Gill Collection
- The
- Leasowes
The homestead on “The Leasowes”, an old property east of Lysterfield Road. The property was established in 1867 by Edward Charsely who developed it along the lines of an English estate.
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- Leo Gill
Leo Gill with a punnet of strawberries at the strawberry farm at the south-east corner of Ferntree Gully and Stud Roads in the 1930s. Comments (0)
- Violet Gill
Violet Gill (nee McIntyre) on the land leased by her father Don McIntyre from Wish Drummond. This land is now the site of the Stamford Hotel. Comments (0)
- Gill wedding photo
Wedding of Reg Gill of Rowville and Winifred Bailey of Lysterfield. From left: Leo Gill, Reg Gill, Winifred Gill (nee Bailey), Molly Tegart (nee Gill), Herbert Bailey, Evelyn Greenland (nee Bailey). Comments (0)
- Truck loaded with cabbages
The kind of truck that was used in the 1930s to take the produce from the market gardens in Rowville to the Victoria Market. This truck was owned by a friend of Don McIntyre. Comments (0)
- Leo Gill in his jinker
Leo Gill on the Gill property “Somerset” in Wellington Road in the 1930s. Comments (1)
- Swagman
“Old Father Time” Comments (0)
- House rented by Violet McIntryre’s parents
In the 1990s this property located south of Wellington Road and immediately east of Dandenong Creek was named “Billabong” and was leased by the Meurs family. Comments (0)
- Mulgrave School photo – 1919
Mulgrave school pupils in 1919. Leo Gill is the one wearing the white jacket in the front row. He is kneeling beside the boy with the small blackboard. Comments (0)
- Mulgrave School photo – 1927
There was no school in Rowville until 1973 so the Rowville children had to go to Mulgrave, Scoresby or Lysterfield State School. Comments (0)
- Harvesting with Horses
Harvesting the wheat on the Gill farm. Comments (0)
- Elaine Gill with umbrella
Taken at the family farm in Wellington Road. Comments (0)
- Gill sisters
Nellie and Molly Gill with Cyril Long. Comments (0)
- Nellie Gill
Nellie at her unit at the Old Pioneers Retirement Village in Berwick in 1995. Comments (0)
- Leo Gill with his son Don
Don is in his Dandenong High School uniform. Comments (1)
- Gwenda Gill
On her parents’ leased property to the north of Wellington Road. Comments (0)
- Leo and Violet Gill with their son Don.
Taken at the family home in Wellington Road Comments (0)
- Gwenda and Don Gill
They are wearing their Dandenong High School uniforms. Comments (0)
- Elaine Gill
Feeding the fowls at the family farm in Wellington Road, Rowville. Comments (0)
- Gill farm
Feeding time. Comments (0)
- Gwenda Gill’s wedding photo
Gwenda’s father Leo is on her left. Comments (0)
- Gill family
Violet Gill at her home in Eaglehawk with her two children Don and Gwenda in 1994. Comments (0)
- Leo Gill
Cutting grass hay in the 1960s. Comments (0)
- Don Gill (right) in inner-tube at Heany Park Lake
The children are in the pool built at the edge of the lake with funds raised at swimming carnival days. Comments (0)
- Don McIntyre on top of heavily loaded truck
The truck was loaded with market garden produce to be taken to the Victoria Market in the 1930s. Comments (0)
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