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Gran's Place

ca04 — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 08:44:11 GMT

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ca04 — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 08:45:44 GMT

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ca04 — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 08:47:04 GMT

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ca04 — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 08:55:57 GMT

REF from the photo comp.

There is about 1.5 mt of water.The house is on stilts.

Gran was about 80 year old.

The water was about 25mm short of coming over the

floors for 6 days & took another 5 days to go right down.

Her biggest complaint was after the water went down &

the mossies came.

The year after she condecended to move to our place.

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j*oono — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 09:17:00 GMT

Gran judged that well didn't she 😄 It sounds like she was a real character.

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soul_art — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 09:17:22 GMT

They made them tough back then !!!!

amazing photos, thanks for sharing.

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lloydslights — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:03:31 GMT

Thanks for showing more I am interested / fascinated by the events of nature and the people who can be affected so greatly.

Is the old house still standing? Has any floodwater ever gone "over the floorboards"?

What sort of crops/animals on the farm? I didn't see any water tanks in the pictures.....How common are/were the Canadian canvas/bamboo canoes in the area.

Those farming areas sure breed some tough men and women.

DEB

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ca04 — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 00:14:18 GMT

Longreach is a town in the central west of Queensland. We always called it central Qld but sometime along the line that title has been afforded to Rockhampton on the central east coast.

It is in the sheep & wool area with some cattle & these days quite a bit of tourism.

The photo's date back to the early 1950s and the house has been replaced but the land has been built up & no the house never had water over the floor boards.

The canoes were not common & that at the time would have the been only one localy.They were about 2mt long X 1.2 mt wide x 0.4 mt deep. A fully cane/bamboo frame with canvas skin & a lift in/out wooden flat floor.

She did have a watertank it was in the end of the house with the sheeting going to ground(more like a shed on the end of the house) as it kept the water cooler.

We all had water tanks & in the long drought years ,7 years when I was at school, we would fill them with the piped riverwater & add ebsonsalts to clear it.

We also had arteasian water piped it being hot mineral water was soft,didn't need to be pumped & lovely to soak in in the bathtub.

The town is a bit under 5 km from the Thompson river but when in flood the river spreads up to 14 to 16 km wide in an average flood

& in the one shown it was 50 km wide.

Anything further free free to ask as I can rabbit on for hours about the back country.

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ca04 — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 00:37:33 GMT

This the Council Mail Boat for use in floods. About 5 mt long powered by a straight 6 GMC/Chevie motor.

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ca04 — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 00:40:05 GMT

This is the river in it's normal state in a good year at the old bridge.

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*pepe — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 01:05:01 GMT

wow amazing pics! thank you for sharing them.

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ca04 — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 20:20:07 GMT

For contrast 1934 picture of an uncle driving a bullock team & dray. Was drought & depression.

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ca04 — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 20:21:35 GMT

His father who thought he was driving the team.

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lloydslights — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:01:23 GMT

I was going to chat about child labour. Talk about cracking the whip. Then I saw picture no.2. I note a dog under the waggon. Are you aware of the names of the beasts. (I mean the bovine beasts)

Now, back to the "load". I think I see a cast iron pot. I am assuming this is the supply/cooks waggon. Did they hitch another one on for the "pay load" of bagged wheat? Sort of B-double? And would Longreach have been the destination? For the train or a flour mill"

DEB

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debra9275 — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:04:35 GMT

thanks for the photos and the stories C4. City folk like me never see things like that

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ca04 — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:19:25 GMT

In a normal year they would carry wool bailed to the rail heads & supplies & building material out to the stations.

They carried their "camp" which was their home.

I will try to find photos with wool loaded as it makes one wonder why they did not just fall over.

Sorry but I was never introduced to the team.