30 Years of the Signiﬁ Cant Tree Register

The magazine from the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)

February 2013 Teddy Bears Picnic World Record Attempt National Trust Heritage Festival Barwon Park Buried Treasure Street

Art Celebrating 30 years of the Signiﬁ cant Tree Register

www.nationaltrust.org.au/vic Message from the Chairman Dr Graeme L. Blackman OAM

Welcome to the ﬁ rst edition of VicNews for 2013.

Included with this issue is your 2013 Victorian Heritage Festival program. The program this year is bigger than ever with a grand total of 175 heritage events taking place throughout the state from April 18th: World Heritage Day. The Trust continues to embrace the use of new technology with all events on our new Heritage Festival phone app. Turn to page 8 for more information on how to download yours today and to unlock the full festival program with directions to events, more images, locations of your nearest events and other exciting features. We hope that you enjoy reading it and I encourage you to get out and about in April and May to at least some of the amazing events on oﬀ er.

The Trust is particularly proud to be partnering with the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council with this years’ festival and as part of this partnership we will be jointly presenting some key events throughout the program. We look forward to seeing you at some of the festival’s fascinating events. Ripp lea Bear Contents Message from the CEO Message from the Chairman 2 Martin Purslow Message from the CEO 2 Happy New Year! We are only a month into 2013 but Trust Properties are already Teddy Bears Picnic 3 buzzing with activity as we prepare for one of our biggest series of events ever Celebrating 30 years of built around and leading into our largest Heritage Festival in years. We host the Signifi cant Tree Register 6 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival’s “Put Victoria on Your Table: Cellar Door and Artisan Market” at Como House and Garden on the 2nd and 3rd March, Australia’s National Trust Heritage Festival 8 largest military living history festival is on May 4th and 5th at Barwon Park with Barwon Park Buried Treasure 12 dozens of costumed re-enactors and their vehicles and equipment representing Opportunity in a Ballroom 12 over 300 years of history camped at the property and performing spectacular live Street Art 14 arena shows, a summer of music and theatre performance continues at Rippon Lea every Sunday with Summer Sessions and with a tribute to Cole Porter beginning in Georgiana’s Journal 16 April and Jane Austin at Barwon Park on 27th and 28th April. This quarter promises The Rippon Lea Organ 18 to ensure that a repeat visit to our properties will guarantee a new experience. Summer Fun with Trust Kids! 20 Our largest upcoming event is for families, the 23rd annual Rippon Lea Teddy Bears Picnic, taking place on the 24th of February. We are very excited to What’s On? 21 announce that this years’ Teddy Bears Picnic is going to be an event with a Classifi eds 23 diff erence as we attempt to break the Guinness Record for the Worlds Largest Teddy Bears Picnic. The current record is held by Dublin Zoo and stands at a lofty 33,573 bears. We hope that you will consider bringing your children or grandchildren to an event that illustrates the Trust at its community best bringing generations of Victorians together in beautiful heritage places and not a computer or playstation in sight.

I encourage you to invite family and friends and get out, revisit and enjoy your favourite properties, there has never been a better time to do so..

Also enclosed with this issue is a petition calling for the creation of a National Aviation Museum which is included for your interest from one of our heritage partners. The merits of the proposal speak for themselves.

National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Tasma Terrace, 4 Parliment Place, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002 Telephone: 03 9656 9800 Facsimile: 03 9650 5397 Email: [email protected] www.nationaltrust.org.au/vic © Copyright, National Trust of Australia (Victoria) unless stated otherwise. To advertise in the VicNews please contact Sharron Clark Vic News | February 2013 | Page 2 on 9656 9805 or email [email protected] Teddy Bears Picnic Help Us Break the World Record for the Largest Teddy Bears Picnic

24th February 2013 Rippon Lea House and Gardens

The Trust is very excited to announce that we will be attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the Largest Teddy Bears Picnic at this years Teddy Bears Picnic on the 24th of February at Rippon Lea.

The current record stands at 33573 bears and has been held by Dublin Zoo since 1995. We think that it is time to bring that record to Australia but we need your help so whether you are a kid, mum, dad or grandparent it is time to dust oﬀ your teddy bears and bring them along to take part in this monumental record attempt.

The Guinness World Record Rules stipulate that each person attending the picnic can bring up to 20 bears each and every person who registers a bear as part of the record attempt will go in the draw to win a special build-a-bear prize.

In addition to the record attempt, the picnic will also feature the Peppa Pig and Fireman Sam Shows, a meet and greet with the Care Bears, boat rides on the lake, an animal farm and lots more.

Top: Kids and bears enjoying the entertainment at last years Teddy Bears Picnic To book your place at this historic event visit www. Bottom: Ripp Lea Bear with one lucky prize winner from last years event ripponleaestate.com.au or call 03 8663 7260.

Become an Event Voluteer: Each year the people who would like to help out at events National Trust puts on hundreds of events throughout the year to register as National throughout Melbourne and Victoria all of Trust events volunteers. To register please which are made possible by the help of email: [email protected]. our volunteers. In 2013 we are looking for

Vic News | February 2013 | Page 3

The All New Night Watch Experience

The start of 2013 has also seen the introduction of a brand new visitor experience at the Polly Woodside.

The Night Watch Experience is an exciting new evening show that takes place twice a week aboard the Polly Woodside.

Guests are taken on a mysterious guided tour aboard the Polly Woodside, where our Night Watchman regales them with his fascinating and sometimes gruesome tales of his time at sea. He also shares some well kept secrets about the elusive goings on aboard the Polly Woodside as well as what can go wrong when you break the maritime superstitions.

The Night Watch Experience runs every Wednesday and Thursday at 8.30pm. Book via www.pollywoodside.com.au or call 8663 7260

Images: The Night Watchman aboard the Polly Woodside.

