On a recent visit to Hamilton, I was shown a pile of bluestones that used to be part of Adam Lindsay Gordon’s Brighton home which was demolished (as I have mentioned in a previous post). The bricks and the bluestones were housed at Gumbuya World amusement park for years – due to a connection with the founder Ron Rado – before members of the Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee managed to repossess the bluestone.
Nobody knows where the bricks ended up – it’s possible that they were used for paving or other purposes around the Park. ‘That horse has bolted’ said the President of the society. I thought that I should feel more about this pile of bluestone but somehow did not, in that moment anyway. They look like any old rubble dumped in a paddock, aside from some features which suggest accoutrements an old fashioned house. It’s sad to think that the poet Cyril Goode’s work of collecting and numbering all of these items should come to naught. But a few people still cherish these remnants even if they now reside out of sight in a private horse paddock for the time being.
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