This is a true copy of a forum debate about SBC where the Police were shot by the Kelly gang in 1878. These following 25 pages were lost when one of the participants complained to forum host ProBoards.com. Despite numerous efforts to have the whole forum re-instated by me, this topic was one of several threads on DEE's 'Ned Kelly Truth forum' that questioned the many mythologized elements of the Kelly story, and is the reason for much personal attack on those that may have alternative views of how Kelly history is recorded. Bill Denheld May 2014


Man stands at fireplace of one of two huts, the police tent stood behind where this photo was taken.The Kelly gang came from left of little hill above.


The Great Debate about Stringy-Bark Creek  
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Post by Guest on Mar 14, 2014 at 11:40pm

PS Glenn.

I hope all your reports sent to the historical societies contained the important caveat that your team are enthusiastic amateurs without credentials.

I say this because parts of your report I've seen purport to provide historical and scientific references. We don't want the societies being misled, do we?

 

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 15, 2014 at 10:12am

Good bye Horrie



 

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 15, 2014 at 2:56pm

Memory Lane (NOTE  forumjar re Ned Kelly ) :

"A tiny glimmer of hope in the Fitzsimons rehash is his support in the book and on radio of the Bill Denheld Stringybark Creek 'Police Murders' site. " Anyone with a brain has long supported Bill.

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Post by bill on Mar 15, 2014 at 9:35pm

Regarding the CSI teams Spring.
Just got back from up north, Carla and I swung past SBC to take that picture of that horrid PIPE that Glenn and Kelvyn so strongly denied existed !

FIRST, this is what I wrote Page 2 - 20 Feb 2014 about the PIPE,

" However what the CSI team refer to being their 'Spring' would later become one of those bogs where natural water run off formed a little soggy bit of ground - this was just down a little dip south of the Kelly tree not far- today it runs under the road from west to east through a six inch pipe. But if this was the likely spring referred to by CSI team, there would be little need for Dan Kelly to go there in case the police came back from that direction, because if the Kelly tree site was where the police had camped, Dan would not have needed to have gone 'down' to this hollow 'spring', rather Dan would have just needed to get a view across that low spot to see if the police came from that direction. If this is not proof enough the CSI@SBC spring is nonsense, I'd be happy to be a monkey's uncle. Bill

SECOND, is Glenn's reply, Page 2 - 21 Feb
quote- " Behind this location the surrounding hills form something like a little valley, the ground in this area is hard, the water collected makes it’s way down under the surface to form the spring. Much as it does with there creeks in the area.
From there it makes it way both under and over the road down towards the creek. ( I know nothing of a 6” pipe under the road though. This may have been put there in the last 4 months)"


THIRD, is Kelvyn's post about the PIPE - 11 March 2014
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I recall (and it was not you but someone else - I think it was Horrie who seems to be well out of touch with the precinct, who recently made a statement that a pipe was under the SBC Road; and that the area was a "mess" (or words to that effect). Well I will put this to rest as both statements are absolute rubbish. Having arranged for an inspection of the roadway during the recent long break I can absolutely say there is NO PIPE, BUT there is a significant water diversion channel at the low point of the down slope.


Fourth, is 'Veritas' 13 March 2014
Who recaps but sounds like Kelvyn mixed up with Brian who addresses me as Mr.
post by Veritas -
"It is interesting when time is taken to flick backwards through a jumble of postings, and try to understand some of the posts and what they are saying. I see Kelvyn has continually had to tell Mr Denheld about his very poor attempts to associate some of the names used here with what he refers to as pseudos and I no
w get a funny feeling that Horrie (seems more appropriate to say Horrible) may indeed be a pseudo for the Denheld crowd or the leader himself. Horrie points out a pipe exists, Kelvyn says he and others could not find a pipe but then of course Mr Denheld launches into another rant about the pipe and how he will get a photograph for Kelvyn.
Why couldn't a grown man like Horrie reply?
Mr Denheld also says the CSI pipe - does this mean that the pipe is where the CSI team have said there is a spring? I see that Kelvyn has explained how the road now has a water runoff diversion drain to send water from the spring's outflow across the road and run it off towards the Creek. This is without doubt the work of road maintenance people to ensure the road does not get rutted by water flowing over it (this water would be coming off the downward slope and if allowed to continue along the road make the road looking North pretty uncomfortable for drivers and of course mean road maintenance would become a problem for the shire council or whoever maintains the road.
I must also say that a spring is clearly near the CSI teams site and its a real spring; not this stupid concept that Stringybark Creek is a spring just because it disappears below ground at some point. Its as sure as hell, that the creek flows along its course from up at the Old Tolmie Road (which can become almost impassable at times due to water crossing it at the head of the creek, the water coming from the property on the other side of the old road. Its stupid to say that just because a Creeks water goes underground for part of the way that when the water comes back to ground level that this is a spring. An underground river or creek is just that and not a spring.
I read somewhere that Ned sent his brother to the spring to watch for the policemen . Jeez you wouldn't go to the lower ground to keep a watch, so the spring on the high side of Stringybark Creek Road fits perfectly.


Well thanks Gents,

Please take a close look at these pictures of the PIPE.

Bill

www.ironicon.com.au/images/sbc-road-pipe.jpg
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Last Edit: Mar 15, 2014 at 9:41pm by bill: I did not get enough time to edit for BOLD

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Post by Guest on Mar 15, 2014 at 10:03pm

Oh dear, now the CSI codgers and Pooflower will have to ring the historical societies next week, asking them to pulp their reports!
 

 

 

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 16, 2014 at 4:10pm

I couldn't find the pipe so thanks indeed to you and Carla..
Thanks for noting the position of it. To the South of the spring discharge runoff to the roadside.
Now as to the spring: You clearly haven't read postings somewhere (too many forums with too much rubbish between postings of substance to waste time trying to find the info posted about the "CSI Spring" but it was).
Let me just recap - There are two types of PRIMARY Spring formations - those that have permanent underground water as a source - an underground water stream such as the Great Artesian Basin where mound springs are active continuously and have been for 1000's of years in some instances. Other springs – Seepage or filtration springs. The term seep refers to springs with small flow rates in which the source water has filtered into permeable earth and are active only after sufficient water is built up underground from rainfall and which will not be seen as active springs until the ground is sufficiently waterlogged to allow water to reach the ground level. The spring or springs will then have an active water flow until such time as the water underground "dries out" from lack of sufficient rainfall to once again build up the water table.
This is in fact the form of the spring at Stringybark Creek; and as the CSI team was able to clearly show the spring was active recently and was producing sufficient water for a constant outflow to the western side of the road and which then flowed northward (hence the now created water diversion channel to get the water to the eastern side of the road when the spring is active).
Here is a reference you should consult:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(hydrology)
So thank you for showing the pipe.
It simply confirms that as we said the spring is near the CSI team’s site.
It is also clearly obvious that the water underground whilst not always reaching ground level is maintaining a corridor of ground which stretches to the Creek from the head of the spring water and within which the conditions of ground dampness have enabled both the spear grass and also swamp gums to flourish – this corridor can be “mapped” because of the vegetation surviving within it.
If you spend time in the bush on the western side of the road and in the immediate area of the spring discharge you will be able to see mounded heaps of logs which were once magnificent specimens of swamp gums now destroyed when the western bank was bulldozed for fire control some years ago.
A Spring is a spring. A Creek is a creek!!

Oh and Horrie (MR ?, or whatever ?) seems you also fall into Bill’s earlier complaint about posters not using their correct identity. I do hope you fix this soon otherwise you will continue to draw the ire of BD.
You are indeed a clown and I doubt such a bad one that you would never get employment in any circus let alone as a researcher (even Google would be a start for you perhaps). I assume you got past first grade and can read but its obvious your comprehension skills are of a very poor level indeed.

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 16, 2014 at 10:42pm

Kel, I've had to correct you before that 'Gahnia Sieberiana' isn't spear grass (line 12 from the bottom of your interminable post) but Swordgrass. Bill has shown you where the pipe is that you couldn't find.

If you like, I can lend you a shredder for your reports.

 

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 17, 2014 at 10:08am

Bill,

The images shown above are not the site of the spring.

As you well know! The spring is located behind the camera further up the white hill.

There is no pipe at the spring location.
 

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 17, 2014 at 1:10pm

I concur with Kelvyn and Glenn that these photos are nowhere near the spring and just more smoke and mirrors by Bill. There is a dip in the road there where water run-off collects after rain and used to flood the road. The spring is on higher ground well to the forefront of the photo to the north. I knew of this pipe and it has never been mentioned before because it is irrelevant. Horrie if you had ever been to SBC like you claim you would know all this.


 

 

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 17, 2014 at 1:37pm

Keep it up Horrie, if you can.
More idiotic comment from someone who I suspect is not even living in Australia so getting to Stringybark Creek will cost a bit of airfare money.
Yes Bill has at last made a contribution to the work done by the CSI Team to find and ensure the place is given full assessment by those who make decisions about heritage sites unlike you who wouldn't have the brains to be able to read a compass, let-alone any comprehension skills to apply to any matter whatsoever. Please look after the remaining Kiwis.
See you boyo.

Thanks Brendon, it is a technique used by BD to attempt to deflect attention from the work of the CSI Team and others as he is more and more isolated from reality and support (other than crackpots using pseudo names aka Horrie and I would now suspect D is also a pseudo.

And so now Bill has provided the southern end of an area subject to runoff from the seasonal spring. Of course the northern end is demarked by the extensive water channel across the road which I have previously described.
BD has a mention in the CSI report's acknowledgements so he should now be chuffed that he has provided a bit more PRIMARY information.

 

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Post by bill on Mar 17, 2014 at 4:02pm

What a problem for the CSI team,
There was no pipe according to these fellows who are now getting very touchy.

Glenn, Kelvyn you are supposed to gentlemen presenting your 'Stuff UP' but all we get is continues mumbo jumbo for the pair of you and now also from Brendan, or is it Brian, or is it Veritas? or is it?


Brendan says-
"there is a dip in the road where the spring is"


Glenn says-
"The spring is behind the camera further up the white hill. There is no pipe at the spring location"

Kelvyn says-
" Of course the northern end is demarked by the extensive water channel across the road which I have previously described."


Well thanks Gents
Here is the White Hill picture on which there should be a 'spring' ? Can you please copy the image and re post it here to show us all where that 'extensive water channel and Spring across the road happens to be?


Where is that mysterious spring? What a joke.


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Post by Guest on Mar 17, 2014 at 4:51pm

Kelvyn, instead of echoing and egging Mick on, you should be counselling the poor fellow. Kelly thugs (I don't mean you or him) always seem to have problems helping their 'mates'. Mick claims he knows all you CSI guys personally. He is heading for personal disaster in my humble opinion.

Your kiwi guesswork and dumb cracks are really stupid. I'm Victorian and very proud of it.

CSI are phony 'johnies come lately' to the SBC debate. You're lost in the thickets. Bill has the 'Big Picture'. No wonder! He virtually lives there.

 

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Post by Dee on Mar 17, 2014 at 5:38pm

Looks like you've solved the problem of how to post pics on the Forum Bill! You say the two photos of the road are both looking south from near the Kelly Tree. They look like different parts of the road to me. What am I missing?


 

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 17, 2014 at 6:12pm

Bill you say

Brendan says- "there is a dip in the road where the spring is"

No I didn’t Bill, what I said was -
There is a dip in the road there where water run-off collects after rain and used to flood the road.
And- The spring is on higher ground well to the forefront of the photo to the north.


Why don’t you post a map showing your site, the CSI site and where exactly these photos were taken so that those who have never been there like Dee and Horrie will know what you are trying to say? Also point out the dip in the road.

