Photograph of mine buildings behind a wooden fence that runs horizontally through the picture in the foreground. There is a wooden built tower and a brick built chimney that stands on the right of the background.

Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales visited two mines during their visit to Ballarat on the 29th June 1881. They travelled 420 feet down the shaft of the Band of Hope and Albion Mine. The Princes then visited North Hurdsfield Company's Mine to see the process of alluvial mining. 

This is a photograph from one of the nine albums compiled following Prince Albert Victor (1864-92) and Prince George of Wales' (1865-1936) world tour aboard HMS Bacchante from 1879 to 1882. The photographs were collected by their chaperon and tutor, John Neale Dalton.

The majority of the images in these albums are topographical views and architectural studies, loosely arranged according to the group’s itinerary. They include photographs of artefacts, local people and public figures, as well as portraits of the princes taken during the tour. The attempt to recreate the experience of a journey through such an assortment of images is common to many amateur travelling albums of this period. In 1886, some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced as engravings in the published accounts of the voyage, The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882.