..CAPNO
Watts.C2.BW
..DEPOSITR Watts,
Cecil Thomas
..CAPTION LIST covers N5289-N5291
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.15
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Les
Cronin
..DSCRPTN (tank
sinker), hair cut
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.16
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT
Sulieman (Nimbiarree)
..DSCRPTN with buffalo, shot no.12 bore
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.17
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Cecil
Thomas on buffalo, Sulieman on horse,
Tiger, Bill Page (Bore Mechanic)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.18
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Sturt
Creek Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN
homestead buildings, from old yard
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.19
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Hall's
Creek, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Charlie
Harris, Mrs Harris, Charles Jnr, Dinah
..DSCRPTN
preparing to leave
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.20
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Hall's
Creek, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT L-R
(Back) Dick Day, Tom Swan, Mrs Purkiss, Fred
Morke
(Manager Sturt Creek Station), Rob Moody (Publican
Kimberley Hotel) (Front) Len Hill, Harold
Caphorne, Les
Cronin,
Police Sgt. Jack Purkiss
..DSCRPTN group
in front of Police Station
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.21
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Hall's
Creek, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT L-R Les
Cronin, Rob Moody (Publican Kimberley
Hotel),
Fred Morke (Manager Sturt Creek Station), Mrs
Purkiss, Len Hill, Sgt. Jack Purkiss, Dick Day
..DSCRPTN
Breezeway Police Station
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.22
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Hall's
Creek, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT L-R Rob
Moody (Publican Kimberley Hotel), Fred
Morke
(Manager Sturt Creek Station), Mrs Purkiss, Len Hill
..DSCRPTN
Breezeway Police Station
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.23
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Joe
Walker
..DSCRPTN Manager
of Ord River Station
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.24
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT L-R
Maurice Petroff, Jim Neighbour, ?, Les
Banks,
Bill Matthews
..DSCRPTN dice
game
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.25
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Bill
Speed (Overseer Birrandudu Station, Frank
Comtessie
..DSCRPTN in the
jockey's "room"
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.26
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Dawn
Johnstone (now Mrs Watts), Bill Crowson
(Manager Rosewood Station), Milton Willick
(Manager Wave
Hill
Station)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.27
..DATE 1950
..PLACE resting
at No.3 Bore, Flora Valley, Kimberley
area, WA
..SUBJECT L-R
Gordon Buchanan (grandson of pioneer Nat
Buchanan), Tom Swan, Mrs Buchanan, Bill Grant (Yard Build-
er),
son Danny, Len Hill, Bill Speed (back to camera)
..DSCRPTN on the
way back from the Negri races
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.28
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN
spectators at the buckjumping
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.29
..DATE 1950
..PLACE
Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Fred
Morke (Manager Sturt Creek Station), Geo
Kinivan
(old time teamster, stockman etc)
..DSCRPTN holding
Edmund Vestey Cup, won by a Sturt Creek
horse, ridden by Geo Kinivan
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.30
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Frank
and Sulieman
..DSCRPTN sorting
stockcamp gear
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.31
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN
stockmen loading the stockcamp wagonette
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.32
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN
mustering plant horses watering in Button Hole
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER N5289.33
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT
Sulieman
..DSCRPTN roping
foal, No 3 yard
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.34
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Mick
(Rella), Charlie Harris (Manager)
..DSCRPTN
branding foal, No 3 yard
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.35
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN L-R
homestead, kitchen, office and store
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5289.36
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN L-R
office, store, workshops, mens quarters
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.03
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN L-R
office, store, workshops, mens quarters
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.04
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Dick
..DSCRPTN
broncoing, Sweetwater Yards
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.05
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Cecil
Watts
..DSCRPTN outside
old kitchen
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.06
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Flowing
Bore a main camp on Gordon Downs Sta-
tion,
Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT
Lightning
..DSCRPTN the
cook's offsider and husband in foreground
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.07
..DATE August
1950
..PLACE Hall's
Creek races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN
blackboy's flag race
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.08
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN camp at
no 13 bore
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.09
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN camp at
no 13 bore
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.10
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT charlie
..DSCRPTN riding
newly broken mule
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.11
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Johnnie
..DSCRPTN riding
newly broken mule
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.12
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Hall's
Creek, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN
grandstand burning down
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.13
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Hall's
Creek, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN grandstand
- after the fire
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.14
..DATE 1950
..PLACE Hall's
Creek, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Back:
Maurice Petroff, Ken Beckett (AIM Padre),
Tom Swan,
Tom Quilty, Constable Cliff Sherry, Bob Savage,
Sam
Lilley, Ben Taylor, Fred Morke. Front: Ken Cameron,
"Mandrake"
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.15
..DATE 5th
January 1951
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Jackie
..DSCRPTN taking
plant acroos the Sturt Creek, returning
from
Hall's Creek
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.16
..DATE 1950
..PLACE
Kimberley Hotel, WA
..SUBJECT Back:
Jack Quinlan, Fred Elliot, "Ringer" Gib-
son,
Len Hill. Front: Peter Waugh, Stewart Orr, Kevin At-
kins,
Tom Swan, Basil Quilty, Jack Woodland
..DSCRPTN group
on verandah
