of mortgages (1872, 1881) presumably to finance the new premises (Victorian Titles Office). Aged only 40 years, Richard died at Walhalla in 1886 with probate granted to James Clack a Walhalla carpenter (or miner) and Rhoda Bray (Richard's widow remarried) of Surrey Hills. The weatherboard shop and dwelling was described at his death along with a hut built on a miners right at the rear. By 1903 Rosena Elliott owned the property. Her death in 1936 meant that eventually, in 1971, probate was granted to Martin Elliott of Reservoir. In 1969 the CRB took part of the land for a road widening. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 66 The former Elliott's residence, shop and bake house ruin includes the following significant and contributory elements:            weatherboarded wall cladding, with an unusual and significant small ashlar pattern facing to north half of façade; one and an attic level form; timber framed front verandah, a corrugated iron or steel clad roof which possesses the typical steep gable roof for shingle cladding (of which some remained); six pane double-hung sash windows, modified; a rare and significant ogee-profile timber cover-moulding to the street verandah roof; rare and significant (reconstructed) a sixlight arcaded show window, generally six-pane window sashes and two four-panel entrance doors between pilasters, which mark the separation of the shop from the house; two skillions on the rear of the house and the stone; and brick and stone footings and walls of a baker's oven and housing to the rear or east of the house. Changes include: Until c1975, the building had been in disrepair such that renovation of it included:     replacement of the attic and most other window sashes, relining of the interior, reglazing of the show window and the removal of its original folding shutter. new verandah with period detailing (originally the verandah posts were of Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    symmetrical but uneven spacing, a segmental arching or bracketing existed on the bressumer between them and the verandah-end valence was not sawtooth); a concrete floor has been added to the verandah; a chimney has been removed from the north-facing roof and a number of outbuildings, plus a gabled cottage lay at the rear; and a paling fence and yard once lay to the north of the building, being CA 12B.    record shingling details, if they still survive; assess any remaining building and oven ruins at the rear; and reference as a significant and contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: How is it significant? The former Elliott's residence, shop and bake house ruin are significant historically and aesthetically to Gippsland, Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Generally unchanged since the 1980s, has stone and brick footings and walls of a baker's oven to the east, at rear Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Why is it significant? The former Elliott's residence, shop and bake house ruin are significant: Historically, as the earliest commercial building in Walhalla and the Baw Baw Shire and thus has survived the pre-boom, boom and post-boom periods of Walhalla’s de elop ent, the west elevation and shopfront being valuable examples of window joinery and as an unusual cladding type. It is one of a small number of surviving timber commercial buildings in the State built prior to 1880 (includes former Commercial Hotel, CA 3/A, Maldon c1867), and possessed a gabled attic distinctive shape seen in early commercial buildings such as Robert's iron store (demolished) on CA 24 and the Empire Hotel, soon to be replaced in Walhalla and the State by the typical parapeted commercial façade form (Criterion A). Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Aesthetically, with its gabled attic form - the shop and residence it presents as a picturesque and uncommon Victorian-era commercial building type (Criteria B, E). Management:     Repaint in original colours; fence boundary with picket or paling; consider rebuilding brick chimney and removing concrete verandah floor or `footpath' (replace with asphalt to match existing); record show window joinery details and ashlar-pattern cladding as public record; Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 67 Further references: Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla P.O. Search CA12 Vol/Fol 520/898: Phillip Henry Niles No.261419 19/5/1908 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 State Library of Victoria 1966 image shows derelict with basic form, no verandah, two 4 panel external doors but damaged windows, also brick chimney. 1980 image shows similar form and condition to today, with tea rooms `Live and Let Live' and souvenirs sign. Figure 46 Image 1870s, with chimney on south roof includes former Walhalla Hotel – both opposite Empress GMC leas and battery (State Library of Victoria) Figure 48 View 1966 –derelict (jc017006, State Library of Victoria) State Library of Victoria Image H82.201/27 Figure 49 View 1980: renovated (State Library of Victoria) Figure 47 Image 1949 (State Library of Victoria) Image a27824 1949: shows brick chimney on north roof face, looped verandah valence, fence, trees (cypress) Old shop and home, Walhalla Road, Walhalla [picture] Author/Creator: Victorian Railways, photographer. Date(s): Dec. 1949 Description: negative : flexible base ; 4 x 5 in. Identifier(s): Accession no(s) H91.330/2548 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 68 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Statement of real estate: CAs 12, 12A with weatherboard used as shop, bakehouse, storeroom and dwelling house. Long list of debtors and creditors. James & Lee, 1970 Images p.59 (1891) p.50 (1888) Figure 50 View of significant shopfront (rebuilt) 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) Victorian Titles Office Vol/Fol 520/898: Richard Elliott of Walhalla baker 12/8/1872 RE mortgage 1872, 1881 RE dies 28/8/1886 probate granted to James Clack Walhalla carpenter and Rhoda Bray of Surrey Hills, married 1903 Rose (x-out to Rosena) Elliott of Walhalla married woman owns property 1969 CRB take part for road widening 1936 Rosena Elliott dies- probate to Martin Elliott of Reservoir 1971 Victorian Public Records Office: probate Richard Elliott Oct 1886 ut with de ts of ₤ Frederick Tricks auctioneer, agent and valuer of Walhalla provides affidavit - has inspected the shop and buildings in Main Street Walhalla where the business was carried out, also the hut built by Elliott at the rear of the shop on land held under a Miners Right, along with flour, confectionary stocks groceries, furniture and effects in house Value: Shop and dwelling ₤ 1884 Voters Roll: no Elliott, no baker, no CA12A Rate Books: 1908 mortgage Estate value a large ₤ leaving ₤660 Figure 51 View 1891, with no chimney on south roof (James & Lee, 1970: 59) ; hut ₤ ;..Total ₤395 William Callow the younger, formerly of Walhalla now North Carlton also gives affidavit as witness of will 1878 along with miner James Clack. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 69 1907-8, 39 Alfred J Elliott baker (x-out to labourer) owned by Rosena Elliott, shop, house, bake house CAs , A ₤ 1908-9 also lists Richard's son, Alfred, as the occupier of a '...shop, house, baker's oven and stable', owned by Rosena Elliott and sited on CA12, l2A: National Trust Files FN2113, 753: cite `Walkabout' Sep.1963 Walhalla Heritage & Development League 2000 Plaque Elliott and family arrived at Walhalla c1865 as a miner, then baker opened the Live and Let Live bakery 1866, demolished for diversion of Stringers Creek. Family describe it as 6 ground floor rooms, 2 upstairs. Elliott died 1886, his wife and son Alfred carrying on the trade Alfred & Rosina Elliott had a family of 11. Insolvent 1896- skeleton in 1960s- restored in 1970s. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Newspapers: Gippsland Guardian (Vic : 1855 - 1868) Wednesday 26 June 1867 WALHALLA. POLICE COURT, Wednesday, June 19, (Before Mr H. Foster. P.M.) John Cain was charged by Richard Elliott, baker with selling beer without a license, on the 28th May last. Complainant said he paid 1s. 6d. for eer… Thursday 25 June 1868 WALHALLA. POLICE COURT, Richard Elliott, sworn deposed: I am a baker, and reside at Walhalla. I know the defendant. I remember the morning of the 13th June. I was inside and outside my own house. I lost some wood about 25 minutes-past 6 o'clock. I was watching the wood heap from 23 minutes to 6 to 25 minutes past 6. I saw Hain leave his own house and go to my wood heap. I saw him take a log of wood from the heap. The one produced is the same; he was carrying it in the direction of his own house. I at once caught him by the throat, and told him I had been looking for him for some time. When I told him the wood was mine, he said I must be a most suspicious man, and it was the first time he had taken any wood. I have missed wood on scores of o asions, and seen it in his the prisoner's yard… 17 September 1868 …On Wednesday e ening last the second anniversary dinner and ball of the Walhalla Court of Foresters was held at Host Yarra's Empire Hotel, The night was very wet, and no doubt prevented a Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 70 number, who were absent, from attending. Chief Ranger Brother J. D, Heywood occupied the chair, with Bro. Richard Elliott, S.W., as vice-chairman. On the chairman's right sat Henry Rosales, Esq chairman of the Miners' Benefit Society, supported by Alexander Bell, Esq, J.P., and Past Grand Ranger…Bro. Ri hard Elliott, in a short ut expressive address, proposed " The Sick and Distressed members of the order," which was drunk in silen e. … `The Argus': Monday 9 May 1870 JOHN BAXTER ELLIOTT (brother of Richard) , native of Hayes Common, in Kent, England, arrived In South Australia in the year 1861, since then has been on most of the Victorian gold-fields, last heard of at the Navarro diggings, near Avoca, Pyrenees Ranges. Anyone giving such information as will lead to the where abouts of the above will be rewarded by applying to Richard Elliott, baker. Walhalla `The Argus': Tuesday 7 September 1886 Deaths ELLIOTT.-On the 28th ult, at his residence, Walhalla, Richard Elliott, aged 40 `The Argus': 15 June 1889 Marriages. BRAY —ELLIOTT. —On the 14th ult., at the bride's residence, Walhalla, by the Rev. J. M'Bride, J. N. Bray to Rhoda, relict of the late Richard Elliott. Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: 2012 – concrete path constructed along front elevation to road Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Hospital, later Walhalla Pearson Memorial Hospital, later House Location: Church Hill Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA 143 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B14 Crown Grantee: Archibald McDonald, 1871 Place type: Hospital Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Walhalla Accident Cottage Hospital, Estimated creation date(s): 1909 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elopment period is c1863-c1915):   Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 71 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Planning precinct: Southern Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B Proposed heritage grading (A-D): A Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Reserved for buildings of major importance whose architectural intactness, quality of style is of very high standard; which represent significant stages in Walhalla’s de elop ent; or hich ha e unusually strong social or historic associations. Of state-wide importance. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? Yes Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. B: Possession of uncommon rare or endangered aspects of our cultural or natural history. E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO21 Heritage Overlay name: Former Walhalla Pearson Memorial Hospital Church Hill Road, Walhalla Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 72 The Walhalla Accident Cottage Hospital was the subject of fund raising in the late 1880s and in February 1891 it was reported that Mr A. Harris M.P. had been endeavouring to secure a special grant of 500 pounds from the Government toward a casualty hospital for Walhalla and intimated that the efforts had come 'to a successful termination, with the hon. treasurer having intimated that the sum of 300 pounds will be voted out of the sums set apart for charitable purposes. William Pearson, a grazier, donated the land of the current site and had the earlier hospital built in 1891. Opened in 1892, the hospital reportedly had a large hipped roof. In 1908 the building was replaced by a design from HV. and A. Champion, architects, and erected by Herman Gloz, a local builder who also built Windsor House. Costing £736, the hospital was opened Wednesday 12 May 1909 by Mr. A. Harris M.L.A. The sister in charge of the new hospital was a Miss Edith Giddings from Heidelberg - Her salary was 70 pounds per annum and quarters - while Dr. W. Collings Dawson was the consulting surgeon. By December it was reported that the hospital (by then open for six months) was 'doing good work' and the total cost of building and furniture of over 1,100 pounds had been almost paid in full by the building committee. In newspaper articles the hospital was variously referred to as the Walhalla Casualty Hospital, Walhalla Pearson Casualty Hospital or simply (and most commonly) as Walhalla Hospital. The opening of the new hospital in 1909 coincided with the long-awaited opening of the railway, but also the beginning of the decline of the town. The hospital continued at least until the 1920s, however, by that time it was treating few patients. As early as 1913 it was reported that there had been no patients for two months and by 1926 newspaper article about Bush Nursing hospitals reported that there had been no patients in the hospital for almost two years. The 1926 appeared to suggest that the location of the hospital may have been partly to blame noting that it was 'on top of a hill' and should an outpatient have 'bad legs' they would have to 'approach the hospital on horseback'. The article suggested that it would be better if the hospital was abandoned in favour of a Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 new bush nursing hospital to cover the whole district. Despite the decline in the town the hospital remained opened into the 1930s. A 1932 news report about bushfires threatening the town reported that fire fighters saved the hospital, which was occupied by Sister Duffield and one patient, who were removed to a 'place of safety' and a 1934 report recorded the annual meeting of the 'Walhalla District Hospital' at which various officer holders were re-elected. It appears the hospital closed soon after World War Two. It was purchased by the Culliver family and re-opened as a guest house known as 'Tree Tops' . In 2011, the former hospital is 'Walhalla's Federation House Bed & Breakfast'. What is significant? The former Walhalla Hospital or Pearson Memorial Hospital, to the extent of the 1909 Federation Bungalow style building, located on Church Hill Road, Walhalla, and includes the following contributory elements:        weatherboard clad asymmetrical form and layout; a picturesque roofline with tall chimneys, gabled and hipped roof forms, all clad in corrugated iron or steel; detailing of ridge and apex decoration. half-timbering and stained shingles in the gable ends; ornamental timber friezes in the verandah; curvilinear detail in the projecting porch; and window hoods over two windows to the south wing , evident in a 1909 photo. Alterations and additions to the building are few. How is it significant? The former Walhalla Hospital or Pearson Memorial Hospital is of historic, social, architectural and aesthetic significance to Walhalla, the Shire of Baw Baw and potentially Victoria. Why is it significant? The former Walhalla Hospital or Pearson Memorial Hospital is significant: Historically and socially, as a rare and very early example in Baw Baw Shire of a public hospital created with community and government support Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 73 and the need for a hospital in Walhalla due to its remoteness and the dangers associated with mine working. Public hospitals are only provided in larger or regional centres and so this building also provides a tangible reminder of the size of Walhalla at the time of its construction and the dangerous life of mining (Criteria A, G & B). Aesthetically, a fine and large example of the Federation Bungalow style, and for its landmark qualities as a prominent historic building overlooking the township. It makes an important contribution to the historic cultural landscape of Walhalla. (Criteria E) Management:      Assess for Victorian Heritage Register; apply external paint controls within the planning scheme Heritage Overlay schedule; remove paint from brick chimneys (and ridging if terracotta) by approved nonabrasive method; inspect and record/evaluate interior for Heritage Overlay control; and restore fences as seen in James & Lee, 1970: 122-3. References: Survey Notes 2013: Inspected from across the valley- appears still wellpreserved but in need or repair. Significant building era-type and location combination- given demolition of many similar places (Bungalow public hospitals) across the State. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (1890s building shown) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Figure 53 View c1910 (James & Lee, 1970: 122-3) Further references: Baw Baw Planning Scheme: Clause 43.01 Basic control only Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Figure 54 View c1910 (James & Lee, 1970: 122-3) Newspapers: `The Argus': Figure 52 View of verandah, 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) Hermes Heritage Database (DOI) 162189 (Context 2011): Name WALHALLA PEARSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, (FORMER), Address CHURCH HILL ROAD, WALHALLA James & Lee, 1970 HV. and A. CHAMPION, Architects, 87 Queen-street, Invite TENDERS for the CONSTRUCTION of the WALHALLA HOSPITAL. Tenders Close at the above address, at 12 noon on Monday, 12th April The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) Monday 6 July 1908 FIRE AT A HOSPITAL. INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED. Melbourne, July 5. Another fire occurred early on Saturday morning at the Walhalla Hospital. Captain Bessel!, of the local brigade, who lives close by, was first on the spot, and states that he found a stack of timber from the old building on fire. From the position of the fire and the timber, he believes it had been wilfully set on fire. The flames were soon extinguished. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 74 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 `The Argus': Tuesday 26 January 1932 Friday 31 December 1909 VICTORIAN TOWN MENACED BY BUSH FIRES DAY-LONG FIGHT Residents' Superhuman Efforts. TWO BUILDINGS AFIRE. Hospital Patient Rescued in Time. ... FLAMES 100 FEET HIGH. When flames 100 feet (30.480m) high leaped down to the hospital this morning it seemed that nothing could save it. The building is on a steep hill overlooking Walhalla, with only a narrow pathway as the nearest approach. "Before I realised there was a fire the flames were upon us," said Matron A. A. Duffield to-night. "In a moment the fire encircled the hospital', with the smoke so thick that it was difficult to see from one side of the big ward to the other. Fortunately I had only one patient. I immediately took him his clothes and valuables and then packed my own belongings. By this time about 20 men from the town had arrived to help us." WALHALLA - The Walhalla Hospital, which has been open for about six months, is doing good work. A the election of the committee, Councillor John Finlayson, the chairman, said that the hospital and furniture had cost over £1,100, and that the building committee was able to hand over the lot, with only £25 owing, after all accounts were in. All the retiring committee who sought reelection, were elected. Mr. James Barry was elected secretary, at a remuneration of £25 per annum. Dr. W. Collings Dawson is the hon. surgeon, and Sister Giddings, late of the Austin Hospital, the matron. Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Monday 15 September 1913 The Walhalla hospital has been empty for the past month or more, but this a record was broken on Thursday says the 'Chronicle' by the admission of two patients, one of whom is an elderly lady, Mrs. Warren, an old and well-known identity of Jubilee, Moondarra `The Argus': Wednesday 28 April 1926 BUSH NURSING. Unused Walhalla Hospital. That bush nursing hospitals shall in future be known as bush nursing inter- mediate hospitals was resolved at the monthly meeting of the Bush Nursing As- association at 105 Collins street yesterday. Lady Mitchell presided...In her report the superintendent (Sister Cameron said that at Walhalla there was a public hospital. This was on top of a hill and it was admitted that should an out patient have bad legs the patient would have to approach the hospital on horse back. There had been no patients in the hospital for nearly two years. It was considered that it would be better if the public hospital was abandoned and a bush nurse installed to cover the whole district. This would meet all the requirements of the district. The nearest doctor is at Moe, a distance of 26 miles. The inspector of charities (Mr. Love) will investigate and it is possible that further action will be taken by the association Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 75 The patient was William Hickey, a miner, wellknown in the district, who had been suffering from miner's' disease. Tho rescuers carried him 'down a steep path, the guard rail of which had already caught fire, to a hotel WOMEN'S HEROISM. Matron Duffield refused to leave. She set to work with others to save the hospital. At the Post Office there was another example of women's heroism. Here Miss Doreen Hannan remained at the switchboard, answering calls for help. Recorder (Port Pirie, SA: 1919 - 1954) Thursday 12 January 1939 EIGHTEEN KNOWN DEAD IN VICTORIAN FIRES... Walhalla Hospital, with ä raging Fire approaching it from the south, was evacuated early today, while all the available men in the town fought strenuously to keep the blaze back. Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954) Tuesday 18 July 1939 SERVICE CAR OVER EMBANKMENT Comes to Rest in Creek 200 Ft Below BOTH OCCUPANTS KILLED MELBOURNE, Monday. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Running over the edge of the road about a mile from Walhalla this afternoon, a service car crashed 200 feet (60.960m) down a steep embankment killing both its occupants. The victims were: William Butterworth, driver, of Warragul: and Mrs. Mavis Holden (36), of Erica. Buterworfh left Walhalla with Mrs. Holden as his passenger at 3.15 p.m., but when the car had not arrived at Erica at 0.1.1 p.m. a party of four men set out in search. About 8.30, near a slight bend in the road, they found tracks of the car where it had left the road. With both victims still inside, the car was found lying in a creek at the bottom of the embankment. The bodies were taken to Walhalla Hospital. Australian Architectural Index Alfred Champion, ARVIA Champion died 31.8.1913 Born 21.11.1873. Educated in Melbourne & articled to late Peter Matthews, left Vic during "depression" and worked in Perth and Fremantle, W A with Mr Talbot Hobbs and others. Upon returning, became partner with his brother, engineer H V Champion. Buildings include "Herald" building in Russell St; Malt store & Brewery, Carlton; Civil Service stores in Flinders St; Roycroft's Buildings; Massina's Warehouse & shops in Swanston St, and others. Royal Victorian Institute of Architects Journal Sept 1913 p 204 H V Champion Elected as Fellow of RVIA Royal Victorian Institute of Architects Journal March 1914, p 8 H.V. & Co. Champion. Contract let in 1908 for hospital, Walhalla. H. Gloz. Walhalla, £736.12.0. Building 15.12.1908, p 89 Victorian Heritage Database: HV & A Champion What is Significant? 'Alloa', constructed in 1908 and possibly designed by HV & A Champion, at 168 Hall Street, Spotswood. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 76 How is it Significant? 'Alloa' at 168 Hall Street, Spotswood is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay. Why is it Significant? Historically, it is significant for its strong associations with the development of industry in Spotswood as a house constructed for the Manager of the Melbourne Glass Bottle Works (later ACI), which became a major industry not only in Spotswood, but in a national context as well. (AHC criteria A4, D2 and H1) Aesthetically, it is significant as a superior and intact example of a Medieval Revival bungalow, a style that is rare in both Williamstown and the metropolitan area. As an early example, it illustrates the influence of this style upon later bungalow designs. (AHC criteria B2, E1 and F1) Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: ...now a residence, 2011 – reroofed in GI and chimneys rebuilt Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Bruni's Cottage, later Stone Cottage Location: Right Hand Branch Road, Walhalla Place type: house Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B15 Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Luigi Bruni?, Luigi & Mary Bruni Estimated creation date(s): 1870s? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining development period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: CA128 Crown Grantee: William James 1871 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 77      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of lesser historic or architectural significance or important buildings which have been altered or modified from their original state. Of regional importance (Gippsland region). Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History William James appears to have been an absentee owner of this lot but continued to be so for a long period (Bailliere's Directory 1875-80,1: No listings at Walhalla, 1866: no mention). The first available official owner-occupier is in 1908-9 when Antonio Bruni, a miner, was listed in Shire rate Books ; Bruni had died three years previously and William Bruni had succeeded him as owner. (Rate Books , Borough of Walhalla 19089, 379 and Walhalla Cemetery Register) William Bruni was to move to Wonthaggi when the mines closed in 1913. (D. Hannan). Before that, the first Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 78 recorded Bruni birth at Walhalla (Luigi and Mary) was Mary, born 1874. A photograph of c1890 shows this house in a far more populated context than today. (Photo held by D. Hannan) The photograph shows that a garden (vines) existed on the south side of the cottage, fenced off by a rubble wall (south) and a paling fence (west). The front wall stood about 1.2m from a well-defined gravelled road. Italian speaking Swiss and Italians settled in Australia during the gold rush of the 1850s and 1860s, with Swiss Italians initially settling around Daylesford in Victoria and Steiglitz. The Swiss settlers were from the canton of Ticino and in the southern part of Graubünden. The Italian settlers were predominantly from the northern Italian Regions of Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Liguria and Piemonte. By 1881, 947 (0.10% of the population) were in Victoria, of whom one-third were in Melbourne and the rest were in the goldfields. The Bruni family name can be traced back to Florence in the 12th century. The potential Italian ownership of the cottage may explain the construction form. Comparison can be made with Buildings 34, 31, 68 in Perrott Lyon Mathieson, City of Castlemaine Architectural and Historical Study and a similar stone miner's cottages identified in the Maldon Conservation Study and in the Swiss-Italian community at Ceres. Few if any rubble stone Victorian-era cottage examples exist in the region. What is significant? Bruni's cottage includes the following significant and contributory elements:       Significant coursed random rubble walls, laid to a face, with timber lintels over openings; simple corrugated iron clad gabled roof, with ogee gsi spouting remnants; openings framed in timber, the door jamb being lined through to an outside moulded architrave. originally six-pane hung sashes in the two symmetrically placed windows (removed). slim, three-paned toplight above the former four-panel door which has been removed and stone threshold; stone chimney base attached to the wall on the eastern side: the shaft has gone (capped); Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    stone chimney shaft on west side of cottage roof, base absorbed in wall construction; ledge & braced rear vertical boarded doors; and specimen of the shrub `Fuchsia magellenica' at the rear. on. Very large and mature Monterey pine to south has trailing upper level limb requiring attention. Rubble stone retaining wall to roadway south of cottage. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) How is it significant? Bruni's cottage is significant historically and aesthetically to Gippsland, Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Bruni's cottage is significant Historically, as one of the oldest group of cottages in Walhalla and the Shire, with a potential link to the Italian miner group that settled there (Criterion A); Aesthetically as one of two nineteenth century masonry houses in Walhalla and one of a few in Gippsland and, on a State-wide basis, as one of a small group of Victorian-era freestone rubble-wall houses with the walling near complete (Criterion E). Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Management:       Facilitate preserve and enhancement or at least security through identification of and contact with owner; Restore doors, windows, chimney and roof (Refer photo); Paint external joinery in original or sympathetic colours Delineate the frontage/allotment boundaries; Research origins, specifically the Italian Bruni connection and relationship with construction type; and reference as a significant and contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Generally unchanged since the 1980s except for increased vegetation: derelict condition. Corrugated iron over openings, with `15' sprayed Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 79 Further references: James & Lee, 1970: 140 View of right hand branch c1901-19 shows cottage group here, no pine? Walhalla Heritage & Development League 1999: Plaque on site image c1890: Cottage close to a formed and paved street leading around the righthand branch thro a cutting beside and behind Linga Longa to a group of houses rising up the hillside. Dedicated to Ida Wylie (nee Lennard) born on right-hand branch of Stringer Creek 29 sep 1899, died 5 may 1999, plaque unveiled 29 Sep 1999. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 State Library of Victoria Victorian Titles Office V483 Fol 96525 Grant ₤1/17/6d to William James of Walhalla Caveat lodged 1885 Transferred to Roger Grant Tonkin 1995 Title cancelled, (refers to application 74442x, CS60) Walhalla Heritage & Development League: panel near site Figure 55 Image c1935 (State Library of Victoria ) Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Figure 58 view c1890 used on panel (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 collection) Figure 56 rear view, 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) Planning Property Report From www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/planning James & Lee, 1970: 105 13 June 2013 Crown Description: Allot. 128 TOWNSHIP OF WALHALLA Address: RIGHT HAND BRANCH ROAD WALHALLA 3825 Local Government (Council): BAW BAW Council Property Number:3574 State Library of Victoria 1966 image shows in similar but better state than now with weatherboard skillion section better preserved, 4 panel door, ogee spouting, and double-hung sash windows. Newspapers: Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Figure 57 Image 1906 (detail) right-hand branch Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 80 Saturday 19 April 1873 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 In the Estate of William James, late of Port Albert, Commission Agent, deceased. Antonio Bruni marries Cath Spargo 1909 Victoria Mary Fran Bruni born 1909 Antonio & Cath Walhalla, Victoria. NOTICE. LEGAL proceedings will be taken to recover all debts due in the above estate, they are paid to the Undersigned on or before the 26th instant., EMMA JAMES, Executrix of the late William James, Port Albert. Victorian Public Records Office: Antonio Bruni, manager, of 206 Exhibition St, Melb. Dies 7 Apr 1905, widow Mary Bruni Thursday 13 February 1873 Probate: estate includes land small building Block at Steiglitz… ₤5 list of James' properties all at or National Estate Register Port Albert. `The Argus': Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: Remains in derelict condition, Mid 1990s – roof replaced Tuesday 27 July 1875 Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger IN the Will of DOMINICO RAGUIZZI, Deceased. CA128 payments by Peggy Smith Wrixon, Mt Eliza All persons having claims against the estate of Dominico Raguizzi, otherwise Delminiue Ragasel, late of Walhalla, Gipps Land, wood splitter, deceased, are requested to SEND IN PARTICULARS of SUCH CLAIMS, In writing to Mr. Henry Bradley, of Walhalla aforesaid, on or before the fifth day of August next, otherwise Pietro Bortino and Luigi Bruni, the executors under the said will, will proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased having regard only to such claims of which they shall then have had notice Dated this 22nd day of July, 1875 MACGREGOR, RAMSAY, and BRAHE, …Mel ourne proctors James & Lee: James: 558: William marries Emma Tame at Launceston, Tasmania 1857 Births, Deaths & Marriages: Bruni family: Mary Bruni born 1874 Luigi, Mary Walhalla, Victoria Carlo Bruni born 1877 Luigi, Mary Walhalla, Victoria Gugliino Bruni born 1879 Luigi, Mary Walhalla, Victoria Amella Bruni born 1881 Luigi, Mary Walhalla, Victoria Antonio Luigi Bruni born 1876 Luigi & Mary (Smith) Walhalla, Victoria Antonio Bruni marries Mary Jonas 1891 Victoria Jno Antonio Bruni born 1892 to Antonio, Mary Melbourne, Victoria Ernt Edwd Bruni 1894 Antonio, Mary Melbourne, Victoria Antonio Vincent Bruni born 1897 Antonio, Mary Melbourne, Victoria Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 81 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Hamilton's House, later Thomas house, later Linga Longa Location: Right Hand Branch Road, Walhalla Place type: house Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B16 Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: David Hamilton, David Hamilton, miner Estimated creation date(s): 1860s? (pre 1884) Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: CA158 Crown Grantee: David Hamilton, 1873 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 82      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 What is significant? Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: D, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings which are contributory to the overall historic character of Walhalla, but which have no individual historic significance. (Contributory to a precinct) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Hamilton's House, later Thomas house, includes the following contributory elements:      square edge weatherboard wall cladding, corrugated iron or steel, simply gabled roof, extended to a skillion at the rear; six-pane casement sashes survive on the front (south side) but the central door has been almost closed in as a highlight window; adverse skillion addition on the rear skillion, as shown in c1890 image;. and a significant rubble stone chimney on the west end. The house once possessed a verandah on the south side and rough picket fences once delineated the block and the pathway leading to the house from the south. How is it significant? Hamilton's House, later Thomas house, is significant historically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History The grantee David Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth (nee James) resided at Walhalla from 1869 at the latest and died there in 1908. (Cemetery Register) However, during 1884, miner, David Thomas occupied this house and owned it after 1886. He appears to have been at Walhalla until c1898. (Voters' Roll, Borough of Walhalla 1884; Walhalla Cemetery Register for Arthur Thomas) Blacksmith, Edward Smith, owned the property in 1907-8: he is said to have left for Wonthaggi when the mines closed c1913-14. (Rate Books , Borough of Walhalla 1908-9, 362 and D. Hannan) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 83 Hamilton's House, later Thomas house, is significant: Historically, as an early timber cottage built in the 1860s and, despite the loss of the front door and verandah, still evokes the typical house form of nineteenth century Walhalla (Criterion A). Management:     Repaint in original colours; delineate boundaries and former pathways (Refer James & Lee photographs); restore verandah and façade openings, as evidence allows; and reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Generally unchanged since the 1980s except for increased vegetation, part isolated group. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Significant stone chimney on west end but windows changed. 1908, 362 Edward Smith, blacksmith, ownero upier house CA ₤ Very large and mature Monterey pine to south has trailing upper level limb requiring attention. Walhalla Valley of Gold: 239, 245 Smith Births Deaths & Marriages Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) David & Elizabeth (nee James) Hamilton at Walhalla children: James William1869 Eveline b. 1870; Robert Alfred b. 1872 Anne 1873 Alice 1875 Catherine … National Trust File 2030 Photograph held by D. Hannan James & Lee, 1970: 140 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Further references: Figure 59 View of right hand branch c1901-8 shows cottage group here, no pine? 1866 Directory Newspapers: No Hamilton Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Saturday 12 February 1870 1884 voters Roll No Hamilton but miner, David Thomas had a house on CA158 (William Thomas lived on CA1) Rate Books 1907-, 372 Edward Smith, blacksmith, ownero upier house CA ₤ Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 84 WALHALL&. A magisterial enquiry was held before W. Gairdner and A. Bell, Esqrs., JPs., on Monday the 31st January, relative to the death of William Gibbons, who was drowned in Stringer's Creek on the 30th instant. David Hamilton, sworn, said: I am a miner and know the deceased William Gibbons. I have this day seen his body. I saw him last alive about a week ago. At half past six o'clock this morning, I saw the deceased lying in the creek, Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 face downwards in the middle of the stream. There were about three or four inches of water in the creek. I saw from the bank that the man was dead. I went for Mr John Heywood and we removed him. He was lying across the stream with his feet out of it...William Fuller gave evidence that Gibbons had been in his house and left, after staying about an hour and a half, slightly the worse for liquor. Dr McDonald in his evidence said it was his impression, from the fact of the deceased having a cut in his head that he had been stunned by the fall and rendered insensi le.…. Traralgon Record (Traralgon, Vic. : 1886 - 1932) Friday 30 October 1908 One of the oldest residents of Walhalla. Mr David Hamilton, died on Wednesday last at the age of 66 years. Mr Hamilton arrived there in the early sixties, and with the exception of an absence for some years was constantly in the employ of the Long Tunnel Company, as engine driver. Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: Unchanged. Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger CA158 last dealings 1886 David Thomas Walhalla paid by E.R. Clowes, Boronia Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 85 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Salmon's house Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA57 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B17 Crown Grantee: Walter Leitch, 1865 Place type: house Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Walter Leitch?, Henry Salmon Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 86 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: , Proposed heritage grading (A-D): Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: The present building, as part of a larger complex, appears in photographs c1894-6. (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970,pps 73-4, 109) By 1908-9, south of Loan's Star Brewery, with two brick chimneys on the north end. The house was occupied by William Hamilton, a miner, in the Edwardian-era but still owned by Elizabeth Salmon who was possibly Henry's daughter; a 'Mrs. Salmon' having died at Walhalla in 1900. (Rate Books , Borough of Walhalla 1908-9, 241;& Walhalla Cemetery Register) A Mrs. Elizabeth Salmon continued to be listed as a butcher in Victorian directories. What is significant? Salmon's house includes the following contributory elements:     a simple gabled corrugated-iron roof, walls clad with weatherboards, a timber framed verandah and symmetrical fenestration to the front wall vertical timber balusters encircle the verandah. A skillion roof has been added to one side, the chimneys removed, paint colours have changed and possibly the verandah rebuilt. How is it significant? North Residential Precinct Salmon's house contributory historically to Walhalla Township. Statement of Significance: Why is it significant? History Grantee Walter Leitch was listed as a miner at Hotham (1868-70) and known as a mine manager in the Walhalla field but was dead by 1876 (Births Deaths & Marriages; Bailliere's Directory 1868-70). He had married Marla Murray in 1865, the date of this Crown Grant, and soon they had a son Walter John Leitch who also died at Walhalla aged 20. Tasmanian born butcher, Henry Salmon, owned a house on this site and a slaughter yard, to the south (CA 58) in 1884. His shop was next to the Star Hotel (CA 51) (Voters' Roll, Borough of Walhalla 1884). He was listed at Walhalla as early as 1875, sharing the 1870s butchering trade in the town, with William Atkin. Salmon was also chairman of directors of the New Toombon Mine, the New Blue Jacket and a director of other companies. (Bailliere's Directory 1875; Adams, J. 1980?pps. 52, 69 & Sutherland, A 1882, p.383) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 87 Salmon's house is contributory. Historically, as a house that in part dates from Walhalla's boom mining period of the 1880s and was occupied by Henry Salmon, butcher. Its simple gabled form is typical of 19th century buildings in Walhalla and is thus contributory to the historic values in the town in form and materials (Criterion A). Management:   Make a closer inspection and reassess; and reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 References: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Survey Notes 2013: Obscured from public view, inspection required. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Figure 60 View 1983 Walhalla Valley of Gold: 87 H Salmon part committee to organise farewell to Frederick Tricks 1895. Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Figure 61 Aerial 1980 Walhalla Photomap Sheet 2 Newspapers: `The Argus': Further references: 1866 Directory No Leitch 1884 Voters Roll Neil Leitch miner house CA102 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 88 Saturday 13 December 1873 TRANSFER of LAND STATUTE.-Notice Is hereby given that the Deputy Commissioner of Titles Intends, at the expiration of fourteen clear days after the insertion of this advertisement in the Melbourne "Argus " and Walhalla Chronicle newspapers, to order that a transfer, subject to a mortgage to Messrs. Leitch, Anderson, and Heywood, be registered from JAMES YOUNG, of Walhalla county of Tangll, storekeeper, of the land described below, unless in the meantime some Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 person interested in such land shall show cause against such order being made. Dated this 27th day of October, 1873. ' C. LINDLEY PERRY, Assistant Registrar of Titles. ' LAND REFERRED TO Crown Allotment 62, In the parish of Walhalla, county of Tangll Traralgon Record (Traralgon, Vic. : 1886 - 1932) Friday 2 November 1894 Walter Leitch married Marla Murray 1865 Victoria Name: Walt Jno Leitch Death Place: Walhalla, Victoria Age: 20 Father's Name: Walter Mother's Name: Marla Murray Registration Year: 1887 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 4597 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1867 Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: Unchanged, now totally obscured by pest pittosporum trees AN OLD CLAIM. Some interesting particulars of a very old claim called the Boys' Reef, situated between Donnelly's Creek and the Bald Hills, were revived last week, through some excellent specimens having been brought into Walhalla by Mr. W. Clarke, of Maffra. The reef referred to was discovered by Mr. Jas. Porter, of Walhalla, about 27 years ago, when he was a boy only nine years of age, within a hundred yards of his father's house, then a wayside hotel for the accommodation of travellers between Donnelly's Creek and Seaton. Mr Porter, senr., who had two men prospecting in the ranges about the locality at the time was greatly astonished when the little fellow brought him some very rich quartz specimens one day and informed him where he had got them. Previous to this when the lad's parents resided at Castlemaine he had always displayed a youthful fondness for prospecting, and spent nearly all his spare time in searching for specks of gold amongst the alluvial washings. Work was shortly afterwards commenced on the reef and so promising were the prospects that Mr T. Y. Anderson, a gentleman well known to old Gippslanders, offered Mr Porter, senr., £3000 for a half share in the claim, which was not however accepted. Subsequently it was formed into a liability company. Mr Walter Leitch, long since deceased, being the mining manager, but before it had been worked to any great extent the reef pinched, and owing to the high rate of wages prevailing at that time and the heavy expenses entailed in packing and crushing, the show was a andoned… Births Deaths & Marriages, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Walter Leitch 7536:Walter Leitch: d1876, aged 47 (son of Walter & Catherine, nee McKay); also Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 89 Victorian Public Records Office: Permissive Occupancy Ledger Walhalla CA57 cites vol/fol 4693/572 consolidation with CA58 1960 Mrs Marjorie Roddick of Malvern Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Phillips house Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA 100,100A Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B18 Crown Grantee: J Emerson CA100 1867, JD Emerson (100A) 1870 (also 101 JD Emerson 1871) Place type: House Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: James D Emerson?, Charles Amor, John Eddy Phillips Estimated creation date(s): 1860s-, 1890s Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elopment period is c1863-c1915):   Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 90 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: D Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of general heritage significance but which have little or no importance beyond the Walhalla area. (Of local importance.) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct 1886. It was miner, John Phillips who was the first to be listed as occupying a house on CA100,101 in 1884 suggesting that he was renting before he acquired the place (1884 Voters' Roll). John Eddy Phillips had married Margaret Cigell (?) in 1882 and started a family that would keep growing into the 1890s, perhaps explaining the incremental growth of the house. The first stage of the house (north wing) is shown in images as early as c1869, with Walhalla identity and owner of the site in 1969 co-writing the classic reference `Walhalla Heyday' and publishing the image of it. CA101 (north of CA100) was owned by the well known but ill-fated mining surveyor Oliver P Whitelaw in 1890 who died in the Walhalla flood of 1891. It was inherited by his widow Frances O Whitelaw then of Windsor but she sold almost immediately to Henry Klein a Walhalla hairdresser in 1894. By 1900 William James Salmon, butcher started a long occupation of this site, dying at Walhalla 1948. In the Edwardian-era (1908-9) rate records list Margaret Phillips (fruiterer) as the owner of a house and shop and a house (part CA 100). Eugene Ahern, a teacher rented a house on CA 101 which was then owned by William Salmon (Rate Books , Borough of Walhalla 1908-9, 163f). Mrs. Margaret Phillips died at Walhalla in 1923. (Walhalla Cemetery Register, Bailliere's Directory 1901; cites Mrs. Margaret Phillips, fruiterer) The house is shown in photographs of the 1860s90s. (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970, pps 7, 73, 109; Walhalla Valley of Gold) and a view of c1909 shows a verandah on the west only. This has been extended since to the north side and possesses a vertical slatted balustrade which may be as original. The south bay window appears in the c1894 view What is significant? The Phillips house includes the following contributory and significant elements:  Statement of Significance: History The grantee for CAs100, 100A, 101 in the 1860s, James D Emerson, was listed in 1880-1 as a solicitor in Collins Street, Melbourne (Bailliere's Directory 1880-1). The allotments (and evidently buildings) went to Charles Amor, a Walhalla broker in 1883 with transfer of CA101 to Janet Richmond of Walhalla and CA100 to John Eddy Phillips in Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 91     two probable development stages, an early, simply double-gabled building placed against an asymmetrical gabled wing addition on the south; square-edge weatherboarded wall cladding; Victorian-era moulded architraves to openings, double-hung sash windows; corrugated iron or steel roofing; Stout stop-chamfered verandah posts, with timber slat or rod balusters Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    an unusually detailed window bay on the gabled wing with a significant heavy dentilated cornice, replacing a former single window, dentilated valence to the gable over, matching that of the former Wesleyan Church's (CA 93C) south-west wing (added c1906-10) and possibly the characteristic work of one of the local builders/ designers; and the south wing potentially once used as a shop. Originally this house abutted the footpath and roadway; fencing and the balustrade sealed off the lot along the street alignment. A non-contributory inter-war type wire fence has been added at the front and the former timber steps replaced. General colours (external) have been altered. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 How is it significant? The Phillips house is significant historically and aesthetically to Walhalla. Why is it significant? The Phillips house is significant Historically, the house and former shop date from pre 1868 and thus represent Walhalla's significant early gold period. Aesthetically, although generally typical of the simple house and shop construction of the 19th Century, the unusual timber ornament adds distinction Further references: Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger CA100, 101, 100A dealings: 1957 Charles Gordon Lee, East Malvern; also Arthur S Salmon Poowong butcher Management:    Inspect interior and evaluate/record Investigate restoration or delineation of street alignment; and reference as a significant and contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Changed little since the 1980s. It has a wire fabric front fence typical of the 1920s-30s. Pines cited in 1980s have gone. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 92 Title search: 100, 100A vol/fol 1782/367 and 1782/366 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Museum of Victoria Newspapers: `The Argus': Thursday 5 December 1867 THE ADMINISTRA TI ON OF J US TI CE AT DONNELLYS GREEK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS (long letter from James Daly Emerson, Solicitor Walhalla Nov. 28. About published but unjustified poor reflection on character of two local police magistrates, Mr Warden Foster and John Arabin, also a mine owner. Walhalla Valley of Gold Figure 62 View from 1868, detail, showing gabled south wing, with single window where bay now is (detail James & Lee: 7). Image 153506 from the c1868: shows similar configuration on this site, gabled south wing to verandahed north wing 77: Victorian-era image of house from James McNeill family collection (McNeill home was nearby CA103- see 1884 Voters Roll): shows gabled house (no gabled bay) with elevated front verandah, corrugated iron roof with timber gable flashing, distinctive dentilation to eaves and verandah valence. Stout stop-chamfered posts, timber slat or rod balusters and timber steps to arrow-head simple picket fence on road with pyramid top posts. Victorian Titles Office: derived from 1499/657: 1883 Charles Amor, broker, Walhalla has 100, 100A, 101 1886 transfers CA101 to Richmond CA101 Janet Richmond housekeeper Walhalla 1886 1890 Oliver P Whitelaw mining surveyor 1894 Frances O Whitelaw widow of Windsor 1894 Henry Klein of Walhalla hairdresser 1900 William James Salmon, butcher, Walhalla (d 1948) 1957 Arthur S Salmon, butcher, Poowong CA100 1883 Charles Amor, broker, Walhalla has 100, 100A, 101 1886 John Eddy Phillips 1969 Charles G Lee E Malvern retired CRB road widening 1970 1973 Jan Hanka 1988 Geoffrey Taylor Richmond etc. 1866 Directory No Phillips in Main St Figure 63 From McNeill collection (lived on adjacent block CA103). 1884 Voters' Roll: See W Phillips 223: John Eddy Phillips miner CAs 100, 101 house Wise Victorian P.O. Directory 1901 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 93 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Mrs Margaret Phillips fruiterer Rate Books 1907-8, 167 Margaret Phillips fruiterer ownero upier shop part CA ₤ 1907-8, 168 Margaret Phillips fruiterer ownero upier house part CA ₤ 1908-9, 162 Margaret Phillips fruiterer ownero upier shop part CA ₤ 1908-9, 163 Margaret Phillips fruiterer ownero upier house part CA ₤ Lydia Ann Phillips, left branch Margaret Phillips, left branch Samuel William Phillips miner, left branch (John Balfour Phillips miner lived on No 7 Tram way) 1914 Ada May Phillips, Walhalla Joseph Phillips, miner Walhalla Robert James Phillips, salesman, Walhalla Elizabeth Jane Phillips, left branch Lydia Ann Phillips, left branch Margaret Phillips, confectioner, left branch Samuel William Phillips dealer, left branch Births Deaths & Marriages Victorian Public Records Office Probate Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about John Eddy Phillips Name: John Eddy Phillips Spouse Name: Margaret Ccigell Marriage Place: Victoria Registration Place: Victoria Registration Year: 1882 Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about John Eddy Phillips Name: John Eddy Phillips Father's Name: John Eddy Phillips Mother's Name: Margaret Cinnll Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1885 Name: Francis Henry Phillips Father: John Eddy Phillips Birth: 1883 - Walhalla, Victoria Name: Robert James Phillips Father: John Eddy Phillips Birth: 1888 - Walhalla, Victoria Name: Marguerite Evelyn Phillips Father: Jno Eddy Phillips Birth: 1892 - Walhalla, Victoria Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Francis Hy Phillips Name: Francis Hy Phillips Death Place: Richmond, Victoria Age: 58 Father's Name: John Eddy Phillips Mother's Name: Margaret Counell Registration Year: 1941 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 11070 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1883 Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 for Phillips 1903 Elizabeth Jane Phillips, left branch Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 94 Margaret Phillips widow d 8 Sep 1923, will dated 1908 witnessed by agent Ernest Amor and W Dickman; executrix Margaret Evelyn Phillips of Offington in St Kilda Rd, spinster; ₤ estate including: block of land with 5 room weatherboard house and weatherboard shop of 2 rooms in Main St Walhalla title / , ₤ house, ₤ shop Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: 1990s - Secondary stand alone dwelling erected; Unsympathetic decoration placed on main house; Unsympathetic front gate House is clearly shown in the c1869 image (provided, see James & Lee: … Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Spetts house Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place type: House Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B19 Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Charles Spetts, miner, William Spetts, Caroline Spett Estimated creation date(s): 1872Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: CA99 Crown Grantee: William Callow, 1871 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 95      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of general heritage significance but which have little or no importance beyond the Walhalla area. (Of local importance.) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Swedish miner, Charles Spetts, married Eleanor Clack at Walhalla in 1869 so it is not surprising that Charles purchased this allotment from William Callow soon after, in 1871. Given the price paid for the property it is likely that Charles Spetts, a miner, was the first to own the first stage of this house in 1871-2 (WVOG: 115-, Rate Books , Borough of Walhalla 1908-9, 237 & D. Hannan) The Spetts family lived at Walhalla for many years to follow. Charles died there in 1890 and William Spetts Snr. in 1903. William Snr. died at Walhalla in 1937. (Walhalla Cemetery Register). The death of Caroline Spetts meant the loss of the last Spetts family member to live in Walhalla. Given the form of the house - the main verandahed section is potentially from 1872 and the gabled wing addition from c1900. In 19881990 a major renovation of the house led to the rubble chimney in the kitchen being rebuilt in brick (Spetts family). Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 What is significant? The Spetts house includes the following contributory elements:  Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History Grantee, William Callow was born in the Isle of Man (1823) and learnt the building trade in Liverpool. He came to Victoria in 1853, prospecting for gold until 1863 when he became a storekeeper at Cowarrarra. Eventually he came to Walhalla (c1866) and conducted a store and a building business: building the first Anglican Church, the second Wesleyan Chapel, the Mechanics Institute, the Oddfellow's Hall, the Empire and Star Hotels, plus buildings (as C Callow and Wood) on the first and second school sites. He also built seven shops (Refer CA's 17, 17A), which ·were later burnt (Sutherland, A., p. 369). William married Agnes Gibbons in 1872, yielding at least one son born at Walhalla, William Walter Callow in 1877. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 96      two construction stages, simple gabled roof verandahed first stage (c1872-) and the asymmetrically placed gabled bay (on the south) of c1890; a slatted verandah valence typical of c1915-20; six-pane window sashes; brick chimneys attached at the south and north ends; the walls clad with square-edge weatherboards; and the roof clad with corrugated iron or steel. Internally, reputedly, some wall-papering has been replaced and a fireplace sealed up. Timber mantels differ whilst the kitchen stove was set in a rubble stone chimney at the rear (rebuilt in brick c198890). The general colours and detailing have been changed. The photograph of c1905 indicate that part of what was an addition to the north-west has been removed and that the bridge over the creek leading to the house was similar to what now exists. How is it significant? Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 The Spetts house is significant historically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Why is it significant? The Spetts house is significant. Historically, of the simple gabled and verandahed wing may date from Walhalla's early period and thus may contain the primitive construction methods and materials once seen in the Tainsh house. The two stage construction seen in the house is typical of the typical main eras of construction activity in Walhalla and hence express its history (Criterion A). Further references: Management:   Make detailed inspection for verification of fabric date; reference as a significant contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Walhalla Heritage & Development League 2000 Plaque on site (WH&DL 2000) States built for the Swede, Spetts, and English wife Eleanor in the 1870s. Extended for family of 7. Had one of the finest gardens with an apple, pear, mulberry trees existing at 2000. Spetts family owned it to 1943 with Caroline staying there until her death June 1944. Restored since. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: Survey Notes 2013: Has picket fence at creek with bridge. Mulberry visible to south-east of house. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Figure 64 View 1983 from above showing poplars, since removed (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) Recorded by the National Trust Notes cite Dr Danman album (supplied by grand daughter in Deloraine): has Spetts Cottage as Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 97 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 `home of Dr Samuel Carver', taken by James Phillips. National Trust of Australia (Vic) FN2517: interior renovated 1962, 1972-, past owner Mrs B Pickering, Ballieres Directory 1875 William Callow, carpenter, storekeeper Walhalla 1880-1 William Callow, carpenter, storekeeper Walhalla Figure 66 View from 1980 (State Library of Victoria) Births Deaths & Marriages Voters Roll 1884 No Callow. No CA99 Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger CA17 dealings 1886: Wm Callow of Walhalla; 1887 Frederick Tricks of Walhalla; 1953: probate CA99 1871 Wm Callow of Walhalla - payed by C&N Edwards P.O. Walhalla State Library of Victoria Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about William Callow Name: William Callow Spouse Name: Agnes Gibbons Marriage Place: Victoria Registration Place: Victoria Registration Year: 1872 Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about William Walter Callow Name: William Walter Callow Father's Name: William Callow Mother's Name: Agnes Lysaght Gibbon Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1877 Registration number: 12184 Spetts: 1561 Charles William Spetts m Elleanor Clack 1869 5579 James William Spetts born 1870 to Charles William Spetts and mother's name: Eleanor Clack Hermes, No.67416 File note: 10/01/2013 One of only a dozen gold-era homes remaining. Built in 1871 with south wing constructed c.1910. Substantial garden with several original trees. Figure 65 View from c1966 (State Library of Victoria ) Newspapers: Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Tuesday 3 September 1867 WALHALLA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) POLIFCE COURT. AUGUST 28, 1867. (Before W. H. Foster, Esq., P.M., and W. Gairdner, Esq., J.P.) STEALING. Francis Fern was charged with stealing a watch and chain, the property of Theodore Burking- William Callow helped apprehend him. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 98 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Tuesday 21 September 1869 AUGUST MEYER V. WILLIAM COWARD. Goods sold and delivered, and money lent £23 10s 11d, building a house and extras thereto... Lay down thy burden on thy Saviour's breast; We love thee well, but Jesus loves thee best. Good night! good night! good night! Bendigonian (Bendigo, Vic. : 1914 - 1918) To Mr V. Smith. I admit the order, Mr Callow (as expert witness) is an experienced workman, I had the house built with the usual appurtences, such as a chimney, there was extra flooring, shingling, labour of carrying timber &c. the original contract was roof the house with bark, subsequently it was shingled. Thursday 16 September 1915 VICTORIA. KILLED IN ACTION. Pte. C. W. SPETTS, Walhlalla. Walhalla Valley of Gold William Callow, sworn: I reside at Walhalla, and am a carpenter by trade. Have had upwards of twelve years experience in building houses. Have examined the house. Have computed the difference as being equal to two days labor. A first rate carpenter earns 16s a per day. 30, 39, 115, 116 Cross-examined by Mr. Akehurst: Labor and material of the chimney is worth about £3. For labor only 23s 6d. There are only two rooms in the house one partition. I saw no window or doors. There are openings only. The blocks are laid, but there is no level. It is nine inches out of the level. Mr. Akehurst for the defendant, stated that the harges were fair and reasona le, … Charles Spetts born Beesby Sweden 1842, arrived in Victoria 1865 married Eleanor Clack (from Wiltshire England) at her parents house in Walhalla 1869, first child William 1872 - probable construction date Saturday 30 August 1873 MEDICAL. TENDERS are invited from Medical Gentlemen willing to-attend the members of three of the Friendly Societies at Walhalla. For particulars apply to - WILLIAM CALLOW; Jnr; Secretary ,Medical Committee, Walhalla. 17 Dec 1877 ODDFELLOWS' HALL CO. (LIMITED), WALHALLA. TENDERS are invited for excavating and making ADDITIONS and Alteration at the Oddfellows' Hall, Walhalla. Plans and specifications to be seen at Mr William Callow's, jun., Walhalla. Tenders to be sent in on or before Noon, 27th December, 1877, addressed to the Secretary, Walhalla. JAMES D. GORDON, 14th December, 1877. Secretary. `The Argus': Monday 21 September 1903 SPETTS.--On the 12th September, at her residence, Walhalla, Eleanor, relict of the late Chas. W. Spetts, aged 57 years. A colonist of 38 years. Sleep on, beloved, sleep, and take thy rest, Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 99 Grant for ₤ / / Callow died 1896 as Customs Night Watchman sold lot to Charles Spetts June ₤ / Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: 1869 – Charles and Eleanor Spetts married at Walhalla 1871 – Charles Spetts purchased the land from William Callow 1871/72 – Cottage built 1945 – Death of Caroline Spetts (last family member in Walhalla) 1988-1990 – Major renovation, rubble chimney in kitchen rebuilt in brick Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Tony (Antonio) Guatta's house Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA121K Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B20 Crown Grantee: Permissive occupancy File T102048 Place type: House Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Tony (Antonio) Guatta, Estimated creation date(s): 1934 (or 1942?) Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):   Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 100 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: E, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): D Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings which are recognisable as being from a particular period in Walhalla's history , but lacking integrity and not contributive to the general character of the area. