The property pre-dates prominent Melbourne buildings like Parliament House, which opened in 1856.
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00:00This house was built in 1845 in stages. First stage was a wattle and daup, small residence,
00:07then a brick stone was quarried from the property to build a couple of rooms,
00:12then the rest is handmade bricks. As a child, great environment with a great mum and dad, but
00:18being on a farm, the freedom, the experience, horses, my sister and I had a great life here.
00:25We even made a cricket pitch down the garden years ago. Behind me, the room is where the first
00:31church services in Keysborough were held in about 1850. Behind me, there's two earlier parts of
00:39Glenelvie. The furthest point is what's called wattle and daup. There were a few rooms of wattle
00:45and daup when they first came here, where wattle was cut down and woven into a wall structure,
00:53and then a compound like cement was put over the top to make it waterproof. The second part
01:00is this stone building. There are a couple of rooms of that. I think it's called Ironstone,
01:06and that was quarried on the property as well. The cows were milked by hand and they had double
01:12bales, 32 double bales, where hand milking was undertaken. Then they got machinery in those bales.
01:18Then my father, in the early 60s, put in a herringbone shed, A to side, swap over,
01:25and it was one of the first herringbones in Victoria. It was really interesting because
01:32we had people coming down to have a look at it, and he was being annoyed with people wanting to
01:38see it. It was even on television when it was first developed, and it's worked well.