Grass skiing near Eaglemont market garden

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The BoulevardHeidelberg/Eaglemont
1930Sue Lee
Source: Sands & McDougall Directories

The Ski Club of Victoria ran organised skiing lessons on grass at Eaglemont during the 1930’s.
You can see a Chinese market garden in the background of this video.

Amateur Film, Grass Skiing at Eaglemont, Victoria 1931, National Alpine Museum of Australia

‘The skiing slope may be reached from the Eaglemont station by walking down the Eyrie to the Lower Heidelberg road. The slopes are near a deep cutting, and on the river side of the road’

The Argus 1935 [1]

Approximate location grass skiing (Google maps) and Chinese market gardens (Heidelberg Conservation Study 1985 [2])

Sands & McDougall

Sands & McDougall 1930, p400

  • Sue Lee, gardener
  • Chinese gardener

References

[1] GRASS SKI-ING AT EAGLEMONT (1935, May 25). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 25. Retrieved September 12, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12242094

[2] Heidelberg-Conservation-Study-1985-Part-2-complete.pdf
https://www.banyule.vic.gov.au/files/assets/public/_operating-images-amp-docs/documents/planning-documents/heidelberg-conservation-study-1985-part-2-complete.pdf

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