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Every week throughout February we are giving you the chance to win a fantastic hamper valued at over $150 from our National Melbourne General Cemetery. Trust gift shop and entering couldn’t be easier! All you have to do to be in with the chance to win one of these great hampers is simply go to Celebrating 160 years of serving our Facebook page and like us. the community in 2013. The National Trust Facebook page is a great way to keep up to date with everything that For an exciting and educational experience, register for is happening at the Trust, including details of upcoming events, special oﬀ ers and the popular night tours of Melbourne General Cemetery. competitions, property updates and advocacy news. Saturday 23 February (Midsummer) Saturday 20 April (Full Moon) Thursday 31 October (Halloween) Scan here

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For further information visit: www.mgc.smct.org.au Bookings essential: 03 8558 8210 or [email protected]

The Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust is a not-for-proﬁt, community based organisation that cares for Brighton General, Bunurong Memorial Park, Cheltenham Memorial Park, Cheltenham Pioneer, Dandenong Community, Honouring and celebrating life Melbourne General, Springvale Botanical and St Kilda cemeteries. Vic News | February 2013 | Page 5 Celebrating 30 years of the Signiﬁ cant Tree Register

On Tuesday 27 November the National joined in 1983, and Mr John Fordham Trust celebrated 30 years of listings on joined in 1992. They have all worked the Signifi cant Tree Register of Victoria tirelessly towards improving, expanding with a tree planting ceremony in the and promoting the Register. The Governor His Excellency, the Honourable Alex Chernov Royal Botanic Gardens also commended the work of Dr Greg AC QC, Governor of Victoria, and Dr Graeme Moore who has been a member of the Blackman OAM, planting a Stone Pine (Pinus During the ceremony His Excellency the Committee since 1988 and Chair since pinea) near the Temple of the Winds. Honourable Alex Chernov AC QC, Governor March 1996. Dr Moore has appeared for of Victoria and Patron of the Trust in Victoria, the Trust at Planning Panels, at VCAT, accompanied by Dr Graeme Blackman, Chair at Heritage Council Hearings, and has of the Trust, planted a Stone Pine (Pinus presented numerous papers on behalf pinea) near the Temple of the Winds. of the Trust. He has actively worked to The Signifi cant Tree Register began as a promote the Register, and to advocate joint project between the Royal Botanic for the conservation of Victoria’s Gardens and the Trust. Since then, the signifi cant trees. Register has developed into a valuable Today the Trust remains the only source of information on many of the independent organisation to list rarest and fi nest trees in the state. signifi cant trees in this State. We aim The success of the Register is due to the to stimulate improved management, enthusiasm, hard work and commitment encourage protection and where possible of members of the Trust and the Signifi cant extend the life span of Victoria’s signifi cant Trees Committee. The Governor made trees. Many trees have received protection special mention of four members who through local planning schemes as a deserve special recognition. consequence of their classifi cation by the Trust. Mr John Hawker was appointed as project offi cer in 1982, Mr Andrew McCutcheon

The commemorative plaque

Members of the Signiﬁ cant Tree Committee joined Graeme Blackman in the celebration. Back row: John Fordham. Middle row from left to right are David Crowe, Rod Dunstan, Graeme Blackman, Greg Moore (Chair of Committee) and John Hawker. Front row: Andrew Blackman.

Vic News | February 2013 | Page 6 Vintage Collection

Another Looking for some new Vintage pieces to add Opportunity in a to your Wardrobe? Join us for our annual Vintage Clothing Sale at Como House this March and Ballroom… discover a fantastic range of vintage clothing from the 30’s through to the 70’s on sale at incredible prices.

Dates: 16th and 17th of March

Time: 10am – 4pm

Como House Ballroom

All proceeds from the sale go to the National Trust Costume Collection

Taste, Learn, Grow - Celebrating Our Apple Heritage

Rippon Lea Heritage Apple Sale joins Australia’s foremost wine writer and the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival cider guru Max Allen will be on hand in the morning to run an apple crushing workshop Rippon Lea’s important collection of and talk backyard cider making and local Heritage apple varieties will be showcased restaurant Attica will provide a specially to a new audience as part of this year’s developed apple recipe for you to try Melbourne Food and Wine Festival at at home. Rippon Lea on Saturday March 9th. The National Trust Gardens Unit have Bring your friends, kids and a picnic blanket expanded their annual apple tree sale and enjoy a great day out in the beautiful into an umbrella event for the festival that surrounds of Rippon Lea. will be a celebration of our apple heritage. Entry to the event is $5 which is redeemable As well as oﬀ ering a selection of rare apple with an apple tree purchase. Gates open trees for sale, there will be a great range at 10am. of food, specially selected ciders and wine and music from Melbourne’s leading surf WHERE: Rippon Lea, 192 Hotham St. guitar exponents ‘The Futura’s. Elsternwick. 3185

WHEN: Saturday March 9th. 10am – 4pm

Vic News | February 2013 | Page 7 National Trust Heritage Festival

Community Milestones 18 April - 19 May 2013

Working together with sponsors, National The celebration of the centenary of Canberra across the country will host the inaugural Trust Branches, community organisations this year is as much about Melbourne as National Education Forum, celebrating and government has enabled us to present it is the nation’s capital. Our great city is the heritage of education. With The a fantastic range of heritage events across signifi cant as the seat of federal government Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council and Victoria. from 1901 to 1927 and home to a fabulous Koorie Youth Centre, in Victoria we will be collection of sites by the designer of presenting Our History – Koorie Cultural Complementing the National Trust Heritage Canberra, Walter Burley Griffi n. Victoria Heritage Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Festivals is Australian Heritage Week this again showcases our diverse and fascinating This terrifi c day of panel discussions, year running from Saturday 13 April to history during April and May as part of the break-out sessions, walking tours, traditional Sunday 21 April. This national annual event nationally celebrated National Trust Heritage craft and presentations will explore the celebrates the places and stories that make Festival. cultural heritage of the Koorie community Australia and Australians special. The week through diff erent perspectives. Learn about is about raising public awareness of the The celebration of communities, their the role heritage preservation plays in importance of conserving and protecting our development, planning and milestones is history, talk about what your heritage means special heritage places, our rich Indigenous the theme of this year’s festival. We are to you and develop a way for us all to work heritage and the diverse historic sites delighted to partner with the Victorian together. This exciting youth driven and that together refl ect our development Aboriginal Heritage Council in presenting Indigenous-led event is about creating a as a nation. It is also about encouraging the festival in Victoria, affi rming our platform for us to explore Victoria’s Cultural communities and organisations to use this strong commitment to a shared heritage. heritage in the past, present and future. time to host a local heritage event or activity. Launching the festival on the ICOMOS Because talking together works. It is an opportunity for all Australians to join International Day of Monuments and Sites, Here’s a tantalizing smattering of together to celebrate our shared and special Thursday 18 April, will be the fl agship events to whet your appetitive. heritage. You can fi nd out more about national event of the Festival. All Trusts Australian Heritage Week at heritage-week. govspace.gov.au and may also like to register your event to provide additional promotion.

The Australian Government supports the National Trust Heritage festivals through funding and through the AHW website for the registration of events running during Australian Heritage Week.

