JIM COMMINS FAREWELL. THE BEST TRIBUTES COME FROM OLD FOES

Jeff Kennett at Mansfield Railway Station

Wairere – The Piries home of Trish and Maurie Bull

Frenchman’s – Headwaters of the Goulburn River – The New Eldorado

Rosalind Adams and daughter

Opposing Mansfield Cricket Team circa 1880

World War I Recruits Training Camp – possibly Geelong Show Grounds or Broadmeadows, Victoria, Circa 1915

Miner’s Right – Certificate

Frank Bussat Photographic Collection. The Centenary of the old Ailsa St Library.

Mick Perrin, sleeper cutters, Gippsland

Wagon and eight horses – early transport to Gaffneys Creek

Killing pen and Lower Dip paddocks in flood – Preston Station

Fred Fry’s new hut built with old timber and iron from the mine manager’s house 1945 – 1946. Built by Fred and Steve Fry, Harry Norris and Charlie Clark. Jim Westcott was then Forestry Officer.

GRAEME STONEY COLLECTION. BLUFF HUT REBUILD AND OPENING. DAVIS AND ROBERT FRIDAY FIX THE CHIMNEY 2008

Portrait of Sarah Sussanah Allan Walsh “Dolly”

DROVING IN GIPPSLAND ALBUM. 2 UNIDENTIFIED MEN ON HORSEBACK WITH CATTLE.

William Pop Purcell’s 90th birthday 1970.

Separate woofy tables at the A1 mine (A.1.) in the 1970s – Gaffneys Creek

Sir Rohan Delacombe addressing the crowd, 27/06/1966 at the official opening of the Municipal Offices.

A1 Mine – high speed engine with sensitive fly wheel, governor.