Philip Skinner erected the monument/memorial on the track to the Easter Monday Mine. According to Philip, Minnie May Skinner used to drive a horse & cart up to the Easter Monday mine to deliver lunches/food to the miners working in the Easter Monday Mine. One day on a return trip along the track, she gave birth to Horace Skinner (hence the H.S. on the memorial). The Skinner family visit the site to remember their family, during  Easter most years. 

The parents of Horace Skinner were – Joe (Joseph Allen) Skinner, born in Blackwood in 1889, who married Minnie May Hill, in 1909. 

I have done some more research on who the person was that this monument was erected for – He was Horace Alan Charles Skinner born at this spot in 1910 to Minnie May Skinner nee Hill and (Joe) Joseph Allan Skinner.

Minnie May Hill was born to Joseph Hill and Julia Gribble in Malmsbury in 1889, and Joseph Allen Skinner was born in Blackwood in 1889 to Joseph Allen Skinner snr. and Eliza Spinner.

Joseph Hill and his brother Edward (Ted)  Hill were sons of Edward Hill who was the discoverer of gold in Blackwood in 1855.

This makes Edward Hill Snr. the great grandfather of Horace Skinner. ..!! so a fitting memorial this is for Blackwood.  

Memorial Stone erected to Horace Skinner on the Easter Monday Track by Philip Skinner.

Grave stone of Edward Hill Snr. the great grandfather of Horace Skinner, erected by Philip Skinner in the Blackwood cemetery.

Photos by Margot Hitchcock, Historian for the Blackwood & District Historical Society.