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Emerald Museum & Nobelius Heritage Park

Photo Gallery

Emerald Museum has an extensive photographic collection related to Nobelius' Gembrook Nursery as well as the surrounding Emerald district.

Emerald has a fascinating history full of interesting people and events so visit the Museum to find out for yourself.

Here is just a selection from our image archives - click on an image to see the larger version:

Emerald district

Emerald Station

Main Rd Emerald

Avonsleigh House

Anderson's store on Beaconsfield Rd corner

Beaconsfield Rd

Central part of Gembrook Nurseries

Nobelius' Gembrook Nursery at Emerald

Bosisto's Eucalyptus Oil advertisment

Eucalyptus still

Fruit growers' picnic

Jim Madigan the Emerald Butcher

Mahoney's Mill Belgrave - Selby

Snow fall on Nobelius nursery

View from Emerald

Mailman Mr Middleton

Glass cold frames for nursery propagation

Kilvington Drive changed to its current name in 1960

Stuart's Store on Monbulk Rd corner

Emerald Fire Brigade at the old Fire Station (now Emerald Men's Shed)

Moving Emerald Hall in the 1940s

Mr Couper the Butcher

Mrs Ferres (left) and George Ferres at the A'Vard Picnic Ground Rotunda

Packing shed and rows of trees

Packing Shed and remaining nursery

Packing Shed and nursery in 1980s

Packing Shed and Nobelius Heritage Park today

Post Office in Main Rd Emerald

Raspberry growers' picnic 1910 - Edgar Charman's bullock team

Bush hut at Gembrook

East Emerald Primary School circa 1890s (East Emerald is now Avonsleigh)

Sack race 1992 picnic in park

Clearing forest to make more land for the Nobelius' Gembrook Nursery

Tivoli built 1918-19 (from newspaper)

Emerald Football Club Premiers 1945

Emerald postcard

Fred Robert's Taxi

Gardener's cottage

Bullock team near Fairy Dell

Original Stuart house 'Cascades' Telopea Rd Clematis

Portion of Nobelius Gembrook nursery

Raspberry Growers' Picnic 1910 - Edgar Charman's bullock team

Tom Leggett the milkman

Alf Stuart at 'Cascades' swimming pool on Menzies Creek 1918

Emerald Country Club lake

Emerald Station

George Walter A'Vard and workers at mill

Gold water race on Menzies Creek

Legges Store on corner of now Kilvington Drive and Belgrave-Gembrook Rd - now National Bank site

Macclesfield Post Office circa 1900

Nobelius trees for sale

A'Vard Picnic Ground on Menzies Creek by Avard Rd with the band rotunda (now reconstructed in Nobelius Heritage Gardens