Thank you for keeping our colonial gold rush history alive here in Victoria. It’s fascinating and something I have held dear for many decades myself in road trips to many small and often former towns visiting old buildings. We achieved so much in a short time in Victoria. Always look forward to your videos.
Great channel, very well researched and presented How about a video please on the McIvor (Heathcote) diggings, it was the big rush of 1853, perhaps the most dangerous goldfield of the era for crime, also there was the first ever gold escort robbery The Port Curtis rush in Queensland is worth a video too, not in Victoria but very many Victorians were stranded there when the surface gold ran out and provisions got scarce, there was an official rescue by the Victorian Navy steamship And something on the Chinese on the diggings would be good, also the Chinese contribution to keeping miners fed through market gardens
you have excelled at this production, your research and blending of old photos with beautiful narration are excellent. Thank you, for all your hard work and dedication. Channel just keeps getting better and better.
Well Michelle you've done it again...impressing us all by your passion for this our Australian Gold mining history, reckon I've watched all your presentations up to date, and you have inspired me to get out my detectors and get out there again soon. I will contact you if I uncover something interesting... Cheers
Hi. I just finished watching your video on Pleasant Creek. My 2nd great grandfather and his son were miners at Pleasant Creek from around 1858 to about 1861/2. His wife and the rest of the family arrived in Melbourne aboard the SS Great Britain in early February 1859. Upon arrival, she placed two adverts in the Argus newspaper to inform her husband that they had arrived in the colony safely and would wait for him at their logging on Richmond Flat, which is now called Richmond.
A Terrific Historical Video Michelle with the best Photographs of Old Stawell i've ever seen , too bad my Stawell born father couldn't see this he would be thrilled! Thanks again
Amazing and well put together documentary very good job. For an American that would love to experience the Australian gold you sure have given awesome birds eye view Thank you so much and bless you always i am now subscribed and will watch everything that you create Maybe one day if I ever can I'll get over there to Australia just to metal detects some of them amazing Australian nuggets that they're still finding.
I was over that way detecting about 3 years ago and seen a fellow dig up a 12 Oz nugget. It was amazing to see his face change and the excitement. Thanks for another awesome video 👌🍺
Very enjoyable and detailed story, thanks. Always goes down well with those suffering gold fever. I detected across Oz in a very amateur fashion, with a total of 10g x 3 nuggets. It's a buzz when you pick up something no one else has ever touch. No fortune, but nothing is better, at least for me is to travel our great continent/island hoping to find that 2oz nugget and there are plenty still out there even now. You just need to have a certain resilience to heat cold and a 'rough life' and love of stars that go from horizon to horizon. I'm 73 and if I had the chance would teleport to WA to some favourite spots, alas Ive missed my chance. Thanks I have subscribed.
Thanks Michelle for the deep dive into Stawell's history, the connections with events elsewhere shaping that evolution, brilliantly explained and a visual feast of imagery, I'll look forward to repeat viewing on a much larger screen, but better still, the invitation of curiosity to visit, the showgrounds I'd seen by another TH-camr, Luke Phillips of "Dig It Detecting" shows the depth and breadth of community knowledge, keeping up working skills easily lost to time, and tons of relics regularly on display. Further out I'd look to visit Ararat with their ongoing mining works, including using a deep shaft for a NASA dark matter observatory, although we're totally happy remaining at all times on the surface! Cheers from Gabi of Narre Warren.
@Goldfields Guide. I have watched many of your videos, and at the end of them, I am amazed and longfully await the next instalment. You have an incredible and soothing story telling voice that leaves one engaged and captivated. I have been a long time patreon, friend and YT fan of Ask Jeff Williams and loved if when he and his father would make a vid about American history, the wild west and Gold which led me to stumble a year ago on your channel. Being a fellow Victorian I was left intrigued and longing for more. Thank you for the incredible time you take in researching, filming and editing to bring us this incredible content.
