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Landmarks: Beveridge

Saving the Kelly Homestead

Feel free to send as many questions and queries regarding The Kelly Home at Beveridge to the National Trust. Hopefully we will be able to wake the Trust up to the sorry plight of the Beveridge homestead. You can email the National Trust direct with any and all questions you have regarding the property and what plans (if any) they have for it. If we can generate a quantity of letter traffic perhaps this will start a larger ball rolling. For a while there we did have a forum going in their feedback section but we were generating too many complaints so they simply pulled the page off their site. Now that's a good way of dealing with the problem!

BeveridgeJohn Kelly's House, situated at Kelly Street in Beveridge, is in a pitiful state indeed. The entire house is in need of urgent repair and restoration yet the National Trust seem to be ignoring it. All around the homestead houses are springing up. Only 100 metres away we can see a residential house erected on the same block! In less than 10 years this entire area will be just another outer suburb of Melbourne, full of houses, streets and people.

Remember what happened to Phar Lap's stables? The original area where they stood was taken over by development so they moved them to Braeside Park where they were destroyed by fire after years of abuse by vandals. Is this what is to become of the Kelly house? Are the powers that be hoping a lighted match will end their headache about what to do with the property? Or do they simply not care?

This homestead is part of Australia's living history. Our heritage buildings are sadly few and far between. We have already seen the destruction of the bank in Jerilderie as well as other significant Kelly landmarks. Is the government on some sort of secret agenda to rid us of this part of history?

have YOUR sayWe need to get the public interested in restoring this vital piece of Australia. We need debate on the issue. We need media support. We need to shame the government and National Trust into doing something positive. And we need to raise funds to get the job done. But first we need to generate some ground support.

Further reading: Why save Beveridge? | How to save Beveridge

Trust Details: John Kelly's House Beveridge Victoria 3753
Municpality: Mitchell Shire Place Type: House
Region: North East Victoria Class: State
File No: B2166 Classified: 15 March 1984
Category: Building Citation Type: Trust
Citation: A cottage of about 1860-1863, of interest because it was probably the childhood home of Ned Kelly from 1863-1866 and illustrates the lifestyle of the Irish smallholders from whom he sprang. It also has features of minor architectural interest, including elegant iron grates and wood-grained ledged and braced doors.

STEVE HARTSteve Hart descendant Paul O'Keefe has alerted me to yet another ridiculous Kelly Gang claim (the latest in a line of many). Not just content to see Dan escape, this time around Steve also made a bolt from the Glenrowan Inn fire (so why was Ned heading back when they had both left?). Lucky Steve also headed north where he lived a long and happy life in Queensland under the name of Billy Meade. Apparently this Meade character confessed about his double identity on his deathbed in 1938. Well, in that case, it
[dna could solve kelly mystery]

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