Brooding monolith Orphan Rock once more popular than Three Sisters

By Robyne Ridge
Updated July 15 2019 - 10:20am, first published July 12 2019 - 12:49pm

"A brooding monolith, isolated, menacing, Orphan Rock excites the imagination. What mystic bodies created this prehistoric structure? It is 'a picturesque pillar of grey, time-worn stone, detached from the main mass, towering above the coal mines'. (Blue Mountain Echo Saturday 25.12.1909)."

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