OBJECT TITLE / NAME

The Briars Wetlands

DATE1990

MEDIAImage

COLLECTIONMornington and District Historical Society

REG NO.380

HISTORY

In 1843 Alexander Beatson Balcombe took over the ‘run’ named ‘Checkinkurk’ and changed the name of the property to ‘The Briars’, after his birthplace which was on the island of St Helena, in 1975 the sons of the late Elizabeth Claire a’beckett, who was the great grand-daughter of A.B. Balcombe made a generous gift of the homestead and surrounding acres to the Shire of Mornington and The National Trust

DESCRIPTION

A view of the Wetlands at The Briars

SUBJECTS

Homesteads, Wetlands

KEYWORDS

Alexander Beatson Balcombe, Homesteads, National Trust, Shire of Mornington, Wetlands, ‘The Briars’