My heritage place
Tyrconnell gold mine, part of the Hodgkinson goldfield in far north Queensland, was once home to 10,000 gold miners and their families. Ten people live in the area near Dimbulah now. Home for five of them - Andy Bell, Cate Harley and their three young boys - is a 1930s timber-and-tin mine office connected by a breezeway to the former singlemen’s quarters.
read moreGordon Grimwade
Gordon, an archaeologist and heritage consultant, is the National Trust of Queensland’s representative on the Queensland Heritage Council.
He is well-known in far north Queensland for decades of work in tropical and remote areas, examining and directing conservation management of military fortifications, old mines and industrial sites.
The John Oxley Library Fellow for 2008 is internationally recognised for his work on Australasian Chinese sites.