Browse Items (173 total)

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  1 Rainsford Street,
  (former Police Paddocks area),
  Werribee

  Edwardian timber house with gabled-hip roof.

  Tags buildings, Carter family, closer settlement, has:placeholder, houses, Police paddock
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  A. Comben & Co,
  Station Street,
  Werribee.

  East side of Station Street, three doors north of Denys on the corner of Watton and Station Streets, Werribee.

  Aub Comben's first shop, it later became Joe King's fruit shop. The original Comben's store was started by Shadrach Comben, father of Alfred Comben and Bill Comben, in 1897.

  Tags buildings, fruiterers, shopkeepers, shops
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  Albert and Alfred Leakes houses (site),
  Leakes Road,
  Truganina

  Site of the houses (no longer standing) is visible from Leakes Road and consists of one or more mounds of rubble along with plantings of sugar gums.

  Tags buildings, farmer, farms, has:placeholder, houses, Skeleton Creek
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  Army Stables,
  Dohertys Road,
  Tarneit

  Tags buildings, farms, munitions depot, stables
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  Bailey Houses,
  249-252 Cunninghams Road,
  Werribee South

  Small cluster of houses on either side of Cunninghams Road.

  Tags Bailey family, buildings, closer settlement, has:placeholder, houses, Werribee South
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  Ball House,
  Little River Road,
  Little River

  Bluestone complex of buildings in a ruined state close to the railway line to the east of the Little River township.

  Tags buildings, early settlers, houses, ruins
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  Bambra Park,
  2 Dukelows Road,
  Tarneit

  Weatherboard house with double hipped roof and a number of extensions.

  Tags buildings, graziers, has:placeholder, houses
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  Baptist Church, Truganina.

  The Church was built in 1862 of corrugated iron. 

  It was purchased by the Presbyterian Church in 1907 and still in use in 1962. 

  The Church was burnt down in the fires of 1969.

  Tags buildings, churches, fire
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  Beamish Family Home,
  Corner of Synnot Street and Pine Avenue,
  Werribee.

  The Beamish Home in Synnot Street was built in 1884.
  
  This photograph was taken in the 1920s.
  
  Became Wandeen Private Hospital in the 1940s and a Boarding house in the 1970-80s.
  
  This is the site where McDonalds was built after the home was demolished.

  Tags Beamish family, boarding house, buildings, fast food restaurants, hospitals, houses
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  Beamish Home,
  23 Duncans Road,
  Werribee.

  Anastasia Beamish's home in 23 Duncans Road, Werribee. The house was later owned by the Windsor family. It was demolished in 1982.

  This house was given to Anastasia Beamish (then a widow) by her two sons, John Beamish, born in Werribee 1860, and Francis Thomas Beamish born in Werribee 23 December 1865, as a token of love and gratitude for lending them money to help buy their properties in Werribee. 
  
  Anastasia arrived in Werribee with her parents, Abraham and Margaret Beamish, in 1852 on a sailing ship The Fanny.
  
  Anastasia was born at Bantry, County Cork, Ireland, 1839, died Werribee 6 August 1930.  Abraham was born at Skebbereen, County Cork, Ireland, 1831, died in Werribee 24 July 1900.  Abraham died Werribee 11 July 1861.  Margaret died Werribee 28 December 1881.  
  All are buried in the Werribee Cemetery.

  Tags Beamish family, buildings, cemeteries, houses