Glen is correct when he said –

"The spring is behind the camera further up the white hill. There is no pipe at the spring location"

Bill by the CSI Team stating a ‘spring’, they do not mean a creek like you do, so of course there is no ‘creek’ crossing the road. They mean a ‘spring’, where water comes forth from the ground. There is a big difference between a spring and a creek and you just don’t understand that.

Horrie, who is Mick? Are you trying to divert this topic again with nonsense?

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 17, 2014 at 6:36pm

Bill. When you put a picture up of the road facing South and which is taken from the North side of the roadside sign which stands close by to the marked entry to the carpark its "twin" facing south can be seen in the background of the photo you have posted) then that photo will clearly show the road water diversion work and the spread of some road metal immediately to the North side of the "speed hump", ie the embankment formed by the creation of the water diversion which diverts the water running down the "white" rise towards North from the western side of the road to the eastern side allowing the water to flow then into the surrounding country.
If you spent enough time there to get a picture of the pipe (the Eastern side of the road outlet, so where is the picture of the Western side pipe opening? and you have a copy as you claim of an early draft of the CSI report which has more than enough information for you to correctly position your camera on the road to cover the ground - the spring position is shown also in the CSI diagram's so why do you persist with misleading photographs?.
Helpful hint: Try standing halfway along the car park boundary, on the centre line of the road and take some photos facing South. All then will be obvious.

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 17, 2014 at 7:00pm

Some more Billese babble:
"What a problem for the CSI team,
There was no pipe according to these fellows who are now getting very touchy".
See other posts, the CSI team has never said there was a pipe or water diversion AT THE SPRING's LOCATION.
DMR road maintenance work, as any road maintenance crews would do, has been to place a pipe at a lower point than the immediate flow "outlet" onto the road to ensure the diversion was as successful as possible in diverting all water runoff , hence the recently constructed water diversion on the northern side of the downward slope.
Get yourself up into some high country tracks Bill and you will observe this method of water "control" used extensively to ensure tracks are not eroded the length of them.
You say you have many years of visiting the Creek so you must surely be able to remember before the current road formation when the track/road reached the high point of the white hill and lo-and-behold there were times the track became impassable due to a large area of soft, water logged track (Charlie Engleke in correspondence and phone discussions described the impossible conditions this caused; such that using the track was not feasible, by vehicle).
Yes indeed another outbreak of a spring right on the crest of the ‘hill” (which was also seen as a very wet area in the road and with considerable boggy ground on the eastern edge of the road during the last outbreak of the spring(s). For absolute clarity – this is not the large spring found by the CSI Team.
And No Bill, not touchy, simply exasperated at your rubbish which you pursue against all evidence which you cannot rebut.

 

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Post by bill on Mar 17, 2014 at 9:03pm

Hello Dee,

Successfully posting pictures remains changeable. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Mostly edit time is too short before having to re edit again and again.

Regarding the images of SBC road.

I don't understand when you say 'Have I missed something' ?
They are two different parts of the same road. You are missing nothing.

If you look at the last picture showing the same road but from about 100 metres further North of the other pictures posted- shows the exact the area where CSI reckon their spring should be???

Dee and readers, these fellows are absolutely having us all on.
There is no spring there. They are hoodwinking this whole forum with their balony. Who is Brendan all of a sudden, he seems to know more than the other two.

Dee, Look at the end of the arrow 'White hill', is where the CSI team say there is a Spring or somewhere near that sign between Red hill arrow and the White hill arrow.

It is all nonsense to say there is a spring there. I had parked my car just down from that sign looking down the road to take the photos where Carla stands at the bottom near that pipe.

That pipe, if there was a 'spring' anywhere along that road would channel down the right hand side road cutter to the pipe, turn left under the road and out the end but you can see there is no water in the pipe. There is no spring there.

The last picture was taken near the Kelly tree overlooking where the CSI team say there is a 'SPRING'. No spring is on that white hill.

All the previous postings by these fellows are just smoke screen padding to make the reader believe these posters are telling you something, but its all baloney. How can there be a Spring water crossing the road when there is a cutter along the road to take all rain shower water down like along any suburban street or road and call that water a spring? Its all baloney.