Fantastic production quality. It's impressive that you could acquire and smoothly blend that much material in a 41 minute documentary. One polite note though, there were no Lee Enfield rifles in the 1870s, they were made a few decades later. I suspect they were equipped with Snider Enfields, a breech loading conversion of the earlier Enfield muzzle loader.
Thanks, yes this error will now bug me forever 😅 I'm afraid I don't know much about firearm history, but I said Lee Enfield because this detail was published in "Shepherd's Gold - The Story of Stawell" (1966) by C.E. Sayers, where it was stated that: "Twenty-five policemen from Melbourne passed through Ballarat on 31 July on their way to Stawell 'to assert the supremacy of the law against mobocracy' ... They were armed with Lee Enfield rifles and bayonets, with an extra supply of 40 rounds of ammunition." I should have double checked! Cheers
@@goldfieldsguide sorry, I don't wish to be overly critical and detract from a superb piece of work. I can only imagine how much effort went into this video. There were many english rifles between 1850 and 1900, as technology progressed at a rapid pace. Martini Henry, Lee Metford, Lee Enfield. Let alone the variants.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video 🙂 you did a fantastic job with that panorama! What an incredible view over the mines and the town. Thanks for putting that together, it was brilliant to pan across it in the video.
I hope you were on the other end of that first dish, Michele. Thanks for the video, I think I need a trip to Victoria, Stawel looks good. I stayed at Dunolly last time but the train whistle every morning at 2:00 am was a bit much. You are a great historian.
hi just finished watching all, yes thats right all of your well put together informative vids, in one you ask if anyone knows of a state owned stamper or whats left of one. if you don;t already know there is whats left of the smiths creek stamper via phanton hills located near the old town site of queenstown. its well sign posted by parks victoria and has a nice little if some what over grown walking track along the creek side. well thanks again for taking the time and effort in making and posting the vids cheers all
@21:06 riding the bucket for 1600 ft opal miner here Lridge NSW one does not ride the bucket all legislation aside its a guaranteed way if it fails to meet the monkey cut out at the bottom of the shaft, for those non miners the monkey is the ten feet or so before the bucket stops on a set point on rail or wood stops so it can be filled from the drive but I digress have been told upon occasions that I am prone 2 doing so , may I add Michelle followed your work on and off nice to see you gaining not just subs but confidence in your productions that in my humble opinion where always well researched and gathered the historical human aspect of the times, As a wordsmith I know all 2 well that 2 be able 2 place yourself in mostly forgotten times long past that you chose to visit and bring 2 life is not an art but is something 1 be born with you have that gift.
G'day, wonderful presentation of the story of Stawell Golden history, because so many other towns had a large amount of Gold at the same time as Stawell it's importance was overshadowed in the history books of the time, this Goldfields are amazing and in the future will produce more gold than before, thanks again, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
Hey Sweetie I'm just saying long time sub I'm only here because you are a beautiful doll and I love you're voice I can listen to you all day and as I said you are a doll cheers from me in Ballarat
Never prospected the Mt. Pleasant area though drove through Stawell many times too and from Adelaide. Living in Castlemaine I'm spoiled for choice though my age makes it difficult to do much nowadays. Thankyou Michelle.
I find this very interesting, being a lover of history, I should do more about researching about the tunnel in the howqua valley and stamp that was built also, great video Paul
I got to go underground in the Magdala decline when I was six (85/6) I still remember seeing the old timers diggings, intersecting with the modern tunnels. Couldn't see the top or bottom of the stope.