Courtesy of the Bendigo Advertiser

Vic News | February 2013 | Page 8 Karori Open House and Garden

Mt Macedon

Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 April

Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 April

Karori is one of Mt Macedon’s most intact and important 19th Century hill station properties. This is a rare chance to see the interiors of Karori and its 6 acre garden including a notable collection of conifers and deciduous cool climate plants, especially from North America and New Zealand. Melbourne’s Heritage Water Richmond Historic Ramble River People Heritage Tour Infrastructure Tour O’Connell Reserve Rotunda, Richmond Café BG, Horsham (departs) Scienceworks Museum and Western (departs) Wednesday 10 April and Wednesday 15 May Treatment Plant Sunday 28 April

Join the Barengi Gadjin Land Council and Monday 29 April Take a gentle cycle ramble around the Aboriginal Corporation on a bus and walking Follow the path of Melbourne’s Victorian historic sites of the suburb of Richmond tour of Country. Starting from RAMSAR sewerage system from the Spotswood with well known local history expert Daryl wetland Lake Albacutya and following Pumping Station, past the brick aqueducts, McMahon. This is open to all types of bicycle the Wimmera Heritage River upstream, through the Western Treatment Plant particularly vintage machines and period this fabulous tour follows the steps of the and into Port Phillip Bay at the RAMSAR clothing to match is preferred. The ride will Ancestors and incorporates traditional and wetlands, South Werribee. ﬁ nish at the Farren Vintage Bicycle Collection contemporary history into the journey. in Richmond. Melton Heritage Week 2013

Melton

Thursday 18 April – Sunday 28 April

Celebrate the history and heritage of Melton with a fantastic range of events from bus tours, walks, and exhibitions to ghost tours and lunchtime forums.

Tea, Damper ‘n’ Bully Beef

Collins Settlement Historic Site Centre, Sorrento Reading 19th Century Puckle Street Heritage Walk Sunday 28 April Handwriting and tour Moonee Ponds Courthouse Museum (departs), On the 24th April 1803 the HMS Calcuta of the archives Moonee Ponds departed Portsmouth, England, bound for Victorian Archives Centre, North Melbourne Sorrento. In October that year she arrived Tuesday 30 April in what is now Sullivan Bay, Sorrento, the Friday 26 April Explore the history of vibrant Puckle Street ﬁ rst non-Indigenous settlement in the Port in Moonee Ponds. Although it has been a Are you baﬄ ed by the handwriting on 19th Phillip District established by Lt Commander well known shopping and commercial street century documents? Is that a J or an F? Stop David Collins. Enjoy an afternoon of tea and for more than 100 years, did you know tearing your hair out in frustration, come damper’n’bully beef and guided tour of the Puckle Street was once a lover’s lane? along to this PROV information session and settlement. learn how to interpret the handwriting of our forebears.

Vic News | February 2013 | Page 9 Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens 150th Celebrations

Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens, Daylesford

Saturday 11 May

In 1860 the new Borough of Daylesford wanted to create its Botanic Garden on a piece of the Wombat Hill Government Camp paddock. The hilltop was ploughed and Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, gave conifers. Enjoy a day in the gardens with shared, picnic lunch and band procession.

Lower Stony Creek – Walk to Australia’s ﬁ rst mass concrete dam wall

Stony Creek Picnic Ground, North of Anakie (departs)

Sunday 28 April

Designed by George Gordon and built by Edward Dobson, the dam forming the Lower Stony Creek reservoir, completed in 1874, is recognised as Australia’s ﬁ rst mass concrete gravity dam. See pipeline and other water system components whilst the reservoir wall provides great views of the huge concrete structure.

The Victorian Leisure Garden

Rippon Lea House and Gardens, Elsternwick

Saturday 18 May

What did they do for fun in 1900? Find out over a fun ﬁ lled day at Rippon Lea! Take part in a spot of tennis, a swing of croquet, promenade around the lake or see their fabulous archery rotunda and collection of vintage archery accoutrements.

Warrandyte Waterfront Walk

Warrandyte Bakery, Warrandyte (departs)

Wednesday 15 May

Enjoy a leisurely one and a half kilometre walk along the riverfront with local author and historian Jim Poulter, and a Wurundjeri Elder, who will explain the traditional Aboriginal land use, conservation practices and historic events of the area.

Vic News | February 2013 | Page 10 South Gippsland Heads Examined - Crime, Railway Heritage Death Masks and Phrenology

Korumburra Railway Station, Korumburra Old Melbourne Gaol, Melbourne

Sunday 28 April and Sunday 12 May Thursday 18 April – Sunday 19 May

Take a ride on a very special train from Learn about the pseudo-science of Korumburra to Leongatha. At Korumburra phrenology and the use of death masks in you can have a lemonade in the nineteenth century criminology. The Old Refreshment Room and at Leongatha go on Melbourne Gaol collection includes over 35 a walking tour with the Leongatha Historical death masks cast from executed prisoners Society. and all will be exhibited in an exhibition program including behind-the-scenes tours and ‘hands on’ phrenology lessons. Introduction to Koorie Culture

Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne

Tuesday 30 April

This tour begins at the beautiful Flagstaﬀ Gardens, an area known as Brejerrenewyn to the local Aboriginal people and a site of cultural signiﬁ cance. Be introduced to the early non-Koorie settlement history of Melbourne as well as the diversity of South-Eastern Aboriginal culture through the Koorie Heritage Trust exhibition program.

El Dorado Museum Open Day Visit Victoria’s Heritage Heritage Festival

El Dorado Museum, El Dorado Central Deborah Gold Mine, Bendigo Kurth Kiln Regional Park, Gembrook

Sunday 28 April Thursday 18 April – Sunday 19 May Sunday 14 April

Go back in time and learn how to pan for Descending to the depths of Bendigo, gold Take part in some fantastic family activities gold, write with pen and ink and spin wool fever strikes our visitors on tours 61m, 85m such as blacksmithing, sheepshearing, wood- or just watch the blacksmith and saddler and 228m underground! Learn more about chopping, spinning and see a historic play. at their task. Bendigo’s golden past at a real gold mine A mock stage coach robbery and coach rides that operated during the gold rush boom are a favourite with everyone. A Bluegrass of the 1900s as you are guided through the music band adds to the entertainment. honeycomb of hidden underground tunnels by our friendly and knowledgeable guides.

