Clunes
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BEST VIEWED LARGER This shot was taken on the road between the township of Clunes and the city of Ballarat. The clouds, bales and landscape caught the attention. Equipment: Nikon D300, Manfrotto Tripod, Sigma 10-20mm lens. / Technique : HDR , 5 Exposures Bracketted, Capture NX, Photomatix 3.2
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BEST VIEWED LARGER The Main Street of Clunes, old residence windows, makes you wonder how many people looked though this window Nestling in a picturesque valley, a 25 minutes drive north of Ballarat, is Clunes, Victoria’s First Gold Town. Clunes was the site of the first official gold discovery in Victoria, made by James Esmoud on July 1st. 1851. Esmoud’s discovery triggered Victoria’s world famous gold rushes. / / Clunes remains one of the most original and intact gold towns in Australia and there are over 50 buildings of historical significance. Many reflect the opulence and confidence of the boom period of the 1850s. The Town Hall & Court House, the Churches, the several old bank buildings and the verandahed shops in the central part of the town provide the basis of a living museum. Today, Clunes has a population of only 850 but it has recently undergone a major transformation and resurgence following the decision by Wesley College, Australia’s largest co-educational private school, to establish a campus for Year 9 students. Each term, over 100 Wesley students take up residency in the ‘Wesley Village’, located in the town centre, and become part of the local community. Clunes has also been used as a film location site for such movies as ‘Mad Max’, the remake of the 1950s classic ‘On the Beach’ and recent ABC television series ‘Queen Kat, Carmel & St Jude’ and ‘Something in the Air’. and most recently the late Heath Ledgers Ned Kelly Clunes is centrally located to Ballarat, Daylesford, Maryborough and is within an easy drive to over 20 wineries / / Equipment – Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm lens, Manfrotto Tripod / Technique: HDR , 5 exposures bracketted. Photomatix 3.2, Nikon Capture NX
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BEST VIEWED LARGER Statement of Significance / The Clunes Post and Telegraph Office was built in 1879 to a design by the Public Works Department. The principal building was constructed by Messrs Lewis and Roberts at a cost of £4099 and the kitchen outbuildings were constructed by Charles Morgan & Co for an additional £279. The building replaced an earlier and smaller post office built in 1861. That the current building is so much bigger and grander than its predecessor is indicative of the township’s rapid expansion and peaking of population in the 1870s as a result of both the deep-lead mining and the coming of the railway in 1874. A scheme for the new post office was prepared in 1877 by the Public Works Department; probably by an assistant architect, Alfred Snow. Snow, along with his superior, William Wardell, and over 200 other public servants were dismissed on 9 January 1878 (“Black Wednesday”) and the plans were revised by new staff. The ultimate scheme similar in style to the first was prepared by George Watson under the supervision of Charles Barrett. The building is designed in an Italian Renaissance “palazzo” style, is of two storeys, and is constructed of rendered brick with a slate roof. The ground floor post and telegraph office is entered via a recessed arcaded loggia with the entrance to the post-master’s residence on the first floor via a lobby to the side of the building. The building is largely intact with the exception of its internal colour scheme and the interior lining of the kitchen wing. Of special interest is that the building may still be viewed in an urban setting very similar to that when it was built. The building is of significance as a well-executed and preserved example of public Renaissance Revival design, as an indication of the prosperity of the developed Clunes goldfields (the area of first gold strike in Victoria) and as a key element within the historic townscape of Clunes. Equipment: Nikon D300, Manfrotto Tripod Sigma 10-20mm lens / Technique: HDR, 5 Bracketted Images, Photomatix, Capture NX Going Postal: /
