Goldminers behind Mountain View Hotel, 1896
Copy of photograph showing miners at Black Flat gold fields. Black Flat is now known as Glen Waverley
Gold was panned in the creeks and shafts sunk in the land behind and to the west of the Mount View Hotel. There is a memorial plaque acknowledging the discovery of gold in the area on the north west corner of Springvale Road and High Street Road. Another plaque is on the site of the Holland's shaft on the corner of Waverley and Springvale Roads (south side Waverley Road, east of the Bowling Club).
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This image is sourced from Monash Public Library Service, held at Monash Federation Centre. ID: 407
Goldminers behind Mountain View Hotel, 1896
Copy of photograph showing miners at Black Flat gold fields. Black Flat is now known as Glen Waverley
Gold was panned in the creeks and shafts sunk in the land behind and to the west of the Mount View Hotel. There is a memorial plaque acknowledging the discovery of gold in the area on the north west corner of Springvale Road and High Street Road. Another plaque is on the site of the Holland's shaft on the corner of Waverley and Springvale Roads (south side Waverley Road, east of the Bowling Club).
See the locale on Google Maps.
This image is sourced from Monash Public Library Service, held at Monash Federation Centre. ID: 407