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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, 15 July, 1854
Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. And Restaurant, Opposite the Government Camp, Bendigo, And opposite the Camp, Tarrangower or Bryant's Ranges. The proprietors respectfully intimate to the Digging Community and Public in general of TARRANGOWER, thus they have opened the above BRANCH DINING ROOMS, where they trust, by unremitting attention, and supplying Provisions of the best quality, and having the same Bill or Fare as at Bendigo, to merit a share of public patronage. Soups, Chops, and Steaks at all hours of the day, Hot Coffee always ready. Parties visiting these diggings will find the above a first- rate House, possessing every requisite in the way of Cleanliness and Punctuality. Information regarding the diggings will be given to Strangers. Good Beds. Slide reads; By 1854, better accommodation was available on most of the diggings. (Gold Diggers' Advocate, July, 15, 1854.) Markings: 21 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850s
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (S.T. Gill... as a teaching aid. Slide DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (S.T. Gill) 'Hole on the Gravel Pits'. Top right corner: 2 words illegible - of candles x water (x in the pictures shows where the water is laying). Bottom right; Hole in the gravel pits. Well for drainage (if you look closely at the sketch there is a mark on the boards that matches the mark beside the wording to show you where the drainage is). Markings: 36 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1854
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (Huyghue) Here.... Slide DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (Huyghue) Here is a drawing of part of the Gravel Pits lead in 1854. Show many of the shafts with their awnings over them. Markings: 37 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (Continued... EDUCATION Tertiary goldfields hanimount Diggers & Mining. Getting ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (Continued) Numbers of stores scattered about, with their gay flags; and numbers of new holes put down and waiting the result of those in progress, with their windlasses standing on square frameworks of logs, some 5 or 6 feet above the ground. The crowds; the heaps of clay thrown up of all colours - every heap different - bright yellow, dazzling white, mottled Black and white, and brilliant rose pink; the dirt and the noises were altogether something extraordinary. Similar scenes presented themselves in Eureka and Canadian Gullies. All was bustle and activity; for these are the great lotteries of the Victorian Diggings, where there are really heavy prizes - and to each - thousand blanks. . . (From ''Land, Labour, and Gold'' by William Howitt.) Markings: 36 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850s
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (Continued... EDUCATION Tertiary goldfields hanimount Diggers & Mining. Getting ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (Continued) Nothing could be more astonishing than the sight of hundreds of men bustling about, all eagerness, all hurry, working away in the midst of mud of up to the hips, and pools of puddle thick as batter for a pudding; tubs, cradles, windlasses, and wee-gees, or long poles balanced by a stone at the end and a bucket at the other, to raise water for their washing - all in motion - a perfectly confounding phantasmagoria of impetuous action and of sludge. (Continued) Markings: 34 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1853
Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. STG Victorian Gold Fields 1852-3 ?? Shanty. Sly Grog Shanty. Some small diggings stores were virtually sly grog shanties. From 1851 to 1853, it was illegal to sell liquor on the diggings. Slide shows tent selling 'SOUPS COFFEE and other drinks, Meals'. Slide shows people being served, a dog sleeping in a barrel, a fire in front of the tent with miners and a dog. A tree to the right being used as a billboard. Markings: 31 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MARKS COLLECTION: BOUNDY'S FREEHOLD GOLD MINES MALMSBURY
Plan/advertisement 1888 for the sale of the Boundy's Freehold Gold Mines Malmsbury, 260 acres of auriferous and arable freehold land. Document contains map of mines, names include O'Connors Freehold Company, Egyptian Company, Queen's Birthday Company, No.1 South Queen Company, Madam O'Connor's company, Extended South Queen's Birthday Company. Scale 10 chains to one inch. Taken from Mr. H. Archdale's Plan by Walter Sleeman, Mining Mgr., Oct 9th. 1888. On RH side of map Daylesford Road to Malmsbury marked. The land is only about two miles from the Malmsbury railway station. On back of document letter from Henry Nutman, Mining Manager, Queens Birthday Company; Report on Plan Walter Skleeman, M.M.; letter to S. Deeble, 35 Queen St., Melbourne with report on mine from George Jenkyn and Mining Manager's Report in Argus 24th.October, 1888.mine, gold, boundy's freehold gold mine -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MARKS COLLECTION: MAP OF VICTORIA REEF MINING CLAIMS
