HERITAGE PLACE REPORT - City of Greater Bendigo

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HERITAGE PLACE REPORT Greater Bendigo City area between Duncan, Bennett, Casley and Louis Streets, and the 1950/60s housing subdivisions facing Peters Street, on the site of the former Kent mine. Bibliography References: Primary Resources Gazetteer of Historic Mining Sites, Heritage Victoria George Mackay, editor, Annals of Bendigo Volume Two 1868-1891, p.239 Ironbark Hill Sandhurst, PROV, VPRS 795/P0, unit 1985, item 323 Index to Residence Areas, PROV, VPRS 149/P0, unit 1 PROV Agency VA 508, Housing Commission of Victoria Register of Residence Area 1876-1885, Sandhurst District Waranga North Division, PROV, VPRS/P0, unit 1 VA 4862 Sandhurst - VPRS 16267 Rate Books 1856-1958, Bendigo Regional Archives Centre (BRAC). Maps Bendigo Sewerage Authority Detail Plan No. 94, 15 April, 1930 City of Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme maps 2005 City of Sandhurst Plan Showing Roads and Streets to be Proclaimed 1871, Roll Plan 74, Map Collection, SLV Hart, G. W., Plan of Mining Tenements on the Garden Gully Johnsons and Other Reefs Sandhurst, in John Neill Macartney, The Bendigo Goldfields Registry, Melbourne, Charles F. Maxwell, 1871 Mines Department map Bendigo 1923, reissued 1936 Parish of Sandhurst map 1961 Secondary Sources Ballinger, Robyn, History of Ironbark Hill 2005, City of Greater Bendigo Bendigo Advertiser, 6 September 2004 Bendigo Library, A Vision Splendid, image database Bendigo Mining for a summary of the history of mining see website for Bendigo Mining http://www.bmnl.com.au/safety_environment/community_relations/gold_mining/bendigo_goldfield_history.htm Borrie, W, Italians and Germans in Australia: A Study of Assimilation, Australian Nation University, Melbourne, n.d. Caire, N. J., Views of Bendigo, Bendigo, Bendigo Trust, c1979 Cusack, Frank, Bendigo the German Chapter, German Heritage Society, 1998 Cusack, Frank, Bendigo: A History. Lerk & McClure, Bendigo, 2002 (rev. ed.) Davison, Graeme, John Hirst and Stuart MacIntyre, The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1999 Dingle, Tony, ‘Miners and their Cottages’, Nothing But Gold Conference, October 2001, Bendigo Dingle, Tony , Miner’s Cottages, in Australian Economic History Review, Blackwell Publishing, 2010 Eaglehawk and Bendigo Heritage Study, 1993, Butler, Significant Mining Areas and Sites Report, Vol 3 pp.123-235 Ellis, George A., A Brief History and Reminiscence of Long Gully, Bendigo, George A. Ellis, 2000 Gazetteer of Historic Mining Sites, Heritage Victoria http://www.heritage.vic.gov.au/page.asp?ID=124 Fahey, Charles, From St Just to St Just Point, Cornish migration to Victoria, Cornish Studies, 2 nd Series Vol 15, University of Exeter, UK pp 117-140 for survey of Cornish migration to Bendigo and IronbarkIbid based on Rates Book information 1865-1920 Fahey, Charles, Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University Bendigo, personal communication Type of Place Hermes Number Heritage Place Report Page 10
HERITAGE PLACE REPORT Greater Bendigo City Fahey, Charles, Cornish Miner’s in Bendigo: An Examination of their Standard of Living, Department of History Monash University n.d. Hopkins, Ruth, Where no Cousin Jack?, Bendigo Bicentenniel Committee, Bendigo 1988 Hopkins, Ruth, Cousin Jack, man for the times:” A History of the Cornish People in Victoria, Ruth Hopkins, Bendigo 1994 James Lerk and Carol Holdsworth pers. communication regarding the work of the Chinese mine contractors on the tailings Lerk, James, personal communication Lerk, James, ‘Discover Bendigo: Ironbark Hill School of John Rae’, Bendigo Weekly, 21.1.2000 Mackay, George, History of Bendigo. Lerk & McClure, Bendigo, 2000 (rev. ed.) Mackay, George, editor, Annals of Bendigo Volume Two 1868-1920 PROV, VPRS 795/P0, unit 1985 323 Ironbark Hill Sandhurst; George A. Ellis, A Brief History and Reminiscence of Long Gully, p. 22 Palmer, A.V., Gold Mines of Bendigo, Book Two, Hawthorn, Craftsman Press, 1979 Ravenswood Homestead, Heritage Victoria, http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/heritage/967 Relevant Historical Australian Themes • Shaping Victoria’s Environment: The Natural Landscape • Peopling Victoria’s Places And Landscapes: Transnational Migration • Governing Victorians: Government and Surveillance • Transforming the land: Mining Wastelands • Building Victoria’s Industries And Workforce: Mining labour force and technological achievements • Building Towns, Cities And The Garden State: Buildings towns and cities • Building Communities: New roads to self improvement Description of the Precinct The boundaries of the precinct area reflect the extent of the workings of the former mines inclusive of Victory & Pandora Shaft, Victory Shaft, Bells, Old Carlisle, North Garden Gully United, Pass-by and Unity Garden Gully United site Golden Fleece, Central Garden Gully/North Kent, Watson’s Kentish/Carlisle United and Carlisle mine site, which were continuously occupied from 1857s through to 1927. With a few exceptions of miners’ cottages, the whole area was dug up, turned over, excavated, used as storage for tailings, wood and ore bodies prior to cartage, drainage channels, small sludge dams, shaft pits and entries, pump houses, chimneys, sheds and batteries. At the closure of the mines in 1930s the area was left a wasteland. There was no regeneration of the area, the soils were destable and blew away as dust and washed away as sludge. It was only after the Second World War that there was a consistent effort to fill in mine shafts, dismantled the massive brick chimneys and clean up ready for large government residential development for the disadvantaged such as the public housing development (1949) between Duncan, Bennett and Louis Street, age care facilities at the corner of Bennet and Buckley Streets, the site of low cost housing services and development of the Scope (Vic) Ltd. formerly the Spastic Society of Victoria (1948) in Bennett and Victoria Streets, which were constructed on the most accessible of mines sites in areas of the least numbers of shafts. The former mine lands remain as important areas of public open space and include the highest vantage point located off Bell and Roeder Street, an important look out site with panoramic views along the Garden Gully line of reef, Victoria Hill and Hustlers Hill; the former site of Kent mine once Type of Place Hermes Number Heritage Place Report Page 11
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