GUN (32 POUNDER)

VICTORIA PARADE PORTLAND, GLENELG SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The 32 pounder gun (currently (2011) located in a modern timber-lined gun bay adjacent to the Portland Battery) was made at the Carron Ironworks in Scotland in 1811, probably as a 24…

ROBERT BURNS STATUE

181 MANIFOLD STREET CAMPERDOWN, CORANGAMITE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The life-size sandstone statue of the famous Scottish poet Robert Burns and his dog, titled Burns, carved by John Greenshields. History Summary Robert Burns (1759-1796) was among the first…

Scots Church War Memorial

140-154 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

Vic. War Heritage Inventory

The Rev. James Forbes who arrived from Scotland to minister in the colony held his first service on 3 February, 1838. Rev. Forbes' first church was a temporary wooden building at the west…