53-580: The Emerald Hill Theatre was a theatre company and venue in Melbourne, Australia, which operated from 1962 to 1966. The 140-seat Emerald Hill Theatre was at 250 Dorcas St, South Melbourne, in a former church converted by architect Robin Boyd . It was established by director Wal Cherry and actor, writer/director George Whaley . Cherry described it being inspired by three characteristics appearing in Australian arts at
106-565: A heart murmur . In early July his condition worsened and he was admitted to St Andrew's Hospital (now the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre) in Melbourne; he was diagnosed with interstitial pneumonia , told that the infection had settled in one of his heart valves and administered massive six-hourly doses of ampicillin . He recovered somewhat and struggled on through August–September, maintaining his usual heavy work schedule, but in early October his condition deteriorated again and he
159-636: A campus located to the south of the CBD adjacent to the railway station . The Education Centre Gippsland has recently taken over the courses previously provided by the McMillan Institute of Land and Food Resources, a former campus of the University of Melbourne . The courses offered encompass the areas of agriculture , equine management , harness racing , horticulture and conservation and land management . A Monash University campus located in close proximity to
212-564: A director at MIT. In 1958 Boyd wrote the liner notes for satirist Barry Humphries ' first commercial recording, a 7-inch EP , Wild Life in Suburbia (1958). Boyd wrote nine books. His groundbreaking Australia's Home (1952) was the first substantial historical survey of Australian domestic architecture, and his best-known and most influential work, The Australian Ugliness (1960) was a popular and outspoken criticism of prevailing establishment tastes in architecture and in popular culture. Boyd
265-541: A free twice-monthly print and online newspaper, the Warragul & Baw Baw Citizen . The Warragul Citizen was established in 2011 as a quarterly print paper before becoming bi-monthly in 2012, covering Warragul, Drouin and Yarragon. The paper's online news offering started in late 2011 and covers all of Baw Baw. The paper moved to being online-only in 2013, printing the last physical edition of its original run in February. In 2014
318-503: A modest bus network consisting of four routes within the town's boundaries. Each route has a frequency of three services a day. There are also bus services to neighbouring towns. The Warragul bus network was recently upgraded with the Myki technology, fitted to all town buses. This ticketing system has been implemented on the V/Line Train services during 2014–15. Warragul United Soccer Club
371-562: A population of 19,856 people. Warragul forms part of a larger urban area that includes nearby Drouin that had an estimated total population of 42,827 as of the 2021 census . Warragul is the main population and service centre of the West Gippsland region and the Shire of Baw Baw . The surrounding area is noted for dairy farming and other niche agriculture and has long been producing gourmet foods. Warragul (or warrigal, worrigle, warragal)
424-518: A prominent family. Her father, John Gerard Anderson , had been director of the Queensland Department of Public Instruction, her brother Arthur was a well-known physician, and her eldest sister Maud was of one of the first women to graduate with an Arts degree from the University of Sydney and is thought to have been Queensland's first female university graduate. Robin Boyd and his elder brother Pat spent their early childhood at 'The Robins',
477-647: A significant force in Australian architecture and through the 1950s and 1960s Boyd developed a number of important houses in the regional style, including a 1952 Canberra house for Australian historian Manning Clark . Boyd was a prolific architect, with over 200 designs to his credit in his relatively short career. He was the sole designer of most of these projects although a number of early commissions were jointly designed with his unofficial partners Kevin Pethebridge and Frank Bell (1945–47) and others were jointly designed with his partners Grounds and Romberg (1953–62). After
530-480: A studio for Arthur Boyd on the Boyd property, Open Country , at Murrumbeena . A further cousin was Joan à Beckett Weigall, Lady Lindsay (author of Picnic at Hanging Rock ). She married Sir Daryl Lindsay , director of the National Gallery of Victoria , brother to artists Norman Lindsay and Sir Lionel Lindsay . Robin Boyd's Queensland -born mother, Edith , was herself a skilled painter who also came from
583-869: A variety of topics and issues relating to Australia, architecture and design and prevailing cultural values of the time, under the series title Artificial Australia . Robin Boyd was awarded the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1969. Ten years after Boyd's death the Australian Institute of Architects established and named their top national residential prize as the Robin Boyd Award for New Residential Architecture and it has been presented annually since 1981. Boyd travelled overseas in April–May 1971, when he contracted an infection and on his return to Australia his doctor detected
