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The Red Coat soldiers in the distance.. Their guns firing are easily heard. Sovereign Hill, Ballarat. April 2012.
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8-Apr-2012 Glenn Leave a comment


Sovereign Hill 2012. A full day at Sovereign Hill, and still we missed out on things.

Sovereign Hill

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Main Street
Irish folk music band
Operating stage coach
Main Street
Live show at the Victoria Theatre

Top end of Main Street
The boiler fire box and it's attendant
The massive flywheel and gears used to operate the beam in the b
The poppet head engine room
Inside the Battery House where ore is crushed to make gold extra

Inside the Battery House where ore is crushed to make gold extra
Kyle and Bernice on the mine's poppet head
Looking down from the poppet head
Kyle and Connor on the mine's poppet head
Operating stage coach

Main Street taken from Clarke Brothers shop
Some of the period actors of Sovereign Hill
Wagon wheel making at Sovereign Hill
Wagon wheel making at Sovereign Hill
Part of the Wheel Works

Some of the fine restored carriages
Some of the fine restored carriages
Metal spinning
The Undertaker
The town's fire brigade.

Main Street
Looking down Main Street
A refuge for the miner's to eat their lunch
Kyle and Connor on the train returning from the mine tour
Underground storage space

Family posing with some of Sovereign Hill's period actors
Karen and Glenn with period actors
Peter and Bernice in Main Street
The diggings at Sovereign HIll
The gold pour at Sovereign Hill

The Red Coat soldiers in the distance.
Residential street
One of the beautiful gardens at Sovereign Hill
Residential street
One of the beautiful gardens

A view of one of the historic streets at Sovereign Hill
New to Sovereign Hill, an iron foundry
Inside Hewett's Candle Works
A closing street scene
A closing street scene

Lake Wendouree

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Karen feeding the black swans
Karen feeding the black swans
Black swan feeding time
Black swan feeding time
Black swan feeding time

Black swan feeding time
Wild ducks swimming
Australian Ex-prisioners of War Memorial
Australian Ex-prisioners of War Memorial
Pipers By The Lake tram

Garden beds and trees
Garden beds and trees
Garden beds and trees
Pond

Maryborough

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Kyle and Connor posing on the heritage signal
Wide platform
Railway traffic
Karen on the platform

Bernice and Peter on the platform
Peter, Karen and Bernice seated
Refreshment room
Ornate ceiling woodwork

Front

Clunes

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The quaint town of Clunes
The quaint town of Clunes
The quaint town of Clunes
The quaint town of Clunes

The quaint town of Clunes
The quaint town of Clunes
The quaint town of Clunes

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