Black and white photograph. Poppet head with tubular steel legs and two stages lattice stays to braces. Winder house overhead tramway and mullock dump. Chimney at rear. Two tubular steel storage bins. Inscriptions:on site - 'Specimen Hill U G M Co', On front - bottom of photograph 'Specimen Hill Gold Mine, Eaglehawk', on rear - '22', 'Speciment Hill Mine Eaglehawk'.mine, gold, specimen hill (eaglehawk )., bendigo, specimen hill, gold mine, eaglehawk, mines and mining, mine, mines, mining, poppet head

BHS CollectionSepia coloured print of a photograph of the New Chum Line of Reef looking south from the Snobs Hill group of mines. The photo shows several poppet heads and chimneys, bridges and houses. New Chum Line of Reef. includes Victoria Hill possibly the richest spot on the field.On the back a drawing of a poppet head with the words: Bendigo gold project. A small map of Victoria is also printed on the back. bendigo mines, new chum line of reef, mining

BHS CollectionBlack and white photograph of mining landscape with poppet head, chimney and mining sheds (plus timber in stack) in foreground. Other mines in bare landscape on LHS background and housing on RHS background. Inscriptions: on front - 'The Hustler's Line of Reef from Redan Hill Hustler's Tribute Coy', 'Gt. Extended Hustler;s Claim', 'The Old Hustler's Claim, Gt. Hustlers (Late Latham & Watson's). On back - 'A Richardson, 29 Harrison Street, Bendigo'.mine, gold, hustlers reef mine, bendigo, mines and mining, mine, mines, mining, landscape, mining landscape, redan hill, poppet head, old hustlers, mining cottages

West Scotchmans No1 on left & No2 Mines visible on right in foreground. Mining with Poppet Heads on crest of Big Hill from left to right are the No2 North Waterloo Mine (later known as Stawell Big Hill), Waterloo Shaft and the Duke of Argyle shaft (Herbert Photo) 1878 Big Hill with multiple mining Poppet Heads looking North East over No2 Reservoir Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878stawell gold

Mining Scene Sloane's & Scotchmans United Quartz Mining Co c1900. Ore hopper can be seen at left of poppet head. Sloane's & Scotchmans United Quartz Mining Co was the last mine company to close down in Stawell. View of poppet head and engine shed. Large cloud of smoke coming from engine house. Foreground bare earth.mining, panorama

Poppet heads and Government Dam later No2 Reservoir at centre of photo with Black Ranges in background. Stawell East State School on left, Wimmera Battery (also known as Cobb's Battery) on right of photo. 1878. Mr Chaponnel was an Engine Driver on the Battery. No2 West Scotchmans mine on left started in 1873No2 Reservoir in centre of photograph behind two prominent poppet heads. Black Range in right rear of photo. Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell. 1878stawell mining

Upper Main Street Stawell. Looking East c1910. On left two story Allingham building behind cart is Commercial Hotel. Oriental Bank. Punchard Furniture. Crown Cross Poppet head visible on Big Hill. The side of the Mechanics Institute visible near centre. H S Dawson Chemist. Clarke & Scott Drapery on right. Same as 6730-1 & 1423Streetscape of upper main street looking east, Crown Cross poppet head at end of street in middle of streetUpper Main Street Stawell.mining, streetscape, businesses

Upper Main Street Stawell. Looking East c1910. On left two story Allingham building behind cart is Commercial Hotel. Oriental Bank. Punchard Furniture. Crown Cross Poppet head visible on Big Hill. The side of the Mechanics Institute visible near centre. H S Dawson Chemist. Clarke & Scott Drapery on right. Same as 6730-1 & 2785View along upper Main Street looking East towards Big Hill. Poppet Head in distance at centre.stawell streetscape, mining

Mining Scene from Big Hill. Open cut in fore ground with support timbers. Whims and poppet heads. Shows back of New Court House in Patrick Street. The flat area in distance is St Georges Crushing Battery settling Dam.Open Cut with supporting timbers in foreground, Various poppet Heads at centre of image. Wimmera Crushing Mill settling dam in distance. Rear of new Court House visiblestawell mining