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BEST VIEWED LARGER Statement of Significance / The Clunes Post and Telegraph Office was built in 1879 to a design by the Public Works Department. The principal building was constructed by Messrs Lewis and Roberts at a cost of £4099 and the kitchen outbuildings were constructed by Charles Morgan & Co for an additional £279. The building replaced an earlier and smaller post office built in 1861. That the current building is so much bigger and grander than its predecessor is indicative of the township’s rapid expansion and peaking of population in the 1870s as a result of both the deep-lead mining and the coming of the railway in 1874. A scheme for the new post office was prepared in 1877 by the Public Works Department; probably by an assistant architect, Alfred Snow. Snow, along with his superior, William Wardell, and over 200 other public servants were dismissed on 9 January 1878 (“Black Wednesday”) and the plans were revised by new staff. The ultimate scheme similar in style to the first was prepared by George Watson under the supervision of Charles Barrett. The building is designed in an Italian Renaissance “palazzo” style, is of two storeys, and is constructed of rendered brick with a slate roof. The ground floor post and telegraph office is entered via a recessed arcaded loggia with the entrance to the post-master’s residence on the first floor via a lobby to the side of the building. The building is largely intact with the exception of its internal colour scheme and the interior lining of the kitchen wing. Of special interest is that the building may still be viewed in an urban setting very similar to that when it was built. The building is of significance as a well-executed and preserved example of public Renaissance Revival design, as an indication of the prosperity of the developed Clunes goldfields (the area of first gold strike in Victoria) and as a key element within the historic townscape of Clunes. Equipment: Nikon D300, Manfrotto Tripod Sigma 10-20mm lens / Technique: HDR, 5 Bracketted Images, Photomatix, Capture NX
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BEST VIEWED LARGER The Main Street of Clunes, gotta love those clouds Nestling in a picturesque valley, a 25 minutes drive north of Ballarat, is Clunes, Victoria’s First Gold Town. Clunes was the site of the first official gold discovery in Victoria, made by James Esmoud on July 1st. 1851. Esmoud’s discovery triggered Victoria’s world famous gold rushes. / / Clunes remains one of the most original and intact gold towns in Australia and there are over 50 buildings of historical significance. Many reflect the opulence and confidence of the boom period of the 1850s. The Town Hall & Court House, the Churches, the several old bank buildings and the verandahed shops in the central part of the town provide the basis of a living museum. Today, Clunes has a population of only 850 but it has recently undergone a major transformation and resurgence following the decision by Wesley College, Australia’s largest co-educational private school, to establish a campus for Year 9 students. Each term, over 100 Wesley students take up residency in the ‘Wesley Village’, located in the town centre, and become part of the local community. Clunes has also been used as a film location site for such movies as ‘Mad Max’, the remake of the 1950s classic ‘On the Beach’ and recent ABC television series ‘Queen Kat, Carmel & St Jude’ and ‘Something in the Air’. and most recently the late Heath Ledgers Ned Kelly Clunes is centrally located to Ballarat, Daylesford, Maryborough and is within an easy drive to over 20 wineries / / Equipment – Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm lens, Manfrotto Tripod / Technique: HDR , 5 exposures bracketted. Photomatix 3.2, Nikon Capture NX /
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BEST VIEWED LARGER Statement of Significance / The Clunes Post and Telegraph Office was built in 1879 to a design by the Public Works Department. The principal building was constructed by Messrs Lewis and Roberts at a cost of £4099 and the kitchen outbuildings were constructed by Charles Morgan & Co for an additional £279. The building replaced an earlier and smaller post office built in 1861. That the current building is so much bigger and grander than its predecessor is indicative of the township’s rapid expansion and peaking of population in the 1870s as a result of both the deep-lead mining and the coming of the railway in 1874. A scheme for the new post office was prepared in 1877 by the Public Works Department; probably by an assistant architect, Alfred Snow. Snow, along with his superior, William Wardell, and over 200 other public servants were dismissed on 9 January 1878 (“Black Wednesday”) and the plans were revised by new staff. The ultimate scheme similar in style to the first was prepared by George Watson under the supervision of Charles Barrett. The building is designed in an Italian Renaissance “palazzo” style, is of two storeys, and is constructed of rendered brick with a slate roof. The ground floor post and telegraph office is entered via a recessed arcaded loggia with the entrance to the post-master’s residence on the first floor via a lobby to the side of the building. The building is largely intact with the exception of its internal colour scheme and the interior lining of the kitchen wing. Of special interest is that the building may still be viewed in an urban setting very similar to that when it was built. The building is of significance as a well-executed and preserved example of public Renaissance Revival design, as an indication of the prosperity of the developed Clunes goldfields (the area of first gold strike in Victoria) and as a key element within the historic townscape of Clunes. Equipment: Nikon D300, Manfrotto Tripod Sigma 10-20mm lens / Technique: HDR, 5 Bracketted Images, Photomatix, Capture NX
