The Blackwood Times (Vic) FebMar17 issue of the Blackwood Times is out now…
INSIDE:
p3: Blackwood Stork’a’gram
p6 & 7: Community Group Updates
p8 & 9: Album
p21: Beyond Blackwood
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So download your colour copy of the Blackwood Times (Vic) FebMar17 issue now & enjoy! (.pdf 6.9mb).
If you’re in Blackwood, pick up your copy from
- The Blackwood Merchant
- Blackwood Hotel
- Blackwood Post Office (Jindarup)
- Garden of St Erth
- Blackwood Caravan Park
If you’re not in Blackwood you can pick copy up (after Saturday am) at
- Greendale Hotel
- Red Beard Bakery
- Trentham Petrol & Stuff
- Radio Springs Hotel (Lyonville)
- Hudsons Hotel (Ballan)
- Pig & Whistle (E Trentham)
A reply to the reader regarding the Kiost at the top of the Mineral Springs road.
As a child we (some of my siblings Rayners) would frequent the Mineral Springs to
Fill bottles for our family. They were screw top “Cohns” bottles which kept the mineral water fizzy. After long weekends on the Monday afternoon we would scour the camp areas to collect soft drink bottles so we could buy an ice- cream. Sometimes we would end up with 10 to 20 soft drink bottles worth 5 cents each if
Returned to shops. We thought we were rich. At this time the Kiosk was run by a woman known as “Old Ma Bailey” She would not give us money for the bottles and would make us spend all the refund at the kiosk. I clearly recall my late father (Jack Rayner) going to see Old Ma Bailey and in a polite way giving her a serve and demanding that she refund us the extra on money for the bottles we returned. After she left came the Dunbars and the Mathesons ran it for some time. In those days it would have been a very productive business. It did burn down and we heard rumours as to the cause of the fire. The site was then cleared as you see it today.
Regards
Brian Rayner
Concongella
Thanks for that splendid memory Brian 🙂