Australian History

[goldtruck59]

there you are. I knew when I added the saving at the beach it would be easy.
Righto Loamer DD is hanging for this question of yours, lets have it.

He was a champion Olympic swimmer and of course from the money he was given for the Coogee beach saving he started the Beaurepair and Olympic tyre business. The rest is history.

Sir Frank Beaurepaire

 

[loamer]

I am a place in Australia. I had deep lead gold mining and the river that flows through me had/has alluvial gold. My name was changed in the 1800s. There is a mining company named after me, although its HQ is not located within me. I had/have over 100 Hotels and several breweries. A very famous Australian business was started in me. My historical major industries have been just about wiped out by cheap foreign imports.

 

[loamer]

No responses - that's interesting. Here's a hint - it is not Broken Hill.

 

[goldtruck59]

Well Loamer
My best guess is Gympie. It had deep lead mining, it had a 100 pubs at one stage(gympie historical society), a river runs through it that carried gold and my name was changed and I have a gold mining company named after me.
Not sure on the business that began there.

 

[goldtruck59]

No responses - that's interesting. Here's a hint - it is not Broken Hill.

now that's what I call a clue LOL

 

[loamer]

Not Gympie. Here is another clue, the gold mining was less than successful. Historical reporting shows less than 1000 miners, but either way, it was very small scale. Gold was found in the graveled streets - not much, and possibly not from this place, but from a place very close to it.

 

[Goldpick]

Croydon?

 

[Tathradj]

Nerrigunda. ???
still can pan gold in the streets as long as a local don't see you do it. LOL
would you call this place i named small scale. ???

 

[goldtruck59]

Not Gympie. Here is another clue, the gold mining was less than successful. Historical reporting shows less than 1000 miners, but either way, it was very small scale. Gold was found in the graveled streets - not much, and possibly not from this place, but from a place very close to it.

100 pubs and only a 1000 miners !!! bet they had a good time !!!

 

[loamer]

No and no.

Next hints.
I do not have an airport, airfield, aerodrome -nothing, but I have excellent public transport.
I have several high rise buildings.
A very famous member of the Royal family is associated with my name.
As a 'thing' I existed until the 1990s.

 

[goldtruck59]

newcastle

 

[Jaros]

Castlemaine?

loamer wrote:

Not Gympie. Here is another clue, the gold mining was less than successful. Historical reporting shows less than 1000 miners, but either way, it was very small scale. Gold was found in the graveled streets - not much, and possibly not from this place, but from a place very close to it.

100 pubs and only a 1000 miners !!! bet they had a good time !!!
Now that's competition !!

 

[loamer]

no and no.

next hints:

There were few miners, but it does not mean the rest of the population was not large - gold was very much a secondary industry and did not last very long. I am NOT a well known gold town/city but my gold mining is mentioned in several books.

My slums were cleared in the 1960s and 1970s (weren't they all??) and replaced with modern housing.

I have been the home of many waves of migrants throughout my history.

 

[Jaros]

Bonegilla

 

[goldtruck59]

I am a place in Australia. I had deep lead gold mining and the river that flows through me had/has alluvial gold. My name was changed in the 1800s. There is a mining company named after me, although its HQ is not located within me. I had/have over 100 Hotels and several breweries. A very famous Australian business was started in me. My historical major industries have been just about wiped out by cheap foreign imports.

Now its really nothing to do with mining !!!!!! Bit of a goosechase me thinks.
This is a job for Dr Duck. Calling Dr Duck, come in Dr Duck.

 

[goldtruck59]

I have to be geelong

 

[loamer]

Not Geelong, not Bonegilla. But,it is in the Victoria.

I ceased to exist as a stand-alone entity in the 1990s due to the council/shire amalgamations.

 

[DrDuck]

Tough one, and I don't have a lot of time to track down an answer. Was it Alberton - the old Alberton Shire was abolished by Jeff Kennett in the 90's, and Woodside Petroleum was named after the town of Woodside, which is in the old Shire.

 

[loamer]

No mate.

Some more hints:

1. A huge national business was started here. We still have a presence in the place of our birth.
2. I am named after a Pom, who is not as well known as his superior who he in fact took over from.
3. There are several places in Australia with my name, plus Canada, and NZ.
4. Many books have been written about me.

 

[loamer]