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BEST VIEWED LARGER This shot was taken on the road between the township of Clunes and the city of Ballarat. The clouds, bales and landscape caught the attention. Equipment: Nikon D300, Manfrotto Tripod, Sigma 10-20mm lens. / Technique : HDR , 5 Exposures Bracketted, Capture NX, Photomatix 3.2 /
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Rear of the Catholic Church Clunes, Victoria Australia. Clunes was the site of Victoria’s first gold strike. It is located in a steep valley surrounded by rounded hills which are actually extinct volcanoes (they can best be seen 3 km south along the road to Ballarat). It also happens to be one of the most intact 19th-century towns in the Central Goldfields boasting numerous sandstone, bluestone and brick buildings. Fraser St, the commercial centre, is wide and elegant, full of 19th-century shops with original store-fronts and distinctive verandahs, and lined with oak and elm trees. Pop 1800 National Heritage
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Old buildings in the historic gold mining town of Clunes, Victoria / Taken on Fuji S3 Pro
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MUCH BETTER VIEWED LARGER Nestling in a picturesque valley, a 25 minutes drive north of Ballarat, is Clunes, Victoria’s First Gold Town. Clunes was the site of the first official gold discovery in Victoria, made by James Esmoud on July 1st. 1851. Esmoud’s discovery triggered Victoria’s world famous gold rushes. Clunes remains one of the most original and intact gold towns in Australia and there are over 50 buildings of historical significance. Many reflect the opulence and confidence of the boom period of the 1850s. The Town Hall & Court House, the Churches, the several old bank buildings and the verandahed shops in the central part of the town provide the basis of a living museum. This shot is of the old post office, the image the result of 5 bracketted images processed in Photomatix with some fine tuning in Capture NX. Equipment: Nikon D300 and Sigma 10-20mm lens. The Italianate post office (1878), at the corner of Bailey and Service Sts, is now a second-hand bookshop. /
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BEST VIEWED LARGER The Main Street of Clunes, gotta love those clouds Nestling in a picturesque valley, a 25 minutes drive north of Ballarat, is Clunes, Victoria’s First Gold Town. Clunes was the site of the first official gold discovery in Victoria, made by James Esmoud on July 1st. 1851. Esmoud’s discovery triggered Victoria’s world famous gold rushes. / / Clunes remains one of the most original and intact gold towns in Australia and there are over 50 buildings of historical significance. Many reflect the opulence and confidence of the boom period of the 1850s. The Town Hall & Court House, the Churches, the several old bank buildings and the verandahed shops in the central part of the town provide the basis of a living museum. Today, Clunes has a population of only 850 but it has recently undergone a major transformation and resurgence following the decision by Wesley College, Australia’s largest co-educational private school, to establish a campus for Year 9 students. Each term, over 100 Wesley students take up residency in the ‘Wesley Village’, located in the town centre, and become part of the local community. Clunes has also been used as a film location site for such movies as ‘Mad Max’, the remake of the 1950s classic ‘On the Beach’ and recent ABC television series ‘Queen Kat, Carmel & St Jude’ and ‘Something in the Air’. and most recently the late Heath Ledgers Ned Kelly Clunes is centrally located to Ballarat, Daylesford, Maryborough and is within an easy drive to over 20 wineries / / Equipment – Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm lens, Manfrotto Tripod / Technique: HDR , 5 exposures bracketted. Photomatix 3.2, Nikon Capture NX