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History This site was owned by contractor William Hoskin, from c1905 as part of a complex that included Barkley Square (see James G.F. and Lee C.G., 1970, p 113). The house was built by Antonia Guatta, either in c1942 (PO File HERITAGE OVERLAY 16527) or as the family believes, 1934. Later owners included S & R Barkley. (Parish Plan of Walhalla held by Lands Administration Dept., Department of Crown Lands and Survey, D. Hannan) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 101 The death of Tony (Antonio) Guatta's wife in 1933 brought the family to stay at Walhalla with sister, Mary, and Tony eventually builds this house. Tony was granted a miner's right in Oct 1933 (Mines Act 1928, no. 72486 cost 2/6d) for a site `opposite Clarke & Monette', with a 198' frontage and 80' depth. A Lands Department file note of 1944 recorded occupation of this site by Tony Guatta, with a new house built some two years ago (c1942). Then it was a 5 room weatherboard house, occupied by Antonio Guatta, with a Permissive Occupancy granted in 1944. In May 1960 the property was transferred to RW Reid of Warragul & Francis J Guatta (Tony's son) of Moe (Tony had married Eunice Reid) and October 1966 it was transferred to RW (Dick) Reid. By April of 1972 the property was described as: `old house, weatherboard clad and of 14 squares and 6 rooms, corrugated iron roof, lined internally with pine boards and plaster sheets; adjoining was an `old shed 12x12', with a corrugated iron roof and sapling frame (possibly the first hut on the site?). In July 1972 the improvements were sold to Mrs Julie Kotlin although by 1975 it was found the Kotlins had lived there for 8 years. In 1977 Kotlins the left for North Melbourne, with a Mrs McLean as the occupier in the 1980s.. The house was thought to have been built with the help of Alf Robson (chimney and fireplace) first as 2 rooms initially, followed by a 2 room rear addition and skillion. Second hand materials were used in the addition such as T&G lining, Tony Guatta Guatta family records have Antonio or Tony having been born 21 March 1899 and working at Traralgon in a carrying business, in Walhalla with W.B. Thorne, and at Coopers Creek in the lime kilns. He played football for Traralgon and Walhalla, winning a medal. He married Eunice Reid in 1923 and is thought to have purchased Leveridge's property north east of Walhalla and later a property once occupied by Ratcliffe closer to Walhalla. He also owned a house at CA40, 41A adjoining and at the rear of the Corner stores in the 1920s-30s (RB1925-39). Eunice died in 1933 meaning Tony moved with his family to Walhalla to live with his sister. He worked at the Walhalla mines during the inter-war revival of gold prices, also at the construction of the Maryvale pulp mills. He also worked around Walhalla as carpenter building most of his own house and the matron's cottage. He remarried in 1940 and after a time moved to Moe, dying in Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 1966. He was typical of those of Italian origin who stayed on in Walhalla after the significant gold extraction era, settling around the north end of town. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) What is significant? Tony Guatta's house includes the following contributory elements:          a simple gabled verandahed form; corrugated iron clad roof, with timber finial; weatherboarded cladding and timber framed construction; a skillion at the rear; a simple skillion profile timber framed verandah on the west and south sides with timber floor; red brick chimney with single corbel top attached on the north; double-hung two-pane sash windows; four panel front door, Victorian-era type, with toplight; and wire fabric front fence, probably as original to its construction in the interwar period. Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 There are mature fruit trees in the garden. How is it significant? Tony (Antonio) Guatta's house is contributory historically to Walhalla Township. Further references: Why is it significant? Walhalla Parish Plan Tony (Antonio) Guatta's house is contributory. Shown as CA121K with group file OP121062 Historically, for its link with the Guatta family who represent the strong Italian association with the northern end of Walhalla as well as symbolising the long pioneering role of Italians in the various stages of mining at the town. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Management:   repaint in original colours; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Changed little since 1980s. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 102 Crown Land Site 6 south Walhalla Land Status Report 1985 Permissive Occupancy located in permanent reserve of Stringers Creek. HO16527 Mrs J McLean (7) Lands Department Files: File HO16527 (held at Traralgon Land District offices) 1944 file note in department of illegal occupation by Tony Guatta, with new house built. Crown Land Inspector report March 1944: Site 150L x310L (99 feet or 30.175m x 205 feet or 62.362m) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Antonio Guatta occupier, 5Room weatherboard house, built 2 years Permissive Occupancy granted to Guatta 1944. May 1960 transfer to RW Reid of Warragul & Francis J Guatta of Moe October 1966 transfer to RW Reid April 1972: `old house, weatherboard 14 squares, 6 rooms, corrugated iron roof, lined internally with pine boards and plaster sheets; old shed 12x12', corrugated iron roof, sapling frame July 1972 improvements sold to Mrs Julie Kotlin 1975 Kotlins have lived there 8 years; 1977 Kotlins left for North Melbourne. Rate Books RB1907-8, 203 William Pratt tramway man ownero upier house CA ₤ -out to ₤ ? RB1908-9, 197 William Pratt tramway man ownero upier house CA ₤ -out to ₤ 2? RB1928 2841John (Giovanni) Guatta miner owner-occupier Walhalla town garden ₤ 2842John (Giovanni) Guatta miner owner-occupier Walhalla town House Crown land ₤8 2843 Tony Guatta labourer owner-occupier Walhalla town House CA40, 41A ₤5 (at Junction, Corner Stores) RB1935, 2831John (Giovanni) Guatta Walhalla town garden ₤2 2832 John (Giovanni) Guatta Walhalla town House Crown land ₤8 2833 Tony Guatta Walhalla town House CA40, 41A ₤5 (at Junction, Corner Stores) RB1939 2938 Frank Guatta Walhalla town House Crown Land ₤ 2939 Frank (John) Guatta Walhalla town House Allots Crown land ₤16 2840 Tony Guatta Walhalla town House CA40, 41A ₤15 (i.e.. at Junction, Corner Stores) 1946-7, 3540 Angelina Guatta (now c/o Mrs Monette, Erica P.O.) House & Allots Walhalla ₤ 3541 Antonio Guatta house CA40, 41A Walhalla ₤15 (note that Mrs Tony Guatta to pay) 3542 Charles Guatta (now High St, Regent) House Walhalla town ₤ Section 65 land Act: Walhalla Parish: CA105. William Hoskin, area 10a, situate about 3 miles from Post Office on Donnelly's Creek Rd Tuesday 11 October 1892 The visit of Mr. Bell, P.M., was anxiously looked for this week, as he was to give his decision in the case of W. Hoskins, who had applied for the cancellation of a residence area registered by Alfred Elliot, situate at Moondarra, above Stringer's Creek. The warden decided in favor of the applicant, and a mounted messenger raced off to the ground, where two men were in waiting to re-mark out the cancelled area. This being done the ground was registered in -the name of Wm. Rooke. Tuesday 14 July 1896 The Nugget.-In our last issue we notified that a nugget had been found within five miles of Walhalla. It now appears that it was discovered by Mr E. Amor in Stringer's Creek, about opposite Mr Hoskins' residence. Mr Amor had noticed it the previous day as he was riding past on horseback, but did not then trouble about it. Next day, however, he saw it again whilst going on his rounds, and on returning the same way he dismounted and picked it out of the wash. It weighed 7 ozs. 11 dwts (about 199g). Tuesday 2 March 1909 Another death occurred at Traralgon on Sunday, when Mr(s) Hoskins, of Walhalla, who had been staying with her daughter (Mrs Thompson) passed away. From what we learn the deceased lady had been ailing for some considerable time past, so that her death was not unexpected. The remains of deceased were yesterday taken to Walhalla to be interred there. The Maffra Spectator (Vic. : 1882 - 1920) Monday 19 March 1906 Traralgon Record (Traralgon, Vic. : 1886 - 1932) Friday 2 July 1886 Mr W. Hoskin, contractor, Walhalla, lost a valuable horse last week. The animal, one of a pair attached to a wood wagon. was being driven along the old road. The dray collided with the fence just opposite the Church of England, and the horse went down under the rails. In order to release the animal, the driver cut the harness, and the horse rolled down the hill into the creek and was killed. Land Board hearings on selections: Victorian Public Records Office: Probate Newspapers: Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 103 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 William Hoskin, pensioner, Walhalla who died March 1920 -applied for by Emily Thomson (daughter and Traralgon nurse) and William Pye. Estate: sale of ottage uilding ₤ , huts ₤ , furniture ₤ , pony ₤ , ank deposits ₤ ₤ Headstone to ost ₤ , ₤ distri uted to family members. . Mountain Heritage 101: Antonio or Tony Guatta b 21 March 1899. Worked at Traralgon in carrying business; in Walhalla with W Thorne, with horse dealing; worked at Coopers Creek lime kilns; played football for Traralgon, Walhalla - won a medal. 1923 m Eunice Reid purchased Leveridges property north east of Walhalla, later property occupied by Ratcliffe closer to Walhalla. Eunice dies 1933, Tony built this house. Worked at Walhalla mines, Maryvale pulp mills. Worked in Walhalla as carpenter building most of own house and the matron's cottage. 1940 m Sydney Knox and after a time moved to Moe. Sydney d 1965, Tony 1966. 135-6: Tony (Antonio) Guatta's wife dies- he brings two sons to stay with sister Mary and builds this house. Figure 68 From Dick Reid (1960s-1970s?) Quotes R (Dick) Reid as source of information including image (Reid had P.O. in the 1960s): granted a miner's right in Oct 1933 (Mines Act 1928, no. 72486 cost 2/6d)- site opposite Clarke & Monette, 198' frontage, 80' deep. States a week later Guatta issued with a `Certificate of Residence Area' or `Business Site'. Later became P.O. File T10204B - held by son until 1972. House built 1934 with help of Alf Robson for chimney and fireplace, 1st as 2 rooms for quick accommodation for boys2 room rear addition with skillion, 2nd hand materials, reused T&G lining, site former William Hoskin's foundry. Figure 67 Barkley Square and Guatta house c1937 Figure 69 Tony Guatta with horses, Aberfeldy c1920 (from Dick Reid) Win Guatta 2013 Win confirms the above. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 104 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: Unchanged. Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger CA121 1899 William B Thorne of Walhalla Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 105 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Hoskin's house, later Barkley Square Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place type: House Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B21 Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: William Hoskin, Peter & Rose Guatta Estimated creation date(s): 1860s? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Crown Allotment: CA 121J Crown Grantee: Permissive Occupancy File T102048 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 106 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of general heritage significance but which have little or no importance beyond the Walhalla area. (Of local importance.) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO30 Heritage Overlay name: Barkley S uare’ House Crown Site Partly on Stringer’s Creek Per anent Reserve, Walhalla Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: daughter and a Traralgon nurse, Emily Thomson, and William Pye. Then the cottage was valued at ₤ , with the adjoining huts worth ₤ ; furniture was alued at ₤ . Previously in 1909 his wife has died at her daughter's Traralgon house: she `...had been ailing for some considerable time past, so that her death was not unexpected'. She was taken to Walhalla to be interred. Earlier. In 1896 coach operator Ernest Amor discovered a gold nugget about opposite Mr Hoskins' residence. `Mr Amor had noticed it the previous day as he was riding past on horseback, but did not then trouble about it. Next day, however, he saw it again whilst going on his rounds, and on returning the same way he dismounted and picked it out of the wash. It weighed 7 ozs. 11 dwts. (about 199g)' When Peter John Guatta (q.v.) applied 4 April 1936 for a Residential Area Occupation for this site, with its 3 room house, he and his family had lived there for two years. In 1938 Peter applies for a transfer to Arthur Barkley, and by May 1940 Leslie Witt was leasing the cottage while mining in the area. Meanwhile Peter Guatta had built a house for his family on the adjoining lot to the south. Seven years after a transfer to Ursula E Witt of Glen Iris in 1944, a Crown Lands inspector found that the house was occupied by one Alan Reynolds. By April 1954 Ursula had transferred the house back to Sarah & Alex Barkley of Oxley Rd, Hawthorn. A detailed report on the place in June 1977 found that the cottage and lot overlapped the 1881 Permanent Reserve of Stringers Creek. The property included a cottage measuring 20x20' (6.0960m X 6.0960m), a 4'6" (1.3716m) front verandah; 4' (1.2m) deep rear verandah, cladding of weatherboard and corrugated iron; a sleep out to the south measuring 14’x13' (4.2672m x 3.9624m ) of weatherboard, corrugated iron and a shed at the rear of the sleep out measuring 11'x11' (3.3528m x 3.3528m). This is much as it is in 2013. History Reputedly, the contractor, William Hoskin, owned this house as part of a larger complex from, at the latest, c1908. Seear's foundry adjoined his property on the north. Thought to have been built on a Miner's Right in the 1870s, the house was on Crown Land and overlapped the 1881 Stringers Creek reserve (Victorian Public Records Office; Rate Books , Borough of Walhalla 1908-9, 208, D. Hannan) In 1920 William Hoskin, by then a Walhalla pensioner, died with his estate going to his Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 107 In March 1983 Andrew Stephens of Blackburn, stated that cottage was 110 years old and of historical significance. It was in good order but restumping was needed and demolition was a threat as it was on the creek reserve. Then there was a 1990 cut-off date for elimination of all Permissive Occupancies of Crown Land. What is significant? The Hoskin house, later Barkley Square includes the following contributory elements: Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013      a simply hipped corrugated iron clad roof; and 6-paned timber framed window sashes; originally, slim verandah posts with a slatted balustrade, since rebuilt; a skillion at the rear; and part of a brick chimney at one side, since rebuilt. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) The weatherboard and corrugated iron clad sleepout and shed are to the south. How is it significant? The Hoskin house, later Barkley Square is of local historic significance to Baw Baw Shire. Why is it significant? Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 The Hoskin house, later Barkley Square is significant: Historically, as one of the surviving miner's cottages from the early settlement period of Walhalla. While Walhalla once contained many of these types of cottages most have been removed or demolished and this is one of the few surviving examples and is thought to be among of the oldest surviving. (Criteria A and B) Management:   Investigate history further via Permissive Occupancy and Miners Right files and miners right files; reference as significant contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Crown Land Site 6 north References: Survey Notes 2013: Verandah rebuilt since 1980s - original detailing lost. Bird wire and star-post front fence. Tree ferns, Lombardy poplar as in the 1980s. Paling clad gabled hut or sleep out with red brick chimney to south, new chimney shaft to north on brick base, small 6-pane casement window on north side. Figure 70 Image from 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 108 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Newspapers: Traralgon Record (Traralgon, Vic. : 1886 - 1932) Friday 2 July 1886 Land Board hearings on selections: Section 65 land Act: Walhalla Parish: CA105. William Hoskin, area 10a, situate about 3 miles from Post Office on Donnelly's Creek Rd Figure 71 Detail from mid 1890s image showing north edge of cottage in bottom right-hand corner (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 ) Walhalla Land Status Report 1985 Permissive Occupancy File T102048 Mrs G Slater (site 6), located in permanent reserve of Stringers Creek. Victorian Public Records Office, Permissive Occupancy File T102048, see OP121062: Miners Right 16066 registered 6.2.1934 Peter John Guatta 20/2/1935-1 year site 200'x100' Application 4 April 1936 for Residential Area Occupation by Guatta, a labourer 3 room house, has lived there 2 years Inspectors report: 2 rooms plus a skillion on lot 100x150 May 1938 PJG applies to transfer to Arthur Barkley, (reference to his daughter as Mrs Strongman) May 1940 Leslie Witt leasing cottage while mining, seeks transfer from AB January 1943 house built on lot to south by PJ Guatta Feb 1944 LW transfer to Ursula E Witt of Glen iris Inspectors report April 1951: occupied by Alan Reynolds. April 1954 UEW transfer to Sarah Barkley (with Alex at of Oxley Rd, Hawthorn) June 1977 cottage and lot overlap 1881 Permanent Stringers Creek reserve: includes cottage 20x20', 4'6" verandah; 4' verandah at rear, weatherboard and corrugated iron; sleep out to south 14x13' weatherboard, corrugated iron Shed rear of sleep out 11'x11' March 1983: Andrew Stephens of Blackburn, states that cottage is 110 years old, and of historical significance, good order but restumping needed, demolition threat as on creek reserve. 1990 cut-off date for POs. Hermes Heritage Database (DOI), No. 162195 (Context Pty Ltd) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 109 Tuesday 11 October 1892 The visit of Mr. Bell, P.M., was anxiously looked for this week, as he was to give his decision in the case of W. Hoskins, who had applied for the cancellation of a residence area registered by Alfred Elliot, situate at Moondarra, above Stringer's Creek. The warden decided in favor of the applicant, and a mounted messenger raced off to the ground, where two men were in waiting to re-mark out the cancelled area. This being done the ground was registered in -the name of Wm. Rooke. Tuesday 14 July 1896 The Nugget.-In our last issue we notified that a nugget had been found within five miles of Walhalla. It now appears that it was discovered by Mr E. Amor in Stringer's Creek, about opposite Mr Hoskins' residence. Mr Amor had noticed it the previous day as he was riding past on horseback, but did not then trouble about it. Next day, however, he saw it again whilst going on his rounds, and on returning the same way he dismounted and picked it out of the wash. It weighed 7 ozs. 11 dwts. (about 199g) Tuesday 2 March 1909 Another death occurred at Traralgon on Sunday, when Mr(s) Hoskins, of Walhalla, who had been staying with her daughter (Mrs Thompson) passed away. From what we learn the deceased lady had been ailing for some considerable time past, so that her death was not unexpected. The remains of deceased were yesterday taken to Walhalla to be interred there. The Maffra Spectator (Vic. : 1882 - 1920) Monday 19 March 1906 Mr W. Hoskin, contractor, Walhalla, lost a valuable horse last week. The animal, one of a pair attached to a wood wagon. was being driven along the old road. The dray collided with the fence just opposite the Church of England, and the horse went down under the rails. In order to release the Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 animal, the driver cut the harness, and the horse rolled down the hill into the creek and was killed. Victorian Public Records Office: Probate William Hoskin, pensioner, Walhalla who died March 1920 -applied for by Emily Thomson (daughter and Traralgon nurse) and William Pye. Estate: sale of ottage uilding ₤ , huts ₤ , furniture ₤ , pony ₤ , ank deposits ₤ ₤ . Headstone to ost ₤ , ₤ distri uted to family members. Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Rate Books RB1907-8, 214 William Hoskin contractor, owneroccupier house, stable, hut, Main St and paddock A erfeldy ₤ 215 Thomas Gregory, miner, owner Hoskin, house Main St north ₤ (William Seer owner-occupier foundry `Foundry Co pany' adjoining ₤ ) RB1939, 29809: Arthur Barclay owner-occupier Walhalla house T(Ti er ₤ NAV Mountain Heritage 131: 1933 Peter & Rose Guatta moved here after marriage, had it renovated lined and papered (cream with rose motif), one bedroom, rear kitchen and adjoining long room used as bathroom & laundry, garden made to side, no room at back Figure 72 Jim Monette, members of Guatta family c1937 (from David Guatta) 132: William Hoskin had foundry adjoining; Guatta family members shown here in photo of c1937 from David Guatta. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 110 Figure 73 Barkley Square and Guatta house c1937 Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: Un hanged… Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Box's house, later George Francis Seear house, and Euroka Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA 146A Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B22 Crown Grantee: James BOX, 1871 Place type: House Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: James Box, William J. Seear; George Thomas Seear Estimated creation date(s): 1870s? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):   Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 111 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of general heritage significance but which have little or no importance beyond the Walhalla area. (Of local importance.) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Northern Gardens Precinct Statement of Significance: History James Box was an engineer and resident at Walhalla in c1875 (Bailliere's Directory 1875). His financial difficulties meant its sale to Archibald Allen of Brunswick St, Fitzroy iron merchant & John McDowall of Elizabeth St, Melbourne in 1873, followed by the Geelong investor David Mickle in 1882. Box shared a professional mining interest Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 112 with the next owner, George Francis Seear, a Walhalla miner who acquired the property in 1892 (Victorian Titles Office; Rate Books , Borough of Walhalla 1908-9, 207; D. Hannan; Paul Dow, current owner). George Francis Seear died 6 December 1948 and probate was granted 1958 to another well known Walhalla family member, Henry Robertson Hartrick, then of Vale St, Moe. The 1950s saw a number of owners until James B Drill of Richmond purchased it in 1961 but sold again to Robert Powers & Ralph Owen six years on. Paul & Margaret Dow and finally Paul had the house in the late 1970s-1980s until its sale to Ian & Ann Richardson 1988. George Francis Seear (known as Robin) George Francis Seear was born at Walhalla in 1871, one of 14 children born to George & Mary Seear. George F Seear worked at the LTGM battery from age 12 as a blanket man to eventually take on major roll in local events and groups, such as the Mechanics Institute, Improvement League, Cemetery Trust and Masonic Lodge also fire brigade, brass band, Foresters & Oddfellow Lodge, ANA and athletics. He gained an award from the King for community work. Robin Seear's family numbered 4 , Jean, Rex, Jessie, and Lionel, Lionel living at Walhalla with his family into the 1940s (WVOG). The house was photographed in c1906 sited above what appears to be the foundry complex (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970, p.113) and adjoining the Long Tunnel tramway. The house was mapped in the 1899 resurvey. (Resurvey of Township of Walhalla (CPO) L6571) What is significant? Box's house, later Robin Seear house includes the following significant and contributory elements:        a simple gabled and verandahed form; setting high on the hillside near the tramway and foundry sites; weatherboarded wall cladding and timber frame; corrugated iron clad roof; a skillion at the rear; a timber framed verandah on the east side; and significant details including a dentilated verandah fascia , a fretted frieze , and scrolled timber brackets on to the column capitals. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 A balustrade rail exists but no balustrading. Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 How is it significant? Box's house, later Robin Seear house is significant historically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Box's house, later Robin Seear house is significant Historically, as apparently from c1871, an externally near original miners house and thus typifying the once numerous, simply shaped houses and cottages in Walhalla's hey day. The fretted verandah valence and dentilation plus its elevated siting, distinguish it from other examples such as those on CA99 and CA57. The house also gains importance from its association with the nearby Walhalla Foundry site operated by George Seear, a necessary industry for a mining town (Criterion A). Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Management:    Restore balustrading further inspection would be required to verify age; Reference as significant contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Well-preserved, discreet but significant elevated site on tramway Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Figure 74 Image 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) 1866 Directory No Box 1884 Voters Roll No Box or CA146 Victorian Public Records Office: Probate George Thomas Seear, Walhalla carpenter. d 2 Mar 1910, widow Mary (nee Rowey) Property: freehold CA146A in Walhalla 1/4 acre, with a 5 room weatherboard and iron house- ₤60 (see site B22) Mary Ann Seear d 19 Aug 1908 at Hawthorn with executors including William James Seear of Walhalla - iron founder. Victorian Titles Office Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 113 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Archibald Park Allen of Brunswick St, Fitzroy iron merchant & John McDowall of Elizabeth St, Melb 14 Oct. 1873 Transfer to David Mickle 23 Oct 1882 David Mickle of Geelong purchases CA146A 23 October 1882 George Francis Seear, Walhalla miner, 13 July 1892 GF Seear d 6 December 1948: probate granted 25 Nov 1958 to Henry Robertson Hartrick of Vale St, Moe linesman; title cancelled, new title issued. Henry Robertson Hartrick of Vale St, Moe linesman to Percival John Sorge of Williamstown 25 Nov 1958 Ethel Chapman of Elsternwick 10 Dec 1958 James B Drill of Richmond 29 March 1961 Robert D Powers Glen Iris investment adviser & Ralph Owen Hawthorn 14 July 1967 Paul & Margaret Dow Brunswick 16 August 1978 Paul Dow of Walhalla 30 May 1984 Ian & Ann Richardson Mitcham 17 August 1988. Births Deaths & Marriages George Francis Seear, d 1948 at Warragul aged 77, Son of George T Seear & Mary Ann Rowie, married 1869 (See also Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Mary Seear, d 1928 (68). father Jno Singleton) William Ernest Albert Seear b at Walhalla 1869 son of George and Mary (nee Bowie or Rowie?) Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about William Ernest Albert Seear Name: William Ernest Albert Seear Father's Name: George Seear Mother's Name: Mary Bowie Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1869 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 19110 Name: Walter Fairhurst Seear Father's Name: Geo Thos Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1873 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 6051 Name: Frederick Arthur Seear Father's Name: George Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1874 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 5763 Name: Frances Georgina Seear Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 114 Father's Name: Samuel Seear Mother's Name: Mary Singleton Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1879 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 6041 Name: Susan Ada Seear Father's Name: Geo Thos Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1880 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 5542 Name: Robert Fairhurst Seear Father's Name: George Thomas Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1884 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 28460 Name: Ralph Seear Father's Name: George Thomas Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1886 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 22722 Name: Sarah Seear Father's Name: Samuel Seear Mother's Name: Mary Singleton Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1886 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 30327 Name: Alethea Isabel Seear Father's Name: George Thomas Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1888 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 16337 Name: Ethel Seear Father's Name: Samuel Gouiding Seear Mother's Name: Marr Singleton Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1888 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 7353 Name: Jno Lyle Seear Father's Name: Geo Thos Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1891 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 28346 Name: Thomas James Seear Father's Name: Saml Seear Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Mother's Name: Mary Singleton Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1892 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 18166 Name: Robt Wm Stanley Seear Father's Name: Saml Golden Seear Mother's Name: Mary Singleton Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1895 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 25212 Name: Elsie Cornelia Seear Father's Name: Geo Thos Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1896 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 31595 Name: Lionel Francis Seear Father's Name: Geo Francis Seear Mother's Name: Mabel Flor Seear Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1900 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 22798 Name: Fredk Arth Golden Seear Father's Name: Saml Goulding Seear Mother's Name: Mary Singleton Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1901 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: … Name: Lionel Francis Seear Father's Name: Geo Francis Seear Mother's Name: Mabel Flor Seear Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1900 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 22798 Victorian Public Records Office, Probate: George Thomas Seear, Walhalla carpenter. d 2 Mar 1910, widow Mary (nee Rowey) Property: freehold CA146A in Walhalla 1/4 acre, with a 5 room weatherboard and iron house- ₤60 (see site B22); list of liabilities, John Murphy & A Harris & Co groceries, EC Amor, F L Collins meat; CW Collins, bread; Dr WC Dawson, medical. Rate Books : Seear 1946-7, 3731 Seear, George Francis House Walhalla ₤ 1939, 3144 Frank Seear house Walhalla T ₤8 1935, 3026 Frank Seear house Walhalla T ₤9 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 115 1928, 2827 Frank Seear labourer house Walhalla T ₤9 1907-8, 281 George F Seear carpenter ownero upier house a o e No tra ₤ 281 William J Seear foundry man owner-occupier house a o e No tra ₤ Newspapers: Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Tuesday 16 March 1869 The following local insolvency is gazetted -James Box, late of Gaffney's Creek, now Walhalla, contractor. Causes of insolvency: --Non payment of a contract on which... liabilities had been incurred, and losses of mining investments. Lia ilities, £ d ; assets, ₤ ; defi ien y, £ … d. Walhalla, 6th July, 1870. " To the Shareholders of the Longfellow's Goldmining Company (Registered). 'Gentlemen,-I have to report that no crushing has been done by the company's battery during the last half-year, the Board of Directors having decided on the erection of pumping and winding machinery In the company's mine, it not being possible to work the same without the aid of steam machinery ; consequently I have been engaged in preparing the necessary plans and carrying out the same. "I fully expected to have been able to report the completion of the works ere this, but the delay in non- delivery of machinery, and also a portion of the same having never come to hand, materially retarded operations. To remedy this and replace the missing articles, I had to proceed to town and get them shipped to Port Albert, which place they left on the 20th ult., but have not yet arrived on the ground. I am expecting them every day, and shall be ready to commence pumping In a fortnight after delivery.-I have the honour to be your obedient servant, " JAMES Box, Company's Engineer. Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Monday 14 September 1914 Several tribute contracts have been let by the Long Tunnel Coy. Messrs Harry Dedman and Charlie Brown have started on the surface between the old Walhalla and Great South Long Tunnel. W. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Seear and party are negotiating for a tribute on the old Long Tunnel Extended lease, Walhalla Valley of Gold (WVOG): Hartrick 31Associated with mining in Walhalla since start. George & Mary H from Ireland to Victorian gold fields, George manager of Longfellows GM and the Empress in 1869 - moved from Walhalla and both dead by Edwardian-era. Sixth son was Henry went to W.A. Fileds, back to Walhalla by 1890s to LTGMC, went to accountancy with office in Tricks' buildings, became Councillor, married Margaret Jones 1896, managed various mines late 1890s.. 1899 Shire president, etc. George Francis (Robin) Seear Fred A Seear 158, Fred snr 227, 251; George Francis (Robin) 4, 82, 120, 121, 160, 265; Jean 83, 121, 124; Jessie 83; Lionel 83; Lyle 123; Mary 83; Robert 123; Robyn 123; Roy 83; Samuel 251; Terry 123; William E 202, 258, 260, 262 Robin b Walhalla 1871 one of 14 to George & Mary Seear, worked at LTGM battery from age 12 as a blanket man, died at Walhalla 1948 after major roll in local events and groups, such as Mechanics Institute, Improvement League, Cemetery Trust and Masonic Lodge also fire brigade, brass band, Foresters 7 Oddfellow Lodge, ANA and athletics, gaining an award from the King for community work. Robin family numbered 4 - Jean, Rex, Jessie, Lionel who lived at Walhalla with his family into the 1940s. Guatta family lived in this house while shop they had purchased was being renovated. William E Seear part of Great LTGMC 1907 Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: House survives. Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger CA146A dealings: 1961 James Barry Drill of Richmond Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 116 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 George T Seear's house? later Hartrick's house Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B23 Crown Allotment: CA121G, north of NORTH GARDENS Crown Grantee: Permissive occupancy File H019278 Place type: House Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: George Seear? Henry Hartrick Estimated creation date(s): 1910s? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):  Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 117 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013     Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes? Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes? Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: E, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): D Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings which are recognisable as being from a particular period in Walhalla's history, but lacking integrity and not contributive to the general character of the area. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Northern Gardens Precinct Statement of Significance: History This house is thought to have been built on Crown Land by miner, carpenter and Walhalla identity, Robin (George Francis) Seear, for his father George Thomas Seear, a pioneering miner in Walhalla who died in 1906. However an earlier and larger Victorian-era house is pictured here in 1910. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 118 The existing house was occupied by Henry Hartrick. (D. Hannan, Paul Dow.pers. Comm.) Hartrick's interest in the house came in 1962 when he applied to buy his wife's sister, JI Seear's lease as his retirement home in 15 years time, expressing a wish to improve the house over this term. As a consequence, the lease was sold by Jean Isabella Arnott (nee Seear) then of South Australia, to Jessie Hartrick (nee Seear). It was known as the property east of CA146A and CE Wright's P.O. In the 1960s the house was described as `...3 room `weekend' house size 20x20' made of corrugated iron walls and roof, plus a small shed and fenced with 6 chains of post & plain wire. Value: house ₤ , shed ₤ - Hartrick has paid lease on house for 15 years and now wishes freehold. Granted as lease ₤ /annu '. By the s this had e o e `... house 7 squares, 6' verandah on east and north, skillion on south, cement sheet and cg walls, roof, cement sheet and pine boarding lining insidefair ondition ₤ /s u; toilet ' orrugated iron roof, walls; 2 corrugated iron tanks 1000, 500 gal, 3ch fence.' Henry Hartrick Associated with mining in Walhalla since the start. George & Mary Hartrick came from Ireland to the Victorian gold fields; George was manager of the Longfellows GMC and the Empress GMC in 1869. They moved from Walhalla and both were dead by the Edwardian-era. The sixth son was Henry who went to Western Australian Gold Fields, coming back to Walhalla by the 1890s to the LTGMC. From here he went into accountancy with an office in Tricks' Junction buildings. He became a Councillor, was Shire president in 1899, married Margaret Jones in 1896, and managed various local gold mines in the late 1890s. What is significant? George T Seear's house, later Hartrick's house includes the following contributory elements:      a simple gabled verandahed form (verandah on two sides); roof of corrugated iron; corrugated iron for the main building walls; symmetrically placed double-hung sash windows, with moulded (Victorian) architraves; south and east facing skillion verandah; and Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013  skillions additions to the north and west, one with a brick chimney. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) A simple timber picket fence is typical of the area and era as are the random rubble stone steps to the gate. How is it significant? George T Seear's house, later Hartrick's house is contributory historically to Walhalla. Why is it significant? George T Seear's house, later Hartrick's house is contributory. Historically, as having the simple traditional Walhalla miner's cottage form, siting and scale, with some nineteenth century details and thus representing the mining era. The cottage also has associations with well known Walhalla families (Criterion A). Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Management:   Investigate history further when access gained to P.O. files held by the Crown Lands and Survey Department; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: A brass memorial plaque set in a stone states In Loving memory of Michael Robert Horn b1973, d 2012. Only son of Ian & Margaret Horn …his second home, Walhalla. House unchanged since 1980s. Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Crown Land Site 3 Newspapers: Morwell Advertiser (Morwell, Vic. : 1888 - 1954) Thursday 18 May 1939 Death of Mr W. Seears, Brown Coal Mine has lost one of its pioneer residents by the passing of Mr Seears, at the age of 69 years. Death took place in the Yallourn Hospital, where he had been an inmate for a few weeks. Born at Walhalla, he followed mining in his young days. A widow and one child (George) survive. Black 1899 Shown Rate Books Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 119 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 1946-7, 3731 Seear, George Francis House Walhalla ₤ see CA A 1939, 3144 Frank Seear house Walhalla T ₤8 1935, 3026 Frank Seear house Walhalla T ₤9 1928, 2827 Frank Seear labourer house Walhalla T ₤9 1908, 280 Samuel G Seear miner owner-occupier house a o e No tra ₤ 281 William J Seear foundryman owner-occupier house a o e No tra ₤ Victorian Public Records Office: Probate George Thomas Seear, Walhalla carpenter. d 2 Mar 1910, widow Mary (nee Rowey) Property: freehold CA146A in Walhalla 1/4 acre, with a 5 room weatherboard and iron house- ₤60 (see site B22) Mary Ann Seear d 19 Aug 1908 at Hawthorn with executors including William James Seear of Walhalla - iron founder. Births Deaths & Marriages George Francis Seear, d 1948 at Warragul aged 77, Son of George T Seear & Mary Ann Rowie, married 1869 (See also Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Mary Seear, d 1928 (68). father Jno Singleton) William Ernest Albert Seear b at Walhalla 1869 son of George and Mary (nee Bowie or Rowie?) Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about William Ernest Albert Seear Name: William Ernest Albert Seear Father's Name: George Seear Mother's Name: Mary Bowie Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1869 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 19110 Name: Walter Fairhurst Seear Father's Name: Geo Thos Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1873 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 6051 Name: Frederick Arthur Seear Father's Name: George Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1874 Registration Place: Victoria Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 120 Registration number: 5763 Name: Frances Georgina Seear Father's Name: Samuel Seear Mother's Name: Mary Singleton Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1879 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 6041 Name: Susan Ada Seear Father's Name: Geo Thos Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1880 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 5542 Name: Robert Fairhurst Seear Father's Name: George Thomas Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1884 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 28460 Name: Ralph Seear Father's Name: George Thomas Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1886 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 22722 Name: Sarah Seear Father's Name: Samuel Seear Mother's Name: Mary Singleton Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1886 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 30327 Name: Alethea Isabel Seear Father's Name: George Thomas Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1888 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 16337 Name: Ethel Seear Father's Name: Samuel Gouiding Seear Mother's Name: Marr Singleton Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1888 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 7353 Name: Jno Lyle Seear Father's Name: Geo Thos Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1891 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 28346 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Name: Thomas James Seear Father's Name: Saml Seear Mother's Name: Mary Singleton Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1892 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 18166 Name: Robt Wm Stanley Seear Father's Name: Saml Golden Seear Mother's Name: Mary Singleton Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1895 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 25212 Name: Elsie Cornelia Seear Father's Name: Geo Thos Seear Mother's Name: Mary Rowey Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1896 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 31595 Name: Lionel Francis Seear Father's Name: Geo Francis Seear Mother's Name: Mabel Flor Seear Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1900 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 22798 Name: Fredk Arth Golden Seear Father's Name: Saml Goulding Seear Mother's Name: Mary Singleton Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1901 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: … Name: Lionel Francis Seear Father's Name: Geo Francis Seear Mother's Name: Mabel Flor Seear Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1900 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 22798 1962 WH Causon: 3 room `weekend' house size 20x20' made of corrugated iron walls and roof, plus a small shed and fenced with 6 chains of post & plain wire. Value: house ₤ , shed ₤ Hartrick has paid lease on house for 15 years and now wishes freehold. Granted as lease ₤ /annu 1972 wife's death in car accident- transfer of lease. 1972 Description: house 7 squares, 6' verandah on east and north, skillion on south, cement sheet and cg walls, roof, cement sheet and pine boarding lining inside- fair ondition ₤ /s u; toilet ' corrugated iron roof, walls; 2 corrugated iron tanks 1000, 500 gal, 3ch fence. Walhalla Valley of Gold: John Mitchell, 70I age of Mit hell fa ily wedding John’s daughter, Ethel) in earlier house on this site Figure 75 Detail of WH Lee image c1905-with site arrowed Victorian Public Records Office Permissive Occupancy files: TI05256 1962 Henry Hartrick of Moe wishes to buy his wife's sister, JI Seear's lease as retirement home in 15 years time - wishes to improve the house over this term. Re sale of Jean Isabella Arnott (nee Seear) of S.A. To Jessie Goulding Hartrick (nee Seear) of Moeproperty east of CA146A and CE Wright's P.O. (JI Seer later Arnott had married in 1957) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 121 Figure 76 Wedding at earlier house 1910 Hartrick 31Associated with mining in Walhalla since start. George & Mary H from Ireland to Victorian gold fields, George manager of Longfellows GM and the Empress in 1869 - moved from Walhalla and both dead by Edwardian-era. Sixth son was Henry went Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 to W.A. Fileds, back to Walhalla by 1890s to LTGMC, went to accountancy with office in Tricks' buildings, became Councillor, married Margaret Jones 1896, managed various mines late 1890s.. 1899 Shire president, etc. Seear Fred A Seear 158, Fred snr 227, 251; George Francis (Robin) 4, 82, 120, 121, 160, 265; Jean 83, 121, 124; Jessie 83; Lionel 83; Lyle 123; Mary 83; Robert 123; Robyn 123; Roy 83; Samuel 251; Terry 123; William E 202, 258, 260, 262 Robin b Walhalla 1871 one of 14 to George & Mary Seear, worked at LTGM battery from age 12 as a blanket man, died at Walhalla 1948 after major roll in local events and groups, such as Mechanics Institute, Improvement League, Cemetery Trust and Masonic Lodge also fire brigade, brass band, Foresters 7 Oddfellow Lodge, ANA and athletics, gaining an award from the King for community work. Robin family numbered 4 - Jean, Rex, Jessie, Lionel who lived at Walhalla with his family into the 1940s. Guatta family lived in this house while shop they had purchased was being renovated. William E Seear part of Great LTGMC 1907 Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: house survives. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 122 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Day's later Giovanni Guatta's House Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA 121D Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B24 Crown Grantee: Permissive Occupancy Place type: House Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: unknown, Alfred Day, Giovanni (John) Guatta, Dominic Guatta Estimated creation date(s): c1910-20? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 123 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984:D, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): D Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings which are contributory to the overall historic character of Walhalla, but which have no individual historic significance. (Contributory to a precinct) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: and Lee C.G. 1970, p.113 and D. Hannan pers. comm.) Giovanni and Angelena Guatta (with sons including Chris aged about 21 and Charlie aged 3-4) left the Colonial Wine shop on Main Road for this house c1919-20. The house had been purchased from Alfred Day and had, initially, 3 rooms and plenty of land attached for vegetable growing. The Guattas later acquired a hut from Dominic Cabassi for use as a kitchen attached to the house and a brick chimney was built by Windsor House owner, Herman Gloz. Verandahs added on the south and west side of the house provided some comfort. In 1936 the existing miners right was replaced by a Permissive Occupancy (cites file T/102049 and HO034640). South of house Giovanni built a cow shed and hut where he lived in later years until his death in 1970. Francie and Moya Guatta used it as a weekender, and later Don & Shirley. It was eventually sold after Don died in 1998. Giovanni Guatta once operated a Colonial Wine shop, further south on the main road, near the Walhalla school site. He also worked for the Country Roads Board over a long period. The house and others nearby were part of a Walhalla Italian neighbourhood on the north road, existing around the Edwardian-era and into the inter-war period. A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . What is significant? Heritage planning status: The house includes the following contributory elements: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Northern Entry Precinct Statement of Significance: History This house was built on Crown land in the Edwardian-era or later and occupied by Giovanni Guatta and his family in the early 20th century (permissive occupancy). An earlier gabled house was shown south of this site in the 1899 Black resurvey and photographs from c1910. (James G.F. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 124        weatherboard wall cladding, square edge profile (some new), a hipped and gabled main roof form clad with corrugated iron or steel (some new); two attached red brick chimneys with corbelled tops, the northern chimney having been extended; a formerly convex profile verandah, now skillion in form as recently rebuilt; remnants of a scalloped frieze have been rebuilt and added to on the new verandah bressumer. skillions added on the south and east; and Six-pane window sashes. How is it significant? Day's later Guatta's House is contributory historically to Walhalla township. Why is it significant? Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Day's later Guatta's House is contributory. Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Historically, as representative of nineteenth century detailing, materials and form of miner's houses in the area; also as part of the long-term Italian neighbourhood of Walhalla on the north road, as well as symbolising the long pioneering role of Italians in the various stages of mining at the town. (Criterion A). Management:   Research history further and reassess as required; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: See S30; house renovated since 1984, verandah rebuilt, new wall cladding, picket fence and landscaping. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Crown Land Site 1 Walhalla land Status report, 1985 Known as site 1 `Mr Monette's' formerly P.O. T102049 Crown Land Department files. See Permissive Occupancy File T/102049 now H034640 Dominic Guatta has Miners Right dated 1935 (16076) 1936 Residential Area application issued to Giovanni Guatta description: 5 room house and sheds, occupied for 14 years (i.e. c1922), Inspectors Report 3 room house and various outbuildings with plan of house on block. 1940 GG dead informed by widow Angelina; 1953 Inspector: Dominic Guatta resides there, works for CRB, 5 room house and wood shed (CRB road widening issue) 1970 death of DG; inspector: weatherboard 6 rooms, ply lining, corrugated iron roof, 10 squares, hardwood & corrugated iron walls, carport to south. 1971 Noted that Mrs & Mrs Guatta had lived there all their life, worked for CRB. In first class order, 1977 part land to CRB for widening National Trust of Australia (Vic) File 1/2113 1974 image Rate Books 1907-8, (RB1907-8, 203 William Pratt tramway man ownero upier house CA ₤ -out to ₤12? RB1908-9, 197 William Pratt tramway man ownero upier house CA ₤ -out to ₤ ?) 200 Day, Alfred James miner occupier of Sarah G Ni holson's' house on CA ₤ p11 shows general Main St North area RB1928 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 125 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 2841John (Giovanni) Guatta miner owner-occupier Walhalla town garden ₤ 2842John (Giovanni) Guatta miner owner-occupier Walhalla town House Crown land ₤8 RB1935, 2831John (Giovanni) Guatta Walhalla town garden ₤2 2832 John (Giovanni) Guatta Walhalla town House Crown land ₤8 RB1939 2938 Frank Guatta Walhalla town House Crown Land ₤ 2939 Frank (John) Guatta Walhalla town House Allots Crown land ₤16 1946-7, 3540 Angelina Guatta (now c/o Mrs Monette, Eri a P.O. House & Allots Walhalla ₤ 3542 Charles Guatta (now High St, Regent) House Walhalla town ₤ Newspapers: Gippsland Mercury (Sale, Vic. : 1914 - 1918) Friday 28 January 1916 RECRUITING MOVEMENT. The recruiting committee at Sale met on Tuesday evening, to check the recruiting cards. Dr. Gabriel has offered the use of a car for recruiting purposes to-morrow, and the Mayor will be pleased to have the loan of another car for like use on Monday; Cr. Kelsey having offered to assist Recruiting-Sergeant Brine. Lieut. J. Tait, enlisting officer, has since our last issue dealt with the following volunteers:— PASSED. Alfred Napper, Sale. R. S. Field, Sale. W. Reid, Sale. A. Roberts, Sale. W. M'Namara, Sale. V. A. Froud, Sale. F. Mallett, Sale. Myles Atkinson, Briagolong. O. G. Atkinson, Briagolong. J. C. Kenihan, Briagolong. D. J. Whitelaw, Briagolong. J. . Taylor, Briagolong. A. S. Stamford, Bairnsdale. J. C. Guatta, Walhalla. H. A. Hulgrave, Dawson. REJECTED J. Harper, Sale. G. Hutchins, Sale. R. Hosking, Sale. L. G. Blair, Briagolong. J. M'Grath, Morwell. Rupert M'Lean, Maffra. D. hM. M'lntyre, Maffra. A. Stokes, Maffra. J. L. Young, Maffra. John Bowden, Bairnsdale. C. A. Clyne, Jumbuk. DEFERRED. Bruce Nixon, Maffra. J. Woodhead, Wurruk… GUATTA.-On June 4 (suddenly), at his residence, North road, Walhalla, Giovanni, loved husband of Angelina, and loving father of John, Antonio, Peter, Dominic, Mary, Edward, Francis, and Charles. Resting in peace Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 126 Births Deaths & Marriages Births at Walhalla to John Guatta & `Louise' (or Angelina Deluis): 1898 Jno Clemente Guatta, 1899 Antonio Guatta, Peter Guatta 1900, Domenico Guatta 1902 Mary Guatta 1903 Begniamino Guatta 1905 Natale Guatta 1906 Angelina Marghretta Guatta 1907 Francesco Fortunata Guatta 1909 Angelina Guatta 1910 Mountain Heritage 137-: Giovanni & Angelena (with sons incl. Chris aged c21 and Charlie 3-4?) left the wine shop for this house c1919-20, bought from Alfred Day with plenty of land for vegetable growing, 3 (bed?) rooms, later acquired a hut from Dominic Cabassi for use as a kitchen attached to the house, brick chimney built by Herman Gloz. Verandah on south and west side of house added comfort. 1936 miners right replaced by permissive Occupancy (file T/102049 and HO034640). South of house Giovanni built cow shed and hut - lived there until death in 1970. Francie and Moya Guatta used it as a weekender, later Don & Shirley. Trees on roadside re o ed … e entually sold after Don died 1998. 135-6: Tony (Antonio) Guatta's wife dies and he brings two sons to stay with sister Mary and builds this house. Quotes R (Dick) Reid as source of information including image (Reid had P.O. in the 1960s): granted a miner's right in Oct 1933 (Mines Act 1928, no. 72486 cost 2/6d)- site opposite Clarke & Monette, 198' frontage, 80' deep. States a week later Guatta issued with a `Certificate of Residence Area' or `Business Site'. Later became P.O. File T10204B - held by son until 1972. House built 1934 with help of Alf Robson for chimney and fireplace, 1st as 2 rooms for quick accommodation for boys2 room rear addition with skillion, 2nd hand materials, reused T&G lining, site former William Hoskin's foundry. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Valley of Gold: 70-1 Figure 77 Detail from image c1910 shows earlier building Figure 78 Detail of above Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: 2008 major renovation. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 127 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Frank Guatta’s house part? , later Magnolia Cottage - see also `magnolia grandiflora' (V33) adjoining Location: Main Road, Walhalla Condition: Good Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B25 Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Frank Guatta, Mrs. K. Mouritz Estimated creation date(s): 1936Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Crown Allotment: CAs 121H Crown Grantee: Permissive occupancy Place type: House Integrity to creation date? Fair Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 128 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation The house has typical Walhalla form but is recent construction. Heritage grading Place report 1984: (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, None Proposed heritage grading (A-D): - Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? No Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? No; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: None Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Management:  None. References: Survey Notes 2013: House with significant `magnolia grandiflora' to north: rebuilt since 1984 with added verandah, new openings and extended. House is weatherboard (bullnose soft wood profile, recent cladding- hardwood originally) in gabled form with corrugated iron roofing, simple skillion verandah. Double-hung sash windows are distributed asymmetrically around the entry and have Victorian-era (new) moulded architraves; brick chimney at the south end (recent rebuild). Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 129 Figure 79 Cottage in 1983- changed since, north addition (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Valley of Gold: 71 th Figure 80 Detail of image from later 19 century showing edge of Barkley Square and B25 as a vacant site with a large willow (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 collection from Mrs Mouritz album). Walhalla Land Status Report 1985 Magnolia Cottage (H034640 (site 5) (T.102056 Mrs. K. Mouritz, located wholly or partially on the permanent reserve to Stringers Creek:(K Mouritz listed 2013 at 75 Argo St, Sth Yarra - 03) 9866 4591) Mountain Heritage 133: 1936 Permissive Occupancy to Frank Guatta as a site for a house: 40' from creek 8' from footpath on north, 14' on south- all hardwood 3 ply lining with fibrous plaster ceiling, corrugated iron on roof, recently rebuilt by Jim Anderson. Built when Frank engaged - held until 1943, adjoining Rose & Peter Guatta, rented to Gladys & Dick Stockdale. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 130 Figure 81 Image from c1910 with similar shaped building on site, changed by the 1980s and changed again since. . Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Bartley later Busse house, and Monterey pine Location: Church Hill Road, Walhalla Condition: Fair Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B26, S24 Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Unknown, Mary Elizabeth Busse Estimated creation date(s): 1870s? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant mining development period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: CA160D Crown Grantee: Crown Place type: House Integrity to creation date? Fair Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 131      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: ungraded Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of general heritage significance but which have little or no importance beyond the Walhalla area. (Of local importance.) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Busse house and Monterey pine includes the following contributory elements:      A gabled roof cottage set on steep hillside among trees; timber framed front verandah in six bays; corrugated iron roof cladding, weatherboard wall cladding; and a very mature Monterey pine to its northeast. How is it significant? Busse house and Monterey pine are contributory (potentially significant) historically to Walhalla. Why is it significant? Busse house and Monterey pine are contributory (potentially individually significant) Historically, for its representation of the simple cottage form, scale and siting of the significant Walhalla gold era with the distinction of its traditional Walhalla high hillside forest setting, overlooking the west and east arms of Stringers Creek. The pine is very mature and indicative of the widespread use of conifers in the era ly town planting (Criterion A). Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Management:   Planning precinct: Southern Residential Precinct Statement of Significance:  Inspect in detail and reassess; research Permissive Occupancy files (from Traralgon Department Of Environment & Primary Industries) and assessment required when available; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. History The early history of this house is unknown but it was built on permissive occupancy which was leased by Frank Bartley from 1943 as a residence. He transferred the lease to Mary Elizabeth Busse in 1945 Mary Busse lived at 7 Boston Road, Canterbury by the 1920s with Bartley Fitzharding Busse, clerk joining her there in the 1930s and also Marie Rose Busse and Francis Bartley Busse by the 1970s: the name `Francis Bartley Busse' parallels with that of the 1940s leaseholder `Frank Bartley'; Bartley being a Busse family name. The Bartley family had in turn married into the Tricks family of Walhalla. What is significant? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 132 References: Survey Notes 2013: Early gabled and verandahed Victorian-era weatherboard house set into hillside, adjoining large Monterey Pine. See Walhalla Township Guidelines 1999: S24; thought one of last of `treetop' Walhalla houses. Place report 1984: None Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Current owner is Mr Baragwanath (See ADB: Baragwanath, William (1878–1966) by John A. Talent: `...In 1897 Baragwanath was assistant surveyor and draftsman in the department's survey of the Walhalla goldfield, and was in harge fro until .…. ' It is situated on the side of a hill and is only accessed by foot from behind the church. I remember about 10-12 years ago it was occupied by Busse. Walhalla Land Status Report 1985 P.O. HO16189 ME Bussee (Busse) Rob Ashworth 2013: known as `Possum House'? Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Walhalla Parish Plan (See adjoining Wesleyan Church Minister's Dwelling CA137A gazetted 1871 p749) Part file OP121068 Parish Plan Imperial version pencil annotated with site `13' HO6524, with red dashed quadrangle within file 15-5394 ME Busse perm.occ. Kluge Jackson Consultants survey 1999: T99416: `old miners cottage' shown on plan with verandah and adjoining shed to east. Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Not listed but surveyed. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 for Mary Elizabeth Busse 1924 Kooyong: 7 Boston Road, Canterbury HD (no other Busse there) 1931, 1936 now includes Bartley Fitzharding Busse, lerk… 1972 See above also Marie Rose and Francis Bartley Busse `List of Chiltern people' www.chilternathenaeum.com.au Figure 82 Detail image 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) This list of Chiltern people is compiled from entries in burial, school, and church registers: includes Bartley Fitzharding Busse in 1899 (one of many in the Busse family also Bartley family in Chiltern) Walhalla Township Guidelines 1999 See Site 24, (WEST OF CA137A) Baw Baw Shire Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 133 Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Bartley Fitzharding Busse Died Aged: 75 Father's Name: Alfred Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Mother's Name: Fanny Lucinda Bartley Registration Year: 1975 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 16332 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1900 (1899, Chiltern) Mary Elizabeth Busse Death Place: Cambrian Hill, Victoria Age: 83 Father's Name: John Owen Rigby Mother's Name: Annie Isabel Registration Year: 1985 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 11469 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1902 Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about Mary Elizth Rigby Mary Elizth Rigby Father's Name: Jno Owen Rigby Mother's Name: Isabel Annie Froomes Birth Place: Caulfield, Victoria Registration Year: 1902 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 9221 Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about Fredk Bartley Tricks Name: Fredk Bartley Tricks Father's Name: Arth Hy Tricks Mother's Name: Charl Elizth Bartley Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1895 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 33339 Vivian Cranch Tricks Father's Name: Wm Horwood Tricks Mother's Name: Lucy Tricks Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1889 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 17181 Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 about Arthur Henry Tricks Arthur Henry Tricks, commercial traveller Gender: Male Electoral Year: 1931 State: Victoria District: Flinders Subdistrict: Dromana Ancestry.com POUNSETT, BRASSIL, BUSSE, BARTLEY Family Trees Mary Elizabeth Rigby daughter of John Owen Rigby 1866 – 1942, Isabel Annie Froomes 1877 – 1937 Her husband, Bartley Fitzhardinge Busse: Birth 1 March 1899 in Chiltern, Victoria, Australi; Death 13 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 134 July 1976 in Victoria. His parents were: Alfred Louis Clarence Büsse 1853 – 1928, Fanny Lucinda Alice Bartley 1862 – 1931. Busse family arose from Hanover, Germany. 1963 Survey Plan Building shown west of CA137A on CA160D Parish Plan cites part of a group of permissive occupancies under file OP121068, LIO- 6528requested via Traralgon lands office. Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger CA A last dealings … No 160 Landata: Standard Parcel Identifier #2 160D\PP5819 Council Property Number #1 3599 (with CA160C) James & Lee, 1970: 104, 141 Figure 83 View from east branch mid 1890s (James & Lee: 104) Similar house form and siting visible in c1910 image of town Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Figure 84 Part c1910 image Rate Books 1946, 3446 Busse, Mary Elizabeth 7 Boston Rd, Balwyn land Walhalla T ₤ 1 (No Busse 1939, 1928) DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT & PRIMARY INDUSTRIES Mark Simons | Project Manager | Public Land, Land and Fire Gippsland Region | Department of Environment and Primary Industries 71 Hotham Street TRARALGON VIC : data provided Site 13 - File records indicate a Permissive Occupancy (HO16189) was originally granted to a Mr Frank Bartley in July 1943 for use of Crown land as a residence (Note: Shortly after, in July 1945, the PO transferred to Mary Busse) Newspapers: Australian Town and Country Journal (NSW : 1870 - 1907) Saturday 4 April 1891 Chiltern (Vic).-The principal Social event of the week has been the marriage of Miss Bartley, daughter of Mr. B. J. Bartley, to Mr. Trick(s), jun., of Walhalla. The ceremony was performed at St. Paul's, Chur h of England… ( Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 135 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Cummins house or Caravan Cottage Figure 85 image by Rob Ashworth 2013 Location: Tramway, Number One, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA119D Permissive Occupancy Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B27 Crown Grantee: Crown Place type: House Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Unknown, Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 136 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, their stay barely stirring a community without commercial television reception. During one visit, a camera crew apparently filmed a comedy sketch of the clown duo and 'Cousin Roy' rushing about searching for gold, the end product either aired on their show or featured in a magazine. (Roberts) Occupiers in the 1980s included a Mr Cummins. What is significant? Proposed heritage grading (A-D): D Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: The Cummins house includes the following contributory elements:       Heritage planning status: simple gabled double-fronted house weatherboard cladding, double-hung sash windows either side of entry door, rebuilt front verandah; corrugated iron attached chimney; siting surrounded by vegetation west side of Stringers Creek opposite Barkley Square Heritage Overlay number: HO8 How is it significant? Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township The Cummins house is contributory historically to Walhalla. Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Western Side of Valley Statement of Significance: History The Black 1899 survey shows small structures dotted along the mining tramway in a similar location tot his house; the 1963 Forests Commission survey shows nothing here but this survey appears to have been concentrated on roadside sites. In the 1950s, this cottage is believed to have been used by television personality Roy Lyons who broke the journey to his holiday house in or near Jericho by staying at 'Caravan Cottage', what is thought to have been a rough cabin perched above the North Gardens. The house is thought to have been owned by Ebenezer Jones, and both house and the on-site caravan were hidden from view on the left side of the track leading up to the tramway. Celebrities such as Jack PERRY and Doug McKenzie, better known as clowns Zig and Zag, and Bert Newton sometimes accompanied him, Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 137 Why is it significant? The Cummins house is contributory. Historically, as one of the simple weatherboard miner's cottages that once crowded these hillsides of Stringers Creek but on an unusual site and potentially associated with the nearby North Long Tunnel GMC and the adjoining timber tramway as part of Walhalla's' gold production (Criterion A). Management:    Inspect in detail and reassess; research Permissive Occupancy files (from Traralgon Department Of Environment & Primary Industries) and assessment required when available; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Simply gabled but altered double-fronted houseweatherboard cladding, double-hung sash Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 windows either side of entry door, rebuilt front verandah; corrugated iron attached chimney; surrounded by vegetation, threatened by vandalism- west side of Stringers Creek opposite Barkley Square (images by Rob Ashworth 2013) Place report 1984: Walhalla Land Status Report 1985 Site 4 pencilled on unreserved crown land west of CA119B: `Mr Cummins' Walhalla Parish Plans Current plan: CA119D file L10-3897 None Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Shown as close to and north of North Long Tunnel GMC entry, adit. Imperial sheet 2: Site 4 pencilled on unreserved crown land west of CA119B and above tramline File L10-3897; also to east and below tram is Johnson & Power H.O. 31444 pencilled. Kluge Jackson 1999 survey T99416 shows cottage with steps curving up from tramway- septic WC in north-west corner. Roberts, Y. Walhalla Graveyard to Cemetery: (Thought to refer to this cabin) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 - no mention, but mapped Crown Lands Files, Traralgon File begins in 2005, by a 'residence' licence issued to the current occupier pursuant to s.138 of the Land Act 1958 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 138 `Among the visitors drawn to Walhalla in the 1950's was television personality Roy LYONS, who brake the journey to his holiday house in or near Jericho by staying at 'Caravan Cottage', a rough cabin perched above the North Gardens. Owned by Ebenezer JONES, both it and the on site caravan were hidden from view on the left side of the track leading up to the tramway. Celebrities such as Jack PERRY and Doug McKenzie, better known as clowns Zig and Zag, and Bert Newton sometimes accompanied him, their stay barely stirring a community without commercial television reception. During one visit, a camera crew apparently filmed a comedy sketch of the clown duo and 'Cousin Roy' rushing about searching for gold, the end product either aired on their show or featured in a magazine.' Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Wright's hut Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA121F Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B28 Crown Grantee: P.O. CE Wright Place type: House Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: CE Wright?, Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 139 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? Yes Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: ungraded Proposed heritage grading (A-D): ungraded Heritage grading definition: Not contributory or significant Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Not shown, different road reserve. Aesthetic value? No Historical value? No Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? No; Significant individually? No Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Planning precinct: Northern Gardens Precinct Statement of Significance: None Management: None. Further references: Victorian Public Records Office References: Survey Notes 2013: Vertical stained boarding and corrugated iron to walls, corrugated iron to roof, louvre windows, timber framed corrugated iron chimney at side, 1 room, hut or weekender. Corrugated iron out building. 1983 image shows stone terrace as potential earlier house site. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 140 See lands file OP121061, later HO19278 P.O. CE Wright in 1963, triangular piece of land Walhalla Parish Plan W/9.6.77 A Site 3 CE Wright (EJ Jones x-out) HO19278 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 York Cottage also Walhalla Hospital Matron's cottage Location: Church Hill Road, Walhalla Place type: house Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): B29 Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Matron Agnes Duffield, Jane BARTON Estimated creation date(s): 1935 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: CA144B Crown Grantee: Crown Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 141      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: , Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of general heritage significance but which have little or no importance beyond the Walhalla area. (Of local importance.) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. H: ISpecial association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons, of importance in our History Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Southern Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History (Adapted from Y Reynolds, Walhalla Graveyard to Cemetery) Alice Agnes Duffield started her professional career at the Home of Hope, Easey St, Collingwood, as matron. She moved from the Mornington Andrew Kerr aged care home to Walhalla by 1931, being described now as a nurse, rather than matron. However it was as Matron Duffield that she acted heroically in the 1932 fires that threatened and nearly engulfed Walhalla. `Matron Duffield refused to leave. She set to work with others to save the hospital. At the Post Office Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 142 there was another example of women's heroism. Here Miss Doreen Hannan remained at the switchboard, answering calls for help.' By1933, John Frederick DREW was appointed as Medical Officer at the Walhalla hospital, working in conjunction with Matron Duffield who obtained her midwifery certificate in February 1934, receiving her usual salary during the one month course. `While planning for her future, in 1935, Agnes DUFFIELD engaged labourer Tony GUATTA to build a small dwelling on a plot of land just below the hospital. Naming it 'York Cottage' after her birth place, over the next few years, she rented it out for a modest fee. She and he friend Nance PAGE who ran a tea shop near the Star Hotel, were often heard teasing humorously about who had the most money in the bank.' `Upon her retirement in June 1938, she lived there alone relying on schoolboys such as Jack REYNOLDS to chop her wood and do other manual chores. Children with fertile imaginations whispered that each night she wore the clothes that she wanted to be buried in to bed. A recurring heart complaint resulted in her sudden death in 1944, her rigid body found sitting in a chair by Ada Boswell who had missed her presence in the street.. Yes to rumour, overnight she had dressed in a nightgown, cap and a jaw strap used to keep the mouth closed before the onset of rigor mortis, or when a body was laid out for burial. The dwelling along with furniture and effects was advertised for sale as a deceased estate, fetching £150 from the purchaser Jane Barton. The only monetary items found among the personal belongings were her pension and two threepence coins. Agnes DUFFIELD, aged 75 years ended her days in the Walhalla Cemetery, but no marker defines her grave. The daughter of William and Lucy DENT (nee ROBINSON), she apparently had a brother who was a doctor in Harley Street, London. In recent years, some small green medicine bottles and several broken fragments were excavated from the steep bank in front of the 'Matron's Cottage', a name adopted soon after her demise. Evidently, the vials once contained digitalis, a medicinal potion derived from purple foxgloves and used as a heart stimulant. ' What is significant? Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Matron Duffield's cottage includes the following contributory elements:        gabled cottage single-storey form; weatherboard end walls and a façade clad with strapped fibre cement sheet and a weatherboard dado, all in near to original colours; corrugated iron to the roof entry with a small skillion timber framed porch; early timber picket fence casement timber framed window pairs at the front; siting on the side of a hill set within native vegetation. hospital; early colours, fair condition only; timber window casements; corrugated iron clad roof, original picket fence? Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: How is it significant? Matron Duffield's cottage is significant historically to Walhalla. Figure 86 1983 image of hospital and cottage Why is it significant? Matron Duffield's cottage is significant Historically for its close link with a heroic figure in Walhalla, Matron Duffield, who ran the Walhalla hospital under difficult conditions in a time of minor revival in the town during the minor interwar gold boom, as well as performing extra role of rescue at a time of bush fire crisis in the town during 1932. Although built in the 1930s, the cottage has the same simple form and hillside siting of many other gold era cottages built during in Walhalla significant period (Criterion A, H). Management:    Research and verify sources and reassess as required; make detailed inspection, including interior; reference the cottage as contributory and significant within the HO8 or as an individual significant site in the planning scheme. References: Survey Notes 2013: Simple gabled fibre cement sheet and weatherboard clad gabled inter-war bungalow set high on east valley hillside south of and lower than Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 143 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Old hospital and similar building form shown overlapping lot, road boundaries. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 a small dwelling on a plot of land just below the hospital. Naming it 'York Cottage' after her birth place, over the next few years, she rented it out for a modest fee. She and he friend Nance PAGE who ran a tea shop near the Star Hotel, were often heard teasing humorously about who had the most money in the bank. Upon her retirement in June 1938, she lived there alone relying on schoolboys such as Jack REYNOLDS to chop her wood and do other manual chores. Children with fertile imaginations whispered that each night she wore the clothes that she wanted to be buried in to bed. Further references: Walhalla Land Status Report 1985 Matron's Cottage `site 16' on unreserved crown land. P.O. HO34675, plan OP121070, file L10-3911 - overlapped road reserve and part CA144 Crown Lands Files, Traralgon No file found, as of July 2013. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 for Alice Agnes Duffield 1914- Alice Agnes Duffield, Home of Hope, Easey St, Collingwood , matron 1924 Alice Agnes Duffield, Andrew Kerr Home, Mornington, matron; 1931 Alice Agnes Duffield, Walhalla , nurse 1937 Alice Agnes Duffield, Walhalla , matron A recurring heart complaint resulted in her sudden death in 1944, her rigid body found sitting in a chair by Ada BOSWELL who had missed her presence in the street.. Yes to rumour, overnight she had dressed in a nightgown, cap and a jaw strap used to keep the mouth closed before the onset of rigor mortis, or when a body was laid out for burial. The dwelling along with furniture and effects was advertised for sale as a deceased estate, fetching £150 from the purchaser Jane BARTON. The only monetary items found among the personal belongings were her pension and two threepence coins. Agnes DUFFIELD, aged 75 years ended her days in the Walhalla Cemetery, but no marker defines her grave. The daughter of William and Lucy DENT (nee ROBINSON), she apparently had a brother who was a doctor in Harley Street, London. Imperial version: site 16 shown as H03911 with note to restructure lot. In recent years, some small green medicine bottles and several broken fragments were excavated from the steep bank in front of the 'Matron's Cottage', a name adopted soon after her demise. Evidently, the vials once contained digitalis, a medicinal potion derived from purple foxgloves and used as a heart stimulant. Reynolds, Y. Walhalla Graveyard to Cemetery: Hermes Heritage Database (DOI) Number 162189 In August 1933, John Frederick DREW agreed to his appointment of Medical Officer, working in conjunction with the matron. Under instructions from the executive, DUFFIELD obtained her midwifery certificate in February 1934, receiving her usual salary during the one month sojourn. Matron GALBRAITH who was assisted by Sister GOODMAN took charge during this time. Newspapers: Walhalla Parish Plan CA144B While planning for her future, in 1935, Agnes DUFFIELD engaged labourer Tony GUATTA to build Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 144 Matron's cottage The McIvor Times: April 26, 2013 `Mr Buchecker is a painter who has undertaken many restorations in the town and is now manager of the old post office and caretaker of the atron’s ottage in Walhalla.' Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Tuesday 26 January 1932 VICTORIAN TOWN MENACED BY BUSH FIRES DAYLONG FIGHT Residents' Superhuman Efforts. TWO BUILDINGS AFIRE. Hospital Patient Rescued in Time. ... FLAMES 100 FEET HIGH. When flames 100 feet (30.480m) high leaped down to the hospital this morning it seemed that nothing could save it. The building is on a steep hill overlooking Walhalla, with only a narrow pathway as the nearest approach. "Before I realised there was a fire the flames were upon us," said Matron A. A. Duffield to-night. "In a moment the fire encircled the hospital', with the smoke so thick that it was difficult to see from one side of the big ward to the other. Fortunately I had only one patient. I immediately took him his clothes and valuables and then packed my own belongings. By this time about 20 men from the town had arrived to help us." The patient was William Hickey, a miner, wellknown in the district, who had been suffering from miner's' disease. The rescuers carried him 'down a steep path, the guard rail of which had already caught fire, to a hotel WOMEN'S HEROISM. Matron Duffield refused to leave. She set to work with others to save the hospital. At the Post Office there was another example of women's heroism. Here Miss Doreen Hannan remained at the switchboard, answering calls for help. Recorder (Port Pirie, SA : 1919 - 1954) Thursday 12 January 1939 EIGHTEEN KNOWN DEAD IN VICTORIAN FIRES... Walhalla Hospital, with ä raging Fire approaching it from the south, was evacuated early today, while all the available men in the town fought strenuously to keep the blaze back. Invite TENDERS for the CONSTRUCTION of the WALHALLA HOSPITAL. Tenders Close at the above address, at 12 noon on Monday, 12th April The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) Monday 6 July 1908 FIRE AT A HOSPITAL. INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED. Melbourne, July 5. Another fire occurred early on Saturday morning at the Walhalla Hospital. Captain Bessel!, of the local brigade, who lives close by, was first on the spot, and states that he found a stack of timber from the old building on fire. From the position of the fire and the timber, he believes it had been wilfully set on fire. The flames were soon extinguished. `The Argus': Friday 31 December 1909 WALHALLA - The Walhalla Hospital, which has been open for about six months, is doing good work. A the election of the committee, Councillor John Finlayson, the chairman, said that the hospital and furniture had cost over £1,100, and that the building committee was able to hand over the lot, with only £25 owing, after all accounts were in. All the retiring committee who sought reelection, were elected. Mr. James Barry was elected secretary, at a remuneration of £25 per annum. Dr. W. Collings Dawson is the hon. surgeon, and Sister Giddings, late of the Austin Hospital, the matron. Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Monday 15 September 1913 The Walhalla hospital has been empty for the past month or more, but this a record was broken on Thursday says the 'Chronicle' by the admission of two patients, one of whom is an elderly lady, Mrs. Warren, an old and well-known identity of Jubilee, Moondarra `The Argus': Hospital: Wednesday 28 April 1926 `The Argus': BUSH NURSING. HV. and A. CHAMPION, Architects, 87 Queen-street, Unused Walhalla Hospital. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 145 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 That bush nursing hospitals shall in future be known as bush nursing inter- mediate hospitals was resolved at the monthly meeting of the Bush Nursing As- association at 105 Collins street yesterday. Lady Mitchell presided...In her report the superintendent (Sister Cameron said that at Walhalla there was a public hospital. This was on top of a hill and it was admitted that should an out patient have bad legs the patient would have to approach the hospital on horse back. There had been no patients in the hospital for nearly two years. It was considered that it would be better if the public hospital was abandoned and a bush nurse installed to cover the whole district. This would meet all the requirements of the district. The nearest doctor is at Moe, a distance of 26 miles. The inspector of charities (Mr. Love) will investigate and it is possible that further action will be taken by the association 200 Ft Below BOTH OCCUPANTS KILLED MELBOURNE, Monday. Running over the edge of the road about a mile from Walhalla this afternoon, a service car crashed 200 feet (60.960m) down a steep embankment killing both its occupants. The victims were: William Butterworth, driver, of Warragul: and Mrs. Mavis Holden (36), of Erica. Butterworth left Walhalla with Mrs. Holden as his passenger at 3.15 p.m., but when the car had not arrived at Erica at 0.1.1 p.m. a party of four men set out in search. About 8.30, near a slight bend in the road, they found tracks of the car where it had left the road. With both victims still inside, the car was found lying in a creek at the bottom of the embankment. The bodies were taken to Walhalla Hospital. Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954) Baw Baw Shire 2013: Tuesday 18 July 1939 SERVICE CAR OVER EMBANKMENT Comes to Rest in Creek Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 146 `The best way to access it is to park your car along Church Hill Road, and climb the bank to see it. The last time I saw the place it was in need of some repairs and not in great condition. It is quite small, consisting of only one or two rooms’. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Precinct Location: Main Road, Church Hill Road, Walhalla Place evaluation Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation, P heritage precinct- refer heritage place maps): P1 Place type: Mining Settlement Historical associations with persons or events? Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? Yes Estimated creation date(s): 1862-1914 Heritage criteria satisfied: Period representation: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? No Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 147 E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics B: Possession of uncommon rare or endangered aspects of our cultural or natural History G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Chi nese Gardens Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township P4 S 19 123A S 15 S 15 123C Heritage significance  S 19 Significant individually? Yes 121D Planning precinct: 121F 121G 146A S 14 123B 119C S 31 Varies 121C 121H S 19 HO30 B ark ley S quare 121J S 37 121K 121L 121M 121B 123 121A 122 121 120 119D 119B 119E 119F S 19 119A S 32 118 116B 116 139 115B 115 115A 114 114A 138 137 114B 114C 141, 141A, 141B 150A S 19 150 S 14 S 13 S 19 141C 161 S 10 (LE AS E & B UI LDING S IT ES) S 29 162 107A S 23 112 107 S 10 (LE AS E & B UI LDING S 18 S IT ES) 111 S 10 106 105 110 105A 109 104 99A 103 99 98 101 97 S 19 100 S 28 96 100A 96A 56C 95 94 57 56B 57A 58 56 55 59 93A S 19 93 S 05 (LE AS E A ND B UI LDING S IT ES) 93B 54 60 125 93C 159 53 126 61 HO28 52 S 37 62 S 09 149 51 HO20, 29 S 08 158 142 50 HO3 149A 136 134 133 167 71 S 07 44 41A Figure 87 Walhalla Cricket ground, proposed as an addition to the Walhalla Township Heritage Overlay. S 17 40 130 45 S 33 49 50 148 38 66 64 46 44B 42 39 37 48 HO7 65 140 44C 129 70 47 S 02 44A 41 34 128 69 67 137B 68 151A 151 138B 138A 139A 160 44D S 17 29 160C S 19 S 06 (LE AS E A ND B UI LDING S IT ES) 160D 26 27 25 S 01 S 34 24 152 HO5 23 23A 22 143 S 13 22A S 36 HO21 HOS PI TAL 20 144 19 S 19 18 144B S 13 A BA TT OIR 18A S 35 Wal hall a bat t ery s ite ROAD T ELEGRA PH LINE RE SE RVE 153 154 75 17A 76 155 77 17 78 14 12D 10 12B 12 11 HO250 HO251 93A 90 80 3B 94A 89 4 81 81A 88 82 S 27 E m press bat t ery s ite 92A 91 80A HO254? 5 S 11 (EM PRESS GMC LEA SE & B UI LDING S IT ES) S 19 12C Road P urposes Res. 13 12A S 13 7 6A 145 14A 15 8 6 156 16 79 79A 10A 84 3 87 83 85 3A 91B 2 91C S 19 P ol ic e Res erve 91B 1 1Z B rewery Gully 2Z 3Z 5Y2 5Y Cem et ery Res. 4Z 5Z 4A ROA D RE SE RVE HO22 5X CE ME TERY RESE RVE S 04 P2 S 19 1A 1 2 3 S 19 A BA TT OIR 4 5 10C T ouri sm prom otion 8 6 7 9 10A Rai l way Water S uppl y Res. S 19 Figure 88 Chinese Gardens, with terraces still visible eon east side Figure 89 Proposed new Heritage Overlay boundaries in blue (mining leases, Chinese Gardens, Cricket ground.) and existing in red. Dotted boundaries are potential mining areas for assessment, including North Long Tunnel GMC, Emperor, North Gippsland, and Golden Fleece. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 148 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 prospectors, en route south from Fulton's Creek. He and his party found promising gold deposits in a tributary of the Thomson River, leading Stringer to promptly depart for Bald Hills, to register a claim before the mining registrar on 12 January 1863. Stringer was attributed with discovering the goldfield and rewarded £100. Walhalla was to become Gippsland's richest and most famous goldfield. At first, alluvial gold was found, attracting further prospectors who were willing to tackle the arduous journey. In 1863, alluvial miners mined approximately 18 oz (510.29g) of coarse gold to the paddock. Also in 1863, prospector John Hinchcliffe discovered a rich quartz reef in the hill above the creek, which he named Cohen's Reef, after a storekeeper in Bald Hills. By 1900, Cohen's Reef yielded more than 55 tonnes of gold. As digging began for quartz, machinery was needed, and in turn, roadways were required to allow the heavy crushing equipment access. Campbell's Track was cleared as the most suitable route, although the steep descent of Flour Bag Hill resulted in the loss of many bullocks. A bridge, later known as Brunton's Bridge, was built across the Thomson River, and the route was taken from Toongabbie to Walhalla through Happy Go Lucky. On 4 February 1864, the first bullock dray entered the town, followed the next day by the first battery of stampers, for the Alpine Company's mine. However, the first battery at Stringer's Creek was erected by the Port Albert Company, followed by that of the Alpine Company. English writer Anthony Trollope, who made the journey in 1872, was amazed that 'immense masses of machinery' had been taken down the hill. Photos that date to this period show 17-horse teams en route to Walhalla. An easier descent into Walhalla was later found from Little Joe. When the Cobb & Co coach service commenced in 1869 the road was improved. Figure 90 Existing Heritage Overlay 8, Walhalla Township, with individual places shown within Statement of Significance: History Gold rush beginnings Walhalla was originally known as Stringer's Creek (the creek itself still holds this name), after Ned Stringer. Stringer, born Edward Randel, was a prospector and a former convict, who came upon the valley in December 1862 with two other Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 149 In March 1864, there were a total of 29 claims north of Cohens Reef and 16 south of it, and by the end of 1864 mines were beginning to amalgamate to increase funds and staff numbers. Early quartz mining companies included Walhalla Company, Long Tunnel Company, Squatters Junction, Port Albert Company, Alpine QMC (Quartz Mining Company), Stringers Creek QMC, South Gippsland Company, Empress Company and Emperor Company. The most prominent company was the Walhalla Company, after which the new mining settlement Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 was named. In 1881 this company was taken over by the Long Tunnel Company. The Long Tunnel Mine was one of Victoria's richest mines in the 1880s, and was proclaimed the richest mine in the colony in 1887. The Company paid out over £1.2 million in dividends to its shareholders before it closed in 1914. Other gold deposits in the vicinity of Walhalla were mined at Happy Go Lucky, Jubilee and Cooper's Creek, but these mines were of minor significance compared with Walhalla. Timber was the second biggest industry in Walhalla, as a result of prospecting. Early photos show the surrounding hills stripped of their centuries-old timber (including Alpine Ash), which was used for the construction of the mines and as fuel for machinery furnaces. In 1866 a one-mile tramway was constructed to carry firewood, for engines and domestic use, from the northern section of Stringer's Creek, as timber close to town was becoming scarce. Township formation In 1864 a weekly mail service reached Walhalla and the Walhalla Post Office was opened in August of the same year. In support of the rush, the Wesleyan church, a court of petty sessions, banks, hotels and other traders built the town up and by May 1866, the township of Stringer's Creek had been formally surveyed and officially named by the surveyor, William Dawson, as 'Walhalla', after the prominent Walhalla Company (Adams, 1980:52). It soon became evident that the original, low lying road through the town was no longer adequate and so by June 1868 the Government engineer laid out a new road that was constructed in two stages in 1868-69 - the stage final section required the construction of a large rubble retaining wall, which still exists today (James & Lee, 1975:24). As the township grew it began to assume an air of permanence. Further rock retaining walls were built throughout the town to regulate the Creek and prevent erosion and stone was also used to provide access to buildings that began to be built ever higher up the steep hillsides. One such building was the first Wesleyan Church, which opened in December 1866. The Mechanics' Institute and Public Library soon followed in 1867 and at first, served as a school, indicating the growth of the township, before State School No. 957 took its first enrolments in 1868. At its peak there were 567 students enrolled, before burning down in 1891 and being rebuilt the following year. By January 1870 the 'Walhalla Chronicle' newspaper was published and Walhalla was Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 150 connected to the telegraph line to Sale, before a second line from Woods Point was connected in 1880. Walhalla was proclaimed a Borough on 25 November 1872 and by 1878 the state government had constructed the first section of the main road from Moe. From 1879 Walhalla was connected to the Moe and Traralgon railway stations by daily coach services (Historic Walhalla, 'Building a community', accessed 23/6/2011). Parts of the Old Coach Road to Walhalla are still evident on current maps. Boom and bust In 1880 Walhalla experienced a brief mining boom and as a result was the second largest town in Gippsland, after Sale, with a population of 1,681 in 1881. Photographs of nineteenth century Walhalla show the built up main street snaking along the valley floor and hundreds of timber cottages lining the streets and hillsides (See James & Lee, 1975:36-9). In 1884 Walhalla was, for a brief period, the first town in what is now Baw Baw Shire to have a public electricity supply, provided by a plant at the Long Tunnel Mine, under the Long Tunnel Company. Electricity lit the mine as well as two public street lights at the main junction of the town, in order to prevent midnight pilfering of the nearby mine timber stores. The Long Tunnel Company also introduced the telephone into the mine in 1891. Throughout its history Walhalla experienced a number of natural and man-made disasters, including fires and flood. On 24 November 1888, a fire, which was started by a candle at Crawford's drapery store, destroyed 30 buildings in all - a majority of the main business area. This was followed by the August 1891 flood, a result of torrential rainfall. The flood took four lives and swept away buildings, bridges and sections of road. A fire in 1945 destroyed the Mechanics' Institute, Bank of Australasia and Catholic Church, before floods in 1952 and 1978 further damaged buildings. During the gold-mining period, many mines were in operation in the valley, some more successful than others. It was said that during its gold-mining era, Walhalla gave up an approximate total of 74 tonnes of gold, from a total of 1.4 million tonnes of ore. At its peak in 1900 there was approximately 2,800 residents in the town and eight hotels. The construction of the railway line to Walhalla began in 1904, after much community lobbying, Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 and was completed in 1910. However, by 1911 a majority of the mines were closed due to exhausted resources, bringing to an end the prosperous days of Walhalla. The decline of Walhalla as a mining town was in large part due to the shortage of fuel reserves by the local timber industry. poured into the little township'. The activities of the League encouraged the popularity of Walhalla as a tourist destination and potential weekender sites. Interest in the historic township was also fostered by the publication in 1970 by G.F.James and Lee of the pictorial history, Walhalla Heyday (Adams, 1980:131). The newly established railway provided a means for residents to leave the town. The railway was also used to remove industrial machinery and approximately 300 of the town's buildings to other Victorian locations, before the trains ceased to run in 1944 and the line removed in 1956. During this decline of the town, insurance-motivated arson increased to such a level that insurers began to only honour claims if buildings were reconstructed on their original site. As visitor numbers increased by the 1970s, the League acquired three remaining old shops, repaired them and offered them for lease in 1973. The activities of the League encouraged others to restore and re-open the remaining old buildings for tourism - the remains of the old bakery was restored for use as a cafe, Windsor House was opened as a museum and latterly as accommodation, and the old cricket ground was improved and re-instituted with an inaugural match held on Easter 1976 between a local team and cricketers from the Melbourne Cricket Club (Adams, 1980:132). The Long Tunnel Extended mine was also reopened for tourists in 1976, and the Harbinger battery machinery, from Dry Creek, was moved there to provide an interpretive display (Adams, 1980:132-33). Twentieth century decline The town's population further declined with the onset of World War I and more than half of the town's able-bodied men enlisted, most not returning or opting to leave Walhalla upon their return. In 1915, 17 shops remained open, 13 fewer than 1911. In 1918, Walhalla was annexed by Narracan Shire. By then school numbers had reduced to less than 50. As people moved away churches were closed or moved. The old St John's Church of England and the hall were removed, replaced by a smaller building that opened in 1919, while the Wesleyan and Presbyterian churches were dismantled by the 1930s (Adams, 1980:114, 1929). St John's is now the only surviving church in the town. The town was able to survive through the Depression of the 1930s as a result of the small amount of gold mining that still occurred. Part of this inter-war survival was shared by Italian mining families such as the Guattas who formed an Italian neighbourhood on the North Road, close to the former Chinese market gardens. The Italians also tended market gardens. The last train left Walhalla in 1942, however the arrival of the motor car meant the return of tourists in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1944 Charlie Lee founded the Walhalla Improvement Association or League to foster interest and pride in Walhalla. In the post-war era the League was active in the preservation of historic buildings, rebuilding or establishing walks around the hillside along the routes of hillsides and setting up facilities for tourists. It was the League who first reopened the old fire station as a museum and erected the first signboards and historic markers. In 1959 Walhalla celebrate a somewhat premature centenary on Australia Day when 'large crowds Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 151 Visitor numbers increased further once the road to Walhalla was sealed in 1993 (Herald Sun 19/4/2003:25), and the long-awaited connection of Walhalla electricity grid in December 1998 removed one of the main obstacles to development of more permanent tourist facilities in the town. The reconstruction of the Star Hotel soon followed in 1999, providing much needed accommodation in the town. In 2002, the Walhalla Goldfields Railway, a project that was first proposed in 1968 and recommenced in 1991, was finally brought to fruition carrying tourists on a reconstructed section of the track from Thomson River station to Walhalla station. There are plans to extend it to Erica. (Adams, 1980:133). In 2010 there are less than 20 permanent residents and the town is merely a shadow of what existed in the late nineteenth century, yet the buildings, trees, cemetery, and archaeological sites that remain provide evidence of the goldmining period and remain a popular and growing tourist attraction. What is significant? Settlement of Walhalla (originally known as Stringer's Creek) began after the discovery of gold by Edward Stringer in 1863. At first alluvial gold was found, which attracted a rush of prospectors, however, it was the discovery of a rich quartz reef that encouraged the establishment of a more Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013  permanent settlement. The town grew rapidly and was surveyed by 1866 when it was officially proclaimed 'Walhalla'. The first Mechanics' Institute and Public Library opened in 1867 and at first, served as a school before State School No. 957 took its first enrolments in 1868. Walhalla was proclaimed a Borough on 25 November 1872 and by 1878 the government had constructed the first section of the main road from Moe. By 1881 Walhalla was the second largest town in Gippsland, after Sale, and the population (including outlying areas) peaked at over 4,000 by the 1890s. The construction of the railway line to Walhalla began in 1904, after much community lobbying, and was completed in 1910. However, by 1911 a majority of the mines were closed due to exhausted resources, bringing to an end the prosperous days of Walhalla and it is said that the railway arrived just in time to 'take the houses out'. The towns population declined rapidly over the ensuing decades and many buildings were either removed or destroyed by fire. The absence of buildings as much as the presence of the original remnant buildings is an important part of the historic character of Walhalla. The lack of visible development dating from post-World War I is also important. Buildings and other structures dating from after 1920 (including those that are faithful reproductions of original buildings) and non-original alterations and additions to contributory buildings and structures are not significant or contributory. Significant and contributory elements: How is it significant? Significant and contributory buildings, structures, trees, remnants of gardens and other features in Walhalla associated with the development of the town from c.1863 to c.1915 including: The township of Walhalla is of historical, social and aesthetic significance to Gippsland, the Shire of Baw Baw and Victoria.          mining and other portable machinery such as the Farmer Robey Brown Co. Steam Engine, the former Horse Drawn Fire Cart; railway and tramways and associated infrastructure; market garden and associated house sites at the north end of Walhalla; tennis court and cricket ground sites; and Walhalla cemetery and associated fencing, buildings and monuments. Why is it significant? buildings including houses such as Barkley Square House, Windsor House and other surviving miner's cottages, St John's Church of England, Corner shops, the post office and residence, former Pearson Memorial Hospital, former Masonic hall and Wesleyan Church, bandstand, and recreated former fire station; significant trees that include a Magnolia grandiflora, a Douglas Fir, significant plantings within the cemetery and other mature exotic trees including Monterey pines and the signature Lombardy poplars singly, or in rows and groups scattered throughout the precinct; stone and timber retaining walls, particularly along the creek and road embankments but also retaining existing and former building sites; archaeological remains of buildings that have been removed or destroyed such as the former Bank of Victoria vault and the Junction Hotel chimney; archaeological remains associated with the gold mining and timber industry including remnant machinery and infrastructure, above and below ground; Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 152 The township of Walhalla is significant: Historically and socially as a tangible reminder of the settlement associated with Gippsland's richest and most famous goldfield, as well as supporting Victoria's richest ever gold mine the Long Tunnel Gold Mine and one of the State's richest quartz mining areas. Of all the Gippsland towns associated with the gold mining Walhalla was by far the largest and is the only one that has significant surviving built remnants today. The remaining buildings and landscape provide evidence of the status of Walhalla, which was once one of the largest towns in Gippsland, while the space between the remnant buildings provides a vivid illustration of the decline of Walhalla after the closure of the gold mines. The associated objects have the potential to yield further information about life in Walhalla during the peak years of development up to c.1920. (Criterion A) Aesthetically as a highly significant, picturesque and evocative cultural landscape. It is notable not only for its remnant buildings, scattered throughout the valley, but also for mature trees and other features such as the ruins, archaeological materials, abandoned mining Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 machinery and infrastructure, and dry stone walls that provide an impression of the original extent of the town at its peak. (Criterion E) Walhalla is of scientific (archaeological) significance as a place with potential to yield artefacts and evidence, which may provide further information about the technological history of gold mining. (Criterion C) Management:     Refer to individual place recommendations; provide for tree and paint controls within the Walhalla Township Heritage Overlay; provide for interior control as recommended for selected places; and extend the Walhalla Township Heritage Overlay to include the identified mining lease areas, Chinese Gardens, Cricket ground, with associated management. . References: Survey Notes 2013: Many new structures added since 1983-4: unclear on site what evidence was used for replications. Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: 67Hermes Heritage Database (DOI) Number 162194: Walhalla Precinct (Context Pty Ltd 2011) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 153 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Railway station sub-precinct: Walhalla to Moe Railway, Station Yard Reserve and Track Reserve Works Figure 91 First passenger train Walhalla 1910, with water wheel and flume at north end of station ground (James & Lee, 1970: 128) Location: Main Road, Walhalla Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 154 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Figure 92 Sub-precinct boundary mauve dotted line, within Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8: water wheel and former platform sites at north end. Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): P3 Place evaluation Heritage grading Place type: Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Estimated creation date(s): 1910- Heritage criteria satisfied: Period representation: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 155 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Railways-Southern Entry Precinct Statement of Significance: History Early moves for a railway to Walhalla included mine manager Henry Rosales' organisation of a Railway Trust in 1873, which was revived when Sale was linked to Moe, by rail, in 1877. Little success did not preclude the formation of a Walhalla Steam Tramway League in 1883, but whether tram-way or railway, parliamentarians were not convinced of Walhalla's future, being totally reliant on gold. A line from Moe to Moondarra was included in the Railway Construction Bill of 1890, but was not built. The Railway's Standing Committee of Parliament inspected sites for a narrow gauge line, from 1895 which reactivated the Railway League in 1897 and which reformed formally, under Sam Drakeford, two years later. With the support of local member, Albert Harris, an intention to build, was announced in 1900. By mid 1901, a bill was in preparation for the construction of a two feet six gauge (760 mm.) line, 44.2 km. in length between Moe and Walhalla (Adams 1980, pps.103f). Narrow gauge lines had already been constructed from Moe to Thorpdale in 1888, and from Warragul to Neerim South by 1892. (Harrigan, 1962 p.287) where the blossoming native hardwood timber industry was linked with markets just as, at Walhalla, the timber fuel to feed the boilers at the mines, was a demanding market. The Poverty Point tramway bridge, over the Thomson River, was built for the Long Tunnel Gold Mining Co. by 1900, to extend the timber supply to the mine's network of tramways. (Walhalla Chronicle, 22/6/1900) The first locomotive reached the Thomson River by September 1909, and to Walhalla, by October 1910, but station buildings at Walhalla were not complete until 1913 (James and Lee 1980,p.130). Stations or stops en route included: Gooding, Tyers River, Gould, Moondarra, Watson, Collins' Siding, Upper Moondarra (later Erica), and Platina, near Cooper's Creek. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 156 The ost totalled ₤ , and reputedly was the most expensive railway, per unit length, ever built in Australia. The constructing authority was the Walhalla Shire Council (as the Walhalla to Moe Railway Construction Trust). (Adams 1980, pps.11Gf, 107). The line closed between Platina and Walhalla in 1944; Erica to Platina closed in 1952 and Moe to Erica, in 1954. (Harrigan 1962,p.28) The Walhalla Station is now used as Hartwell Station. The Victorian Railways built four experimental 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railway lines in the State around the beginning of the 20th century. Although all were closed by the early 1960s, parts of two have been reopened as heritage railways.     Lilydale – Warburton Wangaratta – Whitfield Upper Ferntree Gully – Gembrook Colac – Beech Forest The site chosen for the Walhalla railway was also the site of another major structure in Walhalla: that of a large timber water-wheel which propelled water along a flume, to the north, feeding the Empress and Walhalla mines' batteries. Built, along with the flumes, by Warne and Guilfoyle in 1882 (Walhalla Chronicle 5.5.1882). The wheel was enlarged in 1885 (Walhalla Chronicle -2.1885) to 37 feet (11.278m) in diameter. (Walhalla Chronicle 24.4.1885) and is shown in photographs of the station yard's construction: the station building being sited on an iron-supported platform, over the creek and directly south of the wheel. (James and Lee 1980,pps.130-1) The station, as built, was typical of contemporary stations such as at Box Hill and Heidelberg, but it was of timber and not the typical red brick: it resembled the timber Fairfield Station (upside building 1911) It was gabled with half-timbering at the gables, and possessed a cantilever platform canopy. The engine shed was a gently gabled structure which stood at the first curve. Reconstruction works 1950s-80s: 1951-52: The father of nationally known Australian sculptor Clement Meadmore (Clement senior) of Melbourne cleared the line between Platina and Walhalla, ran trolleys over it and was negotiating to get a small steam engine and surplus carriages from the railways. In winter 1952, there was a major flood which caused huge damage and the small group gave up. Clement senior was a Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 vaudeville actor before opening a shop of model trains and engineering devices Thompson River by the Walhalla Goldfields Railway group. 1966-83: former Victorian Railways train driver Ron Kain tried to start from Walhalla and did a lot of building including some structures which remain today...he was fascinated with the styles of the some of the USA mountain railroads and went did not seek to emulate the original. This is reflected in the appearance of his remaining buildings. He was ...hampered by the fact that starting from Walhalla meant bridges had to be constructed straight away. Some of his volunteers formed the Walhalla Goldfields Railway (WGR) group in 1992 and decided to start from Thomson and reconstruct the line as closely as possible to the original. The Walhalla Goldfields Railway group started major reconstruction of the line in 1994 after a long history of partial and proposed works from the 1950s and the line reopened 2002 in time to provide alternative access after a rock slide closed the Walhalla Erica Road. Structures include: Walhalla station built on the opposite side of the track to the original, Happy Creek station used as temporary terminus during construction, the track way and associated timber trestle bridges, and Thomson Station at the Thomson River. Figure 94 Former station site on steel girders with concrete lined culvert under, feeding into stone lined creek. A masonry arched bridge supported the roadway over Stringer's Creek to the north of the reserve, replacing what was a timber bridge in the early 1900's. (James and Lee 1980,p.130): this may be unconnected with the railway, but is an impressive structure. More so, is the concrete and iron Thomson River bridge which comple-ments the other notable bridges in the locality; the Poverty Point Bridge and Brunton's Bridge. It also is the last major structure left on a rail route which was difficult to construct and spectacular when complete. Other details such as the fencing and construction of the station approaches, no longer exist. Of perhaps little relevance to the railway are several mature poplars which exist along the creek valley between Walhalla and the Thomson River. What is significant? The Walhalla Railway station sub-precinct (part Walhalla to Moe railway) includes elements from the Edwardian construction period: Figure 93 Recreated station building not on original site Description The earthworks (including the drystone walls and cuttings in the Stringers Creek gorge), railway ashpit and loco shed inspection pit, the Thomson River bridge (outside of precinct to south) and former station site and decking with concrete formed culvert are generally all that remain of the railway in proximity to the Walhalla township. Replica buildings have been built in the station yard and part of the line reconstructed to the Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 157      railway trackway and station yard reserves; railway construction earthworks (including the Drystone walls and cuttings in the Stringers Creek gorge); railway ashpit and loco shed inspection pit; and the concrete and iron Thomson River railway bridge (outside of precinct to south); concrete formed culvert and steel framed deck at original station site visible at Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 north end where water wheel once located. References: Associated elements: A masonry, arched bridge supporting the roadway over Stringer's Creek to the north of the railway reserve (gone?), several mature poplars which exist along the creek valley between Walhalla and the Thomson River. How is it significant? Survey Notes 2013: Much reconstruction, recreation since 1984. New station site, former concrete formed culvert and steel framed deck at original site visible at north end where water wheel once located. Further references: The Walhalla Railway station sub-precinct is significant historically and aesthetically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: Why is it significant? Precinct 3, the Railway Station Area. The opening of the railway from Moe in 1910 was most significant in Walhalla's history. In many ways it can be seen as marking the end of Walhalla's gold mining period, although its promotion related largely t o supplying this prosperous town and surrounding area. The line and associated buildings have since been taken up, but are obviously of local and regional significance and the site at the southern gateway to the town is prominent. The Walhalla Railway station sub-precinct is significant: Historically and socially as the physical evidence of a 30 year struggle by Walhalla residents to achieve a railway link to supply and augment the town's important mining industry and was the subject of much celebration in the town but also for the role it played in the removal of buildings from the town after the cessation of the mines in 1913-14. When built the line was the most expensive to construct per metre than any other in Australia and remains one of four narrow gauge lines built in Victoria and one of the few that were not wholly constructed by government. More recently it has been the focus of a major private undertaking to reconstruct and reactivate the railway (Criterion A). Technically and aesthetically, the rail track way earthworks and Thompson River bridge remain, individually, as visually impressive and substantial engineering achievements and may be compared to other contemporary narrow gauge lines such as the impressive, but technologically simple, trestle bridge and earthworks built between Neerim South and Noojee. The line is one of 4 of experimental 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railway lines built in the State. Management:    Research and investigate further the original station and water wheel sites towards reconstruction or interpretation; clarify on site what is original and what is recreation; reference as a significant and contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 158 67, 81- State Library of Victoria Image of culvert for Stringers Creek at station site next to water wheel. Title: Calvert construction over Stringers Creek, Walhalla Station yard [picture] Author/Creator: Wilf Henty photographer. Description: negative: glass ; 16.6 x 12.1 cm. (half plate) Copyright status: This work is out of copyright. Identifier(s): Accession no(s) H2002.106/15 Museum of Victoria 1940 image (MM00870) shows tracks and station buildings but wheel removed Rob Ashworth 2013: Elements associated: Railway ash pit and loco shed inspection pit (the ash pit was filled in after closure but reopened by WGR (Walhalla Goldfields Railway). In 2010 it had a genuine Puffing Billy NA class loco 7a parked over it for the centenary celebrations - first visit to Walhalla since 1936! Railway bridge No. 6 which has the original cast iron beams (these were dismantled and refurbished offsite in 1993/94 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Dry stone walls and cuttings in the Stringers Creek gorge (these were almost totally obscured during the railway's decades of dereliction) Previous work: 1951-52: The father of nationally known Australian sculptor Clement Meadmore (Clement senior) of Melbourne cleared the line between Platina and Walhalla, ran trolleys over it and was negotiating to get a small steam engine and surplus carriages from the railways. In winter 1952, there was a major flood which caused huge damage and the small group gave up. Clement senior was a vaudeville actor before opening a shop of model trains and engineering devices (See also http://artreview.com.au/contents/407601525clement-meadmore-nuanced-notes-and-steadyrhythms) 1966-83: Existing Victorian Railways train driver Ron Kain tried to start from Walhalla and did a lot of building including some structures which remain today...he was fascinated with the styles of the some of the USA mountain railroads and went did not seek to emulate the original. This is reflected in the appearance of his remaining buildings. He was ...hampered by the fact that starting from Walhalla meant bridges had to be constructed straight away. ... some of his ex-volunteers (including me) formed the WGR in 1992 decided to start from Thomson and reconstruct the line as closely as possible to the original. Newspapers: Morwell Advertiser (Morwell, Vic. : 1888 - 1954) 3 May 1901 WALHALLA. MOE-WALHALLA RAILWAY. At the last meeting of the local shire council it was decided to ask the Narracan Council to join in a petition to the Government, asking that the former body be constituted the railway trust for the whole of the construction area in connection with MoeWalhalla railway. There are not many properties to be rated in the Narracan portion of the district to be proclaimed, and much expense will be saved if the Walhalla Council is constituted the trust for the whole area. Joint meetings of two trusts would mean a large outlay, for travelling. Friday 7 March 1902 p 2 Article WALHALLA. MOE-WALHALLA RAILWAY. Matters in connection with the Moe Walhalla railway have Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 159 now assumed de finite shape., The sum of £2,500 required to be lodged with the state Treasurer before the line can be commenced has been raised locally pending the flotation of the loan. On Thursday Mr. Charles Amor, who undertook to advance the money, holding as security the cheques of the several mining companies (with the exception of the Long Tunnel) and of the principal property- holders of Walhalla and Moondarra, paid to the Railway Trust the amount, and on Friday morning the money was forwarded to the Treasurer .There is now nothing to prevent the line being started at any early date. Friday 21 March 1902 WALHALLA. MOE-WALHALLA RAILWAY. Matters in connection with the Moe- Walhalla railway are progressing satisfactorily. The notices to treat are to hand from the engineering chief's office, and will be served on persons entitled to compensation under the Lands Acquisition Act within the next fortnight. The announcement in "The Argus" of Thursday that an early start will be made with the line was welcome news to the residents. Altogether, about 40 property-holders will be entitled to compensation. The Railway Trust anticipates that all claims will be settled speedily and with little trouble. West Gippsland Gazette (Warragul, Vic. : 1898 1930) Tuesday 8 February 1910 "WALHALLA RAILWAY. The narrow-gauge railway line from Moe to Walhalla is now nearing completion, and passengers are now being carried to within a short distance of the mining township. The work of constructing the line, says the "Advocate," has proved very difficult, owing to the rough nature of a good deal of. the country through which it had to pass, but it is now practically finished, as the station site is nearly reached, and it is expected that passenger traffic will be in full swing before Easter time. The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982) Wednesday 20 August 1969 p 43 Article Illustrated WALHALLA A peaceful place of ghosts Story and pictures by BERYL PENWILL Walhalla, in the mountains of Victoria, once had a population of 4000. Now 24 people live there, it is a town that exists only on memories. ON a sunny spring day my husband and I travelled along the Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Princes Highway to Moe, where a sign one side of the bridge said, "Walhalla 30 miles," while on the other side the sign read, "Walhalla 29 miles." The ribbon of road wound up into mountains. We had awe-inspiring glimpses of the valley below, and the tips of young gum trees lining the road made a burnish of color from russet-brown to a crim- son glory. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 160 The wattles, late blooming in that area, flaunted the beauty along the creeks and river, and waved golden fronds on the hillsides. Sarsaparilla and "eggs and bacon" and other wildflowers embroidered the roadside. .….In the railway losed, ut a preser ation society is now rebuilding part of the railway and intends to run a train as a tourist attra tion.…. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Chinese Gardens Precinct Figure 95 James & Lee, 1970: 112 Figure 96 Part CA 123C, with added turning circle. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 161 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Figure 97 View across Ca123 to north, fruit trees on spur, with camper service block addition of 2102 at rear Figure 98 View north of CA123A Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 162 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Figure 99 Sub-precinct boundary with shaded areas denoting potential building remains (red- boundary of Heritage Overlay 8) Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): P4 (see also S15)    Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Crown Allotment: CA123A, C, B, Crown Grantee: Grantees: How Shaw, 1871 (A) Ah Sue 1871 (C), Ah Nin (B) c1869 Place type: Cultural landscape Place evaluation Heritage grading Integrity to creation date? Poor (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: , Condition: Fair Proposed heritage grading (A-D): Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): 1860sPeriod representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):   Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 163 Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: proposed part of HO8. Heritage Overlay name: proposed part of Walhalla Township Heritage Overlay Heritage contribution or significance   Potentially contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Northern Entry Precinct Statement of Significance: History The Crown Grantees of the late 1860s, early 1870s (CAs 123A, 123C, 123B), Ah Nin, Ah Sue and How Shaw, were part of a group of Chinese market gardeners in Walhalla, growing crops of cabbages and parsnips. In addition to these blocks other Chinese sought land adjoining on the west side of Stringers Creek in the 1860s, with existing land being cultivated as early as 1867. They used one of the few level, fertile river flats to grow vegetables for the people of Walhalla and occupied both the surveyed allotments, the Stringers Creek Reserve and adjacent Crown land. Further south, Ah Gwan's garden site was used for the new State School reserve in 1874 and part of Ah Nin's allotment was alienated for water and public purposes reserves (Adams 1980, p.58: Walhalla township plans CPO). Typical of other Victorian gold fields, the Chinese were subjected to harassment on the Walhalla gold fields but survived as essential suppliers of food for the mining community. Harry Bing was a Chinese gardener living at Walhalla in the 1890s. A photograph (c1900) of the area shows the flats, surrounding the creek, heavily cultivated with a flume irrigation system. Simple housing was constructed on the ridges and high ground (James and Lee 1970, p.112). Five small gabled cottages were located there, three on the spur track leading into the site from Main Road and two on the south flat nested into the south base of the spur at its west end. William Broadbent, in a typescript description of a 1912 visit to Walhalla, ... ' In marked contrast to the (old houses) we saw lying in the deep valley by the road a couple of Chinaman's gardens, beautifully laid and beautifully kept.. It is wonderful how these people make a success of Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 164 industries at which white men fail . .The only vegetables in Walhalla are grown by Chinamen.. .' The emergence of the Italian community at Walhalla North utilised some of the creek flats for vegetable gardens, carrying on the tradition of the Chinese, but like other cultivated areas, such as Gloz's vineyard, the failing popular demand meant their demise. A farm house and yard existed on this spur in the 1960s, the house being removed March 1986 to begin the construction of the Chinese Gardens camp site. This has subsequently been overgrown. Fruit trees show the of the former house site. Historic artefacts found then include the remains of a house and mine shafts in the northern section and the remains of the water flume in the southern section. By 2013 fruit trees are evident along the ridge at the former house site. A new Chinese Gardens camping service block was open here by Baw Baw Shire Councillor David Balfour Oct 2012 and depot store erected north of track entry into site. Timber bridge across creek below road embankmentturning circle on flat contrasts with former `gardens' character What is significant? Chinese Gardens Precinct includes the following contributory elements:      grassed two alluvium flats divided by the Stringers Creek and a low spur which held the track to the Walhalla Forest Road; house site on spur track marked by a line of fruit trees; timber bridge across creek to north flat; terracing in east embankment of south flat; potentially traces of building ruins in the west end, south base of the spur dividing the flat now overgrown. How is it significant? Chinese Gardens Precinct is significant historically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Chinese Gardens Precinct is significant. Historically, as an area that symbolises the former food production area of Walhalla at its boom period as well as presenting the typical goldfields Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 enclave of Chinese related to the perimeter of the town in a distinct settlement area or quarter(Criterion A). Further references: Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme Map 11HO- north of HO8 Management:  Include area as mapped in HO8 as contributory element. Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy files 1980 Photomap References: Survey Notes 2013: Fruit trees evident along ridge near former house site- new Chinese Gardens camping service block open Oct 2012 and depot store erected north of track entry into site. Timber bridge across creek below road embankment- turning circle on flat contrasts with former `gardens' character Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Figure 100 detail Buildings shown on north side of track in on spur and on south flat at north-west corner near stream. Grazing land on west side of creek. Newspapers: Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Building and rear shed shown on spur north side of track. Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Saturday 15 August 1868 Some scoundrel, during the early part of the a present week, cut the teats off six cows belonging to some Chinese market gardeners at Walhalla. Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Saturday 4 September 1869 NOTICE.--We hereby give notice that we have applied for a License to occupy two acres of land, more or less, under the 42nd clause of the Amending Land Act, 1865, on the western side of Stringer's Creek; and immediately adjoining the land now or lately held by How Haw (How Shaw?) and Ah Sue, market gardeners. AH LUN (`Ah Nin'?) . QUON NOEY. To W. W. Liddiard, Esq, Contract Surveyor, Sale. Walhalla, 26th August, 1869 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 165 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Tuesday 5 October 1869 WALHALLA WARDEN'S COURT. ... an application to be put in possession of crown lands at Walhalla on the ground of abandonment ..Dugald Lamond, sworn: Know the ground. Know the ground has been abandoned during the last six months. It is not fenced in. Have never seen defendant at work there. Ah Sue asked me to sell a portion of ground. Have seen applicant put timber there. He asked me to serve a summons on the Chinamen, as I was going home. Did so. There are indications that a garden existed two years ago... There is no fence unless it is here on the plan. Saw some Chinamen plant some cabbage, perhaps two months ago. I pass the land five or six times a day. Have never seen work done there, except by Redden. Cattle and pigs can get there...the land has been in bona fide use as a garden since June, 1867. The present defendant is the legal holder of one one eighth share of the land in dispute, and he has never abandoned the land. Edward Sydney Gutteridge, sworn: I am Mining Registrar of this division. Registration 1831 states, that a registration of garden ground is in the names of four men, situated between the garden of German Jack and Ah Sue. There have been subsequent transfers 'among themselves, which have been registered. I saw them sign this document. Gee Hup and Ah Sue have now a joint interest. This is the only transaction in regard to that land… Ah Sue, to Akehurst, through the interpreter, sworn on a match: I do not know the ground Mr Rodden has pegged off. I know the ground belonging to Gee Hup. I knew the ground 4 or 5 months ago. He used the ground for cabbages and parsnips. The ground belonging to Lee Sam has been used as a garden during six months He has cut parsnips and cabbages more than two year ago all along. There is one piece of fence where the cattle go through. ...I am partner to Gee Hup. This land on the plan adjoins the land of Ah Sue. The last time this man worked the ground is 6 months ago. He has got a fence on one side. How Shaw, sworn: I know the ground, it belongs to Gee Hup, he bought it of Lee Sam. Have known the ground for 2 years. He had kept it as a garden all along, and has got hay, parsnips and cabbage. ... The ground is about 30 yards from my ground. Ah Sue's ground is next to the ground applied for. To Warden: No person has lived on that ground. There is no house on the ground. Gee Hup sworn: I Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 166 brought the ground from Lee Sam. I have had parsnips, cabbage, and hay along. I have always used it as a garden. Cross-examined by Mt Emerson: I put in the cabbage myself three or four months ago. Mr Emerson : The case quoted by my learned friend is not a regular report of the Argus, but in the letter of the Ballarat correspondent, therefore it is not an authority. Warden: As a matter of convenience it is the practice to accept the Argus reports, although they are not binding. Mr Emerson: This ground has never been occupied by Gee Hop as a residence site. We have shown that it has been fenced in. The ground appears to have been under cultivation about two years ago. The Chinamen have taken up and transferred from one to another, and do not show even a miners' right. My client has been frustrated in every way by these men. We cannot find out who really owns the ground, first one and then another claims it. My client has complied with everything required, and we seek possession of this ground which the Chinamen unlawfully claim. Warden: The ground is transferred as a garden site, a business site right has a etter ter . .