MT. LITTLE DICK


Lat / Long -37.657738, 147.828546
Department FCV...etc...DEECA
Work Depot Bruthen
Region Gippsland
Grading Secondary
Elevation (ASL) 300m
Height 17.5m
Construction Timber
Cabin size ?
Public access to site Yes
In use since 1940 - 199?
CFA Region 11 - Eastern
THIS TOWER IS NO LONGER USED!
Photo supplied by Ray Lucas
In the Forest Commission's Annual Report from 1928-29 is the following entry:
Negotiations are in hand for the establishment of a lookout station, viz: Mt. Little Dick.
This station will serve in conjunction with the already established tower on Mt. Nowa Nowa for the detection and location of outbreaks of fires in the Nowa Nowa and Bruthen Forest District.

The tower is constructed using large hand-hewn spliced legs, with timber bracing, steel re-enforced joints and steel bolts. Cecil Cross and Charlie Wain, well known Forest commission identities, built this tower using Ironbark (Eucalyptus Sideroxylon) and Yellow Stringybark (Eucalyptus Muelleriana), obtained and squared on site.
The Mt. Little Dick fire tower is historically significant as a rare artefact associated with the evolution of the State's fire detection system.

Information supplied by the Historical Section of the NRE from a rapport by David Bannear.

Please click on thumbnails for enlargements
Close-up of
tower and cabin
supplied by
Historical Section of the NRE 		View from Mt. Little Dick
supplied by
Historical Section of the NRE 		Tower in 2009
supplied by Richard Webb 		Close-up of cabin in 2009
supplied by Richard Webb


Close-up of
structure
supplied by Ray Lucas (2001?) 		Close-up of
structure
supplied by Ray Lucas (2001?) 		Footings
supplied by Ray Lucas (2001?)

The above photos were taken and supplied by Geoff and Jan Graham in late April 2022. Geoff is the FLO of the West of England fire tower in NW Victoria.

In June 2025, we received the news that the Mount Little Dick Fire Tower was formally included in the Victorian Heritage Register. You can see the listing online here

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