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Branch Project: The Cast Iron of Ballarat

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Over the following two years the Branch volunteers compiled a database of over 1,500 places containing a huge variety of patterns. The project was confined to a general analysis of decorative friezes and brackets and once the combinations and permutations of timber and metal posts, fluted and smooth cast iron
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Branch Project: Hepburn Graves

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One of the few private cemeteries that is publicly accessible in Victoria, Hepburn Graves is accessible via a short walk from the carpark on Estate Lane, Smeaton. The Ballarat Branch holds regular working bees to maintain this site with support from the neighbouring landholder. Information on those buried on the
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Branch Project: Ballarat Railway Station

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In April 1862 the train line from Geelong to Ballarat opened.  Originally only the Bluestone Goods Shed and the North Platform and its associated offices were constructed and it was not until 1889 that the southern portion of the station and its tower was completed. This coincided with the opening
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