Joseph Harrison, born York UK 1810, convict sentenced seven years hard labour Van Diaeman's Land - Tasmania. Ticket of Leave August 1837. Arrived Williams Town (Port Phillip). 1840 worked as waterman. Married Margaret Barrett, relocated to Kilmore. Travelled to Bendigo Creek January 1853. By July 1853 had threatened to kill wife and eldest son William. Charged with attempted murder. He died 29 September 1854. Newspaper article from The Bendigo Monthly September 2020 Page 12, Includes copies of photographs and other newspaper articles within the story. Story of Joseph Harrison, convict on goldfields. Other place names and persons mentioned in article - Williams Town (Port Phillip), Kilmore, Bendigo Creek Sandhurst), Back Creek; William Harrison, Margaret Barrett, Matthew Welsh, Peter Parram, Anne Hayes, Sergeant James Simmonds, Police Magistrate Lachlan McLachlan, Ellen Robinson (nee Langam), Tasmasine Harrison, John Duggan (Corky Jack).

.1 - Full colour, 100 page, book, A5 size titled "Ballarat Victoria's goldfields Official Visitor Guide", with an autumn view across Lake Wendouree. Gives details, maps accommodation listing, attractions etc of the Ballarat area. Pages30 and 31 detail the Ballarat Tramway Museum and the BTM advertisement on page 48. Published 2011 by The Ballarat Visitor Information Centre. .2 - Full colour 16 page brochure, titled "Ballarat where Parks and Gardens come to life" with rear fold out cover of map of the Ballarat and Buninyong district. Notes steam boats and trams on page 6.trams, tramways, ballarat, visitors, tourist guides, btm, gardens

A history of the Wood's Point and Jordan gold fieldsPaperback. Beige cover. Front cover has a black and white photograph of miners standing and sitting around a mine cart that is sitting on railway tracks at the entrance to a mine.Back cover has a cartoon drawing of a pack horse that has fallen down a cliff with his rider trying to pull him back up by his tail. Inside the cover is a drawn map entitled 'Map of the Mining District round Wood's point'.Stamp of the Marysville & District Historical Society Inc / P.O. Box 22 / Marysville 3779 gold, gold field, gold mining, gold town, wood's point, jordan goldfields, victoria, australia, history, r w christie

A history of the Wood's Point and Jordan gold fieldsPaperback. Beige cover. Front cover has a black and white photograph of miners standing and sitting around a mine cart that is sitting on railway tracks at the entrance to a mine.Back cover has a cartoon drawing of a pack horse that has fallen down a cliff with his rider trying to pull him back up by his tail. Inside the cover is a drawn map entitled 'Map of the Mining District round Wood's point'.Stamp of Marysville & District / Historical Society Inc / P.O. Box 22 / Marysville 3779 gold, gold field, gold mining, gold town, wood's point, jordan goldfields, victoria, australia, history, r w christie

Joan O'Shea Collection. Goldfield Maps Dunolly 3 Sheets 1980. Page 1: Mines in Dunolly, Whistling Flat, Painswick and Surrounds. Page 2: Mines in Goldsborough, McKinnons Gap, Bealiba Range, Stewarts Flat and Surrounds. Page 3: Mines in Dunolly, Emu Creek, Bet Bet, Bromley & Surrounds. Scale in Chains and Kilometres.GoldField Maps 1980 based on Dunolly 7624 by Division of National Mappinggold, goldfields, goldfield maps dunolly & surrounds

William Baragwanath was educated at the Ballarat School of Mines, obtaining a Geology Certificate in 1911. After further study he went on the become Secretary for Mines, and Chief Mining Surveyor. Baragwanath was a Councillor of the Ballarat School of Mine from 1916 to 1950.Pink covered foolscap book of 257 pages and 32 maps and plans by William Baragwanath. Contents include topography, physiography, historical, geology, basalt, faults, dykes, minerals leads, alluvial mines, nuggets, structure of Ballarat West goldfields, structure of Ballarat East gold-field, quartz formation, indicators, defunct mines, existing mines, table of deepest shafts. Images include: section of the Ballarat Gold-Field, Dead HOrse Flat, lakes formed by Basalt Flows, Gong Gong Creek, Frenchman's Lead, Ballarat West Mines, LEases and positions of shafts (1857), puddling, White Horse Lead, Woah Hawp Canton, Ballarat Township mines, Sebastopol, syncline, Victoria United Line, First Chance Mine, Llanberris No 1 Mine, Saddle Reef, New Normanby Mine, Woah Hawp Canton Mine, South Star Mine, Sebastopol Plateau, south Woah Hawp Mine, Woah No. 2 Minegeology, geological survey no 14, ballarat, baragwanath, william baragwanath

Bendigo Amalgated Goldfields No Liability, Reports and Statement of accounts. Period ending 2nd July, 1918. Poor copy - damaged spineBendigo Amalgamated Goldfields, Registered Office, Commonwealth Chambers, Bendigobendigo, mining, reports and statement of accounts, mining and goldmining stastics.

A history of gold mining in AustraliaHardcover. Front cover has a photograph of two miners from West Australia using the dry-blowing technique. In the background are two 'Wood's dry placer-miners'. Back cover has a photograph of the interior of a steam-operated quartz crushing battery at the Mount Boppy Mine.Front cover has a price sticker that is discolored. Inside there is the stamp of the Marysville & District Historical Society / P.O. Box 22 / Marysville 3779 gold, gold mines, gold mining, australia, history, social life, customs, stone, derrick i, mackinnon, sue

Photocopy of original held by Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum. The inscription is the Castlemaine Museum's Registration No & location code.Manuscript, M A Thesis. Plain A4 paper with cut edges, 144 pages with black & white illustrations. Pages secured with a metal clip.Page (ii) top R hand corner: “3247 S3 C/F5”documents - education, military history - volunteer forces

Thirty two page green covered book on Ballarat's Lydiard Street, including information on the Old Colonists' Association of Ballarat, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, The George Hotel, Leonard terry. Provincial Hotel, Ballarat Mining Exchange, Ballarat Railway Station, Soldiers Hill, Regent Theatre.non-fictionballarat, lydiard street, old colonists' association of ballarat, art gallery of ballarat, ballarat fine art gallery, the george hotel, leonard terry. provincial hotel, ballarat mining exchange, ballarat railway station, soldiers hill, regent theatre, charles lydiard, government camp, golden fleece hotel

Soft cover, buckram, spine binding. Grey coloured, black writing with image of army badge in centre. Pages 215 Illustrated with black and white photos, statistics and charts.:Donated by Bob Marmion June 2004"books-military-history, military history-volunteer forces

Red hard covered book of 495 pages.witwatersrand, rand, bookplate, orange free state, south africa, mining, poppet head, geology, shafts, cages, buckets, headgears, winding engines, pumps and pumping, sream, stoping, ventilation, crushing, mine managers, library, ballarat school of mines library

Large coloured plan showing streets, leads, geological zones and shafts. Source 1:10,000ballarat, gold, goldfield, geology, sebastopol

Pmap on paper with hand colouringtarnagulla, newbridge, map

Hardcoverwalsh st library