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Weatherboard house,
Synnot Street,
Werribee.

This house was located between Methodist Church on left and Parsonage on right.

Currently Officeworks (2014) is on this site. Previously Spotlight occupied this site.

The site was previously occupied by H.W. Radford, and later owned by Mr. McKinnon.

Tags buildings, houses, Synnot Street Werribee

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Weatherboard house,
Synnot Street,
Werribee.

The house was situated opposite the present Anglican Church, Werribee and built around the 1850s. Mrs J. Maher owned and occupied this house.

Mrs J. Maher was born in 1836 and died in 1906.

Tags buildings, houses, Maher family

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Weatherboard house,
Synnot Street,
Werribee.

Photograph of weatherboard cottage located at 4 Synnot Street, Werribee taken about 1895.
Pictured are Mrs. J. Maher and her son T. M. Maher.

In 1988 it was 4 Synnot Street Werribee and was called 'The Cottage'.

Tags buildings, houses, Maher family, Synnot Street Werribee

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Blacker's two storey house,
Farm Road,
Werribee

A two storey house located on Farm Road, Werribee occupied by the Blacker family, then Facey family.

It was taken over by the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works and occupied by R. Larkin and others.

Tags Blacker family, buildings, Facey family, houses

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Soldier settler's house,
Werribee South.

Soldier settler's house, corner of Crawfords and Robbs Roads, Werribee South.

Tags houses, soldier settlement, Werribee South

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Sitting Room,
Beamish House,
23 Duncans Road,
Werribee.

Anastasia Beamish's sitting room.

Tags Beamish family, Beamish House, houses

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Rowe Family Home,
Rowe's Road off Ballan Road,
Werribee.

Rowe family home located in Rowe's Road, Werribee.

Tags buildings, houses, Rowe family

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Pre-fab concrete house,
Duncans Road,
Werribee South.

Near Whites Road, this home on Duncans Road was built by Tom Fowler who pioneered pre-fab concrete construction which was later used by Housing Commission to construct two storey homes at Port Melbourne. His house was built of concrete slabs in 1930.

Tom was an engineer who migrated to Australia in the early 1920s and operated a dairy farm at the above location. He also began the Working Men's College in Werribee; it was not successful.

Tags buildings, concrete, houses