…. Warragul Guardian and Buln Buln and Narracan Shire Advocate (Warragul, Vic. : 1879 - 1894) Friday 23 September 1892 BUSINESS AMIONGST CHINESE. A WARRAGUL INSOLVENCY. - A SUM OF £361 BURIED IN A GARDEN. An examination sitting was held on Wednesday in the Insolvency Court in the -estate of James Chinin (a Chinese), of Warragul, storekeeper-. - Mr. P. D. Phillips appeared for the trustee of the estate, and Mr. Gaunson for the insolvent. James Chinin, the insolvent, examined, said,-I live at Warragul. I sold tobacco and cigars and tea and sugar. People called me a storekeeper. I was in business nearly four years at Warragul. My house. keeper, Mrs. Berry,: wrote letters for me. She was not my wife. She lived with me as housekeeper for a little over two years, and was with me at sequestration. I burnt letters from Mr. Phillipson and other papers as rubbish. When I left the shop I left my papers in a box, which the rubbish men took away and burnt. I got over £40 worth of goods from Phillipson in July and August. According to my schedule I owe Phillipson about £129. When filed my schedule I owed altogether £919, and my stock was worth between £80 and 90. I had then sold the goods I bought from Phillipson to Harry Bing (a Chinese). I told Mr. Phillipson's traveller that I wanted the goods for some people who were Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 getting married. Those people, however, did not send the money for the goods, and so did not let them have them. Harry Bing is a gardener living at Walhalla. In July I had about £400 worth of goods in my shop. I sent most of the goods out of my shop to Harry Bing. I put an account of the goods I sold to him in a book in Chinese. That book was burnt after I filed my schedule. I put it into the rubbish box. I sent the goods to Walhalla to Harry Bing in July and August. Over 80 packages were sent to him. I went to Harry Bing at Walhalla and told him I wanted money very badly. He asked me how much money I wanted, and I said between £200 and £300- He said "-All right, I can manage it. You send me full value, and I will let you have the money." So I sent him what goods I liked, as I knew that his money was sure. I got altogether in money from him £361 17i. Id. He paid me the money in his own house at Walhalla. He went out of the door and got it, and came back and paid it all in gold. He dug it up out of the ground with a long shovel. I owed Harry Bing a little money at sequestration, but I forgot to put it in my schedule. I owe him between £90 and £40. He paid me the full amount for my goods, and did not take off what I owed him. I did not pay the money I received from Harry Bing into the bank where I had an account at Walhalla. I paid it to a man named Ah Bing (a Chinese). He used to live with me at Warragul. He is away on a holiday now, He is at Walhalla He lives on his own money. He used to be a gold miner, He boarded with me for six or seven years, He left me about a fortnight ago. He often threatened to kill me. He was a very good friend to me before, but the last six months he bothered me. He said if I did not pay him the money he would " shoot my life". He is 76 years of age; I owe him £90 now. I owed him £390 also, which he got. He lent me £390 on the 1st July, 1889, and £95 afterwards. He has been .employed by Harry Bing at Walhalla, The goods I sent to Harry Bing were about 50 boxes of tea I had from the Victoria Tea Company; the Oriental Company, and other people, and I also sent him tobacco and jewellery and other goods, I did not carry on business after I sent the goods to Harry Bing. …I am a Christian. .. `The Argus': Thursday 22 August 1901 WARRAGUL.-At the Warragul Court of General Sessions, before Judge Hamilton, on Wednesday, Ah Sue, a Chinese Iaundryman carrying on business at Walhalla, was charged with being in possession of stolen goods, the property of Charles Henry Davis, .stationer, of Walhalla. The evidence disclosed the fact that the accused left Walhalla on Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 167 a carrier's wagon immediately after a robbery. The wagon was stopped, and the accused searched on the way to Moe. The stolen jewellery was found by the side of the accused in a parcel which was previously, seen in his pocket. Accused admitted a prior conviction, and was sentenced to l8 months' hard labour The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) Thursday 6 September 1906 AN UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANT. A CHINAMAN SENT TO GAOL. Melbourne, September 5. ' An interesting case under the Immigration Restriction Act was before the City Court to-day, when a Chinese, Ah Sheung, was charged with being a prohibited immigrant, and with having entered the Commonwealth on March 30 last contrary ' to the provisions of the Act. The evidence showed that the defendant arrived in Melbourne from China in the steamer Tsinan on March 28 last, and failing to pass the required test he was declared à prohibited immigrant. He, however, left the vessel two days afterwards, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The defendant stated that he bad been naturalised some years previously, and produced his naturalisation papers, with his photograph attached. He also stated that he bad previously resided at Walhalla, and in Little Bourke-street. He had been away for five years in China before be returned to Melbourne in March last. Several Chinese supported his statement, but Mr. Panton said that he did not believe the evidence, and sentenced Ah Sheung to a month's imprisonment. Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Monday 14 June 1909 At Walhalla Stringer's Creek is in flood, and at Glengarry, Toongabbie, Flynn's Creek and Traralgon South the country is flooded all along the line. Dozens of people are leaving their homes. The Chinese gardens have been washed away. Victorian & Hermes Heritage Databases 12432 Inventory site Heritage Victoria HI Site Card upload November 2011 (Jeremy Smith, Paul Roser 2001): Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 States terracing of gardens visible, probably used from 1870s for vegetable cultivation, removed in March 1986 to begin the construction of the camp site. Statement of Significance Historic artefacts include the remains of a house and mine shafts in the northern section and the remains of the water flume in the southern section. High archaeological & historical significance. The site potentially contains archaeological material relating to the late 19th century occupation of the site and particularly the operation of market gardens. (cite James, p112) Also cites other inventory Chinese market garden sites, mainly around river flats in gold fields with little or no evidence. Walhalla Historic Area Management Plan 1988 Management and Development This precinct is located at the northern end of the town. It has ample flat land, a good water supply (Stringers Creek) and easy access for both pedestrians and vehicles. It is ideally suited as a camping site away from the centre of Walhalla (see Figure 8, page 58). Precinct 4 Chinese Gardens The Chinese Gardens includes the space covered by the Watering Purposes Reserve (allotments 123 C and 123 A, designated an Area of Historic Interest), the Stream Reserve and public land. There are few historic artefacts in this precinct but the landform is considered significant. This was one of the few places occupied by the Chinese in Walhalla. History The Chinese Gardens were used by a small group of Chinese market gardeners in the mining period. They used one of the few level, fertile river flats to grow vegetables for the people of Walhalla. They occupied both the titled allotments, the Stream Reserve and the public land within the precinct. Since the mining period the land has been purchased by a number of individuals. A small house was built on the public land segment in the 1960's near the two allotments and the land was used as a small hobby farm. In April 1982 the National Parks Service purchased the land with the intention of creating a low key camping site for Walhalla. The two allotments (123C and 123A) have recently been reserved as an Area of Historic Interest under the Crown Land (Reserves) Act. Description The precinct is divided into two by the meandering Stringers Creek and contains two alluvium flats created by the creek. A low spur runs between the two flats upon which the track to the Walhalla Forest Road is built. The house and farm yard were built on this spur in the 1960's. The house was Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 168 The precinct will be available for camping when unrestricted street-side camping is stopped (see 2.4.5). CFL began developing the camping ground in March 1986. Further work is expected to continue for another year. It is recommended that hikers camp on the northern section of the precinct in order to reduce development over the creek and within the northern flat. E coli bacteria counts are a major concern in Stringers Creek. Continuous monitoring of the creek at the Chinese Gardens is necessary to keep a check on water safety. The Chinese Gardens is an important destination for tourists as the town ends here. It is necessary to link the precinct to the centre via an extension of the Tramway Track thereby allowing visitors to walk the full length of the town. This pedestrian track will also provide a link between the North Gardens and the Chinese Gardens for campers (see 2.2.3). Historic Protection - Only the landscape is of historical significance within the precinct. It should be retained by keeping the two alluvium flats clear and level. This is easily achieved by allowing camping in these flat areas and restricting development to other locations. Although minor historic artefacts are not significant their conservation should be encouraged to contribute to the overall historical character and to assist minor interpretation of the site, i.e.: Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 "... Camping is permitted in the Chinese Gardens where the flat areas of the original market gardens can still be seen ..." Management Prescriptions: Development of a camping ground at the Chinese Gardens should continue with the design that includes a camp site for hikers The creek will be monitored for E. coli bacteria levels. The precinct will be connected to the adjacent precinct and North Gardens by the Tramway Track The alluvial flats will be kept clear of future development Historic artefacts will be conserved from development where possible Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger CA123A 1917 James Watson, Walhalla CA123B last dealing 1920 CA123C last dealings: Ah Sue of Walhalla - paid by Toni Shinato Walhalla Victorian Public Records Office: Ah Loon selection file under 42nd section of Act: 17484 1869 License application under Act, for 3 acres in Walhalla adjoining How Shaw, Ah Sue for market garden Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 169 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Vault and site of Bank of Victoria Figure 101 Bank vault with cabbage tree palm behind and significant plane tree at rear Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place type: Bank Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S01 (see also V1, V2) Integrity to creation date? Poor Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Bank of Victoria, Estimated creation date(s): 1889 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Crown Allotment: CA25 Crown Grantee: James A. Yarra, 1866 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 170 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading   (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): D Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): strongroom walls of English bond brickwork and a basalt floor; `Cordyline australis' or Cabbage Tree at rear semi-mature specimen (see Heritage Overlay) . The opening has been subsequently trimmed with pressed red brickwork and a picket fence and interpretive sign added. How is it significant? Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8, also HO252 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township, also Cabbage Trees next to old Bank vault Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: History A branch of this bank was opened in September 1865 and a permanent building and residence was commenced in 1868. This was the point of departure for police escorted gold shipments to Sale or Traralgon. (Adams, J. 1980,pps. 48,50 52-3) The fire of November 1888 destroyed the bank and it was rebuilt by contractor E. Dunham, to the design of architect W.S. Law (Adams, J. 1980.p.71, Trethowan, c1976); this included a strongroom eight by nine feet (2.4384m x 2.7432m). (James, G.F. and Lee, C.G. 1970.p.52). It was closed, after the mines in 1915 (Adams, J. 1980.p.113) What is significant? The Bank of Victoria site and bank vault structure includes the following contributory elements: Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 171 The Bank of Victoria site and bank vault structure are significant historically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? The Bank of Victoria site and bank vault structure are significant: Historically, the bank was the biggest and grandest commercial building (excluding hotels)in the town and possessed greater architectural pretensions than any other buildings and was the leading institution in the changing of gold into money. The remaining strongroom is the sole reminder of a building of that once had a major regional presence. The cordyline specimen is indicative of planting associated with the site over along period (Criterion A). Management:      address conservation issues, including need of shelter to halt plant growth in structure and water damage; enhance and protect by enclosing site, in a sympathetic manner and ensuring against erosion of brickwork by rain water and damp; provide interpretive literature showing original bank building; investigate if former building foundations remain and consider this area as a protected adjunct to the vault; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 References: James & Lee: 18 Survey Notes 2013: Vault site surrounded by timber picket fence. `Cordyline australis' or Cabbage Tree at rear semimature specimen, assumed derived from mature plant there in 1984. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Figure 103 c1874-5 image shows first bank building and ornamental side and rear garden Museum of Victoria Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Image 157943 (states 1919, later?) shows vault, potentially cordyline to south east, and trees to north State Library of Victoria 1949 image (unclear) shows no planting near vault. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Victorian Railways, Old site of Mechanics Hall & Bank of Victoria, Walhalla. Date(s) of creation: [Sept. 9, 1949] Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Victoria Accession No: H91.330/2481 Image No: a27758. Image No: jc01700 1966: shows mature cordyline to south east and grasses on roof, similar to existing Plaque on site: `stored 72 tons of GOLD FROM DISTRICT, value at Old Price ₤3/10/- per oz. ₤ , , ; Value at $600/oz. $1,400,000,00. Doors weighed 16 cwt (800K) Building Removed to Moe.' Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: Significant vegetation on roof, harming structure; 1980s – unsympathetic brick capping placed above door Newspapers: Figure 102 Image 1983 showing large cabbage tree palm Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 172 Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Saturday 18 November 1865 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 The Britannia Reef Quartz Mining Company have now sold nearly all their reserve shares, and the manager proceeds at once to Melbourne with Mr. Yarra, the engineer, to provide machinery and plant Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 173 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Grand Junction Hotel and Shops sites, shop chimney, later called Junction Hotel site and fire place Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place type: Site Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S02 Integrity to creation date? Poor Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Catherine & John Parry (hotel), Catherine Gillies Estimated creation date(s): 1873, extensions 1886-7 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: CA 44,44A Crown Grantee: John L. Roberts 1866 (CA 44) Catherine Parry 1885 (CA 44B), John Parry 1873, (CA 44A) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 174      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: By 1908-9, Elizabeth Ryan was the licensee and the owner, Catherine Gillies of Windsor (presumedly Catherine Parry had remarried). In the same complex were now three shops,one leased by John O'Sullivan and the other by John Waldron, hairdresser: these were to the south of the hotel. (Rate Books, Borough of Walhalla 1908-9, 135f) The rubble-stone chimney base which now exists, against the stone wall, was not that of the Grand Junction Hotel, but appears to have belonged to a shop(s) to the south of it which existed after 1885. (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970,p.35) What is significant? The Grand Junction Hotel and adjoining shops sites, and remaining shop chimney includes the following contributory elements:   Historic Town Centre Precinct a rubble-stone chimney base set against the stone retaining wall of Church Hill Road, apparently once attached to a shop(s), set in a grassed verge. Signage, gabled shelter and picket fence added. Statement of Significance: How is it significant? History The Grand Junction Hotel and adjoining shops sites, and remaining shop chimney are contributory historically to Walhalla. Hu ert Floran e applied for a pu li an’s li ense to occupy this site as the Junction Hotel in 1867. An early photograph c1874 shows the two-storey Grand Junction Hotel and a one-storey shop to the south of it, set against the recently completed stone wall (1869) (James, G.F. and Lee, C.G. 1970 pps. 6, 25, 34, 56). J. Parry's acquisition of extra land at the rear of Roberts' grant indicates the hotel's construction date as 1873. By 1884, a resurvey revealed that the shop was partly on the roadway and CA44B was created to accommodate it and sold to Catherine Parry in 1885. (Survey Plan, stamped 25/7/1884, CPO) It was presumedly another shop which was constructed soon afterwards. The hotel was extended at the rear, in 1886-7 and John Parry was dead by 1892. (James, G.F. and Lee, C.G. 1970, pps 34-5, Walhalla Cemetery Register) It appears that in 1884, the house and shop were occupied by Eugene O'Donnel, a baker. (Voters' Roll, Borough of Walhalla (CA 44). Later photographs show renovations including new show windows. (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970,p.62) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 175 Why is it significant? The Grand Junction Hotel and adjoining shops sites, and remaining shop chimney base are contributory. Historically as remnants from the peak of Walhalla's boom period and has associations with one of its two larger hotels, the Grand Junction Hotel of 1873. The rubble stone base complements the significant rubble stone retaining wall adjoining (Criterion A). Management:     Record chimney photographically with scale, draw to scale; investigate footings or previous buildings, demarcate their former sites on ground; maintain shelter and revise to a simpler fence as required; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 References: Survey Notes 2013: Site marked by a rubble freestone chimney set under a recent timber framed gabled shelter with corrugated iron roofing, within a picket fence. A timber brace has been inserted in the fireplace. It abuts a cutting into the hillside, west of a row of Lombardy poplars and is adjacent to the significant 1867 stone retaining wall. The land is adjoining the right-hand branch of the Stringers Creek. of stairs before being led out the front door. The hotel was delicensed in December 1913. After a short spell as a boarding house it was dismantled and part removed to Traralgon. The large stone retaining wall behind the hotel and remaining today was built by John Rutter in 1869. (with image from c1897) James & Lee: 62 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Figure 104 Museum Of Victoria Further references: Plaque on site (Origin unknown, assumed 2000) The Junction Hotel was built in late 1865 by John F Williams. In 1872 the hotel was renamed the Grand Junction Hotel by its new owner William Fuller. It became Walhalla's only 3 storey hotel. A cow once entered the top storey entrance off Church Hill Road. It had to be led down two flights Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 176 Figure 105 View detail to Grand Hotel late 1860s (153496, MOV) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Figure 106 Grand Junction Hotel after 1886 expanded form (State Library of Victoria) Newspapers: the Walhalla company's mine, which having completed they have determined to return to the abandoned coal seam. There are a number of quartz miners residing at Walhalla who followed the pursuit of coal mining in the old country, who do not hesitate to affirm that they would gladly resign all claim to quartz mining, in favour of their original occupation, and which some of them would supplement by investing a portion of their savings in assisting to develop what to the colony of Victoria would be an invaluable discovery, if proved to be permanent. The two discoverers referred to, leave Walhalla in a few days, for the purpose of resuming work on the seam, and we shall therefore, probably, ere long, be in a position to supply particulars of an important and interesting character relative to the coal field in question. Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Saturday 19 January 1867 Monday 24 May 1880 …HUBERT FLORANCE, now residing SI, at Walhalla, in the colony of Victoria, … seeking issue of a Pu li an’s License, for a house situated at . Walhalla … containing three a sitting. rooms and five bed-rooms, independent of two rooms required by my family. 3 now licensed and in my occupation, and - known as-the Junction Hotel.. Win. Adamson alias D. C. Croix, acrobat, gymnast, artist, and dissolving view exhibitor, was summoned by Catherine Parry, proprietress of the Grand Junction hotel, on two separate claims, the first being for board and lodging, amounting to £10 12s, and the second for moneys lent at different times amounting to £7 15s. The defendant did not appear, and an order with 5s costs and the full amount was made in each case. Gippsland Guardian (Vic: 1855 - 1868) Monday 23 December 1867 Longfellow's Gold Mining Co., registered, Walhalla. NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary Meeting of the above-named Company will be held at the Grand Junction Hotel, Walhalla, on Thursday, 23rd January, 1868. Business: To authorise the Directors to borrow such sum or sums of money as the meeting may direct, and to give the requisite security therefore. G. S. HARTRICK, Manager. Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Wednesday 1 May 1878 About four months ago, a meeting of miners who were formerly employed on the English and Scottish coal-fields, was held at Parry's Grand Junction Hotel, for the purpose of learning from two of their number the particulars of a discovery made by them on the sea coast (Kilcunda?), but which for the time had been abandoned for want of funds to prosecute the working of a valuable seam of coal. Since the meeting referred to, the two prospectors have been working a contract in Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 177 Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle (Vic. : 1882 - 1918) (about) Tuesday 27 November 1888 GREAT FIRE AT WALHALLA A fire of a most serious kind and which has done an immense amount of damage, occurred in Walhalla about 7.30 on Sunday evening...The course of the fire was only stayed at last by a change of wind, which enabled the residents to prevent the flames getting a hold of the Grand Junction Hotel. Wet blankets placed on the roof prevented sparks from igniting, and the breeze also assisted in preventing the flames from catching the hotel. Warragul Guardian and West Gippsland Advertiser (Warragul, Vic.: 1894) Tuesday 16 January 1894 TO HOTELKEEPERS!!! FOR POSITIVE SALE. THE GRAND JUNCTION HOTEL, WALHALLA. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 THE Proprietress, Mrs. Catherine Parry w ho is retiring from business, has decided to offer for absolute Sale this valuable, old-established, and well-known hostelry, together with the good-will, furniture and fittings. Stock to be taken at valuation. The Hotel, which contains 12 bedrooms, parlors, spacious dining room (25ft x 15ft.), handsome bar, two bar parlors, billiard-room with an excellent full-size table by Alcock, has all requisite kitchen and outhouse conveniences, a useful garden at the rear, and large and commodious stabling for 12 horses. Fryer & Rogers' line of daily coaches put up at the house. The property is most advantageously and centrally situated at the junction of the two main arteries of the town, in the immediate vicinity of the famous LONG TUNNEL GOLD MINE, which has already returned ONE MILLION SEVENTY-TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS in DIVIDENDS. Terms: Part Cash, balance on easy terms, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent. APPLY-MR. F. C. TRICKS, Walhalla. … The Maffra Spectator (Vic.: 1882 - 1920) Monday 9 August 1897 It will be interesting to many of our readers, more especially old residents of the ranges, to learn. That Mrs Catherine Parry, for many years the proprietress of the Grand Junction hotel, Walhalla, has decided to spend the remainder of her days in her native town, Cappamore, Co. Limerick, Ireland. Some little time ago it was mentioned in these columns that the lady referred to, had taken her departure from this colony on a trip to the old country in company with Mrs John Gilbert, but we believe it was then her intention to return to Australia. Mrs Parry in her younger days resided at Matlock in the early days of the gold rush to that district and Wood's Point, and recollected many amusing incidents and stirring scenes of the diggings, when champagne and other drinks were paid for in nuggets of gold It is worthy of mention as a coincidence that only in recent years she had the good fortune to hold a large interest in one of the resuscitated mines of the Matlock district, from which she obtained the bulk of her income before retiring from business in Walhalla, and which we believe she still retains. Morwell Advertiser (Morwell, Vic. : 1888 - 1954) Friday 21 February 1913 LICENSING EEDUCTION BOARD. TEN HOTELS CLOSED. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 178 The Licenses Reduction Board gave its reserved decision at Walhalla on Monday, when it decided that the following 10 hotels shall be closed. Commercial Hotel, Toongabbie. Prince of Wales Hotel, Cowwarr. Shamrock Hotel, Glengarry. Criterion Hotel, Walhalla. Grand Junction Hotel, Walhalla. Hibernian Hotel, Jordan. Jericho Hotel, Jericho. Junction Hotel, Aberfeldy. Toombon Hotel, Toombon. Union Hotel, Happy-go-lucky Gippsland Times (Vic.: 1861 - 1954) (about) Monday 12 January 1914 On Sunday evening last Mrs P. O'Sullivan, of the Grand Junction Hotel, which closed its doors on the 31st December in accordance with the decision of the Licenses Reduction Board, was presented with a gold wristwatch as a token of esteem from the boarders at the hotel and a few personal friends. Rev. Father Shanahan, in making the presentation, referred to the recipient's many amiable qualities, and ill so doing felt quite confident that he was voicing, the feelings of those present. The rev. gentleman wished Mr and Mrs O'Sullivan every success and happiness, and was quite sure they would make many friends wherever they went. Mr Pace also supported the remarks of Father Shanahan and -said how had the pleasure of Mr and Mrs O'Sullivan's acquaintance for many years in Woods Point previous to their coming to Walhalla, and in the former place the lady's excellent qualities were also well known and appreciated. He trusted that success would attend them both when they again launched out in business. Mr Maurice Rice heartily endorsed all that had been said by the previous speaker. Mr P. O'Sullivan made a happy responses on behalf of his wife. Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: Late 1980s – protective roof erected, now deteriorated Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Cemetery Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA 5X, 5y, 5y2 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S04, P2 Crown Grantee: Reserve 1873 Place type: Cemetery Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Colonial Government, Walhalla Cemetery Trustees, Estimated creation date(s): 1868Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):     Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 179 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013  Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: A, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): A Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Reserved for buildings of major importance whose architectural intactness, quality of style is of very high standard; which represent significant stages in Walhalla' s development; or which have unusually strong social or historic associations. Of state-wide importance. Figure 107 Reinstated perimeter picket fence Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? Yes Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO22 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Cemetery, Off Main Road Walhalla Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Cemetery Precinct Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 180 Figure 108 graves on terraces with pressed red brick and dry stone retaining walls Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 town's population peaked at 4,500 between 1885 and 1895. There has been a cemetery at this site since at least 1866, although Walhalla Cemetery was not temporarily reserved until 1873 nor permanently reserved until 1894. It has been enlarged in size several times and now comprises 1ha prominently sited on a steep hillside on the eastern side of the Walhalla Road and Stringers Creek at the southern end of the Walhalla Township. Access is gained via a meandering track up the hillside. The cemetery is surrounded by bushland consisting of predominantly eucalypts and acacias while within the cemetery itself aged `Pinus radiata' dominate. Other conifers and smaller exotic trees are present in lesser numbers. In 1884, trees and shrubs from the Mt Macedon Colonial nursery were planted at the cemetery, and more again ten years later. A large Bhutan cypress grows from the top of one gravesite. Figure 109 Monterey pines at Walhalla cemetery The picket fence that encloses the cemetery to the west and north replaced an earlier fence in 1984. The stumps of original fence posts can still be seen along southern boundary. Close to the main entrance is the Sexton's Office, built in 1886. The main cemetery paths run parallel to the slope, terraced by dry stone walls with access to graves by paths and stone steps running in various directions. A total of more than 1,100 people are known to have been buried in the cemetery, although less than 200 graves can now be located. Headstones vary between white marble, unpolished grey slate with cast-iron fences, timber memorials and timber picket plotfences. Many graves are marked by modern timber pieces nailed together to form a T. Figure 110 Recent Monterey pine removal Statement of Significance: (Derived from Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H1976) What is significant? Gold was first discovered at Walhalla in 1863. Alluvial gold was worked first and from 1864 larger companies started bringing in stamper batteries to work the reefs. Walhalla's Cohens Reef became the richest gold-bearing reef in the world. The Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 181 Many of Walhalla's leading residents are buried in the cemetery in clearly marked graves. Most notable are Lewis Loan, owner of the Star Brewery in Walhalla, and Henry Dendy of Brighton. Dendy, the purchaser of the Brighton Special Survey in 1841, became a shareholder of the Thomson River Copper Mining Co in the 1870s and died in the town in 1881. Contributory and significant elements include:    cemetery reserve land, grave sites and memorials; pathways as 1899 Thomas survey; sextons lodge (c1886-) and timber picket perimeter fence as replicas of previous structures; Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    two `Cupressus torulosa' planted in a unique location, of outstanding size, assumed planted on the site following the final burial of the Holmes family in 1878; An impressive and significant collection of `Pinus radiata' along the north boundary and near the lodge, one tree in particular as of outstanding height and the group among the largest in the State, `Picea abies' (2), `Cupressus semperverins', `Cupressus lusitanica' (4, 2 outside entry), `Pinus nigra' var.maritima, and `Prunus laurocerasus' (2); and Bulb species including foxgloves, jonquils, bluebells, arum lilies, and rose bushes; How is it significant? Walhalla Cemetery is of historic, social and aesthetic (landscape) significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? Walhalla Cemetery is historically and socially significant as tangible evidence of the former status of Walhalla, one of the most populous nineteenth century Gippsland towns, and one of the most prolific gold producing towns in Victoria. The cemetery represents, by virtue of the majority of its burials before the First World War, the gold mining population of the area. There was no life after gold in Walhalla. Cemeteries are sometimes the only tangible evidence of earlier communities (Criterion A, G). Walhalla Cemetery is aesthetically significant for its steep topography, which demanded a unique layout of parallel paths, terracing and dry stone walls, in contrast to the more favoured formal layouts characteristic of contemporary cemeteries on flat land. The exotic plantings are characteristically sombre and melancholic. The magnificent large and mature coniferous trees dominate the cemetery and the dark foliage and formal shapes are in contrast to the bush setting. Pine and Cypress trees were favoured trees in cemeteries for their symbolic associations (Criterion E). Management:  Significant trees should be itemised and located in Heritage Victoria's citation and plan as proposed; Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 182     guide to significant graves and planting should be prepared and published to allow interpretation of the place; in general, native tree removal from reserve and mature exotic retention; a Conservation Management Plan should prepared, adopted and executed towards conservation of significant headstones and plantings and replanting to match identified existing, based on the existing Royal Botanic Gardens tree management plan, with a view to preserving the range, numbers and precise type of trees planted there by c1899 (for example: planting of `Cupressus fune ris’, `Pinus wallichiana, Cedrus dedora, Abies pinsapo (Spanish Fir), `Pi ea s ithiana’ ; reference as significant contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Includes a number of identified significant trees (National Trust of Australia (Vic)), rebuilt sexton's lodge, picket fence and gateway of the 1980s, and interpretive signage. A number of large trees have been cut down (Monterey pines) with stumps remaining. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Precinct 2 The Walhalla Cemetery is almost wholly connected with the town's goldmining era and contains the graves of significant people from that era. The cemetery's siting and visual elements, its historic plantings and range of headstone types all contribute t o making it a particularly important area of the town. Place report: Cemetery Reserve, Gazetted 6/6/1873. History A cemetery had initiated as early as 1866-7 and was located between land facing the Alpine Co. and Trafalgar Co. crushing plants. Trustees were appointed in 1868 and contract surveyor, Arthur Walker, surveyed a 2 acre reserve around an existing 1/2 acre fenced site, in December Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 1872. (Adams 1980, p.57; Walker, Plan of proposed Cemetery Walhalla December 1872 (CPO)). The reserve was proclaimed in 1873 and the old cemetery formed its north-west corner. Plans of 1892 exist showing a new cemetery site of five acres, north of Pearson Town. A further two acres was proposed to be added in 1893. It is unknown how this related to the present cemetery or if it was used: although it was fenced in 1894. A track was cut to the old reserve and its edges and the south and east sides of the reserve were fenced with pickets in 1899, by Tempest and Alderson of Happy-Go-Lucky. The existing old paling fence w a s repaired on the west and part of the south boundaries. (Plans and Specifications held by Walhalla Cemetery Trust) . Photographs of c1907 show a full extent of picket and paling fencing on all sides, leading to a gate on a track from the north west . A sexton's lodge resembling the present one appears i n a photograph of c1889. (James. and Lee 1970, .pps. 65,71,120). Persons interred at Walhalla, include those who represent the once thriving populous of the gold era and those who, as well, represent notoriety achieved outside of the town. Lewis Loan (26/C) won prizes internationally with his Star Brewery (1885-) produce (CA95, 96A) during the 1880's after coming to Walhalla from Rosedale in 1867. The Governor of Victoria, Sir Henry Loch, was said to favour Loan's ales.(Adams, J, 1980 pps. 53,70) Brighton's ' founder ' , Henry Dendy, Snr. Dendy and Henry Dendy Junior, were buried at Walhalla (1881, 1905, 1905): Dendy having taken out a Special Survey in the Brighton area in 1841, and come to Walhalla i n 1871. (Walhalla Cemetery Register; Adams J. 1980 p.75) Surveyor, Oliver P. Whitelaw, who surveyed many Gippsland towns and tracks and had an office in Walhalla during the 1880s, was drowned in the great flood of 1891: he is buried at plot 20/7. Generally, most burials have occurred in t h e period 1880-1910 (Walhalla Cemetery Register) and thus t h e cemetery and its headstones. Represent Walhalla's golden era. DESCRIPTION Landscape History Headstones In 1884 and 1894, trees and shrubs were planted in the cemetery from the Mount Macedon Colonial nursery , which was then under the control of William Guilfoyle, curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens. (The Guilfoyle name is also mentioned in the cemetery register as having arranged for the burial of William Rutter , in 1898). The steep hillside site and availability of local stone have determined the graves should be built (as with the buildings) on rubble stone malls on the downhill side and cut into the hillside on the upper. This is a characteristic of the Walhalla Cemetery. However the denuding of the hillside and dearth of established pathways has meant that these walls , and their headstones have subsided. Headstones vary from white marble and unpolished grey slate, with cast-iron fences, t o the rare carved timber headstones with associated picket plot-fences, . Go the Henry Edward Beech, 1884 (3/6) and John Scarf, 1885 (5/6) -both are i n poor condition. The grave of Jonathan Keen (1888) is the most ornate stone (10-11/5): a draped urn carved by Huxley Parker and Co., Melbourne. Other Masons include C. Cross, Johnston Street, Collingwood who executed the renowned brewer, Lewis Loan's headstone 1898 (26/C). A photograph (c 1906) shows that there were numerous timber enclosures with turned corner posts : most of which have gone. (Ibid). A photograph of c1893-7 shows a concentration of mature trees (conifers) in the north-west corner (old part) of the cemetery with younger trees in the north-east corner and lining the western boundary. Another photograph (c 1907) shows the same conifers, but more matured. Species range from columnar cypress to pines some shaped as the Monterey pine others as the Norfolk Island pine. (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970 pps. 67, 120; Harrington Collection, Windsor House) Many of these are obviously old species…. Buildings The sexton's lodge that exist s appears to be a remnant of that constructed by undertaker, James Barry, I n 1886. (Adams, J, 1980 p.75) General Significance People Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 183 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 The cemetery represents, by the majority of its burials, the gold mining population of a specific era. Unlike other prominent gold towns, such as Bendigo, Walhalla did not achieve a l i f e after the gold period and hence the cemetery is almost wholly connected with Victoria's gold mining era (c 1148 burials). Of other 'ghost towns' Walhalla achieved the highest yield of money returns in Victoria. Hence its, and its cemetery's importance. Walhalla was listed as one of 20 ' A' Class cemeteries in a recent State-wide survey which used thematic and regional parameters for its choice. (Refer Cemeteries of Victoria, L.P. Planning (nd.) Walhalla cemetery is also magnificently sited and planted and contains a range of headstone types, some rare timber monuments and the graves of persons of regional and State-wide importance. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Further references: Recommendations The importance of the cemetery to Walhalla and its history is discussed in section 3.6.2. The management and appearance of the cemetery and its environs are important elements in the future of the town and the effective interpretation by visitors of the role of the cemetery in the development of Walhalla. A detailed assessment of the cemetery should be undertaken to identify areas where restoration work is required. It is recommended that consideration be given to the restoration of the sexton's lodge, the small timber structure near the entrance to the cemetery, which is in disrepair. Information to assist in visitor appreciation of the cemetery and significant burials which have occurred, should be presented, possibly within this structure. Consistent with recommendations for other parts of Walhalla, the cemetery should remain operational, as long as space is available and identified historic parts of the area, the character of the cemetery and views within and to it, are not adversely affected. The cemetery precinct incorporates only the cemetery ground itself, but It is recommended that future structures on land in the vicinity, particularly between the cemetery and the road, be assessed to ensure no visual intrusion occurs. Reference to Appendix 5: Guidelines for New Buildings and Works, as well as "Walhalla Heyday" (pp.41,64,67,120,128,130) should be made in this regard. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 184 Walhalla Graveyard to Cemetery (Y Reynolds, 2007) Extensive reference on town and cemetery, useful for guidebook source. Walhalla Cemetery Landscape and Management Study 1986 (John Hawker, RBG) Essential reference on cemetery planting: complete tree list of 45 mapped with management options. Walhalla Township Parish Plan (See also Black, 1899 survey) West half of reserve (and Heritage Overlay) is utilised for burials Newspapers: Saturday 27 July 1867 Among the various topics which legitimately appertain to the functions of our Town Committee of ten, that of the condition of the grave-yard of Walhalla is the most prominent. Our fellow towns men-and there are many yet among us who were here when this place was first formed, and who named it "Stringer's Creek,"-judiciously chose as "a' final resting place for those of their comrades who died in prospecting the reefs that spot of ground which is now made a graveyard. It is situated on the eastern side of the creek, facing and between the Alpine battery and the Trafalgar crushing machine. There are several graves fenced in--they have- head-stores bearing the names of those who are interred beneath; also there are Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 many graves, but no record is made as to who is there buried. This land is open as yet; animals of all kinds traverse the graves without hindrance ; men, dogs, and pigs defile the bones of our dead. This ground has not yet been consecrated according to the rites of any church denomination. I think that this demands of our elected Council, immediate attention, as I understand the etiquette of procedure appears to be, that a memorial sent from the town, recognised and sanctioned by the minister told off for the district, to the proper authorities, will command the attention the subject requires. Certainly a proper representation made, stating the case, would, upon its merits, demand the notice of all who are capable of entertaining the idea that the last resting place of man should not be desecrated or polluted Hermes Heritage Database 71481 National Trust of Australia (Vic) significant trees `Cupressus torulosa' x2 Unique location Outstanding size Two fine specimens, both in excellent condition. The specimen from which the data was collected is in a most unusual location - on top of a grave site. It is assumed that this tree was planted on the site following the final burial of the Holmes family in 1878. Measurements: 08/1985 Spread (m): 10.8 Girth (m): 2.5 Height (m): 29.6 Estimated Age (yrs): 107 Condition: Good Access: Unrestricted Classified: 09/05/1985 Hermes Heritage Database no.71483 National Trust of Australia (Vic) `Hesperocyparis lusitanica' or Bentham cypress Unique location Outstanding size Outstanding example of species A very large and old specimen being a dominant feature near the entrance to the cemetery. This is an unusual variety in Victoria displaying flattened sprays. Also known at St Fillans, Narbethong and Queen Victoria Park, Beechworth. Measurements: 05/1985 Spread (m): 26.3 Girth (m): 4.7 Height (m): 19 Estimated Age (yrs): 120 Condition: Good Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 185 Access: Unrestricted Classified: 09/15/1985 Hermes Heritage Database No.71482 `Pinus radiata' with other conifers as follows: Unique location Particularly old Outstanding size An impressive collection of this species - one tree in particular is of outstanding height. This historic planting comprises Cupressus torulosa (2), Picea abies (2), Cupressus semperverins, Cupressus lusitanica (4), Pinus nigra var`.maritima’, and Prunus laurocerasus (top of grave). This tree is amongst the oldest Pinus radiata in Victoria and the entire planting is of State significance and warrants a tree management and re-planting program. Measurements: 05/1985 Spread (m): 16.8 Girth (m): 5.05 Height (m): 55.8 Estimated Age (yrs): 120 Condition: Fair-Good Access: Unrestricted Classified: 09/05/1985 Victorian Heritage Register Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H1976 Heritage Overlay Number HO22 Extent of Registration 1. All the building marked as follows on Diagram 1976 held by the Executive Director: B1 Sexton's Office 2. All the land known as Crown Reserve RS8691 permanently reserved for a cemetery within the area marked L1 shown on Diagram 1976 held by the Executive Director. Figure 111 Sexton’s lodge, cemetery Newspapers: Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Gippsland Times (Vic.: 1861 - 1954) Saturday 20 June 1868 A meeting, of the inhabitants of Stringer's Creek was held at the Mechanics' Institute, Walhalla, on Monday, the 15th inst., at seven o'clock p.m., for the following purposes --"1:To take into consideration a draft of memorial to Government, with respect to the roads and bridges of the district. 2.--For the appointment of trustees for the Walhalla Cemetery. " 3.-To receive the report of the Council of Ten, as to their actions since their appointment. To receive the resignations of the said Council, and for the appointment of their su essors. ".…."The ondition of the cemetery should be brought under the notice of the government, and an application made for the regulated allowance to fence in the same...The following gentlemen were then elected to be trustees of the Walhalla cemetery, representing various religious persuasions :--Messrs. Gairdner, Akehurst, Hanes and C. Murphy Secretary of the Sale cemetery, for copies of rules and other information. Carried. Moved by Mr. Williams, seconded by Mr. Harris-" That Messrs. Gairdner and Akehurst be deputed to go with the surveyor who may be sent to survey the ground, and to select additional land, to comprise two acres in all. The meeting then adjourned. Gippsland Guardian Thursday 29 October 1868 Sickness among adults and children has been rife with us during the last few weeks, and several of the latter have succumbed to its effects. Only yesterday a child of Mr J. English's was interred in the Walhalla cemetery, the cause of death being diphtheria. Over 100 influential inhabitants of Walhalla followed the remains. This is the seventh child that has died from the same disease during a very short period `The Argus': Saturday 8 August 1891 FUNERAL OF MR. WHITELAW. Saturday 27 June 1868 WALHALLA, FRIDAY. The first meeting of the trustees of the Walhalla cemetery, took place this evening at C. Murphy's, Shamrock Hotel. Present-Messrs. Gairdner, Williams, Murphy, Harris and Akehurst. Mr. Gairdner in the chair. The remains of the late Mr. O. P. Whitelaw, Government mining surveyor, who was drowned in the flood on Monday night, were interred in the Walhalla Cemetery this morning. The deceased's father-in-law, Mr. Moon, and his eldest son were present, having arrived from Melbourne last night. The deceased gentleman leaves a wife and nine children, who reside at Caulfield. It was proposed by Mr. Harris and seconded by Mr. Murphy, that Mr. Gairdner be chairman, and Mr. Akehurst hon. sec. to the trustees. Proposed by Mr. Harris, seconded by Mr. Murphy-"That the secretary write to the Honourable the Chief Secretary, Melbourne, to have the trustees gazetted at once, to have a grant of money paid (not lent) to the trustees forthwith, to have forms, Books , &c., supplied, and to have the land surveyed, and granted to the trustees; also, to write to Mr. Surveyor Dawson, and to the Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 186 At a meeting of the shire council held last night the following resolution was passed:— "That this council do form itself into a committee, with power to add to its number, for the purpose of taking steps to ascertain the damage done, and afford relief to the sufferers by the late disastrous flood." Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company sites including machine bases Figure 112 Long Tunnel GMC complex (MOV, Donation from Arnold & Lloyd Rodda) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 187 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Figure 113 Site perimeter (blue) includes mining lease, Crown and freehold sites (red existing Heritage Overlay 8): existing park covers CAs 33, 34, 35, 36 Figure 114 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (boilers, power house to north CA34, 35, battery to south CAs29,30, 32) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 188 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S05 C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of our cultural or natural History Crown Allotment: CA29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 Heritage planning status: Crown Grantee: Crown land Place type: Mining site Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Historical associations with persons or events? Planning precinct: Major owners or occupiers: Long Tunnel Company, Historic Town Centre Precinct Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, Figure 115 Long Tunnel GMC complex c1910 after expansion of battery in 1908 (James & Lee: 111) Proposed heritage grading (A-D): A Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. F: Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 189 Figure 116 Machinery base from boilers and power house, adjoining car park, CA34 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 1913 - May Under Long Tunnel Gold Mines No. Liability Co., the mine reopened. 1914 - December closed forever Total Yield; 813, 664 oz. (25,427 tonnes) Total Di idend; ₤ , , What is significant? Former Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company mining sites that include:    Figure 117 Machinery bases and terracing at former battery site on adjoining hillside, behind CAs 29, 30, 32 Statement of Significance: History Long Tunnel Company 1863: Company formed Claim Nos. 9, 10 North Cohen's 1867 - after two adits driven, some success at 30 feet (9.1440m) below creek level. 1867 - tunnel enlarged, well shored and a machine chamber excavated (86 feet X 21 x 13 high or 26.213m x 6.4008m x 3.9624m)) and winding and pumping machinery erected. 1871 - until this date , crushing had been carried out in the North Gippsland Company's plant (15 head) but purchase of Claim No. 8 (Wellesley Co.) and its machine sites plus the Royal Mail Hotel (CAs 34-35) enabled the erection of a 20 head crusher and pyrites plant 1875 - new winding machinery and an already 25 head (total) crushing plant was increased to 40 head by 1877. 1881 - purchase of mine and plant of the Walhalla Company and Great Extended Walhalla lease: the Walhalla battery was used for the Long Tunnel Extended crushing. 1884 - electric lighting installed in battery and mine also telephone (Adams 1980, p.67) 1884-8 Walhalla and Empress shafts reworked 1894 - new concentrating plant erected. 1901 - extended workings covering t h e whole valley: lease area 251 acres (101ha 5761.0m²) and level 23 reached in shaft, 2284 feet (696.16m) below the adit level; total 45 (1) and 30 (2) heads of stamp. 1908 - new battery 1913 - March mine ceased operation Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 190   leasehold area land; Mine adits in hillside; 1908 battery site and engine House plus other building sites and land on and at the rear of CAs 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36; three machinery bases (south-north) rubble stone and concrete walls with studs , brick base, and a concrete bases; and other footings visible under plant growth. How is it significant? Former Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company mining sites are significant historically and scientifically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Former Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company mining sites are significant. Historically, as a characteristic and well-preserved example of an important form of gold mining. Gold mining sites are of crucial importance for the pivotal role they have played since 1851 in the development of Victoria. As well as being a signifi ant produ er of Vi toria’s nineteenth century wealth, with its intensive use of machinery, played an important role in the development of Victorian manufacturing industry. The Long Tunnel Mine was Australia’s ri hest gold mine during the s and one of the State’s ost profitable mines (Criterion A). Scientifically, because it contains a unique collection of relics belonging to the company’s 1908 upgrade. Of particular note is the wellpreserved evidence of the metallurgical process used by the company to unlock gold from heavily mineralised ore. Evidence of these metallurgical processes, such as the one carried out by the Long Tunnel Company, are extremely rare in Victoria (Criterion F). Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Archaeological potential—The Long Tunnel Battery and Ore Processing Works has good integrity and high potential to yield artefacts and evidence which will be able to provide significant information about the technological history of gold mining (Criterion F, C). Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 (showing post-mining structures) Network values—The range of historical features, in combination with an extensive photographic record and physical attributes of the Stringers Creek Valley produ e one of the State’s ost evocative and unique cultural landscapes. The Long Tunnel Battery and Ore Processing Works forms an integral part of this landscape (Criterion A). Further references: Management:    Any mining artefacts from the boom period pre 1914- should be recorded and mapped in detail and reassessed; significant below ground elements should be assessed archeologically and monitored where possible in any future mine workings; provide for new specific mining Heritage Overlay to cover at least the lease area and adjoining land on east to road, with associated management and meanwhile reference as a significant and contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8.. References: Survey Notes 2013: Site mapped west of Long Tunnel building outlines in 1899; adjoining and below tramway; mullock dump defined by lease boundaries; considerable built elements behind CAs 30, 32 (37.942446, 146.450028). Also adit in hillside above on tramway (37.94, 146.45 , with recent steel headframe (37.942518, 146.449629) signed as Long Tunnel Extended. Another tunnel with green steel door (37.942336, 146.449637). Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: 39The Mining Environment 1871 lease boundary map, State Library of Victoria Shows lease boundaries Walhalla Valley of Gold: 160 Image of LTGMC battery shed and recent image at rear of house. Historic Mining Sites Assessment Project GIPPSLAND: Jordan-Aberfeldy-Donnelly's Creek:28 PLACE NO. & NAME: 18.0 LONG TUNNEL MINE SITE Values: Mine: Regional Battery: State Tramway Regional 18.1 LONG TUNNEL BATTERY 18.2 TRAMWAY Walhalla Goldfield HI No. 18.0 H7723-0607 18.1 H7723-0670 18.2 H7723-0222 LOCATION: Walhalla township MUNICIPALITY: Baw Baw Shire Council LAND USE/STATUS: Historic Reserve DPCD Walhalla Goldfield Notes www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005 /44591/Walhalla.pdf Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 191 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Supple, R (?) n.d. Typical Sources:     Adams, J., Mountain Gold: a history of the Baw Baw and Walhalla country of the Narracan Shire, Victoria, Narracan Shire Council, 1980 Murray, R.A.F., 'Report on the Geological Survey between Walhalla and Toombon', Appendix A to Mining Surveyors' Reports, June 1885 (report dated April 1885) tonnes of firewood and 1142 tonnes of mine timber - in 1900, Long Tunnel mine extended tramways to the south and erected a steel bridge across the Thomson River. 1901-14: Long Tunnel Co. re-formed - sank new incline shaft - new period of prosperity from 1906 new plant installed, including new 30-head battery (1908) - company ceased work in 1914 - total dividends = £1,283,400 - mine had a vertical depth equal to 3,675 ft, and worked its lowest level at 3,625 ft. Newspapers: 1863-81: Walhalla Co. on Cohen's Reef was for many years the most successful and productive company on the field - first crushing in 1865 declared several dividends, 1867-9 -erected furnaces and Chilean mill to profitably treat tailings - during 1870s, dominated the local mining scene, along with Long Tunnel cos. - absorbed by Long Tunnel Co., 1881. 1880s-90s: Innovations introduced to Long Tunnel mines included electric lighting at Long Tunnel battery and mine in 1884, chlorination works in 1888 (old Empress Co. battery was modified for the purpose), and telephone system in Long Tunnel mine, 1891. 1887: Long Tunnel mine hailed as premier mine in colony - paid its 200th dividend in Sept 1887 - total dividends had reached £1,032,000 or £430 per share - by end of 1888, however, the mine failed to declare a dividend, for the first time in 19 years - in 1887, Walhalla field was second only to Bendigo in production. 1888-1901: Long Tunnel mine began sinking a shaft at the northern end of the 9th level - levels from this shaft began to be profitable in 1891 - by 1894, co. had 40-head battery and used old Walhalla Co. 30-head battery to crush for Long Tunnel Extended - in 1898, dividends had reached £1,201,800 - in 1900, increasing costs of production exceeded declining value of stone raised - mine closed down in 1901, pending reconstruction 1891: Flood scoured out creek bed and caused banks and hillsides to collapse - carried away buildings, bridges and roadway - masses of waterborne debris caused destruction of Long Tunnel mine works. 1899-1900: Heavy and continued demand for timber - in 1899, Long Tunnel mine used 19,254 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 192 Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954)Wednesday 1 May 1878 The additions now made and completed to the Long Tunnel Company's battery, we are reliably informed, will be of a profitable character to the shareholders, inasmuch as they combine great economy of fuel, and also increased crushing power. The engine is purely of colonial manufacture, being supplied by the Fulton Foundry Company, Yarra Bank, Melbourne, and who hold a high character for furnishing machinery of this description. We can further state that the engine, after trial, has been admired by every practical visitor who has seen it at work, and also its construction is so contrived, that it can be made to cut the steam off at any given portion of the stroke, without having to stop, and by which improved arrangement the economy referred to will be shown. If necessary, the new engine can be worked up to 75 horse power, with entire safety. The new plant works well, and is a credit to the manager, Mr Thomson, and his engineering assistants are also deserving of notice, including Messrs McNeil and Dear, from the Fulton Foundry Company, Melbourne. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Gold Mining Company sites, later part Long Tunnel Mine Company complex Figure 118 Walhalla GMC lease dump, tunnel Location: Main Road, Walhalla Figure 119 Walhalla GMC lease boundary (Walhalla Catholic Church Site 34), see Walhalla battery site to south of lease near CA75 (S34). Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 193 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Figure 120 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S06 Crown Allotment: West of CAs 23-8 (cited in 1999 as CA 27, WEST OF) Crown Grantee: Crown land Place type: Mining site Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, Integrity to creation date? Fair Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B Condition: Fair Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Walhalla Mining Company, Estimated creation date(s): 1860sPeriod representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 194 Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of our cultural or natural History F: Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Figure 121 Walhalla Catholic Church adjoining Walhalla GMC dump with skillion roofs of Long Tunnel GMC battery in foreground c1875 (James & Lee: 25) Statement of Significance: History Walhalla Company 1865: Company formed Claim No. 7 North Cohens Being first registered in 1863 and with first crushing in 1864, it became the leading gold producing mine in the area until 1870, when the Long Tunnel Co. exceeded its yield. 1863 - First adit was 70 feet (21.336m) above the creek and the second (main) adit at creek level, had reached 280 feet (85.344m) by the end of 1865. 1868 - buddle, Chilean mill and roasting furnace, for pyrites treatment, erected. 1870 - machinery chamber excavated in main tunnel 1871 - machinery erected and shaft sinking started. 1872 - 20 head stamper erected. 1877 - acquired United Walhalla Company's leases. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 195 1879 - shaft reached 600 feet (182.88m) and drives of 1338 feet (407.82m) and 1500 feet (457.20m) were made with little reward. 1881 - mine closed and re-opened as Long Tunnel Company. Total Yield (1865-80): 142,414 oz. or 144,000oz (4037kg 368.98g). Claimed Dividends: ₤228,478 Long Tunnel Company 1863: Company formed Claim Nos. 9, 10 North Cohens 1867 - after two adits driven, some success at 30 feet (9.1440m) below creek level. 1867 - tunnel enlarged, well shored and a machine chamber excavated (86 feet X 21 x 13 high or 26.213m x 6.4008m x 3.9624m) and winding and pumping machinery erected. 1871 - until this date, crushing had been carried out in the North Gippsland Company's plant (15 head) but purchase of Claim No. 8 (Wellesley Co.) and its machine sites plus the Royal Mail Hotel (CAs 34-35) enabled the erection of a 20 head crusher and pyrites plant 1875 - new winding machinery and an already 25 head (total) crushing plant was increased to 40 head by 1877. 1881 - purchase of mine and plant of the Walhalla Company and Great Extended Walhalla lease: the Walhalla battery was used for the Long Tunnel Extended crushing. 1884 - electric lighting installed in battery and mine also telephone (Adams 1980, p.67) 1884-8 Walhalla and Empress shafts reworked 1894 - new concentrating plant erected. 1901 - extended workings covering t h e whole valley: lease area 251 acres (101ha 5761.0m²) and level 23 reached in shaft, 2284 feet (696.16m) below the adit level; total 45 (1) and 30 (2) heads of stamp. 1908 - new battery 1913 - March mine ceased operation 1913 - May Under Long Tunnel Gold Mines No. Liability Co., the mine reopened. 1914 - December closed forever Total Yield; 813, 664 oz. (25,427 tonnes) Total Di idend; ₤ , , What is significant? Walhalla Gold Mining Company sites include:    ore dumps; land and mining artefacts within the lease boundary as mapped in 1871; Walhalla Mine adits opposite CA's 22, 23, and hillside west of tramline; Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013  Walhalla Mining Co., Battery Site, north of CA75 (S34); How is it significant? Walhalla Gold Mining Company sites are significant historically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Walhalla Gold Mining Company sites are significant. References: Survey Notes 2013: Not mapped in 1999. Walking track west from Main Road with Walhalla GMC plaque, along south of CA27. Clearing at tramway above dump, with machine bases, concrete paved areas, tracks west into hillside around 37.942933, 146.449178- on Walhalla lease; 1872? battery site south of lease near CA75. (battery site pictured) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Historically, established 1863, as the first to crush quartz with a worthwhile result and thus established the lasting reputation of the reef and the name of the town itself. The mine and battery reli s are asso iated with Walhalla’s peak ining period when the field was second only to Bendigo in gold production. The range of historical features, in combination with adjoining sites, an extensive photographic record and the distinctive physical attributes of the Stringers Creek Valley produ e one of the State’s ost e o ati e and unique cultural landscapes (Criterion A). Scientifically, containing a range of well preserved features, which document the different mining operations undertaken on the site (Criterion F). Further references: Archaeological potential— with good integrity and high potential to yield artefacts and evidence, which will be able to provide significant information about the technological (Criterion C). Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: 39The Mining Environment 1871 lease map State Library of Victoria Management:    Any mining artefacts from the boom period pre 1914- should be recorded and mapped in detail and reassessed; significant below ground elements should be assessed archeologically and monitored where possible in any future mine workings; provide for new specific mining Heritage Overlay to cover at least the lease area and adjoining land on east to road, with associated management and meanwhile reference as a significant and contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. North boundary of lease shown extending on north boundary of CA73 west up over tramway and into hillside, south boundary extends west from opposite Post Office. Historic Mining Sites Assessment Project GIPPSLAND: Jordan-Aberfeldy-Donnelly's Creek PLACE NO. & NAME: 19.0 WALHALLA CONSOLS MINE Value: Regional Walhalla Goldfield HI No. H8122-0081 LOCATION: Walhalla Township MUNICIPALITY: Baw Baw Shire Council LAND USE/STATUS: Historic Reserve Assessed by: Bannear Date: 1998 Walhalla Heritage & Development League 2000 Plaque on site: `The Walhalla Gold Mine Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 196 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 The Walhalla Gold Mine was one of the town's earliest, largest and richest mines. This name is thought to have been coined by its Scandinavian born mining manager Henry Rosales. His inspiration was 'Walhalla' which, in Norse Mythology, was the abode of Viking heroes slain in battle. The mine was to eventually yield some 144,000 ounces (4,100 kg) of gold and distributed £228,478 in dividends during the period 1864 to 1881. Such was the significance of the mine, that `Walhalla' was adopted and gazetted as the mountain settlement's new name in 1866. Declining yields and profits from the Walhalla Mine saw the Long Tunnel Mining Co. purchase' Victorian Government Gazette Friday, December 09th 1864 Walhalla Gold mining company application for registration under the Mining companies limited Liability Act 1864 by company manager John Canute J Johnson with a list of shareholders names attached DPCD Walhalla Goldfield Notes www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005 /44591/Walhalla.pdf Supple, R (?) n.d. Typical Sources:     Adams, J., Mountain Gold: a history of the Baw Baw and Walhalla country of the Narracan Shire, Victoria, Narracan Shire Council, 1980 Murray, R.A.F., 'Report on the Geological Survey between Walhalla and Toombon', Appendix A to Mining Surveyors' Reports, June 1885 (report dated April 1885) 1863-81: Walhalla Co. on Cohen's Reef was for many years the most successful and productive company on the field - first crushing in 1865 declared several dividends, 1867-9 -erected furnaces and Chilean mill to profitably treat tailings - during 1870s, dominated the local mining scene, along with Long Tunnel cos. - absorbed by Long Tunnel Co., 1881. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 197 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Church Hill Road stone retaining wall Figure 122 Church Hill Road retaining wall with Stringers Creek wall in foreground. Location: Main Road, at Church Hill Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA 41A, NORTH OF Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S07 Crown Grantee: Crown land Place type: Retaining Wall Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Victorian Colonial Government, Estimated creation date(s): 1869-1873 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 198 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): A Statement of Significance: History The early settlement grew up along Stringers Creek. The first official town survey in 1866 enabled the first sale of township allotments, which caused 'excitement and uproar' and further stimulated the growth of the town. It soon became evident that the original, low lying road through the town was no longer adequate and so by June 1868 the Charles Rowand Roads and Bridges Department engineer laid out a new road that would avoid both a precipitous descent from the spur opposite the original prospecting claim and the 'long drag' through the quagmires along the creek (James & Lee, 1970:13-14). Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? Yes Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics F: Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO27 Heritage Overlay name: Stone Retaining Wall (North of CA 41A) Main Street, Walhalla Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 199 Work began in October 1868 and the first stage was completed before the heavy mid-winter rains. In August 1869 works continued to continue the new road northward along the lower slopes of 'Eastern Hill' and to bring it down to street level directly opposite the Long Tunnel Mine (James & Lee, 1970:14). This final section required the construction of this large dry stone retaining wall. The new road and wall can be seen in a c1873 photograph (James & Lee, 1970:24). Contractors who worked on the Walhalla roads in that period included: Contract for Melbourne to Walhalla Road with 2 ridges ₤ / W Gil our ; Sale to Walhalla Road with ridge o er Tho son R ₤ P Platt; Sale to Walhalla Road additions ₤ P Platt 1869; Contract for Melbourne to Walhalla Road clearing and for ing ₤ Alfred Chitts & Co ; Contract for Melbourne & Walhalla Road approa hes to Walhalla ₤ Willia Ellingworth 1869; Walhalla Road i pro e ents ₤ Willia Ellingworth 1870; 1873 road through Walhallatwo bridges and approaches and 12 chains of etalling ₤ C&E Millar, addition of ₤ ; Widening roadway at Stringers Creek Junction, Walhalla Thos Te pest & Thos Anderson ₤ 1885. Construction of the roads and retaining walls was sought by a group of prominent local figures who sought to promote the town prior to gaining Local Government status. They had unsuccessfully sought registration of the town as a Borough in Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 1869, before gaining the status of Borough in 1872. the fire engine house has at least four large holes in the wall. Subsequently the `stone wall' has become a landmark and meeting place, used to describe crime scenes and known as a long-term meeting place. Other mainly dry stone retaining walls are evident within the township of Walhalla. They hold the creek walls and retain the cliffs at the southern end of the township. The date of these walls is not known but they vary in construction technique. Description What is significant? This stone retaining wall is situated on the south side of Main (Walhalla) Road at the intersection of Church Hill Road. The wall measures approximately 12 metres tall at its peak and is approximately 50 metres long, with a slight curve, falling in height to approximately two metres at the west end. It is constructed of randomly horizontally laid fieldstone, with a single vertical row along the top. A small section at the west end is finished in dressed stone. The technique is reminiscent of that used in early Tasmanian stone bridges. Cement has been applied to the bottom section in an apparent attempt to repair or stabilise it - this is evident in photos dating to 1974 (National Trust file notes B3552). The stone of the top portion of the wall appears to be a different colour, laid with a different mortar (with a bitumen-like appearance). The same mortar is used to lay the vertical stones at the top. The wall, considering its age, is in relatively good condition and remains very intact to its original appearance, which is documented in early (c.1873) photographs in Walhalla Heyday. This wall is the largest of a series of dry stone walls constructed in Walhalla during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is an important feature of the historic cultural landscape in the town. This is one of several stone retaining walls within Walhalla. Directly opposite is the stone retaining wall, constructed c.1874, which runs along the creek, on the north side of the road. The smaller retaining wall, north of the road, runs for approximately 43 metres from the bridge near the bandstand to the fire museum, then continues south past the fire engine house for approximately another 32 metres. It is evident that the wall along the creek has been damaged at various times (probably during floods) and has been repaired using mortar and different construction techniques. A photo circa 1952 shows the centre of town after a flood, with damage to the wall (Gallop 2010:28). The wall continuing south past Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 200 The Church Hill Road retaining wall, constructed in c1869 south of Main (Walhalla) Road, Walhalla at the intersection with Church Hill Road includes the following significant and contributory elements:    a dry stone retaining wall to the north side of Church Hill Road measuring approximately 12 metres tall at its peak and is approximately 50 metres long, with a slight curve, falling in height to approximately two metres at the west end. construction of random rubble, horizontally laid fieldstone, with a single vertical row along the top. A small section at the west end of dressed stone. How is it significant? The Church Hill Road retaining wall is of local and potentially State historical, social and aesthetic significance to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Church Hill Road retaining wall is significant. Historically, as one of the earliest surviving structures in Walhalla and provides evidence of the infrastructure improvements made after the first township survey in 1866. The dry stone wall provides evidence of the growing permanence of Walhalla as it grew into a significant sized settlement in the mid-nineteenth century including the need for a new main street. (Criterion A) Socially, the `stone wall' has become a landmark and meeting place, used to describe crime scenes and known as a long-term meeting place (Criterion G);. Technically, the wall represents a major achievement given the construction date and exposure to severe elements and events (Criterion F). Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Aesthetically as a landmark feature that is an important element within the historic cultural landscape in Walhalla and complements a network of dry stone walls throughout the town. (Criterion E) Management:    Assess for addition to the Victorian Heritage Register; assess its restoration using the original dry stone techniques and removing large mortar joints; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Victorian Government Gazette Office of Roads & Bridges, Victorian Colonial Government Thursday, December 31st 1868 Contract for Melbourne to Walhalla Road with 2 ridges ₤ / W Gil our; Sale to Walhalla Road with bridge over Tho son R ₤ P Platt . Friday, December 17th 1869 Sale to Walhalla Road additions ₤ P Platt Friday, December 31st 1869 Contract for Melbourne to Walhalla Road clearing and for ing ₤ Alfred Chitts & Co Contract for Melbourne & Walhalla Road approa hes to Walhalla ₤ Willia Ellingworth Friday, September 23rd 1870 Walhalla Road i pro e ents ₤ Willia Ellingworth Friday, January 17th 1873 Road through Walhalla- two bridges and approa hes and hains of etalling ₤ C&E Millar, addition of ₤ 89 Friday, December 18th 1885 Widening roadway at Stringers Creek Junction, Walhalla Thos Te pest & Thos Anderson ₤ Friday, March 26th 1886 Walhalla Shire constituted (previously a borough of 1872) Victorian Public Records Office Contract drawings signed by Charles Rowand. Hermes Heritage Database (Department of Infrastructure) Number 32270, (Context 2011) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Newspapers: Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) 15 April 1871 BURGLARY. John Reginald Wilkins was placed at the bar charged with this offence. The prisoner made his appearance with a nonchalant air, assumed, but evidently ill at ease, and laden with voluminous documents and a formidable-looking book, evidently prepared to entrust his defence to his own abilities... Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: 53Rubble stone Retaining Walls, Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 201 I am a miner, residing at Walhalla. Remembered the 19th February. Heard report of fire arms about 12 o'clock that night. I saw the flash from some kind of fire arms, and then I saw a man run up the right hand branch of the creek. He had a dark jacket on at the time. The jacket produced is the one the prisoner had on ashen he spoke to me at Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 the stone wall This was after the pistol was fired. He had also light pants on. I heard him say, sharp work for the eyes." He appeared excited, panting very much, and could hardly speak.…. The Maffra Spectator (Vic. : 1882 - 1920) Thursday 29 November 1888 Saturday 1 March 1873 ...flames travelled with amazing swiftness, and swept over the store of Harris and Buchanan, Mr Cowl's chemist shop, Feilchenfeld's the draper, Middleton's the tailor, Kraetzer's Long Tunnel Hotel, and sweeping up the rear of these places, destroyed the house of a man named James Taylor, and several others of the same occupation after which the residence of Mr Curry tailor, and his shop, were involved in the ruin, the office of the " Walhalla Chronicle" sharing their fate almost at the same time; the fire ceasing its ravages at this point, where a high stone retaining wall saved the Grand Junction Hotel and the tenements eyond.…. WALHALLA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Feb. 26. At last the day is determined on for the election of our borough councillors, and early, as the time is no less than thirty-two of our townsmen are requisitioned to allow them selves to be nominated as candidates for the coming honors... Saturday 12 April 1873 Mr Rosales has been unanimously elected Mayor for the borough of Walhalla. (Great fire) Tuesday 24 June 1873 `The Argus': ...The late rains have made the town in a deplorable state, and locomotion is anything but a pleasant pastime. The first piece of work of the new council, viz., the foot bridge at the junction, is nearly completed, and tenders are called for making a footpath through a fearful slough, which slough, it is hoped, will gradually disappear as the work of improvement progresses. The burgess list is completed, and lies at the town clerks' office for inspection, and as the first rate will shortly be struck... PUBLIC WORKS TENDERS. `The Argus': 30 March 1880 Tenders BOROUGH of WALHALLATENDERS are invited, and will be received at the town clerks office, Walhalla, until 10 o clock am, Friday, April 0, 1880, for the CONSTRUCTION of about 2,332ft Lineal Dry Rubble Retaining Wall, and 2156ft Lineal timber Revetment Wall, together with other WORKS on Main-road and Creek channel in the Borough of Walhalla, in four sections, according to plans, drawings, and specifications, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 ... Plans and Specifications may be seen at the office of the engineer, Louis Le Gould, Esq , C E , 21 Beehive chambers Elizabeth street, Melbourne, and at the office of the town clerk, Walhalla, ... SAML CARVER, Town Clerk Town Clerk' s office, Walhalla, March 25 1880 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 202 The following tenders were accepted yesterday Intending retaining wall, repairing fencing, to state school No.957, Walhalla Gippsland Mercury (Sale, Vic. : 1914 - 1918) Tuesday 11 January 1916 Twilight at Walhalla…a trip to Later the gully widens, and the street divides into two branches, familiarly known as the Right Branch and the Left Branch. At the intersection of the branches is an old stone retaining wall, for the Right Branch rises, immediately 8 or 10 feet (3.0480m) above the level of the Left. In Melbourne we say, "Meet me under the clocks;" but in Walhalla it has always been," Meet me at the stone wall." Alas. now at night the moon shines not at lovers' meetings there. All is still and silent-and the lovers, what of them? ...Near here is the famous Long Tunnel mine, the closing down of which two years ago had ruined Walhalla. We had just passed a deserted shop, whereon was the legend, "Pastrycook. Established 1565," when we came in front of a huge galvanised iron building sprawling up the side of the gully. Men were at work dismantling it, and a huge cement floor underneath a now rootless frame work showed where the great machinery plant had been installed. Before long nothing - but heaps of rubbish and a few holes in the hill will mark the site of the wonderful Long Tunnel mine Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Stringers Creek dry stone walling Location: Main Road, Walhalla Condition: Fair Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S08 Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Walhalla Shire Council, Estimated creation date(s): 1873 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: East side of creek north and south of FIRE STATION and in CREEK Crown Grantee: Stringers Creek Reserve Place type: Retaining Wall Integrity to creation date? Fair Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 203      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Buildings of lesser historic or architectural significance, or important buildings which have been altered or modified from their original state. Of regional importance (Gippsland region). Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . B: Possession of uncommon rare or endangered aspects of our cultural or natural History E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: 'long drag' through the quagmires along the creek (James & Lee, 1970:13-14). Similarly, the stone retaining wall and balustrade along the west side of Main Road at the creek was completed by October 1873, with a photograph of 1874 showing both walls complete. The big flood of August 1891 caused much damage and loss of life, washing away much of the previous stabilizing walls at the creek banks (shown as timber shoring). (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970,pps. 35, 57, 123). Reputedly contractor, Jack Marks commenced some of the existing stone breasting to the creek banks from 1891 onwards. (National Trust File 2113/1; Lee, C,G. History of Walhalla 1957). The balustrade walls adjoining the fire station appeared in the 1890s, in place of previous timber framed fences. These walls are comparable in size and extent to dry stone farm fences seen in plentiful supply at locations such as the Stony Rises. Northern gold towns also have stone lined stormwater channels and gold mining water supply channels. However on a regional basis, Gippsland has few of these walls and they are confined to Walhalla. What is significant? Stringers Creek dry stone walling includes the following contributory elements:  Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct:   balustrading generally of dry-stone construction but with small stones, semidressed to long lengths, with relatively thin coursing height, less transverse bonding and a capping course; 1873 balustrading section from fire station to north past Junction Hotel site; faced stone breasting, intermittently along the creek bed typically marking areas of mining development. How is it significant? Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: History The first official town survey in 1866 enabled the first sale of township allotments and marking out of roads. It soon became evident that the original, low lying road through the town was no longer adequate and so by June 1868 the Charles Rowand, Roads and Bridges Department engineer, laid out a new road down Church Hill that would avoid both a precipitous descent from the spur opposite the original prospecting claim and the Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 204 Stringers Creek dry stone walling is significant historically and aesthetically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Stringers Creek dry stone walling is significant. Historically, the walls illustrate the early need for stream management with the major mining development adjoining and on a regional basis, Gippsland has few of these walls and these are confined to Walhalla (Criterion A). Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Aesthetically as a landmark feature that is an important element within the historic cultural landscape in Walhalla and complements a network of dry stone walls throughout the town. (Criterion E) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Management:    All early contributory and significant dry stone wall construction should be recorded and mapped to ensure efficient management; repairs should use matching stone and original dry stone methods; all examples to be referenced as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: 55- References: James & Lee, 1970: 13-14, 24-5 photo; 62 c1892; 47 1888 Newspapers: Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Tuesday 15 July 1873 Edition: Morning. p 3 Figure 123 Junction c1874 with Church Hill and creek walls in place (James & Lee : 24) Survey Notes 2013: Unfortunate examples of thick cement joints used to bind capping in some of the retaining walls north and south of fire station on east side of creek. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 205 The contractor is busy at the bridge at the Junction, which in a few days will be open for traffic it will be a great boon when finished and we could easily bear with a few more similar luxuries. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Curved flight of steps to Walhalla Masonic Hall Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place type: Steps Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S09 Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Unknown Crown Allotment: MASONIC HALL Crown Grantee: Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 206      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? Yes Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? No Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? No; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Further references: James & Lee, 1970: 7 photo c1868 shows church and rough steep semi-circular pathway up the hill but on a differing route to today 73 c1891 rail balustrade - approximate curve only Statement of Significance: None Management:  Investigate origins of 1999 listing, reassess as required. References: Survey Notes 2013: These are concrete steps to the former church, with painted steel balustrade, and recent crushed rock and timber risers above are not on the original line of stairs and are post Second War construction. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 207 Figure 124 Detail of steps 1890s differing from today(James & Lee: 73) 135 photo c1910 shows timber angle-rail handrail to rough pathway similar route to today, approximate curve only. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company sites: Boiler Blocks and Farmer, Robey, Brown & Co portable steam engine Figure 125 Mine dump with various mining machinery items at its base Location: Main Road, Walhalla Figure 126 Long Tunnel Extended GMC sites and lease boundary (blue), with 1899 mining structures in orange, battery site in olive; Farmer, Robey, Brown & Co steam engine arrowed in red.. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 208 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S10 Crown Allotment: CA 112B, 112 Crown Grantee: Historic Interest Reserve Place type: machinery, mining Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): 1880-9? Figure 127 Farmer, Robey, Brown & Co engine, base of dump Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO9 Heritage Overlay name: Steam Engine, Walhalla (not mapped or named) Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Long Tunnel Extended Mine Precinct Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 209 Statement of Significance: History Gold mining continued intermittently at Walhalla after the closure of the Long Tunnel mines prior to World War I. In the decade from 1927 to 1938 the New Long Tunnel Co. successfully on unworked ground in the vicinity of the old Long Tunnel Extended and North Long Tunnel Mines. However, most activity had ceased by the 1940s following the closure of the railway (DPCD). In the 1970s the Long Tunnel Mine was re-opened for tourism. As well as the existing remnant machinery other relics were brought from areas surrounding Walhalla such as the Harbinger battery (from Dry Creek, on the Jordan River fields), as well as machinery, gear and sheds of Thomson River Copper mine (DPCD). This place now contains a collection of machinery associated with the operation of the Long Tunnel Gold Mine and other relics that have been relocated to this site from other areas. Foremost amongst them is the steam engine, which was manufactured by Farmer, Robey, Brown & Co, who were one of the smaller Lincolnshire steam engine builders based at Gainsborough. According to Matthew Churchward (2011): The firm was established by Thomas Adwick Farmer in 1841, becoming Farmer & Son by 1868. Originally a more general iron foundry and engineering works, they began manufacturing stationary & portable steam engines and traction engines in 1875. The firm operated under the name Farmer, Robey, Brown & Co only between 1880 and 1889, after which Brown left and was Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 replaced by Clark with the title changing to Farmer, Robey, Clark & Co. The firm got into financial difficulties a few years later and was taken over by its much larger neighbour Marshall, Sons & Co Ltd, of Gainsborough, in 1892. I don't know how many portable engines they made but I doubt it would have been much more than a few hundred. In the Australian market the firm was briefly active only during the period 1884-1889, selling mainly portable steam engines in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. In Victoria, their agents were Langlands Foundry Co of Melbourne, who supplied a lot of mining machinery into the Gippsland area. Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company site mine machinery is significant What is significant? The Farmer, Robey, Brown & Co engine at Walhalla is situated just off the Main (Walhalla) Road near the interpretive display for the Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company site. The steam engine is in a partially derelict condition, but retains the fire/smoke box, motion gear and the fly wheel. It has a number of unusual technical features including reversing gear -which can be seen in the lever on the right-hand side of the firebox. Historically and technically, for associations with Langlands Foundry Company, one of Victoria's leading mining machinery manufacturers, who probably imported the Farmer, Robey, Brown & Co. Steam engine as well as founding the stampers in 1888. The Farmer, Robey, Brown & Co. Steam engine's unusual technical features, most notably the reversing gear, reflects its historical association with the mining industry. The significance is enhanced by the rarity of the engine, which is thought to be the only example of its type in Victoria. (Criteria F & H) The steam engine is one of a number of mining machinery and relics in this location. The others include: Management:     A Cornish boiler, which is immediately to it at one end the Langlands Foundry stamp battery ('Langlands Foundry and Co. Ltd. 1888'), the large Roberts & Sons of Bendigo stationary steam engine; and rare examples of a 'sectional' stamp battery and waterwheel that were designed to be dismantled into components small enough to be carried into the mountains by pack horse. How is it significant? Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company site mine machinery including the important Farmer, Robey, Brown & Co. Steam Engine is of local historic and technical significance to Walhalla and Baw Baw Shire. It is of potential significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 210 Historically, as evidence of the gold mining activity at Walhalla and for associations with the Long Tunnel Mine, which was one of the richest mines in Victoria in its heyday during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Farmer, Robey, Brown & Co. Steam engine is an important element within a landscape that contains many archaeological sites, machinery and relics that have potential to yield further information about the gold mining activities that were carried out at Walhalla (Criteria A & H).      Assess other machinery, itemise and combine in Heritage Overlay 9 listing; provide and publicise interpretive data on the machinery at the site. assess and create a mining Heritage Overlay for this site, along with other Walhalla mine sites, including all of lease area; consider mining machinery for the Victorian Heritage Register; reference as significant and contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 9. References: Survey Notes 2013: Farmer, Robey, Brown & Co steam engine and stamper not at location used? Collection of machinery is unsigned. Also mullock heap and other machinery CA112B- see other sites Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) will find pictures of it insitu at the Harbinger on p.112.' Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Figure 128 Harbinger mine battery at Dry Creek, Jericho, Langland’s barnd Tomlin, 4 Further references: Baw Baw Planning Scheme Heritage overlay 9 not mapped Walhalla Township Parish Plan Historic Interest Reserve, crown land See RS9690 W277 imperial version: Tourism Purposes Reserve 14a with CA112B, GG 1972, 4016 Reserve file RS9690 CP 105608 Figure 129 Harbinger mine battery on Dry Creek (Tomlin, 1974) Matthew Churchward, Museum of Victoria 2013 James & Lee: 90 `The 10-head Langlands Foundry stamp battery at the Long Tunnel Extd Mine, and I believe also the Farmer, Robey & Brown twin cylinder portable steam engine, were relocated in 1977 from the Harbinger mine site on Dry Creek which is located east of Jericho in the Jordan Valley- north of Thompson Dam. (see) “Gold for the Finding – A Pi torial History of Gippsland’s Jordan Goldfield by O.F. Tomlin, M. Bosa & P.G. Chamberlain, you Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 211 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 head battery, where it was crushed for a price by the Long Tunnel Co… Mid-late 1880s: Brief mining boom - mines active in Walhalla vicinity: North Long Tunnel (active for 25 years, lots of expenditure for little return), Rising Sun Co. (used Longfellow Co. battery), South Long Tunnel Co. (crushing plant), Great South Long Tunnel Co. (existing Empress Co. - 30-head battery). Substantial mining also took place on Tubal Cain, Scratch-a- it, and Happy go Lu ky reefs… 1888-1901: Figure 130 Edwardian-era image of new battery and dump Historic Mining Sites Assessment Project GIPPSLAND: Walhalla-Cooper's Creek: PLACE NO. & NAME: 20.0 LONG TUNNEL EXTENDED GOLD MINE RESERVE Value: State Walhalla goldfield HI No. H8122-0092 LOCATION: Mine Road, Walhalla MUNICIPALITY: Baw Baw Shire Council LAND USE/STATUS: Comprising Promotion of Tourism Reserve (CA 112B) and Historic Interest Reserve (CA 112, 1134 & 162), Town of Walhalla. Also forms part of Walhalla Conservation Area. EXISTING HERITAGE LISTING: National Estate registered (Australian Heritage Commission file no. 004821 2/10/269/0009/01)— Significant within a Registered Area (i.e., Walhalla Conservation Area). Assessed by: Smith & Supple/Bannear Date: 1998 Long Tunnel mine began sinking a shaft at the northern end of the 9th level - levels from this shaft began to be profitable in 1891 - by 1894, co. had 40-head battery and used old Walhalla Co. 30head battery to crush for Long Tunnel Extended in 1898, dividends had reached £1,201,800 - in 1900, increasing costs of production exceeded declining value of stone raised - mine closed down in , pending re onstru tion… 1901-14: Long Tunnel Co. re-formed - sank new incline shaft - new period of prosperity from 1906 - new plant installed, including new 30-head battery (1908) company ceased work in 1914 - total dividends = £1,283,400 - mine had a vertical depth equal to 3,675 ft, and worked its lowest level at 3,625 ft 1903-4: Long Tunnel Extended Co. installed new plant, including their own 20-head battery -in 1904, purchased lease, plant and timber rights of North Long Tunnel Co Baw Baw Planning Scheme WALHALLA GOLDFIELD NOTES (DPCD) HO9 Not mapped (www.dpcd.vic.gov.au) 1881-1900: Long Tunnel Extended Co. - mine came on good quality stone in July 1881 - declared first dividend in 1882 - from 1888-92 was Walhalla's premier mine and one of leading mines in Victoria - in 1892 declared 100th dividend - 1892-6 was a low period - 1897 was the mine's peak year, £62,400 paid in dividends - total dividends paid by 1900 were £559,680. The company had no battery of its own ore was transported to the old Walhalla Co. 30- Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 212 Hermes Heritage Database (Department of Infrastructure) Number 162182 (Context 2011) FARMER, ROBEY, BROWN & CO. STEAM ENGINE Newspapers: M Churchwood 2013 notes on the following advertisements: `The advertisements …listed related to a different company Robey & Co Limited, of Lincoln. They were one of the big four Lincolnshire portable Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 steam engine builders and certainly did make several thousand engines in total offer many decades. The firm Farmer, Robey & Brown were based at Gainsborough, a smaller Lincolnshire town about 25 km north-east of Lincoln. They were a much smaller company with more limited production making probably only perhaps 1,000 portable engines in total – but no production records survive. I think there was some family connection between the two Robey members of each firm, ut I a not sure what it was. The o pany’s name only had the form Farmer, Robey & Brown from 1880-1888, becoming Farmer, Robey & Clark Ltd in 1889, which gives a pretty good timeframe on the Walhalla engine. I have checked my records from the Steam Heritage Survey and can say that the Walhalla engine is the only examples of these fir ’s engines that I re orded in Vi toria. There are about 3 other known surviving examples in other Australian states (all incomplete), out of the c.1,000 surviving portable steam engines in total so you get an idea how rare the brand is. Significantly Langlands Foundry Co are the only agents that I have recorded for Farmer, Robey & Brown portable engines in Victoria ... You will notice that `The Argus': 10-7-1885 advertisement says that the rand was “new to Vi toria . I elie e they were only imported by Langlands for a short period from 1885-1888. There are a few Langlands adverts in the newspapers for Farmer, Robey & Clark engines in the newspapers during 18891890.' Some of the advantages of this New Patent Engine are-its small first coat saving of timo and expense In erecting, cost, safety, and economy in working, great saving in fuel. This engine is excellently suited for driving corn mill machinery, sawing machinery, and large or small factories. For full particulars and prices of the above, also for all machinery suitable for agriculturists, contractors, collieries, mine, … apply to the manufacturers, ROBEY and COMPANY (Limited), Engineers, Lincoln, England . Or to their Agents in Melbourne-JAMES M'EWAN and Co , 81 Elizabeth st whoso stores a stock Is kept. Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918) Tuesday 14 August 1877 MACPHERSON and CO. have received instructions to Sell by Auction, on the ground, Happy Valley, near Rae's crushing plant, Portable Engine, by Robey and Co., Lincoln, Patent Separator, four separators and gearing, chain, pump, and feeding shoots, W.B. Building, pulley, flywheel, shaft, tools, corrugated iron, about five tons pyrites, firewood, and sundries. `The Argus': Monday 5 July 1886 WANDILIGONG ESTATE DEEP LEAD GOLD MINING COMPANY. J BELLIN has received instructions to SELL by AUCTION, at his rooms, The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Friday 30 April 1875 ROBEY and COMPANY (Limited) ENGINEERS, LINCOLN, ENGLAND, Manufacturers of Superior Portable Engines, over 3,500 of which have been made, and are giving the greatest satisfaction by their economical working Patent Wrought Angle Iron framed Thrashing machines, the strongest, most durable, and efficient yet produced. Admirably adapted for colonial use Vertical Stationary Steam engines and Patent Boilers combined The most economical vertical boiler over produced The Patent Improved Robey Mining Engine and Boiler combined, having the cylinders underneath the Boiler. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 213 The Wandiligong Mine, having about two and a half miles along the Growler's and Morse's Creeks, Wandiligong. The machinery consists of 24ft water-wheel, with flume, race, and winding gear to power Robey and Co.'s portable engine, nearly new 16in, cylinder horizontal engine and oiler o plete… Traralgon Record 11 Dec 1888 CLEARING SALE, BULN -BULN.`-. TUESDAY, DECEMBER, 1888. W HAMILTON & CO. have received .instructions from J. R. Brown of the Turf Club Hotel, Buln Buln …one -horse power engine by "Robey"; belting complete... Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 one first-class chaff cutter by "Buncle"; belting complete. Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger CA112 dealings: 1901 LTEGMC No Liability 320 Collins St, Melb. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 214 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Foundations of Empress Battery (Later part Great South Lt Mine) Location: Main Road, Walhalla Figure 131 Boundary of Empress GMC lease and battery site (blue) with 1899 structures shown (orange) and Heritage Overlay 8 (red) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 215 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S11 Crown Allotment: CA 6, OPPOSITE (CA3?) Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Crown Grantee: Planning precinct: Place type: mining site Southern Residential Precinct Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Empress Gold Mining Company, Walhalla, Estimated creation date(s): 1869Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Figure 132 Empress GMC 1890s from the north (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 collection) Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. F: Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of our cultural or natural History Figure 133 Empress GMC dump, battery foreground, boarding house, Exchange Hotel at rear c1900 (James & Lee: 68) Heritage planning status: Statement of Significance: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 History Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Empress Company 1868: Company formed Claim Nos. 1, 2 North Cohen's Nos. 1, 2 South Cohen's Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 216 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Company occupied parts formerly worked by the Alpine and South Gippsland Companies. 1869 - Pumping and winding machinery and a poppet head were erected and the main shaft started. 1870 - a battery was erected, but on reaching 302 feet (92.050m) with the shaft, operations ceased in 1872. 1874 - The United Walhalla General Mining Co. took its place with inclusion of three companies to the north, (Emperor, Stringer's Creek and Molesworth Companies) but in 1881, it was acquired by the Long Tunnel Co. Total Yield (Empress, Alpine and South Gippsland Companies): 5358 oz(151kg 896.74g) Refer: Great South Long Tunnel (former South Gippsland Mining Co. 1883 - Plan Mines Department; near former Napoleon Mine, Empress Mine and Walhalla and Melbourne Mining Co., 1902 ‑ Plan Mines Department-opposite CAs 2-5 Why is it significant? The former Empress Gold Mining Company battery site is significant: Historically, the battery relics are associated with Walhalla’s peak ining period, when the field was second only to Bendigo in gold production (Criterion A). Scientifically, the sites contain a range of features which document different mining operations (Criterion F). Archaeological potential—both the mine and battery sites have the potential to yield artefacts and evidence, which will be able to provide information about the technological history of gold mining (Criterion C). Management:  What is significant? Relics of the Empress battery are located on a benched area on the western side of Stringers Creek, opposite the Walhalla hotel and CAs 2-5. The benched area is retained by a concrete and stone wall and contains mortar blocks for 10-head of stampers. The bench is cut into an extremely steep face. The hill slope below and above the stamper foundations is thickly timbered.  Assess and create a mining Heritage Overlay for this site, including the lease area, along with other Walhalla mine sites, including all of lease area; meanwhile reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Contributory features as shown 1899:    Shaft; Battery site; and engine house site. Contributory features, visible 1983:    former engine house site; machinery bases (rubble stone with threaded studs; brick base, 'Northcote' brick works (pressed red 225 x 110 x 75mm); and rubble stone retaining wall at creek. Observations: recent mining activity has disturbed mullock heaps; plant growth obscures adits. How is it significant? The former Empress Gold Mining Company battery site is significant historically and scientifically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 217 Mullock heap visible, much regrowth, large Monterey pines nearby, as in Victorian-era - brick base not visible as in 1984 report. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Shows main battery opposite CA3 (not CA6) as in guidelines. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Figure 134 Great South Long Tunnel Gold Mining Co. (formerly Empress) machinery bases 1983 History of major Walhalla Quartz Mines (Cohen's Reef) based largely on material drawn from Herman, H. (1901) Report on the Walhalla Gold Fields, Department of Mines, Victoria and Lease Plans (Beech 33, Gippsland 6) Department of Mines, Victoria. Walhalla Township Guidelines 1999 Listed but not mapped Newspapers: Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Further references: James & Lee: 68- Saturday 12 December 1868 Image 1890s of battery with Monterey pines opposite; gabled buildings, corrugated iron clad? chimney The Empress Gold Mining Company (to be registered).is a new name in the list of Walhalla mines. - It comprises the claims and plant of the late South Gippsland or Prospecting Company. Two of the original proprietors have bought the entire property, and seek to reorganise under the above name "Empress" . The claims extend over an, area of ground 27 acres, and the length of the course of the lode is 1308 feet (398.68m). The ground has been examined and reported on ; it is suggested to sink a main shaft to a depth of 100 feet (30.480m) below the level of Stringer's Creek, or about 220 feet (67.056m) in all, from which to drive two levels on the course of the lode; one about ten feet (3.05m) above the bottom of the shaft, the other about 70 feet higher. Then to connect these levels with the old workings, and with each other by wings; the levels to be continued to the north and south boundaries of the claims : it is estimated that by opening out in this manner from 25,000 to 30,000 tons of stone would be available, or from 2 to 2.1/2 years work Historic Mining Sites Assessment Project GIPPSLAND: Jordan-Aberfeldy-Donnelly's Creek PLACE NO. & NAME: 17.0 EMPRESS COMPANY MINE 17.1 EMPRESS COMPANY BATTERY Value: Regional Walhalla Goldfield HI No. H7824-0051 LOCATION: Walhalla township MUNICIPALITY: Baw Baw Shire Council LAND USE/STATUS: Historic Reserve Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: 38-, Photograph 8 Great South Long Tunnel Mine former Empress machine base Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 218 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 for twenty head of stamps. The small portable engine which drives the present plant to be removed, and a stationary engine of not less than sixteen inches diameter of cylinder, with suitable boiler, to be put in its place. The estimated cost of opening out the mine, as recommended in the report, together with winding and pumping engine and the necessary gear, and the 16 inch cylinder engine, will e a out ₤ , , and for contingencies, at per ent., ₤ ; total, ₤ , . The mine, with the plant erected at the prospecting claim, are offered to the new o pany for ₤ , so that to arry out the necessary works, and not to serve too large a margin of uncalled capital, the capital of the new o pany is proposed to e ₤ , , in shares of ₤ ea h. The share list will e losed on 23rd December, but I understand that the shares are all taken up. Tuesday 16 February 1869 Empress Gold Mining Company.-. Some preliminary work is being done. Tenders are invited for the necessary excavation for a site on which to erect winding and proper machinery. 23, 27 Feb 1869 Empress Gold Mining Company have let a contract to Pascoe and party to excavate and clear ground for the erection of pumping and winding machinery. Empress Gold Mining Company (Registered.)-The excavations for pumping and winding machinery are progressing, and tenders are invited for a quantity of sawn and hewn timber 16 March, 1869 THE- EMPRESS GOLD MINING COM PANY (Registered), Walhalla. TENDERS will be received at the Post office, Walhalla, up to 8 p.m. on Thurs day, 25th instant, for the CARRIAGE of 40 tons (more or less) of MACHINERY from Port Albert to Walhalla. For further particulars, apply to Mr. Griffiths, Port Albert; or to Mr. F. Duval, Walhalla. Tenders will be received at the same time for the supply of 15,000 BRIOKS of good quality, and also four tons of lime.. G. S. HARTRICK, Manager. 18 April 1869 Empress Gold Mining Company, registered.-The machinery will soon be on its road from the Port, perhaps it is now. It consists of pumping and Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 219 winding machinery, and a 25 horse-power engine for crushing purposes. 27 April 1869 E press Gold Mining Co pany …The surfa e excavation are nearly completed. The timber for the poppet heads and brace, is already delivered on the ground, and a portion of the machinery has been delivered, a 30 tons of which have already left Melbourne. The erection of the pit head frame will be commenced next week. `The Argus': Tuesday 15 June 1869 Empress Gold-mining Company, Walhalla, The poppet-heads have been erected, the foundations for the pumping and winding gear laid down and a smithy erected. About twenty flve tons of machinery have been delivered. Tho shaft will be commenced in about a week. `The Argus': Saturday 15 May 1869 Empress Gold-mining Company, Walhalla.-The excavations for the sites of shaft and plant were completed on the 28th April, the foundation logs of the poppet heads are bedded, also some of the foundation logs of the pumping and winding gear, and all , the timber necessary for the framework is delivered. About 10 tons of machinery have arrived, and about 10 tons more are on the road between Toongabbie and Walhalla. A road has been constructed from the creek level to the level of the shaft in order to facilitate the delivery of machinery… Gippsland Times (Vic.: 1861 - 1954) Tuesday 27 July 1869 Empress Gold Mining Company (Registered).-The shaft is down upwards of 20 feet (6.1m). Another portion of the machinery has arrived. `The Argus': 30 Sep 1869 The mining managers report: The Empress Gold-mining Company, Walhalla.-On 17th Inst. the shaft was down 61ft. 6in., at which depth the water increased so rapidly that we could no longer sink with the hand-pump ; the shaft has been centred, and the work of putting in the pumps and fixing the brace and pit-head pulleys is now being proceeded with. The machinery is nearly all delivered and erected, and the winding Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 and pumping machinery will be at work in about a fortnight. Gippsland Times Tuesday 23 November 1869 Empress Gold Mining Company.-The shaft is down to a depth of 83 feet (25.298m), the sinking being tolerably good. It is exported that the reef will be struck in 120 feet (36.576m) from the surface, which at the present rate will be reached by the beginning of January. Mr Hartrick has proceeded to Melbourne for the purchase of a crushing plant, which is to consist of 20 head of stamps with all the latest improvements for saving gold. Saturday 12 February 1870 Empress Gold Mining Company.-The main shaft is now down to a depth of 122 feet (37.186m). In driving from the winze, good stone was found, in which gold is visible. The reef is about two feet thick. The building in of the boiler is being proceeded with as rapidly as possible, as also are the excavations for the foundations of the battery plant. Saturday 24 December 1870 Crushing operations are suspended for the present. A contract has been let to sink the shaft an additional depth. A great many hands have been knocked off in this mine, together with the Molesworth and Eureka, and a general depression is noticeable in the township in consequence Saturday 4 May 1872 The Empress Gold Mining. Company cleaned up today, when it was found that 140 tons of quartz had yielded 107ozs 6 dwts (about 3033g) of bar gold. Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA : 1896 - 1916) Tuesday 3 August 1915 EMPRESS G.M. CO. At the first half-yearly meeting of the Empress Gold-mining Company, held an Melbourne recently, the chairman (Mr. F. C. Tricks) explained that owing to the mine being difficult of access, the interruption of railway traffic by heavy floods, a scarcity of. labour, and trouble in securing -suitable -plant the progress promised with development work was not up to expectations. Water had filled up the old 'workings, and made a survey impossible, consequently the mine manager had further difficulty in locating the reef, which had now been proved for a length of 140 ft. to 150 ft. The stone was 4 ft. thick, and its estimated value was 3 oz. gold per ton. The stone Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 220 resembled Victorian quartz, and had many of the characteristics of the formation in the Long Tunnel mine, Walhalla; even the gold contents were similar. They had a good 5-head battery on the mine, of 9 cwt. stampers capable of treating 100 tons a week, and a framing erected for another five head of stamps. The shaft had been skidded and timbered. The lode in the shaft at a point 12 ft. below the 250 ft. level was 2 ft. wide at one end and 3 ft: at the other, while at the 250 ft. level it was between 14 ft. and 2 ft. thick. When a winze had been sunk 100 ft. from the shaft they would be able to keep the battery going continuously, and clean up monthly. The lode had every appearance of living -to a depth. ... the chairman. Said the stone in the level had been systematically sampled, and went equal to 3 oz., while the lower body was at least equal in value to it. The first crushing might not yield high values owing to mullock and. new plates. They had a parcel of' 50 tons at grass. The manager estimated the general width at 4.1/2ft., but considered that he would take out another, foot on either side. He considered the reef was an extension of the Lady Brassey reef Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Tar-paved footpath remnants (original footpaths) Figure 135 Remnant paving south-west of CA12, one of many examples in township Heritage Overlay Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S13 Figure 136 Mapped paved areas as indicative only; other paving areas exist. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 221 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Crown Allotment: Walhalla road reserve Planning precinct: Crown Grantee: Crown Historic Town Centre Precinct Place type: Street paving Statement of Significance: Integrity to creation date? Fair History Condition: Fair In 1891 a major flood swept through the town, water covering most of the valley floor and causing major damage to the creek walls, bridges, roadways, footpaths and mine works and equipment. Public works following the flood were major, with the creek being realigned, widened and deepened in numerous places, new stone walls constructed and two new bridges constructed. Footpaths were constructed and asphalted by 1897 and many private bridges constructed to properties over the creek. Richard Horsfield was the Walhalla Shire engineer in the 1890s. Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Walhalla Shire Council, Estimated creation date(s): 1896-? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No In 1952 major floods caused inestimable public damage t o the creek bed, retaining walls , roads, footpaths, bridges. What is significant? Tar-paved footpath remnants visible in Walhalla, typically covered with soil and overgrown with grass. Place evaluation How is it significant? Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): D Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: Heritage planning status: Tar-paved footpath remnants are contributory historically to Walhalla's heritage character. Why is it significant? Tar-paved footpath remnants are significant. Historically as remnants from the significant boom period of Walhalla's development in the late Victorian-era (Criterion A). Management:   Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 222  assess retention, reinstatement and repair of existing footpaths as identified and elsewhere visible; where new footpaths are required in Walhalla use the detail and specification in Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 with fine crushed basalt aggregate bedded in asphalt or bitumen base to match existing examples identified (see Figure 138); reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8 . Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 References: Survey Notes 2013: Patches visible near 451707.418, 5800102.533, grassed over- and other locations- distinguished by fine aggregates used in asphalt base. Seen at Easting: 451721.393 Northing: 5800961.230 or Latitude: -37 ° 56 ' 15.51600 '' Longitude: 146 ° 27 ' 2.08800 '' Not mapped 1999. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 History In 1891 a major flood swept through the town, water covering most of the valley floor and causing major damage to the creek walls, bridges, roadways, footpaths and mine works and equipment. Public works following the flood were major, with the creek being realigned, widened and deepened in numerous places, new stone walls constructed and two new bridges constructed. Footpaths were constructed and asphalted by 1897 and many private bridges constructed to properties over the creek….in 1952 major floods caused inestimable public damage t o the creek bed, retaining walls, roads, footpaths, ridges… 123: Footpaths: It is recommended that the asphalt footpath be reconstructed on the east side of the Main Road from the southern end of the Walhalla Lodge Hotel garden t o the Old Bakery (CA12/12A). Specification details of kerb and fixing, based on photographic evidence in `Walhalla Heyday’ James & Lee), are provided in Appendix 5, part 12 ie. Footpaths and kerbs see pages 35, 36, 39, 54, 62, 63, 78, 79, 87, 95, 119, 136-7. Figure 137 Footpath from c1910 (James & Lee: 136-7) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 223 Figure 138 Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Figure 19: footpath detail 137: It is recommended that the asphalt footpaths still in evidence in part s of the town be reconstructed on both sides of the road, from the southern boundary of the Historic Town Centre to the footbridge to the Band Rotunda (on the west side) and to the bridge over Stringer's Creek East Arm (on the east side)... Newspapers: The Maffra Spectator (Vic. : 1882 - 1920) Monday 21 September 1896 On Tuesday lost the Walhalla Shire Council opened tenders for the loan of ₤ ...The pre iu of ₤ will enable the Council to pay all the initial e penses, so that the full ₤ will e available for tar-paving the footpaths. The work is to be under taken forthwith. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Dry Stone retaining walls to Stringers Creek Figure 139 One of the largest of the many examples along the creek at Amor’s Crossing, north of Walhalla battery site (S35). Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S14 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 224 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Crown Allotment: Along Stringers Creek Crown Grantee: Crown (Note: maps provided are not comprehensive) Place type: Walls Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): 1870s-? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No History Stringer's Creek Retaining Walls The big flood of August 1891 caused much damage and loss of life, washing away much of the previous stabilizing walls at the creek banks (shown as timber shoring). (James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970,pps. 35, 57, 123). Reputedly contractor, Jack Marks commenced the existing stone breasting to the creek banks from 1891 onwards. (National Trust File 2113/1; Lee, C,G. History of Walhalla 1957). The walls are comparable in size and extent to farm fences seen in plentiful supply at locations such as the Stony Rises. What is significant? Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: , Dry Stone retaining walls to Stringers Creek at various locations include:  dry-stone construction, semi-dressed to long lengths, with relatively thin coursing height and less transverse bonding. Proposed heritage grading (A-D): How is it significant? Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Dry Stone retaining walls to Stringers Creek are contributory historically and aesthetically to Walhalla's heritage character. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 225 Why is it significant? Dry Stone retaining walls to Stringers Creek are contributory Historically, as evidence of major events during Walhalla's significant development period and on a regional basis, Gippsland has few walling examples of this type and age and these are confined to Walhalla (Criterion A); and Aesthetically, represent a form of construction that relied on stonemason skill as well as reflecting the availability of local materials, all producing a network of distinctive construction along the creek Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 bank and at house site terraces up the hillsides of the town (Criterion E). Management:   Reference as contributory elements within the Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8; map and assess all co and significant stone retaining walls and breasting along Stringers Creek. References: Survey Notes 2013: Not mapped in Walhalla Township Guidelines or Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 - see other walling. Potentially some examples have regional or associational State significance. One very good example is in a semi-circle plan at the creek diversion under Main Road opposite CA18 (37.943508, 146.450039) Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: 55- Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 226 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 House Ruins, Chinese Gardens (see P4) Figure 140 Chinese Gardens 1900s, potential house sites arrowed (James & Lee: 112) Figure 141 View along spur, with one former house site and fruit tree row; new service block at rear Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 227 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Location: Main Road, Walhalla Figure 142 Hatched areas in blue as potential house sites, structures and fence lines shaded in red as of 1899 Black Survey. Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S15 Historical associations with persons or events? Crown Allotment: CA123A, 123B, 123C Estimated creation date(s): potentially 1870s- Major owners or occupiers: , Crown Grantee: Ah Nin, Ah Sue and How Shaw Period representation: Place type: House Site Integrity to creation date? unknown Condition: unknown Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 228 The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):   Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes? Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: Heritage Overlay name: Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Northern Entry Statement of Significance: History The Crown Grantees of the late 1860s, early 1870s (CAs 123A, 123C, 123B), Ah Nin, Ah Sue and How Shaw, were part of a group of Chinese market gardeners in Walhalla, growing crops of cabbages and parsnips. In addition to these blocks other Chinese sought land adjoining on the west side of Stringers Creek in the 1860s, with existing land being cultivated as early as 1867. They used one of the few level, fertile river flats to grow vegetables for the people of Walhalla and occupied both the surveyed allotments, the Stringers Creek Reserve and adjacent Crown land. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 229 Further south, Ah Gwan's garden site was used for the new State School reserve in 1874 and part of Ah Nin's allotment was alienated for water and public purposes reserves (Adams 1980,p.58: Walhalla township plans CPO). Typical of other Victorian gold fields, the Chinese were subjected to harassment on the Walhalla gold fields but survived as essential suppliers of food for the mining community. Harry Bing was a Chinese gardener living at Walhalla in the 1890s. A photograph (c1900) of the area shows the flats, surrounding the creek, heavily cultivated with a flume irrigation system. Simple housing was constructed on the ridges and high ground (James and Lee 1970, p.112). Five small gabled cottages and a shed were located there, three on the spur track leading into the site from Main Road and two on the south flat nested into the south base of the spur at its west end. William Broadbent, in a typescript description of a 1912 visit to Walhalla, ... ' In marked contrast to the (old houses) we saw lying in the deep valley by the road a couple of Chinaman's gardens, beautifully laid and beautifully kept.. It is wonderful how these people make a success of industries at which white men fail . .The only vegetables in Walhalla are grown by Chinamen.. .' The emergence of the Italian community at Walhalla North utilised some of the creek flats for vegetable gardens, carrying on the tradition of the Chinese, but like other cultivated areas, such as Gloz's vineyard, the failing popular demand meant their demise. A farm house and yard existed on this spur in the 1960s, the house being removed March 1986 to begin the construction of the Chinese Gardens camp site. This has subsequently been overgrown. Fruit trees show the of the former house site. Historic artefacts found then include the remains of a house and mine shafts in the northern section and the remains of the water flume in the southern section. By 2013 fruit trees are evident along the ridge at the former house site. A new Chinese Gardens camping service block was open here by Baw Baw Shire Councillor David Balfour Oct 2012 and depot store erected north of track entry into site. Timber bridge across creek below road embankmentturning circle on flat contrasts with former `gardens' character What is significant? Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Chinese Gardens Precinct includes the following contributory elements:      Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) grassed two alluvium flats divided by the Stringers Creek and a low spur which held the track to the Walhalla Forest Road; house site on spur track marked by a line of fruit trees; timber bridge across creek to north flat; terracing in east embankment of south flat; potentially traces of building ruins in the west end, south base of the spur dividing the flat now overgrown. How is it significant? Chinese Gardens Precinct is significant historically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Chinese Gardens Precinct is significant. Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Historically, as an area that symbolises the former food production area of Walhalla at its boom period as well as presenting the typical goldfields enclave of Chinese related to the perimeter of the town in a distinct settlement area or quarter (Criterion A). Management:   Locate ruin sites and assess archaeologically; include Chinese Gardens area as mapped in HO8 or as new Heritage Overlay References: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: 87- Survey Notes 2013: Study data, contact sheet 1 frame 29, 31, 32: image of gabled house CA123A on site shown in 1963 survey with old and new sections, including rubble stone chimney base- now gone (see James & Lee image). Not mapped 1999. See Chinese Gardens P4. Area where potential exists is overgrown (37.929736,146.449106). Fruit trees midway down the spur track mark another of the early house sites but are not very mature. Area character changed with introduction of new service blocks. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 230 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Figure 143 House formerly on south-east corner CA123A- old section, stone chimney base 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 ) Figure 144 `new section’ Walhalla Conser ation Study 1984) . Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 231 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company sites: ore dump or mullock heap Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S17 Crown Allotment: LONG TUNNEL, near CA34, CA35 Crown Grantee: Place type: Mining site Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company, Estimated creation date(s): 1860sPeriod representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Figure 145 Blue lease boundary, tramway, Heritage Overlay 8 shown in red Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 232     Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013  Post Second War (1940-)? No Statement of Significance: History: Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of our cultural or natural history E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics F: Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period Figure 146 long Tunnel GMC dump, battery c1909 (James & Lee: 121) Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 233 The Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company was formed in 1863 eventually closing in 1914. By the 1870s, the Long Tunnel was one of Victoria's leading mines and it developed into the richest mine in Australia during the 'eighties By December 1887, it was hailed as the premier mine of Victoria and Walhalla field was, in terms of gold production, second only to Bendigo in gold production. The company drove adits into the steep sided Stringer Valley and by 1867 had achieved success discovering gold 30 feet (9.1440m) below the creek level. The tunnel was enlarged and a machinery chamber excavated. The company began to prosper; it purchased powerful pumping machinery in 1868. There was a continual expansion of its operations both in terms of its mining lease and its plant and equipment. By 1884 it was reworking both the Walhalla and Empress companies shafts and by 1901 its lease of 251 acres covered the whole valley. Its mine workings eventually extended down 23 levels, 2284 feet (696.16m) below the main adit level. When it finally closed in 1914 the company had produced 813,644 ounces of gold and paid dividends totalling £1,283,400. By 1869 the company had a 20-head battery, multi-tubular boiler, patent concentrator, the latest improvements for amalgamation and treatment of pyrites, plus a 20hp pumping engine. In 1875 the company overhauled its pumping equipment, battery and associated gold recovery equipment, and erected more powerful winding machinery. In 1889 a powerful compressor and associated piping and equipment were installed. By 1892 the company was operating a 45-head battery and in 1903 electric lighting was installed. The plant was updated again in 1908 and included a 30-head battery, Wifely tables, grinding pans, Allen compound steam engines, electrical plant, draught fan, super heaters, compressors and a new winding plant. The ine’s in line tunnel was een witnessed extensive mining attention in recent times. Description Long Tunnel Mine The Long Tunnel mine is located on a benched platform, above the town, on the west side of the valley. