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<blockquote data-quote="oldtimerROB" data-source="post: 432519" data-attributes="member: 8947"><p>Thanks Bogger for the beaut photo of Stoneman's Bookstore. Walked past it only last month to visit the dentist. Known as Forrest Creek,then Mount Alexander Diggings.Gold first found in July 1851 at Specimen Gully by Christopher Peters shephard and hut keeper and was ridiculed for finding fools gold as no one believed him,and the gold was thrown away.</p><p>We stood on the NE corner of Barkers and Mostyn Streets and I recall there was a paddock across the road in 1954 where they used to fly model airplanes which is now Victory Park.A lot of the miners were returned soldiers so that spot was popular as the Returned Soldiers Assembly Rooms were just across the street and were opened on Anzac Day 1921. Notable Residents Robert O Hara Burke,Sir Harry Lawson-Victorian Premier and Ron Barassi from Guilford.</p><p>Last Easter were were in Lyttleton Street looking for the Mechanics Hall as every town had one and the old building between the Shire Offices and the Magistrates Court had a corner stone with Castlemaine Technical School chiselled into it with a 1920,s date.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oldtimerROB, post: 432519, member: 8947"] Thanks Bogger for the beaut photo of Stoneman's Bookstore. Walked past it only last month to visit the dentist. Known as Forrest Creek,then Mount Alexander Diggings.Gold first found in July 1851 at Specimen Gully by Christopher Peters shephard and hut keeper and was ridiculed for finding fools gold as no one believed him,and the gold was thrown away. We stood on the NE corner of Barkers and Mostyn Streets and I recall there was a paddock across the road in 1954 where they used to fly model airplanes which is now Victory Park.A lot of the miners were returned soldiers so that spot was popular as the Returned Soldiers Assembly Rooms were just across the street and were opened on Anzac Day 1921. Notable Residents Robert O Hara Burke,Sir Harry Lawson-Victorian Premier and Ron Barassi from Guilford. Last Easter were were in Lyttleton Street looking for the Mechanics Hall as every town had one and the old building between the Shire Offices and the Magistrates Court had a corner stone with Castlemaine Technical School chiselled into it with a 1920,s date. [/QUOTE]
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