Gold, gold, gold.....Dunolly. WOW! Full of history, beautiful buildings, lovely people.
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- Definitely make Dunolly a destination. It has so much history and lovely cafes, hidden gems, long walks and a super community.
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even with a small population, you can see that the people living there have pride in their little town, lovely.
Hello @7Sandie and welcome to the channel.
Yes, Dunolly residents are certainly proud of their town and history. It is a great place to visit with much to see and do within a short walk around the town.
Each town we have visited and will visit in the future has amazing history, be it Indigenous or European, man-made or natural.
I hope you continue to watch and discover places you may have never seen before.
Happy reading and safe travels,
ABT
For anyone interested in Australian history especially the Victorian goldfields .... there are many towns and villages between Ballarat and Bendigo like Dunolly. Larger towns include
Maryborough, Castlemaine, Daylesford and Creswick. Smaller towns include Talbot, Clunes, Carisbrook, Maldon, Tarnagulla .... all with many heritage buildings, all that had significant
populations until the end of the gold era. As an example Clunes had a population 14,000 in 1870/1880 and now around 1100 ! Dunolly was similar. All established due to gold.
Hello Beat Wittwar and thank you for joining the channel.
Victoria does have so many beautiful historic towns. The towns you have mentioned have all been uploaded on the channel over the last six months, excluding Tarnagulla. That town has yet to be filmed. You may be interested to view them on the channel. I know many people have been extremely interested and have watched them with positive feedback.
I hope you enjoy them and continue to do so as we travel around discovering towns with bookshops and libraries.
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Amazing number of heritage residential and commercial buildings.. Cheers Jill
It certainly is a town full of history and lovely architecture, Jill. Thanks for watching. I appreciate that you enjoy the videos. Cheers.
Thank you for spend time to make such long video, it is very beautiful work you done, the town is so lovely presented.
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My father was born and raised in Dunolly and later went to fight on the Kokoda Track in WW2. Most of his family are buried in the cemetery there. Nice video.
What an interesting history to your family Greg. It is a small world we all live in really. I am pleased you enjoyed the video and hope you continue to enjoy the others already on the channel and the new ones uploaded each week.
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Lovely, tidy little town............
Hello Bob,
Thank you for watching.
Dunolly, along with many other Victorian towns, is lovely and has so much European and Indigenous history, and so many things to see and do within and around the town.
We enjoyed our time in Dunolly.
We hope you continue to enjoy the channel.
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ABT
Such a lovely video & very informative, nice surprise seeing our house too, with the vineyard 🍇 Thankyou for sharing 😊
Hello sallybailey9706.
Thank you for watching and joining the channel.
I am so pleased that you enjoyed this video. We hope you enjoy many more on the channel.
And....your home? Oh how lovely that you live in Dunolly! Small world!
Thank you also, for you positive comment. It is greatly appreciated.
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Cheryl (ABT)
The veranda at the station has the same down pipes as the Maryborough station running internally in the columns to what must be a underground reservoir. Very ingenious
Hello Roger,
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You have an 'Eagle eye', I see. Well spotted and thank you for bringing it to our attention.
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Most enjoyable time watching this. Fantastic work, thank you.
@shauncooper9942, you are more than welcome. I enjoy bringing Australia, its libraries, history, bookshops and beauty to everyone. Thank you for joining the channel to watch the video. I hope to hear from you more often concerning other videos on the channel. Enjoy.
I very much enjoyed your video, thank you.
Good Morning @kevindunnell7150,
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As for your question regarding the railway station being for passengers ...... yes it certainly was. Every town had a station, every locality/hamlet a platform/siding. Dunolly had 3 up, 3 down
daily passenger services. Keep in mind in the late 1800's, early 1900's the railways were the cars, busses, trucks and heavy haulage of today. Everything went by rail .... passengers, parcels,
post, general freight, livestock and heavy bulk goods incl. wool, wheat, timber, coal, fertilizer etc. etc.
Thank you so much for responding. Yes, we learnt all of this once I researched the railway history of the area a little further and I do remember, as a child that the rail was not only for passengers, but for all cargo including livestock. It is a shame that the excitement of watching the cargo/freight trains run through the stations, is no longer. It was fun and exciting and I do enjoy passenger rail so much.
Thanks for your informative comment
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Thank you, loved this whole video. New subscriber here. I could listen to background music forever too. Blessings from BrisVegas.
Thank you for joining the channel, Delma. I am so pleased that you enjoyed the video and the music. I hope you continue to enjoy the travel videos. For your interest, I upload book recommendations too and I am embarking on bringing Pet Friendly accommodation to the channel as we travel around too.
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ABT
Beautiful Australiana. Love it. I have a sister in Taradale, a mate of mine up at Kyneton. This region of Victoria is a treasure and must be protected from insane developers. Interestingly, there is a replica of the Welcome Stranger in a Casino in old Las Vegas of all places.
Hello Melbournelost66 and thank you so much for joining the channel.
We are so pleased you seemed to have enjoyed the videos and thank you for such positive feedback.
Yes! we did know that Las Vegas has a replica of the Welcome Stranger. A little of the Australian spirit in 'far off places'!🙂🙂.
