SPANNER IN THE WORKS

Mansfield Mountain Country Festival Parade 1993

Group of men at Sweetapples home on the Barkly

Alex Trahair being interviewed by Research Office

Part of Christie family’s sluicing equipment – Jericho – 1940s

Mining equipment remains at Walhalla.

The tractor in the log yard – driven by Jim Orr – Christensen’s Delatite Sawmill – Mirimbah

Merrijig School. Children with teacher in waterhole in the Delatite River

Soldier – World War 1

Mansfield members – Victorian Mounted Rifles.

Wairere – The Piries home of Trish and Maurie Bull

Two men and two women – left to right: Mick Sweeney, Alice Burch, Unknown, ?McIntosh

CALLING IN THE HIGH PLAINS HERDS

Roy Willan Bostock born 1917, owner of Preston Station.

PART 6. MOUNTAIN CATTLEMEN RESPOND TO THE VICTORIAN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION OPPOSITION TO ALPINE CATTLE GRAZING. THE VNPA CLAIMS: “THE CULTURAL CLAIM OF CATTLEMEN IS WEARING THIN”.

Young boy riding horse, Silver, (possible Roy), and Robert Bostock cuddling a tabby cat. Preston Station

Marbut-Gunnersen Sawmill. Looking through mill from bottom stocking area.

Cattle on Preston Station – river flooding in background

Ashfield Sawmill, 1996, last days before closing down – Bob Jones.

Bell’s Mill, Cambatong Road, Tolmie