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The roof tiles on McCrae Homestead had to come from Canada. That's the kind of detail that makes heritage restoration expensive, and exactly why the National Trust's Mornington Peninsula Branch had to fundraise hard to fix it. Built from 1843 by the McCrae family, among the earliest colonial settlers on the Peninsula (the suburb takes its name from them), the homestead later passed to the Burrell family for 75 years, before the National Trust bought it back from a McCrae desc

An outdoor bush chapel built from local Moorooduc stone, nearly sold off from under a community that had grown up with it. That was the starting point for the Cyril Young Memorial Chapel Association's eight-year restoration project in Shoreham. The chapel, now 75 years old, sits within YMCA Camp Buxton and doubles as a registered war memorial, named for Captain Cyril Young, who died as a prisoner of war in Borneo. It commemorates YMCA members and campers who served and were l