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#1733085369042636-516: Is a New South Wales Indigenous word from the Darug language meaning dingo . The town name is accepted to mean wild dog and various businesses in the town use the words 'Wild Dog' in their name. However, the word was recorded as being used by settlers of Gippsland in the 1840s and 1850s to mean wild Aboriginal or a Gunai/Kurnai person. The traditional land of the Gunai/Kurnai people includes
689-462: Is a major drawcard for the Warragul area. Every year in late March, Warragul plays host to these Field Days at Lardner Park. The Field Days are Australia's premier mixed farming Field Days and they include one of Australia's most diverse ranges of beef cattle, dairying and horticulture exhibits. Warragul is also home to the annual Warragul Show , which is held on the first Friday of March each year. It
742-714: Is frequent (spread between 153.9 precipitation days). Consequently, the town is not sunny, experiencing 171.4 cloudy days and only 52.6 clear days annually. Extreme temperatures have ranged from 42.3 °C (108.1 °F) on 25 February 1968 to −3.7 °C (25.3 °F) on 4 July 1963. Warragul is the major township closest to Lardner, the home of the Gippsland Field Days. Three major events are held at Lardner Park each year—the Farm World agricultural show, Trucks in Action, and Harvest of Gippsland. The Farm World agricultural show
795-650: Is historically referred to as the Warragul Hills. The range effectively separates the flatlands of the Koo-Wee-Rup swamp (starting near Longwarry ) in the west and the Moe Swamp on the eastern side (starting near Darnum ). Warragul contains the Linear Park Arts Discovery Trail, a trail covering several adjacent parks in the town. It features painted bollards, mosaics and murals. The trail joins up with
848-466: Is traditionally a farming and livestock show, but includes rides, stalls, games, fireworks and showbags. It is held at the Warragul showgrounds. For a town of its size, Warragul has a large education industry with four primary schools, three secondary schools and two tertiary institutions. Both Warragul Primary (opened in 1879) and Warragul North Primary (opened c.1954) are state primary schools, St. Joseph's Catholic Primary Warragul and St. Angela's of
901-555: The Drouin to Warragul Two Towns Trail . Warragul has an oceanic climate ( Köppen: Cfb), with warm summers and cool, rainy winters. Average maxima vary from 26.2 °C (79.2 °F) in February to 12.9 °C (55.2 °F) in July, while average minima fluctuate between 13.2 °C (55.8 °F) in February and 3.8 °C (38.8 °F) in July. Precipitation is moderately abundant: (averaging 1,020.2 mm (40.17 in) per annum), and
954-826: The Gippsland Football League , the Warragul Football Club , and another, the Warragul Industrials, competing in the Ellinbank & District Football League . The Warragul & District Junior Football League caters for younger Australian rules footballers, with three teams based in Warragul: the Colts, Warranor (at Eastern Park ) & the Blues (at Marist-Sion College ). The WDJFL has three competitions, consisting of
1007-497: The Gippsland railway line began simultaneously from both directions. The Warragul railway station opened on 1 March 1878 and the first train ran through in the same month. In May 1890 Warragul railway station became a junction station when a branch line was opened to Rokeby (later extended to Neerim South and Noojee ). The first Warragul post office opened on 16 March 1877 at the general store operated by James Biram, who became
1060-613: The Cross are Catholic schools, and St. Paul's Anglican Grammar School is an Anglican Church of Australia (formerly Church of England) primary school. Warragul & District Specialist School is a junior school that focuses on educating children aged 5 to 10 years of age. The school uses a series of teaching tools such as PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) and AUSLAN. There are three secondary schools in Warragul, these include Warragul Regional College, Marist-Sion College and St Paul's Anglican Grammar School . Warragul Regional College
1113-694: The Drouin-based West Gippsland Community Radio, 103.1 3BBR FM. Warragul has community radio station for print disability, Vision Australia Radio Warragul broadcasts on 93.5FM. The radio reception available in Warragul includes many of the Melbourne commercial stations (such as 105.1 Triple M , Smooth 91.5 , 3AW 693 , Nova 100 ), ABC Broadcasters ( 774 ABC Melbourne , 96.7 Triple J and 100.7 ABC Gippsland ) and Gippsland commercial stations based further east in Traralgon ( 99.5 TRFM and Gold 1242 ). During World War II , Warragul
