From the depths of another box in the Little Darwin whopper cull surfaced STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN , an unused Charlie Brown Barbie pink covered notebook , bumped about the edges . It is not clear if this was the Charlie out of the popular comic strip, Peanuts. Where it came from , only the top man in Heaven would know. Perhaps a garage sale ?
Then it was remembered that an interesting pile of another Charlie Brown personal papers had recently been sighted when this writer called into the Special Collections reading room at the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library, James Cook University ,Townsville .
A miner, Brown had toiled underground at Mount Isa ,Queensland, in the l920s and 30s . His lungs having been "leaded" , he returned to his parental home at 58 Sailors Bay Road, Northbridge , Sydney, married .
When well ernough, he got contracts to do tunnelling under many towns in the Blue Mountains and in other districts for sewerage systems, men paid as little as nine pence a day in the Depression .
The installation of Charlie Cecil Brown in a masonic lodge at Blackheath, in the Blue Mountains .
