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[[Victor_Campbell.JPG|200px|thumb|left|Victor Campbell, 1961. Image courtesy Central Western Daily Negative Collection Orange & District Historical Society.]]

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200px|thumb|left|Victor Campbell, 1961. Image courtesy Central Western Daily Negative Collection Orange & District Historical Society.



During the course of his life Victor Campbell planted many hundreds, if not, thousands of trees and shrubs. Describing himself as “a self-styled landscape gardener”, Victor planted and landscaped the grounds of Orange Infants School, Orange High School and Canobolas Rural Technology High School.

Born in Orange in 1899, Vic spent his entire life at the family property, Sheltering Pines on Pinnacle Road. He was educated at Canobolas Public School and Orange High School, initially at its temporary location in the School of Arts building in Byng Street prior to the construction of the first high school on the corner of March and Sale streets (now part of TAFE NSW Orange).

In 1923 Vic married Ivy Ethel Formby at St Paul’s Church of England in Murrumburrah, near Young. Vic and Ivy had four children: Daphne, Enid, Nancy and Alan.

Victor was very prominent in the Orange agricultural and social community. During the course of his life he was a member of the Junior Farmers’ Advisory Council, a representative of the Vegetable Growers’ Association, a long-serving board member of the Orange Producers Rural Co-operative Society (OPR) and the Orange Fruitgrowers‘ Co-op Cool Stores. He was on the Orange Show Society committee for 50 years, a vestryman of Holy Trinity Church for 20 years and a patron of Orange High School P and C Association.

Victor Campbell died in Orange on 23 May 1984, aged 85.

Victor’s lasting legacy lives on in the form of the colourful Campbell’s Corner, a small triangle of Crown land on Pinnacle Road adjacent to Sheltering Pines. Between 1938 and 1978 Victor planted some 500 exotic cold climate trees and shrubs, featuring 200 varieties from 20 countries. Cypress, conifers, cedars, prunus and oaks planted by him continue to provide a contrast of foliage that is particularly spectacular in autumn.

On 16 April 1966 the president of Canobolas Shire Council unveiled a memorial to Victor Campbell in appreciation of his efforts to beautify the district. Two bronze memorial plaques read:

This plaque represents an expression of appreciation by Canobolas Shire Council to Victor Campbell for services rendered
in fostering and encouraging the creation of many beauty spots throughout the shire.
These beautiful surroundings serve to perpetuate the memory of Ivy and Victor Campbell life long residents of Pinnacle Road 1965.
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