Berinbooding Rock - built by sustenance labour

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While we were away, we visited Berinbooding Rock again. I wrote about it in 2019 and 2020 but hopefully, if you’re like me, you’ll have forgotten. The rock is a short distance from Beacon. The rock is huge and during 1937 at the height of the Depression, ‘sustenance labour’ was used to build low rock walls to channel water into a tank which holds two and a quarter million gallons. Sustenance labour was the name given to welfare payments which were given to those who had been out of work for some time. At the rock, the 100 men were housed in tents and given a week’s work for each dependent child. The walls and tank were built by hand. My previous photos of the tank show that the sheets of iron forming the roof was very loose, or missing altogether. It has now been removed completely.