Bob Duncombe’s (Middlesex) Hut

About 20 years ago my husband and I was speaking to a gentleman named Bob about Middlesex Plains and the shacks and mines in the area. He mentioned that he had spent some time up there as a seventeen-year-old in 1965. He would stay at the hut known by locals as the Ponderosa, which he … Read moreBob Duncombe’s (Middlesex) Hut

Recollections of bush life: Reg Bramich

In the 1990s I was fortunate to spend a couple of days with Sheffield’s Reg Bramich at some of his old highland haunts. Reg, who grew up at Narrawa near Wilmot, lived a way of life that is long gone. He helped form and metal part of the Cradle Mountain Road, trapped rabbits and snared … Read moreRecollections of bush life: Reg Bramich