Len Beadell Publications
A celebration of Len’s 100th birthday
This is a small profile of Len's life, to highlight his many achievements and celebrate what would have been his 100th birthday on 21...
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Len Beadell Publications
- Dec 4, 2022
- 3 min
Around the World in Eighty Delays
Len Beadell, author of six best-selling books about his exploits building the roads through Central Australia in connection with the...
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Len Beadell Publications
- Sep 15, 2022
- 3 min
Celebrating a special anniversary
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the completion of the Anne Beadell Highway and Connie Sue Highway in 1962. Connie Sue Highway...
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Len Beadell Publications
- Jan 9, 2022
- 5 min
Gunbarrel Road Construction Party
This is a tribute to all of the men who worked with Len for many years on the construction of the famous desert roads. They worked...
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Len Beadell Publications
- Sep 5, 2021
- 2 min
Happy Father's Day: A reflection from Gary Beadell
Wishing all the fathers and caregivers out there a very happy Fathers Day. I hope you are able to spend the day as well as you can, in...
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Len Beadell Publications
- Sep 4, 2021
- 2 min
VALE CAROLYN SHOEMAKER 24.06.29 - 13.08.21
PHOTO At the Grand Canyon - 16 October 1986 Rear L to R - Anne Beadell, Gene & Carolyn Shoemaker, Connie Beadell Front - Helen & Dick...
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Len Beadell Publications
- Aug 17, 2021
- 1 min
Covid-19 strikes again for 2021 Tours
Beadell Tours cancel final trip for 2021.
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Len Beadell Publications
- Jun 19, 2021
- 2 min
Beadell Tours - 19 June 2021
Hello everyone, Finally, an update as to how Covid-19 lockdowns have affected our little business. Well, after a forced year off from...
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Len Beadell Publications
- Apr 10, 2020
- 1 min
Beadell Tours - A COVID-19 Update
For obvious reasons Mick and I have cancelled the first two of our planned Beadell Tours for 2020. We have not officially cancelled...
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Len Beadell Publications
- Jan 26, 2020
- 2 min
Vale Dick & Clayton Lang
Vale Dick & Clayton Lang: Tragically killed in Kangaroo Island on January 3rd 2020 while helping to fight massive bushfires that swept throu
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Len Beadell Publications
- Jan 23, 2020
- 2 min
Vale Dr William Peasley AM
Vale Dr William Peasley: Dr William Peasley was well known as an author of books about Aboriginal history and Australian Explorers including
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Len Beadell Publications
- Dec 1, 2019
- 2 min
Len Beadell Library
Len Beadell was one of Salisbury's 'great characters', a modern pioneer whose life and work deserve to be preserved for future generations.
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Len Beadell Publications
- Aug 24, 2019
- 2 min
Plaque post dumped
It is the end of August 2019 and Mick & I have just finished our third tour for the year, starting at Coober Pedy and finishing in Alice Spr
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Len Beadell Publications
- Jun 2, 2019
- 2 min
Scouting - IT'S A GREAT LIFE!
Len Beadell's life changed forever when he joined the 1st Burwood Scout Group, NSW as a Cub in 1930. It gave him experience in surveying whi
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Len Beadell Publications
- May 22, 2019
- 1 min
Len's theodolite
Len's theodolite, Cooke Troughton & Simms Tavistock is the instrument on which Len performed the observations necessary for the majority of
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Len Beadell Publications
- May 11, 2019
- 1 min
Anne Beadell
Anne Beadell left much more of a legacy than the Anne Beadell Highway. The children give this tribute to their Mum on Mother's Day.
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Len Beadell Publications
- May 10, 2019
- 1 min
Queen Victoria Spring
Recent fires over 2018-9 have burnt out around Queen Victoria Spring with one of the 2 famous Grass Tree Sentinels having fallen victim.
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Len Beadell Publications
- Apr 26, 2019
- 1 min
Gary Highway
In Len Beadell's final year of road making, the reconnaissance and construction of the Gary Highway commenced on 27 April 1963. Listen to...
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Len Beadell Publications
- Apr 24, 2019
- 2 min
8th Australian Field Survey Section
'A good bloke to have at your side'.... Len served in World War II with the Royal Australian Survey Corps from December 1941 and...
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Len Beadell Publications
- Mar 24, 2019
- 2 min
March is Woomera month
"We're looking for someone to start a rocket range - er...or something...."
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