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 The mining platform contains a decline shaft and the remains of the concrete foundations of the winding engine. The winder foundations are on stone footings perched on the edge of the platform. Cascades down to Stringers Creek. The features on the site from recent mining activity include a steel head-frame, security fence around the shaft and poppet head, and concrete foundations of a shed and winding engine. Long Tunnel Battery and Ore Processing Works The battery and associated gold recovery works are located on the western bank of Stringers Creek, below the mining platform. The site is very overgrown but contains substantial evidence of the o pany’s upgrade. The ining reli s are located on three levels. The upper level contains the stamper foundations (including the mortar blocks). The middle level contains concrete, stone and brick foundations, and the lower level contains so e e iden e of the o pany’s earlier attery. The mining relics on the lower level have been partly incorporated in the outbuildings and gardens belong to a private residence. A tramway cutting runs south from the upper level. Twenty metres along this tramway is a benched area containing a roasting furnace and brick flue. The brick flue originally run up the hill to a large stack located on the slope above the incline shaft. Only a section of the flue survives. According to the owner of the private residence, the roasting oven is intact. It is now buried by debris and obscured by thick undergrowth. Tramway The mining platform is associated with a tramway, which connects all the major gold mines on the western side, including Long Tunnel Extended, Walhalla and Empress. This tramway is now used as a walking track and has been developed as part of the Alpine Walking Track. What is significant? Long Tunnel Gold Mine Reserve and any associated workings prior to c1914 with contributory elements including:      Adits, tunnels, and shafts; machine chamber; air shafts; dumps; tramway formations; Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 234  associated mining equipment, battery site and bases. How is it significant? Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company sites are significant historically and scientifically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw, with potential State significance. Why is it significant? Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company sites (Long Tunnel Battery and Ore Processing Works) are significant: Historically, as a characteristic and well-preserved example of an important form of gold mining. Gold mining sites are of crucial importance for the pivotal role they have played since 1851 in the development of Victoria. As well as being a signifi ant produ er of Vi toria’s nineteenth century wealth, with its intensive use of machinery, played an important role in the development of Victorian manufacturing industry. The Long Tunnel Mine was Australia’s ri hest gold ine during the s and one of the State’s ost profitable mines. Within Walhalla this was the initial and lasting centre of the town's commercial development and the key Chapel Hill access road focussed on this mine (Criterion A). Scientifically, because it contains a unique olle tion of reli s elonging to the o pany’s 1908 upgrade. Of particular note is the wellpreserved evidence of the metallurgical process used by the company to unlock gold from heavily mineralised ore. Evidence of these metallurgical processes, such as the one carried out by the Long Tunnel Company, are extremely rare in Victoria (Criterion F). Archaeologically, the sites have good integrity and high potential to yield artefacts and evidence which will be able to provide significant information about the technological history of gold mining (Criterion C). Network values—The range of historical features, in combination with an extensive photographic record and physical attributes of the Stringers Creek Valley produ e one of the State’s ost evocative and unique cultural landscapes. The Long Tunnel Battery and Ore Processing Works forms an integral part of this landscape (Criterion E). Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Management:   Map and assess artefacts in detail as part of a proposed mining Heritage Overlay covering lease area and sites; meanwhile reference as significant contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Not mapped 1999. Extensive volume. Part significant mine complex Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Further references: (SEE S05) Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 : 49- Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 235 Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger CA34, 35 (consolidated) dealings: 1940 Probate to Edith Lorimer (?), Harriet Glover; James A Glover of Modella Historic Mining Sites Assessment Project GIPPSLAND: Jordan-Aberfeldy-Donnelly's Creek: p28 PLACE NO. & NAME: 18.0 LONG TUNNEL MINE SITE Values: Mines: Regional Battery: State Tramway: Regional 18.1 LONG TUNNEL BATTERY 18.2 TRAMWAY Walhalla Goldfield HI No. 18.0 H7723-0607 18.1 H7723-0670 18.2 H7723-0222 LOCATION: Walhalla township MUNICIPALITY: Baw Baw Shire Council LAND USE/STATUS: Historic Reserve Assessed by: Bannear/Smith & Supple Date: 1998 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company (Former North Hercules Co) Sites: Mullock Heap Location: Main Road, Walhalla Condition: Fair Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S18 Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Long Tunnel Extended Mining Company, Estimated creation date(s): 1865Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: Long Tunnel Extended Mining Company lease Crown Grantee: mine lease Place type: mining site Integrity to creation date? Fair Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 236      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, those years. When the mine closed in 1911, its past dividends were the fifth-highest of any Victorian gold mine. The New Long Tunnel Company opened unworked ground near the Long Tunnel Extended mine between 1927-38. Key Dates: Proposed heritage grading (A-D): A Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of our cultural or natural history. E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics. F: Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: 1873 - Company formed Claim Nos. 14, 15, 16 Previously the North Hercules Co. (1865); their lower tunnel (on No. 14) was extended to create the Long Tunnel Extended adit. 1881 - struck first major reef and crushing began on Long Tunnel Company's plant (No. 2) 1901 - 20 levels reached at 2015 feet (614.17m) from main chamber: Total yield (1881-1901) 296,309 oz.(8400kg 218.84g) Total Dividend (1881₤ , 1903 - New battery 1911 - Mine ceased 1912 - company wound up Total yield 436, 768 oz. (13,649 tonnes) Total Di idends ₤ , Restoration of the site for tourism purposes is underway, under the joint management of the local shire, Department of Conservation & National Resources, and the Long Tunnel Extended Mine Reserve Committee of Management. The restoration incorporates machinery components foraged from other mine sites. The main adit has been timbered where required. Cross cuts on Cohen's line of reef made safe and openings to vertical, flue and inclined airshaft secured. Original mine workings have been made safe where required. The large machinery chamber and underground boiler house now being restored. Description Long Tunnel Extended Mine Precinct Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company sites include: Statement of Significance: Long Tunnel Extended Mine Site History: The Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mine was commenced at North Hercules Co. (1865-) site in 1873 adjacent to the successful Long Tunnel Mine from which it took its name. Between the two mines and the Walhalla mine, almost 47 tons (1.5 million troy ounces) of gold were produced from crushing 1.42 million tonnes of ore. Of this, about 13.7 tonnes of gold were produced from the Long Tunnel Extended Mine. During the years 1885 to 1908 it was one of Australia's principal reef gold producers, being top Victorian producer for six of Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 237 The following description of the Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mine Reserve forms part of its National Estate citation: 'The entrance to the mine is from the main adit which was commenced in an earlier operation in 1866 and extends 274 metres to the main shaft and machine chamber. The adit is timbered where required but is for the most part self-supporting. It was cleared and regraded after 1975 and a steel rail tramway installed along the main haulway. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 The machine chamber is an excavation made in 1876 to house a boiler and winding gear for the main shaft, and extended progressively until 1905 to its present size of about 43m x 9m x 4m high, to house five boilers, pumping and winding engines and gear, compressors, air receivers and the like to drive twenty-six rock drills. The equipment, some of which would have had to be assembled inside the chamber because it would not fit through the adit, was removed after the mine ceased operation, but the chamber is in good condition since its partial clearing of fallen debris and stabilisation. The upper surface has been secured in some parts with rock anchors and mesh, and the boiler flue and inclined airshaft are secured with steel mesh. Brick bases of two Cornish boilers have been excavated and partly reconstructed. Short cross tunnels and an exploratory winze are accessible where they extend from the main adit about halfway along its length. They were excavated in 1871 where the adit intersected the reef, before driving further with the adit and excavating the main shaft to expose the reef again at lower levels. The shaft was continuously deepened below the machine chamber until 1908 when a depth of 923m was reached. After closure of the mine in 1911 and liquidation of the Long Tunnel Extended Company, the workings were taken over by the Long Tunnel Company, which mined down to 1120m before operations ceased in 1914. Workings below the main adit level were extensive but are no longer accessible. A separate Renown adit tunnel excavated in the 1930s has been recently discovered and its history authenticated with one of the miners concerned. It is proposed to open this to the public and to excavate a short underground link to the main adit so that it can form part of underground tours of the Long Tunnel Extended Mine. This is not expected to seriously diminish the National Estate values of the mine if it is appropriately interpreted. Outside of the mine the Long Tunnel Extended Mine Reserve contains a stamper battery and other mining machinery, tramways, a museum collection of mining equipment, and several buildings reconstructed from photographic evidence.' Long Tunnel Extended Battery Site At the lower level near the creek are the remains of a 20-head battery. A large paling and iron workshop (recent origin) has been placed on the site. Behind the shed are some mortar blocks. A 5head Langlands iron frame battery has been erected over one set of the mortar blocks. On the Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 238 west side of the shed are some massive concrete engine beds. The site has been substantially modified and is partially overgrown. What is significant? Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mine lease and reserve and any associated workings prior to c1914 with contributory elements including:        Adits, tunnels, and shafts; machine chamber; air shafts; dumps; tramway formations; associated mining equipment, battery site and bases; also the Renown GMC workings. How is it significant? Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company sites are significant historically and scientifically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw, also potentially to Victoria. Why is it significant? Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company sites are significant. Historically, as a characteristic and well preserved example of an important form of gold mining. Gold mining sites are of crucial importance for the pivotal role they have played since 1851 in the development of Victoria. As well as being a significant producer of Vi toria’s nineteenth century wealth, with its intensive use of machinery, played an important role in the development of Victorian manufacturing industry. The Long Tunnel Mine Extended Mine was one of the three highly productive major underground mines on the Cohen's line of reef at Walhalla, and for six years was the richest and most successful gold mine in Victoria (Criterion A). Scientifically, because it illustrates the principal characteristics of underground gold mining as practised in this part of Victoria. Through the unusual construction practised in this group of mines, involving access from the surface through a near horizontal adit to a large machine chamber excavated deep underground, Long Tunnel Extended Mine is important in demonstrating a process which is no longer practised nor open to view in the other associated mines. It is of exceptional interest because it not only involved the use of winding and de-watering equipment Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 within the chamber, but the housing of boilers underground to generate steam to drive the winding and pumping equipment and the rock drills, with the need to constantly convey timber for fuel through the adit, and to exhaust the boilers through a brick lined shaft driven more than 140 metres to the surface above (Criterion F). Archaeologically, has potential to yield artefacts and evidence that will be able to provide significant information about the technological history of gold mining (Criterion C). Network values—The range of historical features, in combination with an extensive photographic record and physical attributes of the Stringers Creek Valley produ e one of the State’s ost evocative and unique cultural landscapes. The Long Tunnel Battery and Ore Processing Works forms an integral part of this landscape (Criterion E). Management:   Map and assess artefacts in detail as part of a proposed mining Heritage Overlay covering lease area and sites; meanwhile reference as significant contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Not mapped 1999. Extensive dump volume. Part significant mine complex, includes Knapping's battery and portable steam engine brought from Aberfeldy. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984:49Historic Mining Sites Assessment Project GIPPSLAND: Jordan-Aberfeldy-Donnelly's Creek: 2-(D Bannear 1998) Values: State. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 239 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Mining tramways: LTGMC No.1 tramway and feeder lines Figure 147 Part of tramway, south of Long Tunnel GMC, now walking track. Location: Main Road, Walhalla Figure 148 Timber supply tram way running above the Long Tunnel GMC complex c1910 (MOV) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 240 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S19 Figure 149 Map sections of the No1 LTGMC tramway (purple), as extended north for other companies, with Heritage Overlay 8 boundary in red. Figure 150 c1868 view of Long Tunnel GMC with tramway ending at complex Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 241 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance Crown Allotment: Crown Crown Grantee: Crown Place type: Tramway Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: History Historical associations with persons or events? (See other LTGMC sites) Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods (Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 242 In 1866 three horse-powered (later steam) timber supply tramways were constructed to convey timber to the mines. Much clear felling of trees was undertaken both along the creek valley and the slopes and in time almost all the timber was removed from the hillsides around Walhalla and further afield. The tramway system became very extensive. The trees which are now mature are a secondary regrowth. Development of the valley was dominated by the mine works and their associated crushing batteries , timber tramways, timber chutes, timber piles and scree slopes. The tramways became an industry in themselves, developed largely by Italians and running for many miles into the surrounding bush. In the 1880s and 1890s, the sluicing of the Thomson River and Stringer's Creek introduced new elements into the landscape with a long flume Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 through the township serving two huge waterwheels… The early years of this century saw the prospering of the Long Tunnel and Long Tunnel Extended mines, deeper workings and the installation of new machinery. With the delayed opening of the railway to Walhalla, timber getting tramways were considerably extended in the desire for more firewood. The Poverty Point Bridge c1901 was one expensive ploy by the LTGMC to extend a tramway that was already 7 miles long. However, good finds of gold were not forthcoming and in 1911 work stopped at the Long Tunnel Extended mine and the Long Tunnel Mine finally ceased operation in 1915. A tramway cutting runs south from the upper level. Twenty metres along this tramway is a benched area containing a roasting furnace and brick flue. The brick flue originally run up the hill to a large stack located on the slope above the incline shaft. Only a section of the flue survives. According to the owner of the private residence, the roasting oven is intact. It is now buried by debris and obscured by thick undergrowth. The mining platform is associated with a tramway, which connects all the major gold mines on the western side, including Long Tunnel Extended, Walhalla and Empress. This tramway is now used as a walking track and has been developed as part of the Alpine Walking Track. a vital part of the gold processing chain. The path of the tramline, high to the west of the creek and the remains of mullock heaps, are the two most immediately visible elements in the town today and they contribute significantly to the overall historic character of the area. These tramways were also a much-favoured vantage point for the public and visiting photographers, allowing the comprehensive record of Walhalla to be assembled over time (Criterion A). Network values—The range of historical features, in combination with an extensive photographic record and physical attributes of the Stringers Creek Valley produce one of the State’s ost evocative and unique cultural landscapes. The Long Tunnel Battery and Ore Processing Works forms an integral part of this landscape (Criterion E). Management:   What is significant? Map all Walhalla mining tramways (ore and timber) using the 1899 and other surveys, and assessment, include in mining based Heritage Overlay for Walhalla. This would extend well beyond the existing Heritage Overlay (see Walhalla Valley of Gold: 92- `Tramways of Walhalla’ aps, detailed lists as asis for further assessment.); reference as contributory or significant element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Mining tramways: LTGMC No.1 tram way includes the following contributory elements:   tram way ledge around west side of valley above mine dumps, now a walking track, extending beyond the Walhalla Township Heritage Overlay at the south and north ends; associated mining artefacts and adits. How is it significant? Mining tramways: LTGMC No.1 tram way is significant historically to Walhalla, Gippsland and the Baw Baw Shire. Why is it significant? Mining tramways: LTGMC No.1 tram way is significant. Historically, as part of a significant network of mining artefacts and land forms at Walhalla, being Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 243 References: Survey Notes 2013: Western side of valley developed as walking track from LTEGMC site using part Long Tunnel No.1 tramway route which extended beyond the Thomson River and beyond; many other routes exist; linked many mining companies as well as the internal mine tramways. The Poverty Point Bridge c1901 is part of this network built for the LTGMC. Not mapped 1999. Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: p15 In 1866 three tramways were constructed to convey timber t o the mines. Much clear felling of Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 trees was undertaken both along the creek valley and the slopes and in time almost all the timber was removed from the hillsides around Walhalla and further afield. The tramway system became very extensive. The trees which are now mature are a secondary regrowth… Walhalla at its peak - mid 1870's t o 1900... Development of the valley was dominated by the mine works and their associated crushing batteries , timber tramways, timber chutes, timber piles and scree slopes. The tramways became an industry in themselves, developed largely by Italians and running for many miles into the surrounding bush (see Fig.5 p.18). In the 1880's and 90's, the sluicing of the Thomson River and Stringer's Creek introduced new elements into the landscape with a long flume through the township serving two huge waterwheels… Figure 151 Stone benching along tramway near Walhalla GMC lease, 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) James & Lee: 10 On 7 November the Long Tunnel Company was able to declare a first dividend of £2,400, or £I a share. A second dividend, of £4,800, followed on I 3 January I 870. By June 1870, when its own battery was operating, further crushing had yielded another 9,468 ounces (about 268kg) of gold, and the company had already paid dividends totalling £24,000-r £ 10 per share! A statement which appeared in the Victorian Government Gazette shortly afterwards gave the company's assets as £27,503 in excess of liabilities; it valued the mine at £6,964, mining machinery at £7,815, the battery at £5,378, freeholds at £2,777, the firewood tramway at £488, creek breasting at £ , and horses and gear at £ … Figure 152 Tramway c1884, with horse and quartz skips (James & Lee: 30) Walhalla in the twentieth century The early years of this century saw the prospering of the Long Tunnel and Long Tunnel Extended lines, deeper workings and the installation of new machinery. Timber tramways were considerably extended i n the desire for more firewood. However, good finds of gold were not forthcoming and in 1911 work stopped a t the Long Tunnel Extended line and the Long Tunnel Mine finally ceased operation in 1915. Figure 153 Tram way, loaded skips c1887 (State Library of Victoria) p39 The Mining Environment...The path of the tramline, high to the west of the creek, (now a walking track) and the remains of mullock heaps, are the two most immediately visible elements in the town today and they contribute significantly to the overall character of the area 30: A timber tramline from the Long Tunnel mine ran along the hillside immediately behind the Long Tunnel Extended tunnel entrance and surface installations. In October 1883 the Chronicle announced that the Extended Co. had made arrangements to extend this tramway beyond the Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 244 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Long Tunnel mine to a point immediately above the former Walhalla battery, where the Extended quartz was being crushed. The tramline was in operation by February 1884; and the rakes of quartz trucks were henceforward to be a familiar sight from the main street. timber from the eastern hills, and track was being laid along the main street from the foot of the incline tramway direct to the battery (see pp. I I 67). The tramway was also a much-favoured vantage point for photographers, including Frederick Cornell who took the pictures of the Extended miners at the tunnel entrance (right) and of the quartz trucks returning from the battery (bottom right). 4: JB Griffiths map shows timber tramways, one LTEGMC down existing road next to dump another LTGMC timber tramway on tramway ledge looping in to log chutes down hillside in gully; also LTEGMC ore tramway built 1884 to Old Walhalla battery parallel with LTGM timber tramway. "The photographic career of Mr F. Cornell was very nearly coming to a sudden and unexpected termination on Saturday last," the Chronicle reported on 13 June 1884. "When taking a view from the Long Tunnel tramway, the trucks from the Long Tunnel Extended mine approached suddenly round the bend . . . Only Mr Cornell's presence of mind enabled him to remove his camera, and escape without injuries . . . With the exception of the horse taking fright at the camera stand, no further harm resulted." Walhalla Valley of Gold: 92- Tramways of Walhalla maps, detailed lists as basis for further assessment. The photo above shows quartz trucks outside the blacksmith's shop, near the tunnel entrance. 87: (late 1890s) While the Long Tunnel Extended was pinning its faith to more effective working of the line of reef at still lower levels as it passed through its ground, the Long Tunnel was planning a bold move to open up the reef at still lower depths in the ground beyond by means of a new shaft to be driven on a long incline from directly above the battery, thus' permitting a single haul of stone. The company's tramway had already been taken across the Thomson River to ensure supplies of better- uality ti er for fuel.….By the Long Tunnel Extended had lifted its annual crushings to what was to remain an all-time record of 16,348 tons, yielding a near-record 21,754 oz (616kg 715.53g) of gold and a healthy dividend of over £40,000. Noble's arguments had been vindicated, and in August the directors had no hesitation in approving his proposal to purchase, for a mere £7,500, the mine and plant of the North Long Tunnel Gold Mining Co., which held adjoining leases to the north and north-east ... the immediate gain for the Extended Co. was in the acquisition of the North Long Tunnel Co.'s timber rights, and the tramway -complete with a brandnew steam locomotive-that already served them (see p. I 15). Within another twelve months, the Extended had also opened up an incline tramway at the northern end of the main street to gather Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 245 Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mine: Historic Mining Sites Assessment Project GIPPSLAND: Jordan-Aberfeldy-Donnelly's Creek: p28 PLACE NO. & NAME: 18.0 LONG TUNNEL MINE SITE 18.1 LONG TUNNEL BATTERY Value: Regional 18.2 TRAMWAY Walhalla Goldfield HI No. 18.0 H7723-0607 18.1 H7723-0670 18.2 H7723-0222 LOCATION: Walhalla Township MUNICIPALITY: Baw Baw Shire Council LAND USE/STATUS: Historic Reserve Assessed by: Banner/Smith & Supple Date: 1998 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Dry Stone Retaining Walls, House Terraces Figure 154 Rubble stone benching north of Junction. Location: Various, Walhalla Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S20 Crown Allotment: WALHALLA HISTORIC AREA      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? No Crown Grantee: Place type: Walls Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 246 Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Varies How is it significant? Dry stonework walls and terraces of local stone are contributory historically and aesthetically to Walhalla Why is it significant? Dry stonework walls and terraces of local stone are contributory as evidence of lost and existing Victorian-era and Edwardian-era buildings sites set in the steep Stringer Creek valley as well as the formation of transport routes and machinery platforms for gold production and community life (Criterion A). Network values—The range of historical features, in combination with an extensive photographic record and physical attributes of the Stringers Creek Valley produ e one of the State’s ost evocative and unique cultural landscapes. These terraces and chimney bases forms an integral part of this landscape (Criterion E). Management:  Figure 155 rubble stone benching along Main Road north of Junction.   Map and record all existing dry stone terraces using the Black 1899 survey and field notes; investigate option to provide specific Heritage Overlay for stonework with associated management policies; and reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Not mapped 1999. Extensive in number within Walhalla Historic Area. Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Figure 156 Rubble stone walling on Cricket Ground walking track Statement of Significance: What is significant? Dry stonework walls and terraces of local stone used for building sites, house chimneys, and retaining walls for roads and tracks mainly in the Victorian-era. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 247 No mention of house terraces specifically: p.51 The winding eastern arm of Stringer's Creek is historically significant as the site of discovery of alluvial gold. The rubble stone embankment of the creek leading t o the bridge over the right-hand branch of the creek remains from 1873 and much of the dry stone retaining walls constructed Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 following the 1891 flood are also extant. These elements are historically and visually significant . 122Original Retaining Walls Existing sections of retaining walls along Stringer's Creek should be conserved as important features of the valley. Future maintenance should be carried out in the same style as the original, particularly where readily visible. The condition of these walls should be periodically monitored to ensure they continue to fulfil their function and the total extent of such walling is not reduced. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 248 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Remains of timber walling or breasting to creek Figure 157 New timber breasting in Stringers Creek Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place type: Retaining wall Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S25 Integrity to creation date? Condition: Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: STRINGERS CREEK, near band stand Crown Grantee: Crown Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 249      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? Yes Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? No Scientific value? No Social value? No Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? No; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Further references: Historic Town Centre Precinct Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: 122- Statement of Significance: Original Retaining Walls Refer to stone retaining walls and breasting in creek. The identified timber retaining walls no longer exist. Management:  Assess if existing timber retaining wall was carried out using original breasting as model for reconstruction and reassess. Existing sections of retaining walls along Stringer's Creek should be conserved as important features of the valley. Future maintenance should be carried out in the same style as the original, particularly where readily visible. The condition of these walls should be periodically monitored to ensure they continue to fulfil their function and the total extent of such walling is not reduced. While some walling is of timber, such as in the creek bed adjacent to the Bandstand, the majority is of stone References: 123: Survey Notes 2013: Not mapped 1999. New timber retaining walls near band stand- unknown if replicated original. Also reinforced concrete walls in creek and crushed rock Gabion walls nearby. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 250 Timber walling was evidently pit-sawn drop-slabs set behind pile timbers driven in to the creek bed. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Drop-slabs were of varying lengths according t o the line being followed, and approximately 150mm x 250 mm in section. (Walhalla Heyday, p. 137). Figure 158 Timber retaining wall at bandstand c1910. (James & Lee: 137) . Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 251 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Empress Gold Mining Company Sites, later Great South Long Tunnel GMC Sites Location: Main Road, Walhalla Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 252 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S27 E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Crown Allotment: CA 1,2, west of across creek Heritage planning status: Crown Grantee: Crown land Place type: Mining site Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Historical associations with persons or events? Planning precinct: Major owners or occupiers: Empress Gold Mining Company, Great South Long Tunnel Company Southern Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: Estimated creation date(s): 1868- History: Period representation: Empress GMC The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, 1868: Company formed to work an area formerly occupied by the Alpine and South Gippsland companies. 1869: Pumping and winding machinery, blacksmith shop and a poppet head were erected and the main shaft started. 1870: 20-head battery erected, but on reaching 302 feet (92.050m) with the shaft, operations ceased in 1872. 1874: The United Walhalla General Mining Company formed (an amalgamation of four companies -E press, E peror, Stringer’s Creek and Molesworth). Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B 1881: Acquired by the Long Tunnel Company. The total yield up to this time was 5358 ounces. Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Great South Long Tunnel Company Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme 1889: The Great South Long Tunnel Company was for ed, the E press Co pany’s a hinery was overhauled and the shaft deepened.     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . F: Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 253 1902: The company had a 30-head battery and by 1903 the company was erecting more powerful winding machinery and the shaft was down to a depth of 1,445 feet (440.44m). The Great South Long Tunnel Company won 18,571 ounces of gold and paid dividends of £62,500. 1980s: Attempt to re-open shaft. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Empress battery site Relics of the Empress battery are located on a benched area on the western side of Stringers Creek. The battery is immediately opposite the Walhalla hotel. The benched area is retained by a concrete and stone wall and contains mortar blocks for 10-head of stampers. The bench is cut into an extremely steep face. The hill slope below and above the stamper foundations is thickly timbered. There has been some disturbance to historical relics at the mine site due to modern mining activity. The battery site has not been disturbed but a section of the benched area may have collapsed taking away a section of the battery. will be able to provide information about the technological history of gold mining (Criterion C). Network values—The range of historical features, in combination with an extensive photographic record and physical attributes of the Stringers Creek Valley produ e one of the State’s ost evocative and unique cultural landscapes (Criterion E). Management:  What is significant?  Empress Gold Mining Company, later Great South Long Tunnel Company sites from 1860s- 1910s including:        brick winding engine foundations, a stone chimney, a large mullock heap, which cascades down to Stringers Creek. some terracing and tramways; and battery site. There are also features on the site from recent mining activity including a metal head-frame above the shaft and five concrete water storage tanks. How is it significant? Empress Gold Mining Company sites are significant historically and scientifically to Walhalla, Gippsland and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Empress Gold Mining Company sites are significant: Historically, the mine and battery relics are asso iated with Walhalla’s peak ining period, when the field was second only to Bendigo in gold production (Criterion A). Scientifically, contain a range of features which document different mining operations (Criterion F). Archaeological potential—Both sites have the potential to yield artefacts and evidence, which Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 254  Above ground contributory or significant elements should be recorded and mapped in detail and reassessed; significant below ground elements should be monitored where possible in any future mine workings; provide interpretive signage at roadside; provide separate mining Heritage Overlay with associated policies in Baw Baw Shire Planning Scheme; meanwhile reference as significant and contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Not mapped in 1999, cited in 1984. Mullock heaps most visible part of site. Monterey pine row along road adjoining. Track rising to north west to new workings- clearings and shed visible on aerial Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963   Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: 39The Mining Environment James & Lee: 28 ...amalgamation of the old Alpine and South Gippsland holdings which had operated as the Empress Company between 1868 and 1872. The sudden collapse of the Empress, shortly after erecting a large battery (which was to be known as the Empress battery for more than forty years) and when its shares were still in actual demand, had been a disaster for those directly involved, and a surprise to the mining community generally. Historic Mining Sites Assessment Project GIPPSLAND: Jordan-Aberfeldy-Donnelly's Creek: 26 PLACE NO. & NAME: 17.0 EMPRESS COMPANY MINE 17.1 EMPRESS COMPANY BATTERY Values: Regional Walhalla Goldfield HI No. H7824-0051 LOCATION: Walhalla township MUNICIPALITY: Baw Baw Shire Council LAND USE/STATUS: Historic Reserve Assessed by: Bannear Date: 1998 (Regionally significant to Gippsland) DPCD Walhalla Goldfield Notes www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005 /44591/Walhalla.pdf Supple, R (?) n.d. Typical Sources: Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 255 Adams, J., Mountain Gold: a history of the Baw Baw and Walhalla country of the Narracan Shire, Victoria, Narracan Shire Council, 1980 Murray, R.A.F., 'Report on the Geological Survey between Walhalla and Toombon', Appendix A to Mining Surveyors' Reports, June 1885 (report dated April 1885) Mid-late 1880s: Brief mining boom - mines active in Walhalla vicinity: North Long Tunnel (active for 25 years, lots of expenditure for little return), Rising Sun Co. (used Longfellow Co. battery), South Long Tunnel Co. (crushing plant), Great South Long Tunnel Co. (ex-Empress Co. - 30-head battery). Substantial mining also took place on Tubal Cain, Scratch-a-bit, and Happy go Lucky reefs. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Mountain Spring Brewing, aerated Water and Cordial Manufacturing Company, later site of Lewis Loan's Star Brewery site, ruins Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA94, 95, 96, 97 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S28 Crown Grantee: CA94 J Day, 1870; 94A J Butler, 1869; 95 T Lee 1867; etc. Place type: Brewery Site Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Mountain Spring Brewing, Aerated Water and Cordial Manufacturing Company, Lewis Loan Estimated creation date(s): 1885, 1887-? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 256 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Lewis and Elizabeth Loan are buried in a prominent grave in the Walhalla Cemetery(WHDL) What is significant? Mountain Spring Brewing, Aerated Water and Cordial Manufacturing Company sites include: Place evaluation  landforms and stone and brick rubble base at the west end of the site. Heritage grading How is it significant? Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Mountain Spring Brewing, aerated Water and Cordial Manufacturing Company sites are contributory historically to Walhalla . Why is it significant? Mountain Spring Brewing, aerated Water and Cordial Manufacturing Company sites are contributory. Historically, as part of the essential infrastructure for a mining town at its peak period of development (Criterion A). Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Management:   Investigate site archaeologically and reassess as required; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History References: `A grand ball, in September 1885, marked the opening of this brewery by owners, Lewis and Elizabeth Loan (formerly, licensees-of the Star Hotel in Walhalla). Survey Notes 2013: Their ales became the favourite of the Governor of Victoria, Sir Henry Loch. In fact, Loan's aerated waters and bitters regularly won international awards at shows and exhibitions — prizes that ranked them amongst the best beer and soft drink manufacturers in the world. The Loans partly attributed their success to the purity of the water obtained from a spring on their property. The complex was extended by 1887. Lewis Loan's death, in May 1898, saw the brewery closed, its buildings, plant and equipment being sold off at a public auction, soon after. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 257 Plaque east side of creek, west side of road: view to house and clearing at -37.940128,146.451587 near CA95. Large brick machinery or chimney base visible at rear of site. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) waters and bitters regularly won international awards at shows and exhibitions — prizes that ranked them amongst the best beer and soft drink manufacturers in the world. The Loans partly attributed their success to the purity of the water obtained from a spring on their property. Lewis Loan's death, in May 1898, saw the brewery closed, its buildings, plant and equipment being sold off at a public auction, soon after. Lewis and Elizabeth Loan are buried in a prominent grave in the Walhalla Cemetery. Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Figure 159 Lewis Loan's Star Brewery, c1895 (Walhalla Heritage & Development League) Further references: James & Lee, 1970: 47- Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: no assessment but site recorded Jubilee Day, 1887: Loan’s newly e tended o ple illuminated along with other key buildings. Walhalla Rate Books 1907-8, 245, 246 Ernest Collins (pencil), owner estate of Eliza eth Loan House CAs , ₤ ; house rewery ordial fa tory CAs , , ₤ Walhalla Heritage & Development League 2000 Plaque on site: The Site of Lewis Loan's Star Brewery A grand ball, in September 1885, marked the opening of this brewery by owners, Lewis and Elizabeth Loan (formerly, licensees-of the Star Hotel in Walhalla). Their ales became the favourite of the Governor of Victoria, Sir Henry Loch. In fact, Loan's aerated Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 258 ` An afternoon picnic was followed by a torchlight procession in the evening. The Long Tunnel attery, and Mr Loan’s re ently e tended rewery uildings…were… a laze of light’ Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Museum Of Victoria Figure 160 Detail from s image with Loan’s complex at rear (MOV, LH 67285) Newspapers: Gippsland Times 12 Feb 1877 An extensive bush fire was raging on Tuesday night on the spur above Loan's Star Hotel, the outlet to Donnelly's Creek, which threatened immediate destruction to the township of Walhalla. About 11 o'clock the flames burst out at a terrific rate, and sent the sparks and tinder flying over the houses in all directions, from one end of the creek to the other, even down to Pettit's Brewery. Fortunately the wind changed about half an hour afterwards, and the danger was abated. Traralgon Record and Morwell, Mirboo, Toongabbie, Heyfield, Tyers and Callignee Advertiser (Traralgon, Vic. : 1883 - 1886) Friday 9 October 1885 Edition: morning. p 3 Article A meeting of the Gippsland Hospital ball committee in connexion with the opening of the Loan's new brewery at Walhalla, was held on Monday night. Traralgon Record (Traralgon, Vic. : 1886 - 1932) Friday 27 March 1891 PROSPECTS OF THE Mountain Spring Brewing, aerated Water AND Cordial Manufacturing Company, Ltd., WALHALLA, GIPPSLAND. TO BE REGISTERED UNDER THE COMPANIES ACT, 1890. CAPITAL.£10,000 in 10.000 Shares at £1 each, ... Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 259 PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS: Fred. C. Tricks, Esq., J.P., Walhalla Councillor Robert Mill, Empire Hotel, Walhalla. Councillor William Parker, J.P., Star Hotel, Walhalla. Ramsay Thompson, Esq., J.P., President Shire of Walhalla. Charles Amor, Esq... Broker, Walhalla. J. Griffiths, Esq. (Griffiths and Co. , Mer hants. Mel ourne. … BANKERS. Bank of Victoria, Limited. SOLICITOR. Arthur W. Pace, Esq., Walhalla. BROKER. Thos. O'Loghlen Reynolds. SECRETARY (pro. tem.) Arthur H. Tricks. The Company is proposed to be established for the purpose of purchasing the goodwill, freehold properties, machinery, plant, stock in-trade, etc., of the above-named Brewery, and to carry thereon the business of brewing and aerated water manufacturing. The property to be acquired comprises full Brewing, Aerated Water. and Cordial Manufacturing Plant, eight horse power (nominal) Steam Engine (new), five allotments of land (freehold) fronting Stringer's Creek and two messuages or tenements containing five rooms each. The articles manufactured are as follows: -Running Ale, Light Bitter Ale, Strong Bitter Ale, (bottled), Cordials, .Aerated Waters and Fluid Magnesia. There is an ever flowing spring of water, which for parity and adaptability for brewing purity cannot be surpassed. There is also complete machinery and appliances for the manufacture of Cordials and Aerated Waters of every description. The articles produced being largely consumed by the local markets. Mr. Lewis Loan (the present proprietor) has obtained first prize and special mention for Ales at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, 1888-9. and first prize for Seltzer Water and Fluid Magnesia; first prize for Aerated Waters and Cordials; and second prize for Light Bottled at Calcutta and Adelaide; and first, second and third prizes at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition for all other articles of his manufacture. His Excellency Sir Henry Loch was so pleased with the purity and quality of the Ales brewed by Mr. Loan that he was appointed by certificate brewer to His Excellency, and during His Excellency's stay in the colony, Mr. Loan forwarded a regular supply to Government House. The Brewery has been established for a considerable time and has proved highly remunerative to the proprietor, who has determined on account of the pressure of other business to combine his operations by the formation of this Company, thereby giving the public the benefit of the profits to be derived therefrom, and increasing the operations not only of this already prosperous and remunerative business but of the whole district. The promoters have been induced to form this Company with the object of extending the business of the Brewery. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 and interesting themselves more largely in licensed proper. ties, and thereby establishing a better :and more profitable market for the Beer, etc., than at present exists. Throughout the colony breweries that have been formed in Limited Companies have proved very successful, and this being one of the best districts in the colony for the operations of such a Company and with the great advantages this Company will posse-s over similar ones it is thought that the public as well as the licensed victuallers will see the advisability of such an undertaking being established in their midst ; one which should not only re turn a handsome interest on the outlay but prove a great benefit to the district generally. The vendor is to receive ₤4,000 us payment for all buildings, land, plant, and machinery, stock-in-trade, goodwill, etc., and he has such confidence in the success of the Company, that he will accept payment thereof as follows:… Mr. Loan further agrees to bind himself to act as brewer for the Company at a moderate salary to be agreed upon by the share holders. This being a going concern an immediate return may be assured. The number of shares that can be applied for by any one individual is unlimited, hut the power of voting will be restricted, each shareholder having a vote for every 10 shares up to 250, but no one shareholder will be en titled to more than 2S votes irrespective of the number of shares he may hold. The Directors, Manager and other Officers of the Company will be elected by the share holders at their last meeting. ... VALUATION OF FREEHOLD PROPERTY, PLANT, STOCK-IN-TRADE, … THE FREEHOLD PROPERTY comprising allotment 96 and part allotment 97, Walhalla, on which is erected a weather .board cottage containing five rooms, occupied by a tenant at a weekly rental of 16s... .;. £200/0/0 Allotment 94 and 95 on which are erected the Brewery Building', Aerated Water Fa tory, Engine and Boiler housing … ₤ Allotment 96a on which is erected a weatherboard ottage o upied y Mr. Loan … …: ₤ PLANT.-9in. Cylinder horizontal engine bedded on stone, : - boiler 13ft. 6in., built in brick, iron stack, shafting, pulleys," :belting, steam piping, exhaust, and all connections complete, … force pump and pipe line … ₤ Brewing I art and utensils.;: …Aerated Water machinery and working plant … . . ₤418 0 : Stock-Corks, kegs., trucks,. carts. &c. .…..Sto k of merchandise, bulk and sorted ales, ordials, tools and trade aterials … … ₤ Total....: … …£ Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 260 The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 27 February 1899 p 7 WALHALLA-The brewery plant and land belonging to the estate of the late Lewis Loan was disposed of by auction to Mr. Chas. Amor for the sum of £800. The residence adjoining and allotment with WB. cottage thereon, realised £315, being also purchased by .Mr. C. Amor Traralgon Record (Traralgon, Vic. : 1886 - 1932) Friday 22 November 1907 Edition: MORNING. p 2 Article PROPERTY SALES. E. A. W. Coates reports having sold by auction at Walhalla, on account of the trustees of Loan's estate, the Walhalla brewery and plant, together with a 6-roonmed cottage, Mr Chas. Collins being the purchaser at a satisfactory price.. Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger CA94: dealings 1924 probate of Thomas Henry Edwards, Nar Nar Goon; Alma Reynolds, Walhalla also CA95, 96A Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla State School (SS957) and reserve Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA141C Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S29 Crown Grantee: State School Reserve Place type: School Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Victorian Colonial Government, Estimated creation date(s): 1874- (site), school c1939 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Figure 161 Site boundary (blue), trees (green) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 261     Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013  Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation closure of the mines. In 1939 the large school building -was dismantled to make way for a singleroomed one teacher' school. The Walhalla State School finally closed in early 1965.' (WHDL) What is significant? Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? Yes Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: Walhalla State School (SS957) includes the following contributory elements:       Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: school reserve standard single class room design; hipped corrugated iron clad roof, with quad guttering and deep eaves; weatherboard clad walls, once oil stained; masonry chimney to south side with corbelled top; multi-pane glazed windows, timber framed, with hopper top sashes. Mature exotic trees (oak, walnut, Monterey pines) are distributed on the former school garden site to the north. The added buildings on this land are not contributory. How is it significant? Walhalla State School (SS957) is contributory historically to Walhalla. Western Side of Valley Why is it significant? Statement of Significance: History Walhalla State School (SS957) is contributory. `Prior to the building of a school, classes for The town's children were held in the Mechanics' Institute and-later in a small building-adjoining it. Other schools also operated in the Wesleyan and Catholic chapels for a short period Socially and historically as symbolic of the school site this offered over a large part of Walhalla's significant development period as well as the existing building which has associations with the inter-war period of gold seeking (Criterion A, G). Larger school premises were sought as the town's population grew, and the current site was purchased in 1874. Ah Gwan (a Chinese settler) originally occupied the land and operated a market garden here. The first official school was opened on October 1875 with Henry Tisdall-its first head teacher. Under his direction, and with Walhalla's population at its peak in the 1880s, the school's facilities were stretched to the limit and classes had to be held in- hallways -and shelter sheds. Management:    Assess weatherboard school for heritage values; investigate reinstating stained weatherboard finish to school; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: The school was destroyed by fire in April-1891 and a larger building erected soon after. Survey Notes 2013: The number of school aged children declined as the town's population dwindled following the Inter-war weatherboard school building plus a number of recent (1970s) cabins to north, as in 1984, plus older simply gabled verandahed Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 262 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 weatherboard cottage (inter-war?). Interior altered. Also some exotic trees to north, with Monterey pines, oak, walnut tree, and a PMG red telephone box. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) The first official school was opened on October 1875 with Henry Tisdall-its first head teacher. Under his direction, and with Walhalla's population at its peak in the 1880s, the school's facilities were stretched to the limit and classes had to be held in- hallways -and shelter sheds. The school was destroyed by fire in April-1891 and a larger building erected soon after. The number of school aged children declined as the town's population dwindled following the closure of the mines. In 1939 the large school building -was dismantled to make way for a singleroomed one teacher' school. The Walhalla State School finally closed in early 1965. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 19: Despite a re-organization of the fire service, the state school was burnt i n 1891, to be rebuilt the following year. Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Figure 162 existing school in 1983, with Monterey pines behind (some removed) Further references: Plaque on site: (WALHALLA HERITAGE & DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE 2000) Prior to the building of a school, classes for The town's children were held in the Mechanics' Institute and-later in a small building-adjoining it. Other schools also operated in the Wesleyan and Catholic chapels for a short period Larger school premises were sought as the town's population grew, and the current site was purchased in 1874. Ah Gwan (a Chinese settler) originally occupied the land and operated a market garden here. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 263 Figure 163 school, 1897 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 collected for the first 18 weeks amount to £53 12s 6d. The fees charged are 1s 6d a week for those over 8 years; 1s a week for those under 8 years; with a concession to families, who pay 1s a week for each child, irrespective of age. School times for the five days a week (Monday to Friday inclusive) are from 9.30 to 12 noon in the morning, and from 1.00 to 3.15 in the afternoon. Figure 164 Walhalla school 1860s, near LTGMC complex, (State Library of Victoria H301.08, collected for Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) Victorian Public Records Office: VPRS 10516/P/3: School images from inter-war show Monterey pines behind (west) and to north-east of 1890s school building. Also seen behind and to north of 1930s school building (existing), with stained weatherboards (now painted). Figure 165 School, 1930s, (VPRO) - original stained finish Vision & Realisation: 1184 957 WALHALLA: For the first year, June 1867 to July 1868, Walhalla had simply a private school, conducted without government aid. Towards the end of 1868 some time after the arrival of Henry and Lucy Tisdall, it was approved by the authorities as Walhalla Common School No. 957. Then in 1873 it became SS957 Walhalla. The first HT, George Campbell Christie, on 14th of October 1867 gave the following information: The school was opened for the first time on Monday 10th of June 1867. There were 73 pupils on the roll, 22 boys and 24 girls under 8 years; and 17 boys and 10 girls over 8 years. The fees Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 264 The A.A. was something less than 60 pupils, Henry Tisdall with his wife was sufficient staff at first, but by 1873 when Walhalla was much bigger and when children were flocking to school, NE had risen to 390. Tisdall reported that only 150 attended regularly, about 135 came half of the time, and quite a number did not attend at all. A private school catered for 35 pupils. The A.A.. was 250 and his staff in addition to himself and his wife included two PTs, two unpaid teachers and one teacher awaiting classification. The Board of Education was slow in granting financial aid. The school had still not been approved by August 1868 so that Tisdall, with about half the pupils he expected, received about a quarter of the salary he ought to have been getting. Alexander Bell, Correspondent for the Committee, wrote to the authorities: On Inspector Sircom's recommendation, the Committee replaced Mr. Christie by Mr and Mrs Tisdall, both of whom have first class certificates. Aid has been granted to small schools like Toongabbie and Donnelly's Creek, while wa1ha11a with a population of something like 20 times those two places combined has been appealing for a year and a half in vain. George Campbell Christie had been appointed HT by the committee in 1867 and at no time is there any evidence that they were dissatisfied with him. The records indicate that he was methodical and efficient yet, DI Sircom reported unfavourably and the Committee had to replace Christie did not give in easily and as late as December 1868, four months after Tisdall's arrival, he claimed that he was HT at the Walhalla School and asked for the subsidy to his salary. He was in fact conducting a rival school in the Wesleyan Chapel. This was a very unhappy situation for but Tisdall was hardly to blame, nor the Committee, nor Christie, who seems to have been treated shabbily by the authorities. A wrangle which split the townspeople into two parties occurred over the building. One group believed it was primarily a school which could be used as a public hall; the other group believed it was primarily a public hall (or Mechanics Institute) which could be used as a school. If the building belonged to the Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Department; if a Mechanics Institute it belonged to the people of Walhalla. Alexander Bell, a storekeeper in Walhalla and Correspondent of the Committee, led the school party; and Henry Braidly was the spokesman for the opposing group. In November 1868 Bell explained: In the year 1865, a public meeting appointed a committee for the purpose of promoting a mechanics institute here. This committee collected about £92, out of which £80 was paid to one Nelson, a miner, for his mining right, a piece of land now known as allotment 28 of the township of Walhalla. The movement then fell through. The following year, a movement was begun to establish a school. A public meeting was called, and it was decided to erect on the site bought from Nelson a building which would serve as a school, but which could also be used for public warship, public meetings, etc. At that time the population was very small. There were no churches, but visiting clergymen of any denomination would be permitted to use this building for their church services. The school group won this battle, only to discover that the building was too close to the Long Tunnel Mine where noisy machinery made teaching almost impossible. Henry Tisdall reported in March 1872 that, 'the school is situated in a narrow valley within 80 ft. of the Long Tunnel Battery. It has always been a difficult matter to conduct the school properly in consequence of the noise of the machines, but since the erection of five more heads of stamps and stone-crusher, the increased noise makes it impossible'. In March 1874 a new site was bought from a Chinaman, Ah Gwang who had a market garden there, and Allotment 28 again became the site for the Mechanics Institute. The price of the new site was £100; the closed school building still stands there today. The contractor for the new school at the price of £1,778 was Charles Henry Cook, but he had difficulties in excavating part of the hillside, in getting material and in paying his workmen, so that the contract was taken over by Callow and Ward and the final cost of the school rose to £2,086. This new school was occupied as from Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 265 13th of October 1875. It was a fine building, Mrs Ward Wrote to her cousin, Miss Constance Tisdall, describing both the school and the new residence. She said: built, to his own design, a lovely school for your father, with an office for himself, and three big classrooms, each holding three classes. But, as well, there was a large room with seats built in tiers at the back. It was called 'The Class Room', and here, special lessons were held. When we grew up, the glee club met there at night. In the infant room, there were two galleries at each end of the room with desks in the middle. Windows were round all the rooms, and room had a big fireplace with lovely fires in the winter. The Department built for your father and mother a complete house near the school, but in quite separate grounds. It had a very large parlour, a dining-room bath-room, kitchen and five bedrooms, with a nice passage, and a verandah too. There was a house down at the bottom on the creek level, which had been there before, and it had three rooms, one being a laundry. Around this small house was a lovely orchard. I remember going down there with Ethel (Tisdall) after school and having cherries of all kinds, gooseberries, apples, pears and peaches. There was also a stable and a cow. This lovely school was burnt down at 4 o'clock on a Saturday morning, 25th of April 1891, five years after the TisdalIs had left Walhalla. Apparently the new school then erected had six big classrooms as well as a 'big room'. As the enrolment dropped, sections were taken elsewhere. The present schoolroom, now closed, is comparatively new. The school had earlier periods when closed, i.e., during 1952-55 and in 1959. HT John Hayward was the last to teach at the school, Easter 1965. Among some of the long service HTs have been: George C. Christie (1867-68), Henry T. Tisdall (1868-86), John Fairhall (1886-89), John Stewart (1890-94), John T. Burke (1898-1902), James Gerrard (190311), Donald M. Smith (1921-25), Hilda J. Argall (1928-32), Donald H. Cunningham (193640),Charles W. Sinclair (1947-51). Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Giovanni Guatta's wine shop cellar site Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place type: Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S30 Integrity to creation date? Poor Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Peter & Lydia Bertino? Charles McDowell; Giovanni (John) Guatta Estimated creation date(s): 1898 (cellar) Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining development period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: Crown Crown Grantee: Permissive Occupancy Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: Attachment 1: 266      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History This small commercial area along Main Road, like the one at the Junction, fed from a large gold mine nearby, The Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mine. Peter & Lydia Bertino had a wine licence at Walhalla in 1873 and later 1891 Charles McDowell had a licence for this site (McDowell was one of town's pioneers and in the colony for 41 years as of 1891): it was then only wine shop in town. Peter Pianta had it 1893-5 and then Luigi Bertozzi, continuing the Italian presence there. In 1898 Giovanni (John) Guatta was granted a Colonial Wine Licence for the site transferred from Luigi Pianta (1897-); the license became Australian Wines in 1907. A photo from c1910 shows the shop as 8 rooms, adjoining the band house, with Dunn's and Morgan's 6 room house nearby. Angelina attended the shop. Figure 166 Detail of `State School, Walhalla c -10, wine shop arrowed as in `Mountain Heritage’ (State Library of Victoria pi007665) Giovanni proposed using vacant land adjoining (next to band room) for expansion but no success meant an application was made for blasting at the rear of the shop, creating a cellar (see Walhalla Chronicle 8 July 1898). The wine licence lapsed in 1912 with the activities of the Licensing Reduction Board: there was opposition to renewing the licence in 1912 although his application stated that mining had renewed. The Board recommended closing 5 hotels in the area in 1913. Giovanni Sold in 1923 to Bortolo Ferrari and Giovanni & Angelina left the wine shop for the former Daly house. What is significant? Giovanni Guatta's wine shop site includes;  open grassed area once all covered by buildings and a cavity in the adjoining rock face apparently caused by blasting for use as a store. How is it significant? Giovanni Guatta's wine shop site is contributory historically to Walhalla. Why is it significant? Giovanni Guatta's wine shop site is contributory. Historically as one of the few remaining parts of the small commercial strip that developed around the long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company site in the late Victorian-era and Edwardian-era. Wine licences were part of the essential fabric of social life particularly in a part of Walhalla Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 267 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 occupied by a large percentage of Italian families who had pioneered the timber getting along mine tramways (Criterion A). Management:  Reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Placed facing wine cellar carved into or blasted from rock in hillside, east side of road at 37.9383,146.450667. See Guatta's house B24 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Further references: James & Lee 117 image of commercial area opposite school Plaque on site: (Walhalla Heritage & Development League, 2000) Mountain Heritage: 65: 1898 Giovanni granted a Colonial Wine Licence transferred from Luigi Pianta (1897-) but stalled for a month while Guatta sought naturalisation, when awarded- ₤50 valuation on property in 1898 redu ing to ₤ in - license became Australian Wines 1907. Peter & Lydia Bertino had a wine licence at Walhalla in 1873, later 1891 Charles McDowell had licence for this site- one of town's pioneers and in the colony for 41 years as of 1891 (then only one in town). Peter Pianta had it 18935, then Luigi Bertozzi. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 268 66: photo c1910- 8 rooms, adjoining band house, Dunn's and Morgan's 6 room house; Angelina attended the shop; proposed using vacant land adjoining (next to band room) - no success meant application for blasting at rear of shop - created cellar (cites Walhalla Chronicle 8 July 1898) ; licence lapsed 1912- opposition to renewing licence in 1912 although application stated mining renewed. Licensing Reduction Board recommended closing 5 hotels in area in 1913. Sold 1923 to Bortolo Ferrari. 