Picture Album

Etching published in Picturesque Atlas of Australia:Our Country, As it was and As It Is. (1888), edited by Andrew Garran
Similar picture to that above (Note different people from previous picture.)
From a composite picture of views of Kyneton, published in the Illustrated Australian News, 2 October 1893. Again, note differences in middle distance. (La Trobe Picture Collection, State LIbrary of Victoria, Accession IAN02/10/93/12-13)
View of the gardens, 1888. (Smith photo, Kyneton Historical society archives)
Undated. (Kyneton Historiocal society archives p0329)
Snow in the gardens, around 1907. (Postcard, Kyneton Museum)
William Thomson planting an English Oak (Quercus robur) to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra in 1902. This tree is now on the National Trust register. (Kyneton Museum)
Opening of rose arch on 27 May 1908. Made of rolled steel by Crewther Bros, High St. Kyneton. Plate inscribed "To commemorate the Kyneton Women's Work Exhibition, September 1907". Rose bed was named "The Lady Janet Clarke Bed of Roses". Photograph includes R. I. Argyle (MLA), Councillor Geoff Hurry and Mrs. W Thomson (in her "widow weeds"). (Photograph by W. H. Smith, Mollison St.: Kyneton Historical Society archives)
Fern gully, around 1906. (Shirley Jones collection of Victorian postcards; La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria, Accession H90.140/626)
Fern gully (undated, but same picture above dated ca.1906). (La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria, Accession H81.238/3)
Fern gully (without girl, but likely similar date to pictures above). (Kyneton Historical Society, photo p0826b)
On completion of re-planting of fern gully in 1985. (Larina Strauch photo album)
Re-established fern gully. (Larina Strauch photo album)
Fern gully in December 2005.
Fern gully in December 2005.
Photograph published in the Australasian newspaper, 9 July 1904.
Detail from multi-image Christmas card. (Kyneton museum)
Photograph from the Weekly Times, 19 August 1911, showing two arches.
Postcard showing steel rose arch (right) and rustic timber arch. (Kyneton Museum)
Drinking fountain. (Kyneton Museum)
Undated, with gardener mowing grass. (La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria, Accession H91.93/159)
Same picture as above. (Kyneton Historical Society, photo p0817f)
Postcard sent 1911, similar view to above. (Ken Duxbury postcard collection)
Undated postcard. (Ken Duxbury postcard collection)
Undated postcard. (Ken Duxbury postcard collection)
Undated. Same two ladies as above, but near fountain (so must be at least 1902, since drinking fountain is shown). (Kyneton Historical Society archives p0873)
Undated. (Kyneton Historiocal society archives, p0462)
Undated. (Kyneton Historiocal society archives, p0463)
Same view as above, some time later. (Kyneton Historiocal society archives, p0466)
Undated. (Rose Series Postcard P 1551: Kyneton Historiocal society archives, p0463)
Flower beds, undated. (Kyneton HIstorical Society archives, p0872)
Group photo in the gardens, similar direction to previous photo. (Kyneton Historical Society archives)
Undated. (Kyneton Historiocal society archives, p0460)
Detail from multi-image Christmas card. (Kyneton museum)
Undated, showing rotunda. (Ken Duxbury postcard collection)
Undated, showing dahlia beds. (Valentine Series 2592; Ken Duxbury postcard collection)
Postcard sent 1907, showing rhododendron beds. (Ken Duxbury postcard collection)
Postcard sent 1905. (Ken Duxbury postcard collection; also in Rose Postcard collection (P 1550), La Trobe Picture Collection, State LIbrary of Victoria, Accession H32492/2217)
Undated. (Kyneton HIstorical Society archives)
"Path in the Gardens" (postcard, Kyneton Museum)
Amy Jacobs (then Delacy) in the gardens in 1935, sitting on an old cable tram from Melbourne that stood in the gardens for several years. (Kyneton HIstorical Society archives)
Entrance gates (gates were erected in 1936). (Kyneton Historical Society archives, p0332h)
Entrance gates (same photo as above, different postcard). (Valentine Series 2575; Ken Duxbury postcard collection)
View through the gardens in 1923. Undated, from a set of views of Kyneton. (Southern Cross Series No. 175; La Trobe Picture Collection, State LIbrary of Victoria, Accession H32492, Image pc002255)
Detail from souvenir mug (Kyneton Museum)
Opening ceremony on 30 August 1965 of column celebrating the contributions of the McKenna family to the Shire of Kyneton. This is one of two columns at the garden entrance on Mollison St., mid-way along the eastern side; McKenna Drive runs through the gardens from this entrance. (Kyneton Guardian)
Opening ceremony on 30 August 1965 of column celebrating the centenary of the Shire of Kyneton (1865-1965), by Minister for Local Government Richard J Hamer. This is one of two columns at the garden entrance on Mollison St., mid-way along the eastern side. (Kyneton Guardian)
December 1953. (Victorian Railways P5750, La Trobe Picture Collection, State LIbrary of Victoria, Accession H91.330/3556)
1972 picture from Kyneton Guardian, showing curator Graham Horncastle with damaged fountain.
Caravan park. (Larina Strauch photo album)
Rose beds. (Larina Strauch photo album)
Rotunda before its refurbishment in 1988. (from Shire of Kyneton Conservation (Heritage) Study)
View to rotunda. (Larina Strauch photo album)
Councillor Bill Hanson planting silver maple (Acer saccharinum 'pyramidale' on 30 September 1985 to mark 150th anniversary of the State of Victoria. (Larina Strauch photo album)
Planting of oak (Quercus rubra aurea) tree by Councillors Gerard McKenna, Hal Rollinson, Maise Harper and Greg McIntyre on the 125th Anniversary of Kyneton Shire Council, 10 January 1990. (Larina Strauch photo album)
Joan Kirner, Premier of Victoria planting a gum tree. (Larina Strauch photo album)
Raking leaves in the gardens (Dale Gillis with shovel), late 1980s. (Larina Strauch photo album)
Annotated aerial photograph from 1988.
Crowd at the replanting of the golden red oak (Quercus rubra aurea) on 18 March 2007; originally planted for the 125th anniversary of the Shire of Kyneton, the tree had died. (photo by Larina Strauch)
Martin McKenna, grandson of the first shire president, Martin McKenna, replanting the golden red oak (Quercus rubra aurea) on 18 March 2007; originally planted for the 125th anniversary of the Shire of Kyneton, the tree had died. (photo by Larina Strauch)

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