Wow great photos my 2 great grandmother 6 of her babies died on the Castlemaine gold fields in the 1850s I can’t imagine that life back then must have been so hard
There's something eerily charming about these wonderful images - the backbreaking work, gamble and living conditions many endured, just to find some gold. I wonder how many wasted their lives away to discover that they we the unlucky ones.
A lot of those places look so different from the pics now, can still go around and find gold these days but with the bonus of an air conditioned car to get us there, chilled drinks to quench the thirst and a detector to tell us where to dig
Absolutely the technology has changed since the gold-panning days ... It's a great hobby if fossicking for gold and hopefully some of the photos and locations help in that !
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It's a cut-lunch and a compass away, but I do intend to seek Airbnb overnight stays in parts of Victoria that are more then a one day round trip for me and look at a few towns around that stay - At the moment I trying to stay within a 150km radius of Melbourne
It was whatever I could find in the State library that didn't have a copyright overlay - I did go to Blackwood and did a tourist video of the town - The town was great and lost in time with a great pub !
I wonder if you went around to all those mining fields and locations with a metal detector, what one would find and has it already been done as even back in the day, they would have missing some!
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Wow great photos my 2 great grandmother 6 of her babies died on the Castlemaine gold fields in the 1850s I can’t imagine that life back then must have been so hard
Fabulous photos...have family from Walhalla and further out at Hill End, Tangil and Russells Creek before they did Blue Rock lake.
They sure did dig up everything, but often wonder if a metal detector might pick things up they missed back in the day !
There's something eerily charming about these wonderful images - the backbreaking work, gamble and living conditions many endured, just to find some gold. I wonder how many wasted their lives away to discover that they we the unlucky ones.
I don't think for many with limited education or not they had options ... It was gambling for its day !
We go to crown instead of places like this , so tru😢😮😅
Some awesome old photos in there, cheers.
They did it tough back then with no creature comforts !
A lot of those places look so different from the pics now, can still go around and find gold these days but with the bonus of an air conditioned car to get us there, chilled drinks to quench the thirst and a detector to tell us where to dig
Absolutely the technology has changed since the gold-panning days ... It's a great hobby if fossicking for gold and hopefully some of the photos and locations help in that !
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Thanks for sharing
drag out those metal detectors and go exploring and camping !
Great photos. I'm at Cassilis Victoria and I'm sure there are more photos from up this way that you could include.
It's a cut-lunch and a compass away, but I do intend to seek Airbnb overnight stays in parts of Victoria that are more then a one day round trip for me and look at a few towns around that stay - At the moment I trying to stay within a 150km radius of Melbourne
Fantastic photos. Thanks for showing . But no Pics of Blackwood diggings.
It was whatever I could find in the State library that didn't have a copyright overlay - I did go to Blackwood and did a tourist video of the town - The town was great and lost in time with a great pub !
Such indiscriminate destruction of nature, one can only hope that nature has recovered now.
It was a date in time when society was ignorant
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Nature always recovered.
That's what we want today, another gold rush!
I wonder if you went around to all those mining fields and locations with a metal detector, what one would find and has it already been done as even back in the day, they would have missing some!
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