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

1905 to 1928 - Parbury's Brookfield Mill

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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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Epilogue
Bibliography
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Site of Parbury's Mill

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1922 - Parbury's Mill

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Bridge over Aqueduct, Brookfield Mill (author's pic July 2012)

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1905 - Parbury's Bridge over Yarra

Brookfield Sawmill (Parbury) – 1905 to 1928 

This mill actually started in1901 as "Anderson's Mill", and changed ownership in 1905.

Sawn logs from Brookfield were transported to the railway along a tramway over the Yarra by a bridge, which was ultimately dismantled in 1929, following closure of the mill in 1928. A section of this tramway is now a pleasant walking track.

 

The mill was located near the present-day Golf Course.

 

The incline crossed the O'Shannassy Aqueduct near the end of the present-day Fire/Comms tower east of Sussex St. The concrete bridge is still intact.

 

 

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1909 - Parbury's Tramway on main street of Warburton

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