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@Gusman It's an amazing place. My grandmother was born in Linda. My great-grandfather worked at the Mt Lyell Mine, but was killed at work in 1920. My grandmother was orphaned then and lived with relatives in Gormanston before coming to Hobart as an adult. I go up there often. It's a magical place.

@GrandMajestic Gormanston. Population today 167. I used to sometimes sleep in the dilapidated Royal Hotel in Linda when I was a teenager in the hopes of seeing ghosts.😮👻🤣

@Gusman The Royal Hotel shell really all that remains of Linda now, although it is unsafe now and filled with bush growth. Much of the scrub and bush is growing back in the area now and you would hardly know there was once a town of 600 odd there. Most of the Gormanston houses are also falling down, and it's virtually deserted. Queenstown is still going with a lot of thanks to tourism, and the mine has reopened.
It's interesting in the photo you've posted, if you look just to the right of the hotel up on East Lyell, there is a large rock. I have it in a photo my great uncle took back in the 1920s and it is still there. I like it because it is like a link back to that time.

@GrandMajestic Here is my great-grandparents house with that rock in the background, and also Linda with the rock. Already in thse photo's, Linda is fading away.
The corner of the Royal Hotel is at bottom left.

@GrandMajestic A real miners town. Probably did not have green, manicured lawns🙂

@Gusman Dirt and rocks from what I've heard.

@GrandMajestic I loved my time in Queenstown and the West Coast.
Mt Owen was my go to for Mountain climbing as a teenager. No climbing gear. Just teenage bravado😁

@Gusman Mount Owen looks awesome and it would be a hell of a climb. That's the Queenstown Airport in the photo :)

@GrandMajestic Yes. Between the Airport and the mountain lies Queenstown at the bottom of the Queen River Valley. So often covered in fog. Many times the sun would break through at midday then disappear again an hour later.
Old Queenstown saying, "If you can't see the Mountain, it is raining. I f you can see the Mountain, it is about to rain."😁

@Gusman Ha yes, I've heard that saying from the locals, and I must say it's pretty much true. Still, I love the place.