Heritage Talks: The 1867 gold rush to Thames with Kae Lewis

[@OuttheGate114]

Outstanding work. Thank you for the great history lesson in our area. Would love to see you do one on Coromandel Township and the mining and kauri logging. Thank you once again

[@yarraman8595]

Thanks for this info, I have a couple of G.G Grandfathers who were mining in Thames during the gold rush, one of them left England in the 1850's with his brothers and arrived for the Victorian goldrush in Bendigo, he then travelled to Hokitika in the 1860s goldrush there before ending up in Thames, he had a few claims and was involved in the Hauraki Claim. Apparently he lost some money in one of the claims because they didn't have steam powered water pumps, as the mine flooded. He moved to Auckland and opened a business in the 1880s(My great grandmother was born in Thames). My other G.G Grandfather started in mining in Thames, but ended up opening a Tailors shop in Brown Street Thames before moving to Auckland.

[@philipwilkie3239]

I own the residential property that lies over the entrance of the Long Drive - and have some family and personal history with gold mining. The changes in landscape are dramatic - and the extent of how hollow these hills are astonishing. Thank you so much for all your work on this - we will purchase a copy of the book.

[@skydogk9]

Thank for producing this, very informative. 🙂

[@EmmaOBrien-l7p]

Thank you for putting this online.

[@successfulengineer]

Great job Kae, loved it.

[@LeonieWilkinson-j4h]

Very interesting and learned about the challenges that miners encountered in their quest for gold and fortune.