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I posted photos of these cottages back in 2007. I think since then, the developer was quoted in the local paper as saying he wanted to demolish them to build a car park. About a week before I took this photo in September, there was development application notice on them, to be demolished. I don't know what the result was, but I think it's just matter of time either way.



( Behind )


A couple of weeks later, the cover over one window had partly fallen down.

( Inside )

I took these last week.
( Now )

I want to go on a trip, but can't really, so it'll have to be a virtual trip. The good thing about them, is everyone else can come too!

When we were kids, before the new Bass Highway was built, the trip out to Deloraine would take fifty minutes, or longer if the traffic was held up be a slow car or farm vehicle. Then the traffic would build up into a long snake winding back further than we could see when we twisted around to look out the back window.

Along the fifty kilometre stretch between Launceston and Deloraine there are five towns, Hadspen, Carrick, Hagley, Westbury and Exton. Each town originated a coach stop on the road west, or so we were told. I don't know if that's true, but this is the old coaching inn at Hadspen.


The Red Feather inn, built in the 1840s. At the time I took this photo, November 2006, it looks like it has fallen out of use, but according to the website it was refurbished and reopened late in 2008.

( Hadspen )

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.

( Inside these )