Old Station, Gads Hill, no.1: Field brothers’ highland base

In April 1842 a new settler named Frederick Wilbraham Ford, his future father-in-law Thomas King and four convict servants drove 75 cattle overland from Longford to King’s new property at Table Cape.1 This was an adventure. There were unbridged rivers to ford, including the smooth-stoned Mersey, along the Van Diemen’s Land Company (VDL Co) Track through … Read moreOld Station, Gads Hill, no.1: Field brothers’ highland base