So, to continue. Covid-19 curtailed our tours of course, so we did no plaque maintenance during 2020 to 2022. In 2023 we were back at it...

Hello everyone, I am sorry it has been so long but finally, here are some updates on our Plaque Restoration Project. This blog will...

This is a small profile of Len's life, to highlight his many achievements and celebrate what would have been his 100th birthday on 21...

Len Beadell, author of six best-selling books about his exploits building the roads through Central Australia in connection with the...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the completion of the Anne Beadell Highway and Connie Sue Highway in 1962. Connie Sue Highway...

This is a tribute to all of the men who worked with Len for many years on the construction of the famous desert roads. They worked...

Wishing all the fathers and caregivers out there a very happy Fathers Day. I hope you are able to spend the day as well as you can, in...

PHOTO At the Grand Canyon - 16 October 1986 Rear L to R - Anne Beadell, Gene & Carolyn Shoemaker, Connie Beadell Front - Helen & Dick...

Beadell Tours cancel final trip for 2021.

Hello everyone, Finally, an update as to how Covid-19 lockdowns have affected our little business. Well, after a forced year off from...

For obvious reasons Mick and I have cancelled the first two of our planned Beadell Tours for 2020. We have not officially cancelled...

Vale Dick & Clayton Lang: Tragically killed in Kangaroo Island on January 3rd 2020 while helping to fight massive bushfires that swept throu

Vale Dr William Peasley: Dr William Peasley was well known as an author of books about Aboriginal history and Australian Explorers including

Len Beadell was one of Salisbury's 'great characters', a modern pioneer whose life and work deserve to be preserved for future generations.

It is the end of August 2019 and Mick & I have just finished our third tour for the year, starting at Coober Pedy and finishing in Alice Spr

Len Beadell's life changed forever when he joined the 1st Burwood Scout Group, NSW as a Cub in 1930. It gave him experience in surveying whi

Len's theodolite, Cooke Troughton & Simms Tavistock is the instrument on which Len performed the observations necessary for the majority of

Anne Beadell left much more of a legacy than the Anne Beadell Highway. The children give this tribute to their Mum on Mother's Day.

Recent fires over 2018-9 have burnt out around Queen Victoria Spring with one of the 2 famous Grass Tree Sentinels having fallen victim.

In Len Beadell's final year of road making, the reconnaissance and construction of the Gary Highway commenced on 27 April 1963. More can...