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St Andrew's Church

Tags bluestones, churches, has:placeholder, St. Andrew's Catholic Church, tug-o-war

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Cobbledick House (ruin),
Cobbledicks Ford Road,
Wyndham Vale.

Ruin of a house located on land originally occupied and acquired from the Crown by Simon Staughton.

Tags bluestones, buildings, Cobbledicks Ford, has:placeholder, houses

Hegarty's house,
Ballan Road (SE corner Edgar Street),
Werribee

Large bluestone house on the Ballan Road entry to Werribee.

Tags bluestones, buildings, has:placeholder, Hegarty family, houses, Scott family

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Leakes Dairy (Rosegrange),
Sayers Road,
Truganina

The site of a dairy and house

Tags bluestones, buildings, dairies, has:placeholder, Leake family

Henry Robinson house,
Palmers Road,
Truganina

A building (presumed to be a house) constructed of random coursed bluestone.

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Robertson farm complex,
Dohertys Road,
Truganina

A site located east of Hopkins Road enclosed by a drystone wall. The remains of bluestone house.

Tags bluestones, buildings, drystone walls, farms, fire, has:placeholder, houses

Missen House (site),
Dohertys Road,
Truganina

A small bluestone building constructed of bluestone blocks.

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Cobbledicks Ford and Reserve,
Cobbledicks Ford Road,
Tarneit

Cobbledicks Ford crossing the Werribee River at Tarneit, paved in cut bluestone pavers.

Tags bluestones, Cobbledicks Ford, farms, fords, has:placeholder, Werribee River

St Andrew's Roman Catholic Church, Hall and School,
105 Greaves Street,
Werribee

A church complex comprising a bluestone church, a later brick church, school and convent (pictured).

Tags bluestones, buildings, churches, convents, priests, schools

Crossroads Uniting Church and Manse,
Synnot Street,
corner of Duncans Road,
Werribee

A church complex comprising a church, a manse, a church hall and grounds. Building is constructed of bluestone with Barrabool sandstone used for quoins and detailing.

Tags bluestones, buildings, churches, has:placeholder, National Trust, sandstone

Graveyard at Werribee Golf Course

Locally mined bluestone forms a wall around a small graveyard on the Werribee Golf Course.

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Bungies hole, Werribee River

The Angling Club building. The bluestone blocks were retrieved from a bluestone house on the Board of Works farm.

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The first railway bridge over Werribee River at Werribee

The original railway bridge was an iron lattice construction across the Werribee River. It had a walking path about one meter below the bridge.

Children used to stand on the path to look up and watch the underside of the steam trains go past. It was removed seemingly overnight, and new modern bridge added.

The original blue stone piers are still standing beside todays railway bridge.

Tags bluestones, bridges, Werribee River

Cobbledicks Ford

Mrs Stevenson fishing at Cobbledicks Ford Recreational Area in 1962. Mrs Stevenson lived in a bluestone house at top of Cottrell Street Ford. The bluestone house has since been demolished and replaced by units.

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Cobbledicks Ford - recreational fishing

Cobbledicks Ford is a very popular recreational fishing point. This photo shows a higher than normal water level after water has been released from Melton Reservoir to fill the Werrribee Weir.

Water remains at this level for about two hours after the release of water from the reservoir. The depth of the water is usually about two feet.

The damage to the original bluestone crossing built in 1852 can be seen with complete stones showing to the left, and bitumen to the right.

Tags bluestones, Cobbledicks Ford, fishing, fords, Melton Reservoir, weirs

Point Cook Homestead,
Point Cook Homestead Road,
Point Cook

A homestead and associated buildings set within an evocative coastal landscape comprising a single storey bluestone building and nearby bluestone stables.

Tags bluestones, buildings, has:placeholder, houses, Point Cook, salt works

Cobbledicks Ford from the air 2000ft

This photo depicts the Cobbledicks Ford crossing of the Werribee River. The name Cobbledicks Ford comes from the Cobbledicks Family who were tenant farmers for the Staughton Family who owned the Eynesbury Homestead.

This crossing built from local bluestone was laid down in 1852, the same time that the crossing below the Chirnside Estate (now Werribee Park) was also installed. The crossing at Werribee Park is still totally intact. The crossing at Cobbledicks Ford has been damaged by trucks and other road traffic.

The remains of the Cobbledicks family home located at the top of the hill are still there for all to see.