Let’s take a look back at William Davies – Boot maker
This is the same building approximately 170 years later showing that little seems to have changed in the intervening period. However after the business closed.
Crime and compassion on the goldfields
Bendigo resident and keen historian Lynne Cooper has had an incredible response to her long awaited book, The Mystery Medal - A Tale of Crime and Compassion Castlemaine Goldfields 1889.
Castlemaine cannons
In the ‘Let’s Take a Look Back’ section in the Castlemaine Mail on November 29, 2024, two large cannons were featured as part of a photograph of the gardens taken in the 1890s.
Let’s take a look back at the first Winters Flat Primary School
This early photograph is from the Castlemaine Historical Society collection and features the first Winters Flat Primary School.
Let’s take a look back at Castlemaine Botanical Gardens
This photograph with a view to the south towards Walker Street, was taken by an unknown photographer in 1894.
Let’s take a look back Jack Harcus’s Electrical Shop Circa
The building on the right of this black and white image at 62 Lyttleton Street, housed the retail electrical business of John William Simpson Harcus, better known in Castlemaine as Jack Harcus.
Let’s take a look back at Pyrenees Highway – McKenzie Hill
1974
This image courtesy Ray Stevenson and G.
Lives shattered in our early floods
Local resident and keen history buff Stephen Collicoat has kindly shared this intriguing story about early flooding in Castlemaine.
Let’s take a look back at Forest Street / Camp Reserve
This is an enlargement of an 1871 image from the Holtermann Collection and was taken from Monument Hill.
Rare Danish discovery in Castlemaine
Local Danophile, Gavan Thomson was surprised and delighted to find a vintage Danish Royal Coat of Arms embroidery in the Imperial Hotel's occasional antique shop recently.
From the archives
20 years ago
July 2, 2004
Mount Alexander shire budget watchers are braying for blood as anger mounts against the council and its senior staff about overruns in spending totalling almost half a million dollars.
Camp Reserve dig sparks interest
A crowd of interested community members turned out to learn the findings of a three-day archaeological investigation at Castlemaine's historic Camp Reserve last Friday.
