Walk Bundjil

Listen to the Wurundjeri Wandoon story of the Birrarung

Transcript:

My name is Doreen Garvey-Wandin. I’m a Wurundjeri Senior Elder and Wandoon Senior Elder. Also, Director of both organisations. 

We respectfully acknowledge the traditional owners, the Wurundjeri people and other Kulin Nations, as the custodians of the lands across the Yarra Ranges on whose unceded lands our work in the community takes place. We pay respect to all Aboriginal community Elders, past and present, who have resided in the area and have been and always will be an integral part of the story of the region.

Art and Sole. Walking on Country, connecting with our history, nurturing our body, mind and sole.

Yarra River- birrarung

Wurundjeri people call the Yarra river ‘ birrarung’ meaning ‘river of mists.’ It marks the centre of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung country, unlike today, where the river marks a township boundary. Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people saw it as the centrepiece, accessing both sides of the river, often falling a large gum tree, to act as a bridge across the water. The birrarung at pound bend offered an abundance of duat (fish),luk (eel) and duyang (yabbies). Woven eel traps were set at confluences, deep river estuaries, were excavated for breeding fish and rapids were extended to increase freshwater mussel yields. Evidence of the ancient fishing techniques can still be found, along the birrarung today.Water is a connection to creation and community, to bring peace & harmony. water is essential for life on Mother Earth.

Listen to the Wurundjeri Wandoon story of Bundjil:

 

Transcript:

My name is Doreen Garvey-Wandin. I’m a Wurundjeri Senior Elder and Wandoon Senior Elder. Also, Director of both organisations. 

We respectfully acknowledge the traditional owners, the Wurundjeri people and other Kulin Nations, as the custodians of the lands across the Yarra Ranges on whose unceded lands our work in the community takes place. We pay respect to all Aboriginal community Elders, past and present, who have resided in the area and have been and always will be an integral part of the story of the region.

Art and Sole. Walking on Country, connecting with our history, nurturing our body, mind and sole.

Wedge Tailed Eagle - Bundjil

Bundjil is the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people’s creator spirit who created the land, the waterways and the people. Bundjil travelled across a formless land, marking sacred sites and defining cultural and spiritual lore.

Listen to the Beresford and Victoria Roads historical narrative:

The naming of Beresford Road pays respect to the Beresford family led by Mrs. Beresford, who arrived in Victoria in 1853. She had two children, a son and a daughter, who survived childhood. 

Her daughter Florence married chemist John Clark Cunliffe Jones and they moved to Lilydale in the early 1880s. Florence’s brother Frederick Henry Beresford, also a Chemist, moved to Lilydale in 1895 and took over his brother-in-law’s shop. 

In 1905 he had two red brick shops with dwellings above built at 279 and 281 Main Street, Lilydale. Beresford retired in 1919 and sold the business to Hughes. These shops still remain today.

Listen to the Lilydale Show historical narrative:

The first Lilydale Show was held at the old market site in Market Street in 1904. However, because of the size of the site, it moved in 1906 to the large Lands Department site on the north side of Beresford Road west of Cave Hill Road. The Lilydale and Districts Agricultural, Horticultural and Pastoral Society staged the Lilydale Show on the site until its closure because of World War I in 1914.