VOLUME ONE: Before the discovery of gold in Bendigo p4. Quartz mining p5. Local government p6. Music halls p7. Long Gully Fire Brigade p8. Law and order p10. Hopetoun Band and other bands p11. Football p13. Cricket p16. Post office p17. Sporting venues p18. Chinese p19. Herb Pearce p20. Education (schools) p21. Long Gully students p26. General store p26. The Pearl Sauce and Pickle Factory p29. Churches p29. Norris family p33. Crossley family p33. Paynting family p33. Cornish wrestling and iron quoits p34. Frenches Corner p35. Christmas Day at Sparrowhawk p36. St Just’s Point p36. A touch of class [Mr M.G. Guidice] p39. Aquatic Centre p39. Sir John Quick: early days at Long Gully p40. Dust storm p40. Germans p41. Musical recital [Mr Robert Harkness] p42. Golf links [course] p43. William Rae p45. Mining revival p47. Engineers [Taylor Horsfield] p48. Friendly societies p49. Independent Order of Rechabites p49. Manchester Unity p50. James Henry Curnow p50. Horses p50. Weighbridge p51. Blind Home p51. Animal Pound p51. Cabs p51. Street name changes p52. American Gully p52. Gran Wearne p52. William ‘Clubs’ Wearne p53. Hotels p53. Honour rolls p56. Albert ‘Dante’ Higman p57. 1939-1945 [war] p57. William Mitchell p58. Tribute system p58. Miner’s complaint p59. Community singing in the 1930s p63.

VOLUME TWO: Long Gully School, Bendigo’s first Teachers’ College p7. The Ironbark School, formerly Rae’s p8. Long Gully School of Arts and Design [at the mechanics’ institute] p11. Swimming pool p11. The first public mining company p13. The lonely grave [of Maria Ninnes died 1852] p13. Excerpt from the diary of Thomas Ninnes p14. Bendigo’s richest gold mine [Watson Kentish / Carlisle United] p15. George Gist (photo) p19. Greyhound coursing p19. James M. Sinclair p20. Thomas Grylls p21. The Long Gully Mechanics’ Institute p21. Havilah Mine p22. 1st Long Gully Scout Group p23. Football p23. Football club p24. The lost ladder [of Tom Carruthers] p24. Law and order p25. Arrest of Captain Moonlite p25. Doing what he was told [Bert Rooney] p25. Flume’s Hill p26. Sanatorium p26. Cleopatra’s needle p26. American Mine p27. Cobblestone Crossing p28. Replacing tram tracks at Long Gully 1902 [shows Long Gully Mechanics’ Institute and Rose of Australia Hotel] (photo) p28. Cambridgeshire Arms Hotel (photo) p29. Garden Gully Reef Hotel (photo) p29. An explosion with two tales [at a garage] p30. Invasion of birds p30. Sunday School picnics p30. No. 72 Bennett Street, Long Gully: Bendigo’s first Blind Home p32. The bicycle maker of Long Gully [Frank Stephens] p33. Long Gully Wanderers Cycling Club late 1890s (photo) p34. Long Gully photographer [Allan Doney] p34. The Patch on Danger Hill [John Truscott] p36. The battle of Silver Mines Hill p36. Popular swimming spots p37. Dyson’s Lake p38. St Just Point poultry farms p39. Village parliamentarians met at French’s Corner p40. The last Village Parliament p42. Manchester Arms Hotel or French’s Corner circa 1900 (photo) p42. Richard Pope of St Just Point p43. The Colenso cottage p44. Colenso family (photo) p45. Long Gully junior fire brigades p45. Ready for the parade [William Ira Grenfell] (photo) p46. The day the fire bell was rung for hours p46. George and George’s [department store] fire p48. Laying the foundation stone of the Long Gully Fire Station 1905 [Mr W. Beebe, Cr A. Dunstan] (photo) p48. Bendigo hookey p49. A good effort [Fred Bruhn] p49. A humorous pugilist [Trelawney vs John Strong] p50. Pearl Hill p51. A letter from the past [William James] p52. The abandoned mine shafts p53. Johnson No. 2 Mine disaster [death of Jack Rooney] p53. Sheefold Place p56. North Nell Gwynne Gold Mine p57. Some famous Long Gully mines p58. The Prescott Trophy cricket competition p59. James Trewartha p60. Bendigo Sunday School Cricket Association p60. Methodist churches p61. Long Gully Bible Christian Church (photo) p61. Former Long Gully Primitive Methodist Church, later Buckley Street Methodist (photo) p61. Wilson Street Church p62. St Matthews [Anglican] Church p62. Famous artist [Roger Kemp] p64. Country music p64. Getting the record straight [Robert Aubrey Grenfell] p64. Nobody to help them [drowning of Mavis June Draper and Francis Hubert Harvey 1934] p65. Guest of honour [Mrs Jane Polglase] p65. Students: Long Gully merits 1915 (photo) p66. Long Gully grade 3 and 4 1934 (photo) p66. Grade 3 and 4 1938 p67. 1942 p67. Long Gully Rural School 1964 p68. Grade 6 1968 p68. Phillips Street, now Truscott Street p69. The day fire came to Long Gully [1967] p70. Dia Gum San [Chinese village] of Long Gully p71. Hydraulic sluicing p72. Cyanide Plants p73. Gas p74. Before the ‘Welcome stranger’ [John Deason and Richard Oates] p74. Transport in the 1800s p75. Electric tram tracks p76. Municipal boundary marker p76. Petrol tickets p77. Former Long Gully hotels p77. Former Dorsetshire Hotel (photo) p78. Former Perseverance Reef Hotel (photo) p78. Former Cambridgeshire Arms Hotel (photo) p79. Former Fire Brigade Hotel (photo) p79. The second last tram from Eaglehawk p80. Discovery of HMAS Sydney p81. Seaman James Bool (photo) p81. Long Gully Emporium [J.Stamp; Lewis and Dunstan store] p82. Mining monument p83. Bibliography p83.


Includes bibliographical references and index.