Black and white photograph of an image. Poppet head, overhead tramway, mine buildings, dam. Inscriptions: on front at bottom - printed 'United Devonshire'. Inscriptions: on back, type written. 'The 'United Devonshire' - New Chum Line of Reef'. Situated in the Devonshire Valley immediately south of Victoria St, Eaglehawk. Was the leading mine in the field in the years 1883-4 and 1885 during which time it produced 65,898 oz of gold and paid $(?)399,800 in dividends. This mine was then situated on what in January, 1902, became the West Shaft. The Company was then amalgamated with the 'Princess Alexandra' (approx 100 yds further east) which then became the Main Shaft of the 'United Devonshire'. All typed on paper and glued to back of image. Handwritten in ball point pen 'A Richardson, 29 Harrison St, Bendigo'.mining, surface equipment, united devonshire, bendigo, mines and mining, poppet head, eaglehawk, devonshire valley, mining sheds

Black and white photograph of an image. Poppet head, overhead tramway, mine buildings, dam. Inscriptions: on front at bottom - printed 'United Devonshire'. Inscriptions: on back, type written. 'The 'United Devonshire' - New Chum Line of Reef'. Situated in the Devonshire Valley immediately south of Victoria St, Eaglehawk. Was the leading mine in the field in the years 1883-4 and 1885 during which time it produced 65,898 oz of gold and paid $(?)399,800 in dividends. This mine was then situated on what in January, 1902, became the West Shaft. The Company was then amalgamated with the 'Princess Alexandra' (approx 100 yds further east) which then became the Main Shaft of the 'United Devonshire'. All typed on paper and glued to back of image. Handwritten in ball point pen 'A Richardson, 29 Harrison St, Bendigo'.mining, surface equipment, united devonshire, bendigo, mines and mining, mines, poppet head, mining sheds, devonshire valley, eaglehawk

Upper Main Street Stawell looking towards Big Hill. Sloane's Scotchman's Poppet Head in background. 1906. Victoria House, Commercial Hotel, Oriental Bank, Weekly Times Office, Clarke & Sons Drapery. Same as 1423 & 2785Steet scene looking East down Upper Main Street from Victoria Street. Crown Cross Poppet Head at end of main street and side of Mechanics Institute at centre of image.Post Cardstreetscape, mining

Upper Main Street looking East. c 1880. Chadwick's Draper / Liddiard's / London House on left. Commercial Hotel, Oriental Bank / Bank of Australia, Punchard Furniture, Earlier Union Bank. Extended Cross Reef and Sloane and Scotchmans poppet Heads in Background.Street scene of north side of upper Main Street looking east. London House on left, Commercial Hotel near centre of image. Two poppet heads of mines at right distance.stawell streetscape

Holterman 1874 Photo. Mine commenced 1858. First Mine in Stawell to have a steam driven poppet head. Holtermanns wagon for developing wet plate photographs is partly visible on lower right.Holtermann Black and White photograph of Stawell Mine April 1874. Tramway on left Winch house on right with square chimney. Poppet Head at centre of photo. Two Mullock heaps visible with some men on it as well as men on mine beamsmining

Pleasant Creek Cross Reef Quartz Mining Co No2 Poppet Head constructed 1868. On christening of the Engine, Mrs. T. Brown christened it "The Duke of Edinburgh". At the back of the winding engine building of the No2 Shaft is the Grant and Lamont Crushing Battery built in June 1876. On right can be seen the Whim of the Pioneer and Galatea mine.Poppet Head and Winding House of Pleasant Creek Cross Reef Quartz Mining Co mine. Tree on left and bushes in foreground. Three chimneys prominent on right of photograph.stawell

Key's to the City and Mayor's Key are medieval traditions meant to confer trust and honor; it grows from the medieval walled city whose gates were guarded during the day and locked at night. The key symbolizes the freedom of the recipient to enter and leave the city at will, as a trusted friend of city residents. This key has the symbol of the poppet head which was used widely during the 1980's to symbolise the City of Bendigo.Heavy oversized skeleton key with blue and yellow ribbon attached to bow. Barrel has the word 'Bendigo' on one side and 'Mayor's Key' on the other. Bit has an image of a poppet head on both sides.Bendigo / Mayor's Keycity of greater bendigo ceremonial item

Main Street Looking East 1880 from weigh bridge area, taken from Coffee Palace verandah. Two story buildings with veranda's. Horse drawn vehicle center of image. Post office and Town Hall visible in background. Bond Drapery. J & A Price Wine Spirits. Bond Draper sign on right. Two Poppet Heads on Big Hill are the No2 North Waterloo and the Waterloo and Argyle Mines.Black and white photograph looking East along Main Street from Weighbridge area where two streets join. Horse drawn buggy in center of street with buggy. Big Hill in distance with two poppet heads just visible.stawell businesses streetscape

