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Category: Rural life

Rural life, social life

What’s a Wool Press?

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 Kandos History

Is it any surprise then that many Australians in the nineteenth century, especially those newly arrived, saw opportunity in sheep farming? Little labour (most of the year) and big returns.

Tagged Farming, pioneers8 Comments
Aboriginal history, family history, Rural life

Land, Lots of Land

October 6, 2019October 6, 2019 Kandos History

It was a familiar scene: a rough dirt road, dry creek bed, scrubby bushland. I saw no evidence of cultivation or construction, just shadows, silence, rustlings. But overwhelmingly I felt a sense of connection. I belonged there. I had sprung from this spot.

Tagged family history, landscape, pioneers4 Comments
Aboriginal history, Local history, Rural life, social life

Roaming Around the Long Paddock

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019 Kandos History

It might surprise you to learn that TSRs are part of Kandos history.

Tagged landscape, Local history, pioneers7 Comments
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