| Woodcut of Buln Buln on the Old Sale Road, published in 1877 by
Ebenezer and David Syme in the Illustrated
Australian News. The village is a few
kilometres north of Warragul which itself only
started when the railway came through
in 1877. According to
ref 152 the name is Aboriginal for lyrebird
(see last painting on the right). |
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Watercolour by Neville Henry
Cayley 1854-1903 of a Cobb & Co coach on a
'corduroy' road through heavily forested
Gippsland country near Buln Buln north of
Warragul - undated but around 1878 - in Mitchell
Library NSW SV*/Cobb/3
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Albumen silver photograph by
Johan Friedrich Carl Kruger 1831-88 'Township of
Buln Buln, Brandy Creek, Gippsland, 1877' in
State Library of Victoria catalogue no. H.35016.
This photograph is the probable basis for the
woodcut (left) |
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The new township of Warragul
after the Melbourne to Sale railway was
completed near here
in 1877 after work commenced from both ends. This watercolour by Neville Henry Cayley is undated but was done after 16 May
1879. Held by Warragul & District Historical
Society |
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Watercolour by Neville Henry
Cayley of an adult male Superb Lyrebird 1893 in
the collection of Mark R Cabouret who wrote
ref 152. Cayley's son Neville Cayley
continued his father's role in making
ornithology popular in Australia |
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