Hi List, I have just picked up a copy of "Secrets of the Ghost Towns of the Mountain Goldfields" by Luke Steenhuis. This is a more professional print, and considerably updated, of the version that was around a few years ago as a photocopy. It should not be confused with his other book, "Secrets of Ghost Towns of the High Country". The sub-title for the new one is now "Featuring 50 Former Towns in and around Melbourne's North-East Mountain Region" I picked my copy up for $17.95 in the Traralgon newsagency, I assume it is around in other outlets. It is distributed by Australian Bush and Country Maps, Ph 03-5964 7011. It is 92 pages, profusely illustrated with maps and quite a few photos I haven't seen before. For those unfamiliar with Luke's books, they take the form of an alphabetical list of the towns, usually one to a page, sometimes with an old map, somethimes with a photo, sometimes with both. It does have an index. Towns and areas in this book are shown below. Many of the towns have so many alternate names it is not possible to list them, but they do appear in the index. Cheers Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/ ============================================================ The book covers: A1 Mine Settlement Aberfeldy Aberfeldy Crossing Alhambra All Nations BB Township Beenak Black River Blue Jacket Britannia Township Brooklyn Town Brunton Cannon's Town Cherry's Point Concord Gully Coopers Creek Cumberland Darlingford Donovans Creek (inc. Chesterville and Walkers) Donnellys Creek Edwards Reef Enoch's Point Fernshaw (Watts River) Fulton's Creek Gaffney's Creek Gooley's Creek Granton Happy Go Lucky (Pearson) Howqua Hills Jericho Kevington Knockwood Loch Fyne Maidentown Matlock Mormontown New Chum Old Warburton Paradise Plains Red Jacket Reefton Russells Creek Seaton St Clair Store Point Tangil Ten Mile (Sailor Bills) The Springs Toombon Tullamore Upper Thomson Victors Quartz Violet Town Walhalla Woods Point Wyetown