There’s nothing like Australia’s heritage exhibitions and events across Victoria come There’s so much on during April and May so join this national event celebrating our and explore our heritage and discover how across the country for you to experience. unique heritage from Ararat to Eldorado, our communities have developed Check our website or download the program Mt Macedon to McCrae. Through talks, tours, and grown. App for a full program of events.

Vic News | February 2013 | Page 11 Barwon Park Buried Treasure A ‘lost’ garden gets a new lease on life.

A long lost garden has been discovered and Laidlaw to design a planting scheme and The eclectic and unusual choice of plants given a new life after recent works at Barwon a “parterre” garden was suggested as a were all grown locally at Roraima nursery in Park, Winchelsea. Rising abruptly from the suitable theme. Traditionally, parterre Lara. Bringing the design to life was a joint Western Plains, the mansion had little formal gardens require large amounts of water eﬀ ort between Barwon Park volunteers, the garden surrounding it. So it was a great and hours of meticulous maintenance. A Trusts’ Gardens staﬀ and a group of keen surprise when the buried tiled edging of garden that could thrive without these was Garden Party volunteers who made the trek a large formal garden bed was discovered a key element of the design brief. Andrew’s from Rippon Lea and Como on December under the lawn in front of the mansion. resulting plan is very much a contemporary 6th for a day of planting. The garden will No evidence exists of what was in this bed interpretation of a parterre garden. Within grow into a real feature and focal point for or whether it was ever fully implemented, the original tiled footprint are jagged, visitors to the property and is sure to spark but it was soon excavated and reinstated asymmetrical paths and colourful blocks interest and debate regarding this adaptive and was in surprisingly good condition. of succulents, grasses and other hardy approach to Heritage Gardening. It is a With no evidence to guide the development, ornamentals. wonderful example of the old and the property manager Trudi Toyne commissioned new working in harmony to achieve a well known Landscape Architect Andrew common aim. Opportunity in a Ballroom Annual Vintage Clothing Sale

16th & 17th March 2013 Approximately 100 hats will be available, On sale will be vintage women’s bathers Gold Coin Donation including a 1960’s Mr. Individual snake skin from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s and corsetry 10am – 4 pm wide brim hat and some beautiful little from 1910 onwards. Together with Venue: Como Ballroom, velvet cocktail pieces with matching veils. accessories such as hand-bags, including Como House and Garden Master Milliner Paris Kyne will be on hand Glomesh and beaded clutch purses from the to assist you with your purchases. 20’s and 30’s, scarves, belts and underwear. The annual vintage clothing sale in support of the Trust’s Costume Collection is on again Haberdashery collectors will be in heaven. As you would expect all the volunteers on in March and this year we have something Expect to be amazed by gorgeous jars of this project are passionate about fashion very special on off er. glass beads, art nouveau buckles, endless and textiles and work tirelessly to support rolls of ribbons and braids; sewing kits, the National Trust’s important collection of The ballroom at Como House will be feathers, hand tooled French silk fl owers, historic fashion. During this two day event transformed into a department store of the large quantities of lace, mountains of Elizabeth Anya-Petrivna, curator of costume past. Imagine one rack full of vintage furs, magnifi cent crochet patterns and one at the National Trust, will be on hand with next to evening gowns designed by Beryl lucky buyer will also acquire a set of one of the Trust’s precious historic garments Jenks, Kenzo, Dior or Hardy Amies. Another glove patterns. that requires conservation – the reason ‘department’ will include seventy pairs of why we are fund raising. Elizabeth will be gloves coordinated with the millinery. discussing this piece and how conservation and research are undertaken.

Vic News | February 2013 | Page 12 Your Invitation to the National Trust Wedding Open Days

For the ﬁ rst time you will be able to see the properties set up as it would look on your special day.

Como House and Gardens Cnr Williams Rd & Lechlade Ave, South Yarra Sat 2nd Feb – 10am-12pm

Barwon Park Homestead and Gardens 105 Inverleigh Road, Winchelsea Sat 23rd Feb – 10am-12pm

Rippon Lea Estate 192 Hotham St, Elsternwick Sat 16th March – 10am-12pm

The Heights 140 Aphrasia Street, Newtown Sat 16th March – 10am-12pm

Barwon Grange Gardens 25 Fernleigh Street, Newtown Sat 23rd March – 10am-12pm

Labassa 2 Manor Grove, Caulﬁ eld North Sat 6th April – 10am-12pm The National Trust would like to invite Portarlington Mill Turner Court, Portarlington you to attend our upcoming Wedding Sat 13th April 10am-12pm Entry by gold coin donation and light Showcase Days at some of our most refreshments will be served. unique and exclusive wedding venues. Register online at www.nationaltrust.org.au/vic/weddings

www.nationaltrust.org.au/vic Street Art: ephemerality challenging the sanction of permanence

In 2010 Justin Madden, then Minister of and street poster art, video projection, art Messages scratched on walls have been part Planning in the Brumby government asked intervention, guerrilla art, fl ash mobbing of urban life for centuries, probably well Heritage Victoria to undertake a study and street installations. 1 before those found on the walls of Pompeii, assessing the heritage value of culturally which date from the 1st century AD. The ‘Graffi ti’ is defi ned locally in the Graffi ti signifi cant street art in Melbourne, as well late 20th century however saw an explosion Prevention Act (2007) as any form of writing, as identifying key street art areas. The in the amount found on walls and objects drawing, marking, scratching or otherwise Heritage Council of Victoria was to provide in public places. These ranged from graffi ti defacing property by any means so that the the advice on how Melbourne’s street art (political slogans, messages of love or hate, defacement is not readily removable by wiping can be appropriately recognised. This was and names or signatures known as tags) to with a dry cloth. Some graffi ti is legal (for in response to the deliberate destruction of street art (painted scenes, community art, example, a mural painted by street artists at British street artist Banksy’s work the ‘Little and professional artists using the style the express invitation of a council), but mostly Diver’ in Cocker Alley and the accidental and the medium to express ideas). it involves markings applied to a surface removal of another stencil work. At the time without the property owner’s consent. 2 Jane Eckett, from the School of Culture Mr Madden said “we must look at what can and Communication at the University of be done to preserve this important part of In 2004 the National Trust in Victoria Melbourne, and a member of the Trust’s our artistic and cultural heritage.” No report developed a Graffi ti Policy Statement Public Art Committee, says ‘Street art is was ever made public by the Heritage acknowledging that graffi ti on historic no longer confi ned to spray paint on walls. Council. buildings is detracting, and cleaning it from Artists have embraced a stimulating wide masonry surfaces can result in damage Defi nitions are slippery but in its broadest range of techniques, including stencils and and that graffi ti in such places be strongly sense we can say that street art is any art paste ups. One of my favourite Melbourne discouraged. However it also understood developed in public spaces. The term can street artists, who signs her work ‘Be Free’, that some forms of street art had social include traditional graffi ti artwork, as well is known for her use of collaged elements.” signifi cance and should be recorded as stencil graffi ti, sticker art, wheat pasting and protected.