Dee, This is not a place where anyone can have a debate because these people posting are idiotic and are only interested in preserving their pride and face saving.

Perhaps I will stop here as they will not put their 'Stuff Up'.
They are wasting everyone's time to the enth degree only so they can have the last word without any substance or validity to their postings. They are scientifically laughable not worthy of further comment.
Bill

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Post by bill on Mar 18, 2014 at 9:05am

www.ironicon.com.au/images/red-hill-white-hill.jpg

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Post by Guest on Mar 18, 2014 at 7:33pm

I WILL HAVE TO AGAIN SIMPLY SAY THIS:
THE CSI TEAM HAS NEVER SAID THE SPRING IS "HERE" AS YOU ONCE MORE INCORRECTLY, AND I SUGGEST MALICIOUSLY, CONTINUE TO UTTER WORDS WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN SAID BY THE TEAM AS FAR AS YOU SUGGEST THAT THE SPRING IS AT THE SITE OF THE PIPE.
IT IS NOT, (A SIMPLE THREE LETTER WORD BILL THAT CLEARLY YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND).
SIT DOWN AND SLOW DOWN AND READ AND COMPREHEND THE RECENT POSTINGS TELLING YOU WHAT THE CSI TEAM HAS FOUND AND WHERE IT IS.
SO ONCE MORE FOR YOU TO ABSORB THE FACTS - THE SPRING IS ON HIGH GROUND WELL AWAY FROM THE PIPE OF WHICH YOU ARE NOW OBSESSED WITH.
BY-THE-WAY YOU SEEM TO BE UNABLE TO ADDRESS THE QUESTION OF THE PIPE WESTERN SIDE OPENING, AND IT SEEMS SIMPLY OBLIVIOUS TO THE VEWRY PROMINENT FEATURE EXPLAINED TO YOU CONCERNING THE WORK OF THE DMR ROAD WORKERS MAKING A SIGNIFICANT WATER DIVERSION CHANNEL TO THE NORTH OF YOUR OBSESSIVE PIPE AND ON THE NORTHERN DOWNSIDE OF THE RISING GROUND (THATS A HILL, BILL)
MAYBE YOU HAVE CAUGHT OPD (ALL CLUES ARE HEREIN).

KEEP IT UP IF YOU MUST BILL. THE MORE RUBBISH YOU GO ON WITH THE MORE YOUR CREDIBILITY IS ON DISPLAY FOR ALL TO SEE.
ITS A JOKE JOYCE: WHICH WAS AN OFTEN USED PHRASE BY TV THESPIANS OF DAYS NOW GONE.

 

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Post by Dee on Mar 18, 2014 at 8:32pm

In regard to the pipe, when Bill claimed it existed, Kelvyn and Veritas and Brendon rubbished Bill and said there was no such thing. Glenn said he had never seen one. So Bill went there and took the photos that prove he was right : there is a Pipe. So in my view, Bills credibility is enhanced Kelvyn - he clearly has an amazing and detailed knowledge of the place. What he claimed about the pipe was not rubbish or a rant ( Veritas) but accurate knowledge.

Now what has the pipe to do with anything anyway? My understanding of what has been posted about it so far is not that the CSI spring is necessarily right near the pipe, but the run off from it ( the CSI Spring) will naturally flow down toward the road then get channelled along the edge of the road along the DMR created channels, and then eventually reach the pipe to pass under the road to the eastern side and thence eventually into SBC. The fact that no water is coming out of the pipe demonstrates the highly intermittent nature of the CSI Spring, whereas Bills spring (SBC) is continuously flowing and therefore according to Bill better qualifies as "the" Spring. Is that about right? Thanks for posting some more great photos Bill.

All I am really saying is that I think as far as the pipe is concerned Bill has been proven correct. As far as where the real site is, people have been arguing about evolution for over a century and the existence of god for millennia, so I guess there's no real hurry!

 

 

 

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