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.17
..DATE 1950
..PLACE
Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Gordon
Donavan, Dick Day, Tom Swan, Len Hill,
(bending), Bill Mathews, Billy Harney (son of Bill Harney)
..DSCRPTN note
beef shoulder in beef bucket on the fire
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.18
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Hall's
Creek races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN
spectators lining the rails
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.19
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT
bookkeeper Bradley Hubbard supervising
..DSCRPTN raising
aerial pole for F.D.S. radio
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.20
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN
birrandudu stockmen packing up
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.21
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN 1200
bullocks being fed on to the night camp,
near
no. 19 bore, birrandudu
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.22
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Cecil
Watts
..DSCRPTN having
a spell in the camp at Sweetwater
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.23
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN start
of blackboys race, Robert riding the even-
tural
winner, Naughty Girl, leads
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.24
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN
saddling paddock
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.25
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN
buckjumping event
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.26
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Jack
Gallagher (Calico)
..DSCRPTN riding
in buckjumping event
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.27
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN two up
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER N5290.28
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN typical
large bough shed erected in the Wave
Hill/Gordon Donws camp. Used as dining space or for re-
creation. Put up by advance party before the bulk of the
station
people arrived.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.29
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN bough
shed, long waterbags held the beer bottles
for
cooling as there were no refridgerators
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.30
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN Wave
Hill truck loaded for return to the station
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.31
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN trucks
loading up for return to the station
after
the races
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.32
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN trucks
returning to the station after the races,
pulled
up for a spell en route, trucks from Gordon Downs,
Flora
Valley, Turner and Sturt Creek
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.33
..DATE 1951
..PLACE at No.
3 bore (the crossroads), returning from
Negri
races, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT
standing L-R: Les Cronin, Gordon Donovan, Harold
Caphorn, Ces Watts, Len Hill, Fred Morke. Front: Geo.
Kinivan, Roy Green
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.34
..DATE 1951
..PLACE on the
road from Hall's Creek to Flora Valley,
Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT from
top: Peter Waugh, Tom Swan, Bill Kelly, ?,
?,
Percy Fletcher, Len Hill, Jack Boorman
..DSCRPTN trouble
on the road
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.35
..DATE 1951
..PLACE
Sweetwater yard, Gordon Downs Station, Kimberley
area,
WA
..SUBJECT Dick
..DSCRPTN
broncoing
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5290.36
..DATE 1951
..PLACE
returning from Negri races, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN truck
taking staff back to Turner Station
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.06
..DATE 1951
..PLACE
Sweetwater yard, Gordon Downs Station, Kimberley
area,
WA
..DSCRPTN
branding
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.07
..DATE 1951
..PLACE Home on the range, Button Hole, Gordon Downs
Station, Kimberley area, WA
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.08
..DATE 1952
..PLACE Bow
River Station, Hall's Creek, Kimberley area,
WA
..SUBJECT Mrs S
Lilley and children
..DSCRPTN home
made cattle crate on truck
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.09
..DATE 1953
..PLACE
Inverway Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN ready
for the start of the donkey race. The
gates
were thrown open and the donkeys went `bush'
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.10
..DATE 1953
..PLACE
Inverway Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Fred
Morke (Limbunya Station, Tomato (Gordon
Downs),
Geo. Kinivan, Bluey Tremlett (Inverway), Bill Ham-
ill
(Manager Inverway Station)
..DSCRPTN before
the start of the Blackboy's race. A bad
drought
in 1952/1953 had forced cancellation of the large
race
meetings at Negri and in Hall's Creek and the manage-
ment of
Inverway Station organised a two day race and
sports
meeting to fill in the gap.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.11
..DATE 1953
..PLACE
Inverway Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN start
of draught horse race
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER N5291.12
..DATE 1953
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Mick,
Frank, Johnnie, Harry and Sambo
..DSCRPTN
stockmen
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.13
..DATE 1953
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN
unloading station truck after accident
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.14
..DATE 1953
..PLACE Gordon
Downs Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT group
of station men with manager Stan Jones
..DSCRPTN
building stone wall around the homestead area
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.15
..DATE 1954
..PLACE Hall's
Creek, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN
unloading the weekly MMA DC3 from Perth
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.16
..DATE 1957
..PLACE Spring
Creek Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN yarding
cattle
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.17
..DATE 1957
..PLACE Spring
Creek Station, Kimberley area, WA
..DSCRPTN yarding
cattle
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER N5291.18
..DATE 1957
..PLACE Spring
Creek Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Dawn
Watts
..DSCRPTN
inspecting crocodile shot on Rosewood
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.19
..DATE 1957
..PLACE Spring
Creek Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Mick
and Cecil Watts
..DSCRPTN
breaking in
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.20
..DATE 1957
..PLACE Spring
Creek Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Mick
and Cecil Watts, and Don Cameron
..DSCRPTN
repairing homestead roof
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.21
..DATE 1957
..PLACE Spring
Creek Station, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Mick
and Cecil Watts, and Don Cameron
..DSCRPTN
repairing homestead roof
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
..NEWDOC
..NUMBER
N5291.22
..DATE 1956
..PLACE Oakes
Yard, Flora Valley, Kimberley area, WA
..SUBJECT Cecil
Watts
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++