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| BEACONSFIELD MINE - MUSEUM REPLICA |
THURSDAY 1.3.2012: We fished the morning away at Kelso pontoon then went sightseeing through the villages of Clarence Point and Beauty Point - lovely. Arrived at Beaconsfield and expended our greatest amount for one of our smallest IGA shops, then headed for the Grubb Street Recreation Reserve. The area around Beaconsfield was first explored by Europeans in 1804 by William Paterson. Settlement of Beaconsfield itself, then known as "Brandy Creek", did not occur until the 1850s. Limestone mining led to the discovery of gold in 1869. Gold mining began in 1877 and the area's population boomed. The town was named Beaconsfield in 1879 in honour of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time. The Beaconsfield Mine collapse occurred on 25 April 2006. Of the seventeen people who were in the mine at the time, fourteen escaped immediately following the collapse, one was killed and the remaining two were found alive using a remote-controlled device. These two miners were rescued on 9 May 2006, two weeks after being trapped nearly a kilometre below the surface.
Madison had not been herself all afternoon and as evening approached she started to shake, did not eat and had let out a whimper when being picked up - always happens after business hours!
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