Wrrandyte Pictorial Heritage 1839 to 2010

Background

I am  Bob Padula, OAM, of Mont Albert,Victoria, Australia, a Chartered Professional Engineer  (Communications). 

Warrandyte Pictorial Heritage, an Educational Reserch Project,  was prompted by the need to produce a single on-line reference for my personal use, to bring together images and texts about what I consider to be the most important events in Warrandyte’s development and evolution. 

It is a  compilation of photographs, maps, and other content, arranged in chronological order, depicting the history. culture and heritage of the beautiful town of Warrandyte, 25 east of central Melbourne,  from its beginnings in the 1850s.

For the past several years, I have visited the Warrandyte region on innumerable occasions, particularly in the State Park, exploring the vast network of excellent hiking tracks cross its 656 hectares.

I am passionate about hiking, coastal walking, photography, nature, the historical development, ecology, morphology and geographic evolution of the many places I visit, blending these interests into a single pursuit.

I enjoy membership of the Federation of Victorian Bushwalkers and the Great Dividing Trail Association Inc.

The advent of the Internet has opened up an enormous range and scope of material and information of direct interest to me in my research into the destinations visited. This has required an intensive ands continuing commitment in searching the Web for relevant and accurate data,  some of it buried deep within the archives of newspapers dating back to the 1850s,  much of which is now becoming publicly available on-line through the open-access Digitisation Project managed by the National Library of Australia

Many of the images have been digitally enhanced and improved for clearer viewing .

Images are from various sources, including out-of-copyright content from the internet, public-domain information, my own private collection of Rose Stereograph Company postcards, and photographs on information boards.

Many of the  images are scanned from photos given to me by family members and friends.

There are many photos taken by myself  in the years 1958 to 2010.

The articles describe and expand on features and events contained in many of the images, this extending the usefulness of the overall Project.

Click the relevant period in the Links Bar at the top of any page to see the Photos of the selected decade.  Decades from 1900 have their own pages - the era prior to 1899 is one page.

The Heritage was originally planned to be produced privately and stored on a DVD and Memory Stick, and in the course of its creation, a mate suggested that I should consider putting it on-line for the whole world to see and enjoy, without charge.