The Alchemy of Gold event - Day 2

Day Two - Saturday 17th May 2025

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:10 Welcome to Country

Housekeeping – toilets/fire escapes/breaks times/tea and coffee/ going to field trips

9:10-9:35 Professor Chris McAuliffe with Associative Professor Fred Cahir, ‘The Symbolism of Goldfields Rebellion, and its Lasting, and Changing Modern Legacy’

Goldfields Administration & The Government Camp (Main Hall)
09:40 -10:05 Dr Marjorie Theobald, ‘The Government Camp Castlemaine’

10:05-10:30 Dr Bob Marmion, ‘Commissioner John Edward Newell Bull’

10:30-11:00 Morning Tea – Book Sales, Information Stands

11:00-11:25 Stuart Duff, ‘Gold Escorts & Policing Administration’

11:25-11:40 Q & A Professor Chris McAuliffe, Associate Professor Fred Cahir, Dr Marjorie Theobald, Dr Bob Marmion and Stuart Duff

11:40-12:05 Deborah Kemp, ‘Bushrangers of the Goldfields’

12:05 -12:30 Justin Shortal, ‘Photographers of Early Castlemaine’

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Heritage Assessments, Significance & Protections (Main Hall)
13:30-13:55 Deborah Kemp, ‘National Heritage Listing for the Beechworth Administrative Precinct’

14:00-14:25 Giselle Harris,  ‘Regulation or Guardianship?  What is the best way to protect our heritage? Case studies: Central Deborah Goldmine and Chinese Joss House

14:30-14:55  Anthony Hemingway, ‘Exloring the history of the Castlemaine Railway Station Precinct using archival material’

15:00-15:20 Q & A Deborah Kemp, Giselle Harris. Anthony Hemingway (moderator)

Art of the Gold Rush (Workshop Room)
15:30-17:00 Clayton Tremlett, ‘All that Glitters: Art of Gold Leafing’

Goldfields Architecture & Conservation (Main Hall) concurrent with ‘Art of Gold Leafing’ & the Tours
15:30-17:00 Roger Beeston and Katrina Place Dernelley  ‘Goldfields Architecture & the Conservation &
Restoration of Specimen Cottage Bendigo’

TOURS 15:30 17:00  To run concurrently with the 15:30 Afternoon Workshops & Panel
Option 1: The Government Camp Castlemaine, Alice Matthiesson and John Lewis

Option 2: Garfield Waterwheel, Ken McKimmie

Option 3: The Back Creek Siphon, Taradale. (How a minor creek valley broke the back of the Coliban Water Scheme in 1870) Stephen Charman

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Program is subject to change.