Alexander Gillespie, Marion McClure,
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| Alexander Gillespie (junior), looking a bit like the family
bushranger. Born: 1832, Colinton Dell, near Edinburgh, Scotland. |
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| Part of a stereoscopic pair, this photo was most likely shot by Alexander's son, Walter, who had a stereoscopic camera when he undertook his 1905 visit to Britain. |  |
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| Marion Gillespie, ne้ McClure, Alexander's wife. Born: |
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| Young Walter poses in what a well-bred young lad wore in the late nineteenth century, regardless of climate. |  |
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| Dights Falls Mill. In 1887, a group including Alexander Gillespie, operating as Yarra Falls Roller Flour Mills, purchased the site of the original Dights Falls Mill. They constructed a new mill on the site, with 500 horsepower water-driven turbines. Continuing problems with water power led to it being converted to steam in the 1890's. It was sold in 1909, and burned down soon afterwards. Being the oldest surviving industrial site in Melbourne, it has now been restored. |
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