Blue and cream brochure titled 'Off to the Diggings' In the comfort of your own car. Tour guide is Rusty. Tours cover some historical places in Bendigo. On the back is where bookings can be made. Other Historic Tours mentioned are: Central Deborah Mine, Chinese Museum, Mining Museum adjacent to Eaglehawk Town Hall and victoria Hill.bendigo, history, gold mining, peter ellis collection, off to the diggings, rusty, alexander mckellar, ballarat goldfield, eureka uprising, emu creek bush band, boundary hotel, visitor information centre, bendigo tourism, central deborah mine, chinese museum, mining museum - eaglehawk, eaglehawk town hall, victoria hill

Diggers & Mining: The Diggings - The Diggers. Slide reads: Life and Work at the Diggings Section 6 The Diggings . . . The Diggers Markings: 1 994.LIF 6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, diggers

Rob Upson became a volunteer at the Bendigo Visitor Centre in 1998. The Staff produced a monthly newsletter called ‘The Grapevine’. Being reasonably new to Bendigo, Rob became interested in its history and began writing articles to share with the volunteers. He called them ‘Grapevine Cuttings’ under the pen name of ‘Merlot’. Rob wrote about 90 articles over a period of 12 years until ‘The Grapevine’ was finally pruned and shutdown. Rob is a valuable volunteer for the Bendigo Historical Society.Article 63 of 65 Newsletters in PDF format from the Grapevine collection. history, bendigo, grapevine cuttings, the road to the diggings

Two photographs of a book signed with author Dorothy Wickham. The signing took place in Book City, Ballarat. dorothy wickham, women of the diggings, book signing

Colour photograph of tents and rustic cottage at Sovereign Hill, Ballarat East.sovereign hill, the diggings

Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. Slide reads; Life and work at the diggings. Section 5 Stores at the diggings. Markings: 1 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining: The Diggings - The Diggers. Slide reads: Nearly all of the early Victorians diggings (prior) to the widespread adoption of deep skinking on some fields) presented an appearance something like this. There was the stream, lined with men feverishly washing for gold; behind this was the field proper, honeycombed with claims; behind this again were the tents and huts of the diggers, what stores there were, and - perhaps - in a clearing, the headquarters of a Commissioner. The following frames show Tulloch's drawings of three of the diggings in 1851. Markings: 2 994.LIF 6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, mining

Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. After 1853, many hotels were built on the diggings. The diggings hotel was generally a rambling wooden structure with large stables. A billiard room or a bowling alley was often to be found nearby. Markings: 42 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining: The Diggings - The Diggers. Golden Point, Ballarat, 1851. Picture depicts tents and miners. Markings: 8 994.LIF 6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide depicts areas of Little Bendigo, Forest Creek Diggings, 1852. Markings: 14 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Black and white image of a drawn depiction of a store and hut on the diggings.shop, gold diggings

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide reads; One of the noisiest features of the nights on the diggings was the continual poping of firearms by the diggers to let it be known that they were well armed. The nest frame contains a quaintly written account of a night at the Ballarat diggings, taken from Samuel Sidney's book, ''The Three Colonies of Australia'', published in 1853. Black and white side. Markings: 35 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide reads: We must remember that each of the important goldfields on the 'fifties' consisted of several diggings. Along many creeks, gullies, flats and - later- shallow leads in the area, men found gold. Between the many diggings established on the sites of these discoveries, the diggers, acting on reports of the latest ''lucky strike'', were constantly moving. Markings: 8 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. The following two frames contain enlargements of section of the picture you have just seen, 'Forest Creek, Mount Alexander, 1852'. These enlargements will show you clearly the makeshift premises in which businesses were conducted at the diggings. In both pictures, note the diggings in the background. Markings: 8 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. Little Bendigo, Mt. Alexander, 1852. Blacksmiths found plenty of work to do on the diggings. Slide shows a timber building for the blacksmith. Markings: 28 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Diggings The Diggers. Slide: and here is the 'Unlucky Digger That Never Returned'. Few were unlucky as he. STG Markings: 82 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. Eaglehawk Gully, 1852. The Stock were driven to the diggings, and killed in small slaughter yards. Slide shows mining area at Eaglehawk Gully. Markings: 24 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Diggings The Diggers. Slide: ''Successful diggers on the way from Bendigo.'' (1852.) Mitchell Library S. T. G. Markings: 77 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide depicting landmarks and mining sites in Ballarat. Some of the diggings opened up 1851-2. Markings:10 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. LUXURIES AT THE DIGGINGS. Our attention yesterday attracted to the cumbrous machine upon a dray, evidently bound for the diggings, and upon enquiring to what ascertained that it was a machine for the manufacturing sausages, and that the proprietor was fully sanguine that he should realise an independence in a short period by supplying the diggers with these luxuries. (M.M.H., September 14, 1852) Markings: 16 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. This old photograph shows a hotel on the Wedderburn diggings in 1855. The wooden structures have chimneys. Slide shows that there are families with horses and carts in the photo as well. Markings: 44 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Diggings The Diggers. Slide: Gill pictured two extremes of fortune. Here is the 'Lucky Digger That Returned'. Picture signed STG, Markings: 82 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Diggings The Diggers. Slide: This graph shows the approximate average annual earnings of the Victorian diggers during the gold decade. (1851 to 1861). Markings: 82 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide reads: Contemporary writers liked to compare a diggings to a great ants' nest; in many ways the scene must have been colourful and exciting. But to some observers, the general picture was an unattractive one. They saw the unsightly heaps of clay, the trees felled, the dust everywhere in summer and the mud in winter; the flies and the mice. The next two frames contain a description of the Forest Creek diggings taken from the Argus of March 22, 1852. Markings: 24 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Diggings The Diggers. Slide: Others foolishly squandered their gold. Slide shows 2 diggers well dressed and out shopping. Independent Diggers in Melbourne [1852] Markings: 84 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Diggings The Diggers. Slide: Sketch of 2 miners one with a gold pan. Gold digging was a gamble. Some diggers did well; a few made their fortunes. Markings: 78 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide depicts Fryer's Creek, Mt. Alexander Diggings, 1852. Shows tents, miners, small girl, not many trees at the foot of a hill. Markings: 16 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields