AUSTRALIA'S ORIGINAL AND BEST CAMP OVEN AND OUTDOOR COOKING AND CAMPING FORUM

Nov 7^th, 2007 at 6:12pm

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I liked the photo's of the shearing sheds Derek. I have a photo of my grandfather standing outside of a shearing shed in Gnarpurt ,Victoria .
So back in 1998 we set out to find it drove around for a few hours came over a crest of a hill and there it was . No mistaking it , It was made of bluestone . There was a man on a quad bike driving around the homestead opposite so we waved him down and showed him the photo and asked if it was all right to go in and my photo taken with my son . He done one better and gave us a tour of the shed and told us a bit of history about it .He went to the same school as my father and remembers the family. It was a great day and this year we will go back and get another photo .This time with both my boys .I'll scan the photos and post them later.

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Reply #1 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 7:14pm

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Great story and I look foward to your follow up. pd

When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #2 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 7:22pm

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I hope sometime to be able to get into one of the really big shearing shed someday to do some photographs.

I think that we have a fantastic history in Australia that shouldn't be forgotten.

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Reply #3 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 7:40pm

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Backyardcook.
I also agree with PD, these are the stories that form our so often neglected history.

In the early 80's I was "shanghied" into being a shearers cook "just for a couple of weeks".

Well, it happened at the time I was "between wives" so to speak and when after the 2 weeks they gave me a "rating", the money being not too bad, that I happened to get on well with the boss and crew, it was 8 months later I decided to have a spell.
But what a great time I had and good blokes I met (OK, there were a couple of "ordrinaries") but cooking for those sheares bring back wonderful memories.

Well sadly, so many of those shearing sheds are now defunct, falling into disuse and disrepair as wheat and cotton became the new future of the properties down the lower Maquarie and Darling. And look what a mess those rivers are in as a result. And even sadder for me I did not take a camera to record some of those places.

So among my treasures are things from mainly my own past, CI stuff, rabbit/dog traps, tilley lamps, old tools, memorabillia from our farm and many great recollections.

Without people keeping photos, records, old collections, history ceases to exist.

Now where is that new cask of port? Will soon turn that into history.
mikel

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Reply #4 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 8:32pm

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Some pics from a recent nostalgic trip back to the old stamping grounds
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Reply #5 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 8:35pm

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More Soot, Mike, Pd, Furph, Backyardcook, more........

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Reply #6 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 8:36pm

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Reply #7 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 8:38pm

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Reply #8 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 8:44pm

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To quote Mikel
"Well sadly, so many of those shearing sheds are now defunct, falling into disuse and disrepair as wheat and cotton became the new future"

This one is a Cotton victim, Was the grandparents property one of the best wool growing places around
now devoid of trees and fences.

It was heartbreaking to see what has happened to the place I spent so much of my childhood
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Reply #9 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 8:45pm

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