Horses at Nanango
Nanango had a very good reputation for working horses, from saddle to harness (light delivery) types. A few good racehorses came out of Nanango area, and some of the local horses got good prices at Toowoomba sales.
Blinman Mail Coach
Blinman started as a mining town in 1859 after Robert Blinman – a shepherd for Angorichina Station known as Pegleg as he’d lost a leg – found a rock strongly streaked with copper and pegged a claim.
Sarah Stork
Sarah Stork, coach driver and owner. Remarkable woman.
Sarah Stork came from a family of battlers, her parents however managed to educate her until she was sixteen. The parents migrated from England – Sarah, their only child, was born in Sydney.
Rubber Shod Vehicles
Horse vehicle trivia… Rubber shod vehicles – the story of an Australian rubber company started in 1885 by Henry Perdriau.
The Poo Brigade
Poo brigade. Cleaning the streets in the horse days was arranged by the Health Department of councils.
Ballarat Horse Trams
Ballarat, then Ballaarat, got horse trams in 1887 – the tram lines were officially opened in December 1887, the week before Christmas.
Wedge Island
Wedge Island covers about 10 square kilometres, it’s between York and Eyre Peninsulas – at the mouth of Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Once, good Waler types were bred there and gained top prices.
Sowing Seed
A reminder of the amazing innovations of our farming history, finding ways to become more efficient was a way of life.
Horseworks
Horseworks, also called a whim, were a mechanical device powered by horses walking in a circle around it.
Water Diviner Stephen Kelley
Horses on Gallipoli – and the story of a water diviner who saved thousands of lives there…