crowns and coats of arms at the Sandhurst Coffee Palace 1851-1930

tinpan · Dec 24, 2008

Hi all, Late nite the wife asked me to duck out and finish a couple of last minute xmas jobs.Well i jumped in the car and took off hunting instead. lol After a couple of hours i still had time to finish the jobs so i had my arse covered.

Local carkpark been pulled up and i knew a large struture once stood on this site.The sandhurst coffee palace I managed to get a pic of the building which dated from 1880 but i think this was the second structure built on this site.

First signal was that of copper well it turned out to be an old spoon but relics and broken glass appeared every where so i just started diiging the area of about 10 square feet.Only about a foot down to the clay.This made for quick and easy digging.I now have a bag full of relics and a few killer silvers coins and yes another embossed pottery lid this one is in great nik [condition]

When get time after xmas lunch will post more relic pics.Heres a few pics of coins and pot lid and dig

tinpan

nova treasure · Dec 24, 2008

Great finds as always and I Love the Coffee Palace pic.

Merry Christmas,Nova Treasure

shaun7 · Dec 24, 2008

i like them!

tinpan · Dec 24, 2008

more pics

DD-777 · Dec 24, 2008

Great digs as usual Tinpan, but that pottery lid is outstanding!!! Congrats and enjoy your holidays... :thumbsup:

tymcmurray · Dec 24, 2008

That looks like a fantastic place to hunt!
Congrats on the amazing finds!

tinpan · Dec 24, 2008

Thanks for the replies,My finds are more different than great,Different places different finds.Still looking for the great find.

tinpan

crazyjarhead · Dec 24, 2008

Nice hunt tinpan. You are staying buisy down under. Enjoy your summer while we are in an ice age

kdismuke1 · Dec 24, 2008

GREAT FINDS TINPAN.

trikikiwi · Dec 24, 2008

Nice 'different' finds Tinpan. :thumbsup:

Any idea what the pot lid once belonged to? Maybe toothpaste ? I have heard some of the older, more rare lids can be worth quite a few bob.
Mike

tinpan · Dec 24, 2008

trikikiwi said:
Nice 'different' finds Tinpan.
Any idea what the pot lid once belonged to? Maybe toothpaste ? I have heard some of the older, more rare lids can be worth quite a few bob.
Mike

thanks for the reply No idea on this pot lid :icon_scratch:

Your right tho British pot lid bring a few bob but ossie ones bring hundreds of bobs

tinpan Merry xmas

slak jak · Dec 25, 2008

hey tinpan , you certainly are doing well,
its great to some of the aussie past coming up,
the pot lid is great & the coins are in beaut condition ,
keep it up we all love to your finds,
slak jak.

dfx willy · Dec 25, 2008

cool stuff tin pan! looking forward to your posts threw winter . were pretty much snowed in. see ya mate. willy.

ohannos · Dec 25, 2008

Great looking silver and cool coat and arms. Maby some florins around? Merry christmas :coffee2:

seger98 · Dec 25, 2008

Really nice finds, I really like that lid, and the silver............... :thumbsup:

Chris

shaun7 · Dec 25, 2008

tinpan said:
trikikiwi said:

Nice 'different' finds Tinpan.
Any idea what the pot lid once belonged to? Maybe toothpaste ? I have heard some of the older, more rare lids can be worth quite a few bob.
Mike

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thanks for the reply No idea on this pot lid Your right tho British pot lid bring a few bob but ossie ones bring hundreds of bobs

tinpan Merry xmas

i wish i was australian!

humping the bluey is all i want to do!

oh! i'd also like to learn my way around a wobble board!

Mackaydon · Dec 25, 2008

Here's another pic of the Palace taken in 1890:
http://mview.museum.vic.gov.au/paimages/mm/003/003930.htm

Some history of the Palace:

"I was delighted to see the Sandhurst Coffee Palace photo in The Way We Were in The Advertiser on December 20, because I used to live there in 1951 and 1952.
At that time it belonged to the Education Department and was used as a girls’ hostel for Bendigo Teachers’ College students. It was called Sandhurst House.

The building was on the corner of Mitchell and Mollison streets and was demolished years ago to make way for a service station.

Later on, the service station was demolished and modern shops built, the corner shop being a paint store. A coffee palace was like a hotel, but had no licence.

This one was very close to the railway station and people would get off the train, carry their luggage and walk down to Sandhurst Coffee Palace to stay.

It was a very large premises with a central courtyard. There was a large building at the back, which for us was the laundry and a shed for our bicycles. I presume this had been the stable for lodgers’ horses.

It was a two-storey building.

In 1951 I had a room on the ground floor, on the St Paul’s side of the courtyard.

Most of the rooms were single rooms; mine was furnished with one bed, one chair, a cupboard and a drop-front desk. In 1952, I had a room with a window on to Mollison Street."
Merry Christmas,
Don.....

Source: http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au...ddy-picture-brings-back-memories/1391989.aspx

tinpan · Dec 25, 2008

Mackaydon said:
Here's another pic of the Palace taken in 1890:
http://mview.museum.vic.gov.au/paimages/mm/003/003930.htm

Some history of the Palace:

"I was delighted to see the Sandhurst Coffee Palace photo in The Way We Were in The Advertiser on December 20, because I used to live there in 1951 and 1952.
At that time it belonged to the Education Department and was used as a girls’ hostel for Bendigo Teachers’ College students. It was called Sandhurst House.

The building was on the corner of Mitchell and Mollison streets and was demolished years ago to make way for a service station.

Later on, the service station was demolished and modern shops built, the corner shop being a paint store. A coffee palace was like a hotel, but had no licence.

This one was very close to the railway station and people would get off the train, carry their luggage and walk down to Sandhurst Coffee Palace to stay.

It was a very large premises with a central courtyard. There was a large building at the back, which for us was the laundry and a shed for our bicycles. I presume this had been the stable for lodgers’ horses.

It was a two-storey building.

In 1951 I had a room on the ground floor, on the St Paul’s side of the courtyard.

Most of the rooms were single rooms; mine was furnished with one bed, one chair, a cupboard and a drop-front desk. In 1952, I had a room with a window on to Mollison Street."
Merry Christmas,
Don.....

Source: http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au...ddy-picture-brings-back-memories/1391989.aspx

Thanks for the info but i think this persons account of where buildings stood is very wrong.Funny how the church and its court yard is on the other side of the block, in Myers Street and a well over 120 year Victorian double storey house sits between were the palace was and the location of the church.Also on the Mitchell street side stood another double storey hotel called the Termuis untill 1994.She mit have seen the church tower and not much else.The paint shop which is called Stillwells sit on the other side of the road.All new shops where built in the location in the 1980,s and only take up street frontage with 2 street access and there 3 car parks or more like graded old back yards at the rear.The stables she talks about still stand too and are now within the fence line of the rear garden and carpark of the church running back along the double storey house rear fence.There is also a public way between the locations which leads into another small public car park.Wonder if any of the locals took this woman seriously.I don,y take kindly to outsiders changing local history.Which by the way a few do all the time.

but on a positive note seems that pot lid i found is worth a large some of money based on info i got this morning.

tinpan