1www.artrepublic.com Vic News | February 2013 | Page 14 2Graffi ti Prevention Act, Government of Victoria, 2007 In recent years shop and bar owners have legal, creative versus destructive but instead mural in Collingwood, fugitive pigments encouraged, or even commissioned graffi ti as “something intangible, something which are at particular risk in natural UV and art for their walls, albeit sometimes to try resists attempts to capture its meaning”. will quickly fade; due to the nature of to detract taggers. The City of Melbourne The problem of attempting a distinction the expression, it has proven diffi cult has for some time been actively promoting between ‘good’ street art and ‘bad’ graffi ti to prevent later street art obscuring the Melbourne’s street art, recognizing that it has been addressed by Lachlan MacDowell signifi cant examples; it may be attached contributes to Melbourne’s international in his recent book on Keith Haring: to an insignifi cant building proposed to reputation for vibrant cultural diversity and be demolished, or the owner, or a future “In both public discussion and policy appeals to local and overseas visitors. The owner of the site, may not wish the graffi ti responses a recurring distinction is made City has funded various programs including to remain. between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ graffi ti. Accordingly Graffi ti Mentoring and Adopt A Wall programs. ‘bad’ graffi ti is exemplifi ed by ‘tagging The arguments for preservation action In heritage terms, the issues around – illegible scrawls seen to have no clear include that: it may have social signifi cance transient public art are quite diff erent to meaning or aesthetic values – while ‘good’ as community expression and public means those around heritage places, buildings and graffi ti typically refers to colourful artworks of political and contemporary debate; it has objects. Eckett says: “Street art is largely with features that are recognisable to the aesthetic signifi cance; it is covered by few premised on the idea of ephemerality. I general public, such as human faces and controls and preservation of signifi cant sites think all street artists are aware that their fi gures, animals and reworked images for on the fringe of protection has traditionally creations might be painted over, or that the popular culture. While this is a convenient been the purview of the Trust. wall they’ve used may be pulled down, but distinction that equates individual Eckett says: this inherent transience is part of street art’s preferences with broader aesthetic “While it would be inappropriate to attempt appeal. The eff ort, imagination, and skill (or moral) values, in practice it is impossible to classify works, we can advocate for better deployed - usually for no fi nancial benefi t to draw clear distinctions between these documentation of street art in Victoria and, - are a sort of defi ant gesture in the face of categories. Discussions of the value of in this way, help avoid lamentable situations institutions that value and offi cially sanction Haring’s work, with its accessible styles such as the case of the Banksy stencil that was permanence and historical longevity.” and childlike images, become easily unwittingly destroyed in Prahran last May”. drawn into these kinds of oppositions.” 4 The National Trust is of course one of We now need a nuanced approach to those institutions that has sanctioned For the Trust the arguments against acknowledging culturally signifi cant places permanence through its classifi cation classifi cation and positive preservation like Hosier Lane, taking us beyond both process. Classifi cation defi nes a tangible action are that: street art is not intended judgements of “good” versus “bad” graffi ti, place or object for its historic, aesthetic to last; exposure to the elements and the and the “physically preserve at all costs” or social signifi cance: a place or object is accessible, more destructive materials ethos of traditional approaches to protection signifi cant or it is not. In 2006 Mark Halsey (from a conservation perspective) for cultural places. and Alison Young contended that graffi ti of production mean that street art “cannot be adequately described in binary has an increased timeline for decay and See more of Barney Meyer’s images at terms of good versus bad art, criminal versus deterioration; as with the Keith Haring http://barneymeyer.com

3 Mark Halsey & Alison Young, ‘Our desires are ungovernable: Image courtesy of Barney Meyer writing graﬃ ti in urban space’ Theoretical Criminology (2006) 4 Dr Lachlan MacDowell, Caterpillars & Computers: Keith Haring in Australia (2012) Vic News | February 2013 | Page 15 Georgiana’s Journals. Edited by Hugh McCrae, with a Foreword by Marguerite Hancock

Nearly eighty years on from its fi rst Mornington Peninsula where new land was publication, Georgiana’s Journal returns in a being opened up. Georgiana had already new edition which casts light on its unusual designed one house, Mayfi eld on the Yarra. history. Now, having left Mayfi eld behind, and with a still growing family – four sons and From 1934 to the present day, it has four daughters by 1851- she designed the introduced generations of readers to the modest dwelling that is now a National remarkable pioneer and painter Georgiana Trust property. McCrae whose story is inextricably linked with the McCrae Homestead on the Every house tells a story of its builders and Mornington Peninsula. Georgiana arrived those who lived in it. ‘We shape our houses in Port Phillip in 1841 to join her husband and afterwards they shape us’, said Winston Andrew McCrae who set up a law practice Churchill. For all its hardships and isolation, in a Melbourne that was more muddy than the Homestead at Arthur’s Seat helped to marvellous. defi ne the McCrae family and to establish Georgiana as its central fi gure. When Understandably, Georgiana was a reluctant she died in Melbourne in 1890, she left a migrant. She was already a mother of four: powerful legend as pioneer and painter. she had reason to doubt her husband’s She also left the journals that she had kept practical sense; and she was losing over the years and copied out in old age, the cultural world she had known as a adding comments and making corrections gifted professional painter in London as she did so. and Edinburgh. She made the best of Melbourne life and found friends among At the time of Georgiana’s death, the few who shared her interests. These her grandson Hugh McCrae , the future included Charles La Trobe and his wife poet, was thirteen years old. He was an Sophie, the Howitt family and others who imaginative child, who retained vivid images valued Georgiana’s art of portraiture. Some of Georgiana’s vitality and strength of exquisite miniatures of the La Trobe and personality. In later years, when he set out Howitt children show that, even in this to edit her journals for publication, he took small social world, her creativity could have a poet’s licence in doing so. fl ourished professionally and helped restore Today we believe that an editor’s the McCraes’ shaky fortunes. responsibility is to reproduce as faithfully Andrew McCrae, however, was a man of and precisely as possible the words that his time; he did not want his wife to paint the author wrote, down to the last comma. for money. When his law practice failed When Hugh McCrae sat down to transcribe in the hard economic times of the 1840s, his grandmother’s words, he had no such he decided to leave Melbourne for the sense of duty. He wanted to transmit a

