Album 3: Burra and North Photo Gallery by Paul Dudley at pbase.com

Album 3: Burra and North

In the middle of the 19th century, Burra was one of the world's most important sources of copper. The miners,
the expertise, and the technology were derived principally from Cornwall. The underground workings came to
an end in the 1870s, but open cut mining was tried on a small scale later on, and on a large scale in the 1960s.
There is a wonderful mix of solid old buildings, tiny miner's cottages, a whole ruined village, and the remains
of the engine houses just like those in Cornwall. On the approaches to Burra, and on the road north, there
are many ruined farm houses, some just piles of stones and a peppercorn tree, others almost renovatable.
Some of these date from a scheme in which soldiers returning from World War I were given land and encouraged
to become farmers. It was marginal farming country at best, and most just gave up. There are pictures here of Terowie, once
a busy rail town, now not quite a ghost town. Other towns along the former rail line which disappeared, but Terowie is hanging on.

A typical ruin	Memorial to unfounded optimism	What you need to see Burra	Burra Town Hall
Kooringa Telegraph Station and Post Office	St Josephs Catholic Church	St Marys Anglican Church	Information about Peacocks Chimney
"Johnny Green" on Peacocks Chimney	View over Burra township	View over North Burra	Paxton Square
Tiver's Row	1879 Police Station	19th Century Kitchen	19th Century Parlour
19th Century Bedroom	Sign at Burra Historic Site	Open Cut � 1	Open Cut � 2
Scuba diving in the flooded open cut	Ore Floor	Crusher Chimney	The Crushers Chimney and the Open Cut
Dressing Tower	"Ore Dressing" explanatory sign	Explanatory sign	Top of Dressing Tower
Morphetts Enginehouse and Windinghouse	Morphetts Windinghouse	Old Powder Magazine	Info sign at powder magazine
Garden and ruin of a Miner�s Cottage	View over Burra	Burra Landscape - 1	Burra Landscape - 2
Graves Enginehouse	Sign at Graves Enginehouse	Interior, Graves Enginehouse	Burra Railway Station
Long wait needed	Bon Accord office and workshop	Explanatory Sign "Bon Accord Mine"	Workshop and Forge, Bon Accord Mine
Redruth Gaol	Kitchen at Redruth Gaol	Exercise yard at Redruth Gaol	View from deserted village
Explanatory sign at Hampton	Deserted Village	Abandoned home at Hampton	Old tree, old village
Brooke's House	Terowie	Terowie	One dream from another
Abandoned house

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