Gatsby Pool Party

On the outskirts of Skipton there's an old homestead, now owned by the National Trust of Victoria. It's an art deco museum with the house decked out as it was in the 1930s. Mooramong was home to Hollywood star and silent film actress Claire Adams, who lived there after her marriage to Scobie McKinnon. She met Scobie at a party in London in 1932 (the same year her previous husband had died) and they married three weeks later. The Mooramong homestead was refitted by the couple to be a 'jazz age showpiece' including a spectacular hand dug swimming pool. The couple drove around in a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost . I first heard about the pool...