Hi Michelle, you have really excelled yourself with this video. I think that it maybe your longest video to date? Either way 40 odd minutes of video would have taken a considerable amount of time to research, script, film, voice over and edit. Well done! I spent the last weekend visiting Wodonga to hear a lecture by Chris Vogusius on gold prospecting and then on the way back to Melbourne, I dropped into Benalla to check out the Visitors Centre and to buy a Book on the Kelly Gang. Family history has it that my Great, Great, Grandfather was the town Blacksmith with his workshop next to the Police Station and after the Siege at Glenrowan, the Police found his makers mark on some of the pieces of armour. He was questioned by the Police but his reply was "Would I make something like that here, right under your noses?" Other blacksmiths were able to demonstrate to the Police that some parts had been shaped over a smithys forge and other parts had been done over a camp fire. Big difference in heated temperature. Much of this has been confirmed in modern times and there is an ABC Catalyst program on the Joe Burne set of armour. Looking at the pieces, you can tell that some parts were shaped professionally and others were by amateurs. Given the timing of the Kelly Gang I find it surprising that they never tried their hand at prospecting or labouring on the Goldfields? I know that at one time Ned worked in a Sawmill cutting sleepers for the use by Victorian Railways. He could see that the days of the bushman and possible bushranger were diminishing due to the power and speed of the steam train and telegraph. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Nicely done Michelle, a pity you glossed over all of the amazing Alluvial gold digging history here in Stawell. For a couple years, there were over 30,000 people digging here with the massive rushes at Commercial St and 4 Posts producing over 100,000 oz's. One slight critique, the Police troopers who tried to protect the 'Jumpers' in the 1870's would have used the Snider-Enfield carbine, not the Lee-Enfield rifle which didn't exist for another 30 years. Keep up the great work!
Ah thank you, I do not know very much about firearm history. I said Lee Enfield because this detail was published in "Shepherd's Gold - The Story of Stawell" (1966) by C.E. Sayers, where it was stated that: "Twenty-five policemen from Melbourne passed through Ballarat on 31 July on their way to Stawell 'to assert the supremacy of the law against mobocracy' ... They were armed with Lee Enfield rifles and bayonets, with an extra supply of 40 rounds of ammunition." Yes I focused on the quartz mining history at Stawell in this video. There are so many other aspects to the goldfield which deserve videos all of their own, including the great alluvial rushes! Cheers 🙂⚒
@@goldfieldsguide Yes, that book has several notable mistakes in it, but given that it was written many decades ago, and without the benefit of the internet for research, we can forgive the Author. I saw you filming here many weeks ago when I was walking the dog. Plus at Aldi in Ararat the following day. Your devotion to the gold mining history of Victoria is commendable, I look forward to every new episode.
Well done and thanks for a very informative video of the stawell goldfields, I have fond memories of prospecting and detecting gold nuggets and specimens from this area and met some great people along the way, still have most of what I found and enjoy getting them out from time to time which brings the memories flooding back of the hard work but exciting times . Regards Mark Stewart
G'day, I grew up in Ballarat, know the stories and the history. The one thing left out is how did these people locate an area that might have gold and then, how much work did it take to get to it. I have seen a lot of the places shown in your video here. The little plaques on them do nothing to explain just how complex of a social structure was being built around a now rusting machine. Thanks for the video, live long and prosper. P.S. I used to be a stonemason, Doesn't matter who you are one day someone like me will be making your headstone. I have put in quite a few and read many others. It seems most people want to be seen as giving a shit about others and hoping their family gets on in life. That to me is people when boiled down to the basics. We are all people no matter where we are from.
Great work young lady.
I have lived at Stawell for over 30 years and this is the best historical documentary I have seen. Well done!
You're a wonderful story teller
Thank you for keeping our colonial gold rush history alive here in Victoria. It’s fascinating and something I have held dear for many decades myself in road trips to many small and often former towns visiting old buildings. We achieved so much in a short time in Victoria. Always look forward to your videos.
