Hunting day at Bacchus Marsh, 1950
Hunting day at Bacchus Marsh, 1950
Bacchus Marsh, midway between Melbourne and Ballarat, flourished in the 1850s, after the discovery of gold, but grew more quickly once the rail link between Melbourne and Ballarat opened in the late 1880s. An ambitious irrigation scheme laid the basis for dairying, market gardening and orchards. Its most notable feature is an Avenue of Honour, 281 trees on the western highway approach, planted after World War I. Bypassed in 1972, the Avenue remains an elegant entry to the city centre.
Hunting day at Bacchus Marsh, 1950
Railway Station, Bacchus Marsh
Bringing in the lucerne, Bacchus Marsh, 1954
Federal Milk Company's factory, Bacchus Marsh, 1919
Country street, Bacchus Marsh, 1954
Mr W.S. Richardson's dairy herd, Bacchus Marsh, 1937
Presbyterian Church, Pentland Hills, 1954
Railway station Bacchus Marsh, 2010
In the public gardens, Bacchus Marsh, 1918
ANA building, Bacchus Marsh, 2010
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