History lost: why 6000 mines have been wiped from memory

Tom O'Callaghan
Updated March 5 2024 - 6:41pm, first published April 20 2019 - 4:00am

Nearly every one of the mine shafts plummeting below Bendigo have disappeared from people's memories, a local historian says. As TOM O'CALLAGHAN discovers, there is a forgotten world beneath your feet.

The bricks James Lerk is sitting on are choked by climbing weeds, which are ever-so-slowly smothering more of these forgotten foundations.

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Tom O'Callaghan

Tom O'Callaghan

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