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Two men and two women outside a weatherboard building and a shop named "The Race Store", 1860. Fom left: James Harris, his sister Eliza Harris, Mary-Anne Bennet (nee Harris) and her husband and the shop owner, James Bennett. The shop was on the corner of Barkly and Bradshaw Streets. SOURCE: THE BALLARAT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

View of Ballarat - St. Paul's Church of England and rough wooden houses. Looking west up Sturt Street. Mount Pleasant as seen from School of Mines SOURCE: THE BALLARAT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

"The Ballarat East Public Library" Shows front of building onto Barkly Street with main entrance and one side of building. SOURCE: THE BALLARAT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Photograph of Electric Telegraph Office and Post Office. Features three horse-drawn cabs and a group of men outsidebuilding. Presumably this is Ballarat Post Office. SOURCE: THE BALLARAT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Ballarat Post Office at the corner of Sturt and Lydiard Streets. The building is decorated around the windows and a sign mounted on the building reads "1838-1938 Post a Souvenier". SOURCE: THE BALLARAT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Engraving of the Post Office showing stone steps prior to the building of the ramp. SOURCE: THE BALLARAT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Arrival of Geelong mail, from the S.T. Gill Collection. SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.

Ballarat East as seen from School of Mines, January 1883. SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.

Lydiard Street, Ballarat, looking south from Sturt Street. January, 1883. SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.

Ballarat Mechanic's Institute at the corner of the street. SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.

Mount Pleasant, as seen from the School of Mines, January 1883. SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.

The Ballarat Begonia Festival, 1953. SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.

Children at the Ballarat Orphanage.SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.

The Dana Street Primary School. SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.

Dormer windows of the Theatre Royal with the corner building. SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.

The Avenue of Honour. SOURCE: THE COURIER ARCHIVES.

Sturt Street, Ballarat. SOURCE: THE COURIER ARCHIVES.

Sturt Street, looking west. SOURCE: THE COURIER ARCHIVES.

Looking south over Lydiard Street. The carparks are where the Ballarat Police Station / Court precinct is now. SOURCE: THE COURIER ARCHIVES

Looking south down Sturt Street. SOURCE: THE COURIER ARCHIVES.

Phoenix Foundry. SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.

Lydiard Street, looking south. SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.

The Ballarat public library and police station east, circa 1890. SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.

St Andrew's Kirk, without the tower, 1864. SOURCE: THE BALLARAT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

The Ballarat Town Hall. SOURCE: GOLD MUSEUM, SOVEREIGN HILL.