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The Beehive Building, also known for a time as the Sandhurst Mining Exchange, is a 19th-century building located on the historic thoroughfare of Pall Mall in the centre of Bendigo, a regional city in the Australian state of Victoria. Bendigo was called Sandhurst, after the famous British military academy, until the gold mining town's name was ...
After rapid European settlement in the Bendigo Valley following the official discovery of gold on Bendigo Creek in October 1851, the "Charing Cross" junction, together with neighbouring "Pall Mall", was planned in 1858 by the government and district surveyor Richard William Larritt, who planned the original township of "Sandhurst" in his "Plan of the Valley of Bendigo". [2]
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The Bendigo Creek forms a geographic spine through the city and suburbs of Bendigo. The valley is notable as a major tourist destination and is the location of one of the world's largest and longest-lived gold production areas. Bendigo Valley is broadly surrounded by the Greater Bendigo National Park and other state forests. The 17,020-hectare ...
In 1862, the year that Flannigan was born in Bendigo, Victoria, the town had already been temporarily renamed Sandhurst (from 1854 to 1891). Being at the centre of a major Victorian gold rush the town consisted mostly of huts and tents. Prospecting was extremely dusty work, permanently damaging to the lungs of 'diggers'.
Bendigo was officially named "Sandhurst" from 1853 to 1891. [5] In 1861, to "retain an association with Pall Mall and Charing Cross", [ 6 ] there was even a proposal to give the name St James's Park to what became the adjacent Rosalind Park , as St James's Park in London is also in the immediate proximity of Charing Cross and Pall Mall .
Bendigo railway station is a regional railway station on the Deniliquin and Piangil lines, part of the Victorian railway network. It serves the town of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Bendigo is a ground level premium station, featuring two side platforms. It opened on 21 October 1862, with the current station provided in 1965.
Bendigo (/ ˈ b ɛ n d ɪ ɡ oʊ / BEN-dig-oh) is a city in north-central Victoria, Australia, located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state [4] and approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) north-west of Melbourne, the state capital.