Gill Collection

The Kingsley sisters came from Dandenong each week to run the Sunday School in the Lysterfield Hall in the mid 1940s

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Back: Margaret McIntyre, Dot McIntyre, Jeanette Raymond, Graeme McIntyre. Front: Don Gill, Val McIntyre, John Raymond.

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The homestead on "The Leasowes", an old property east of Lysterfield Road. The property was established in 1867 by Edward Charsely who developed it along the lines of an English estate.

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The kind of truck that was used in the 1930s to take the produce from the market gardens in Rowville to the Victoria Market. This truck was owned by a friend of Don McIntyre.

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Leo Gill on the Gill property "Somerset" in Wellington Road in the 1930s.

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"Old Father Time"

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In the 1990s this property located south of Wellington Road and immediately east of Dandenong Creek was named "Billabong" and was leased by the Meurs family.

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Mulgrave school pupils in 1919. Leo Gill is the one wearing the white jacket in the front row. He is kneeling beside the boy with the small blackboard.

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There was no school in Rowville until 1973 so the Rowville children had to go to Mulgrave, Scoresby or Lysterfield State School.

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Harvesting the wheat on the Gill farm.

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Taken at the family farm in Wellington Road.

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Nellie and Molly Gill with Cyril Long.

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Nellie at her unit at the Old Pioneers Retirement Village in Berwick in 1995.

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Don is in his Dandenong High School uniform.

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On her parents' leased property to the north of Wellington Road.

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Taken at the family home in Wellington Road

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They are wearing their Dandenong High School uniforms.

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Feeding the fowls at the family farm in Wellington Road, Rowville.

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Feeding time.

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Gwenda's father Leo is on her left.

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Violet Gill at her home in Eaglehawk with her two children Don and Gwenda in 1994.

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Cutting grass hay in the 1960s.

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The children are in the pool built at the edge of the lake with funds raised at swimming carnival days.

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The truck was loaded with market garden produce to be taken to the Victoria Market in the 1930s.

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Leo Gill with a punnet of strawberries at the strawberry farm at the south-east corner of Ferntree Gully and Stud Roads in the 1930s.

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Violet Gill (nee McIntyre) on the land leased by her father Don McIntyre from Wish Drummond. This land is now the site of the Stamford Hotel.

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Wedding of Reg Gill of Rowville and Winifred Bailey of Lysterfield. From left: Leo Gill, Reg Gill, Winifred Gill (nee Bailey), Molly Tegart (nee Gill), Herbert Bailey, Evelyn Greenland (nee Bailey).

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