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From: Patricia Jungwirth <>
Subject: Re: [AVDR] 'Llewellah' Guest House in Sassafras
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:45:04 +1000


Hi,

FWIW - some time ago, the owners of the house in Hilton Rd, immediately
west of the backpackers house/shop on the corner of Anzac(Mt.Dandy Toruist)
Rd, were certain that their house was known as Holly Hill.

good luck
Robert






At 03:07 AM 12/06/02 +1000, you wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>My apologies to Patricia Hogan for forwarding the following message to the
>list earlier and not indicating that it had originated from her.
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>Jan Shaw,
>List Admin.
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>> Dear Nandina,
>> We couldn't find a reference or anyone who knew of the Sassafras
>> guest
>> house "LLewellah" but clues in the information exchanges (thanks
>> folks) led
>> to further investigation. We now wonder whether in the 1920s
>> Llewellah
>> applied to the property known as Holly Lodge, Ferny Creek
>> (Sassafras).. If
>> it did, very sorry but the building was demolished only within the
>> last year
>> or so ecause someone has other plans for the site. It was a nice old
>> building known as Arnold's Restaurant in recent years, good food and
>> pleasant atmosphere. There are one or two 1950s photographs and
>> perhaps
>> others will come to light.
>> Llewellah's being advertised as a1920s Sassafras guest house led to
>> our
>> checking 1924 country telephone directory (thanks EB) which included
>> HALLEWELL, Benjamin, Anzac Av, phone number 32 on the Sassafras
>> exchange.
>> Locals say Anzac Ave begins in Ferny Creek at the Memorial, corner of
>> Sherbrooke Rd (Breens Corner) crosses Hilton Rd (the boundary between
>> Sassafras/Ferny Creek) finishing at Clarkmont in Sassafras. Melways
>> shows
>> Anzac Av only from Hilton to Clarkmont, perhaps due to lack of space.
>> The
>> only guest house weknown to be along there (Clovelly farther along)
>> would
>> be Holly Lodge on the (south west) corner of Hilton Road.
>> Next, Jean Hallewell, one of Benjamin's daughters, married Gordon
>> Victor
>> Clarke, usually known as Jack. The Clarke family (G.V.'s parents etc)
>> lived
>> in the Hilton Rd house adjacent to the still-existing shop-house on
>> the
>> corner. A neighbourhood romance? G.V.Clarke later had a motor vehicle
>> business in Elizabeth St, Melbourne. Mr and Mrs G.V.and family
>> eventually
>> moved away, it is thought to one of the bayside suburbs.
>> Benjamin Hallewell, as stated, died in November 1932. Some time in
>> the
>> 1930s, the guest house property was purchased by Mr Ted Morgan who
>> gave it
>> back its former name, Holly Lodge. All this doesn't mean that the
>> property
>> had been Trawellah but it seems quite likely. Can anyone check
>> whether
>> Holly Lodge had phone number 32? Last is only the background to
>> Holly Hill
>> Estate, doesn't relate directly to Trawellah. According to Helen
>> Coulsen,
>> page 342, William Breen purchased land from W.Featherstonaugh in
>> 1898.
>> When the estate was subdivided, probably around 1920 (can anyone
>> supply the
>> date?) it was advertised as "Holly Hill Estate" because of the
>> proliferation
>> of hollies that grew there and Holly Lodge was on that estate.
>> Nandina, any
>> idea when and why Benjamin Hallewell came to Dandenongs, any other
>> family
>> links that you know of? Comments welcome as it may be too
>> circumstantial..
>> Patricia Hogan (Mt Dandenong & District Historical Society)
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