Pipe Track across the Plenty River
The following article is reproduced by permission of Noel Withers and extracted from “Banyule City Council Spring Outdoors Programme 2008: Greensborough & the Plenty River Pioneer Trail with Dennis Ward & Noel Withers. A ramble from the lower part of town and along the river bank learning about historic sites and the pioneering families that settled there from 1840 onward."
Constructed as part of the Maroondah Aqueduct and requiring an extensive workforce of labourers who frequented the adjacent Evelyn Arms hotel, previously the Halfway House near were the Shell service station is at present.
High spirited patrons received a dunking in the horse trough, their ear cuffed or a boot up their behind by the local constable to calm them down.
[edit] Reading
Along the length: an account of living and working on the Maroondah Aqueduct by Fred Sadlier ; edited (with introduction and additional notes) by Leigh Ahern ; photographs by Gwen Sadlier and Leigh Ahern.
Diamond Valley Story by Dianne Edwards
[edit] Links
Banyule City Council Spring Outdoors Program 2008 Greensborough and Plenty River Trail
