https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616 6T's info en-us 2021-05-06 00:10:10 UTC 2026-03-01 00:14:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f47c.png https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496134274 https://fx-rate.net/XAU/AUD/]]> 2021-05-06 00:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496134274 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496134721 More than 200 children were buried in Pennyweight Flats Children's Cemetery in Castlemaine. Due to poor conditions]]> 2021-05-06 00:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496134721 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496134907 It was assayed by William Birkmyre of the Port Phillip Gold Company and given its name by finder Richard Jeffery. Eclipsed by the discovery of the larger Welcome Stranger eleven years later in 1869 (also in Victoria), it remains the second largest gold nugget ever found.]]> 2021-05-06 00:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496134907 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496137644 The Chinese miners worked in groups of 30 to 100 men under the direction of a leader, which resulted in their gold digging efforts being very successful.]]> 2021-05-06 00:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496137644 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496138944 In the early 1850's 7000 miners were chinese and by 1861 3.3% of all Australians were born in China.]]> 2021-05-06 00:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496138944 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496139611 https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/stories/chinese-goldfields]]> 2021-05-06 00:17:50 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496139611 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496140345 What life was like for women ]]> 2021-05-06 00:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496140345 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496140390 https://eurekaanddemocracygoldfieldsofballerat.weebly.com/women-in-the-gold-fields.html]]> 2021-05-06 00:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496140390 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496142280 Gold rush facts for kids ]]> 2021-05-06 00:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496142280 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496143256 The welcome stranger nugget roughly costs $5,962,903 and 60 cents in todays AUD]]> 2021-05-06 00:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496143256 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496146539 2021-05-06 00:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496146539 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496148817 Gold was discovered in victoria in 1851 so thousands of men left home to work on the golfields. Women were meant to stay home with the children and take care of the house but by 1851 some women worked side by side with their husbands. By 1854 there were 4023 women working on the goldfields and, unlike men, didnt have to pay for a miners license!]]> 2021-05-06 00:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496148817 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496150228 More than 200 children were burried in penny weight flats childrens cemetery in castlemaine]]> 2021-05-06 00:22:35 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496150228 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496150999 2021-05-06 00:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496150999 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496154510 2021-05-06 00:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496154510 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496155079 2021-05-06 00:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496155079 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496157172 2021-05-06 00:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496157172 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496158473 Chilrdn on the Gold Fields]]> 2021-05-06 00:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496158473 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496160883 2021-05-06 00:27:01 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496160883 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496161792 What Aboriginal peope were doing during the gold rush]]> 2021-05-06 00:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496161792 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496161955 Some children had to own their own money by running errands for diggers or shopkeepers.]]> 2021-05-06 00:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496161955 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496162433 2021-05-06 00:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496162433 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496162985 Was intresting.]]> 2021-05-06 00:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496162985 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496163382 The story behind the day people gave up and said "enough is enough" includes a detailed drawing of the massacre of the 3rd December 1854]]> 2021-05-06 00:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496163382 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496164226 When everyone burns there licence]]> 2021-05-06 00:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496164226 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496166055 The population grew to be 12726 men, 9135 women and 7838 children on the goldfields]]> 2021-05-06 00:29:15 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496166055 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496166154 The police were unsettled by the hostility building among the diggers and decided to implement a licence hunt the next day. That morning, as the police moved through the miners’ tents, the diggers decided they had had enough, they gathered and marched to Bakery Hill.]]> 2021-05-06 00:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496166154 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496170250 2021-05-06 00:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496170250 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496170842 "Children must be seen and not heard"]]> 2021-05-06 00:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496170842 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496171524 22 diggers and six soldiers were killed ]]> 2021-05-06 00:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496171524 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496172935 This is what the houses and life was like during the gold rush]]> 2021-05-06 00:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496172935 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496173011 A man called James Nash discovered gold in the area now known as Gympie in 1860s.]]> 2021-05-06 00:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496173011 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496173725 Possibly over 35 people died in the Eureka stockade.]]> 2021-05-06 00:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496173725 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496173857 Children were told to only pan for gold in the creek and/or river because digging on the field was classified adult work.]]> 2021-05-06 00:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496173857 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496177276 Miners cut down trees to use for firewood, housing and the boards that reinforced tunnels. Mining turned clear streams into cloudy ones. Sometimes miners diverted whole creeks and rivers to use the water in a new area. It pitted the landscape with holes which would then serve as garbage pits. That they were occupying and damaging the traditional land of people from the Kulin nation was not a thought that entered most miners' minds.]]> 2021-05-06 00:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496177276 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496178089 Lola showed me.]]> 2021-05-06 00:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496178089 https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496181467 The gold digging at first ressembled tent camps.]]> 2021-05-06 00:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/thomashardisty/n7yfxuandk9cl616/wish/1496181467