Parents: Jim Ryan and Ida Jones. Jim Ryan was a prospector who was struck by lightning. Ida ran the boarding house at Carter’s Mill. Their children Esther-Redfern, Essie, Nellie, Doreen, Bonnie, Margaret (Hare). Ida later married George Wilson.

PURCELL FAMILY COLLECTION. LOOKING TOWARDS MT BULLER FROM MT STIRLING

LOVICK’S 1980s TRAIL RIDE. PART 3 – MORNING RIDE

Mansfield Primary School Grade 1/2 1965

Glad Phillips on duty at the Mansfield Information Centre in 1997

Rene (later Nolan) and her brother, Jim Comerford sitting on their pet lambs – “Willow Vale”

MOUNTAIN CATTLEMEN’S ANNUAL GET TOGETHER WOMBAT CROSSING 2010. LACROSSE PLAYERS ON HORSEBACK.

Commercial Hotel, Woods Points

Norman C. Gaffney’s Garage.

Original “Wairere” Homestead.

The Red Cross Dedication of the Mansfield Branch and 100 Years Red Cross in Australia and Picnic Day, at the Mansfield Botanic Park, 14th September, 2014.

Albion Hotel, Gaffneys Creek. The Main Street, looking south during the 1880s.

The first State Bank opened in Mansfield on December 1st, 1911. The premises at 149 High Street, were not built until 1917.

Goulburn River, Woods Point

DROVING IN GIPPSLAND ALBUM. 5 WORKING DOGS

DROVING IN GIPPSLAND ALBUM. CATTLE, MEN ON HORSEBACK AND DOGS

Jim McKinney transporting logs from landing to G. H. Bell and Sons Mill, Hollands Creek.

Horseshoe Bend, Moe – Walhalla Railway

PURCELL FAMILY COLLECTION. MOVING CATTLE UP MT STIRLING

Railway Centenary Re- Enactment 1891-1991 .