Thanks! 🙂⚒
@@goldfieldsguide
Well done 👍
Well done on the documentary. I really enjoyed listening to you deliver the story of the goldfields . Keep up the great work 😊
great documentary well presented thoroughly enjoyed it, thanks
Great channel, very well researched and presented
How about a video please on the McIvor (Heathcote) diggings, it was the big rush of 1853, perhaps the most dangerous goldfield of the era for crime, also there was the first ever gold escort robbery
The Port Curtis rush in Queensland is worth a video too, not in Victoria but very many Victorians were stranded there when the surface gold ran out and provisions got scarce, there was an official rescue by the Victorian Navy steamship
And something on the Chinese on the diggings would be good, also the Chinese contribution to keeping miners fed through market gardens
you have excelled at this production, your research and blending of old photos with beautiful narration are excellent. Thank you, for all your hard work and dedication. Channel just keeps getting better and better.
Thanks so much 🙂
History at it's best, the passion ,presentation & research is fantastic ,,Again, Thank you😊
Well Michelle you've done it again...impressing us all by your passion for this our Australian Gold mining history,
reckon I've watched all your presentations up to date, and you have inspired me to get out my detectors and get out there again soon.
I will contact you if I uncover something interesting...
Cheers
Hi. I just finished watching your video on Pleasant Creek. My 2nd great grandfather and his son were miners at Pleasant Creek from around 1858 to about 1861/2. His wife and the rest of the family arrived in Melbourne aboard the SS Great Britain in early February 1859. Upon arrival, she placed two adverts in the Argus newspaper to inform her husband that they had arrived in the colony safely and would wait for him at their logging on Richmond Flat, which is now called Richmond.
A Terrific Historical Video Michelle with the best Photographs of Old Stawell i've ever seen , too bad my Stawell born father couldn't see this he would be thrilled! Thanks again
Well done , very informative,I enjoyed 😊
You are doing a great job. I particularly loved the drone shot coming out of the addit at the start.
I was very happy with that one, thank you 🙂
Thanks Michelle for another wonderful production.
An interesting and informative video, well narrated with easy listening. Thank you for the video.
Love your stories Michelle keep them coming
Thank you! Plenty more yet to come 🙂⚒
Excellent production, thanks for going to the extra trouble of producing in 4K.
Incredible documentary, I really appreciate the effort you put in to make this video 😎🇦🇺
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Just fabulous and beautiful commentary
Amazing research . I guess finding golds are not that easy. Once again, love the clear voice so I can understand. Thanx!
Awesome delivery once again, thank you Michelle
Amazing and well put together documentary very good job. For an American that would love to experience the Australian gold you sure have given awesome birds eye view Thank you so much and bless you always i am now subscribed and will watch everything that you create Maybe one day if I ever can I'll get over there to Australia just to metal detects some of them amazing Australian nuggets that they're still finding.
Thank you I really enjoyed watching that good job on your research
Thank you 🙂⚒️
What a amazing story thank you for your hard work and thanks for sharing
Thanks 🙂
Great presentation 👏 keep them coming
Hi, your blog was so well produced, please keep posting
Asa new resident of Stawell, i cannot thank you enough for educating me as to the History of my new home
I was over that way detecting about 3 years ago and seen a fellow dig up a 12 Oz nugget. It was amazing to see his face change and the excitement. Thanks for another awesome video 👌🍺
Brilliant! Well done! and 'Thank you'
Fabulous research. Well done, Michelle. Your work is wonderful.
Thanks Rachel 🙂
Very enjoyable and detailed story, thanks. Always goes down well with those suffering gold fever. I detected across Oz in a very amateur fashion, with a total of 10g x 3 nuggets. It's a buzz when you pick up something no one else has ever touch. No fortune, but nothing is better, at least for me is to travel our great continent/island hoping to find that 2oz nugget and there are plenty still out there even now. You just need to have a certain resilience to heat cold and a 'rough life' and love of stars that go from horizon to horizon. I'm 73 and if I had the chance would teleport to WA to some favourite spots, alas Ive missed my chance. Thanks I have subscribed.
