Big old silver and bottle dumps!

Last weekend i managed to get out before my soccer games to go hunt a site which had been used since the depression era through untill the end of the 1950's

The area had been in use since the 1860's when a coal mine was founded in the area, then during the depression era squatters took up the land and built little shacks to live in. The area was then in use until the end of the 1950's. The shacks changed from being used as home through to being used as holiday cottages as they were right on the coast. At the end of the 50's the local council reclaimed the area by bulldozing the shacks. It has then lain forgotten just out of plain sight for nearly 50 years.

I found the area on a old local aerial map from the 40's showing the shacks in use, and then read a few stories in the old newspapers about the area and it's use. Matching it up with modern day maps i was able to locate the spots where i thought i might find some treasures from the past.

I spent a couple of mornings picking around the old site, it was very overgrown so I was not able to get to all of it, but the parts i did find provided some great finds. Watch the video to see me find relics of the local history and give an insight in to the lives and goings on from the area