A family history day today – first outside Maryborough to the Alma diggings where my great great grandfather had a store in the early 1850s. Above is Timor Creek at Alma.

Back into Maryborough and the splendour of the railway station in daylight.

Talbot Primary school where my grandfather started school

Scandinavian Crescent, Talbot

Talbot Town hall (left)

Talbot Post Office

Talbot Primitive Methodist Church which my great great grandfather helped build.

On to Amherst Cemetery outside Talbot to pay our respects.

Talbot-Amherst Road near the cemetery

The road into Big Waterhole, Talbot – site of the old family farm. My grandfather walked this road to go to school.

Big Waterhole

The author at Big Waterhole farm

Ruins on the land once owned by the family.

Maldon – yet another gold mining town

Late drive into Bendigo

Catholic Cathedral in Bendigo

Bendigo Town Hall