Andrew, other bridgies,
Exerpt from follow-up email from Pam on bridge bits as table. Would be interesting to know the plaque's wording.
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> 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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