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Warrandyte’s Yarra Street while stepping Eastern Fwy Park Rd back in time to the beginnings and growth of this picturesque riverside village. Meet colourful characters, Location Public Transport hear tall tales and delight in the small Yarra Street carpark near the corner Metlink Buses: t 131 638 town hospitality. www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au Built on Gold Manningham City Council of the Warrandyte Bridge, Warrandyte. 699 Doncaster Road Time Ventura Buses: t 9488 2100 Melway Reference Warrandyte Historic Doncaster 3108 1 hr www.venturabus.com.au 23 F11 Town Walk t 03 9840 9333 f 03 9848 3110 Distance Parking e [email protected] 2.3 kms Plenty of parking on Yarra Street or www.manningham.vic.gov.au Difficulty at designated off road parking areas. This brochure is printed on Australian made, Easy 100 per cent recycled Tudor RP carbon neutral paper which has helped reduce global greenhouse Accessibility gas emissions by more than 110kgs CO2-e. Medium

In the 1840s, prospectors were finding small amounts of gold in isolated pockets of Victoria and New South Wales. These hinted to a great field of gold somewhere yet unknown. A reward was offered to anyone who could find it. publican, Louis Michel had despaired as his clientele disappeared in search of those Facilities Be Prepared Additional Walks Wheelchair Access elusive nuggets and had decided Toilets, playground, picnic shelters, Sun protection recommended There are 20 walks in the series to We have developed three walks to join them. Incredibly it was he barbecue, drinking fountain, cafés. Carry water. choose from. If you liked this walk, specifically for wheelchairs. Look for you might like the ones listed below: A Wheel Pleasure pamphlet. Hazards who uncovered a large nugget Days of total fire ban Building the Warrandyte Style Beware of deep water and rapids Images near , Check the fire risk warning before Historic Warrandyte Architectural Walk Use designated pedestrian crossings embarking on this walk: Warrandyte Historical Society All Manna of Gums Warrandyte. The find, along with at all roads. www.cfa.vic.gov.au another near the Central Victorian Currawong Bush Park to Walk. town of Clunes were officially proclaimed as the first gold finds in Victoria and led to the gold rush that made nineteenth century Melbourne one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Research - d Castle Rd -Warrandyte Rd n 11 Folk Art Shop Parking (incl. disabled parking) u d

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a sweet shop with adjacent tearooms — K W Playground The Grandest of Hotels and what a lovely spot to enjoy tea Originally the site of the Anderson Hotel, and sweets. the Grand Hotel was opened in 1896 Cross Yarra Street at the pedestrian and was kept in the Tresize family for walkway. You are now heading back up more than 60 years. It was a site for the Yarra Street but on the opposite side popular theatre restaurant craze in the Yarra St of the street. 1970s and 1980s. Hear about Yarra Street’s other hotels at the Mechanics’ 12 Ill fated Taffy Institute’s listening post. Ruins of a concrete building will appear on your right. They tell the story of Sloan family butchers, the ill fated Kia Ora Café and the B 158 Yarra Street ra determination of owner Taffy Jones ck Look across the street towards a shop enbury t who fought one disaster after another Mitchell Ave S with two matching gabled roofs behind the parapet. The shop was assembled then died when his home was only from two separate buildings in 1901. partially built. Find out more by reading The left hand part was brought down the interpretation at the ruins. Webb St Yarra St from Kangaroo Ground and was the butcher’s shop for the next 93 years.

W Under the building’s corrugated iron Sloans Rd h sheeting are the original bush poles ip s t Brackenbury St and roof shingles. ic k G Cross Yarra Street using the pedestrian u l walkway. There is a listening post on ly 13 Federation Playground R the corner of the Warandyte Community d Time to let the children play. The Centre with stories about Magpie La Warrandyte Federation Playspace was heritage and local artists. inspired by the town’s gold mining history and features a mine shaft, The walk begins at the riverbank miners hut and gold wagon. There is a just near Yarra Street carpark and soundpost just next to the miner’s hut the Warrandyte Bridge. with some great sound effects on it — Walk to the river and turn right. enjoyable for young and old. Find the cairn. 14 The Bakery Coffer Dam and Grant’s Battery Museum and Historic Post Office Mechanics’ Institute The historic bakery has existed here Remnants of a Coffer Dam built in the The Historic Post Office is now home to Historically the term ‘mechanic’ referred since the 1880s. The heritage oven still 1850s can be seen at the river’s edge, the Historical Society’s museum. Originally to ‘working man’ or ‘skilled craftsman’. bakes bread as it has for more than just behind the museum. Look for planks built in 1876 it has endured flooding in Mechanics’ institutes supported workers 100 years (apart from a few years as poking up from the water. A Coffer Dam 1934, bushfire in 1939 and a deliberately to increase their knowledge by offering a leather and wood-stove shop). was created by driving wooden piles lit fire in 1982. Inside you can learn about libraries, lectures on a wide variety of This finishes your walk. Time to relax The Gold Crusher upright into the river to form a wall to Warrandyte’s gold heritage. Hear local subjects and demonstrations using and plan your next adventure. This was the site of the water powered keep the water out so the riverbed could stories at the listening post, including small models of the latest inventions Government Stamping Battery built in be washed for gold. Upstream was one about a determined postal worker in mining and engineering. There were 1897. A battery was a large mechanical Grant’s Battery built in 1869. Like the who, after saving the post office from more than a 1,000 Mechanics’ institutes crusher that broke the quartz up to State Battery it was also powered by a fire, continued to keep it open despite in Victoria by the mid 1800s. They still reveal the gold within. It would have waterwheel, but was the first of its kind. her own shock and exhaustion. remain ‘for the community by the been a noisy but exciting sound for Retrace your steps and take the first ramp Stay on this side of the street for the community’. There is a soundpost here it heralded possible riches. Timber to Yarra Street. Turn right and walk to the next few historic places. with stories of dances and hotels. footings are still visible at low water. Gospel Hall. 10 The Diary Tree Warrandyte War Memorial The Warrandyte Punt Gospel Hall A cute reminder of days gone by is The memorial was constructed in 1922 A barge guided by ropes was the only This small chapel is the second one this very old Monterey Cypress Tree. to commemorate those who fought in the way for locals to cross the river for many on this site. Like much of the town, the There was once a letterbox here for First World War. The terraced gardens, years. The punt operated from here from original Presbyterian Church was lost locals to submit entries for the radiating stone pathways and the obelisk 1856 until the bridge was completed to the 1939 fires. The chapel was built community newsletter, thus leading centrepiece feature the local sandstone in 1863. in the 1950s, when building supplies to its nickname, ‘The Diary Tree’. The and random rubble that gave Warrandyte a distinctive architectural character. Keep walking along the river for about were in short supply, so it remained tree can be seen in historic photos 500 metres to the back of the Old Post simple. Note the open belfry above on display at the museum. Office Museum. Turn towards the water. the gable. Take a peek inside to see the historic coloured lead light windows.