Week 182

SUNBURY

1.  Rupertswood, birthplace of the "Ashes". Legend has it that it was here, after a cricket game between the visiting
English cricket team and some locals (mostly staff at the house) in 1882, that Lady Clarke, wife of the owner of
the mansion, donated an urn said to contain the ashes of a burnt cricket bail to Ivo Bligh, one of the Englishmen.

2. Along a side veranda of the grand old house.

3. Ah, the opulence of a bygone era...

4.  This is one of a number of bluestone railway viaducts in the area.

5. Emu Bottom, George Evan's house, is today considered to be the oldest existing homestead in Victoria and dates
back to 1836.

6. The smithy behind the homestead.

7. The shearing shed is typical of the traditional Australian shearing sheds.

8. From the hill above the town one can look all the way to the city.

9. This lovely old Victorian era redbrick building is one of many used by the Victoria University on its Sunbury Campus.

10. See the dragon of the roof? And what looks like two Eastern Rosellas (the little birds).