There was a re enactment of the Euroa National Bank robbery on December 6th 2008, four days off the 130th anniversary of the Kelly Gang's original visit. It was carried out by Ned from Beechworth and he collected up his helpers along the way. It was good and some things in town were corrected.
++++++++++++++
We have a small booklet on Ned & the gang's time in Euroa. It mentions some of the people who were involved and what happened to them later in life.
$5 + $2 postage. You may post a cheque or money order made to Euroa Historical Society Box 299 Euroa 3666 & one will be sent to you. You also receive free, the two postcards mentioned below.
Ned Kelly WAS in Euroa in the afternoon of the 10th December 1878, he rode his horse down the street.
We have the exact site of the bank, there is no conjecture, inference or assumptions, we have the exact safe door that held the money and gold behind it that Ned stole. We have the exact step that he, with no doubt walked on, from Faithful's Creek Station. We know the site of Isaac Younghusband's Faithful's Creek Station. We have the exact railway station that the workmen were working on that day and other buildings still stand that Ned passed by. Fermoy, the Seven Creeks Hotel, although now two storey, the bottom corner is the original building, our own museum the former Farmers Arms Hotel had been operating as such for two years, the Flour Mill and Birchill Cottage just to name a few...the exact spot where the boy William Gouge was buried on that day was marked by his own family by a simple iron fence.
In the afternoon on the 10th December 1878 Ned, Dan and Steve rode into town and held up the National Bank and took the Bank Manager Robert Scott and his family, and the two tellers back to Faithful's Creek Station, where they had arrived the day before. Over that period of time, they had bailed up others and kept them hostage in an out building on the station. There was at least 25 people caught up on purpose or accidently. Who really knows, except the people that were involved.
The step of this building is at the EUROA MUSEUM.
The NATIONAL BANK ARCHIVE have very generously donated postcards to the Euroa Museum of the bank soon after the hold up with police standing guard and also a post card of the souvenirs Robert Booth, one of the tellers asked for. He received a sixpence and a spent bullet.
Two dollars will get you two postcards posted to you.
Euroa Historical Society Box 299 Euroa 3666
Some Facts & hopefully no fiction.....
On the present building at the corner of Railway and Binney is a brass plaque, it appears on other webpages and in brochures, it says - site of the Colonial Bank - it never ever was and never ever will be. It was the site of the NATIONAL BANK from the mid 1870's to the mid 1880's. The National and Colonial banks did merge but not until about 1918. Euroa did have a Colonial bank by the mid 1880's, but it was not on this site. It started in a temporary building in Binney street until the elaborate building on the corner of Railway and McGuinness streets was built.
THE BRASS PLAQUE IS NOW GONE AND A GREAT SCULPTURE WITH THE CORRECT STORY IS NOW IN ITS PLACE.
THE HERITAGE SIGN ON THE FOOTPATH HAS BEEN COMPLETELY RENEWED AND CORRECTIONS DONE.
On the story board at the beautiful six arched stone bridge in Avenel it has the date the bridge was built...this too is incorrect when not 20 metres away there is a brass plaque that tells us the correct date.
By 1878 some business people were moving to the vicinity of Railway street BECAUSE of the Railway Station, not the Public Hall, because there was no Public Hall there yet. Yes, there was a hotel next to the bank, and just to confuse everyone a little further, it was C.L. DeBoos' North Eastern Hotel. It was not the hotel that stands in Railway street today in 2007 OR the North Eastern Hotel ACROSS the other side of the railway line.
The beautiful six arched stone bridge over Hughes Creek Avenel
Attached to the bridge is a brass plaque, which clearly states, built in 1859 by contractor Hugh Dalrymple. A credit to this man, I must say.
|
Avenel Cemetery
His death certificate states 'buried Avenel', but any SERIOUS Ned Kelly enthusiast would want to see the proof that Ned's father was actually buried in this exact spot,small plaque rear left, wouldn't they? Good intentions? ....... maybe ....... maybe not. In this photo is the Shelton grave. It is in the 3rd row, behind the two tall dark headstones. The Shelton grave 16' x 8 with surround, does not have an upright headstone.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