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BEST VIEWED LARGER The Main Street of Clunes, gotta love those clouds, reflected in the old State Bank window. Nestling in a picturesque valley, a 25 minutes drive north of Ballarat, is Clunes, Victoria’s First Gold Town. Clunes was the site of the first official gold discovery in Victoria, made by James Esmoud on July 1st. 1851. Esmoud’s discovery triggered Victoria’s world famous gold rushes. / / Clunes remains one of the most original and intact gold towns in Australia and there are over 50 buildings of historical significance. Many reflect the opulence and confidence of the boom period of the 1850s. The Town Hall & Court House, the Churches, the several old bank buildings and the verandahed shops in the central part of the town provide the basis of a living museum. Today, Clunes has a population of only 850 but it has recently undergone a major transformation and resurgence following the decision by Wesley College, Australia’s largest co-educational private school, to establish a campus for Year 9 students. Each term, over 100 Wesley students take up residency in the ‘Wesley Village’, located in the town centre, and become part of the local community. Clunes has also been used as a film location site for such movies as ‘Mad Max’, the remake of the 1950s classic ‘On the Beach’ and recent ABC television series ‘Queen Kat, Carmel & St Jude’ and ‘Something in the Air’. and most recently the late Heath Ledgers Ned Kelly Clunes is centrally located to Ballarat, Daylesford, Maryborough and is within an easy drive to over 20 wineries / / Equipment – Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm lens, Manfrotto Tripod / Technique: HDR , 5 exposures bracketted. Photomatix 3.2, Nikon Capture NX /
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I love this spot. I have been here a few times now. It is down by the creek at Clunes. It’s like a magical garden. Loverly in the Autumn time…stunning about now (Winter’s beginning). Clunes is an old Gold mining town. Clunes, Vic. AU / Canon EOS350D
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BEST VIEWED LARGER Statement of Significance / *What is significant?8 The Clunes Town Hall and Court House was designed by Percy Oakden and constructed by William Cowland in 1872-3. The distinctive Victorian Free Classical style building is a reflection of the civic pride and community confidence of a gold town at the peak of its prosperity. In July 1851 it was announced that payable gold had been discovered near Clunes. Clunes’ fortunes fluctuated during the early 1850s and it was not until the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Company began quartz crushing operations that the town experienced significant development. The township of Clunes was surveyed in 1858 and in 1861, Allotment 7 of Section 4 was temporarily reserved for municipal purposes for the newly proclaimed Borough of Clunes. Architect Percy Oakden was appointed to produce a design for the Town Hall, Borough Offices and Court House in late 1871. A grant of £2100 from the Victorian Government to the Clunes Borough Council for a court house, tied to a 999 year lease, provided sufficient funds to construct a substantial civic building. The foundation stone was laid by the Chief Secretary of Victoria, Charles Gavan Duffy in April 1872 and the Town Hall opened in May 1873. Oakden’s design was for a symmetrical building, with the Borough offices and Police Court flanking the two-storeyed central hall. The Police Court consists of court room, barrister’s office and holding cell on the lower level and clerks’ and magistrate’s offices on an upper level. Much of its original furniture is extant. The lavish main hall is of particular note, with its decorative ceiling, lunette windows and stage. The Town Hall was the centre of social functions for nearly a century, and modifications to the building to accommodate entertainment include the early dressing rooms, the 1916 stage remodelling to include proscenium arch, backdrops and curtain painted by Richard Ford, the modifications for the screening of picture shows and the relocation of the Bible Christian Church for use as the Supper Room. The building was a symbolic centre for community loyalty and sense of belonging, evidenced by the large World War I memorial on the western wall of the main hall. The memorial consisted of the painted rising sun by Richard Ford and the collection of 152 individual photographs of local servicemen and women, which originally hung alongside it. In December 1982, the Government revoked the appointment of the Clunes Court House during a period of rationalisation of court facilities. With the amalgamation of the Borough of Clunes and the Shire of Talbot, the Clunes Town Hall was no longer the location of municipal operations. Though with the growth in car usage and changing tastes in entertainment, the Town Hall gradually became less of a focus for community functions and leisure activities, it