POEM: THE GOLDMINERS

Fire Brigade Discipline Contest at Portarlington, Mansfield Fire Officers competing.

Gerald Egan and equine partner, Smoke, have ignited the cauldron in front of more than 15,000 spectators, at Benalla, VIC, 12 August 2000, ready for the Sydney Olympic Games.

Elsie Cameron

Mansfield High School Pupils (Mansfield Agricultural High School) 1919; and Mansfield Higher Elementary School 1913 – 1914.

Mansfield Showground – an early photograph

Miner’s Right – Certificate

Aftermath of the fires at Woods Point – 1939

ROSS BROWN COLLECTION. STUART HAIR, ARCH TIMBS AND JERRY GRIFFIN OUTSIDE MOROKA HUT

Highett Street, Mansfield. Accident – Miss Cox’s pony and gig collided with Kelly Hotel’s Verandah post.

Thomas Edwin Harris & Kingsley Green

Red Cross members at the Shire Hall before it was changed.

Bucklands Federal Buildings established 1881- Australian Estates Ltd.

Snells Crushing Plant – Fordson roller

Mansfield Court House built 1879 – Telegraph Office

Ashfield Sawmill, 1996, last days before closing down – Bob Jones.

John Bostock uses his trusty horse assistant to make the task quicker and lighter! Preston Station

Donnellys Creek residents

An interior view of Fry’s hut

Horse named ‘Scotch Brew’ – Preston Station