137: Giovanni & Angelina left Guatta's wine shop in c1920 and purchased the Daly house. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company sites: Incline Tramway site Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place type: Mining site Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S31 Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company, Estimated creation date(s): 1905 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: Crown Crown Grantee: leased Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 269      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 What is significant? Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history; F Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company sites: Incline Tramway site includes the following contributory elements:     Main Road entry cut through rock to the incline tramway tramway cut through rock and forest up east side of Stringer Creek valley, steep incline to tramway terminus located 375 metres above road level; and associated artefacts. How is it significant? Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company sites: the Incline Tramway site is significant historically and scientifically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Why is it significant? Heritage contribution or significance Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company sites: the Incline Tramway site is significant. or technical achievement at a particular period. Heritage planning status:   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Northern Entry Statement of Significance: (See other Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company sites) Historically, as part of the network of diverse sites essential for efficient gold production of this rich mine, in this case to feed the crusher steam engine furnace with firewood (Criterion A). Technically as a, sometimes dangerous, demonstration of the application of simple laws of physics to mass transportation to feed a hungry mine furnace and a major construction achievement (Criterion F). History Gold bearing quartz from the Long Tunnel Extended Mine was crushed by the Long Tunnel Company in the old Walhalla Company's battery south of the Junction. The Extended constructed its own battery in 1903 with an associated need for firewood supplies. Wood from the surrounding district was brought to a tramway terminus located 375 metres above road level. To feed the battery engine below, an incline tramway was opened in June 1905, cut through the rock and forest. Using a pulley cable system, a fully loaded wood truck descending the tramway would simultaneously pull an empty, truck up. Wood was either trucked across to the level area behind at roadside for storage, or sent south, via a tramway, down Main Road to the battery (Walhalla Heritage & Development League ). Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 270 Management:   Map and further assess the incline tramway and any associated artefacts; add as contributory and significant element within Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: Entry to incline tramway from Main Road located at -37.932715, 146.449449; tramway cut thro rock up east side of valley, steep incline. Further references: Plaque on site: (Walhalla Heritage & Development League , 2000) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Site of Long Tunnel Extended Incline Tramway For many years gold bearing quartz raised from the Long Tunnel Extended Mine was crushed under contract by the Long Tunnel Company in the old Walhalla Company's battery. To reduce this ongoing expense, the Extended constructed its own battery, thereby necessitating the sourcing of its own firewood supplies. Wood from the surrounding northern district was brought to a tramway terminus located 375 metres above road level. In order to transport timber to the valley floor, it had been planned to construct an aerial ropeway directly from the terminus to the battery. Instead, a self-acting incline tramway was opened in June 1905. Using an ingenious pulley cable system, a fully loaded wood truck descending the tramway would simultaneously pull an empty, truck up. The two trucks passed each other on a loop built halfway up the hill. Once a load reached the bottom, wood was either trucked across to the level area behind you for storage, or shuttled south, via a tramway, down the main street to the battery house. Newspapers: Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Monday 1 May 1905 Had trial of incline tramway, proved satisfactory, e pe t to e in full swing ne t week. … Monday 17 July 1905 Edition: MORNINGS. P 3 Locomotive and incline tramway working satisfactory. Battery crushing rather poor `The Argus': Wednesday 8 April 1908 RUN OVER AND KILLED. WALHALLA, Tuesday. — Arthur Seear, 6 years old, was killed this afternoon at Aurum Gully, three miles north of Walhalla. Accompanied by his brother William, aged 11, the child was riding on a loaded truck of wood on the incline tram, which branches off the Long Tunnel Extended wood tramway. He left the track to pick up his hat, and, in trying to get a mount in the front of the truck, he slipped, and the loaded truck passed over his body. Death was instantaneous Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 271 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Cricket & Recreation Reserve or Walhalla cricket ground and road reserve Location: Main Road, Cricket Ground Track, Walhalla Figure 167 Cricket ground 1900s (James & Lee: 100) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 272 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S32 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? Yes Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. B: Possession of uncommon rare or endangered aspects of our cultural or natural history. G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: Figure 168 Ground outline (blue) with approximate line of old track from Junction. Heritage Overlay name: Crown Allotment: CA 6A/A Heritage contribution or significance Crown Grantee: Cricket & Recreation Reserve 1871   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Place type: Sporting ground Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Planning precinct: Cricket Ground Statement of Significance: History Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Victorian Colonial Government, various sporting clubs Estimated creation date(s): 1871- Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 273 Sporting events took place in Walhalla on available flat land within the township but increased mining activity and the resultant growth in buildings and population meant this was no longer possible so by 1871 a permanent 2 acre reserve was created on the east side of the creek valley, 200 metres Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 above Main Road. The oval had a rough earthen surface and was surrounded by a cycling track. The reserve became a popular venue for the town's sporting and social activities. In 1907, the visiting Melbourne Cricket Club team, led by renowned Test Captain Warwick Armstrong, challenged the Walhalla team. According to local legend, Armstrong made a wager that he could hit a ball down into the yard of the hotel directly below (Star Hotel). Instead, he was caught on the boundary by local, Dick Merrington.  retain early routes to ground as part of Heritage Overlay. References: Survey Notes 2013: What is significant? Native grassed cricket ground with concrete pitch (dated `S Dawson 1989') surrounded by native forest of peppermint and messmate. Evidence of vehicles damaging ground. In 1984 some evidence e of timber building footings on perimeter. Picnic ground at end of Cricket Ground Track coming from north, entry well north on Main Road of original track survey entry. Walhalla Cricket & Recreation Reserve includes the following contributory elements: Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) The ground is still maintained and used for social and sporting events.     evidence of track reserve from Main Road, connecting at entry to Chinese Gardens; evidence of old zig-zag track up spur from Junction; native grassed cricket ground; setting in native forest of peppermint and messmate. How is it significant? Walhalla Cricket & Recreation Reserve is significant historically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Walhalla Cricket & Recreation Reserve is significant. Historically and socially as the focus of sporting and social activity in Walhalla from the 1870s during the a significant period of peak development in the town and, by its unique and remote siting and difficult access, so evocative of the high values attached to the valley floor that determined where non-mining uses that needed large land areas were located (Criterion A, G). Management:   Proposed mapped area for Heritage Overlay or as contributory to HO8; investigate remains of structures or associated artefacts; Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 274 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Shows old track to ground. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Further references: Walhalla Heritage & Development League 2000 Plaque at Main Road states: `Walhalla Cricket Ground In the early days, sporting events took place on any available flat land within the township. By the early 1870's, increased mining activity and the resultant growth in buildings and population, meant this was no longer possible. The only alternative site was on top of this hill, 200 metres above road level. This was cleared, levelled and enlarged by the laborious use of pick and shovel. The oval had a rough earthen surface and was surrounded by a cycling track. The reserve became a popular venue for the town's sporting and social activities. In 1907, the visiting Melbourne Cricket Club team, led by renowned Test Captain Warwick Armstrong, challenged the Walhalla team. According to local legend, Armstrong made a wager that he could hit a ball down into the yard of the hotel directly below. Instead, he was caught on the boundary by local, Dick Merrington. The ground is still maintained and used for social and sporting events. The return walk takes about 45 minutes.' Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Figure 169 Cricket ground 1983: stumps of shelter in foreground (arrowed) Newspapers: Gippsland Times (Vic.: 1861 - 1954) Tuesday 25 March 1873 TO THE EDITOR OF THE GIPPSLAND TIMES. Sirs- seeing in last Tuesday's issue that Doran had beaten me in the jumping match on the Walhalla cricket ground, I wish to contradict the same, as I do not consider myself beaten, and to prove that, I Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 275 am willing to jump him again in a given time for a trophy value £120, By, giving these few lines publication in your valuable journal you will oblige, yours, JOHN HARRINGTON Walhalla, March 20 Parish Plan Cricket & Recreation Reserve Permanent Gazetted 1871 p795; 1884 p.489; 2 acres. Reserve File number 5016 James & Lee: Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 98 images of the sports ground on the hilltop above the Junction (above), with close-up of the bush-house shelters. Figure 170 Bush house shelters at side of ground (James & Lee: 100) An earlier photo of a football match. The Melbourne Cricket Club touring team, Easter 1907, with Warwick Armstrong (arms folded) in the foreground of the lower picture. "Supplies" for the sports ground. 135: The Chronicle, 2 December 1910, reported the Hospital Carnival as a brilliant success. "Six a.m. saw those who had to bear the burden of the earlier part of the arrangements collected at Mr Finlayson's residence, where on the previous evening all provender had been prepared, packed and stored, ready for conveyance to the Long Tunnel Extended Company's incline tram at the upper end of the town. Here it was hauled to the top of the hill [see also p. 1011, and thence conveyed by horse sledge along the track made by the 'busy bees' of the week before, to the ground. . . . During the morning a steady stream of people wended its way up the zig-zag track leading to the Re reation Ground on the su it of the hill… Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 276 Figure 171 Detail of c1906 view of Junction with cricket ground track very visible (James & Lee: 1 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Police station site Figure 172 Police station site from west, now car park, with Lombardy poplars to former church boundary Figure 173 Walhalla Wesleyan Church and police Station c1887-8 from north (James & Lee: 34) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 279 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Location: East Branch, Walhalla Figure 174 Police Station complex, c1180-90 (State Library of Victoria H84.458) Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S33 Crown Allotment: CA45,46 Crown Grantee: Place type: Police Building Integrity to creation date? Poor Condition: Poor Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Victorian Colonial Government, Estimated creation date(s): 1878-1952? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):  Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 280 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013     Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: population, it was closed and its sole remaining policeman transferred to Erica, 15 kilometres away. The buildings were considerably damaged in the floods of June 1952 and, later that year, the main building was relocated to the township of Boolarra (South Gippsland), whilst the lock-up was relocated to Cowwarr (North Gippsland).' The site was well located near the two major hotels in the town. What is significant? The former site of the Walhalla police station, currently used as paved public car park with interpretation sign. How is it significant? Heritage Overlay number: HO8 The former site of the Walhalla police station is contributory historically to Walhalla. Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Why is it significant? Heritage contribution or significance The former site of the Walhalla police station is contributory   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Historically as a key public site over a period of nearly 80 years in the middle of the historic precinct commercial area, with major interaction with the community during the significant boom era at Walhalla (Criterion A). Statement of Significance: History (Derived from Walhalla Heritage & Development League plaque) `Until 1864 a police presence at Stringer's Creek was maintained by visiting troopers. Following the recommendation of Mounted Constable Feely who noted `...that peace breaker - grog - [had found] its way into the valley...', a police building and lock-up were established around 1865 on the lower slope of what came to be known as Camp Hill, overlooking the cemetery entrance track and the Reefers Arms Hotel. By 1866, calls were being made to relocate the police station to a more central site in the growing township. However, it took until the summer of 1878 for a substantial new station building to be erected on this site. The station continued to operate until November 1929, when, as a result of Walhalla's dwindling Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 281 Management:  Maintain as interpreted site, with option   for recreation using original Public Works Department drawings; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8; investigate demarcation of boundary on car park paving. References: Survey Notes 2013: Site had large Lombardy poplar at north-east corner as in c1940 image, marked by nearby plaque. Recent adjoining house on former Methodist church site (CA47) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) The station continued to operate until November 1929, when, as a result of Walhalla's dwindling population, it was closed and its sole remaining policeman transferred to Erica, 15 kilometres away. The buildings were considerably damaged in the floods of June 1952 and, later that year, the main building was relocated to the township of Boolarra (South Gippsland), whilst the lock-up was relocated to Cowwarr (North Gippsland). Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Further references: Walhalla Heritage & Development League 2000 Plaque Site of Walhalla Police Station Until 1864 a police presence at Stringer's Creek was maintained by visiting troopers. Following the recommendation of Mounted Constable Feely who noted `...that peace breaker - grog - [had found] its way into the valley...', a police building and lock-up were established around 1865 on the lower slope of what came to be known as Camp Hill, overlooking the cemetery entrance track and the Reefers Arms Hotel. By 1866, calls were being made to relocate the police station to a more central site in the growing township. However, it took until the summer of 1878 for a substantial new station building to be erected on this site. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 282 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla St Patrick's Catholic Church site Figure 175 Site benching, top of stairs with Walhalla Heritage & Development League panel, and dump Location: Main Road, Walhalla Figure 176 Walhalla Catholic Church c1921 (MOV) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 283 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S34    Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Crown Allotment: CA72B,72A,73 Crown Grantee: CA72A A Bell 1867; CA72B M Monteagresi 1867; 73 F Duval, 1867 Statement of Significance: History (Adapted from Walhalla Heritage & Development League ) Place type: Church Integrity to creation date? Poor Condition: Poor Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Catholic Church, Estimated creation date(s): 1867-1888, c1889 1945 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No The Rev. William Shinnock was reputed to be the first Catholic priest to visit Stringer's Creek in May 1864. Three years later, on August 11th 1867, a Catholic chapel was consecrated on this site by the Rev. Fr. Gerald Byrne. The chapel also served as a small school in the 1870's, but was destroyed in the major Walhalla fire of 1888. It was rebuilt soon after. In May 1945, a fire lit by the Crown Lands Department to burn off blackberries behind the Mechanics' Institute ignited leaf litter in the gutter of that building. The fire spread to the Bank of Australasia and the Catholic Church on the opposite side of the road, destroying all three buildings. What is significant? Walhalla St Patrick's Catholic Church site. How is it significant? Place evaluation Walhalla St Patrick's Catholic Church site is contributory historically to Walhalla. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme Why is it significant?  Aesthetic value? No Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 284 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla St Patrick's Catholic Church site is contributory Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Historically, as symbolic of along period of Catholic worship both inside and outside of the significant period of Walhalla's development (Criterion A). Management:   Maintain as interpreted contributory site with options for recreation as evidence allows; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Further references: Survey Notes 2013: Walhalla Heritage & Development League 2000 Plaque Site had large Lombardy poplar (recently cut down) as in c1940 image? Site of St. Patrick's Catholic Church Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) The Rev. William Shinnock was reputed to be the first Catholic priest to visit Stringer's Creek in May 1864. Three years later, on August 11th 1867, a chapel was consecrated on this site by the Rev. Fr. Gerald Byrne. The chapel also served as a small school in the 1870's, but was destroyed in the major Walhalla fire of 1888. It was rebuilt soon after. In May 1945, a fire lit by the Crown Lands Department to burn off blackberries behind the Mechanics' Institute ignited leaf litter in the gutter of that building. The fire spread to the Bank of Australasia and the Catholic Church on the opposite side of the road, destroying all three buildings. Unlike the Mechanics' Institute, the church and bank have yet to be rebuilt. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 285 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla GMC later South Long Tunnel GMC battery site Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: part on CA75, north of Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S35 Crown Grantee: G Barclay 1867? Place type: mining site Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Long Tunnel GMC, Estimated creation date(s): 1872Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining development period is c1863-c1915):   Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 286 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? Yes Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Figure 177 Walhalla battery in flood 1891 (James & Lee: 58) Statement of Significance: History Walhalla Company 1865: Company formed Claim No. 7 North Cohens Being first registered in 1863 and with first crushing in 1864, it became the leading gold producing mine in the area until 1870, when the Long Tunnel Co. exceeded its yield. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 287 1863 - First adit was 70 feet (21.336m) above the creek and the second (main) adit at creek level, had reached 280 feet (85.344m) by the end of 1865. 1868 - buddle, Chilean mill and roasting furnace, for pyrites treatment, erected. 1870 - machinery chamber excavated in main tunnel 1871 - machinery erected and shaft sinking started. 1872 - 20 head stamper erected. 1877 - acquired United Walhalla Company's leases. 1879 - shaft reached 600 feet (182.88m) and drives of 1338 feet (407.82m) and 1500 feet (457.20m) were made with little reward 1881 - mine closed and re-opened as Long Tunnel Company. Total Yield (1865-80): 142,414 oz. or 144,000 (4037kg 368.98g) Clai ed Di idends: ₤ , Long Tunnel Company 1863: Company formed Claim Nos. 9, 10 North Cohens 1867 - after two adits driven, some success at 30 feet (9.1440m) below creek level. 1867 - tunnel enlarged, well shored and a machine chamber excavated (86 feet X 21 x 13 high) and winding and pumping machinery erected. 1871 - until this date, crushing had been carried out in the North Gippsland Company's plant (15 head) but purchase of Claim No. 8 (Wellesley Co.) and its machine sites plus the Royal Mail Hotel (CAs 34-5) enabled the erection of a 20 head crusher and pyrites plant 1875 - new winding machinery and an already 25 head (total) crushing plant was increased to 40 head by 1877. 1881 - purchase of mine and plant of the Walhalla Company and Great Extended Walhalla lease: the Walhalla battery was used for the Long Tunnel Extended crushing. 1884 - electric lighting installed in battery and mine also telephone (Adams 1980, p.67) 1884-8 Walhalla and Empress shafts reworked 1894 - new concentrating plant erected. 1901 - extended workings covering t h e whole valley: lease area 251 acres and level 23 reached in shaft , 2284 f e e t below the adit level; total 45 (1) and 30 (2) heads of stamp. 1908 - new battery 1913 - March mine ceased operation 1913 - May Under Long Tunnel Gold Mines No. Liability Co., the mine reopened. 1914 - December closed forever Total Yield; 813, 664 oz. (25,427 tonnes) Total Dividend; 1,283,400 pounds Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 What is significant? Walhalla Gold Mining Company significant and contributory elements include:     ore dumps; land and mining artefacts within the lease boundary as mapped in 1871; Walhalla Mine and associated adits opposite CA's 22, 23, and hillside west of tramline; Walhalla Mining Co., Battery Site, north of CA75. How is it significant? Walhalla Gold Mining Company sites are significant historically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? Walhalla Gold Mining Company sites are significant. Historically, established 1863, as the first to crush quartz with a worthwhile result and thus established the lasting reputation of the reef and the name of the town itself. The mine and battery reli s are asso iated with Walhalla’s peak ining period when the field was second only to Bendigo in gold production. (Criterion A) Aesthetically, the range of historical features, in combination with adjoining sites, an extensive photographic record and the distinctive physical attributes of the Stringers Creek Valley produce one of the State’s ost e o ati e and uni ue cultural landscapes (Criterion E). Scientifically, containing a range of well preserved features, which document the different mining operations undertaken on the site (Criterion F). Archaeological potential— with good integrity and high potential to yield artefacts and evidence, which will be able to provide significant information about the technological (Criterion C). Management:  Any contributory or significant artefacts from the boom period pre 1914- above ground elements should be recorded and mapped in detail and reassessed as required; Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 288    significant below ground elements should be monitored archaeologically where possible in any future mine workings; and proposed as part of separate mining Heritage Overlay; and meanwhile reference as contributory and significant element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. References: Survey Notes 2013: excavated area base of mullock heap, more detailed inspection needed, given major historical vale. Stone wall to creek extends in curve to north. Adit in hillside Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Battery shown on Black 1899 survey as `battery' overlapping CA75 on south end with bridge to Main Road Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Further references: (Refer other Walhalla GMC sites) State Library of Victoria Figure 178 Caire view from south 1886, H27476 (State Library of Victoria Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 289 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Walhalla Valley of Gold, 2003: 161 Figure 179 Image of site with key to elements: 1 Battery site, 2 former Stringers Creek line, 3 Molesworth GMC sites (adits), 4 Long Tunnel GMC tramway, 5 Long Tunnel Incline Shaft remnants and dump, Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 290 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Long Tunnel GMC offices site Location: Main Road, Walhalla Figure 180 long Tunnel GMC offices Main Road c1895 (James & Lee: 71) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 291 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S36 Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance Crown Allotment: CA20, 21 Crown Grantee: T Newson 1866; CA 21 now creek (CAs 22, 23 historic interest reserve 1989) Place type: mining site Integrity to creation date? Poor Condition: Fair   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: See other Long Tunnel GMC sites What is significant? Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Long Tunnel GMC, Estimated creation date(s): The former site of the Long Tunnel GMC offices, now represented by grassed vacant land beside Stringers Creek, opposite the mine workings, and south of the former Walhalla Post office Period representation: How is it significant? The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining development period is c1863-c1915): The former site of the Long Tunnel GMC offices is contributory historically to Walhalla.      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Why is it significant? The former site of the Long Tunnel GMC offices is contributory. Historically, as part of the network of mining sites associated with this important gold mine. Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: -, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): D Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 292 Management:    Interpret on site; maintain as vacant or as potential replication, as evidence allows; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 (See other Long Tunnel sites) 18.2 H7723-0222 LOCATION: Walhalla township MUNICIPALITY: Baw Baw Shire Council LAND USE/STATUS: Historic Reserve Survey Notes 2013: James & Lee: 71 References: Now landscaped area south of creek diversion east of road- little evidence of former structure but historic values. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Further references: Historic Mining Sites Assessment Project GIPPSLAND: Jordan-Aberfeldy-Donnelly's Creek: 28 PLACE NO. & NAME: 18.0 LONG TUNNEL MINE SITE 18.1 LONG TUNNEL BATTERY 18.2 TRAMWAY Walhalla Goldfield HI No. 18.0 H7723-0607 18.1 H7723-0670 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 293 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Leveridge's house site Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place type: House site Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): S37 Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Unknown, Isabella Leveridge, Edward Guatta, AW Clarke Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: CAs165 Permissive Occupancy Crown Grantee: Crown Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 294      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes? Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? No; Significant individually? No After a transfer to Nellie M Dedman, Thornbury, in 1951 the lease was sold in 1955 to Arthur Whybrow Clarke of Walhalla who wrote that he was improving the house and that part of the land had been washed away in floods. A plan shows both CA165 and 164 held by the Clarkes: CA164 by Arthur's mother, Irene Charlotte Clarke of Carlton, 60' x 1.5 chains, who was the original holder of the miners right but being on the creek reserve hindered conversion to a P.O.. Arthur Clarke's block was 232'x150' deep. They were warned however that the lot could never be freehold as they were on the creek reserve: once the houses were demolished, there was no option to rebuild. But in 1960 Irene's house burnt down: by 1961 both lots were held by AW Clarke, now of Carlton. He was employed by steel section suppliers, Stewart & Lloyd, after a period as a mental asylum attendant at Carlton in the late 1940s, early 1950s, before he is believed to have worked on the roads near Walhalla. It is thought Arthur died of a heart attack at his house in Walhalla in March 1966, aged 64 years. Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History The first known occupier of this house was in 1927 on a miners held by one Isabella Leveridge of Walhalla. She transferred to Edward Guatta. The house was described as between Buck's and Pearson's residences on the left hand branch Walhalla. In 1944 Edward Guatta a bread carter of Erica made an application to convert his Miners Right to a Right to occupy a Residence being CA , with so e ₤ alue of i pro e ents on the site. Then he said he had held it for 18 years. In the same year the residence area was transferred to Clara Jane Tisell a storekeeper of Walhalla. Edward Guatta was one of Giovanni & Angelina's sons, associated with Guatta's wine shop site on the Main Road and the strong Italian pioneering presence in old Walhalla. Then the property held an empty 3 room cottage alued at ₤ on unfen ed land on the ery edge of Stringers Creek. A file plan showed a rectangular building on a lot north of Mrs I.C. Clarke's smaller lot and smaller building (CA164). Opposite was V.E. Witt's and Antonio Guatta's houses, A Murie and H Hartrick jnr were further south on the east side of Main Road. The 1899 survey plan shows the same building shapes on CA165, with similar on the adjoining CA164 to the south. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 295 Management:  Inspect for artefacts and reassess for values. References: Survey Notes 2013: Not inspected Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 - no mention, but mapped Circa 1940's, loner Arthur CLARKE left Carlton and ambled into Walhalla, settling in the long since vacated home of his forebears. Situated on the west bank of the creek at the north end of the township, the might of rising flood water in June 1952 undermined the house foundations, leaving it teetering precariously above the eroded creek bank. (1952 image shows as small weatherboard gabled cottage with gabled added wing at one end) Anzac Day ceremonies rekindled the bittersweet memories of his personal heartache and combat from World War 2, his tears uncontrollable. It was said that his fiancé, possibly named Dorothy, was Wed on a hospital ship torpedoed at the end of the war while returning to Australia. Alcohol numbed the sorrow of his lost love aid the horrific atrocities kept in photographs and experienced as a Japanese prisoner of war. Walhalla Rate Books 1907-, 426 Thomas Liveridge miner owneroccupier house, paddo k Eastern Bran h ₤ 1946-7, 3455 Clarke, Mrs Irene Charlotte, 31 Lt Pal erston St, Carlton House Walhalla T ₤ (3634 Monette, James Walhalla House, Walhalla T ₤8) Tisell, Mrs Clara of Walhalla CA land ₤ 3759 Tisell, Henry Vincent (estate of written in) Walhalla -house, Walhalla T (now c/o Trustees E e utors & Agen y Co pany… 3760 land 1/4 acre Crown land leased from 1943 ₤1 1939, 2842 Clarke, Mrs H, 31 Lt Palmerston St, Carlton House Walhalla T ₤ Slightly built with slouched shoulders and sad watery eyes, he was rarely seen not wearing his wide brimmed hat. A simple pleasure was the Saturday ritual, when he sat on his verandah beside a large radio operated by dry cell batteries, listening to the Melbourne horse races. During the 1950's, as part of the gang that maintained the section of road from Walhalla to Aberfeldy, Arthur spent week nights at the Aberfeldy Bridge campsite. Like his fellow workers, he was paid a living away from home allowance. According to Dominic GUATTA, he always "dobbed in" Jim ANDERSON Senior, who sometimes sneaked home overnight to BEARDMORES old halfway hotel just a few miles away. A heart attack ended his life in March 1966, aged 64 years. Apparently, Bill TUNNECLIFFE found him sitting inside.' Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 (No Tisell) Edward Guatta (3039 Monette, James Walhalla House Walhalla T ₤8) 1928, 2695 Leveridge, EW Walhalla ownero upier House, Walhalla ₤ 1931 an Erica bread carter, others live at Walhalla or Gould. Walhalla Valley of Gold 1949 an Erica bread carter last Walhalla entry; 1963 at Broadmeadows- labourer lives alone, 1972 at Thomastown Leveridge, Thomas 105, 255 Leveridge Roberts, Y: Walhalla Graveyard to Cemetery 1924 Ernest & Isabella at Casterton. 106: `ARTHUR CLARKE Clara Jane Tisell Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 296 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 at Carlton 1931- 37 where her husband Henry Vincent was a salesman and she had home duties; Walhalla 1943-49 as a storekeeper with Henry Vincent of Walhalla no occupation; then Frankston 1954 Arthur Whybrow Clarke same building shapes on CA165, with similar on adjoining CA164 to south. 1945-6 P.O. granted to Clara Jane Tisell of Walhalla 1951 Transfer to Nellie M Dedman, Thornbury. By Clare J Tisell of Sutton Grange, Mornington. 1954 Carlton, mental attendant 1955 sold to Arthur Whybrow Clarke of Walhalla who says he is improving house and that part of the land washed away in floods; plan shows CA165 and 164 held by Clarke Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Edward Ed Guatta Narra an Shire rate roll , Lease, ₤ house Walhalla town Edward Guatta dies at Preston in 1973 aged 68 mother was Angelina (DeLuis or DeLews), father Giovanni 1959 Query on purchase of lease by Cooper brothers (GH & T.A) of Keilor, renovate house, clear block of blackberries and plant garden, use as weekender. 1942 at Castlemaine Benevolent Home as wards man. CA NAV ₤ Parish Plan Annotations give AW Clarke (x-out) on two permissive occupancies on west side of creek: H.O. 17507 (north), T100858- opposite Barkley Square (T102048) and Tony (Antonio) Guatta's house (See also HM Clarke CA61 1866 near Junction, west side Main Road) Victorian Public Records Office: Permissive Occupancy File note on Clarke holdings: CA164 Irene Charlotte Clarke of Carlton, 60' x 1.5 chains; was original holder of miners right but ob creek reserve so conversion to P.O. hindered (T100858); Arthur Whybrow Clarke of Walhalla CA165, 232'x150' deep- can never be freehold as on reserve- once houses demolished, no option to rebuild. 1960 AW Clarke house on adjoining mother's lot (CA164) burnt down- wants to rebuild. File HO17507: Clara J Tisell, Arthur W Clarke 1961 CA164 forfeit? Transfer to AW Clarke, now of Carlton (employed by Stewart & Lloyd) 1927 miners right 41406 transfer of claim from Isabella Leveridge of Walhalla to Edward Guatta File HO17092:Clara J Tisell 1945 1928 miners right 41475 held by Edward Guatta of Walhalla sited between Buck's and Pearson's residences on left hand branch Walhalla 1944 Edward Guatta motor driver of Erica application for right to occupy a residence re CA , ₤ i pro e ents on site, has held it for 18 years. 1944 transfer residence area to Clara Jane Tisell of Walhalla. 1945 Charles Guatta of Erica wishes to transfer Inspe tors Report: e pty roo ottage ₤ on unfenced land on edge of creek, plan shows rectangular building in lot north of Mrs I.C. Clarke's smaller lot and smaller building- opposite V.E. Witt's and Antonio Guatta's, A Murie and H Hartrick jnr further south on east side of Main Road. Shades in 1899 survey plan which shows the Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 297 Henry Vincent Tisell of Walhalla application for P.O. 1945- 1/2 acre adjoining his residence at P.O. T102043 for garden Noted: vacant crown land adjoining existing on north, but 150 links is maximum, encroaches on road reserve Map shows south of CA150 (opposite school, Main Road) Henry dies 1949, probate 1950 to Trustees E e utors… Real estate nil; personal: ₤ 1950 Mrs Clara Jane Tisell of Clifton Hill transfer both P.O.s 1954 has removed house and no longer needs sites. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 London plane tree or `Platanus acerlfolla', former Bank Of Victoria Rear Garden Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA25 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V01 Crown Grantee: J.A. Yarra, 1866 Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Bank of Victoria, Estimated creation date(s): 1880s? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 298 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes? Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation A branch of the Bank of Victoria was opened in September 1865 and a permanent building and residence was commenced in 1868. This was the point of departure for police escorted gold shipments to Sale or Traralgon. (Adams, J. 1980,pps. 48,50 52-3) The fire of November 1888 destroyed the bank and it was rebuilt by contractor E. Dunham, to the design of architect W.S. Law (Adams, J. 1980.p.71, Trethowan, c1976). It was closed, after the main Walhalla mines closed in 1915 (Adams, J. 1980.p.113). The bank had a residence attached and was one of the few sites in Walhalla that had room for an ornamental garden as pictured in James & Lee: 18. Heritage grading What is significant? (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B, The mature London plane tree in former Bank of Victoria rear garden: Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B How is it significant? Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): London plane tree in former Bank of Victoria rear garden is significant historically and aesthetically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Vegetation of major importance to the town and its environs, such as dominant trees in good condition. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Why is it significant? London plane tree in former Bank of Victoria rear garden is significant: Historically, as associated with the bank which was the biggest and grandest commercial building (excluding hotels)in the town and possessed greater architectural pretensions than any other buildings and was the leading institution in the changing of gold into money. The tree and the remaining strongroom are reminders of a building that once had a major regional presence (Criterion A). Aesthetically, the plan and the cordyline specimen are also indicative of the style planting associated with the site from the Victorian-era for a long period (Criterion E). Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: History Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 299 Management:   Tree control should be applied in HO8 and/or list individually; reference as significant and contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 References: 55: 1891 Flood images do not show tree Survey Notes 2013: 70: c1895 tree shown Autumn without leaves Victorian-era - large specimen at rear of general store. 142: 1900s shown Place report 1984: DESCRIPTION and SIGNIFICANCE Very large, spreading tree, probably planted before the turn of the century. A characteristic ornamental planting. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Figure 181 Bank Of Victoria rear garden view c1874 (James & Lee: 19) Walhalla Rate Books RB 1907-8, 16 George F Hazelwood bank manager Bank of Victoria, bank CAs part ₤ Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Hermes Heritage Database (Department of Infrastructure) No.67429 National Trust of Australia (Vic) A branch of the Bank was opened on 1865 and a permanent building was constructed in 1868. Fire in November 1888 destroyed this original building and it was rebuilt by contractor E. Dunham to the design of the architect W.S. Law. The vault/strongroom was erected at this time and consisted of English bond brickwork and a basalt floor. The bank was a point of departure for police escorted gold shipments to Sale and Traralgon. Classified: 24 966 Further references: Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: Remains -massive James & Lee 19: shows rear garden of Bank of Victoria c1874 with young trees Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 300 File note 11/01/2013: Next to re-constructed Mechanics Institute. Original bank building relocated to Moe. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 `Cordyline australis' or cabbage tree in former Bank of Victoria garden Location: Main Road, Walhalla Period representation: Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V02 Crown Allotment: CA 25 Crown Grantee: J.A. Yarra, 1866 Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Fair The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes? Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? Yes Condition: Fair Place evaluation Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Bank of Victoria, Heritage grading Estimated creation date(s): Unknown (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: A, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 301 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Vegetation identified as of general significance, contributing to the overall character and identity of the area. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO252 Heritage Overlay name: Cabbage Trees next to old Bank vault, CA25, Walhalla `Cordyline australis' or cabbage tree in former Bank of Victoria garden is contributory historically and aesthetically to Walhalla. Why is it significant? `Cordyline australis' or cabbage tree in former Bank of Victoria garden is contributory: Historically, as associated with the bank which was the biggest and grandest commercial building (excluding hotels) in the town and possessed greater architectural pretensions than any other buildings and was the leading institution in the changing of gold into money. The cabbage tree, plane tree and the remaining strongroom are reminders of a building that once had a major regional presence (Criterion A). Aesthetically, the cordyline specimen and the plane tree are also indicative of the style of planting associated with the site from the Victorian-era for a long period (Criterion E). Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Management:   Leave as individual listing or tree control could be applied in HO8; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: History A branch of the Bank of Victoria was opened in September 1865 and a permanent building and residence was commenced in 1868. This was the point of departure for police escorted gold shipments to Sale or Traralgon. (Adams, J. 1980,pps. 48,50 52-3) The fire of November 1888 destroyed the bank and it was rebuilt by contractor E. Dunham, to the design of architect W.S. Law (Adams, J. 1980.p.71, Trethowan, c1976). It was closed, after the main Walhalla mines closed in 1915 (Adams, J. 1980.p.113). The bank had a residence attached and was one of the few sites in Walhalla that had room for an ornamental garden. What is significant? The `Cordyline australis' or cabbage tree in former Bank of Victoria garden. How is it significant? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 302 References: Survey Notes 2013: This specimen has been replaced by or spawned another cordyline example which appears younger but still of the type and in the same location as identified in 1983. It is contributory on that basis given the former plant's existence here. James & Lee: 19 c1875 image shows original bank building and ornamental rear garden Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: Remains. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) An inspection in 1994 by the National Trust revealed the Cabbage Tree (Cordyline australis) was dead. It has since been removed. This was confirmed by a site visit in June 2011. Source: National Trust register classification T11978 http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/ (accessed June 2011) (Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: `Cordyline australis’ was there in May 2013) Hermes Heritage Database, No.71478 National Trust of Australia (Vic) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Location or Context: historic town; Outstanding Size: height x spread Outstanding example of a species which was commonly planted during the late 1800s. An inspection in April 1994 showed that the tree appeared dead but information and photos from January 2013 shows considerable regrowth. Measurements: Spread (m): 9 Girth (m): 3 Height (m): 9 Estimated Age (yrs): 110 Condition: Fair. . Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Figure 182 View of vault and cordyline 1983 Further references: Hermes Heritage Database, No.162198 HERITAGE CITATION REPORT, 2011: CABBAGE TREE Address CA 25 WALHALLA: Statement of Significance Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 303 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Fruit tree Location: Main Road, Walhalla Condition: Good Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V03 Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: unknown, Estimated creation date(s): unknown Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: CA 39 Crown Grantee: J Allwood, 1866 Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Fair Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 304      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes? Post Second War (1940-)? Yes? Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation undertaken by the early Walhalla residents (Criterion A). Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Management:  Tree control should be applied in HO8, with this tree as contributory. Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation identified as of general significance, contributing to the overall character and identity of the area. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 References: Survey Notes 2013: Set behind paling shed, in south-east corner of lot. Contributory only. Thought to be a `Prunus sp.' Place report 1984: DESCRIPTION and SIGNIFICANCE This pear tree is characteristic of early plantings at Walhalla. Although not as old as other fruit trees In the town, it is typical of the practical plantings undertaken by the early settlers and as such is significant. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: What is significant? Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Semi-mature fruit tree, thought to be a `prunus sp.' in rear garden of former store and office buildings. How is it significant? The fruit tree is contributory historically to Walhalla. Why is it significant? The fruit tree is contributory. Historically, as characteristic of early plantings at Walhalla. Although not as old as other fruit trees In the town, it is indicative of the practical plantings Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 305 Further references: James & Lee Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 1899, 142: 1900s Junction image does not show any garden or tree here- built up with commercial development, some rear garden south of `Mains Cheap Furniture Mart' store Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Images show larger tree in same or similar location. Figure 183 Tree 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 ) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 306 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Cedar, `Cedrus sp.' (`cedrus atlantica'?) Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: North-west of fire station Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V04 Crown Grantee: Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): 1950s? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):  Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 307 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013     Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? Yes Place evaluation Heritage grading References: Survey Notes 2013: Not from significant period of Heritage Overlay Area and immature, not contributory - see similar very mature and significant specimen further north. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation identified as of general significance, contributing to the overall character and identity of the area. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? No Scientific value? No Social value? No Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Heritage criteria satisfied: None Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? No; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Further references: None Statement of Significance: None Management: None. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 308 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Lombardy poplar row X3 (Formerly 6 `Populus nigra' var.' Italica') Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V07 Crown Allotment: CA59, CA60 x6, CA53 x1 roadside adjoining (CA53 & CA54, WEST OF?) Crown Grantee: W Gairdner CAs 59, 59A 1867, 1870; P O'Brien CA60 1866 Place type: Trees Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company?, Estimated creation date(s): 1870s- Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 309 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Three remaining mature Lombardy poplars of row of 6, visible in views of the town as well grown in the late 1880s. A stand of relatively tall and shapely Lombardy poplars which are thought to be the original trees or those grown from the suckers of a very old stand of poplars, evident In photos on the 1870-80s. They are important for their landscape role as strong vertical elements in a narrow valley as well as their historic significance. How is it significant? Place evaluation The row of three Lombardy poplars is significant historically and aesthetically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Heritage grading Why is it significant? (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation of major importance to the town and its environs, such as dominant trees in good condition. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No The row of three Lombardy poplars is significant Historically for their role as land mark plantings on this site since the inception of ornamental planting in the town in the 1870s and may be associated with the residence adjoining of the Long Tunnel Gold Mining company manager. They have been described by the noted writer, The Vagabond, in his first visits to Walhalla as distinctive plantings (along with willows) that acted as a foil to the rugged mining landscape (Criterion A). Aesthetically, they are at the beginning of a style of ornamental planting that is now seen dotted throughout the valley, echoing the Italian immigrants, some from Lombardy, who helped pioneer gold seeking in Walhalla (Criterion E). Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Management:  List row individually in Heritage Overlay or as significant and contributory within HO8, with tree control. Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township References: Heritage contribution or significance Survey Notes 2013:   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: What is significant? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 310 Row of three signature trees in or at edge of road reserve adjoining CAs 59, 60, with younger tree to south-east at CA53. Italian influence in early Walhalla ? Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Figure 184 Row in the 1890s (James & Lee: 73) Museum of Victoria Image 67271 c1896-: shows LTGMC manager's house (see Rate Books, now Valhalla House) with poplars fronting block. State Library of Victoria Further references: James & Lee: 35 c1887-8 visible as inside boundary; 64-5, c1892; 72-3, c1891; 84 in c1999; 109, 6 shown; 119 shows row of 6 Edwardian-era: shows that existing trees are the same- suckers would not relocate so evenly. Figure 185 junction c1887-8 with part of row (State Library of Victoria) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 311 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Figure 186 Image s of Loan’s brewery left-hand rear, with other part of row (State Library of Victoria) Newspapers: `The Argus': Saturday 27 February 1886 Vagabond 1886: `…Howe er, the est in Walhalla Pursuing the path past public houses, post office, and the Long Tunnel works, Stringer's Creek running now to the right and again to the left, the valley winds round and one is apparently in quite a different settlement The song of the stampers here sounds, but as a lullaby and not as a fierce chorus. The waters of this left fork of Stringer's Creek are not thick with tailings, but are comparatively clear. The stream is bordered with willows as magnificent as you will see at Christchurch, N 'A , their graceful drooping foliage contrasting with the tall poplars struggling skywards. On the slope of the hill eastwards is a small vineyard.. Rate Books 1907248 John Finlayson, mine manager, occ, owner LTGMC house and allot ent CA , ₤ , Charles Collins, sta le part CA ,₤ Eliza eth Thornton shop & dwelling CA ,₤ Victorian Public Records Office: Permissive Occupancy ledger Walhalla CA54 Dealings 1913, 1949: Probate to William Alex Clarke of Traralgon, Robert Arthur James (quarryman) of Walhalla CA53 1963 Ada Boswell, widow, Springvale Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 312 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Oak or `Quercus Sp.' on Stringers Creek Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA 4Z, WEST OF Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V12 Crown Grantee: Crown land Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: unknown, Estimated creation date(s): unknown Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 313 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes? Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes? Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading Large oak set in west bank of Stringers Creek, with indications of some branch lopping over time. How is it significant? The oak is significant historically and aesthetically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Why is it significant? The oak is significant Historically for associations with the gold boom period of Walhalla, pre 1900 (Criterion A); and Aesthetically as an indicator of planting tastes of Victorian-era Walhalla (Criterion E). (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation of major importance to the town and its environs, such as dominant trees in good condition. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Southern Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: What is significant? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 314 Management:  Proposed individual Heritage Overlay for oak or as schedule to HO8 with proposed tree control. References: Survey Notes 2013: Most mature oak in Walhalla, west bank of Stringers Creek Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) 1899 map shows tailing flume and (mining?) structures and fenced lot at site Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Further references: James & Lee: 129: 1910 -shows water wheel and mill in foreground, with gabled verandahed cottage at or near the site of this tree further north fronting the flume and trestles Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Images include Harrington Collection 1907 view of cemetery shows what may be oak at base west of flume. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 315 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Monterey Pines in group Or `Pinus radiata' on Stringers Creek Figure 187 View from south. Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: opposite cemetery path Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V13 Crown Grantee: Crown land Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 316 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Mature Monterey pines throughout Walhalla are contributory Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation identified as of general significance, contributing to the overall character and identity of the area. Historically as indicative of early plantings in the town as seen at the Walhalla cemetery and near the stone cottage as two fine examples (Criterion A); and Aesthetically as a group and individually they provide the most numerous of any one type among the mature exotics in Walhalla and thus promote a distinctive arbor character within the narrow valley, echoing the verticality of the Lombardy poplars. (Criterion E) Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Southern Residential Precinct Figure 188 View from north Statement of Significance: What is significant? Mature Monterey pines throughout Walhalla, typically as former wildings but some as plantations. How is it significant? Mature Monterey pines throughout Walhalla are contributory historically and aesthetically to Walhalla. Why is it significant? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 317 Management:  Maintain and replant where significant with potential for a specific `Pinus radiata' hybrid for Walhalla (see significant cemetery pines). Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 References: Survey Notes 2013: Formerly identified as one of a group of mature Monterey pines on west side of road and up hillside west of creek. Map of 1899 shows mining structures and flume there. All similar age- interwar? Sometimes identified as weed species and therefore removed but the survivors have now support Walhalla arboreal character. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 State Library of Victoria Frederick Cornell 1833-1890 photographer: early images from 1870s of Empress and Walhalla batteries show specimen conifers along the west bank of the creek. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 318 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Cabbage Tree or `Cordyline Australis’ at Site Of Roberts, Neill's and Miles store Location: Main Road, Walhalla Figure 189 Image of store and residence at CAs, 4,5 showing a number of cabbage tree palms in extensive garden (Hammond images held by Ms Hannan 1983) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 319 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V14 Vegetation identified as of general significance, contributing to the overall character and identity of the area. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO251 Crown Allotment: CA 4 Heritage Overlay name: Cabbage Trees, Rear Walhalla Hotel Site, CA 5, Walhalla Crown Grantee: J L Roberts 1866 Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Southern Residential Precinct Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: unknown, Statement of Significance: What is significant? Estimated creation date(s): unknown Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant mining development period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? Yes Symbolic of the excellent specimen of `Cordyline australis' that stood here up until the 1990s. This example and another on CA25 were highly significant on a state-wide basis, because of their age and size. The existing plants are symbolic of them. How is it significant? Cabbage tree or `Cordyline australis' site of Roberts, Neill's and Miles store is contributory historically to Walhalla township. Why is it significant? Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: A, Cabbage tree or `CORDYLINE AUSTRALIS', former site of Roberts, Neill's and Miles store, is contributory historically, as symbolic of the excellent specimen of `Cordyline australis' that stood here up until the 1990s (Criterion A). Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 320 Management:  Remove Heritage Overlay 251; Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013   reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8 with tree control invoked; perpetuate specimen on this site. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 References: Survey Notes 2013: The hotel and store remnant that stood here in the 1980s has been replaced. This cabbage tree specimen has been replaced by another `cordyline sp.' example which is immature but still of the type and in a similar location. It is contributory on that basis given the former plant's existence here. Place report 1984: DESCRIPTION and SIGNIFICANCE An excellent specimen of Cordyline australis. This one, along with that on lot 25 are highly significant on a state-wide basis, because of their age and size. Figure 190 Palm in 1983, since removed. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Further references: Hermes Heritage Database, No.162197 Statement of Significance The National Trust reported that the Cabbage Tree (Cordyline australis) was removed in 1994 as part of the redevelopment of the hotel. This was confirmed by a site visit in June 2011. Source National Trust register classification T11977 http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/ (accessed June 2011) Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: Remains Figure 191 Part Miles store residence at rear of former Walhalla Hotel 1983 (see Figure 189) Ms Hannan album (image 87) shows double gabled storeroom building on north of site where existing hotel is, treed and fenced garden to south near where original and existing plants were/are located. Image 252 shows CAs 4, 5 with detailed garden two cordylines, camellia? Edwardian-era? Telegraph poles Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 321 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Camellia or `Camellia Japonica' at former Exchange Hotel site Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA 6 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V15 Crown Grantee: PC Clement 26 June 1864 Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Figure 192 Tree V15 (green) and as mapped as in Baw Baw Planning Scheme (red) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 322    Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013   Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: A, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): A Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation that is a single specimen or group of major importance to the region, state or nation because of its particular quality, age, historic importance or uniqueness, such as botanical specimens of state-wide importance. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of our cultural or natural History E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO250 Heritage Overlay name: Camellia Japonica, CA. 6 Main Street, Walhalla. Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Southern Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History This camellia specimen is on the site of Samuel Carver's Exchange Hotel, open in 1865 and later Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 323 run by the Barry family as one of the smaller Walhalla hotels, into the Edwardian-era. Mary Barry, publican, was rated as the owner-occupier of the Exchange Hotel and stable on CAs6, 11 in 1907. Late Victorian-era images do not show a garden here but instead extensive commercial development so the previous estimated age is unlikely. It was potentially planted after the hotel closed in 1915. The house that this garden served was appeared to be post WW2. What is significant? The single standing Camellia japonica 'versicolour', located on the street boundary as part of a former residential garden at CA6, Main Road, Walhalla. How is it significant? The Camellia japonica 'versicolour' is of local historic, aesthetic and scientific (botanical) significance to Walhalla. Why is it significant? The Camellia japonica 'versicolour' is of scientific (botanical) significance as among a group of large Camellias in private residential gardens within Victoria. It is of an outstanding size and age and a fine example of its type. (Criterion C) The Camellia japonica 'versicolour' is historically significant as one of the early exotic plantings in the township of Walhalla. The tree was probably planted by the inter-war period as an ornamental shrub in a residential garden and provides information about the aspirations and values of the residents of Walhalla at that time, expressed through the gardens of the late 19th and early 20th century. (Criterion A) The Camellia japonica 'versicolour' is aesthetically significant for its outstanding size and appearance. The tree has a dominating appearance at a corner of Main Road in Walhalla. (Criterion E) Management:   Research ownership or origins of property; reference as significant contributory element within Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 References: Survey Notes 2013: Good condition, site of gabled timber house in 1980s; noted that late Victorian-era images do not show garden here, all commercial buildings so estimated age unlikely. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Figure 193 Detail of 1890s view showing commercial development on this site (James & Lee: 69) Adams: 53, 70, 107 Samuel Carver started Exchange Hotel in 1864, open 1865 with ball, lost it temporarily to August Hatung. Later Barry family as one of the small venues, into Edwardian-era. Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Rate Book 1907-: 42 Mary Barry, publican, owneroccupier Exchange Hotel and sta le CA , ₤ 1908- 43-4 James Barry carpenter, occupier, Mary Barry owner shops, CA ₤ ea h Hermes Heritage Database, No. 162196 Camellia japonica 'versicolour' Victorian Heritage Database: National Trust of Australia (Vic) T11979 Further references: Voters Roll 1884: no CA6 Horticultural Value; Location or Context: historic town; Outstanding Size: height x circumference x spread; Outstanding Example of Species The largest Camellia known in cultivation in Victoria. Colour variation due to the unstable nature of the cultivar and several "sports" have developed. James & Lee: 69 1890s view of site: shows as fully built-up commercial development with no garden areas near street. Measurements: 09/1985 Spread (m): 8.3 Girth (m): 1.32 Height (m): 8.3 Estimated Age (yrs): 110 Condition: Good Access: Unrestricted Classified: 12/09/1985 Newspapers: (1870 first entry for Camellia in Australian online newspapers) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 324 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 `The Argus': 12 August 1873 THE LICENSING ACT. GEMMELL, TUCKETT, and Co. have received Instructions to SELL by AUCTION, at their rooms, 40 Collins-street west, on Friday, August 15, at two o'clock, REDUCTION BOARD. A highly valuable collection of rare varieties of oranges and lemons. ' N.B.