In the golden Disney time travel realm

I recently took a trip to one of the most magical places on earth. No, not Disneyland, Sovereign Hill! It is to my history obsessed self a wonderland. It's like a little town set in the 1850s Victorian gold rush. All the staff are dressed, talk and act as people from the era; you buy food and drink of the time; you can do stuff like panning for gold and 1850s bowling and candle dipping and mine tours and go to the theatre and take coach rides.
There's a grocery store and funeral parlour and apothecary hall and bakeries and restaurants and jewellery shop and a printing shop and a post office and a clothing and drapery store and a saddlery and a sweet shop and a candle factory and a blacksmith and model gold field camps and schools and houses and aaaaahhhh it's amazing. That is what I call dreamy!

The staff just stop at any random time to play a tune; it's literally like being in a musical.

Sweet as (so punny) hard boiled lollies. My favourites are the horse heads, humbugs, eucalyptus drops, peanut toffees and of course the famous raspberry drops. Something new I tried for the first time and became infatuated with were chocolate frogs with crushed up raspberry drops inside.

BEST BAKERY

Steak and mushroom pie from the Hope Bakery

A finer establishment for those with more fortune on the goldfields to dine in.

BICKFORDS. THE BEST SOFT DRINK EVER. AND I HATE SOFT DRINK. AND THE KOLA IS TO DIE FOR. NOT JUST BECAUSE IT IS SPELLED WITH A K.

On my last trip two years ago we bought my mum the Household Lore book for Mothers' Day. It's full of handy hints and recipes, writing and quotes, all from the 1850s.

There were mouthwatering spreads and preserves, like passion fruit butter and hazelnut honey. I KNOW.

Chocolate with honeycomb bits

Some kind of oddly named pie that was extremely dense with fruits and spices

My cousin and brother getting their old man on in rocking chairs. Note junners on your right.

This amazing dress! I tried to slyly move the chair to get a better picture but the mannequin tried to fall over sooo

ONE OF THE LOVELIEST BOOKS MY OPTIC NERVES EVER DELIGHTED OVER.

An ugly but delicious cottage pie

Devonshire tea

Expensive tarot cards. Well they weren't ridiculously expensive, but enough that my cheapskate self didn't buy them. Shame, I almost wouldn't have felt bad at all.

I have this one vivid memory of the second day I was there when Sovereign Hill was just opening. All the shops were just opening up, and somewhere a chimney had started smoking and whistling in great billowing breaths, and staff started crawling out of everywhere. And as I walked down the main street as everybody came out they'd be waving and smiling and yelling hello. It felt like a Disney movie.
More specifically, the beginning part of Belle in Beauty and the Beast.