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Upper Darling: Images from interview with Phillip Parnaby
Images were sourced by the Talking Fish project team from Phillip Parnaby on the day of his oral history interview.
Position: 31 (162 views)
Paroo: Images from interview with Gordon Warner
Historical images of the Warner family. Gordon Warner has spent most of his life in the Eulo district, and thirty years on a cattle property at Wandilla on the eastern side of the Paroo River. The district is sheep and cattle country; the Paroo used…
Position: 33 (158 views)
Paroo: Images from interview with Beryl and Colin Leigo
A selection of historical images from the family archive of Colin and Beryl Leigo, from 1926-1985. They show the Paroo River and Willara during flood periods 1926, 1932, 1942, and 1949; flooded shearing sheds; getting food supplies; boating sheep…
Position: 106 (93 views)
Paroo: Images from interview with Ron Heinemann and Ron Gardiner
Historical images of the Heinemann family. Ron Heinemann was born in 1922, and grew up on a sheep property in Springvale, west of Eulo, on the Paroo River. Ron’s parents moved to the area in the 1920s.
Images were sourced by the Talking Fish…
Images were sourced by the Talking Fish…
Position: 78 (106 views)
Namoi: Images from interview with Don 'Spider' Cunningham
Images provided by Don Cunningham during his oral history interview.
Position: 67 (112 views)
Namoi: Images from interview with Helen Cain
Photos provided by Helen Cain and the Narrabri & Districts Historical Society archives illustrate the river conditions and aquatic life within the region spanning a period of over 40 years.
Position: 113 (91 views)
Katarapko: Images from interview with Barry Porter
Barry Porter lives in Berri, in the Riverland area. Having worked on a pile driving barge, and working most of his life on the river, Barry has extensive knowledge of locks and weirs from the Murray mouth to Euston (Lock 15). He currently monitors…
Position: 70 (111 views)
Katarapko: Images from interview with Eric (John) Aston
![Fish catch, Murray River, [no date]](https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/square_thumbnails/fabdd9b8583a9dd769a051e5c46e4776.jpg "Fish catch, Murray River, [no date]")
Historical images of the Aston family, three generations of professional fishermen in the Renmark region. John held a commercial licence between 1956 and 1997. His grandfather was also a boat maker.
Images provided by John Aston during his oral…
Images provided by John Aston during his oral…
Position: 37 (150 views)
Goulburn: Images from interview with Ken Gilmore
![Men with Murray Cod, Melbourne railway workers used to regularly come to the Hughendon property for week long spells of camping and fishing, [no date]<br />](https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/square_thumbnails/91ea21ec2b9ad76d5b3d24af998c0ef2.jpg "Men with Murray Cod, Melbourne railway workers used to regularly come to the Hughendon property for week long spells of camping and fishing, [no date]<br />")
Born in 1922, Ken’s family have lived on the ‘Hughendon’ property at Thornton since the 1860s. The Goulburn River runs on one side of the property and the Rubicon River runs through the middle.
Photographs provided by Ken Gilmore at the time…
Photographs provided by Ken Gilmore at the time…
Position: 126 (83 views)
Coorong and Lower Lakes: Images from interview with Sally Grundy and Dean Tugwell
![Coorong and Lower Lakes, [remains of historic fishing boat], 2011](https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/square_thumbnails/ce6f98f57ff8e3e3c8bf8d6fa1cbb415.jpg "Coorong and Lower Lakes, [remains of historic fishing boat], 2011")
Images of fishing for Mulloway circa 1930, and the remains of historic fishing equipment in the Coorong and Lower Lakes region.
Images were sourced by the Talking Fish project team from Sally Grundy and Dean Tugwell on the day of their oral…
Images were sourced by the Talking Fish project team from Sally Grundy and Dean Tugwell on the day of their oral…
Position: 164 (72 views)