Bendigo. One of the old city trams in Pall Mall. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Bendigo. One of the old city trams in Pall Mall. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Bendigo.This gold city literally sits above gold deposits. It is generally acknowledged that the wives of two workmen (Kennedy and Farrell) on Ravenswood sheep station found the first gold in 1851 on Bendigo Creek. A memorial to the two women was erected in Golden Square in 2001. A township emerged overnight as Bendigo although officially it was Sandhurst for some time. Diggers rushed to the Bendigo goldfields in November 1851 from mines at nearby Castlemaine. Bendigo went on to become one of the major goldfields in Australia with the mine giving up millions of dollars’ worth of gold. Alluvial gold was found near Golden Square but eventually petered out. Shaft mines continue finding gold at Epsom, Kangaroo Flat, Eaglehawk and Diamond Hill now suburbs of Bendigo. 30,000 miners including many Chinese flocked to the district in 1852 with government officials and police soon on their heals. The big boom in shaft mining commenced in the 1850s the some work still continuing. The main streets of Bendigo were surveyed in 1854 and many early structures from this period still remain but because of the wealth of the city grand and eloquent buildings were built a few years later in the 1870s and 1880s especially civic buildings, churches, banks, hotels and shops. Bendigo had a provincial Stock Exchange as gold company stocks were traded on markets around the world until it was closed in 2012. By the 1870s the city had 28,000 inhabitants. Many of the cities fine buildings were designed by a local architect William Charles (or Carl Wilhelm) Vahland who was born in Hanover Germany in 1828. Vahland arrived in Bendigo in 1854. He redesigned the Bendigo Town Hall between 1878-86 as well as designing the Fountain in Golden Square, the Masonic Temple (now the Capital Theatre), the famous Shamrock Hotel, Fortuna Villa and the School of Mines and Institute. The greater urban area of Bendigo today has over 110,000 people. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-07-10 15:47:52 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.005 sec (1/200) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.0 |