remains a significant place for the township of Clunes. How is it significant? The Clunes Town Hall and Court House is of historical and architectural significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? Clunes Town Hall and Court House is of historical significance as a civic building constructed at the height of a gold town’s prosperity, demonstrating the confidence that such towns had in their future. The town hall is of historical and architectural importance in demonstrating the continuing role that such municipal buildings played in the civic and social life of rural townships in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The World War I memorial and associated photographs demonstrate the importance of the place to the Clunes community and is of historical significance. The adaptation of the main hall for entertainment purposes, to accommodate stage productions and film screenings, is of historical significance in demonstrating the development of cultural facilities in rural communities. The collection of objects associated with the Clunes Town Hall is of historical significance in demonstrating the judicial, municipal and cultural usages of the building. The collection of in situ original Court House furniture is of particular note. The Clunes Town Hall and Court House is of architectural significance as a striking and eclectic municipal building design by Percy Oakden, and a rare rural example of a combined Court House and Town Hall. The Clunes Town Hall and Court House is significant to the State of Victoria in demonstrating the importance of civic buildings and government institutions to rural community life and the aspirations of newly established gold rush towns wishing to assert their status and wealth. The Clunes Town Hall and Court House was adapted to accommodate many developments in the cultural and social life of Clunes, including entertainment, commemoration and community functions, which contribute to its significance. Equipment: Nikon D300 Sigma 10-20mm lens Manfrotto tripod / Technique: HDR 5 exposures bracketted photomatix 3,2
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BEST VIEWED LARGER This shot was taken on the road between the township of Clunes and the city of Ballarat. The clouds, bales and landscape caught the attention. Equipment: Nikon D300, Manfrotto Tripod, Sigma 10-20mm lens. / Technique : HDR , 5 Exposures Bracketted, Capture NX, Photomatix 3.2
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Sunlight filters through gold and yellow autumn leaves at Clunes in Victoria
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A walk bridge takes you into the tree tops of gold and yellow autumn leaves at historic gold town of Clunes in Victoria
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The railway station at Clunes seemed to me to be standard unimportant country town design. It was opened in 1875. The platform veranda iron-work although simple was dignified. The crane for handling heavy loads was not at all stations therefore there must have been a reason for it to be installed. This must all be in the records of Vic rail somewhere, if someone hasn’t tidied up and destroyed useless information. Taken with a Nikkormat SLR camera on Kodachrome film.
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This was so descriptive of how the state viewed the railway system in the late 1900’s. Forget about maintenance, forget about a efficient service, and just hope it all goes away, or goes so broke we can drop it. / It was proudly opened in 1875 Taken with a Nikkormat SLR camera on Kodachrome film.
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The Methodist Church was built in two stages 1863 and 1870 indicative of the Cornish mining population and their strong Methodist allegiance. The interior was very impressive with the quality of its workmanship Taken with a Nikkormat SLR camera on Kodachrome film.
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This image is a warning to take good notes. I was not aware thqat there had been two early primary schools at Clunes , and I do not know which one this was. One was opened in 1875 and went on to become in the 1910’s one of the first Higher Elementary Schools of Victoria. The other school built in 1881 only functioned for 11 years, and then was used as a knitting mill from the 1920’s to recently. It was the precursor design of several schools. I do not know which if either of these this building is. Taken with a Pentax LX camera and Pentax 28 mm shift lens on Kodachrome film.
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This building was the former Primitive Methodist Church building erected 1868 Taken with Pentax 1st DS camera
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