00:02It's a village with a rich past looking for a new lease on life.
00:06It was the second biggest inland town in New South Wales in the 1870s.
00:11There was 28 pubs in operation here and over 8,000 people.
00:15So it's got this incredible historic heritage.
00:20The old gold rush town of Hillend has put 16 sites up for lease at once,
00:25including the general store, the pub, a church and even the gold mine.
00:30It's cost $5 million getting the heritage sites up to speed.
00:34We're really open to any kind of potential opportunities.
00:40We want to make it a really thriving community.
00:44Caro George is leading the way.
00:46When the Royal Hotel closed its doors,
00:48she opened this micro pub in an old haberdashery shop
00:52and now is applying for the lease at the Royal.
00:55We couldn't be the town with no beer.
00:57My family are generational Hill Indians.
01:01You know, a community needs its pub, it needs its meeting place.
01:05To help keep the place going, it needs jobs and it needs people.
01:11Job Drinkwater says visitors who came here on school trips decades ago
01:15are now returning with their own children.
01:17It's a full circle thing and it's only happening
01:20because of the authenticity of Hillend.
01:23It's very important to us that there is legacy for our children
01:27and other families to live and be here into the future.
01:33With expressions of interest now at a close,
01:36it's time to sift through the plants in the hope they strike gold.
01:40And they also haveholitude and the rest of our family.
01:40We've joined us today.
01:41We've joined the group group of J wellbeing
01:42and the group of J wellbeing.
01:43They're all joined us together.
01:44We will be joined by Philipses.
01:44You
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