Forth Carriers Peterborough
S Price’s boring rig at Peterborough. Stephen Rawlins in front.
Shearing using hand clippers, c. 1910s
PJ Byrnes implement factory in Bismarck (later Kitchener) Street Petersburg, 1909
Paddy Shinnick (centre) loading sandalwood at Yunta, 1930. Shinnick Family Photo.
Paddy Shinnick and family loading sandalwood at Yunta, 1930. Shinnick Family Photo
Cecil Woods Woodyard and transport, Main Street Peterborough, 1934. Woods family photograph.
Sheep sale day at Peterborough, c. 1950s. Local butcher Ken Sleep on left at top, Bill Sandow in centre.
Peterborough resident Laurie Lang with a Perkins Bag Lifter, 1985
HH Rohde’s early farm in Victoria Street Peterborough, c. 1980s
Farm implement shed with thatched roof
Farm implement shed with thatched roof
Outbuildings ruins at the Pomery farmhouse just west of Peterborough, 1979
Old farm on the outskirts of Peterborough (to the north west), 1987
91 Brown Street Peterborough, c. 1930s. Formerly the homestead for Torr’s Sheep Station. Thought to be the 2nd oldest house in Peterborough. Trees on Cochrane’s Farm in the distance.
Ruins of Rohde/Graefe farm out from Peterborough. Laurie Lang, 1985
Cheffer’s old farm out from Peterborough, 1985
Ruins of Cheffer’s farm workshop out from Peterborough, 1985
Reg Philp on the veranda of his farm at Minvalara near Peterborough, 1985
Outbuilding on Reg Philp’s farm at Minvalara near Peterborough, 1985
Buckley Castle farm near Peterborough, 1985
Buckley Castle farm near Peterborough, 1985
Buckley Castle farm near Peterborough, 1985
Buckley Castle farm near Peterborough, 1985
Ruins of Fox’s farm near Peterborough, 1985
Ruins of Fox’s farm outside cellar near Peterborough, 1985. Ruins of walk-in cellar in foreground.
HH Rohde’s old farm, Peterborough, 1990. Rohde was one of the original settlers in Peterborough.
Ruins of Pomery’s farm on the outskirts of Peterborough near Nelia Well, 1990
T Class locomotive oil tank used as a water tank on a Peterborough farm, 1990
Rohde’s old farm, Peterborough 1978
Cochrane farm just to the west of Peterborough, 1990. Richard Cochrane was one of the very early settlers in the Petersburg area and was the owner of the land on which Peterborough West was built. Peterborough West was originally known as Cochrane Town.
Old cart on Reg Philp’s farm at Minvalara, near Peterborough, 1985
Cart and wheel
Carting water for use in the farmhouse
Ahrns Brothers plough manufactured in Peterborough, c. 1900
Forgan ploughshare on the Blunsden farm, 1985. Forgans ran a foundry in Petersburg/Peterborough.
Horse team and harvester in the Petersburg area, c. 1910s
Horse team ploughing the paddock ready for sowing the crop, c. 1920s
The remains of a horse drawn header
Horse team ploughing at Peterborough, c. 1920s
Peterborough farmers Molte Wehr and Jack Galpin with a horse team, c. 1920s
Horse team on the farm, c. 1900
Horse team and cart, c. 1900s
Horse team carting wool, c. 1900s
Horse team carting wool with railway wagons loaded with wood in the background, c. 1900s
Retallack’s bullock team in Main Street Peterborough, 1900
Retallack’s bullock team in Main Street Peterborough, 1900
Bullock team carting wood, c. 1900s
Black Rock wheat stack (source unknown)
Wheat stacks at Belalie North Railway Station, 1911
Weighing wheat bags in Main Street Peterborough, next to YMCA Gym, c. 1930s
First load of wheat grown in Petersburg, c. 1900s. Possibly stacked on railway property opposite the current Junction Hotel in Main Street. Source unknown.
Load of hay
Empty hay cart in Peterborough, c. 1910s
Dan McKeough’s horse teams carting hay in Main Street Peterborough, c. 1910s
Loading hay with horse teams and carts, c. 1900s
Horse team carting hay. Possibly copied from ‘Fifty Years of Progress: A History of the South Australian Farmers’ Co-operative Union Limited.’
