May he rest in peace !

A friend of mine who came to Glenbede about 10 times and also brought his family with him some of the time. He died,and his daughter brought his ashes out to Glenbede ,and scattered under this tree. His name was Allan Bell,so she and I carved his name on the tree. Only she and I would know about this. He died when he was 54 from cancer. May he rest in peace !

Highway

Highway from Sydney to Darwin.

McKinlay air strip

McKinlay air strip QANTAS landed here every week in 1924.

Fancy dress dance

Going to a fancy dress dance. My father and mother 3rd. and 4th from left and the others are my mother's sisters with their boyfriends.

Glenbede house

The origional Glenbede house burnt down in 1980,along with a lot of photographs which my Japanese friend sent me a small album of photos on trip to and in Japan which I still have.

My mother and me

My mother and me at Townsville Hospital in background.

My mother

My mother the day she left to go on honeymoon 80 years ago

My father

My Dad with dog and his neighbour about 1924

Dirt road driving up to Glenbede

Dirt road driving up to Glenbede house, All roads around McKinlay look like this, except the main highways leading to Mt. Isa, Darwin, etc. I make these roads and maintain them with my Grader.

Bar Mckinlay Hotel

This was in Crocodile Dundee film-the 3 rd. film made in McKinlay, too

Racetrack McKinlay

Horses on Racetrack McKinlay.

Dinner for Christmas 2006

Fish I caught in front of my beach house, for Christmas 2006.

Guy caught a fish !!!

My brother Noel's grand-son Guy caught a fish.

My beach house

This is the photo of my beach house. My beach house is not the one circled, but up to left of the photo where the plainest path leads towards the sea, a small white house with a blue roof is beside my building.

Our old house in McKinlay

Our old house in McKinlay. Mary and Carmel went to state school here until 7th Grade.

Road trains

There would be 200 grown cattle on these trucks,and they travel 1000 klms. a day

The Church in Julia Creek

The church which Fr. Garvey had shifted, from Julia Creek to McKinlay, in 1961,and then he organised,the building of the present church in Julia Creek,which is a more modern building----it was a big project for him to organise. My dad and I helped to do a lot of jobs on the church after it arrived in McKinlay such as painting. He was there helping with this work as well,and he and Dad drank plenty of "stubbies" after the days work---He loved a drink.

My memory on our wood stove

This is the type of stove-wood stove that my mother ,then Dad and I used for cooking,up until 1960,after which we got a gas stove. Also my mother had one in the McKinlay house. I was the one that had to cut up the wood in short lengths for both stoves--a hard job which I hated.