Gold Mine
12 April 2002
TAKE your next tipple almost a quarter of a kilometre underground in a donkey-stable pub in what used to be one of the world s richest and deepest gold mines. That is, of course, if you don t mind damp, dark places and don t suffer from claustrophobia.
You can book this pub any day of the week from 5pm to 9pm, and get there by taking a large, clangy lift down 226 metres to spend a few hours where, back in the 1920s, some 300 donkeys stayed for three months while pulling cocopans filled with gold-laden rocks for removal above ground.