Murray Collection

April White's home in Buderim, Queensland. The home was furnished with much of the furniture that had been at Stamford Park in the 1920s when that property had been owned by her grandparents, Jack and Belle Murray.

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April White, Jack and Belle Murray's grand-daughter, on her pony, Butterfly. Jack's Willys Tourer, in which the family drove from Queensland to Stamford Park each summer, can be seen at the right of the picture.

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April holds her Shetland pony Butterfly while a friend, Barbara Tunbridge, uses it as a step to mount her pony at Stamford Park in the 1920s.

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The grandfather clock was a wedding present given to April White's mother by her parents-in-law when she married Tranby White in Scarborough, England. The painting is of April's mother.

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April's mother was the daughter of Jack and Belle Murray who owned Stamford Park during the 1920s.

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The photograph on the desk is of April White's brother Murray White in naval uniform. He was killed in World War Two when the Perth was sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait in 1942.

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The chair used by Jack Murray at Stamford Park in the 1920s. Photographed at his granddaughter's home in Buderim, Queensland in 1994.

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Belle used this dressing table while at Stamford House in the 1920s. It is now (1994) at the home of her grand-daughter, April White, in Buderim, Queensland.

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Two chairs that were at Stamford Park in the 1920s.

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The dining room suite and crockery used by Jack and Belle Murray when they spent their summers at Stamford Park.

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The crockery used by Jack and Belle Murray at Stamford Park in the 1920s.

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The sideboard used by Jack and Belle Murray when they stayed at Stamford Park in the 1920s.

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The dining table, chairs and sideboard used by Jack and Belle Murray at Stamford Park in the 1920s.

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Belle Murray (nee Kearney)travelled with her husband each summer from Winton, Queensland to Rowville, camping by the roadside on the way.

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Jack Murray, owner of Stamford Park in the 1920s. Jack owned a cattle station near Winton in Queensland and each summer drove his Willys tourer south with his wife and grand-daughter to enjoy the comparatively cool weather of a Victorian summer.

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Photo taken at Stamford Park in the 1940s.April is riding her pony Butterfly. Jack would have been a good teacher as he was highly regarded as a rider in Winton, Queensland.

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Note the unusual picket fence.

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