The Forests of Warburton - a Pictorial Heritage - 1853 to 2012

1920 - From the Bush to the Bungalow

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1853 - Beginnings
1885 to present day - Dee Valley Mills
1889 to 1919 - Mills in the Wesburn and Old Warburton area
1890 - Roads to the Forests
1901 to 1964 - The Warburton Railway
1902 to 1906 - Anderson's Mill
1902 to 1939 - East Warburton and Onwards
1903 to 1907- Robinson's Mill No. 1
1905 to 1949 - Tramways of the Mills
1905 to 1928 - Parbury's Brookfield Mill
1906 - Wondwondah Estate and the Adventist Church
1907 to 1913 - Richards Mill
1907 to 1922 - Robinson's Mill No. 1
1908 to 1922 - Robinson's No 2 Mill (Cement Creek)
1909 to 1916 - Hermon's Mill (La La Estate)
1909 to 1949 - The Warburton Steam Railway
1911 to 1915 -The O'Shannassy Aqueduct and Weir
1915 to 1973 - Brimbonga Seasoning Works - East Warburton
1918 to 1925 - Sunnydale Mill, East Warburton
1919 to 1920 - Slocum and Walker's Mill
1920 - From the Bush to the Bungalow
1922 to 1932 - Enterprise Mill (La La)
1925 - Family Snow Trip to Mt Donna Buang
1932 to 1937 - Horner's Mill
1938 to 2000 - Tuckman's Mills
1950 - Welcome Back to Warburton
The Donna Buang Range
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1889 - New selector's bush home, Warburton

"From the Bush to the Bungalow"

This is the title of a high quality15 minute silent movie documentary about the Victorian sawmilling industry, made in 1920, and shot in the Warburton district. 

It comprises four clips.

One of the clips is "The Mill Township". In the opening shot the camera pans across the township, showing wooden cottages and huts with smoking chimneys.
More intertitles follow, 'The bachelors have separate quarters’, 'A strong characteristic of the mountain mill towns is the copious supply of excellent water’ and 'The healthy appetites of the mill workers is provided for at the boarding house which receives its supplies per the timber railway’.

The clip includes shots of a cottage with a picket fence, the bachelors’ quarters, the township’s freshwater source, and supplies being delivered to the boarding house.
 
The clip may be viewed by clicking the embedded player (above)

The other three clips are titled:

"Chopping down a tree"

"Timber carted to the mill"

"Log treated at the mill"
 
The four clips, with the Curator's comments, may be viewed or downloaded individually (free) from the Australian National Sound and Screen Website
 
Below are some stills from the film.

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1920 - big timber

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1920 - stacking timber

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1920 - 1 HP

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1875 - Warburton, early settler house

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1900 - Warburton area, boy and cart , near a bridge

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1908 - colored greeting card of Warby

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1940 - Warby main street

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1930 - View of Warby

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1942 -Warby main street

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1940 - Warby main street

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