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Engineers to the fore - Practical men worked in tandem
Undoubtedly inspired by the initiative of the Ellenborough mine to the north, the directors of St Mungo decided electric lighting suited well.
In 1882, the Ellenborough, just off Caldwell’s Road, had been the first mine in Victoria to i...
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On the day following the funeral of one of the most dynamic investors in land and property Bendigo has ever seen, an interesting meeting took place.
The person who did an immense amount of property investment, particularly in central Be...
Where is Red Hill?
If you are not sure, let me try another name for Red Hill, Virginia Hill?
There will be a number of people who know Eaglehawk, who should be able to identify Virginia Hill, which in earlier times had been called Red H...
IN 1882 the first of newly installed machinery was started at the St Mungo Company gold mine in Eaglehawk, there was an immediate sense that there would be an almost immediate augmentation in gold returns.
The prevailing thought, by those...
Experience makes mark in the mines
You will recall I wrote two weeks ago about a miner who became a mining manager, Thomas Butson.
As with the majority of Bendigo’s past mining managers, Butson was Cornish and he evolved to become ...
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