Brim is a small town in the

Wimmera The Wimmera is a region of the Australian state of Victoria. The district is located within parts of the Loddon Mallee and the Grampians regions; and covers the dryland farming area south of the range of Mallee scrub, east of the South Austral ...

region of

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, Australia. The town is located north west of the state capital,

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

on the

Henty Highway Henty Highway is a rural highway in western Victoria, Australia. It is primarily a north-south route, consisting of a mix of dual-lane, single-carriageway country highway and four-lane arterial road within some of the larger towns along the ro ...

. It is on the banks of the

Yarriambiack Creek The Yarriambiack Creek, an inland intermittent watercourse of the Wimmera catchment, is located in the Wimmera region of the Australian state of Victoria. Rising on the northern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, the Yarriambiack Creek flows gen ...

. It is in the

Shire of Yarriambiack The Shire of Yarriambiack is a local government area of Victoria, Australia, located in the north-western part of the state. It covers an area of and, in June 2018, had a population of 6,658, having fallen from 7,438 in 2008. It includes the tow ...

local government area. At the , Brim had a population of 171.

History

The area was first settled by Europeans in 1846 when the Brim

station Station may refer to: Agriculture * Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production * Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle ** Cattle statio ...

was established on the banks of the Yarriambiack Creek. When the town was surveyed in 1890, it was laid out over part of the station cemetery. One grave, that of James Simson, is still in good condition on the side of the road now called Simson Street. The station homestead, Willowbank, was built about 1870, and is still standing. There are also stables and other outbuildings from this era. The Post Office opened on 3 October 1890. The railway arrived in 1893 on the line from

Murtoa Murtoa is a wheat district town in Victoria, Australia, situated around Lake Marma on the Wimmera Highway, north-west of the state capital, Melbourne. The town is in the Shire of Yarriambiack local government area. At the , Murtoa had a populat ...

to Hopetoun. The railway station is no longer standing, but there are large grain silos on the railway station site. The railway tracks were converted to

standard gauge A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), International gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in Ea ...

in 1995 to allow large trains carrying mineral sands from Hopetoun to

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Today

Golfers play at the Brim Golf Club at the Recreation Reserve. The Brim Memorial Lawn Bowling club is also located in town playing in the local competition against clubs in nearby towns including Hopetoun and

Warracknabeal Warracknabeal ( ) is a wheatbelt town in the Australian state of Victoria. Situated on the banks of the Yarriambiack Creek, 330 km north-west of Melbourne, it is the business and services centre of the northern Wimmera and southern Mallee d ...

. There is only one hotel in town, the Commercial Hotel, which is located on the corner of Swann and Dixon streets. A recent addition to the town (2015) is the painting by the

Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...

artist

Guido van Helten Guido van Helten (born 1986) is an Australian artist, known for his photorealistic murals. Van Helten was raised in Brisbane and was a graffiti artist in his youth. He moved to Lismore, New South Wales to study visual arts at Southern Cross Uni ...

of a large scale mural on the grain

silo A silo (from the Greek σιρός – ''siros'', "pit for holding grain") is a structure for storing bulk materials. Silos are used in agriculture to store fermented feed known as silage, not to be confused with a grain bin, which is used t ...

which is a prominent feature of the town.

Gallery

File:Brim pioneer grave.JPG, James Simson's grave (1858) File:Brim general store.JPG, Brim general store (1891) File:Commercial Hotel Brim.JPG , Commercial Hotel File:MG 2268 Silo art-crop-1920px.jpg, alt=Guido Van Helten: Brim silo mural (2015) © Bruce R Mitchell 2016, Silo mural, painted by

in December 2015

References

External links

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