Upper Main Street looking East. Poppet Heads in Background. Oriental Bank second on left then Quartz Reef Timber Yards. Intersection is Layzell St Main Street. Advertiser Office on right in front of Earlier Mechanics Institute. Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866. View of the top end of Main Street 1866 with the Commercial Hotel in the left foreground. On the right is the Advertiser Newspaper office an Ararat newspaper before one was started in Stawell. The building on the right with the ladder in front was the Mechanics Institute later burned down twice. Upper Main street with Poppet Heads in the background, the Oriental Bank second on left & then Quartz Reef Timber Yard 1867. Lots of people and wagons in street. Advertiser Office on right and earlier Mechanics Institute with ladder at front.Upper Main Street Reefs 1867stawell mining streetscape

Black and white photograph. Poppet head in background. Large rocks in foreground. Two buildings in background on right of poppet head.mining site, nell gwynne mine, gold mining

The motto of the ANA was Unity, Prosperity, PeaceA framed certificate of the Australian Natives' Assoiation Ballarat Branch No 4 made out to Hohn H.A. James.ana, australian natives' association, john h.a. jones, ship, steam train, horses, cows, plough, industry\weaving, mining, f.w. niven, poppet head

Situated at the end of Fraser Street, Diamond Creek. The Diamond Creek Gold Mine was the largest in the Diamond Valley Shire with a shaft depth of over 290 metres at the peak of its development in 1915. The surface plant was quite large with four boilers and five steam engines working the battery, winder, water pump, air compressor and lighting generator.This photo forms part of a collection of photographs gathered by the Shire of Eltham for their centenary project book, "Pioneers and Painters: 100 years of the Shire of Eltham" by Alan Marshall (1971). The collection of over 500 images is held in partnership between Eltham District Historical Society and Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Eltham Library) and is now formally known as 'The Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph Collection.' It is significant in being the first community sourced collection representing the places and people of the Shire's first one hundred years.Digital imagesepp, shire of eltham pioneers photograph collection, diamond creek, goldmine, gold mine, poppet head

The 1st edition of this famous work, giving an excellent account of the machinery used in late 19th century metal mining in the UK and overseas is very rare. It covers a wide range of equipment - pumps, steam engines, drills, winding engines, stamps & concentration mills, aerial ropeways, tramways and early uses of electricity etc. Brown hard cloth covered book. xvi 564 pages with additional advertisements, with over 300 illustrations and drawings, some fold out. Chapters include Water as a motive power, Wind engines and ventilating machinery, Steam boilers/engines and oil engines, hoisting machinery, draining of Mines, pumping engines, rock drilling machinery, boring machinery, concentration machinery, sizing and classifications trommels, joggers and jigging, fine concentration, milling of gold ores, milling of silver ores, amalgamation plates and machinery, dry and roasting machinery, chlorination and cyandide processes for the extraction of gold, electricity as a motive power for mining, electric lighting and blasting, aerial wire ropeways, transport by rail and road. There a a number of lovely line illustrations in the book including: Poncelot's undershot waterwheel; Fromont furnace;Victor turbine; Pelton waterwheel; Root's positive blower;Cross section and front elevation of Lancashire boiler; Robey's Compound Mill Engine; Portable Winding Plant; Iron Pit Head Gear ; Loading Arrangement in an Incline Shaft; kibble; Worthington Pump; California Pump; Scram's Air Compressor; Rock drill Bits; Special Sharpening tools; Boring tools;Rotating Picking table; Ore Feeder; roller crusher; stamp battery; round buddle; slime table; vanner; amalgamating plant; belt elevator;roasting furnace;splicing wire rope; capel; tipping waggon;mining, cornish pump, linkenbach table, water wheel, ventilation, oil engine, california, america, water, steam boilers, steam engines, oil engines, pumpimg, rock drilling, boring, jiggers, milling, silver, gold, drying and roasting, chlorination, cyaniding, lead, zinc, copper, electricity, electric lighting, wire ropes, transport, wind engine, poppet head

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

Eight photographs relating to the Leviathan Mine, Ballaratleviathan, poppet head, kibble, jack scott, mining, robertson, pitfield, cambrian hill, donald mather, leviathan quartz mine ballarat south, cambrian mine

Photograph included in book "Victoria: Gold and Minerals" issued by Mines Department Victoria, 1935Photographvictoria, prospecting method, talbot, alluvial mine, gold mining, mining, poppet head

Photograph included in book "Victoria: Gold and Minerals" issued by Mines Department Victoria, 1935Photographvictoria, bendigo, consolidated mine, tower, new red, white and blue consolidated mine, poppet head, mining, gold mining

