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Log hauling spelt the end for “young giant”

1917 – At just 11 years old, Clide Avery was already the size of some grown men, almost six foot tall. But he didn’t get to experience manhood. He was helping his father drive a horse-drawn wagon hauling a seven-ton load of logs into Narrabri. The family lived at Eulah Creek,  a 15-minute drive eastContinue reading “Log hauling spelt the end for “young giant””

Help came too late for starving traveller

1901 – The Mount Garnet coach driver wasn’t so curious about the man he had seen several times sitting outside a tent on the side of the road outside Herberton. But when he realized he had not seen the man on several of his trips, he decided to investigate further. Unfortunately it was some timeContinue reading “Help came too late for starving traveller”

Flash flood ended Henry’s gold fever

The words on this headstone in the overgrown abandoned Anglican cemetery at Sofala are almost unreadable, worn by time and overgrown with lichen. The grave’s occupant, Henry Robinson, was lost to the waters of nearby Oaky Creek, just as the stone itself is now being lost to the elements. How long before his story alsoContinue reading “Flash flood ended Henry’s gold fever”