Coverd Stable Walkway - Cruden Farm
I love the stone work of this stable block I would so love to live here but Dame Elizabeth is still happilly at home!
Enjoy! Chookas! ♥
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joak
aye they dinny build them like that anymore..thought you said ye dinny take guid photys?
adgray replied
This is guid? :O??? (Clean those glasses sir! – there’s still some whiskey in them!) lol
I should have been back just a tad to get the rest of the gorgeous building in! <) Oh well a good one of the stonework I guess!
I think these stables and the farm are about 100 years old … sorry young in comparison to your gorgeous stone buildings!
Dame Lizzy came here 75 years ago, fought to save it in the 1939 bushfires and has raised her children and grandchildren and great grand children, and run her charity empire from here!
She still travels by golf car all over her estate every morning and she has her visitors and family drop in by helicopter!
I saw her just last week at my daughter’s school concert and she looked frail but still her wonderful alert charming self! Bright as a button and still going strong!
Thanks for coming to look at my photy! =0þ
and eventhough you think I may take a guid photy, you have to admit I write a better blather!
Chookas my sweet friend! X♥X
Sally Omar
Beautiful!!!!!!!! xoxoo
FailingMemory
Very nice.
AmandaWitt
They don’t build things like that anymore. I had the pleasure of meeting the Dame a few years ago at the McClelland gallery, where a friend of mine volunteered on the weekend. She comes one Saturday a month for lunch, and i was writing a poem about the place, and she said to me ‘how lovely to see the young interested in art.’
dawndavies
Wow this is very pretty, such a gorgeous place , dawnx
louisegreen
It is beautiful, who wouldn’t want to live here. Lovely shot.
Geir Floede
Pretty and beautiful, adgray.
BlaizerB
nicely done – cheers
Antanas
beautiful shot
Diana-Lee Saville
Loverly!! Where exactly is this? :))
adgray replied
Hello You’re up early! lol oh no it’s 7:30 I’m the one that’s been up 3 hours lol
This is Dame Lizzy’s joint “Cruden Farm” on the corner of Cranny-Franga Rd & McClelland Rd in Langwarrin Melways 103 D5E6F6G7 (that big white patch bit) Private for now but she has willed it to become National Trust & funded it to be kept as a public used estate home / cattle run for the next 50 years!
There are public open days regularly the next on is the Langwarrin Festival on October 18th – you can google it!
Diana-Lee Saville
Thanks for that…I never knew it was there…you can add this to CVG if you like…I’ll except stuff like this for sure !! :))
adgray replied
Cool on my way!
Kerry Hill
Beautifully composed and captured, adgray! Must get to that place and take a look!
adgray replied
As I said to Di above – you can google for other dates but the next one is October 18th!
and this is only one small part of the gorgeous place!
I have been privileged to have been inside the house having a bit of a morning tea with the cook! & because Dame Lizzy is the patron name of my children’s college I have been graced on several occasions to meet her! (My son Tom is a favourite of hers!)
Thank you for coming to look at my fuzzy visions! lol =0þ
Chookas! ♥
Diana-Lee Saville
Shoaib .
cute shot !
Shane Viper
Very nice stonework, nicely captured
Mel Brackstone
The stonework is magnificent! I’m sure you can kick the dame out :)
Oldrooz
Well portrayed adgray, love this type of stone work.
kathy s gillen...
beautiful capture
Edyta Pelc
Absolutly beautiful i love rocs too ;) / great capture!