Historical information
BHS Collection
Physical description
Nine typed pages of notes on a preliminary draft for a brochure on the Bendigo Diggings. First part is the objective which is to preserve the mining history and to have exhibits in the places they were used, e.g. quartz mining machinery exhibited in a quartz mining area, not on an alluvial field. Part B is historical notes on the area. Part C is the Site - Victoria Hill area. Part D is Stage One which consists of carpark area, technological museum, restaurant, mineral haulage line, picnic ground, earthworks and planting over the area. Part E is Stage Two which will consist of the open-air exhibits, in the area surrounded by the mineral haulage line, and the Central Nell Gwynne mine on the west side of the site. Part F is Stage Three which will consist of the winery, the steam tram track, the lake, the wildlife sanctuary and various buildings associated with gold mining. Part G is Costing with the prices to be filled in. Parts H and I are the Appeal and the Committee. Details to be filled in.
Subjects
- mining,
- marketing,
- victoria hill,
- victoria hill,
- the bendigo diggings - preliminary draft for brochure,
- aust national travel association,
- tullamarine jetport,
- emu bottom homestead,
- kyneton historical museum,
- chinese joss house,
- eaglehawk museum,
- whipstick scrub,
- cairn curran reservoir,
- castelmaine historical museum and market hall,
- national trust,
- ballarat hiatorical park,
- echuca's hopwood gardens,
- swan hill folk museum,
- gibson's mount alexander no 2 squatting run,
- captain brown,
- chief commissioner wright,
- hustler's reef,
- thomas hustler,
- mining board,
- drainage of reefs act 1862,
- first world war,
- bendigo amalgamated goldfields,
- second world war,
- sandhurst,
- w c vahland,
- battery trams,
- horse trams,
- steam trams,
- electric trams,
- central nell gwynne mine,
- theodore ballerstadt,
- george lansell,
- new chum hill,
- ballerstadt's open cut,
- 180 mine,
- new chum syncline battery,
- william rae,
- victoria quartz,
- wittscheibe's 'jeweller's shop',
- luffsman and sterry,
- gold mines hotel,
- adventure,
- bendigo and district tourist association,
- bendigo city council,
- bendigo branch of the royal historical society of victoria,
- professor brian lewis,
- school of architecture and building at the university of melbourne,
- taylor horsfield,
- lord robert cecil,
- south australian gold commissioner