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#17330853690421166-685: The Logan Park Showgrounds. The track opened on 14 September 1956. Golfers play at the course of the Warragul Country Club on Sutton Street. Warragul possesses one of the best outdoor velodromes in the state and is serviced by the Warragul Cycling Club (WCC), which runs road races most Saturdays on the outskirts of the town. The club hosts the Baw Baw Classic road race, held early each April. This race features one of
1219-659: The Malvern Church of England Grammar School, where he completed his schooling. He sat for his Leaving Certificate in 1934 and although he failed one subject (Commercial Principles) at the first attempt, he passed that the following year. He had evidently decided quite early on architecture as his chosen career so his mother arranged for him to be articled to leading Melbourne architect Kingsley Henderson . He served in Papua New Guinea during World War II and resumed his architectural career in 1945. Boyd first came to notice in
1272-757: The RMIT Design Archives Journal was produced to mark these two anniversaries entitled: Robin Boyd Redux. Warragul Warragul is a town in Victoria, Australia , 102 kilometres (63 miles) south-east of Melbourne . Warragul lies between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the Mount Baw Baw Plateau of the Great Dividing Range to the north. As of the 2021 census , the town had
1325-470: The acrimonious departure of Grounds from the practice in 1962, Romberg continued in partnership with Boyd until the latter's death. Boyd was equally prolific and influential as a writer, commentator, educator and public speaker, vehemently supporting modernism in his The Australian Ugliness (1960) with a condemnation of visual pollution and vulgar 'featurism'. His work was documented and promoted by photographers Mark Strizic and Wolfgang Sievers , then
1378-499: The company of another person, but he lost control of the vehicle on a sharp bend near Warragul and it overturned. The passenger survived but Penleigh suffered terrible injuries and died at the scene within minutes. The proceeds of Penleigh's estate—including the sale of 'The Robins', the repaired car and about 40 paintings, plus an annual allowance from Penleigh's father, and a small inheritance from her own father—enabled Edith Boyd to support her sons without needing to work, even during
1431-540: The depths of the Depression . After Penleigh's death Edith and the boys lived for a time in rented premises in upperclass Toorak and Robin's first two years of schooling were at Glamorgan Preparatory School . Edith bought a modest house in East Malvern in 1927, when Robin was enrolled at the nearby Lloyd Street State School . As a schoolboy he read widely and became a fan of films and jazz music. In 1930 he moved on to
1484-405: The early arrivals in the area were squatters, who had erected their shops and dwellings on Crown land. The squatters' blocks were not offered for the first sale of town land on 2 March 1878, but were available to purchase on the second sale later that month. In November 1873, The Victorian Parliament passed an Act approving the construction of a railway linking Oakleigh to Sale. The construction of
1537-526: The exhibition, which was staged in Sydney and Melbourne during July–August. During his wife's absence Penleigh had a brief affair with another woman but shortly before his family returned from England he bought back 'The Robins' and purchased a new car. Edith, Pat and Robin returned to Australia on 23 November 1923, but Penleigh and Edith had a heated argument soon after the homecoming. A few days later, for reasons unknown, Penleigh left Melbourne to drive to Sydney in
1590-500: The family home and studio that his father had built on land he purchased at Warrandyte , near Melbourne but in 1922 Penleigh sold 'The Robins' and moved his family to Sydney. Soon after arriving, he was enlisted by Sydney Ure Smith as one of the organisers of a major exhibition of contemporary European art. Penleigh took his family with him to England late in the year to pick paintings; he returned to Sydney without them in June 1923 to set up
1643-690: The famous Dutch Jug brand and butter under the Iceberg brand. It exported butter, butter oil and milk powders to Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Warragul was voted Premier Town in Victoria, 1970–1973. The Warragul Magistrates' Court closed on 1 January 1990. Warragul is located on hills that extend north from the Strzelecki Ranges near Ellinbank , joining to the Baw Baws in the Neerim District. This range
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1696-427: The first postmaster. A contract to build an official post office was made on 4 April 1887 and a foundation stone was laid on 4 June 1887. The building was completed and occupied the following year. Warragul's modern post office was opened on 3 April 1967, after the old post office closed on 18 September 1965 and was demolished in 1966. Existing roads were renamed Princes Highway after the visit to Australia in 1920 of
