Golden Dragon museum and Chinese Garden Bendigo

The Chinese Gardens based on the Imperial Palace in Beijing, includes a Buddhist Temple, the Guan Yin Miao - Temple of The Goddess of Mercy. Inside the temple is a statue of Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy who holds a fly - whisk a symbol of authority and a pearl a symbol of purity and knowledge. Golden Dragon Museum : the dragon -Sun Loong - is believed to be the world's oldest surviving imperial Chinese dragon in the world. It is over 110 years old and the longest - over 100 metres. Chinese Bedroom - The museum depicts the cultural history of the Chinese in Bendigo since the gold rush in 1850s The Chinese herbalist at work Chinese Laundry

Mildura Wentworth Inglewood Bendigo Eaglehawk

At the river end of Palm Avenue and in front of the Chaffey's House the Murray river bank was close . There was a mostly sunken old paddle wheeler with its name on the bow showing Gem. That fascinated me as a kid c 1946. It has been repaired - massively - and I think it is at Echuca or Swan Hill.

View to the Murray River from end of Palm Ave in front of the Chaffeys house...

6 Palm Ave now Chaffey Ave.Typical house until late 1950s. Palms once lined this street. Chaffey Brothers house on bank of Murray River- museum Country Week Cricket 1938 Uncle Harwood Furze in centre 1938. From a museum house very close to where my gran, Eve Francis Bingham nee Muntz Furze lived in Palm Ave about 2 or 3 houses from the train line, diagonally opposite Chaffey's house - Chaffey Ave Slightly Germanic style - built 1920 interesting details Unusual windows Dismal weather from our Balcony at the Grand Hotel c1891, towards river Murray Chaffeys Beach - now Apex Park -swum there as kids c.1943-1946 Lock opens More photos including the Chinese Museum and Gardens and Temple Bendigo here