Truganina Army Stables
Dohertys Road TRUGANINA, MELTON SHIRE
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Veterans Description for Public
Truganina Army Stables - Veterans Description for Public
The former site of the Truganina Army Stables is located on the south-western edge of the Truganina Munitions Reserve site on Dohertys Road. Used during the Second World War, the site comprises of large stables building, rectangular in plan, with corrugated iron wall and roof. The building is timber lined, with intact stalls for horses. There appears to be a loose box at the southern end of the building, and a tackle room at the northern end.
This property was the site last century of John Robinson's farm, identified in the 1880s as on 160 acres in Crown Allotment 1, Section XXV, Parish of Truganina. By the late 1880s, Margaret Robinson was listed as owner of the farm which, from the middle 1890s, was owned by Henry Robinson. Impending war had its effect on the Shire, in January 1938 it became known that the Government intended to acquire Henry Robinson's property bounded by Doherty's, Boundary and Palmers Roads, for use as a munitions depot, a part of the Government's plan to improve the position with regard to armaments in Australia.
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320 LEAKES ROAD WELLVictorian Heritage Inventory
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Truganina CemeteryNational Trust
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Truganina Army StablesVic. War Heritage Inventory
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