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Don't want to write these any more, which is silly but there it is. So this one might be short on words. I have some hope once I actually get started it'll be better.


So I did retake that photo. I still meant to go over to the fountain thing and take a photo, but I didn't.

Note clouds. Forecast is for much rain. After much frowning at map and Centenary bus route, I planned a schedule for today that involved getting off at the Russell Offices (admin centre for the defence forces & the Dept of Defence) and walking down to the lake.

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A while back, I was going to post some of the pictures of the outside of gold mine museum at Beaconsfield, so I looked in my books to get the relevant dates to add to the post, and ended up notes for a longer post. Unfortunately, when I went back recently to write it up properly, I couldn't make sense of it :) I'll get back to it, but in the meantime, here's an easier post!

The Grubb Shaft Gold & Heritage Museum is located in the ruins of the old gold mine.


Across the road from these are a relocated schoolhouse (from Flowery Gully, built in the 1890s), a small shop and a miner's cottage. All set up so visitors can look in the windows.

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