Mansfield Mountain Country Festival at Sheepyard Flat

LETTER FROM LAVERTON AIRFORCE BASE

Official opening of the Shire office, 27th October 1966.

Convent of Mercy students

CATTLE LEASES (OR RUNS) IN THE MT STIRLING-MT BULLER AREA

John Bostock playing with Robert Bostock

Shannon Purcell looking at a Vietnam War Grave of A. T. Purcell

High School picnic – swimming in river – 1914 – horses

DICK FORREST AND PETER PURCELL, TAKING CATTLE INTO MITCHELLS CREEK FOR SUMMER GRAZING 1978-1980. CATTLE MOVING BACK ONTO BRIDLE TRACK

Manager’s Houses at A1 Shaft – new A1 Co 1928 – 1932

Postcard sent to Mr H. J. Sartain, Saddle & Harness Maker, Wagin, Gt Southern Railway, Western Australia. Photograph shows gold mine at Bonnie Doon.

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

Gerald Egan, horse stuntman for Jim Craig (played by Tom Burlinson), practising the jump for the spectacular cliff ride in ‘The Man from Snowy River’.

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.

Boggy Creek Hut

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

Extracting gold using a tail race

Manager’s house at Gaffneys Creek A1 mine. New A1 Mine Company.

Mt. Buller

Mansfield Timber Products. – New hopper being installed – the old hopper was burnt. Sheets on the side of the mill, shown, are asbestos.