A view across Creswick Creek, Clunes, towards the Port Phillip Gold Mines.

A general view across Creswick Creek at Clunes, north of Ballarat, looking at the clapboard and shingle wooden Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mine Co. buildings and residential buildings with washing hanging out. The Port Phillip Hotel can be seen on the right of the image by the creek, which is in flood.

The photograph is captioned 'Gold Fields. Ballarat' and is a commercially produced print.

Frederick North was Assistant Paymaster on board HMS Barrosa (1860), a wooden screw corvette, while it was part of the Royal Navy Flying (Detached) Squadron that sailed from England in June 1869. The squadron visited Melbourne between 26 November and 7 December 1869. The Admiral, captains and about officers visited the gold mines of Albion's Consort's shaft and the Prince of Wales Co. shafts on Monday 6 December by special train from Melbourne to Ballarat.

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ID:	ALB0029.233
Type:	Photographic print
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	Circa November 1869; Circa November 1870
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 200 mm x 273 mm
Parts:	Early career of Frederick North (Photograph album) A photograph of a painting called 'Socrates seeking Alcibiades at the House of Aspasia' (Photographic print) (ALB0029.71) A view across Creswick Creek, Clunes, towards the Port Phillip Gold Mines. (Photographic print) (ALB0029.233) A view of Fern Tree Gully. (Photographic print) (ALB0029.234) An Aboriginal group outside a domical hut. (Photographic print) (ALB0029.236) A group photographs of an Australian Aboriginal man, woman and child (Photographic print) (ALB0029.238) An Australian Aboriginal warrior posing for the photographer (Photographic print) (ALB0029.241) A view of a wooden house inside a defensive Maori village with the family in the foreground. (Photographic print) (ALB0029.254) A photograph of a painting of part of the Bay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand (Photographic print) (ALB0029.255) A half-length portrait photograph of a Maori Chief. (Photographic print) (ALB0029.260) A half-length portrait photograph of a Maori warrior (Photographic print) (ALB0029.261) A head-shoulder portrait photograph of 'William Thompson', better known as the Maori chief Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi (Photographic print) (ALB0029.262) A full-length studio portrait photograph of a Maori warrior (Photographic print) (ALB0029.263) A general view of the sulphur springs at Lake Rotorua (Photographic print) (ALB0029.264) A full-length portrait photograph of a female Maori servant (Photographic print) (ALB0029.265)

A view across Creswick Creek, Clunes, towards the Port Phillip Gold Mines.

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