The Surgery Wing of the Former Doctor's Surgery and Residence - Gavan Street, Bright

            One of the finer houses built on Bright’s Gavan Street is the former surgery and doctor’s residence built in 1862.  Built in the stripped back and elegant style of Victorian Regency its only real decoration is the simple brick quoining on the corners of the two wings.  Designed in a symmetrical style beneath the corrugated iron roof with a central verandah, the house is divided into two definite wings.  The left-hand wing was the doctor’s surgery and consultation rooms.  The right-hand wing was the household wing which boasted a music room, drawing and dining rooms, a kitchen and several bedrooms.  After the departure of the original Doctor Edward Hawkins, it remained the doctor’s surgery for Bright for over one hundred years under the stewardship of twenty-eight doctors.  Doctor Wood was the final doctor, who closed his practice and the function of the building as a doctor’s surgery and consultation rooms in 1977.  The former doctor’s surgery then took on a new life from the end of 1977 when it was converted into a restaurant called Barnaby’s.  Since then it has always been a restaurant under different names and different owners.  It is currently called The Elm Dining Room, so named for the beautiful deciduous trees found throughout the Bright township and the surrounding area. 

Bright, a town in north-east Victoria, is situated in the Ovens Valley and is part of the Alpine Region of Victoria. 210 kilometres from Melbourne, Bright was one of the towns in the Ovens Valley where gold was discovered.  Gold was found near the junction of Morses Creek and the Ovens River in the 1850s.  Established in 1862 and named Bright, most likely after John Bright (1811 - 1889) an English publicist, reformer and parliamentarian the township thrived.  With the Gold Rush in full swing, Bright soon had Catholic, Wesleyan and Presbyterian churches, schools, three hotels, three quartz mills and two bank branches.  As the yield of gold declined in the 1870s, so too did Bright’s population, yet by the 1880s, it became an alpine tourism town.  The Bright Alpine club was formed in 1887 and a community library was started there in 1889. In the following year Bright was connected by railway to Myrtleford and Wangaratta, bringing with it much needed tourists from Melbourne.  In 1910 a grand chalet was opened at Mount Buffalo and Bright ran a hire car service for visitors, who often stayed there overnight at a hotel or guesthouse.  In 1919 a secondary school was opened in Bright.  It also had a tourist progress association and local angling, bowling, racing, tennis and golf clubs amongst its many attractions.  By the mid 1920s the people of Bright began planting exotic trees partly for landscape improvement and partly to lay the summer dust. The street tree plantings produced extraordinary autumn colours.  By 1933, Bright was described as the “Tourism Capital of the Ovens Valley”.  Bright’s train line continued until 1983 when it was finally discontinued and replaced with coaches.  By that time, it was a well established tourism town with people flocking there all throughout the year for different reasons.  Bright is a base for exploring the peaks of Mount Buffalo National Park and Alpine National Park as well as Mount Hotham, a popular ski resort.  Bright is a starting point for the Murray to Mountains Rail Trail, a hiking and cycling path. Bright Museum, in the town’s former train station, documents rail and gold rush history.  The region is also known for wineries and of course its amazing display of autumnal foliage.

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Taken on: May 2, 2021

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