Copy of map. On bottom LH side of plan Plan of the Victoria Reef Sandhurst January 1867, Compiled by G.W. Hart, Mining Surveyor. Published by John N. Macartney, Argus Agent, Sandhurst. Price 4/- each On bottom Rh side J.W. Pearson & Co. Lith. Melbourne Plan shows mining claims and names of holders, scale ( 4 chains to one inch ) Loddon Road, Mount Korong Road, Ironbark Gully, township of Long Gully, Quartz Miners' Arms and Gold Mines Hotel on Loddon Road.bendigo, mining, victoria reef plan -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1853
Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. STG. Victoria Gold Feilds1852-3 Diggers Auction Eagle Hawk Bendigo. A digger's auction, Eaglehawk, Bendigo (1853). Slide depicts a group of miners bidding at an auction. Markings: 29 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1852
Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. STG. Fryer's Creek, Castlemaine, 1852. Several doctors established lucrative practices on the diggings. Slide shows Dr BUNCE GOLD BOUGHT along with other timber buildings, tents, oxen pulling a dray and miners. Dr Prshaii's Camp can be seen along the bottom of the slide. Markings: 25 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MARKS COLLECTION: MINING LEASE BLOCKS 1873
Plan mining lease blocks 1873, timber hanger on top two brass rings, securing tape, round timber holder on bottom, scroll. On top Schedule of Mining Lease Blocks shown on the plan of the Sandhurst Gold Field, Published May 1873' Names of mining Companies listed with identifying number and area of mine site. E.g. '447 Johnson's Reef Gold Mines 7a, 2r, 8 p ( acres, roods, perches ). Number linked to the mine site shown on Sandhurst Gold Field map.bendigo, mining, mining lease blocks 1873 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Plan - MARKS COLLECTION: DOUBLE DISCHARGE GOLD MORTAR
Plan drawn on buff paper, written on plan double discharge gold mortar - no mine given. Engineering drawings of gold mortar. 3 inches = 1 foot, September 1879.mining, equipment, lansell mine ? -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1855
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: The evils... aid. Slide DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: The evils of shepherding soon became obvious; shepherds often prospered by the ruin of parties who really worked their claims. The Ballarat diggers, through their local Court, abolished shepherding in 1855, and instituted a complicated 'frontage' system which, in effect, guaranteed the diggers who went to the expense and hardship of sinking a shaft the right to work a section of the lead. Markings: 58 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: In this respect... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: In this respect, Ballarat resembled a great mercantile exchange, where whole, half, and quarter shares, besides minuter fractions, were continually being bought and sold, at rates that incessantly varied with the latest reports, either from the shaft itself . . . Or from such of its close vicinities as might be supposed to affect the direction or richness of the lead. This system tended greatly to equalise the uncertainties of deep sinking. It also enabled those who had spare means to invest them wit probable advantage in these shares, and this furnish the requisite capital to their poorer neighbours, by which these were in a position to meet the heavy preliminary expenses of deep sinking . . . (From the book 'Victoria in 1857' by William Westgarth.) Markings: 57 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: A common... as a teaching aid. Slide DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: A common practice among shepherding parties was to sell shares in their claims when the probability of the lead trending into them rendered such shares valuable. The next frame contains an extract from a book, 'Victoria in 1857', by the early Victorian historian, William Westgarth. Markings: 56 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: diagram depicts... as a teaching aid. Slide DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: diagram depicts Shepherd claims. These parties sinking. Parties working the lead. - - - in whatever direction they thought the lead might trend. Markings: 52 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1853
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: This led... EDUCATION Tertiary goldfields hanimount Diggers & Mining. Getting ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: This led to the practice of ''shepherding'' which was particularly widespread at Ballarat from 1853 to 1855. When a lead had been found, parties quickly marked out claims in advance of the furthest point at which the gutter was being worked - - - Markings: 51 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850s
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: Sinking a shaft... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: Sinking a shaft to a depth of 100 or 200 feet was a long, laborious and expensive job. But the big difficulty was that the course of the lead could not be ascertained, or even accurately guessed at, until a shaft had been sunk. When deep sinking began, many diggers did weeks of useless work, sinking a shaft down to where they thought the course of the lead lay, only to find that it was not there at all. Markings: 50 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1852
Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. STG. Gold buyer, Forest Creek, (1852). Many store keepers were also gold buyers. Every store needed gold scales, as diggers generally paid in gold. Slide shows store keeper weighing the gold for the miners. Markings: 22 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: The Digger's.... Slide DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: The Digger's Funeral. Shows miners burying a fellow miner. Markings: 49 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: Deep sinking... EDUCATION Tertiary goldfields hanimount Diggers & Mining. Getting ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: Deep sinking was dangerous work; the shaft was, of course, timbered, nevertheless shafts sometimes caved in, and in this way diggers were often injured, and sometimes killed. Markings: 47 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, 1850s
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: A whim and horse... & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: A whim and horse-puddling machine (location unknown). Do you remember Edward Dyson's poem 'The Old Whim Horse'? Shows miners at work and puddling machine being worked by horse. Markings: 46 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850s
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (Continued... as a teaching aid. Slide DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (Continued) The scene at the Gravel Pits was especially animated, and would have made a capital sketch. The crowded assemblage of white awnings on these clay heaps, which the diggers had raised to protect them at their work on rainy weather, these standing at different elevations; the diggers turning their windlasses; and others, in rows of half-a-dozen along the sides of muddy pools, working away at their puddling tubs with their shovels, chopping and stirring them about; other cradling; others washing out. (Continued) Markings: 34 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850s
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: But when you... as a teaching aid. Slide DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: But when you came to where the diggers were at work, the scene defied all description. The whole surface was thrown into heaps of clay from six to ten feet high - for it appeared to be all clay which they threw out there. Here, indeed, had accumulated all the mud and clay which for thousands of years had been flowing from the hills around, It was this which had thus buried the gold 160 feet deep, and through which the diggers had to sink for it. Between these muddy mountains thrown up by diggers, the water accumulated in deep pools which they avail themselves of to was their gold our with and the heaps of clay were trodden by hundreds of men constantly crossing them in all directions. (Continued) Markings: 33 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1853
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: The next four... EDUCATION Tertiary goldfields hanimount Diggers & Mining. Getting ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: The next four frames contain a description of deep sinking at Ballarat in 1853, taken from William Howitt's book, ''Land, Labour, and Gold'', which was published in 1855. Markings: 32 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1857
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: From... as a teaching aid. Slide DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: From the original in the Dixon Gallery, Public Library of N.S.W. A whim in Bendigo, 1857. Picture is a sketch of three men working a whim. Markings: 31 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1860s
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: and the whim... EDUCATION Tertiary goldfields hanimount Diggers & Mining. Getting ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: and the whim. (This photograph, taken in the 1860's, gives a close-up view of a whim.) Markings: 30 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1850
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: But labour... as a teaching aid. Slide DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: But labour - saving devices for raising the dirt were soon being used - the whip (some whips were worked by hand, others by a horse walking towards or away from the shaft. (Picture displays a whip.) Markings: 29 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1853
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (von Guerrard... & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (von Guerrard) Deep sinking, Ballarat, 1853. Usually the wasdirt was raised in the shaft by a windlass. Slide shows mining site at the diggings with a windlass and awing. Markings: 28 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD, c1857
... DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: Sketches... as a teaching aid. Slide DIGGERS & MINING. GETTING THE GOLD ...Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: Sketches at the Gold Fields. This cartoon (from the Melbourne Punch, Aug, 27, 1857) illustrates what frequently happened on crowded leads. Depicts miners digging their tunnels only to end up digging into the next lead. Markings: 27 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields