LIVING BALLARAT 1901-1941

[@waritolfactive]

Went to Ballarat for the first time ever a few weeks ago and something about it just keeps calling me back , it is truly one of the most beautiful cities in Australia , filled with old world architecture and untainted by plain unsightly modern buildings.

[@redwandennaoui4508]

As a Melbournian I love Ballarat, always have. Thank you for presenting this documentary, I found it enjoyable and informative

[@joymcdonald8240]

This was really great. I am currently reading a book based on the early days of Ballarat at the boom times of the Gold rush and the influx of Irish immigrants. Thanks for uploading this.

[@mikelundberg6550]

Beautifully presented and narrated! Loved this 💕 …. My mum Rosemary Ranor Davis was born in Ballarat in 1930! So I got to see what happened on the streets of Ballarat as she grew up as a child! 🙂

[@willsshepherd2976]

My Mum was born in Clunes in 1928, moving to Ballarat upon marriage. 😊

[@willsshepherd2976]

Was your uncle a football player in Ballarat by chance ?

[@mikelundberg6550]

@@willsshepherd2976 No none of my uncles were football players.

[@willsshepherd2976]

@@mikelundberg6550 I am actually thinking about Jack Davis, radio & television host as well as a Ballarat football player. Hindsight says he was from Maryborough. Sorry for the mistake but doesn’t hurt to ask.

[@juliewalsh1241]

Many thanks. My Dad's family were from Ballarat and both grandparents were school teachers. Grandma had to resign when she married, it was the law.

[@willsshepherd2976]

My auntie was headmistress of the ladies college and upon her marriage also had to step down. Fortunately for auntie Fay she moved to Bendigo upon marriage and was allowed to go back to teaching home economics after her children had started school though wasn’t allowed to be head mistress anymore..lol. I can’t think of the name of the school, it’s in Melbourne but also a campus in Bendigo as well.

[@maryfarrell4079]

Wonderful! I am related to Con Burrow! So proud of our home town.

[@markusedmondstone6045]

Great drive down Ballarat's history drive, Cheers!

[@paulziemianski6593]

I’ve been reading The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney trilogy. This really helps paint a picture of life in Ballarat!

[@alancolenso3895]

Thank you for sharing this. Fantastic

[@kellyswoodyard]

Some places I can even remember, as a little kid. We all remember the trams, went to school on them.

[@professornuke7562]

My grandmother Laura Faust was born there in 1900. I still have a clock presented to her Father, which was purchased from Twentyman's shop.

[@gor4988]

Much thanks for uploading Certainly brings back memories

[@larrywalker6105]

Was that Geelong jersey with stripes going up and down. Never seen before.

[@nathancraig9620]

Thank you. Please upload a video History of Mildura VIC Australia. Please! ( I'd like to see it

[@alanhughes1262]

Absolutely brilliant.

[@maxineday1058]

Love love love!!!love 🎉❤😮😊

[@MrLeedebt]

Many thanks. Very interesting indeed.

[@divarachelenvy]

fabulous, cheers..

[@JamesHawkeYouTube]

The town already looks old and very well established. Very strange.

[@ozwunder69]

imagine the money going through from 1850s

[@bessmo1552]

strange indeed. all of those magnificent buildings that we cant emulate anymore in our present times are all made using hand tools. transported by horses and buggies. but yeah its the "gold rush" anything is possible! lol

[@ChristineMeyer-hs9rg]

12,000! orphans in a population of 40,000 people (being "trained") ? Trained for what purpose? Every third person handed over a child or are these children counted in the 40,000? Huge opulent buildings but non existent parents? Who built them and how? Supermen that hated children? Where are their mothers? In the monolithic asylum down the road? Please explain.

[@haleyheavenhill7680]

So incredibly interesting!

[@helenlucas9919]

Love this!

[@krissiehaley2594]

Very interesting 🤔

[@reverseuniverse2559]

That’s brilliant to watch how we take today’s technology for granted kind of, got to appreciate those cameras 🎥 they were the birth of our smartphones and unfortunately the “Media” lol

[@podgee7507]

call Ballaarat (It's has 2 A in Ballaarat) but we got lazy and drop 1 of the A out of Ballarat name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Ballaarat

[@gor4988]

That was the song I was taught to learn the spelling as a child

[@cheryljordan7827]

Liked this

[@toosiyabrandt8676]

Hi ‘Humes Pipes’ being made in Ballarat was news to me! My dad worked in their William st. office in Melbourne after we migrated from post war Berlin in 1958 until is retirement! Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua PRINCE OF PEACE returning to fulfil the feast of Tabernacles by reigning over His creation on David’s throne from Jerusalem for the seventh millennium to the glory of God The Father!

[@willsshepherd2976]

My great and great great grandfather Black owned gold mines. I wonder if black hill was named for them. Dad inherited a large farm with a gold mine on it at Bald Hills. The mine was shut down for 100+ years in respect to the miners who died (about 75 or so I believe) & entrance disguised as pig pens. Sad story about that farm which is now Australasian mines and one of the world’s richest mines. Dad & his 3 siblings were given a farm each. Dad was broken after the insurance company took the farm from him in 1960/1, today they couldn’t get away with anything of the sort. The insurance company possibly actually set the fire which took out the rental properties and the post office and telephone exchange which mum ran, all being on the property. Dad never spoke about it much though mentioned (when we were alone, collecting a trailer load of wood or fishing through my entire childhood until I finished school. Just said little bits like the fire started in the bluestone cottage which had no electricity or gas, just an empty shell according to the insurance company. Apparently the insurance company also had a policy that they would not accept 3 claims in a row for the same thing though mum had taken blame for the house in Clunes burning down after the record player had caught fire and mum was blamed for burning the house down because she picked up the kettle from the stove and poured it onto the burning record player.!!! Incident no 2 was the death of the first born Johnny who drowned getting home from school. The bigger boys were bullying him and wouldn’t let him come off the bridge at Clunes when a flash flood came down the already flooded river washing him off. Dad found him on Father’s Day 2 weeks later up under the bridge which was now going down. Johnny was 7 at the time & miss Miles witnessed it from Miles cottage by the bridge. The fire at the farm was claim no 3 in 2 or so years…therefore GUILTY…..do not pass GO. Shepherd and Black have married together for many generations, male black and female shepherd and visa versa. Maryborough used to be Charlotte until it was sold to a Simpson brother by my gr gr grandpa shepherd and name changed to Simpson and later became Maryborough. Etc.😢

[@brayanmunthe6074]

gold mine era

[@ChristineMeyer-hs9rg]

12,000 children in the orphanage and 6 of a motley crew in the beauty pagaent? Were parents forced to give up all their good looking children to the orphanage and this is what was left? Orphanage rejects?

[@ChristineMeyer-hs9rg]

Well look at that! The winner is number 33! What are the odds? Makes perfect sense now!

[@joymcdonald8240]

This was really great. I am currently reading a book based on the early days of Ballarat at the boom times of the Gold rush and the influx of Irish immigrants. Thanks for uploading this.