Its set back in time in Australia's exciting gold rush days. Set on a former gold mining site, this outdoor museum recreates in fascinating detail the hustle and bustle of life in the 1850s. There is so much to do and see.
Sovereign Hill's Main Street is busy with people in colourful costumes and horse-drawn vehicles.
Craftsmen are at work throughout the township, with a variety of shops and businesses open to purchase goods - grocers, blacksmith and jewellers.
In the diggings you can pan for real gold!
Witness $50,000 of molten gold being poured into a bullion bar at Sovereign Hill's Gold pour.
We watched a demonstration on how to make candles...
We had devonshire tea scones and jam and cream freshly baked at Hope Bakery, pastry cakes and breads are freshly baked each day in the wood-fired brick oven also.
You can play bowls as they used too... with wooden bowls and skillets.
You can be photographed in Victorian costume, which of course I wanted to do but John didn't :(
We also enjoyed live street performances
and a ride in horse drawn coaches.
The Sovereign Hill Costumed School Program is a unique, two-day costumed role-play experience where children are fully immersed in the 1850s, learning about manners, costume, behaviour and re-living the discipline of school life on the goldfields....
We were able to look in at the classroom while the children were having lessons, they were writing on slate and using pen and ink...what a great thing for them to appreciate the school life they have now....
They lived in character for the whole time they were there.....
We enjoyed exploring the cottages and looking through them to see how the richer miners lived in the gold rush times..
WHO REMEMBERS THESE YUK!!!And also how the poor miners lived too.....
The Butcher shop... Meat just hanging in open air.. in scorching heat :(
And the even poorer ones were just in tents...
We had a nice cold beer in the bar...set back in time...
Our last thing to do was go down the mine to see what the conditions were they worked under..The took us under ground in a train and it was TOTALLY dark they wanted to give us the same experience the men got when they travelled down..only they went down in cages...
This is a little section underground where they had there lunch...they had to warm the water up by candle light...
We had a great day and we found the whole thing very interesting..
John finished off buying a beautiful hand made wool English cap...and I must say it sure suits him....
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