Tag: Bathurst

Posted on

The Life and Times of Tom – son of Third Fleet convict John Pye

© Keri Webb

There were just the four of us as we grew up, and the only relatives we knew of were our two grandmothers, one very reserved aunt and a wonderfully eccentric uncle. We had no cousins, no family stories, no gossip, nothing. I was somewhere in my 40’s before curiosity got the better of me … surely there were more? What about grandfathers? Who were they? Why was there no mention of them?

It was then I found myself on a fascinating journey of discovery.

Annie and Ada

Continue reading “The Life and Times of Tom – son of Third Fleet convict John Pye”

Posted on

Spring Hill Station

Written and sung by Jim Low.
Live at the Time Cafe with Ian Jenkins and Lyall Brown

Spring Hill is a small township between Bathurst and Orange, in country New South Wales. In the middle of 1988 I happened to drive through Springhill. I noticed the old railway station that was situated at the top end of the main street. The railway had reached the town by the late 1870s and in 1884 the station building had been completed. 

Fence being erected around Spring Hill Station in 1988 [photo: © Jim Low]
Continue reading “Spring Hill Station”