Peterborough farmer Hugo Linke with horse and hay rake in Hurlstone Street, c. 1930s
Load of hay in Kitchener Street Peterborough
Bob Legard’s donkey team carting wheat, c. 1940s
Bob Ledgard’s donkey team and cart in Peterborough, c. 1910s
Peterborough farmer Harry Koch on his horse-drawn harvester, c. 1910s
Peterborough farmer Harry Koch on his horse-drawn binder, c. 1910s
Koch’s farm horse team, just south of Peterborough, c. 1910s
Bagging wheat at Harry Koch’s farm Peterborough , c. 1920s
Koch’s farm ploughing team, c. 1910s
Land clearing on the Koch farm in Peterborough, c. 1940s. Koch family photo.
Hay carting on the Koch farm with horse teams, Peterborough, c. 1900s. Koch family photo.
The Need farm at Cavenagh, 1990
Dawn Need standing at the entrance to the Need farm at Cavenagh, 1990
The Need farm at Cavenagh, 1990
Paul Otto Gustov Klaebe farm, Peterborough, 1987
Paul Otto Gustov Klaebe farm, Peterborough, 1987
Paul Otto Gustov Klaebe farm, Malycha Road Peterborough, 1987
Ruins of Paul Otto Gustov Klaebe’s farm on Malycha Rd Peterborough (-32.989097, 138.865806), 1985
Carting hay and building the stack on Bill Gibb’s farm near Petersburg, c. 1910s
Peterborough dairy farmer Bill Gibb’s milk float, c. 1940s
Gibb farm horse team pulling the plough, c. 1910s. Gibb’s family photograph.
Petersburg farmer Bill Gibb’s camel team, c. 1910. Gibb family photo.
Horse team on the Gibb farm of Petersburg, c. 1910s. Gibb family photo.
Seed cleaning machine on the Gibb farm at Petersburg, c. 1910s. Gibb family photo.
Horse powered harvester at work on the Gibb farm at Petersburg, c. 1910s. Gibb family photo.
Preparing to load bagged wheat onto the cart at the Gibb farm at Petersburg, c. 1910s. Gibb family photo.
Preparing to load bagged wheat onto the cart at the Gibb farm at Petersburg, c. 1910s. Gibb family photo.
Hay carting with horse team on the Gibb farm as Petersburg, c. 1910s. Gibb family photo.
Wheat carting with horse team on the Gibb farm as Petersburg, c. 1910s. Gibb family photo.
Petersburg farmer Bill Gibb’s horse team with header, c. 1910s. Gibb’s family photograph.
The Blunsden farm at Petersburg, 1880
Peterborough farmer Steve Blunsden, c. 1920s
Ruins of Dominic Blunsden’s farm out from Peterborough, 1985
The Blunsden farm adjacent to Peterborough, c. 1920s
The Blunsden farm at Petersburg, 1880
Peterborough resident Jack Walker outside of his old farmhouse, 1973
Peterborough resident Jack Walker outside of his old farmhouse, 1973
Petersburg farmer Tom Walker posing with his wife and children outside their home (Jack Walker on the horse), c. 1900.
Outbuildings ruins at the Pomery farmhouse just west of Peterborough, 1979
Ruins of Pomery’s farm on the outskirts of Peterborough near Nelia Well, 1990
Ruins of the Pomery farmhouse just west of Peterborough, 1979
Ruins of the Pomery farmhouse just west of Peterborough, 1979
Nelia Well, 1990. Nelia Well was 2-3 km to the west of Peterborough on the old Yongala Road. It was one of the early water supplies for the town.
Former government well, Beulah Well, 1979
Nelia Well, 1990. Nelia Well was 2-3 km to the west of Peterborough on the old Yongala Road. It was one of the early water supplies for the town. Looking east with Peterborough in the distance
Peter Malycha’s farm off Terowie Road 1974. The dead tree in the left foreground is the location of the first brock kiln in Petersburg. It was eventually filled in by flooding and silt.
Old farm at Terowie, 1973
House at Jenkin’s Farm Terowie, 1974.
Windmill and tank in the Terowie area, 1990
Government well and tank, ‘Bermuda’, Gumbowie Road Peterborough, 1990
Horse teams carting wheat in the Gumbowie area, c. 1910s
Cramm’s farm at Yongala, 1973. Mark Noble on the veranda.
Yongala Station homestead, 1974
Old Yongala Homestead, 1974
Cuzak farm shed on Yongala Blocks, West Terrace Peterborough, 1987. Up from Gibb’s farm.
Cramm’s Farm at Yongala, built 1875. Mark Noble on the veranda.