We also agree that these places need to be conserved and preserved without any further untoward development as towns then soon lose their character, uniqueness and culture.
Thanks again for watching. We hope you continue to enjoy the channel.
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ABT
Wasnt that railway station in Mad Max ?
@aussieoutlawalt8411. Thank you for joining the channel. I believe the railway station that featured in the Mad Max movies, was actually the railway station located at Clunes in Victoria. We will definitely be travelling there later this month, all going well with the weather and the fires/aftermath. Thanks for your comment. I enjoy being kept on my toes with facts! Happy reading and travels.
Such a wonderful walk-around and intimate tour of my town. I assume it was taken with a hand-held phone camera on gimbals? The walking shots were so smooth. Yes indeed, the cork tree is amazing and when I take my visitors there they gape in wonder as they do 360s. Forgive me for saying the video was too long and would have benefited greatly with some tighter editing. However, I was very proud to share it with my friends in Melbourne and in other countries with some very admiring feedback. Well done for your obvious effort and enthusiasm. I loved it. Thank you. Carl Parow.
Hello Carl Parow, I thought I had responded to you but it appears I have not. Apologies! Thank you for watching the video and supporting the channel. The camera work is on a Go-pro. If you view a few of my earlier videos that began in November 2023, I explain a little of my journey. I have had to learn how to even navigate a computer! It has been challenging, yet so rewarding. Thanks again for your support. I do hope you continue watching the channel and are entertained by it. Happy reading and I hope you have a super day. Cheers.
Hello again, following my interest in your Maldon video to help me bring that town alive for me to discover my Wagener Family roots and the stories around the red bricks made & fired at Wagener’s Brick Yards in Maldon from 1861, you bring me to Dunolly and I see that the buildings from the 1860s used more redder bricks than earlier so I suspect Maldon bricks may have made their way to Dunolly. As did Edward Wagener’s oldest daughter Eleanora (Lena) who married a Danish smithy from Dunolly in the 1880s named Neils Neilson (became Nelson) about 1880 and the lived & farmed there all their life. I learn she was a hospital matron & they had 4 children my mother’s 1st cousins. I could not yet find their graves in the old & new Maldon Cemetery.
So your generous length video/s depart lovely ambience & nostalgia to your historical book walking style. My videos are much longer than yours deliberately in a documentary narrative & music overlay style for people who like atmosphere rather than just facts and tabloid TH-cam presentation. Tight editing & continuity is very hard when you try to cover a lot of ground.
But Lena Wagener became a noted Dunolly lady & mother and maybe husband Neils rode his horse to Maldon to meet her or get medical help at the local hospital. This is another personal story your videos do help to bring alive. Cheers John
@@johnanderson363 So pleased that you enjoy the videos and you have so much historical knowledge. Thanks again for watching.
My grandfather came from Dunolly, his brother's name is on the memorial to the fallen that you passed by at the start, he died at the Nek during the Gallipoli campaign. It's important to remember those who gave their lives for the nation & all country towns have memorials to that end. Seeing those memorials (onsidering the small size of many towns) it's tragic to contemplate how many were lost in WW1.
Good Morning @sentimentalbloke185.
Thank you for watching the channel.
We could not agree with you more. It is so important to pay respect to those who fought and served for our country. We visit each town's war memorial and each cemetery where we can, to pay tribute and to also respect the town's history.
It is heart-wrenching to see how many of a town's men and women, have been lost to war.
We hope you continue to enjoy the channel.
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now you know why I call my town THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE.Incidentally,there are 3 cemeteries,the first one is behind the tip!
IanBrodie-bg1lu, Dunolly is a lovely town, for sure.
I was not aware that there are three cemeteries in the town. When we return I shall make a point of looking out for them. Thank you for letting me know. It is interesting that there are three, although I have noticed that some towns do have more than one, sometimes this is due to poor/unworkable location of the cemetery originally or even race/religion segregation. Cemeteries are always interesting and full of history. They are a great place to begin any sort of research of a town or family.
Thank you for watching and commenting. Your input is appreciated.
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ABT
@@AustralianBookTravels-ii8iy Don't forget those ceneteries are in the gold fields, may be that was the reason for their size and devided.
@@jxmai7687 Thank you for your comment. Yes, as explained to Ian (above), there are a number of reasons for multiple and divided cemeteries in any town/city. All interesting reasons too!
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ABT
the dunolly anual gold rush festival last was 2009
@markissboi3583. A long time ago! Thank you for letting us know.
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ABT
A friend of mine needed to straighten a piece of metal so he climbed up onto the monument and beat it out straight on that very anvil.😂😅
Hello @nevillemills9517,
Thank you for joining the channel and watching.
What an interesting piece of trivia you have shared. No doubt one to share around at a special event!
I hope your friend straightened the piece of metal out as he/she required.
Thank you for sharing this rather funny story.
Happy reading, safe travels and happy Christmas
ABT
Freemason influence right there.
Good Afternoon @nevillmills9517.
I believe there is an influence of many organisations in country towns and cities, throughout history, all interesting, some extremely sad, horrid and even irreversible, others for the good. This is what weaves its magic into history.
Thank you for watching and commenting. We appreciate you taking the time to do so.
We hope you are having a lovely Boxing Day.
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