Gran's Place

[ca04]

[*pepe]

wow amazing pics! thank you for sharing them.

[ca04]

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

[ca04]

His father who thought he was driving the team.

[lloydslights]

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

[debra9275]

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

[ca04]

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.