Vic News | February 2013 | Page 16 Image of McCrae Homestead sense of her personality. He also wanted to With such mixed feelings in the family, warning, when I embarked on a biography write a book that would appeal to a 1930s Hugh McCrae felt bound to excise anything of Georgiana in the early 1990s, that I could readership. His edition of the Journals in Georgiana’s journal that would betray the not rely on Hugh McCrae’s text. Even with was timed for 1934, when Victoria was secret. Perhaps as a small compensation for that foreknowledge I was startled to see celebrating the centenary of fi rst settlement. losing a romantic story he invented phrases how much the manuscripts diff ered from For that reason, as he worked through in French which would make her sound that well-known edition. Georgiana’s pages, he chose to highlight sophisticated. She was fl uent in French I decided to ignore Hugh’s edition, to have her ordeals and achievements as a pioneer. – so why not show it? microfi lms of the manuscripts made, and Her marriage was diffi cult, but Hugh’s little There is no way of knowing exactly to work only from them. I was well aware touches made Andrew McCrae more grumpy when and how Hugh McCrae took the that readers of the Journals would wonder and unloving than he was in the original. slippery slope from deleting to rewording, why I had left out some lively incidents, or As Hugh copied, he also added and deleted. embellishing and even creating episodes why certain phrases were not the ones that Scarcely a sentence remained untouched. which have no place in his grandmother’s they remembered. So, I wrote a Preface, The perspective of a woman born in Regency story. explaining the problem. I also commented London was overlaid with that of a man within my text and in endnotes on some whose formative years were spent in late If he had not been a gifted writer, he would important discrepancies. Yet, nearly a nineteen century Melbourne. not have been so tempted to fi nd a better decade after my biography appeared, in word or make a better story. At any rate, In one way, Hugh McCrae had a free hand. 1994, Hugh McCrae’s inventions were still he succeeded in creating a much loved But in another way he was constrained taken at face value and quoted by reputable text which in conjunction with the McCrae by a family secret. It was known within scholars, such as Tim Flannery, in The Birth Homestead, took on a life of its own. the family, and the subject of gossip in of Melbourne (2002). early Melbourne, that Georgiana was the So the years passed. An embarrassing Clearly, Hugh McCrae’s text would not illegitimate daughter of the fi fth Duke of number of distinguished historians quoted go away. The decision to reprint it, with Gordon. In Scotland, where she had spent the Journals, believing they had a primary Marguerite Hancock’s preface to explain some years in the aff ectionate care of her source on such moments as Separation Day its provenance and describe some of its grandfather, the fourth Duke, this was less in 1850, when Port Phillip, formerly a district vagaries, seems right. Readers of the new of a problem than in the little provincial of New South Wales, became the State edition will know that the engaging story society of Melbourne where everyone was of Victoria. A hint of a romance between of Georgiana McCrae has been re-imagined anxious about respectability. Georgiana’s Georgiana and Governor La Trobe – which by her exuberant poet-grandson; they must descendants grew up with pride in her was entirely Hugh McCrae’s invention- enjoy it for what it is, and be well aware of aristocratic Gordon forbears, but they entered the popular imagination. what it is not. knew the social stigma of illegitimate birth. Not until 1985, it appears, did anyone take a Some even cherished the hope of a ‘missing Dr Brenda Niall is the author of Georgiana: close look at the manuscripts. Dr Marguerite marriage certifi cate’ which would prove their a Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Hancock was the fi rst to realise how far Hugh title to the Dukedom. Diarist, Pioneer. Miegunyah Press 1994. McCrae had departed from Georgiana’s handwritten pages. I owe Marguerite the

Vic News | February 2013 | Page 17 The Rippon Lea Organ John Maidment OAM

Rippon Lea featured a large pipe organ in It 1882 F.T Sargoods thoughts were on a fl anking the two halves, in which a mirror the closing years of the 19th century, fi rst new and larger organ for Rippon Lea and at was inserted. Here it was used in public installed in the dining room and later in the this time he commissioned, from Conacher, concerts and performed upon by notable Victorian-period ballroom adjoining the a three-manual organ of 19 stops. This organists such as H.J. Inge and Dr George mansion. This Rippon Lea organ is was initially placed at the western end of Torrance, in 1892, and Mr Davies in 1893. now located in Adelaide. the dining room and had a most unusual There were frequent ‘open days’ at the layout. The organ was split into two halves, property and the organ was well featured Frederick Thomas Sargood was born in with the console placed between. This on such occasions. It is not known whether London in 1834 and arrived in Melbourne involved a very complicated mechanical Sargood played the organ himself, but it is with his parents in 1850. He joined the action that extended down into a basement likely that one or more of his children were family fi rm of Sargood, King & Co, softgoods area beneath the organ. The casework competent performers. merchants, at a young age and quickly made was elaborately carved in walnut, and the his mark, the fi rm prospering in the period After Sir Frederick Sargood’s death in 1903, façade pipes intricately stencilled in gold after the gold rushes. He became a member by which time he was a Senator and Minister and green. The pipework incorporated some of parliament and in 1868 had begun for Defence in the fi rst federal parliament, exotic stops including a Violin and a Flute a building the fi rst part of the mansion the organ was sold. It was acquired by Chiminee. When the organ was installed in Rippon Lea, in Elsternwick, sited in the Methodist Church in Semaphore, a the dining room, the two halves of the organ expansive grounds with an impressive beachside suburb of Adelaide. Being fl anked a west-facing window. garden and lake. an organ of exceptional quality, it has It was not unusual to install a pipe organ survived almost completely intact and is Frederick Thomas’s father Frederick in a house in the 19th century and there an outstanding example of a domestic pipe James Sargood (who was also a member were many fi ne examples to be seen around organ built in the late 19th century. Some of parliament) was associated with the Melbourne. Peter Davis commissioned an of the sounds the instrument produces, Congregational denomination and was organ from Hill & Son, London for his home particularly the quieter fl ute and string present at the laying of the foundation in Dandenong Road, Prahran (now at St ranks, are absolutely enchanting. stone of the Independent Church, Malvern Peter’s Lutheran Church, Stawell); William Road, Prahran (now Chapel off Chapel arts If at any stage in the future, the instrument Philpott commissioned a very large organ complex) on 21 November 1858. This is disposed of, it would be a marvellous from J.W. Walker, London, for his mansion church acquired in early 1863 what was thought that it could return to Rippon Lea, Rose Hill in Toorak (now at St Stephen’s then the largest organ in Victoria at the time although special provision would need to be Church, Richmond); The Hon Henry Miller – an instrument built in Bradford, England made for its housing as the Victorian-period had an organ built by Henry Willis, London by Frederick W. Nicholson. It is understood ballroom was demolished in the 1930s. for his mansion Findon, at Kew (now at that F.J. Sargood, who was by then back There is not a single domestic pipe organ Wesley Church, Box Hill; and The Hon resident in England, was involved with its in Australia built in the 19th century that William Winter Irving had an organ by commissioning. remains in its original home, so this would the Casson Patent Organ Company, London greatly enhance the signifi cance of what is There is evidence of a pipe organ being built for his mansion Noorilim, in Armadale already an outstanding organ. present at Rippon Lea during the 1870s, (now at Christ Church, Hamilton). as it was worked upon in 1873 by Robert John Maidment is Chairman of the Organ The Conacher organ was moved into the Mackenzie, who had arrived in Melbourne Historical Trust of Australia www.ohta.org. ballroom at Rippon Lea in the early 1890s in late-1871 to install the Melbourne Town au and Secretary of the National Trust of where it was placed in an alcove, and a Hall organ. Australia (Victoria) Pipe Organ Committee. wooden superstructure was constructed

