OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Lightwood Vale, 2012

DATE2012

MEDIAImage

PHOTOGRAPHERMurray Adams

COLLECTIONMornington and District Historical Society

REG NO.1205.1

HISTORY

Lightwood Vale house and property is located on Tyabb Road, halfway between Stump Gully and Coolart Roads. it commenced in 1902 as a grazing property by William Cranston Murray in 1902. In 1909 when he branched out and became a butcher. Lightwood Vale was described as being “In the exact middle of the Peninsula”. William had a slaughter yards on the property and later freezers and cool rooms. He also drove a bullock team, and he travelled with a cutting cart, selling his meat as far afield as Shoreham, Flinders and Hastings.

DESCRIPTION

Image of an old weathered corrugated shed with single door at the front and an old green and rusted corrugated iron roof. There is a grass lawn in the foreground with a white weather board house with a green painted corrugated iron roof in the background.

SUBJECTS

Buildings, structures and establishments, Historic buildings, Houses, Sheds

KEYWORDS

Buildings, structures and establishments, Historic buildings, Houses, Lightwood Vale, Morooduc, Murray, William Cranston, Sheds, Tyabb Road