1749-689: The hardest climbs in the country and has been won by riders such as 2000 Cyclist of the year, Dave McKenzie, Tour de France Stage Winner, Simon Gerrans and 2009 Australian Road Champion, Peter McDonald. Warragul has two weekly local newspapers, The Warragul and Drouin Gazette and a free publication, The West Gippsland Trader . According to the Warragul Regional Newspapers website, The Gazette and The Trader are distributed to locations from as far as Pakenham to Moe and from Poowong to Noojee , covering over 40,000 readers. Warragul also has
1802-661: The late 1940s for his promotion of inexpensive, functional, partially prefabricated homes incorporating modernist aesthetics. Most of his architectural output was residential, although he also designed some larger buildings including the Domain Park residential tower block and the John Batman Motor Inn in Melbourne and the Australian headquarters of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust in Canberra , on which he
1855-527: The most prominent in their field. For many years from 1947 he was director of The Age Small Homes Service and influenced many people with his popular weekly articles on the subject. He was also lecturer in architecture at the University of Melbourne , and in 1956-57 he took up a teaching position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston offered by Walter Gropius , a friend of Boyd's and
1908-578: The paper announced it would return to print with monthly editions from 11 July, changing the name to Warragul & Baw Baw Citizen in the process. The West Gippsland Gazette was published from 1898 to 1930 in Warragul; it has been digitised and is available on Trove . Warragul has two commercial radio stations, 531 3GG and 94.3 Triple M Gippsland . 3GG commenced in 1937, then known as 3UL. It changed its name to 3GG in 1989. Triple M Gippsland commenced broadcasting in 2002. Initially known as Sea FM and later Star FM and Hit FM. Warragul also receives
1961-471: The place name was an Indigenous word meaning wild . The word is also used for the naming of Warrigal Creek in South Gippsland to refer to the inhabitants of the area. The town of Warragul began as a construction camp on McLeod's Track, now Brandy Creek Road, at the point where the surveyed railway line linked to the coach road. John Lardner surveyed the townships along the line in 1877 and noted that
2014-511: The public for a small fee, and through this work Boyd became a household name in Victoria. In 1948 Boyd was the recipient of the RVIA Robert and Ada Haddon Travelling Scholarship. The scholarship gave Boyd his first opportunity to travel through Europe which would have a profound influence on his later work. In 1953 he formed a partnership with Frederick Romberg (1910–1992) and Roy Grounds (1905–1981); their influential Melbourne firm became
2067-471: The public hospital (West Gippsland Healthcare Group) provides clinical training and rural placements for medical students as part of Monash Rural Health. Warragul railway station is a staffed V/Line station located to the south of the Warragul CBD. The railway station is situated on the Gippsland railway line , which services the towns and suburbs between Bairnsdale and Southern Cross . Warragul has
2120-492: The summer season for a swim/cycle/run event. The club caters for all ages and abilities with Junior, Under 14, Fun Tri, Super-Sprint, A Grade and B Grade categories. Weekly competition commences at the clubrooms opposite the indoor pool in Burke Street, Warragul. Warragul Harness Racing Club conducts regular meetings at its racetrack in the town. The Warragul Greyhound Racing Club holds regular greyhound racing meetings at
2173-516: The then Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII ). The highway was officially opened on 10 August 1920 at a ceremony in Warragul. Warragul's Petersville Milk Products Factory in Queen Street supplied the famous Peters Ice Cream brand's factory in Mulgrave with all the dairy raw material (fresh cream and concentrated skim milk) for 35 years. The plant also manufactured skim milk powder under
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2226-522: The time: "dissatisfaction with the pose of the Artist as Garret Dweller, impractical and effete; a desire to break through the elite circle which surrounds the arts into a more popular culture; [and] a definite need to bring the arts closer together in order to put pressure on the community". Robin Boyd (architect) Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd CBE (3 January 1919 – 16 October 1971)
2279-399: The town of Warragul, then intersects with Boonwurrung territory to the west of the town. In 1851, British botanist Daniel Bunce recorded warragul as a Boonwurrung language word meaning wild , ferocious and enemy . P D Gardner suggests Bunce was correct in translation, but incorrect in origin, since the word comes from Darug. Hugh Copeland wrote in his 1934 history of Warragul that