Thanks Michelle for the deep dive into Stawell's history, the connections with events elsewhere shaping that evolution, brilliantly explained and a visual feast of imagery, I'll look forward to repeat viewing on a much larger screen, but better still, the invitation of curiosity to visit, the showgrounds I'd seen by another TH-camr, Luke Phillips of "Dig It Detecting" shows the depth and breadth of community knowledge, keeping up working skills easily lost to time, and tons of relics regularly on display.
Further out I'd look to visit Ararat with their ongoing mining works, including using a deep shaft for a NASA dark matter observatory, although we're totally happy remaining at all times on the surface!
Cheers from Gabi of Narre Warren.
Another brilliant watch. Well done and great work
Thanks 🙂
These men and women who worked on and in these mines were hard as railroad spikes.
Thanks for another well researched mine history lesson ❤
@Goldfields Guide. I have watched many of your videos, and at the end of them, I am amazed and longfully await the next instalment. You have an incredible and soothing story telling voice that leaves one engaged and captivated. I have been a long time patreon, friend and YT fan of Ask Jeff Williams and loved if when he and his father would make a vid about American history, the wild west and Gold which led me to stumble a year ago on your channel. Being a fellow Victorian I was left intrigued and longing for more. Thank you for the incredible time you take in researching, filming and editing to bring us this incredible content.
Thank you, much appreciated 🙂
great work michelle
Thanks for sharing your fantastic stories. We love them!
What a great Documentary! Instantly subscribed :)
Thanks Michelle. Another ripper video. As always, well researched and informative.
Fantastic production quality. It's impressive that you could acquire and smoothly blend that much material in a 41 minute documentary. One polite note though, there were no Lee Enfield rifles in the 1870s, they were made a few decades later. I suspect they were equipped with Snider Enfields, a breech loading conversion of the earlier Enfield muzzle loader.
Thanks, yes this error will now bug me forever 😅 I'm afraid I don't know much about firearm history, but I said Lee Enfield because this detail was published in "Shepherd's Gold - The Story of Stawell" (1966) by C.E. Sayers, where it was stated that: "Twenty-five policemen from Melbourne passed through Ballarat on 31 July on their way to Stawell 'to assert the supremacy of the law against mobocracy' ... They were armed with Lee Enfield rifles and bayonets, with an extra supply of 40 rounds of ammunition." I should have double checked! Cheers
@@goldfieldsguide sorry, I don't wish to be overly critical and detract from a superb piece of work. I can only imagine how much effort went into this video. There were many english rifles between 1850 and 1900, as technology progressed at a rapid pace. Martini Henry, Lee Metford, Lee Enfield. Let alone the variants.
Thanks, I appreciate the info 🙂 very interesting!
Fantastic video loved that you used the big pano photo it took me many hours to restore and put it together well worth it.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video 🙂 you did a fantastic job with that panorama! What an incredible view over the mines and the town. Thanks for putting that together, it was brilliant to pan across it in the video.
One of your best yet..
👍👍👍
i just got back from Stawell and it was great a few good samples to
I hope you were on the other end of that first dish, Michele. Thanks for the video, I think I need a trip to Victoria, Stawel looks good. I stayed at Dunolly last time but the train whistle every morning at 2:00 am was a bit much. You are a great historian.
Thank you for your time and effort,you are amazing 😊
hi just finished watching all, yes thats right all of your well put together informative vids, in one you ask if anyone knows of a state owned stamper or whats left of one. if you don;t already know there is whats left of the smiths creek stamper via phanton hills located near the old town site of queenstown. its well sign posted by parks victoria and has a nice little if some what over grown walking track along the creek side. well thanks again for taking the time and effort in making and posting the vids cheers all
This was great Michelle, best one yet. Thanks for all your hard work. Daz
Thanks Daz 🙂⚒
Awesome Rossy,
One of your bests ones.
Thanks 🙂
Really interesting history and well presented. Thanks for these videos.
