The stamp inside a Letterbox remains in the cache.
Visitors can use the stamp to record their visit in their letterbox journal. Feel free to bring your own stamp to leave a print for me to collect or sign your name a little more creatively than usual. Thanks.
Note: You do not need to enter the Gas Works to find the cache and discover it's history.
At the given coordinates: Green sign.
First Year -1128 = ABC
Second Year -1545 = DEF
Waypoint 2 = S 36° 44.ABC E 144° 17.DEF
According to the faded yellow sign seen at waypoint 2, How fast did the trams travel? = xxx
FINAL GZ
807 - xxx = UVW
552 - xxx = XYZ
S 36° 44.UVW E 144° 17.XYZ
Happy Hunting
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Bendigo Gas Works
The former Bendigo Gas Works were established by the Bendigo Gas Company in the 1860's and operated continuously until the introduction of natural gas in the mid 1970's. The Bendigo Gas Works were amongst the first in the colonies and were constructed by Messrs George White and Co of Melbourne. Expansion of the works occurred during the 1860s and 1870s, but from the 1890s they experienced difficulties caused in part by falling gas consumption and rising costs. The retort house and gas distribution system underwent significant improvements between 1923 and World War II. Further upgrading of the plant occurred after purchase by the Gas and Fuel Corporation in 1958.
The former Bendigo Gas Works is the only coal gas production plant to survive in Victoria. The plant represents 113 years of coal gas production and major plant components including twentieth century modifications remain intact.
The Bendigo Gas Works are of architectural and historic importance for the following reasons:
1. as the last and technologically most complete gas works in Victoria, having operated continuously for 113 years.
2. as a substantially complete example of the town gas process which was associated with towns and cities in Victoria in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
3. for the quality and technological design attributes of the plant's various elements - notably the retort house, the gasholders and associated equipment.
4. it is an important monument to black coal gas production in Victoria during the nineteenth century.
(Info from The Victorian Heritage Database)
