Trip to Central Stories museum

Yesterday room 1 and room 9 went on a school trip to the Central Stories museum, we completed a treasure hunt, there were some challenging questions, thank goodness we were in small groups and some wonderful parent helpers came to support us.

We learnt many new tricky and interesting facts about gold. We saw models of the paddle dredges and learnt how they worked, we saw real samples of gold, and we saw a display representing the amount of gold that was dredged from the Clutha river, between Alexandra and Clyde from 1895-1923. Today it would be worth $324,000,000.

We realised that it was a hard life for the goldminers. We recommend that if you haven't been, that you go down and check it out for yourself.






These gold ingots represent the 6.5 tonnes of gold taken from the Clutha river by dredging companies between Alexandra and Clyde during 1895-1923. These guys are calculating the current value of the gold. Each bar would be worth about $900,000. In total this amount of gold would be worth $324,000,000





Gillian Grant reads her poem inspired by the exhibitions of a 28-panel mural, painted in 1962 by Russell Clark