Blue soft covered report with 40 plates and plans. Inciudes Geology of Ballarat. Little Bendigo Goldfield, Ballarat West Goldfield, Ballarat East Goldfield, history, nuggets, indicators, faults, microscopic structure of Ballarat Rocks and ores, general type of the Ballarat East Mines and the genesis of their ores. Mines include New Zealand Trust, Llanberris No. 1, Llanberris No 2, Victoria United, Britannia United, New Britannia, Last Chance, Exchange, Normanby North, New Normanby, North Woah Hawp. Photpgraphic plates include: Victoria United Mine, Llanberres No. 1, Normanby North, North Woah Hawp Mine, View looking south from the Britannia Mullock Heap, View from Sovereign Hill, The place in Learmonth Street Golden Point where gold was first discovered at Ballarat. j.w. gregory, ballarat east, ballarat east goldfield, e.j. dunn, geolological survey of victoria, new zealand trust, llanberris no. 1, llanberris no 2, victoria united, britannia united, new britannia, last chance, exchange, normanby north, new normanby, north woah hawp, mining, indicators, gold mining, poppet head

Inscribed on original mountcard, l.l., gold letterpress, "N.J. CAIRE". Not dated.albumen, photograph, chum hill, bendigo, sandhurst, town, village, buildings, people, poppet head

Gold was discovered in Ballarat in 1851 when many people rushed to the diggings. A monument commemorates the centenary of the finding of gold at Poverty Point and is dedicated to the memory of pioneer miners of Ballarat. It records gold yields, nuggets and the richest recorded yields of both alluvial and quartz mines. The replica gold nugget on the monument is the `Welcome Nugget`, found in Ballarat in 1858, weighed 2,217 ounces and was sold for £10,500. The memorial, known as the Pioneer Miners’ Monument, was made to commemorate Ballarat's gold centenary. It was proposed that part of the Pioneers' Memorial Fund might be used. This fund was started with £1300 profit from the 1938 centenary celebrations. (Age (Melbourne), The monument was created by John Edward Skilbeck, a toolmaker with Ronaldson and Tippett. John Skilbeck had a deep interest in Ballarat History, and undertook much research with Bert Strange and Keith Stacpoole. Councilllor William Ernest Roff provided the copper for the memorial from scrap copper obtained during his plumbing business. The copper was reworked by John Skilbeck, and was soldered in the kitchen of his home at 14 Frank Street. Colour photograph of the gold monument on the corner of Sturt Street and Albert Street, Ballarat. It commemorates the discovery of gold at Poverty Point in August 1851, and was The monument was unveiled in 1951 and is mainly constructed of large piecesof quartz, with a miniature popper head on the top made of copper. Mounted on the side is a replica of the Welcome Nugget, which was unearthed on the corner of Humffray and Mair Streets, Ballarat on 09 June 1858.FRONT This monument was erected by the Ballarat Historical Society to commemorate the finding of gold at Poverty Point 21st August 1851 and is dedicated to the memory of/ pioneer miners of Ballarat LEFT SIDE Richest recorded yields alluvial mines Band of Hope 303269 Ozs Prince of Wales 168929 Koh I Noor 164157 Great Redan Ex 110111 Albion 107125 Bonshaw Fr 96520 Park 94699 St George 86702 Sir Wm Don 76830 Hand in Hand 76830 Sir Henry Loch 43562 Quartz Mines Star of the East 256758 Ozs Band of Hope 158299 Victoria United 152013 N Woah Hawp 129562 New Normanby 127562 Britannia 103225 Llanberris No 1 100533 Black Hill 91665 Last Chance U 83766 Llanberris 71364 Speedwell 66000 South Star 64444 Sulieman Pasha Companies 62666 RIGHT Recorded gold yield 20606000 ozs Nuggets Alluvial Welcome 2217 ozs Saraha Snads 1619 Lady Hotham 1177 Canadian 1 1117 Canadian 2 1011 Koh 1 Noor 834 Eureka 625 Lady Loch 617 Prince of Wales 606 Bakery Hill 571 Native Youth 540 Faboulous yields of earliest diggings not offically recorded Quartz Nuggets N Woah Hawp 5-- 300 200 Ozs White Horse 500 Woah Hawp 444 266 262 Canton 257 200 Q Victoria lease 410 U Black Hill Coy 315 Tinworths 250 Parade Coy 245gold monument, ballarat, skilbeck, poppet head, j.e. skilbeck, john skilbeck