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The Railways Assisted by Building a Platform Nearer to the Rupertswood Encampment, They also helped by
constructing ‘a fine bridge across the creek, and cut a zig-zag path up the ascent' (The Argus, 2/4/1866). This path
situated in ’Cannon Gully’, is as prominent today as it would have been when the crowds used it to climb up the
steep escarpment to the valley top.
| Easter Encampment at Rupertswood. |
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| (C) Courtesy of George Evans Museum. 0636 |
Two and a half thousand participants poured into Sunbury by train, with bands playing, and in high spirits. Trains
left Spencer
Street every half-hour for Sunbury, where the crowds were greeted by the stentorian lungs of cabbies
spruiking for fares, exaggerating the distance to the camp (at Rupertswood). (Heritage Study BB 34).
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