Corunna Station,China Travel
On the way the guide points out Corunna Station on the foothills opposite the town. The station's moment of talkietic fame occurred in 1957 when it was used as one of the parts for The Sundowners which starred Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr.
The Community Tourist Centre moreover houses the Mining Museum. A large brandish of mining equipment and mineral specimens with interpretive photographs of the local mining section.
Leaving the Community Tourist Centre the tour passes the first home built for the BHP Employment Scheme in Iron Knob. The scheme immune workers to buy their own homes by putting down a eolith of ?50 and having ?1 a week taken out of their pay until the house was paid off.
The tour, which is undertaken in the visitor's own vehicle, is full of interesting and idiosyncratic ingermination roundly the minutiae of the mine and the growth of the town.
Iron Knob Tours and the Tourist Centre
One of the ways in which the local customs raises funds is by self-commanding tours of the mines which leave at 10.00 a.m. and 2.00 p.m. on weekdays and 2.00 p.m. on Sundays from the spanking-new Iron Knob Community Tourist Centre. The tours take between 1 and 1 1/2 hours and are followed by a 7 minute video and an inspection of a pictorial brandish of the history of the town. The Tourist Centre moreover sells interesting ironstone jewellery ranging from worry teardrops to expensive necklturn-on.
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