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The business name, National Centre for Photography, was registered with ASIC in March 2018. [1] After the purchase in April 2018 of its premises for $1.3 million by the Ballarat International Foto Biennale and already functioning for its 2019 season 24 August – 20 October, [2] [3] the National Centre for Photography hosted the group exhibition Capital in the chambers of 1860s Union Bank on ...
Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction. [1] It is one of Victoria's most popular attractions and Ballarat's most famous. [2]
The Star reported there were 50 Eureka Stockade veterans in Ballarat for the 50th anniversary, ranging in age from 70 to 86. [6] Frank Penhalluriack convened a meeting at the Ballarat East Town Hall on 7 February 1912, attended by forty-seven people concerned about the poor state of the Eureka Stockade Reserve. [citation needed]
Ballarat: Founded as a continuation of the Ballarat Field Club and Science Society (1882-1918), acting as a repository for the society's records. [47] The club hosts face-to-face meetings, excursions, camps and conservation activities throughout the year. [48] The club has also published the monthly Ballarat Naturalist since 1974. [49] Club ...
Ballarat Heritage Services, also known as BHS Publishing, is an Australian publisher in Ballarat, Victoria. It was founded in 1998 by Clare Gervasoni, Dorothy Wickham and Wayne Phillipson, to promote Victorian local and family history in historical gold mining towns of the Victorian gold rush .
Jack Harvey (1994) has conducted an exhaustive survey and has concluded that the Eureka Stockade Memorial is situated within the confines of the historical Eureka Stockade. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] It encompassed an area said to be one acre; however, that is difficult to reconcile with other estimates that have the dimensions of the stockade as being ...
Buninyong / ˈ b ʌ n ɪ n j ɒ ŋ / is a town 11 km from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. [2] The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to Geelong.. Buninyong was proclaimed a town on 27 June 1851 on the same day as Winchelsea, Portarlington, Longwood, Avenel, Cavendish, Euroa and Gisborne. [3]
In his seminal Flag of Stars, Frank Cayley published two sketches he discovered on a visit to the soon-to-be headquarters of the Ballarat Historical Society in 1963, which may be the original plans for the Eureka Flag. One is a two-dimensional drawing of a flag bearing the words "blue" and "white" to denote the colour scheme.