MY TRIP TO SOVEREIGN HILL IN THE HOLIDAYSBy Phoebe Hamper

AT THE GOLDMINE

HOUSES AT THE MINE

WATER WELL

AN ABACUS FOR COUNTING IN THE SHOPS

THE SHOP

THE BUILDINGS NEAR THE GOLD MINE

WE WENT PANNING FOR GOLD AND IT WAS LOTS OF FUN

THERE WERE LOTS OF ROCKS BUT WE FOUND A BIT OF GOLD

THE MAIN STREET – DIRT ROADS

THIS IS HOW THEY KEPT WARM IN THE OLDEN DAYS

THIS IS FOR WEIGHING.

THIS IS AN OLDEN DAYS SHOP

THIS IS THE BANK, BUT IT HAD NO COMPUTERS. THERE WERE BOOKS AND ALL THE MONEY PUT IN THE BANK WAS HAND WRITTEN IN A BIG BOOK. THERE WERE ALSO SCALES FOR MEASURING THE GOLD.

AN OLD CHEMIST

A LADY IN AN OLDEN DAYS OUTFIT

‘SNOW’ FALLING BECAUSE THEY HAVE CHRISTMAS IN JULY

THE MEN IN OLDEN DAY OUTFITS

MORE LADIES IN OLDEN DAY OUTFITS

ABOVE THE GOLD MINE

THE OLDEN DAYS SCHOOL

THE SCHOOL HOUSE

PUMPING THE WATER

HORSES PULLED THESE CARRIAGES BEFORE THERE WERE CARS