Short Stories of the Blackmores, Suttors, Kinlesides, Watsons, Farrs, Gordons, Blacks and others.
By Greg Blackmore I can remember always wanting to be a Jackeroo and had my leather saddle bag and quart pot for a few years before I had even left school. Raised on a small mixed grazing property near Rylstone and Mudgee in NSW, I rode a bike the 3 miles to Clandulla Public School, … Continue reading Going Bush – a Jackeroo
Guest Post by Beverley O'Hara, daughter of Phil Schaffert, Manager of Gregory Downs from 1931 to 1944. My father, Phil Schaffert, Manager of Gregory Downs Station, related this story of a U.S. Liberator that crashed near Moonlight Creek at approx 3.00 a.m. on 2 Dec 1942. “Fred Walden of Escott Station near Burketown, was mustering … Continue reading “Death was close for Starving Airman”
Struth it's Blackmores 