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This photo shows Samuel Amess leaning on the verandah talking to a visitor. Samuel entertained many of Melbourne's elite at Churchill Island throughout the summer months. Ivy was commonly grown on houses of the era to cool the house in summer.

Churchill Island
Churchill Island
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This photo shows Samuel Amess leaning on the verandah talking to a visitor. Samuel entertained many of Melbourne's elite at Churchill Island throughout the summer months.

Ivy was commonly grown on houses of the era to cool the house in summer.

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Harry Jenkins - who owned CI from 1936 til his death in 1963 - his paraplegic son Ted at the cannon in the CI garden

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