Organ at Semaphore Uniting Church Organ at Rippon Lea in the 1880’s

Vic News | February 2013 | Page 18

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Metro Events - Weekly Events Open House at La Trobe’s Cottage every Sunday February 17th – Tents to Terraces: Guided Walk @ Enjoy a guided tour of Melbourne’s oldest building, the Portable Iron Houses Night Watch Experience home of the our fi rst Governor and View furniture and Join us for a walk back in time at the Portable Iron – every Wednesday and Thursday other items that belonged to the La Trobe family. See the Houses. You will hear about the orphanages in the area, garden with plants chosen by La Trobe in the 1840s the growth of schools, churches, community services and Do you dare come aboard for the Night Watch? and 1850s. about the infl uence of the local Chinese community of Your host for the evening will be our able seaman who Time: 2pm – 4pm the time. is on duty for the night watch. Come on a guided tour Prices: Time: 1.45 – 4.00pm aboard the ship and learn his gruesome tales of his time Prices: at sea and the many stories of unsolved mysteries and Adult: $5 superstition about ships and the sea. Child/Concession: $3 Adult $20 Time: 8.30pm - 9.30pm (during daylight savings) Family: $10 Concession $18 Price: NT Members: Free NT Members: $15 Adult $38, Booking not required Child $10 Concession $33, Bookings Essential. To book call Pauline Reid on 9645 7517 or 9699 2172 or email [email protected]. National Trust members receive a 20% discount. February Bookings close Thursday 14 February, 2013 Book online @ www.pollywoodside.com.au/the_ February 3rd - Pirate Sunday @ Polly Woodside night_watch or call 8663 7260 Arrrhg!!! Come and join us for Polly Woodside Pirate day on the fi rst Sunday of every month! Dress as a pirate and February 17th - Open Day @ Labassa come help us search for hidden treasure, play tug of war Labassa welcomes you to visit during their monthly Such As Life @ Old Melbourne Gaol every and have your face painted! Open Day! Tours of the house are included in entry, with Wednesday and Saturday Time: 10am – 4pm tours of the running at 11am and 2pm. There is also This free live performance explores Ned Kelly’s life and an external tour at which runs at 12.30pm. Tea rooms Price: Free with normal admission legend, in the very place where the iron outlaw drew his operate throughout the day last breath in 1880. Bookings not required Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm Times: 12.30pm and 2pm. Prices: Price: Free with normal admission. February 1st - 22nd - A Natural Curiosity Adult $8 Bookings not required Exhibition @ Tasma Gallery Concession/Child $5.50 A Natural Curiosity is an exhibition of common-place Family $20 crafts, crazes, and collectables drawn from the National Story Time @ Polly Woodside every Thursday NT Members: FREE Trust Collections and tells the story of the 19th century Fun and Interactive storytelling with a wide range of fascination and wonder at the Natural World. Bookings not required stories, songs and activities. Stories are read on the Times: 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday deck or in inclement weather down below. Price: Free Time: 11am February 24th - Teddy Bears Picnic at Ripponlea Bookings not required. Free with normal admission. Join us for this years’ very special Teddy Bears Picnic Bookings not required where we will be attempting to beat the Guinness World Record for the Largest Teddy Bears. Guests are February 2nd – Wedding Open Day @ Como encouraged to bring up to 20 of their favourite bears. Summer Sessions @ Rippon Lea every Sunday Join us for a special wedding showcase day at Como Time: House and Gardens and experience the property as it (until the 31st of March) Prices : would look on your special day Every Sunday through to until the end of March, Rippon Adult: $15 Lea House and Gardens will be holding their Summer Times: 10am – 12pm Concession: $12 Sessions. Come and relax on the Cedar Lawn, listen to Price: Gold Coin Donation Child: $9 the band play and let us entertain the kids. Have a picnic, Book online at www.nationaltrust.org.au/vic/weddings wander through the grounds or take a tour through the Family:$35 mansion. NT Members: Free Times: 10am – 5pm February 5th – Antiques Roadshow Luncheon Prices: with Paul Atterbury Adult $15 Join the Friends of Labassa and special guest Paul Concession $12 Atterbury for a special fundraising Luncheon in the historic Labassa dining room. Guests are encouraged Child $9 to bring along a special piece from your own collection Family $35 for valuation by Mr Atterbury during the event. NT Members: Free Price: $50 Bookings not required To book your seat please call 03 9509 6596 or email [email protected]

