On Tasmania's wild west coast, towns have risen and fallen at the whim of industry. Some of their oldest living inhabitants remember their former homes, and how their communities came undone.
Once upon a time, communities near the copper mines on Tasmania 's west coast were thriving, with pubs, clubs, schools, businesses and sporting teams.Economist Saul Eslake says the lesson to be learnt from ghost town s is that towns and communities "need to try, if they can, to have more than one string to their bow".
Ralph Burns says a few people "did their best to keep Gormanston going" but "eventually they just gave up too".But what the 78-year-old sees now is an even further cry from the once-bustling mining town that had council chambers, a courthouse, jail, school and mineshaft-turned-football oval.In the early 1900s, Gormanston boasted a population of 2,000.
Bern Bradshaw says he was told to leave the town of Princess River; "I said, 'I can't afford to leave', and they said, 'you have to leave, it's going to be flooded'.Just outside Queenstown, in a big tin shed filled with timber slabs of Huon pine, myrtle, sassafras and King Billy pine, Bern Bradshaw remembered where his family business began.
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