Books
Clonmel - Disaster to Discovery
Traveller's guide to the goldfields
You can buy our books from Information Victoria at 80 Collins Street, Melbourne, 1300 366 356.
Booksellers, museums, historical societies, contact our distributor Richard Everist, Best Shot! on 1300 664 943 for resellers prices. Contact us on 03 9208 3333 for our free publications.
Wrecks on the Reef
A runaway success! The reefs that flank the treacherous jaws of Port Phillip Heads in Victoria claimed a lion's share of ships, leaving us today with a legacy of forty historic shipwrecks. Price: $24.95, Released: 2006, 84 pages
Time and Tide
A guide to the wreck of the barque William Salthouse, which sank after striking a rock on its way through the Rip at Port Phillip Heads in 1841. This book describes the site, archaeology and stabilisation of the wreck in a mobile sand environment using artificial seagrass mats. Price: Free, Released: 1991, 32 pages
William Salthouse is on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Clonmel - Disaster to Discovery
A guide to the wreck of the luxury wooden paddle steamer Clonmel, which sank in 1841 on a sandbar at the entrance to Port Albert. It had been intended to foster trade between different ports in the Colonies. Its loss was a blow to the settlement of Melbourne, only six years old, but the wreck led to the discovery of Port Albert, a critical factor in opening the East Gippsland region up to trade and pastoralism.
Released: 1999, 28 pages. Price $10 from Port Albert Maritime Museum, 78 Tarraville Rd, Port Albert 3971, phone (03) 5183 2520.
Clonmel is on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Silts in the Sight Glass
Discover the historic shipwreck SS City of Launceston. This luxury Bass Strait passenger and cargo ship sank in Port Phillip Bay in 1865, and was found again in 1980. This beautifully produced book contains maps, underwater photos and a gripping story of maritime archaeologists uncovering the Launceston's secrets.
Price: Free, Released: 2000, 70 pages
SS City of Launceston is on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Westgarthtown
Westgarthtown was the original settlement of Thomastown, established by German and Wendish immigrants in 1850. This booklet, originally published jointly by the Heritage Council of Victoria and the City of Whittlesea, explains the historical background of the site and examines the surviving structures.
2nd edition Released: 2004, 44 pages. Available Wesgarthtown publications, see www.westgarthtown.org.au or phone (03) 9217 2170
Warrock
Warrock is a remote pastoral station, located north of Casterton in Western Victoria. It contains Victoria's and possibly Australia's most important collection of colonial farm buildings, dating from the 1840s. This book provides the history of Warrock and a description of each building precinct within the property.
Price: $10.00, Released: 1997, 45 pages
Warrock is on the Victorian Heritage Register
What house is that?
Celebrating the diversity of Victoria's housing styles, What house is that? is a free, 32pp booklet about Victoria's built heritage. Perfect for those with an interest in heritage, architecture or those renovating an old home, What house is that? is packed with colour swatches, design notes, and tips for sustainable alteration of heritage homes.
For your hard copy contact your local council, drop in at Architext bookshop (41 Exhibition St Melbourne), or at Information Victoria (80 Collins Street Melbourne). Information Victoria will also post copies out, call 1300 366 356 (local call cost). Price: Free, Released: June 2011, 32 pages
What house is that? interactive (Flash) and webpages
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Traveller's guide to the goldfields
Central Victoria is home to the world's richest and greatest goldfields. this is the definitive guide to the history and natural heritage trails through Central and Western Victoria. 132pp Available from most bookshops or contact Best Shot! on 1300 664 943.