For 10 years, it was thought there might have been secret chambers or even bodies behind the walls at J Ward but work carried out on Friday by stonemasons revealed only rubble.
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“We didn't even find beer bottles or crockery. J Ward were a little bit in mourning that they didn’t find what they were hoping to find,” stone mason Carl Valerio said.
NO SECRETS: J Ward president Ken Ritchie with Ballarat stonemasons Paul Middleton and Carl Valerio. PHOTO: Peter Pickering.