Shifting a huge granite block

‘Word and Music’ participants from L to R. Pauline Walden and Sue Proeve (with photo of granite block on arrival in Melbourne) George Milford (with block and tackle), Terry White (with family history) Kate Nannestad (with her books) and organiser, Solway Nutting (with cowbell).

If you ever wanted to know how to shift a 36 ton granite block for five kilometres then Harcourt Uniting church was the place to be last Sunday

Historian, George Milford, explained this complex proce...

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