Thanks, much appreciated 🙂
Grateful for the fantastic history lesson, and the superb way you tell it. Excellent again, ❤it 😊
@21:06 riding the bucket for 1600 ft opal miner here Lridge NSW one does not ride the bucket all legislation aside its a guaranteed way if it fails to meet the monkey cut out at the bottom of the shaft, for those non miners the monkey is the ten feet or so before the bucket stops on a set point on rail or wood stops so it can be filled from the drive but I digress have been told upon occasions that I am prone 2 doing so , may I add Michelle followed your work on and off nice to see you gaining not just subs but confidence in your productions that in my humble opinion where always well researched and gathered the historical human aspect of the times, As a wordsmith I know all 2 well that 2 be able 2 place yourself in mostly forgotten times long past that you chose to visit and bring 2 life is not an art but is something 1 be born with you have that gift.
Thanks so much 🙂
G'day, wonderful presentation of the story of Stawell Golden history, because so many other towns had a large amount of Gold at the same time as Stawell it's importance was overshadowed in the history books of the time, this Goldfields are amazing and in the future will produce more gold than before, thanks again, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
Hey Sweetie I'm just saying long time sub I'm only here because you are a beautiful doll and I love you're voice I can listen to you all day and as I said you are a doll cheers from me in Ballarat
Awe inspiring Ore.. 😂
Great Vids. 🤙
Appreciated that,past through Stawell a few times & never knew.
Never prospected the Mt. Pleasant area though drove through Stawell many times too and from Adelaide. Living in Castlemaine I'm spoiled for choice though my age makes it difficult to do much nowadays. Thankyou Michelle.
I find this very interesting, being a lover of history, I should do more about researching about the tunnel in the howqua valley and stamp that was built also, great video Paul
Outstanding...thoroughly enjoyed.....Thankyou.😊
❤ your work 😊
hi , i love your presentations , keep them coming please .. 😀
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮
Excellent video 😊
brilliant Michelle just what i wanted
Thanks this was very informative you have done a great job with this project.
Thanks 🙂
Iv been waiting for Stawell and deep lead info 😊
I got to go underground in the Magdala decline when I was six (85/6) I still remember seeing the old timers diggings, intersecting with the modern tunnels. Couldn't see the top or bottom of the stope.
Amazing video...thanks for sharing such great research 👏
A very well put together documentary!!! Congrats Michelle! 👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you 🙂⚒ I had a great time making this
Love your work keep it coming
Got my subscription, have Family there … looking forward to watching more of your work. Nicely Done 👍 Thanks
Thanks 🙂⚒
Your editing and depth of research is amazing, thanks for the great videos!
Thank you 🙂
Magnificent drone work too! 👍👍💕
Thanks! 🙂
@@goldfieldsguide
Thank you for sharing!
Great work definitely one of your best no sorry i love them all 😂😊great work more please 😊
Great video ❤
Excellent work thank you.
Thanks.
Hi Michelle, you have really excelled yourself with this video. I think that it maybe your longest video to date? Either way 40 odd minutes of video would have taken a considerable amount of time to research, script, film, voice over and edit.
Well done!
I spent the last weekend visiting Wodonga to hear a lecture by Chris Vogusius on gold prospecting and then on the way back to Melbourne, I dropped into Benalla to check out the Visitors Centre and to buy a Book on the Kelly Gang. Family history has it that my Great, Great, Grandfather was the town Blacksmith with his workshop next to the Police Station and after the Siege at Glenrowan, the Police found his makers mark on some of the pieces of armour. He was questioned by the Police but his reply was "Would I make something like that here, right under your noses?" Other blacksmiths were able to demonstrate to the Police that some parts had been shaped over a smithys forge and other parts had been done over a camp fire. Big difference in heated temperature. Much of this has been confirmed in modern times and there is an ABC Catalyst program on the Joe Burne set of armour. Looking at the pieces, you can tell that some parts were shaped professionally and others were by amateurs.
