Post 69 – Sandstone

Sandstone Heritage Trail

 

We drove the short 20km Heritage Trail around Sandstone. "London Bridge" is a sandstone archway.

Not far away is a cave that was carved out of the sandstone as cool storage for the beer from the brewery built on the cliff top above it. Looks like in the middle of nowhere now. I guess things were different when there were a lot of thirsty miners in the area.

Government Stamp Battery

 

 

The road took us straight past an old government stamp battery - used for crushing gold ore. The actually battery was in operation until the 1980's. You could see that it had adapted to be driven by an electric motor.

There are still a couple of office/accommodation buildings standing.

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