Banks
The gold exported to Britain as royalties from the gold rush in the 1850s paid off Britain's foreign debts. At the peak of the Victorian gold rush, some two tonnes (2000 kg) of gold per week flowed into the Victorian government Treasury. Examples of this wealth are evident in the disproportionate number of banks found in small towns.
Photograph (copy), Daylesford Fire Brigade First Ladder Carriage, c1867 (original)
Note the first Victoria Bank Building on the left-hand street corner and the second on the right opposite the post office.
The Savings Bank of Victoria was founded by Dr Thomas Black, a physician from the Richmond area of Melbourne. The Bank was registered in Victoria in 1852 by an Act of the Legislative Council, commencing operations in January 1853 as the Bank of Victoria Limited. Initially, at least 50% of all deposits were British owned. The Savings Bank of Victoria is now home to 
The State Bank of Victoria was an Australian bank (originally known as the Savings Bank of Port Phillip) until 1990, when the Commonwealth Bank took it over. By 1887 the Bank had 65 branches, all in Victoria. The Bank moved across the road to where Triggers' Antique Shop is now located.
The first iteration of this building, built as a timber structure in the 1850s, burnt down. It was rebuilt in 1904 as a double-storey building with Victorian-style balustrading from handmade locally kilned bricks. The building is situated in the centre of the main section of the Vincent Street shopping area, across the road from the Daylesford Town Hall.
This monument is situated at the intersection outside 
Named after Prince Albert, heritage-listed and built in the 1850s, it is one of the first of the 45 hotels constructed in Daylesford after the discovery of gold that changed the town and region forever. Now an elegant 
Outside the former Raglan Hotel on the Corner of Camp and Raglan Streets, the post box, from the mid 1800s, is still is use today. For over 160 years, early settlers, visitors and residents stayed connected to friends and family the only way they could, through 'snail mail'.
Jubilee Lake was built to supply water to the local gold mines during the 1860s. It was opened and officially named in 1887 on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. It is now a picturesque place to visit, with a range of activities to suit everyone. You can stay onsite at the 
In 1897, William Stanbridge's (the founding father of Daylesford as we know it today) daughter Florence travelled to Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London as a 19-year-old young woman from Daylesford. In the late 20th century, generations of young Australians embarked on this rite of passage, but in the late 1890s, this would have been a rarity and a pretty big deal. Florence Colles Cox and her husband built the Arts and Craft styled mansion at Wombat Park Estate, on land owned by her father William Stanbridge, opposite the 
This is just the tip of the iceberg of what you will see and hear if you come on a walking tour with Alice's Journeys Walking Tours of Daylesford.