Given the timing of the Kelly Gang I find it surprising that they never tried their hand at prospecting or labouring on the Goldfields? I know that at one time Ned worked in a Sawmill cutting sleepers for the use by Victorian Railways. He could see that the days of the bushman and possible bushranger were diminishing due to the power and speed of the steam train and telegraph.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Well done!
Brilliant doco, should be on main stream tv. well done😁
Thanks! 🙂⚒
Great video. A fair bit must go into putting them together. Appreciate your efforts. ✅
Thank you, yes it’s a lot of work but so much fun 🙂⚒🎥 cheers
Well done…just brilliant, very fascinating and informative. Thank you very much for posting. Keep up the great work. Cheers Marty 👍😊
Thank you 🙂
Good show.
Awesome video thank you
Always great.
Really great video. ❤
Nicely done Michelle, a pity you glossed over all of the amazing Alluvial gold digging history here in Stawell. For a couple years, there were over 30,000 people digging here with the massive rushes at Commercial St and 4 Posts producing over 100,000 oz's. One slight critique, the Police troopers who tried to protect the 'Jumpers' in the 1870's would have used the Snider-Enfield carbine, not the Lee-Enfield rifle which didn't exist for another 30 years. Keep up the great work!
Ah thank you, I do not know very much about firearm history. I said Lee Enfield because this detail was published in "Shepherd's Gold - The Story of Stawell" (1966) by C.E. Sayers, where it was stated that: "Twenty-five policemen from Melbourne passed through Ballarat on 31 July on their way to Stawell 'to assert the supremacy of the law against mobocracy' ... They were armed with Lee Enfield rifles and bayonets, with an extra supply of 40 rounds of ammunition."
Yes I focused on the quartz mining history at Stawell in this video. There are so many other aspects to the goldfield which deserve videos all of their own, including the great alluvial rushes! Cheers 🙂⚒
@@goldfieldsguide Yes, that book has several notable mistakes in it, but given that it was written many decades ago, and without the benefit of the internet for research, we can forgive the Author. I saw you filming here many weeks ago when I was walking the dog. Plus at Aldi in Ararat the following day. Your devotion to the gold mining history of Victoria is commendable, I look forward to every new episode.
This was great, Thanks for all the info.
Well done and thanks for a very informative video of the stawell goldfields, I have fond memories of prospecting and detecting gold nuggets and specimens from this area and met some great people along the way, still have most of what I found and enjoy getting them out from time to time which brings the memories flooding back of the hard work but exciting times .
Regards Mark Stewart
Thanks for another great video, and history lesson. Love ya work ❤
Thank you 🙂⚒
Amazing content 👌
Thank you 🙂⚒
great vid girl love you vids keep it up mate
Thank you 🙂⚒
Always interesting videos Michelle 👍❤️
Thank you 🙂
👍❤️
G'day, I grew up in Ballarat, know the stories and the history. The one thing left out is how did these people locate an area that might have gold and then, how much work did it take to get to it.
I have seen a lot of the places shown in your video here. The little plaques on them do nothing to explain just how complex of a social structure was being built around a now rusting machine.
Thanks for the video, live long and prosper.
P.S. I used to be a stonemason, Doesn't matter who you are one day someone like me will be making your headstone. I have put in quite a few and read many others. It seems most people want to be seen as giving a shit about others and hoping their family gets on in life. That to me is people when boiled down to the basics. We are all people no matter where we are from.
50oz to the Tonne!!!! What!.... lets go! I got everything we need to get it out
This girl is on fire 🌹
"About 50 ounces to the ton" - that's the stuff dreams are made of
Unbelievable isn't it! 🙂⚒
That was great, thank you 😊
Thanks, much appreciated 🙂
Great Video again
Thank you 🙂
So I can run in a foot race and prospect for gold ... cool! (As usual, many thanks!)
Haha yep, Stawell’s the perfect destination in many ways 🙂⚒👌
@@goldfieldsguide Must admit, I only run from the police ... just joking!
😆🤣