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Life on the Goldfields By Aidan. R

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Page 1: Life on the Goldfields by Aidan R

Life on the Goldfields

By Aidan. R

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Contents

• The Houses they lived in, The different work done by men, women and children, Dress, Transport, Tools, Food and water, Leisure activities, Education, Bibliography.

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Housing

• Most people who went to the Goldfields lived in tents.

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Different work done by men, women and children.

The men on the Goldfields would dig, the women would make Food and Drink, and the Children would help.

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Dress

• On the Goldfields the women dressed in dress type clothes, and the boy’s dressed in almost the same clothes.

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Transport

• The poor that traveled to the goldfields would travel by foot or camel, and the rich could travel by carriage.

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Tools

• On the goldfields you would need a pan or cradle if you were going alluvial, picks, shovels and windlasses.

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Food and water

• Most people drank tea and ate mostly mutton and damper, fruit and vegetables were very rare.

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Leisure Activities

• For leisure they played quotes, marbles and jacks.

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Education

• Schools on the Goldfields were just ordinary tents. in the winter they would leak, and in the summer it would be so hot.

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Bibliography

• Gold Fever by Kimberly Webber, To The Goldfields by Rachel Tonkins, Growing Up On The Goldfields by Kimberly Webber