A long town with many breweries, wineries and tall yarns.

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The first in a two part episode walking around the Goldfields country town of Heathcote.
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@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm 3 месяца назад

a GOLD Battery = crushes rocks to sand - easier to pan out the gold = cams were lubricated with - Molasses ! good show thanks and well done !

@AustralianBookTravels-ii8iy 3 месяца назад

Ohhhh ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm!!! Thank you for that information. I could not locate anything about it at all. I will be looking at it with a different eye from now on. Thank you for watching too! Did you watch the second episode? I hope you continue to watch and enjoy the channel. Happy reading and safe travels. ABT

@davidmartin1015 2 месяца назад

@ around 36 minutes, I’ve been away for some time but either the bakery or the winery cellar buildings for a time back in the 1950’s operated as a knitting mill producing woollen fabrics ; it was known as Cleckheaton from my distant memory.

@davidmartin1015 2 месяца назад

The Information Centre used to be a public toilet , known locally as “the comfort station”. (There is still a toilet at the rear).

@davidmartin1015 2 месяца назад

Re. the hotels ; in the older days Heathcote was reputed to have had the highest alcohol consumption per head in Victoria. Mainly due to wood cutters , though shearer’s played a part as well. I’m 78 and when I was young there was not a wine grape growing in the region though there once were plenty. The phylloxera wiped them all out and they didn’t re-appear until around the late 1960’s.

@darneyoung537 2 месяца назад

Gaffneys Bakery is the best in the town every time I drive through I can’t resist their food and cakes

@AustralianBookTravels-ii8iy 2 месяца назад

@darneyoung537. Ohhh lovely to know. I ate at a different cafe and was impressed with the food and coffee there too and the service was impressive too. Thank you for your informative comment. Always good to know sustenance top-up areas!! Happy reading and safe travels. ABT

@davidmartin1015 2 месяца назад

@25-06, (The Emu Inn) ; in the very early part of the last century, my grandmother and her sister,(both nurses , operated a private hospital in that vicinity, if not ,in that building).

@davidmartin1015 2 месяца назад

In measuring the Main Street it is worth remembering that Heathcote adjoins what used to be known as South Heathcote which is just over the hill to the south of the town on the Northern Highway. Whether that part of the “Main” street counts in distance I am not sure. (South Heathcote used to have a bit of it’s own identity even with it’s own football club).

@AustralianBookTravels-ii8iy 2 месяца назад

@davidmartin1015. Welcome to the channel and thank you for watching and commenting. Yes, a few of these towns do tend to morph into South or West, East or North provinces, so I am not sure exactly where the main street was measured in order to proclaim it the 'longest' main street and I cannot find reference to it, sadly. Nevertheless, to the average eye, it appears long to travel along (I believe 1.2 km??). Happy reading and safe travels ABT

@davidmartin1015 2 месяца назад

Heathcote has the longest Main Street in Victoria.

@AustralianBookTravels-ii8iy 2 месяца назад

Yes, I did mention that in the video. Thank you for watching, @davidmartin1015.

@darneyoung537 2 месяца назад

Our Merino wool is still the best in the world

@AustralianBookTravels-ii8iy 2 месяца назад

Yes it is, darneyoung537 and Australia is still the world's leader in production. Thank you for watching and commenting. We hope you continue to enjoy the channel. Happy reading and safe travels ABT