OBE Organic x David Brook

We are slowly removing windmills from service and replacing them with solar pumps.

Rhonda Heslin was the cook at Adria Downs Station for over ten years. Nell and I were always warmly welcomed by Rhonda in her kitchen. She’s retired now. We’ll miss…

This bronco panel was used up until about the 1950s at Neliaka Yards. Neliaka Yards were part of Glengyle until the early 1980s. In the background you can see old…

Alton Downs Station is situated approximately 50 kilometres south west of Birdsville and 250 kilometres north west of Innamincka. My Uncle Jack Gaffney lived in these buildings in the early…

I found this old photo in one of Mum’s albums. The caption reads, ‘Just ready to start from Marree to Birdsville. Jack & Mother in car and myself holding Mrs…

I’ve inherited various photo albums from my parents, Dorothy & Bill Brook. The images contained within these albums provide an incredible look back at Birdsville’s history in the early 1900s.…

I captured this image of Don Rayment showing Jimmy Crombie his cow hide ropes. I think that they were comparing notes. This one is a three-strand rope with a keeper…

This article appeared in the Adelaide Stock and Station Journal on the 5th June, 1957. It tells an incredible story of Len Evans who drilled Coochie Bore on Adria Downs…

‘At the going down of the sun, we will remember them’

We put in a double ramp at the house yards on Adria Downs to ensure livestock can be loaded and unloaded off trucks as easily as possible without the need…