Thursday, December 15, 2011

Round one: restoration

From the Maitland Mercury report:
Original construction of the Darcy family vault is slowly being revealed during stage one of the grave’s major restoration program.
The Darcy family vault is the final resting place of Les Darcy, one of Australia’s greatest professional boxers.
Known as The Maitland Wonder, he won 46 of his 50 boxing bouts, including 29 knockouts, but was never knocked out himself.

Full article by Emma Swain available at Maitland Mercury, 09 Dec, 2011.