available on the CD – Above the Creek Bed
The Fields of Eldorado (song)
available on the CD – Above the Creek Bed
Open your eyes to Australia
© Jim Low
From the second half of the nineteenth century, mining operations began in the Eldorado Valley, in northern Victoria. Because of the depth of the wash dirt and therefore the necessity to sink shafts, groups of miners formed companies to work the area for gold and tin.
The Eldorado region was considered a dangerous area to mine. Continue reading “The Eldorado Mining Disaster”
© Jim Low
It was the last day of 2008. I was enjoying a leisurely stroll around the historic township of Windsor, one of ‘Macquarie’s Five Towns’, in the New South Wales Hawkesbury region. While stopping to explore a second-hand shop which reclaimed the ample space of a lost congregation in their old church, I came across a cardboard box full of photographs.