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Mahony’s Timber Tramway
Mahony’s Timber Tramway
Mahony’s Timber tramway on the 1920
Tourist map of Dandenong Ranges, Wandin and Gembrook district
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Cr. John Thomas Mahony J.P. was born at Morwell in 1879.
J.T. Mahony owned vast amounts of land in the Parishes of Scoresby, Narre Warren and Monbulk over the years (150 acres in total in 1910).
He was an Belgrave - Upwey sawmiller, but operated sawmills all around the Shire of Ferntree Gully at different times.
One of his sawmill sites is photographed here near the wooden trestle narrow guage railway bridge out of Belgrave on the road to Emerald.
John became a real estate agent based at Upwey during the period 1910s to 1930s.
He was also elected a Ferntree Gully Shire councillor from 1914 until 1927. John was twice Shire President (1919/1920 and 1921/1922).
He was appointed a Justice of the Peace too (J.P.)
Photos courtesy of the Sherbrooke Foothills Historical Society
Selby
Selby
Photo courtesy of State library of Victoria
Selby Station was opened in May 1904, and named after the local landowner and Shire President, George William Selby.
The original buildings on the platform were a small iron shed and a standard VR portable wooden Office.
1926 Bushfires Selby Station Surrounded - The Selby railway station was surrounded, but the fighters, under the secretary of the local brigade (Mr Byrne), saved the building.
1927 The Railways department has constructed a metalled cartway into the Selby railway station.
Photo : RAILWAY STATION, SELBY, VIC.
Rose Stereograph Co [c1920-1954]
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Selby - 1920 Tourist map of Dandenong Ranges,
Wandin and Gembrook district
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Postcard Photos courtesy of John Thompson Postcard collection
Paradise - now known as Clematis
Paradise - now known as Clematis
Photo courtesy of State library of Victoria
The Paradise area was first settled in the 1860s at the south eastern end of the Emerald goldfields, where the road from the goldfields to Emerald met the road from Melbourne and Dandenong.
The area of the township was subdivided in 1902 as Paradise Valley
(the name of which is retained in the town's Paradise Valley Hotel).
Michael O’Connor was one of the first settlers to select land in ‘Paradise’ now Clematis in 1880. ‘Eden House’ was the name given to the first cottage the O’Connor’s built in 1882. The building included a small store with a wine licence. It soon became one of the best known landmarks in the district. After 1900, the mail came on Puffing Billy, stopping at Clematis Station located just below the property. The patrons collecting their mail from the post office were served from the end of the bar.
Photo : Paradise Station circa 1900’s
Steam train passing through farm land.
Michael J Drew - photographer. [between 1890 and 1900?]
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Paradise Valley - 1920 Tourist map of Dandenong Ranges, Wandin and Gembrook district
Postcard Photos courtesy of John Thompson Postcard collection
Nobelius Siding - Packing Shed
Nobelius Siding - Packing Shed
Carl Axel Nobelius ran the largest nursery south of the equator. He established his Gembrook Nurseries in Emerald, Victoria in 1890.
Six years later, he had two million stock trees and was importing fruit and trees across Australia and to New Zealand, South Africa, India, Japan, Europe and South America.
Nobelius even established a large-scale pear and apple orchard in Tasmania.
He was a keen experimenter with horticultural techniques and became a highly skilled propagator.
1871 - Migrated to Australia (Melbourne)
1884 - Bought land at Emerald
1890 - Orchard and nursery established (50 acres) at his Emerald property
Nobelius Siding - Packing Shed
Opened 11 Dec 1904
Distance from Melb & Altitude 32 1/2 miles, 994 ft.
Description
Provided as a private siding to serve the Nobelius Nursery packing shed.
Photo : View of Nobelius Siding
Panorama at Emerald, Victoria
Rose Stereograph Co Date: c1920-1954
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Nobelius Siding - Location inserted onto the 1920 Tourist map of Dandenong Ranges,
Wandin and Gembrook district
Photo courtesy of Emerald Museum - Nobelius Heritage Park
1922 VR Diagram
Photo courtesy of Victorian Railways. Net
Wright
Wright
1922 VR Diagram
Photo courtesy of Victorian Railways. Net
Fielder
Fielder
Fielder Railway Station
A station on the Puffing Billy line, between Cockatoo and Gembrook.
It opened in 1929.
M.T Fielder is listed on the Parish Plan as a landowner in the area. (Fid, P)
1922 VR Diagram
Photo courtesy of Victorian Railways. Net
Benjamin Fielder of Cockatoo Creek
This is a portrait of Benjamin Fielder of Cockatoo Creek. He was born at North Melbourne on 1st November 1858. Benjamin married Margaret Theresa Smark at North Melbourne in 1884. The couple had six children. They resided near Cockatoo Creek from about 1903, and were farmers. Benjamin died at his Cockatoo Creek residence on 22nd February 1939, aged 80. His wife Margaret died at Fitzroy on 14th March 1949, aged 85. The couple are buried at Melbourne General Cemetery, Roman Catholic section Z, grave 0957.
The Fielder locality was named after the family, when the nearby railway station needed a name.
Info : Researched by Glen Turnbull Old Ferntree Gully Shire History - Facebook Group
photo courtesy of Cockatoo History & Heritage - Facebook Group
The Fielder Family also had a sawmill "Fielder mill" on Fielder road - near to the Fielder Station
Upwey
Upwey
1922 VR Diagram
Photo courtesy of Victorian Railways. Net
Photos courtesy of John Thompson Postcard Collection
Photos courtesy of John Thompson Postcard Collection
Tecoma
Tecoma
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