Vic News | February 2013 | Page 21 February 24th – Return to Labassa @ Labassa March 17th - Open Day @ Labassa Please see your enclosed Heritage SEEKING former residents, owners and their descendants, Labassa welcomes you to visit during their monthly Festival Program for a full list of and others with a special connection to the National Open Day! Tours of the house are included in entry, Heritage Festival Events Trust property Labassa (formerly known as Sylliott Hill with tours of the running at 11am and 2pm. There is and Ontario) to attend an exclusive “Return to Labassa”. also an external tour at which runs at 12.30pm. Tea Meet friends and former residents; view progress with rooms operate throughout the day Regional Events conservation work; help with the search for Labassa’s Prices: lost artefacts, and contribute to the production of a February 23rd - Wedding Open Day @ Barwon Park social history of the Estate. Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm Join us for a special wedding showcase day at Barwon Price: Adult $8 Free Park and experience the property as it would look on Concession/Child $5.50 Registration and RSVP essential. your special day. Contact: [email protected] Family $20 Times: 10am – 12pm or call 03-95446859 for more information. NT Members: Free Please alert anyone you know who has been, Price: Gold Coin Donation or whose family has been part of the social March 24th - Laneways and Byways @ Portable Book online at www.nationaltrust.org.au/vic/weddings history of Labassa. Iron Houses March 23rd - Wedding Open Day @ Barwon Grange South Melbourne is fortunate to have retained an extensive network of lanes where you will discover Join us for a special wedding showcase day at Barwon March hidden treasures and learn a little about the harsh Grange and experience the property as it would look on realities of life for the 19th century migrants. So come your special day. March 3rd - Pirate Sunday @ Polly Woodside and explore the bluestone lanes of South Melbourne Times: 10am – 12pm on a guided walk and discover their secrets. Arrrhg!!! Come and join us for Polly Woodside Pirate day Price: Gold Coin Donation on the fi rst Sunday of every month! Dress as a pirate and Time: 1.45pm – 4pm come help us search for hidden treasure, play tug of war Book online at www.nationaltrust.org.au/vic/weddings Prices: and have your face painted! Adult $20 April 13th - Wedding Open Day@ Portarlington Time: 10am – 4pm Concession $18 Mill Price: Free with normal admission NT Members: $15 Join us for a special wedding showcase day at Portarlington Mill and experience the property Child $10 as it would look on your special day. March 2nd & 3rd Melbourne Food & Wine Festival Bookings Essential. To book call Pauline Reid on Times: 10am – 12pm - Cellar Door & Farm Gate @ Como 9645 7517 or 9699 2172 or email pih@nattrust. This Melbourne Food and Wine event Put Victoria on com.au. Bookings close Thursday 14 February, 2013 Price: Gold Coin Donation your Table is part of the Festival’s opening weekend Book online at www.nationaltrust.org.au/vic/weddings and showcases the best local wine. March 31st – Easter Fun Day @ Rippon Lea House Visit www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au/festival and Gardens April 16th - Wedding Open Day @ The Heights for more information Held on Easter Sunday, 31st March 2013, the event Join us for a special wedding showcase day at The off ers families a wonderful opportunity to spend a Heights and experience the property as it would look day together in Rippon Lea’s magnifi cent house and on your special day. March 9th - Apple Sales Day @ Rippon Lea gardens. There will be boat rides and outdoor games, Times: 10am – 12pm and the Mansion will be opened for all to explore. Rippon Lea’s important collection of Heritage apple Children from 2 to 12 will be able to join in a special Price: Gold Coin Donation varieties will be showcased to a new audience as part Easter Egg Hunt that will lead them into every corner Book online at www.nationaltrust.org.au/vic/weddings of this year’s Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. of the garden. Bring your friends, kids and a picnic blanket and This year’s hunt will involve fi nding and collecting a April 17th – Farewell Dear People @ McCrae enjoy a great day out in the beautiful surrounds complete set of cut-out Easter eggs, which the children Homestead of Rippon Lea. will return to Easter Fun Day HQ, and be rewarded with Enjoy an evening at McCrae Homestead with a talk by Times: 10am - 4pm a prize of scrumptious real chocolate eggs. Author Ross McMullin. Ross will introduce us to the 10 Price: $5 which is redeemable with an apple tree The Easter Bunny and our very own Ripplea Bear soldiers from War World 1 that inspired him to write purchase. will both make appearances during the day. this wonderful book. Light supper afterwards. Prices: Time: 6.30pm – 9pm Adult: $15 Prices: March 16th – Wedding Open Day @ Rippon Lea Concession: $12 Adult: $20 House and Gardens Child: $9 Concession/Member: $18 Join us for a special wedding showcase day at Rippon Family:$35 To book call 59812866 or Lea and experience the property as it would look on email [email protected] your special day NT Members: Free Please see your enclosed Heritage Festival Program Heritage Fine Chocolates are once again coming on- Price: Gold Coin Donation for a full list of Heritage Festival Events board as a valued sponsor, generously donating the Book online at www.nationaltrust.org.au/vic/weddings eggs for our Easter Egg Hunt Branch Events

March 16th and 17th - Vintage Clothing Sale @ April Ballarat Branch of the National Trust Como House and Gardens President- Dianne Gow, Secretary- Evelyn Ebbs Join us for our Annual Vintage Clothing Sale at Como April 7th - Pirate Sunday @ Polly Woodside House. This years’ sale looks set to be even bigger and Arrrhg!!! Come and join us for Polly Woodside Pirate Ballarat Branch of the National Trust meets on the better the last with hundreds of beautiful Vintage day on the ﬁ rst Sunday of every month! Dress as a ﬁ rst Tuesday of every month at Seymours Hotel on pieces on sale at competitive prices. pirate and come help us search for hidden treasure, the corner of Lydiard and Seymour streets. Meeting are informal and start at 5.30, all are welcome. Should Price: Free play tug of war and have your face painted! you need more information contact the secretary on Time: 10am – 4pm 5332 8223. Price: Free with Normal Admission

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Vic News | February 2013 | Page 23 Laugh, Learn and Discover with the National Trust

The Polly Woodside, a 19th century tall ship, takes you on a journey into Australia’s rich maritime history. Enjoy a guided tour and the new hands-on gallery.

2A Clarendon Street, South Wharf | Ph: 03 9699 9760 Open: Thurs – Sun 10am – 4pm. Daily during school holidays & for group tours. (Closed Good Friday) pollywoodside.com.au Please check website for Autumn opening times.

Discover the Old Melbourne Gaol by day or night and share the experiences of some of Australia’s most infamous prisoners.

377 Russell Street, Melbourne | Ph: 03 8663 7228 (between Victoria & La Trobe Streets) oldmelbournegaol.com.au Open: Daily 9.30 – 5pm (Closed Good Friday)

Discover Australia’s last grand suburban estate. View the stunning 19th century mansion, relax by the lake & stroll through the sweeping lawns, the heritage orchard and lush fernery. Only 20 minutes from Melbourne CBD.

192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick | Ph: 03 9523 6095 Open: September to April: Daily 10am – 5pm (Closed Good ripponleaestate.com.au Friday). May to August: Thursday – Sunday 10am – 4pm