Old Yongala Homestead, 1974
Cramm’s farm at Yongala, 1973
Blanche Cummings’ (nee Retallack) farm at Erskine, 1989
Blanche Cummings’ (nee Retallack) farm at Erskine, 1989
Blanche Cummings’ (nee Retallack) farm at Erskine, 1989
Fred Lloyd, Mrs Blanche Cummings, Mrs M Davies, at Fred’s farm, Erskine, 1975
Esrkine farmer Fred Lloyd (aged 92) with a Perkin’s sack truck, 1975
Esrkine farmer Fred Lloyd (aged 92) with a shoulder yoke, 1975
Esrkine farmer Fred Lloyd (aged 92) with a Perkin’s sack truck, 1975
Grain elevator on Fred Lloyd’s farm, Erskine 1975
Blanche Cummings’ (nee Retallack) farm at Erskine, 1989
Erskine farmer Fred Lloyd with his handmade fork, Erskine 1975
Pug and pine farmhouse built by Fred Lloyd’s father at Erskine. Cockey chaff was used to hold the pug together. 1975
Pug and pine walls on the original farm house of Fred Lloyd at Erskine, 1975
Ruins of a farm building at Fred Lloyd’s farm at Erskine, 1975
Erskine farmer Fred Lloyd with an old forge, 1975
Old water tank on Fred Lloyd’s farm at Erskine, 1975
Erskine farmer Fred Lloyd’s cart. The cart was over 100 years old at the time of the photo in 1975.
Chapman’s Farm at Dawson, 1914
Chapman’s farm at Dawson, 1914
Jack Chapman, Ron Chapman, and Colin Webb, Della Chapman, Syd Chapman, Wilbur Chapman and Eric Chapman at the Dawson farm, 1931. Chapman family photo.
Thyer’s and Chapman’s children at the farm at Cavenagh, 1930
Chapman’s Farm at Cavenagh ‘Parkville’, c. 1980s
Chapman’s farm horse team at Dawson, c. 1920s. Chapman family photo.
First house of E Cleary, Pineview, Dawson Road Petersburg. Built 1912.
Forming the dam at Ucolta using horse teams, c. 1910s
Farming at Ucolta, c. 1910s
Ucolta farmer Stan Cummings working his horse drawn straw rake, c. 1920s
Woodcarters with horse teams at Ucolta, c. 1920s
Harvesting wheat at Ucolta, c. 1920s
Wood fired steam tractor used for clearing Ucolta dam, c. 1930s
Dust devil on a Peterborough farm, c. 1920s
Loading wheat at Ucolta, looking west toward Peterborough, c. 1010s. Rasmus’ store amongst trees.
Harvesting a wheat crop at Ucolta using a horse-drawn harvester, c. 1920s
Building the Ucolta reservoir using a horse team and plough, c. 1910s
Ucolta farm machinery manufacturer Robert Perkins’ name plate on a piece of equipment, 1975
Two horse teams ploughing, possibly in the Ucolta area, c. 1920s
The Nourse farm at Ucolta, on the eastern slope of Dowd’s Hill, c. 1970s
The Nourse farm at Ucolta, on the eastern slope of Dowd’s Hill, c. 1970s
Fred Nourse standing next to his old house at Ucolta, just over the top of Dowd’s hill and to the right (-32.955323, 138.908265), 1985
Former farm of Peterborough butcher Joseph Witty’s on Section 236 in the Hundred of Yongala, 1976. To the east of Peterborough near Dowd’s Hill.
Former farm of Peterborough butcher Joseph Witty’s on Section 236 in the Hundred of Yongala, 1976. To the east of Peterborough near Dowd’s Hill.
Former farm of Peterborough butcher Joseph Witty’s on Section 236 in the Hundred of Yongala, 1976. To the east of Peterborough near Dowd’s Hill.
Former farm of Peterborough butcher Joseph Witty’s on Section 236 in the Hundred of Yongala, 1976. To the east of Peterborough near Dowd’s Hill. Pug, pine and stone construction.
Former farm of Peterborough butcher Joseph Witty’s on Section 236 in the Hundred of Yongala, 1976. To the east of Peterborough near Dowd’s Hill.
Former farm of Peterborough butcher Joseph Witty’s on Section 236 in the Hundred of Yongala, 1976. To the east of Peterborough near Dowd’s Hill.
Former farm of Peterborough butcher Joseph Witty’s on Section 236 in the Hundred of Yongala, 1976. To the east of Peterborough near Dowd’s Hill.
Former farm of Peterborough butcher Joseph Witty’s on Section 236 in the Hundred of Yongala, 1976. To the east of Peterborough near Dowd’s Hill. Former barn and stables.
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