Block sale will end family circle

A FAMILY connection with the town of its name is about to end.

Ken Arnold is selling the block of land in Arnold that went full circle in family ownership over more than 150 years.

“The centre block of the now consolidated title was originally occupied by David Arnold,” says Ken, a regular contributor of history stories in the Loddon Herald.

“David Arnold and his family emigrated from Gamlingay, England, during 1857, they briefly lived in the Eaglehawk area before moving to Tarnagulla where he had a milk round and a restaurant but in 1859 the family moved to allotment 28B a pre emptive right block at Kangderaar, now Arnold.

“Arnold built a simple fourroomed weatherboard cottage near to where the two fig trees grow.

“As the gold bearing ore that was being mined at Inglewood had to be crushed at Tarnagulla, Arnold and his two eldest sons, namely William John and David Russell, blazed a track from Inglewood to Kangderaar thus shortening the journey of the bullock drays by several miles as the drays had to go towards Bridgewater where they crossed the Bulabul creek before turning south down what is now Wilson’s lane then heading south to Tarnagulla.

“Arnold built a low-level log bridge just upstream of his house, over the Bulabul creek.”

Ken says folklore has it that a toll was charged to cross the bridge with a shanty on the east side of the shallow crossing, a waggon loaded with wool being the first to cross the bridge.

“It was not long before the crossing became known as Arnold’s Bridge,” he said.

“As the Kangderaar creek, which flows from out around Rheola, joins the Bulabul creek just upstream from Arnold’s bridge the first decent flood that came washed his bridge away.

“David Arnold apparently built a more substantial bridge that was eventually replaced by a high-level bridge some 80 metres upstream.

“This bridge provided a good crossing point until around the end of World War Two when it was replaced by another bridge. The latter bridge was burnt out in the 1965 bushfire. Eventually the two current concrete bridges were erected, a little further upstream.

“In the meantime a small township sprang up east of the Bulabul creek, there being the Junction Hotel, a store, school, hall, church, a cheese factory and another hotel called the Halfway, the latter two standing at the corner of the Arnold West-

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Kingower road.” Ken said the Arnold family eventually had land east of the railway line, midway between the Bulabul Creek and the fiveway junction on the Rheola-Arnold road, at Arnold West, and at that junction.

“The pre-emptive right passed down through William John and then to his son William who purchased the land around 1909.

“William Arnold sold the land in 1919 as he was relocating to Bamawm where he had an orchard.

“It was around this time that the name of the little township was shortened to Arnold.

“Eventually the block was purchased by Albert Henry Bramley, my grandfather.

“My mother Edna Bramley remembers the two fig trees being there when she was a little girl, they still offer a welcome site on a hot day. Oh, by the way you can still get a good feed a figs to this day, if the birds don’t beat you.

“Eventually the house was moved to Daly Street, Maryborough where it still stands to this day.”

Ken said the land passed from Bert Bramley to his youngest son George who in turn sold it to him, thus the ownership ‘has gone the full circle’.

“However. all good things have to come to an end.” z The 2.85 ha of land on the sealed Dunolly-Inglewood Road, Arnold is being sold by FP Nevins & Co, Inglewood.

The land is described as: “A lifestyle getaway block it is a lovely rural allotment, with excellent grass cover as it is bold loam soil. The WM pipeline passes through the block (not connected) and power is overhead. The block backs onto the Bulabul creek whilst the recreation reserve is across the creek. Fully fenced on the bank of the creek and the road frontage.”

Inspection is by appointment.

Including shearing shed – 3 stand with attached sheep yards and spray dip. In 4 paddocks.

Machinery Shed 19m x 6.5 m Zinc alum & steel construction with earth floor.

2nd Machinery Shed 29m x 8m Gal Iron construction with earth floor.

Raised barn 8m x 12m with Plastank & hay shed.

Land – Loam top to a clay base with lovely arable flats, excellent grazing or cropping allotment.

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