Name: Women of Ironbark - History Walk
Start: 2025-09-13T00:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-09-13T01:30:00+10:00
Location: Albert Richardson Reserve, 40-56 Marong Rd, Ironbark.

Please register that you're coming through this link https://events.humanitix.com/women-of-ironbark-historic-walk .
The walk will be followed by morning tea (gold coin donation) . Coffee can be purchased at the Coffee van.
This talk and walk will start by looking at two sisters Jane and Harriet Mason who settled in the Ironbark area with their mother in the 1850s. The lives of both Jane and Harriet allow us to explore middle-class families in nineteenth and early twentieth century Bendigo. A different world is revealed when we also trace the history of their neighbours whose families worked underground in the mines like Selina Whicker who married a miner and gave birth 16 children between 1858 and 1884.After she was widowed, she continued living in a small stone and rubble cottage where she had raised fifteen of her children to adulthood. Our walk will compare the differing life experiences of middle and working class women in Ironbark an industrial mining community.