Scrapbook contains history

By Lachlan Ellis

A locally published book shines a light on the history of the ‘Bungeeltap’ property south of Ballan, with hundreds of pages of photos and information spread over two volumes.

Arthur Ranken compiled and published ‘The Bungeeltap Scrapbook’, which he said was a passion project that had been years in the making.

“It explains the development of the Ballan area from day go. Cowie, Stead and Von Steiglitz came up the East Moorabool River and found open timber grassland, and decided that would be a good place to graze their livestock. Bungeeltap was originally 30,000 acres, and extended from the Moorabool River across to the Egerton-Ballark Road, up towards the Egerton-Ballan Road,” Mr Ranken told the Moorabool News.

“My parents owned Bungeeltap from 1944 to 1984, and took it from 32 bales of wool a year to 260 bales of wool a year,” he said.

Mr Ranken said the Scrapbook took about eight years to fiddle with.

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in the 14 December 2021 edition
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