Shaun Barnett tramps around the mining relics of Kirwins Track in Victoria Forest Park Aside from a tin shed and a few abandoned car bodies, not much marks the former West Coast mining community of Capleston. At its peak in the 1870s, Capleston, the epicentre of several mining operations, boasted some 1000 residents and several […]
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