There's been a little bit of a competitive feeling around our place. Since we first moved to Ballarat Yin has been in our local paper, The Courier, a few times, being a chef, Slow Food Ballarat founder and contributor to lots of community events. This is the first time I've had my picture in the paper so I'm celebrating. I feel like I'm really a local, part of the newspaper record of Ballarat that's been going since the days when Ballarat was a gold mining giant. Now my descendants can find me in the newspaper archives.
http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/2542761/home-history-workshops/?cs=62
Here are three of the places around Ballarat that I've been finding stories about in the last couple of weeks.
Old Pub (now renovated) in Ballarat North. There were beehives out the back here in the 1870s.
This was a house, pub and a private hospital over the years.
Now a family home, this was once an old weatherboard house of 10 rooms that served as a better quality private hospital in the 1910s.
4 comments:
Elizabeth! There you are! Quite an interesting sounding seminar...what fun to assemble all the information...
Hi Suzanna, yes it's been interesting putting a story together for this session. Hope it goes well!
Some of those houses look so familiar and yet i can't place them.
The houses are in Lyons St and in Mair St. When i took the photo of the Lyons St house, the tenant came out and told me his grandparents had owned it - and given it its name.I don't think you can see the name in the pic.
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