I shall ask my cousin for more information re the table, Bill.
Andrew
On 11 January 2014 14:26, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Andrew, other bridgies,
>
> Exerpt from follow-up email from Pam on bridge bits as table. Would be
> interesting to know the plaque's wording.
> >
> > History can be a confusing and often distorted subject Bill, being that
> oral history often gives birth to what are largely myths and mis
> interpretations. Sorting the wheat from the chaff sometimes requires some
> hefty detective work. ie. some years ago I was asked on several occasions
> why a steam locomotive had been buried in Hurstbridge! - well that was news
> to me and I made some inquiries - turns out someone had noted the remains
> of an old boiler used at the Starlight Mine in Boyds Road and had decided
> that it was a buried steam loco - thus a myth was born which, to many,
> became truth. The same scenario may well explain the possible source of
> the timber used for the coffee table- how ever on the other hand, just to
> confuse things a bit more, it is possible that either the Apteds or the
> Phillips had at at some time constructed a low log bridge for personal use
> across the creek at that point and timber from that crossing could well
> have been put to other uses. This was common practice and there are the
> remains of several small private access bridges along both the Arthurs and
> Diamond Creeks. The timber trestle 'Burkes Bridge' was never rebuilt or
> altered.
>
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