-Mr. M. Magill, well known as the oldest established nurseryman in Sydney, has had upwards of 60 years' colonial experience In the propagation and cultivation of the orange and camellia, and the Varieties ho imports into Melbourne are well adapted for the climate of Victoria. Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) (many mentions of P Clement of Prospect as instructing agent in cattle and horse sales in district) Tuesday 13 July 1875 WALHALLA GOLD IININIG COMIIPANY. At the halfyearly general meeting of shareholders in the above company, held on the 9th July, at the Company's office, Walhalla, there were present eighteen shareholders, representing personally and by proxy 277 shares...Proposed by Mr Feilehenfeld, seconded by Mr Clement, "that the retiring auditors, Messrs S. Carver and R. S. Taylor, be re-elected auditors for the ensuing six months." Carried Monday 16 July 1883 TOOMBON G.M. COMPANY, NO LIABILITY. The half yearly meeting of the Toombon Gold Mining Company, No Liability, was held at the office of the company at Walhalla, on the 7th inst. thirteen share holders representing personally and by proxy 12,410 shares, being present. Mr Jno. Neill, chairman of directors, pre sided. The half yearly reports of the directors and mining manager, also the manager's financial statement were read and received, and on the motion of Mr H. Salmon, seconded by Mr Thos. Johnstone, were adopted. The Hon. WV. Pearson proposed, and Mr J. Rico seconded a proposition that the rules of the company be printed for distribution amongst the shareholders. Carried. Messrs J. Neill P. Clement, Jas. Rice, T. Johnstone, and the Hon. W. Pearson, were elected directors for the ensuing twelve months, and Messrs Gutteridge and Carver auditors for a similar term. `The Argus': Saturday 15 February 1913 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 325 Walhalla District WALHALLA.Friday - The License Reduction Board concluded the taking of evidence in respect of the Walhalla district at the Court house to-day The following case were heard.-Union Hotel Happy Go Lucky , the Toombon Hotel, Toombon; the Grand Junction Hotel. Walhalla; the Criterion Hotel, Walhalla, the Exchange Hotel, Walhalla, and the Copper mine Hotel, Cooper's Creek. There was no opposition to the delicensing of the first four Hotels, the matter being left to the Board to decide after inspection (`The Argus': 19/1/1915echange closed and seeks compensation 1915) The Maffra Spectator (Vic. : 1882 - 1920) Thursday 20 August 1914 p 1 Advertising WALHALLA. An Ideal Place for Tourists BARRY'S EXCHANGE HOTEL The Leading House for Tourists. Nearest Hotel to Railway Station. Every Accommodation. Splendid Table. TARIFF per week ; ,4 6d per day. Hot dinners for Tourists. Tourists will oblige by notifying the Proprietress. Best Brands of Wines and Spirits only kept. Good -Stabling MRS BARRY, Proprietress Gippsland Farmers Journal (Traralgon, Vic. : 1914 1918) Friday 10 December 1915 p 3 Licensing Court. TRARALGON...Mr. Harris, the chairman, stated that under the Rents Adjustment Act, in respect to certain ] licensed victuallers' premises, licensees would be allowed one seventh pff the license fee, and on - seventh off the compensation, pay able in respect of lost licenses. The following renewals were granted, compensation to be fixed in accordance with declarations lodged.- Walhalla District. Elizabeth Svenson, Royal Mail Hotel, Aberfeldy. Mary Jane Jackson, Copper Mine Hotel, Cooper's Ck. David John Brown, Donnelly's Creek Hotel. Mary 'Jane Longton, Star Hotel. Walhalla. Charles Thomas Kelly, Cricket Club Hotel, Cowwarr.. Alfred Hodder, Toongabbie Hotel, Toongabbie. Percival James Fisher, Cowwarr, Hotel, Cowwarr. Michael M..., wine license, Erica. John Armanasco, wine license Erica. P. H, Miles, grocer's license, and spirit merchant's license, Walhalla. 1 D. Nicholson, grocer's license, and spirit merchant's license, Erica. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Changes since 1984 – by Rob Ashworth & Michael Leaney, Walhalla, 2013: Remains-site now CFA operational shed. Camellia is on National Trust of Australia (Vic) Register Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 326 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Pear or `Pyrus sp.' , removed (now Plum or `Prunus sp.) Figure 194 `Prunus sp.’ on site Location: Main Road, Walhalla Figure 195 Image 1983 shows pear tree (along with pine), since removed Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 327 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V17 Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? No Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance Figure 196 Former tree site Crown Allotment: CA20 & CA 22A, BETWEEN   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? No; Significant individually? No Crown Grantee: Planning precinct: Place type: Trees Southern Residential Precinct Integrity to creation date? Gone Condition: Gone Statement of Significance: None Historical associations with persons or events? Management: Major owners or occupiers: , None Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: References: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Survey Notes 2013:      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? Yes Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 328 Specimens at creek and road side: do not appear very old- indicative only of post-war or inter-war`Prunus sp.'; 1983 images show two larger trees south of this location, now gone, along with the adjoining Monterey pine. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Further references: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 images show two larger trees near this location, now gone along with the Monterey pines. James & Lee: 71 Image c1895 shows area built up Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 329 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Monterey pine or `Plnus radiata' Location: Right-hand branch, Walhalla Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V18 Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): 1890s? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s significant mining development period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes? Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes? Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Crown Allotment: CA 128, south-WEST OF Place evaluation Crown Grantee: Crown land, former CA129,130 c1871 Heritage grading Place type: Tree (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B, Integrity to creation date? Fair Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 330 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation of major importance to the town and its environs, such as dominant trees in good condition. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Statement of Significance: What is significant? Huge and venerable Monterey pine tree of magnificent trunk diameter and crown size among the largest of the existing Monterey pines spread throughout Walhalla, typically as former wildings but some as plantations. How is it significant? Monterey pine tree on the Right-hand branch of Stringers Creek is significant historically and aesthetically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Why is it significant? Monterey pine tree on the Right-hand branch of Stringers Creek is significant. Historically as one of the early plantings in the town as seen also at the Walhalla cemetery and near the stone cottage as two fine examples (Criterion A); and Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Aesthetically as a fine and large specimen that is also contributory to the group of Monterey pines at Walhalla that provide the most numerous of any one type among the mature exotics in the town and thus promote a distinctive arboreal character within the narrow valley, echoing the verticality of the Lombardy poplars (Criterion E). Management:    Proposed as individual Heritage Overlay; meanwhile reference as significant contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8 with tree control invoked; arboreal attention required to upper level. References: Figure 197 From west Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 331 Survey Notes 2013: Tree in need of aborist. Very large specimen, largest in Walhalla, sited at CA129, 130 - no grantee known (CA128 sold 1871). Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Further references: Walhalla Parish Plan Imperial Sheet 3: noted as near P.O. file H.O. 30793 Smith on CA129 James & Lee: 105 Image c1905 shows maturing Monterey pines in vicinity. 140 Edwardian-era shows area with stone cottage and Linga Longa - no major tree visible. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 332 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Fuchsia or `Fuschia magellanica' at Bruni's Cottage Location: Right-hand branch, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA 128, EAST OF Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V19 Crown Grantee: Crown land, near former CA129,130 c1871 Place type: Shrub Integrity to creation date? Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):   Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 333 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes? Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No How is it significant? This species fuchsia or `Fuschia magellanica' at Bruni's cottage is contributory historically to Walhalla. Place evaluation Why is it significant? Heritage grading This species fuchsia or `Fuschia magellanica' at Bruni's cottage is contributory. (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Historically, as indicative of early house garden plantings in Walhalla during the Victorian-era (Criterion A). Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation identified as of general significance, contributing to the overall character and identity of the area. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Management:   Identify and map other `Fuschia magellanica' specimens along Main Road; reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8, with tree control invoked. References: Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: What is significant? Large spreading bush of the species fuchsia or `Fuschia magellanica' east of side of at Bruni's cottage CA 128, on right-hand branch of Stringer's Creek: one of the early cultivars distributed from Kew Gardens, England. This species was potentially available at Walhalla by the 1870s. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 334 Survey Notes 2013: No evidence of major trunk, early species type, rear of stone cottage. Several clumps of this species along Main Road north- to be mapped. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 335 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Narrow leaf peppermint or `Eucalyptus radiata') Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place type: Tree Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V23 Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Unknown, Estimated creation date(s): Unknown Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: CA150B Crown Grantee: Road Purposes Reserve, 1879 (rinvoked) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 336      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes? Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Narrow leaf peppermint or (`Eucalyptus radiata') specimen is contributory. Place evaluation Heritage grading Historically as indicative of indigenous vegetation along Stringers Creek at and before the settlement of Walhalla (Criterion A). (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Management: Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8 with tree control invoked. Vegetation identified as of general significance, contributing to the overall character and identity of the area. References: Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history. Survey Notes 2013: Valley vegetation is surrounded by similar and more mature indigenous forest tree examples. Indicative only. Location Easting: 451724.846 Northing: 5800946.826 or Latitude: -37 ° 56 ' 15.98400 '' Longitude: 146 ° 27 ' 2.22600'' Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: What is significant? Narrow leaf peppermint or (`Eucalyptus radiata') specimen in Road Reserve, opposite the State School reserve. This is a good example of the remnant vegetation of the area in the Walhalla township area. How is it significant? Narrow leaf peppermint or (`Eucalyptus radiata') specimen is historically contributory to Walhalla. Why is it significant? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 337 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Monterey pines x 6 (4?) Or `Pinus radiata' at Walhalla State School reserve (part removed) Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA141C Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V24 Crown Grantee: State School Reserve 1874 Place type: Trees Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Walhalla State School? Estimated creation date(s): unknown Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 338 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Monterey pines at the school reserve are contributory. Historically as indicative of the early choice of plantings in the town as seen at the Walhalla cemetery and near the stone cottage as two fine examples, with associations with the State School reserve that was widely known for its planting scheme in the Edwardian-era (Criterion A). Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Management:  Reference as contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8, with tree control invoked. Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation identified as of general significance, contributing to the overall character and identity of the area. References: Survey Notes 2013: Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: What is significant? Monterey pines at the school reserve and throughout Walhalla, typically as former wildings but some as plantations. How is it significant? Monterey pines at the school reserve are contributory historically to Walhalla. Why is it significant? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 339 Main specimens removed but group of Monterey pines ascending hillside on west side of CA141C, with oak and horse chestnut trees. Two on south boundary gone. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: Two at the southern boundary of the State School and four at the rear of the State School Buildings. DESCRIPTION and SIGNIFICANCE Six huge and venerable pine trees , of large crown size and trunk diameter. In all likelihood these trees were planted when the State School was first developed on this site. These trees are an example of the many large pines , which are so much a part of Walhalla's history . Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 James & Lee: 118 c1905 image shows school with shrubberies but no advanced trees except fronting and south of adjoining Long Tunnel Extended GMC. Noted that May 1905 Walhalla Chronicle announced the Walhalla School had gained a `first class certificate' for the best-kept school gardens (see other specimens in reserve. Victorian Public Records Office: VPRS 10516/P/3: Figure 199 detail showing trees along west side of and within the reserve. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Images show pines north of existing LTEGMC storage shed/ stamper: now gone School images from inter-war show Monterey pines behind (west) and to north-east of 1890s school building. Also seen behind and to north of inter-war school building (existing) Figure 200 Pines at west of school reserve, 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 ) Figure 198 View of former school, with semi-mature pines at rear (VPRO) Walhalla photomap 1980, sheet 2 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 340 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Horse chestnut or `Aesculus Sp.' and oak (`Quercus Sp.') at the Walhalla State School Reserve Location: Main Road, Walhalla (Refer to V24) Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V26 Crown Allotment: CA 141B Crown Grantee: State School Reserve, 1878 Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Walhalla State School? Estimated creation date(s): unknown Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 341 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Horse chestnut or `Aesculus sp.' and oak (`Quercus sp.') at the Walhalla State School reserve is contributory historically to Walhalla. Why is it significant? Horse chestnut or `Aesculus sp.' and oak (`Quercus sp.') at the Walhalla State School reserve Historically as indicative of the early choice of plantings in the town, and associations with the Walhalla State School that was widely known for its planting scheme in the Edwardian-era (Criterion A). Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: B, Management: Include as contributory elements in the Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8, with tree control invoked. Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation identified as of general significance, contributing to the overall character and identity of the area. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No References: Survey Notes 2013: Near semi-mature oak and Monterey pines- may link with inter-war school location there. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: At the northern end of the State School north of CA 141. DESCRIPTION and SIGNIFICANCE Heritage criteria satisfied: Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township A tall and handsome chestnut tree, well formed and healthy. Specimen appears quite old. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: What is significant? Horse chestnut or `Aesculus sp.' and oak (`Quercus sp.') at the Walhalla State School reserve, north of building group. How is it significant? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 342 James & Lee: 118 c1905 image shows school with shrubberies but no advanced trees except pines fronting and Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 south of adjoining Long Tunnel Extended GMC. Noted that May 1905 `Walhalla Chronicle' announced the Walhalla School had gained a `first class certificate' for the best-kept school gardens (see other specimens in reserve. Victorian Public Records Office: VPRS 10516/P/3: School images from inter-war show Monterey pines behind (west) and to north-east of 1890s school building. Also seen behind and to north of inter-war school building (existing) Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 343 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Douglas fir or `Pseudotsuga menziesii' at former Church of England parsonage site Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA118 Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V27 Crown Grantee: J Trench 1867 (118) Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Church of England, Church of England clergy. Estimated creation date(s): 1880s? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 344 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: A, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): A Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation that is a single specimen or group of major importance to the region, state or nation because of its particular quality, age, historic importance or uniqueness, such as botanical specimens of state-wide importance. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO253 Heritage Overlay name: Spruce Fir, CA. 139, Main Street, Walhalla Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 345 Figure 201 Shown in the block to the south. Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: History The single Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) size indicates that it is possibly one of the earliest exotic plantings in the township (National Trust classification T11976). It is located on south boundary of the former Church of England residence site which was a valuable property by the Edwardian-era. A Church of England was constructed at Walhalla in 1872-3 and opened 1873 by Bishop Perry. (Adams, J, 1980,p.59) The Rev. G. W. Kelly was offered the role of first resident minister in 1873 but went to Rosedale. Instead the Rev A Brown was the first. A parsonage was erected on the Left Hand Branch in 1882, serving clergy such as Rev. J, Standrin from 1883-94, and a picket fence enclosed the yard (Adams, pps. 78-9) . However, with the sudden decline after 1913-14, St. Johns was removed to Wonthaggi and reerected there with a corner bell tower, replacing the bellcote at the gable apex. The Sunday School building was moved to Childers in 1917. Another smaller Anglican church was opened and dedicated in its place, in 1919 (Ibid p.114): being reputedly built with materials from the old parsonage, (National Trust File 2113; Lee C.G,(1957) although Canon Cox in the Church of Our Father states that the parsonage was removed to Thorpdale (see building at corner of Johnstone Street and Railway Road, Thorpdale). Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Most likely planted soon after 1882, the tree forms part of a large residential garden which now appears derelict. In 1985 the garden to the north also included a large Quercus robur, large Ulmus procera, Maclura pomifera and Camellia japonica (Tract Consultants 1999:V27; National Trust assessment form 11976). This very tall tree dominates the view along the northern portion of the main street. surrounding vegetation and dominates the view along the main street in Walhalla. (Criterion E) Management:   Description In 1985 the Douglas Fir measured approximately 51 meters tall, with a girth of 5 metres and a canopy spread of 20.5 metres (National Trust classification T11976). Although the tree was not measured during an inspection in 2011, the normal growth pattern of the tree suggests it would measure approximately 53 metres tall with a similar canopy spread of that in 1985, but a slightly larger girth. Statement of Significance What is significant? Douglas Fir or `Pseudotsuga menziesii' at former Church of England parsonage site CA118, Main Street, Walhalla. How is it significant? Douglas Fir or `Pseudotsuga menziesii' at former Church of England parsonage site is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the Shire of Baw Baw and potentially Victoria.  Verify precise location of tree (Crown Allotment) and reassess as required; reference as significant contributory element within Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8; and assess for Victorian Heritage Register. References: Survey Notes 2013: Other nearby exotic specimens removed (oak, elm). Location: -37.935844, 146.449731: on south boundary of CA118 (Church of England residence), close to CA139 (Noted grantee, Gairdner, 1870 , prominent local person). Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 DESCRIPTION and SIGNIFICANCE This tall and magnificent specimen dominates the view along the main road in the northern part of Walhalla. It s size indicates that it was among the early plantings, possibly in the 1870-1900s and it would have been chosen as a specimen tree for a garden. Why is it significant? Douglas Fir or `Pseudotsuga menziesii' at former Church of England parsonage site is significant. Historically, as one of the earliest remaining exotic plantings, in the township of Walhalla. The tree was planted in the 1880s as an ornamental tree in one of the town's more prestigious residential garden. It provides tangible evidence about the aspirations and values of the residents of Walhalla, expressed through the gardens of the late 19th century. While most of the houses in Walhalla have been removed these remnant garden trees provide a reminder of the original extent of the township. (Criterion A) The Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is of aesthetic significance as a very large specimen of the species and largest of its kind in the area. In addition, the tree extends high above the Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 346 Figure 202 Image from c1892 of Walhalla school and distinctive conifers in the background, approximating this site. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) was to be Parker's Corner, managed by his brother, Frank. A factor in their taking up land in the area was that gold had been discovered here and there and the settlers could combine farming with prospecting. Rawson, a Yorkshireman with his eleven children,25 managed to develop a prosperous farm with the fairly unique method of preparing the land by using pigs to work through each paddock, rooting up the rootcrops he had planted and manuring the soil. William Jones, to his north, was another early selector who grew chiefly oats and potatoes. Bert Lehmann had more varied crops and included fruit trees. .... Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 National Trust of Australia (Vic) Pseudotsuga menziesii Location: Main Street WALHALLA, BAW BAW SHIRE File Number T11976 Level of Significance State Statement of Significance Baw Baw Planning Scheme: HO253 Spruce Fir, CA. 139, Main Street, Walhalla Walhalla Township Guidelines 1999 Spruce or `PlCEA SP.' in 1999 guidelines Walhalla Shire Rate Books 1907: 231: George Rawson, miner owns house allotment CA NAV ₤ ; Mary Rawson owns house part allot ent NAV ₤  Contribution to landscape of historic town  Outstanding size  Outstanding example of species An outstanding example dominating the view along the road in the northern part of Walhalla. It is possibly one of the earliest exotic plantings in the township. It forms part of a large garden, now derelict, comprising Quercus robur, Ulmus procera, Maclura pomifera, and Camellia japonica        Measurements: 05/1985 Spread (m): 20.5 Girth (m): 4.6 Height (m): 51.3 Estimated Age (yrs): 110 Condition: Good Access: Unrestricted 230 Charles P Young clergyman owner: Church of England, house CA ,₤ Classified: 09/05/1985 Adams: Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia 52 William Gairdner, mining agent and prominent local citizen at Walhalla. Douglas fir 91 ...George Rawson was a miner who settled near Neander in late 1876, and William Parker of the Long Tunnel Extended had a block to the furtherest north from Neander on the site of what Douglas fir (scientific name Pseudotsuga menziesii), also known as Oregon pine or Douglas spruce, is an evergreen conifer species native to western North America. The common name is misleading since it is not a true fir... Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 347 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 ...currently the second tallest conifer in the world (after coast redwood). Extant coast Douglas fir trees 60–75 metres (200–246 ft) or more in height and 1.5–2 metres (4.9–6.6 ft) in diameter are common in old growth stands, and maximum heights of 100–120 metres (330–390 ft) and diameters up to 4.5–6 metres (15–20 ft) have been documented. Hermes Heritage Database (Department of Infrastructure) Number 162199, Name DOUGLAS FIR, Address CA 139 MAIN (WALHALLA) ROAD, WALHALLA (Context P/L 2011) over two hundred persons, and was the most successful demonstration ever made in our young township. After tea, and when the tables had been cleared away to make room for the numbers seeking admission, the proceedings assumed the form of a public meeting, W. Gairdner, Esq., J.P., being called to the chair Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Saturday 3 August 1867 p 3 ... WALHALLA POLICE COURT. July 30. held before W. Gairdner, Esq JP Newspapers: Gippsland Guardian 22 October 1867 Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Thursday 21 June 1866 p 4 Advertising RAILWAY AND R0AD MEETING AT WALHALLA Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company, Longfellows GMC and Golden Flee e GMC … all anaged y W. GAIRDNER, Manager. Walhalla, Thursday 10 January 1867 On Thursday evening a meeting took place at Cox's Empire Hotel, the object being to consider the lest means to adopt to secure funds for the erection of Church of England, meeting room, schoolroom, &c. Mr. Bell was elected to the chair. Proposed by Mr W. Gairdner,, seconded by Mr F Duval, --"That a building for church and school purposes be at once erected at a cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty pounds." Carried. Tuesday 16 April 1867 On Wednesday evening, 3rd inst., a public meeting was held at Carver's Empire Hotel. W. Gairdner, Esq., in the chair. The objects of the meeting were -- first, to consider the state of the road between here and Sale, especially the bridge across the Thomson River; also the road between here and Melbourne via Russell's Creek. Secondly, to apply to the authorities to have telegraphic communication continued from Rosedale to this place; and lastly, to consider the advisability of cooperating with the society in Sale in their endeavour to draw the attention of the Government to the question of the existence of deep leads in Gippsland. ... W. Gairdner, J.P., was called to the chair...that there were three essential requisites for the prosperity and advancement of a district and these were telegraphs roads, and railways..that this meeting expresses its unqualified concurrence with too action taken by other public meetings held to urge upon the Government the necessity of forming a railway connecting Gippsland with Melbourne...He concluded by moving that communications between the township of Walhalla and the Government having taken place several months since relating to the state of the roads and bridges between Rosedale and Walhalla, when the Government informed Mr. Pearson that the sum of £2,500 would be laid out at once in improving the roads between the above places, this meeting expresses its regret and surprise that so important a district has been so long - neglected by the Government, and urgently requests that the Government will take immediate action in the matter' `The Argus': Tuesday 19 July 1870 The Long Tunnel Company, Walhalla, have resolved to present Mr, W. Gairdner, who will shortly leave the district, with a testimonial of £100 in recognition of the interest which he has taken in the company from its formation. It is also proposed to present Mr. R. Thomson, the manager, with a purse of 100 sovereigns. Victorian Public Records Office: Walhalla Permissive Occupancy ledger 11 May 1867 OPENING OF THE WALHALLA INSTITUTE. This institution was formally opened on Monday evening by a tea-meeting, which was attended by Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 348 CA139 last dealings 1892 David Ramsay Thomson, Henry Miles (dec.), William H Roberts (insolvent?) of Walhalla Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Lombardy poplars x2 or `Populus nigra' var. `Italica' Location: Main Road, Walhalla Condition: Fair Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V30 Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: unknown, Estimated creation date(s): inter-war? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Crown Allotment: CA121A, CA121 Crown Grantee: J Carkeek, 1871 (CA121); PE Hayward 1978 Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 349 Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): References: Vegetation identified as of general significance, contributing to the overall character and identity of the area. Survey Notes 2013: Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme Walhalla Conservation Study 1984     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Heritage planning status: Minor specimens but represent significant type. CA 121 and West boundary of CA 122 DESCRIPTION and SIGNIFICANCE Two poplars whose form has become irregular with age and pruning. Of some historic importance as representatives of the early plantings; however, in relatively poor condition. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: What is significant? Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Located west of CA121 and CA121A, two Lombardy poplars whose form has become irregular with age and pruning. How is it significant? Two Lombardy poplars are contributory historically to Walhalla. Why is it significant? Two Lombardy poplars are contributory. Historically as representatives of the early plantings, particularly as the help form a poplar group. (Criterion A). James & Lee: Management: Newspapers:  Reference as a contributory element in Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8, with tree control invoked. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 350 35 poplars c1887-8 visible; 64-5, c1892; 72-3, c1891; 84 in c1999; 109, 6 shown; 119 shows row of 6 Edwardian-era: `The Argus': Saturday 27 February 1886 Vagabond 1886: Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 `…Howe er, the est in Walhalla Pursuing the path past public houses, post office, and the Long Tunnel works, Stringer's Creek running now to the right and again to the left, the valley winds round and one is apparently in quite a different settlement The song of the stampers here sounds, but as a lullaby and not as a fierce chorus. The waters of this left fork of Stringer's Creek are not thick with tailings, but are comparatively clear. The stream is bordered with willows as magnificent as you will see at Christchurch, N 'A , their graceful drooping foliage contrasting with the tall poplars struggling skywards. On the slope of the hill eastwards is a small vineyard. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 351 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Two rows of Lombardy poplars x8 or `Populus nigra' var. `Italica' Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA121B west boundary Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V32 Crown Grantee: W H Hudson 1978 Place type: Trees Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):   Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 352 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes Post Second War (1940-)? No How is it significant? Two rows of Lombardy poplars x8 significant historically and aesthetically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Place evaluation Why is it significant? Heritage grading Two rows of Lombardy poplars x8 are significant: (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C, Historically, as representing key historic vegetation in Walhalla, the Lombardy poplar's role as land mark plantings since the inception of ornamental planting in the town in the 1870s. Poplars have been described by the noted writer, The Vagabond, in his first visits to Walhalla as distinctive plantings (along with willows) that acted as a foil to the rugged mining landscape (Criterion A). Proposed heritage grading (A-D): B Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation of major importance to the town and its environs, such as dominant trees in good condition. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Aesthetically, the trees are well formed, signature plantings in the area and provide attractive foliage, particularly in autumn, they are indicative of the beginning of a style of ornamental planting that is now seen dotted throughout the valley, echoing the Italian immigrants, some from Lombardy, who helped pioneer gold seeking in Walhalla (Criterion E). Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Management: E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8  List as individual Heritage Overlay or as contributory and significant to Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8 with tree controls invoked. Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: What is significant? Row of 8 Lombardy poplars along the west boundary of CA121B. The other row of 8 trees occurs opposite CA 121B. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 353 References: Survey Notes 2013: significant grouping of sem-mature trees. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 James & Lee on poplars: 35 poplars c1887-8 visible; 64-5, c1892; 72-3, c1891; 84 in c1999; 109, 6 shown; 119 shows row of 6 Edwardian-era: Victorian Public Records Office: 1963 FCV survey shows angled track/driveway on same line as trees. Newspapers: `The Argus': Saturday 27 February 1886 Vagabond 1886: `…Howe er, the est in Walhalla Pursuing the path past public houses, post office, and the Long Tunnel works, Stringer's Creek running now to the right and again to the left, the valley winds round and one is apparently in quite a different settlement The song of the stampers here sounds, Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 354 but as a lullaby and not as a fierce chorus. The waters of this left fork of Stringer's Creek are not thick with tailings, but are comparatively clear. The stream is bordered with willows as magnificent as you will see at Christchurch, N 'A , their graceful drooping foliage contrasting with the tall poplars struggling skywards. On the slope of the hill eastwards is a small vineyard. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Southern Magnolia or `Magnolia grandiflora' Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V33 Crown Allotment: CAs 121H-K, NORTH OF MAGNOLIA COTTAGE Crown Grantee: Crown Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: unknown, Estimated creation date(s): 1900s? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):   Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 355 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes? Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes? Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Heritage grading (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: A Proposed heritage grading (A-D): A Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation that is a single specimen or group of major importance to the region, state or nation because of its particular quality, age, historic importance or uniqueness, such as botanical specimens of state-wide importance.. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Figure 203 Incorrectly mapped and listed in planning scheme Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: Heritage criteria satisfied: History A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . The Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) is located in the private residential garden of Magnolia Cottage, originally owned by Frank Guatta after 1936 on a Permissive Occupancy. The house was built when Frank became engaged and he lived there until 1943. The property is adjoining the early Hoskin's house on the north and may be connected with this. The site was shown in an 1899 plan as that of two small huts with some fenced ground. An image from the 1890 shows a large weeping willow near the site of the magnolia. C: IPotential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of our cultural or natural History D: Importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places or environments Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO254 Heritage Overlay name: Southern Magnolia, West of CA 5, MainStreet, Walhalla It is a very early exotic planting in the township and the only known specimen (National Trust classification T11975). This species was available in Wood's Point by 1866 (National Trust classification T11975). Statement of Significance What is significant? A mature Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), located north of Magnolia Cottage, Main Street, Walhalla. How is it significant? Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 356 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 The Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) is of local historic and aesthetic significance to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Why is it significant? The Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) is significant Historically, as one of the earliest group of exotic plantings marks the location of a remnant garden and a reminder of the original extent of the township. (Criterion A) Scientifically (horticultural) as a very fine example of the species, which is of an outstanding size. (Criteria C & D) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Management:    Review Baw Baw PS Clause 43.01 schedule of HO254 Southern Magnolia, West of CA 5, Main Street, Walhalla, and Heritage Overlay map 21; reference as significant contributory element within Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8; proposed for Victorian Heritage Register assessment. References: Baw Baw Planning Scheme Survey Notes 2013: Significant `magnolia grandiflora' to north of adjoining house rebuilt since 1984 with added verandah, new openings and extended. House is weatherboard (bullnose soft wood profile, recent cladding- hardwood originally) in gabled form with corrugated iron roofing, simple skillion verandah. Double-hung sash windows are distributed asymmetrically around the entry and have Victorian-era (new) moulded architraves; brick chimney at the south end (recent rebuild). Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 357 Clause 43.01 schedule: HO254 Southern Magnolia, West of CA 5, Main Street, Walhalla: not identified in 1984 study. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Images collected: Mrs Mouritz album (1890s view north end) shows north end of Barkley Square house and large weeping willow near where magnolia is today. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 600 fruit Trees, comprising apples, pears, medialis, plums, almonds, nuts, figs, gooseberries, &c. 400 Ornamental Shrubs, comprising cypress, arbor vitae, acacia, magnolia, oleander, laurel, Cape broom, verbena, roses, &c &c &c also Walhalla and magnolia in the same edition: Tuesday 16 June 1874 BELLIN and WILKINSON have received instructions to SELL by AUCTION, on Saturday next, 20th lust., at cloven o'clock, A splendid assortment of trees, Comprising Figure 204 Image 1890s showing willow on block north of today’s Barkley S uare arrowed Mrs Mouritz album) Walhalla Land Status Report 1985 Magnolia Cottage (H034640 (site 5) (T.102056 Mrs. K. Mouritz, located wholly or partially on the permanent reserve to Stringers Creek:(K Mouritz listed 2013 at 75 Argo St, Sth Yarra - 03) 9866 4591) Mountain Heritage 133: 1936 Permissive Occupancy to Frank Guatta as a site for a house: 40' from creek 8' from footpath on north, 14' on south- all hardwood 3 ply lining with fibrous plaster ceiling, corrugated iron on roof recently rebuilt by Jim Anderson. Built when Frank engaged - held until 1943, adjoining Rose & Peter Guatta, rented to Gladys & Dick Stockdale. Hermes Heritage Database 162200 (Context 2011) Name SOUTHERN MAGNOLIA (MAGNOLIA, GRANDIFLORA), Address MAIN (WALHALLA) ROAD, WALHALLA Newspapers: `The Argus': (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) (First mention of magnolia) Tuesday 3 June 1851 W. M. TENNENT & CO Are instructed by the Messrs Bakewell to offer to public competition at their Rooms, THE Following assortment of Trees, Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 358 Lisbon lemons, oranges (all good sorts) Camellias (very ...), daphnes Magnolia grandiflora, Norfolk Island pines Moreton Bay figs, guavas (purple and yellow) Azaleas, rhododendrons, box edging Bird's nest ferns, walnuts Spanish chestnuts, elms Italian tuberoses, double Amaryllis Regina, tulips Gladiolus, a choice lot of new kinds Hyacinths, snowflakes THIS DAY. At Half-past Ton O'clock Sharp. On the Premises, Swan Hotel, Church-street. Richmond. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Lombardy Poplar row x10 or `Populus nigra' var. `Italica' Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V34 Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):      Crown Allotment: CA121G, EAST OF Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes? Post Second War (1940-)? Yes Place evaluation Crown Grantee: Crown Land Heritage grading Place type: Trees Integrity to creation date? Fair Condition: Fair Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 359 (1984 grading: Buildings A-D, Vegetation A-C): Heritage grading 1984: C, Proposed heritage grading (A-D): C Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Heritage grading definition (as for 1984): Vegetation identified as of general significance, contributing to the overall character and identity of the area. Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? No Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No from Lombardy and other Italian areas who helped pioneer gold seeking in Walhalla (Criterion A). Management:  Reference as contributory element within Walhalla Township Heritage Overlay 8 with tree control invoked. Heritage criteria satisfied: References: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . Survey Notes 2013: Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Immature specimens, but of keynote tree type of township. Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 DESCRIPTION and SIGNIFICANCE Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No This row of poplars is not particularly old as such, and is not a historically significant planting. However, they are generally in keeping with the landscape character of Walhalla. Planning precinct: Northern Gardens Precinct Statement of Significance: What is significant? Row of Lombardy poplars along the east boundary of Northern Garden Camping grounds and CA121G How is it significant? This row of Lombardy poplars is contributory historically to Walhalla. Why is it significant? This row of Lombardy poplars is contributory Historically, as representing key historic vegetation in Walhalla, the Lombardy poplar's role as land mark plantings since the inception of ornamental planting in the town in the 1870s. Poplars have been described by the noted writer, The Vagabond, in his first visits to Walhalla as distinctive plantings (along with willows) that acted as a foil to the rugged mining landscape. They are indicative of the beginning of a style of ornamental planting that is now seen dotted throughout the valley, echoing the immigrants Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 360 Figure 205 Image 1890s of north end, with no trees shown on this site (arrowed) but a poplar row on the hillside to the north east (Mrs Mouritz album, Walhalla Conservation Study 1984) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 James & Lee, poplars: 35 poplars c1887-8 visible; 64-5, c1892; 72-3, c1891; 84 in c1999; 109, 6 shown; 119 shows row of 6 Edwardian-era: Newspapers: `The Argus': Saturday 27 February 1886 Vagabond 1886: `…Howe er, the est in Walhalla Pursuing the path past public houses, post office, and the Long Tunnel works, Stringer's Creek running now to the right and again to the left, the valley winds round and one is apparently in quite a different settlement The song of the stampers here sounds, but as a lullaby and not as a fierce chorus. The waters of this left fork of Stringer's Creek are not thick with tailings, but are comparatively clear. The stream is bordered with willows as magnificent as you will see at Christchurch, N 'A , their graceful Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 361 drooping foliage contrasting with the tall poplars struggling skywards. On the slope of the hill eastwards is a small vineyard. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 `Cupressus torulosa' x2, or Bhutan cypress, Walhalla Cemetery Location: Main Road, Walhalla Place type: Tree Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V35 Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: Walhalla Cemetery Trust, Estimated creation date(s): 1880s Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: Walhalla Cemetery Reserve Crown Grantee: Crown Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 362      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? No Post Second War (1940-)? No Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? Yes Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO22, part Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Cemetery, Off Main Road Walhalla Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: Cemetery Precinct: Statement of Significance: and part of the south boundaries. (Plans and Specifications held by Walhalla Cemetery Trust) . Photographs of c1907 show a full extent of picket and paling fencing on all sides , leading to a gate on a track from the north west . A sexton's lodge resembling the present one appears in a photograph of c1889. (James . and Lee 1970, .pps. 65,71,120). The cemetery is surrounded by bushland consisting of predominantly eucalypts and acacias while within the cemetery itself aged `Pinus radiata' dominate. Other conifers and smaller exotic trees are present in lesser numbers. In 1884, trees and shrubs from the Mt Macedon Colonial nursery were planted at the cemetery, and more again ten years later. A large Bhutan cypress grows from the top of one gravesite. What is significant? Two, fine and large specimens of `Cupressus torulosa' in a unique location and of outstanding size; both in excellent condition, and one on top of a grave site. It is assumed that this tree was planted on the site following the final burial of the Holmes family in 1878. This tree girth measured 2.5m and height 29.6m in 1985. (Refer Walhalla Cemetery) How is it significant? History Two Bhutan cypress or `Cupressus torulosa' , Walhalla Cemetery, are significant historically and aesthetically to Walhalla and the Shire of Baw Baw. (Cemetery Reserve, Gazetted 6/6/1873.) A cemetery had initiated as early as 1866-7 and was located between land facing the Alpine Co. and Trafalgar Co. crushing plants. Trustees were appointed in 1868 and contract surveyor, Arthur Walker, surveyed a 2 acre reserve around an existing 1/2 acre fenced site, in December 1872. (Adams 1980, p.57; Walker, Plan of proposed Cemetery Walhalla December 1872 (CPO)). The reserve was proclaimed in 1873 and the old cemetery formed its north-west corner. It was fenced in 1894. A track was cut to the old reserve and its edges and the south and east sides of the reserve were fenced with pickets in 1899, by Tempest and Alderson of Happy-Go-Lucky. The existing old paling fence was repaired on the west Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 363 Why is it significant? Two Bhutan cypress or `Cupressus torulosa' , Walhalla Cemetery, are significant Historically, for their key role in the landscaping of Walhalla cemetery, one of Victoria's most significant cemeteries, their likely origins from the Mount Macedon State Nursery and as associated with the final burial of the Holmes family in 1878 (Criterion A); Aesthetically, as fine and large specimens in a unique location and of outstanding size and in excellent condition, and one on top of a grave site, that contribute to the magnificent conifer character of the cemetery treescape (Criterion E). Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Management:   Victorian Heritage Register Statement of Significance for the cemetery should itemise all contributory and significant trees in this cemetery; reference as significant contributory element adjacent to the Walhalla Heritage Overlay 8. . References: Survey Notes 2013: part of significant conifer planting, recently depleted by tree removal. Hermes Heritage Database 71481 National Trust of Australia (Vic) `Cupressus torulosa' x2 Unique location Outstanding size Two fine specimens, both in excellent condition. The specimen from which the data was collected is in a most unusual location - on top of a grave site. It is assumed that this tree was planted on the site following the final burial of the Holmes family in 1878. Measurements: 08/1985 Spread (m): 10.8 Girth (m): 2.5 Height (m): 29.6 Estimated Age (yrs): 107 Condition: Good Access: Unrestricted Classified: 09/05/1985 Reynolds, Y: `Walhalla Graveyard to Cemetery' H53: Holmes `sacred memory of Elizabeth A Holmes-d 1 Aug 1875 aged 20 also Mary A Holmes d 11 Oct 1873 aged onths, `I hear thy wel o e oi e…' image of tree in grave 1963 Hawker, J RBG Walhalla cemetery… 1986 Tree 21 `Cupressus torulosa' `outstanding specimen growing on top of grave. Remove stubs' (management) Tree 32 `Cupressus torulosa' `fine specimen' Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 364 Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Conifer (redwood?) at James Gerrard's house site Location: Main Road, Walhalla Crown Allotment: CA93, 93B Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V36 Crown Grantee: T Ganner, 1870 Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , James Gerrard, teacher; Mining engineer, Charles Brockwell Estimated creation date(s): 1880s? Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915):   Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 365 Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes? Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013    Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes? Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes? Post Second War (1940-)? No Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Henry Tisdall-its first head teacher. Under his direction, and with Walhalla's population at its peak in the 1880s, the school's facilities were stretched to the limit and classes -had to be held in- hallways -and shelter sheds. The school was destroyed by fire in April-1891 and a larger building erected soon after. The number of school aged children declined as the town's population dwindled following the closure of the mines. In 1939 the large school building -was dismantled to make way for a single-roomed one teacher' school. The Walhalla State School finally closed in early 1965.' (WHDL) What is significant? Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: This mature conifer (redwood?) is located on the former head teacher's house site and may date from this period (Edwardian-era). How is it significant? Heritage Overlay number: HO8 This mature conifer (redwood?) is contributory historically and aesthetically to Walhalla Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Why is it significant? Heritage contribution or significance This mature conifer (redwood?) is contributory   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? Yes Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: Historically as indicative of the planting choice for trees in the significant period of Walhalla's development as epitomised by the cemetery panting, with trees brought from Mount Macedon in the 1880s and possibly associated with the Walhalla State School head teacher Gerrard and engineer Brockwell, both key figures in the running of the town and its economy (Criterion A); and History This allotment was purchased by gold miner, T Ganner, in 1870. Ganner had been inolved with tribute mining of the Goden Fleece claim at Walhalla in the 1860s. Mining engineer, Charles Brockwell, also occupied this house site in the mid 1880s. A later resident, James Gerrard, was head teacher at Walhalla in the Edwardian-era where he lived with Margaret Gerrard also a school teacher. `Prior to the building of a school, classes for The town's children were held in the Mechanics' Institute and-later in a small building-adjoining it. Other schools also operated in the Wesleyan and Catholic chapels for a short period. Larger school premises were sought as the town's population grew, and the current site was purchased in 1874. Ah Gwan (a Chinese settler) originally occupied the land and operated a market garden here. The first official school was opened on October 1875 with Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 366 Aesthetically, as a fine and mature specimen that relates to other mature conifers in Walhalla as part of a group arboreal character (Criterion E). Management:   Inspect further and identify tree species; reference as contributory element within Walhalla Township Heritage Overlay 8 with tree control invoked. References: Survey Notes 2013: Large mature redwood or similar set behind house allotments west of the Stringers Creek and north of Masonic Hall- may be associated with Mount Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Macedon trees supplied in the 1880s to Walhalla cemetery. Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) `Among some of the long service HTs have been: George C. Christie (1867-68), Henry T. Tisdall (1868-86), John Fairhall (1886-89), John Stewart (1890-94), John T. Burke (1898-1902), James Gerrard (1903-11), Donald M. Smith (1921-25), Hilda J. Argall (1928-32), Donald H. Cunningham (1936-40),Charles W. Sinclair (1947-51).' Adams: 108 JG-As head teacher, complained about noise from LTEGMC stamper adjoining - had 200 pupils one of the largest pupil numbers at Walhalla. Newspapers: Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Tuesday 16 June 1868 Edition: Morning. p 3 Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 MIINING INTTELLIGENCE GOLDEN FLEECE GOLDMINING COMPANY, REGISTERED, STRINGER'S CREEK. QUARTERLY REPORT… The agreement between the company and the tributors having been terminated by mutual consent, fresh tenders were invited for working the upper portion of the company's mine, on tribute for a period of 12 months, and the tender of Messrs. Chance, and Ganner offering to pay a tribute of 18 per cent on the gross yield, was a epted… Signed on behalf of the Board of management JAMES A..YARRA, Chairman Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Wednesday 6 December 1876 Walhalla Rate Books 1908-9, 255 James Gerrard, head teacher, ownero upier Cas , A house, ₤ (1928, 2625 Gerard, Mrs in SSB residence Walhalla; 2625 C W Gerard, labourer, shop CA22, 22A) Electoral Rolls 1903 James Gerrard and Margaret Gerrard on left-hand branch, Walhalla school teachers; (also Christina and Walter Henry G (traveller) on Buckleys Hill Walhalla Walhalla Voters Roll 1884 (No Gerrard) Charles Brockwell, engineer, House CA93 Vision & Realisation: Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 367 (marriage) WHITLOW - BEARD. -On the 28th November, 1876, at the residence of J. Gerrard, Esq., Walhalla, by the Rev. A. Powell, George Gardiner Whitlow, to Theresa Holdsworth Beard, eldest daughter of Mr H. G. Beard, Sale. `The Argus': Monday 23 March 1885 p 1 DUNN–GERRARD. —-On the 22nd of November, 1884, at Walhalla Gipps land, by the Rev. A. Inglis, William Henry Nankivell, youngest son of the late Martin Dunn, Esq., C.E., of Stone-park, Devon, England to Therese Minnie, eldest daughter of the late James Gerrard, Esq., chemist, &.c, of Walhalla. Tuesday 19 December 1899 p 1 GERRARD.—On the 18th December, 1899, at her residence, No. 20 Longmore-street, Middle-park, Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Therese Elisa, relict of the late James Gerrard, and beloved mother of M. A., and F. G., and W. G., and J. G., and A. G., and A. G., and F. G., late of Sale and Walhalla, Gippsland, aged 52 years. Saturday 24 December 1904 p 9 GERRARD.-.RYMER. - On the 4th November, 1904, at St. Anselm's Church of England, Middle Park, by the Rev. Stephen Hart, Frederick Ernest, youngest son of the late James Gerrard, Esq., chemist, Walhalla, to Edith Emma, youngest daughter of the late J. W. Rymer, Esq., solicitor. Bendigo, Monday 26 September 1904 DEATHS. BROCKWELL.—On the 24th September, Elizabeth, the dearly loved wife of Charles Brockwell, of Walhalla, and beloved sister of Christian Lauer, of 9 Walker-street, Newport, aged 41 years. Births Deaths & Marriages Note: the Walhalla James Gerrards may not be related. Death Index Gerrard James Gerrard d1881 Walhalla - son of James, aged 53 (James G d in Hobart 1839) Charles ?? Gerrard Father: Jas Birth: abt 1866 Death: 1884 - Walhalla, Victoria Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 368 Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 James Gerrard Annie Maude Gerrard Father's Name: James Gerrard Mother's Name: Theresa Eliza Mellon Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1877 Registration number: 5825 Charles De Balche Gerrard Father: Jas Birth: abt 1866 Death: 1884 - Walhalla, Victoria Mary Theresa Gerrard Father's Name: Jas Frank Gerrard Mother's Name: Annie Lang Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1891 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 17902 Francis Chas Alex Gerrard Father's Name: Jas Frank Gerrard Mother's Name: Annie Lang Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Registration Year: 1896 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 31596 Frank Cyril Jas Gerrard m Annie Lang 1899 at Walhalla Walt Jas Tennant Gerrard; Father's Name: Walt Hy Gerrard; Mother's Name: Christina Wilson Jones Birth Place: Walhalla, Victoria Born: 1900 Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about Charles Henry Brockwell Henry Brockwell m Elizabeth Lauer 1887. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Lombardy poplars x 4 former Wesleyan Church site Location: Right Hand Branch, Walhalla Place type: Tree Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V37 Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: , Estimated creation date(s): 1877 (church site) Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elopment period is c1863-c1915): Crown Allotment: CA47 Crown Grantee: R Matheson 1868 Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 369      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? No Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? No Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes? Post Second War (1940-)? Yes Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Place evaluation How is it significant? Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme Row of 4 semi-mature Lombardy poplars is contributory historically and aesthetically to Walhalla.     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Heritage planning status: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: Why is it significant? Row of 4 semi-mature Lombardy poplars is contributory: Historically, as representing key historic vegetation in Walhalla, the Lombardy poplar's role as land mark plantings since the inception of ornamental planting in the town in the 1870s. Poplars have been described by the noted writer, The Vagabond, in his first visits to Walhalla as distinctive plantings (along with willows) that acted as a foil to the rugged mining landscape (Criterion A). Aesthetically, the trees are signature plantings in the area and are indicative of the beginning of a style of ornamental planting that is now seen dotted throughout the valley, echoing the immigrants from Lombardy and other Italian areas who helped pioneer gold seeking in Walhalla (Criterion E). Historic Town Centre Precinct Statement of Significance: History (Church site) After the Rev. W. Brown had formed a Wesleyan Society during 1866, The Walhalla Wesleyan Chapel was built as the first church in Walhalla, being opened in December, 1866. It measured 30' ' and ost ₤ . Re . D.S. Lindsay was the first minister and was appointed in September 1868. (Adams J.1980, p.59 & James G.F. and Lee C.G. 1970 p.7) As with other mining areas with Cornish inhabitants, the Wesleyan Church had a strong following in Walhalla and so in 1877 a new church was built on the flat across Main Road on CA47. The old church, meanwhile, was purchased in late in 1877 by the Walhalla Masonic Lodge, which had been formed on 28 July, 1876 (Adams, 1980:59). What is significant? Row of 4 semi-mature Lombardy poplars along the west boundary of CA47. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 370 Management:  Reference as contributory element within Walhalla Township Heritage Overlay 8 with tree control invoked. References: Survey Notes 2013: four semi-mature trees in a row along south border of former church site, and car park; other similar maturity of exotics on site including an oak, liquidambar, silver birches, ash-all probably post WW2. Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Figure 206 Detail c1886 view of Junction, Right Hand Branch, shows Lombardy poplars on south side of church (State Library of Victoria ) Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 Study record 1983, contact sheet 2 frame 39: shown size simialr to existing - semi mature. James & Lee, 1970 104, 108: 1890s, 1906 views shows church at Junction - the latter with trees on west side, the former with one columnar tree on west 140-1: 1900s shows south side of church with adjoining police station and no major trees State Library of Victoria 1887 view b22943: shows police station and church with Lombardy poplars on common side boundary Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 371 Figure 207 Trees 1983 (Walhalla Conservation Study 1984 ) Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Conifer, mature (fir?) Location: Right Hand Branch, Walhalla Place number (Prefixes: B building, S site, V vegetation- refer heritage place maps): V38 Crown Allotment: CA142      Early Victorian-era (1850-1875)? No Victorian-era (1850-1899)? Yes? Edwardian-era (1900-1915)? Yes? Inter-war period (1916-1939)? Yes? Post Second War (1940-)? No Crown Grantee: JB (JR?) Majendie 1871 Place type: Tree Integrity to creation date? Good Condition: Good Historical associations with persons or events? Major owners or occupiers: unknown, Estimated creation date(s): unknown Period representation: The place expresses the following historical periods Walhalla’s signifi ant ining de elop ent period is c1863-c1915): Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 372 Place evaluation Assessed Cultural Values for the Baw Baw Planning Scheme     Aesthetic value? Yes Historical value? Yes Scientific value? No Social value? No Heritage criteria satisfied: A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history . E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Heritage planning status: Walhalla Conservation Study 1984: Heritage Overlay number: HO8 None Heritage Overlay name: Walhalla Township Black Survey plan detail 1899 (not all buildings are shown) Heritage contribution or significance   Contributory to Walhalla heritage precinct? Yes; Significant individually? No Planning precinct: North Residential Precinct Statement of Significance: What is significant? This mature conifer (fir?) is located on the former John R Majendie's house site and may date from the Victorian-era. How is it significant? This mature conifer (fir?) is contributory historically and aesthetically to Walhalla Forest Commission of Victoria survey 1963 Why is it significant? This mature conifer (fir?) is contributory Historically as indicative of the planting choice for trees in the significant period of Walhalla's development as epitomised by the cemetery panting, with trees brought from Mount Macedon in the 1880s also as a marker of a former habitation site now subsumed under native forest (Criterion A); and Aesthetically, as a fine and mature specimen that relates to other mature conifers in Walhalla as part of a group arboreal character (Criterion E). Walhalla Voters Roll, 1884 Management:   Further research, inspect and assess this tree; reference as contributory element within Walhalla Township Heritage Overlay 8 with tree control invoked. John R Majendie packer, hut CA142 James & Lee, 1970 140-1: c1905 image shows gabled huts in this area surrounded by vegetation. Electoral Rolls for Majendie: References: 1903 numerous female family members at Toongabbie south including John Routledge a grazier Survey Notes 2013: Mature fir or similar set up north valley of right hand branch among native forest. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 373 Australia Cemetery Index, 1808-2007 John Routledge Majendie Walhalla Heritage Review: 2013 Death Age: 32 Birth Date: abt 1870 Death Date: 12 Jul 1902 Cemetery: Toongabbie Cemetery Location: Toongabbie, Victoria Death index John Routledge Majendie, Birth: abt 1840, Death: 16 Jul 1919 Birth index Sophia Rena Majendie Father's Name: John Routledge Majendie Mother's Name: Charlotte Eleanor Taylor Birth Place: Gisborne, Victoria Registration Year: 1862 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 2566 etc. Graeme Butler & Associates 2013: 374