On Christmas Eve 1872, a violent thunderstorm of apocalyptic intensity heralded the genesis of ‘The World’. This is not a biblical creation story but the tale of how the chance discovery of a nugget revealed one of Australia’s richest goldfields and led to the foundation of Charters Towers, a latter day El Dorado. In the […]
All That Glitters – Victoria’s Central Goldfields
During the gold rush in the 1800’s small Victorian towns boomed The goldfields region of north-central Victoria extends from Buninyong in the south, to Inglewood and Wedderburn in the north, west to Stawell and east to Kilmore and Heathcote. It encompasses the major cities of Ballarat, Bendigo and Castlemaine, smaller centres like Maldon, Daylesford, Creswick […]