Members of the Van Berkel family outside a weatherboard house, Ballarat, Victoria, ca. 1890, via The Biggest Family Album in Australia, Museums Victoria Collections.
Category: Australian/New Zealand gardens
Balmoral, Victoria
“Two children on a seesaw,” Balmoral area, Victoria, ca. 1925, from The Biggest Family Album in Australia Collection, via Museums Victoria Collections (under CC license).
This is a small circus. I love the bench in the back bending under the weight of the plants.
(You can enlarge the image by clicking on it.)
Boys, dogs, and a squash
“Boys with prize marrow and dogs,” Swan Hill, Victoria, 1923, by Kate Bradbury, via The Biggest Family Album in Australia, Museums Victoria Collections.
The boys are Gordon and Colin Bradbury.
The sprinkler
Dorothy and Shirley Hick playing with a sprinkler in their back garden, Northcote, Melbourne, Australia, 1949, by Emily Hick, via Museums Victoria Collections (under CC license).
The photo was archived as part of Melbourne’s Biggest Family Album in 2006.
Dorothy remembers on hot days they would put the sprinkler on and play, as there were no swimming pools. They wore “horrible knitted woollen bathers, they soaked up the water and got heavy and baggy.” The ladder against the tree was to pick apricots “which were so ripe and juicy the juice would run down your chin.”
— Museums Victoria online catalogue
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Ferntree Gully
A forester’s cottage, Ferntree Gully, Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia, ca. 1900, a glass lantern slide by Archibald James Campbell, via Museums Victoria Collections.
I like the two log pillars at the bottom of the steps, each topped by a potted plant.
During the 19th century, the forests of the Dandenong mountains were a major source of timber for Melbourne.
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