Gold, Glamour and Destruction: "Could the Carrington Event of 1859 have had broader effects than originally assumed?
Imagine your posturing self-assurance as you parade on the dockside at Port Melbourne, dressed in the finest fashions the colony of Port Phillip can offer. Your beautiful new bride is elegantly bubbling beside you whilst showing off the latest copy of high Paris couture. Yes, my boy, you have made it! The year is 1859.
You came to the Victorian goldfields a pauper and struck it rich. You look across the bay to Frankston, Mount Martha, Dromana and Tubbarrubba where shortly even more goldfields will be pegged out. This was an era like no other and rags to riches were common, with no conniving government tax collectors to strip you of your 'Paul Hogan' fortune.
Now with ritzy wealth reflected in your grand finery, you are boarding the luxurious steam clipper 'Royal Charter' to fast tack up Port Phillip Bay and head home to England. Doubtless the gentry will fawn over your new found colonial riches."
Friday, May 6, 2011
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