RUFFEY'S CREEK MINERS WALL & SWIMMING POOL WALL
Rear 61 Parker Street and 108 Parker Street TEMPLESTOWE, Manningham City
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Statement of Significance
A masonry radiating retaining wall, (No.1) on Ruffey's Creek at 63 Parker Street, said to derive from mining practice in the 1850s and second similar masonry retaining wall (No.2) further southeast on Ruffey's Creek at 108 Parker Street, with a (now breached) dam wall, built to form a swimming pool for Templestowe Primary School in 1910. They are of local historical significance.
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RUFFEY'S CREEK MINERS WALL & SWIMMING POOL WALL - Physical Description 1
Radiating retaining walls, curved to strengthen, of roughly ashlar squared boulders of about 600x450mm size, in apparently igneous rock. No.1 is about 15-16 metres long and over two metres high. (The length of No.2 is uncertain, as part is inaccessible). No.1 is located on the north (rear) boundary of 61 Parker Street, on Ruffey's Creek and No.2 on the south bank at the rear of 108 Parker Street. Here there is also a dam wall (now breached) penetrated by 300mm steel pipe. The creek bed has been cut into the bedrock. The old timber footbridge survives next to the concrete road bridge, from which the swimming pool walls can be clearly seen.
Comparable to the remains of the Coffer Dam (timber) Yarra Street (rear of former post office) and the Water Race, Pound Bend (not located). Other schools developed swimming pools including (in 1927) at Heidelberg, but this one is early.
RUFFEY'S CREEK MINERS WALL & SWIMMING POOL WALL - Physical Conditions
Condition Good
RUFFEY'S CREEK MINERS WALL & SWIMMING POOL WALL - Integrity
Integrity Not known
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading:Manningham - Doncaster & Templestowe Heritage Study Additional Sites Recommendations
Author: Richard Peterson
Year: 1993
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