BHS CollectionDiggers & mining. The gold era. Some travelled on foot to the digging, - - - Slide shows diggers with their belongings on their backs and bags in hand, and a dog following. One miner has a boy with him. Markings 13 994.031 GOL:5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

A bogger is a heavy-duty piece of equipment used in underground mining to transport rocks, ore, and other materials from the digging face to processing facilities or loading areas. A bogger operator is an individual who controls the machinery used to transport materials.Colour photocopy of original photo. Image shows red load haul dump loader, pictured parked on a mine road at the Kangaroo Flat Gold Mine site. Date stamp on bottom RH corner: 21/5/1999.western mining corporation, goldmining, capping, shaft, mining regulations, kangaroo flat gold mine, 1999

03027 Photograph Building of tramway track Upper Yarra Shire 1888-1988 Centenary collection. Negative, Black & white.Two men with horses digging earth with scoops and then tipping it over the side of the new embankment to make it wide enough for timber traffic to pass by.building tramway track horse scraperscoop

2 workers and an excavator digging trenches, man on left has his foot on the bucket of a bobcat, background shows 2 large buildings, one cream? The other larger silver, double gate entrance to the larger building, old tyre on heap of rubble.Kodakperson, group, males

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Chinese quarter, Ballarat, 1868. In the 1860s and 1870s many Chinese in Victoria persisted at gold digging. Slide shows township and Chinese along the creek looking for gold. Markings: 13. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The gold licence. The Government Camp. HQ or Assit. Commr. at Myer's Creek, B'go. 1852. . . . Others were stationed at outlying digging to maintain order and, in particular, to issue licences. Markings: 28 994.LIF. 4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide reads: The following sketch maps of the Ballarat field show only some of the principal locations on which diggings were established between 1851 and 1854. Markings: 9 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide depicts miners relaxing back at the camp site. Puddling machine, gold pan, shovel and other items needed by miners, there is also a tent. Not many trees. Markings: 31 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.Hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide depicts: The White Hills Diggings, Bendigo, 1853. Shows aborigines sitting on near side of hill. Over the hill in the back ground is a small township forming. Markings: 22 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Book is part of the Australian War Classics series presented by E E (Weary) Dunlop.Book, soft cover, white print on front, back & spine. Front cover illustration detail from Digging Bore Hole Latrines by Murray Griffin. Rising Sun badge illustrated on front & back covers, 400 cut plain pages, black & white illustrations. Handwritten in blue ink on front flyleaf: J Fuller In black ink on front flyleaf: RSL Stampbooks, military history

Diggers & Mining. The Digging - The Diggers. Slide: Sunday Camp Meeting (1853) The Sabbath was strictly kept on the early field; and church services were held . . . . Slide shows miners around a preacher on a soap box. Markings: 71 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide depicts a dog and 5 men outside a tent with trees in the background. The slide reads; ‘When work for the day ended, the evening meal was taken'. Black and white side. Markings: 32 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Flat-bladed square shovel with short wooden handle.No visible markingsrural industry, agriculture, shovel, spade, digging, farming

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Copy of photo: underground mining scene. Large jumbo machine digging at face of mine. Two men standing alongside machine. Bendigo Mine ? Fosterville Gold Mine ? Photo donated by John Williams in Feb. 2012. Written on rear of photo : John Williams, Feb. 2012'cottage, miners

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide tells of fun and music on the goldfields, native police join the diggers of the goldfields to have some fun and some music along with fun platoon firing. Black and white side. Markings: 36 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Digging - The Diggers. Slide depicts: Murrey River, Kiewa River, Ovens River, King River. The Ovens Field consisted of widely separated diggings, discovered and worked at intervals during the gold rush. Markings: 23 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide depicts: Iron Bark Gully, Bendigo, 1852. Shows tents a woman with child, miners and diggings. Most of the land has been cleared, but some trees still remain. Markings: 20 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.Hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Cahill Reward Gold Mine Company. Building still under construction c 1896 closed 1901. Thomas Kinsella had photo. In 1907 the Pleasant Creek Alluvial Mining Company reused the shaft digging down to 200 feet to work the ground and sank a second shaft nearby.Group of people standing under Poppet Head in front of partially constructed Engine House

Small black and white carte de visite photograph showing a standing mounted constable O'LoughlinOur Commissariat Trroper (Patrick) O'Loughlin now Sergt O'L. It was this sergt who had the gruesome duty of digging out from beneath a hearth stone the body of the notorious murderer Deeming's wife, at Windsor, Victoria (ink on rear)frederick deeming, patrick o'loughlin, murders

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide: ''Township of Ballarat from Bath's Hotel'' (1855) - looking along the present Lydiard Street. Shows the hustle and bustle of the towns that have grown from gold. Black and white side. Markings: 41 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide reads: Mount Alexander (From our special corespondent). . . . To give any idea of the appearance of the diggings would be next to impossible. The article then goes on to tell about the surroundings, traffic and accommodation. Markings: 24 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

The photo shows the construction of the first part of the Geelong tram depot, digging trenches for power cables or drainage, some track, wheel sets delivered possibly mid-1911. The power station chimney can be seen on the left-hand side. Many workers, horse-drawn carts, and materials can be seen.Yields information about Geelong late 1930s and tramway operations.Black and white photograph - plain back.geelong, tramways, mesco, construction, geelong depot, new tramways