2332-681: The under-10s, under-12s and the Under-14½s. The Warragul Little Athletics Centre meets on Saturdays throughout the summer season at the Geoff Watt Memorial Track, Burke Street, Warragul. It caters for young athletes in age groups ranging from Under 6 through to Under 17. As well as competing locally, athletes are able to contest Regional and State Championships in Track & Field as well as Relay Championships and Multi-Events. Warragul's Wild Dog Triathlon Club also meets on Saturdays throughout
2385-522: Was a dogged critic of the decorative tendency that he dubbed "Featurism", which he described as: ... not simply a decorative technique, it starts in concepts and extends upwards through the parts of the numerous trimmings. It may be defined as the subordination of the essential whole and the accentuation of selected separate features. In 1967 Boyd presented the Boyer Lectures , which were broadcast nationally on ABC Radio . He delivered five lectures on
2438-592: Was a scion of the Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, and his extended family included painters, sculptors, architects, writers and others in the arts. Robin was the younger son of the painter Penleigh Boyd , and his own son, named after his grandfather Penleigh, is an architect. He was a nephew of author Martin Boyd and a first cousin of Australian painter Arthur Boyd and his brothers David and Guy . In 1938 his grandfather Arthur Merric Boyd offered him his first commission,
2491-556: Was admitted to the Royal Melbourne Hospital . Doctors puzzled over a diagnosis but eventually decided to extract all his teeth under full anaesthetic, believing the infection had settled there. He suffered a stroke while recovering from the operation, and although he briefly rallied enough to recognise his wife Patricia, he died three days later on 16 October 1971, aged 52. In 2005, the not-for-profit Robin Boyd Foundation
2544-791: Was an Australian architect , writer, teacher and social commentator. He, along with Harry Seidler , stands as one of the foremost proponents for the International Modern Movement in Australian architecture . Boyd is the author of the influential book The Australian Ugliness (1960), a critique on Australian architecture, particularly the state of Australian suburbia and its lack of a uniform architectural goal. Like his American contemporary John Lautner , Boyd had relatively few opportunities to design major buildings and his best known and most influential works as an architect are his numerous and innovative small house designs. Robin Boyd
2597-596: Was established by a group including Boyd's family, the Australian Institute of Architects (Victoria Chapter), the faculties of architecture at the University of Melbourne , Deakin University and RMIT University , and others with expertise, interest and commitment to the advancement of design. Their website lists the Foundation's aims, which are to deepen understanding of the benefits of design through design awareness, design literacy and design advocacy. The Hon. Gough Whitlam
2650-547: Was formed in 1994 from the merger of Warragul High School and Warragul Secondary College. Marist-Sion College was formed in 1975 as a result of the merger between the Marist Brothers Boys College and the Our Lady of Sion Girls College. St. Paul's Anglican Grammar School was formed in 1982 with just nineteen year 7 students and has grown quite significantly in recent years. The Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE has
2703-690: Was founded in 1963 and represent the town in Association Football, playing in the Victorian State League Division 1 South East . The Warragul Warriors are the representative teams of the Warragul and District Amateur Basketball Association. They have a long history of success, most recently winning the Gippsland and State titles in the Country Basketball League. The town has an Australian rules football team competing in
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#17330853690422756-571: Was the founding patron of the foundation. From 17 August to 2 October 2011, the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery displayed all of the houses that Boyd had created for the Mornington Peninsula region. The centenary of Boyd's birth in 2019 was marked by "the thirty-year anniversary of a two-day event comprising a public symposium, exhibition, publications and building tour dedicated to Robin Boyd." A special issue of
2809-451: Was working at the time of his death. Boyd was the first Director of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects Small Homes Service from 1947 to 1953 and for many years from 1948 he was the editor of this service for The Age newspaper, for which he also wrote weekly articles. The Small Homes Service provided designs of inexpensive houses, which attempted to incorporate modern architectural aesthetics and functional planning and were sold to
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