{"id":76896,"date":"2021-07-17T04:56:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/?p=76896"},"modified":"2021-07-13T17:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T07:15:27","slug":"famous-visitors-doug-bradby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/news\/famous-visitors-doug-bradby\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous visitors sung city\u2019s praises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE latest literary instalment of Doug Bradby\u2019s <em>Ten Delightful Tales <\/em>series has arrived on local bookshelves.<\/p>\n<p><em>Famous Visitors to a Famous City <\/em>looks at the interesting people who historically took a trip to Ballarat in the 19th and 20th centuries, including Charles Kingsford Smith, \u2018Wizard\u2019 Stone, Agnes Grace, Sir John Monash, Robert Baden-Powell, Sir Douglas Mawson and Henry Parkes.<\/p>\n<p>Bradby said the latest volume of his series is less analytical, and full of \u201cgorgeous stories\u201d that emphasise the joys of community life, and \u201cmutual backslapping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe said they were terrific, they said Ballarat was terrific, both sides were genuine, and everyone had a lovely day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravel was risky, expensive and time consuming. If you were a visitor, there was something different about you; money and time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisitors\u2019 journeys were much the same, up Sturt Street, around the lake, to a few mines, and back to Craig\u2019s Royal Hotel for dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bradby said the most popular visitor was operatic soprano Dame Nellie Melba, who sang the city\u2019s praises, and was \u201cadored and loved\u201d by the Ballarat people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe loved the South Street competitions, which were nationally important. They\u2019d run into trouble financially&#8230; so she put on a concert, raising \u00a3800.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was brilliant with the press, saying \u2018a day in Ballarat is the finest tonic in the world\u2019,\u201d Bradby said.<\/p>\n<p>Captain John Bulwer Godfrey and his crew visited Ballarat during the gold rush, after a 77-day on-water journey from London via the \u2018great circle route,\u2019 past Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>The captain described the busy mining hub as an \u2018ant heap.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gave Ballarat the greatest possible compliment. He said, \u2018this is more exciting than The Great Exhibition of London\u2019,\u201d Bradby said.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Joseph Cook stayed at Craig\u2019s in August of 1917. It was in the hotel dining room on the evening of 2 August that he realised the magnitude of the upcoming First World War, and that Australia\u2019s involvement was unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Gold, a stewardess on the Titanic, arrived in Ballarat three months after the liner sank, to be with her uncles.<\/p>\n<p>She was the last woman to be rescued from the ship, finding safety in the final lifeboat, number 11.<\/p>\n<p>A<em> Ten Delightful Tales book <\/em>is released every two months. Sturt Street will be the star of the next volume.<\/p>\n<p><em>Famous Visitors to a Famous City <\/em>is currently available at Collins Booksellers in the Bridge Mall for $9.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE latest literary instalment of Doug Bradby\u2019s Ten Delightful Tales series has arrived on local bookshelves. 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