This week I had the absolute pleasure to be invited to cut the ribbon for the newly relocated Mafeking Bell in Mount Morgan. The bell was cast in 1900 after the school children of Mount Morgan collected and donated pennies to be melted and recast into the bell to commemorate the end of the Siege of Mafeking during the Boer War. An amazing tale from an era long gone, but not forgotten.
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