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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. DIGGERS AND MINERS, c1800s
Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. Walhalla - Gold Town. The first mining supplies were brought from Port Albert. Pack horses were the most practicable means of transport. Picture shows the pack horses heavily laden in a town. Markings: 20 995 WAL. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Ephemera - Aileen and John Ellison Collection: Cobb & Co.flag
RFDS was begun by Reverend John Flynn as an aerial Medical Service out of Cloncurry, Queensland in 1928. By 1934 it had expanded across outback Australia. Cobb and Co. was a stagecoach line transporting diggers between the gold fields. There were many coach lines but there names were generalised to "Cobb and Co. It operated between 1853 and 1924.Two small blue and white flag for Cobb & Co. - Royal flying Doctor service 1963 coach run souvenir. The flag has a map of Australia, a horse drawn coach with two men driving, the emblem of the flying doctors and the route from Melbourne to Port Douglas.cobb & co., flying doctors, coach run -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: THE MAN ON THE LAND
BHS Collection Bendigo Advertiser '' The way we were'' from Saturday, February 28, 2004. The man on the land: George McDonnell transports hay to Bendigo from Winzar farm, on five-tonne cart drawn by five horses. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were