goldfields

Near Greymouth. Seen from the Tranzalpine train an abandonned cottage with feral rhododendrons flowering in the paddock.
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Gulgong. The Anglican Church. Foundation stone 1874 opened 1876. Architect Edmund Blacket. Unusual stone and wood structure.The side door.
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Penola. The Post Office in Georgian style built in 1876. It is used for other commercial services now.
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Goldfields closer up
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Tyrconnell gold mine battery, Hodgkinson goldfield, 1936
by State Library of Queensland, Australia

Calothamnus gilesii
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Port Douglas. Getting the lazy boys ready for the sun bathers.
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Geelong. Former YMCA building 78 Yarra Street. Art Deco style windows, classical open clam style entrance and Greek wreaths above pillasters. Built 1932. Architect Schefferle. Funds raised by returned soldiers for it.
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Calandrinia sp Menzies
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Adelaide. Thebarton Police and Mounted Police Barracks. Built in 1916. Soon to be demolished. Currently the Police Museum. British Royal Marine display. .
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Gulgong. Old gold mining town. The Ten Dollar Hotel. This 1904 hotel was featured on the early Australian ten dollar notes.
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Peterborough. The state school. It opened in 1881 with 96 pupils but not in this building. This fine large stone school was opened in 1883.
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Hill End. Old cottage from the gold mining days of the 19th century
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Geelong. Decoration fo the oriel tower window of the Gordon Technical College. Building started in 1887 and opened in 1888. Became the Gordon Institue of Technolgy and now is Gordon College of TAFE. Right hand wing added 1916.
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Eldorado Dredge
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Robe. First settled town of the South East. The old Bank House. Built 1857. Architect was Edmund Wright. Became the Bank of South Australia in 1860.
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Maryborough. Part of the rusty roof of the old Walkers Foundry and shipyards. Taken from the Mary Ann steam train.
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Phacelia and Goldfields
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Maldon. Amazing three dimensional effect of brick work on an old cottage. McArthurs Cottage in High Street. Built in 1860s.
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Penola. Stained glass window in Mary MacKillop Shrine. She is now Saint Mary MacKillop.
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Coonalpyn. Old tin and iron blacksmith shop or similar. Now up for sale.
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Edenhope. Pretty garden in front of the the Lutheran Church with a fine stained glass window. Built in 1916 as an Anglican Church but now the Lutheran.
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Sofala NSW. Near Sofala. Striking autumn colours of the poplar trees.
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Batlow.NSW. A flowering Sappho rhododendron in November 2024.
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Beechworth. The Ovens Goldfields Hospital built between 1857 and 1864 was erected in classical palladian style. It opened in 1857. It was demolished in 1940 leaving just the granite front.
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Biggenden Queensland. A rusty metal sculpture of a Boab tree near the old railway station.
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Gympie. Early 20th cenutry store in the Main Street. Art Deco in style.
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Gympie. Gold miner's display in the Gympie Gold Museum complex.
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Penola. The Catholic Church built in 1924 with the glass curved Saint Mary MacKillop Shrine. Built in 1998.
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Gulgong. The old gold mining town. This centennial hotel was built in 1888 for the centenary of the founding of the Australian colonies.
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Penola. The old Mechanics Institute built in 1869. Architect was W Gore. Now the John Riddoch Centre and museum.
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Young. The rear part of the state school which opened in these buildings in 1883. The first school opened in 1861. Now also part of the Lambing Flat Museum.
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Steamtown Railway Museum Peterborough. The evening Sound and Light Show in the Roundhouse with viewing from an old railway carriage.
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Tintinara. Tintinara homestead built around 1865 for William Harding. His pastoral partner was George Bunn.
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Apsley. This public hall was built in 1961. The original Apsley Institute was erected in the 1880s.
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Tumut. Geese and water birds along the edge of the Tumut River.
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Penola. The Mary MAcKillop Interpretive Centre. Built in 1998.
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Cape Tribulation lookout.
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Geelong. A side street view of a technology classroom with a large clerestory window in the Gordon Technical College which was built in 1887. In Little Malop Street.
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Thames on the Coromandel Peninsula. The Presbyterian Church built in 1898. Now a combined Methodist Presbyterian church.
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Bendigo. MacKenzie Street. The old Congregational Church. Architect was William Vahland. Built in 1890.Opposite it was the old Catholic Pro Cathedral designed by Vahland and built 1869.
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Grenfell. The old flourmill. Built in 1901 after the railway from Cowra reached the town. Named the Challenge mill but later changed. Closed probably in the 1960s like most flourmills.
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Penola. A reconstruction of Alexander Cameron and his wifes cabin home. Built around 1845. His wife was Margaret MacKillop. Saint Mary MacKillop lived here as governess 1860 to 1862..
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Bendigo. The former Masonic Hall and Temple designed by Vahland and built in 1867. It later became the Capitol theatre in 1890 and is now part of the Art Gallery.
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Gympie. A view of the Mary River from the Mary Valley Rattler steam train travelling between Gympie and Amamoor. Smoke from the engine is drifting across the river.
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Kapunda. The ballroom of Eringa which Sir Sidney Kidman owned from 1899 until he donated it for Kapunda High school in 1921. Note the fine ceiling.
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Beechworth. The Ovens Goldfields Hospital built between 1857 and 1864 was erected in classical palladian style. It opened in 1857. It was demolished in 1940 leaving just the granite front. View from the rear.
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Mossman Gorge.
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Young. The 1886 Courthouse with its 1884 trianguar pediment NSW insignia. Given to Education Dept in 1924. With additions opened as Young High School in 1947
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6 February 1998 - Zoomed view of Fraser's open cut gold mine, Southern Cross, Western Australia
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Goldfields 02
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Gulgong. Henry Beaufoy Merlin and Charles Bayliss photographed Gulgong gold rush in 1872. 500 glass plate negatives are now the Holtermann Collection Museum. UNESCO heritage listed. Bark slab hut.
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Coonalpyn. South Australia. Evocative images of local school children painted on the wheat silos.
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Geelong. 44 Corio Street. As marked the old Wool Exchange where Western Districts wool was bought and sold. Built 1927 to 1928 in neo classical style.
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Gulgong. Hotel corner in this old gold mining town. The Centennial and Ten Dollar Hotel.
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Eldorado Dredge
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Maldon. The old Welsh Baptist Church.
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The Arrest of Henry Seekamp (7 of 11)
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Buninyong near Ballarat. This cottage was erected in 1851 for Thomas Hiscock the man who discovered the first gold of the Ballarat goldfields in August 1851. Hiscock died in 1855. The cottage is well maintained.
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Castlemaine. In the grounds of Buda House. The old tennis pavilion next to the 19th century tennis courts.
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