flyfisher wrote:Fascinating, love those old pics and the story they tell.![]()
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whynotwalk wrote:Fantastic Ian - many thanks for sharing this. Where, how and why we walk often depends a lot on characters such as Ernie. It's great to have another glimpse of the man,
I first visited Gordonvale in the early 1970's. Much of the old homestead and some of the outbuildings were still standing, although delapidated. On my next visit in 1981, the homestead was approaching the end of its days. The buildings had partially collapsed.
On my last visit in 1985 the old homestead had completely collapsed. A few of Ernie's jam jars and some rusty farm implements remained. Not an appropriate memorial to the "Prince of Rasselas".
tas-man wrote:In 2013 the LWC decided to donate all of its records up to 2005 to the Queen Victoria Museum's Community History Series. In the process of recording and collating our records, we were unable to locate the club's Log Books Nos. 1 & 2 and no one seemed to know what had happened to them. However, in July 2013, quite by accident, an unlabelled carton of LWC records was discovered in the Museum's store rooms which contained these log books as well as early membership, meeting and financial records. We believe that they were deposited by the club's first president Brian Plomley who was the Museum director for some years. In Log Book No. 1 is the record of a club trip to Gordonvale in December 1951 and there are three photos attached to the report.
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