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This is a particularly happy discovery for me as it shows my mother, Nancy Manders, with one of her younger brothers, probably William in front of my grandfather George Manders` living wagon. George along with brothers Albert, Joseph and sister Ellen traveled Manders Grand Star Menagerie from about 1912 to the early 1930s. Their parents Joseph and Ellen Manders had created the menagerie in the latter part of the 19th Century after the demise/sale of William Manders Grand National Star Menagerie. We have very few photographs from that time, so this is an amazing find.

Do you know that there is a Book , Called Manders Menagerie , with lots of photo’s in it , you can buy it on Ebay , or Amazon .

LuckyLady777 Yes... I do have it and it is a wonderful archive of the Manders family shows and menageries. The author was able to use excerpts from the short biography of my mother's childhood that I wrote for her in the section devoted to Manders Grand Star Menagerie.... so pleased about that :)

There’s some info on Power’s in Glenville in the comments on this photo:

There's another photo with the contraption going through Glenville's gates - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000593711 [Ed. Fixed!]
From that it is easier to see that the lorry is a "Sentinel" made in Shrewsbury, England - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_Waggon_Works Sharon Corbet

Here is the streetview of the other photo - presumably this is inside? goo.gl/maps/WqfFhqmaK2p

8 November 1923 was a Thursday ...

Very handy to be a steam-powered coal delivery truck if your own fuel supply runs low!

Seedtech are the current incarnation of Power's seeds in Waterford. Apparently there was also a tomato plantation there in the 1940's.

The timber getters were usually on contract and cutters sometimes worked in pairs but some worked alone. The bush men wielded axes and other tools of their trade like the cross cut saw, barking bar, maul and wedges and brush hook. The brush hook was an important tool that was used to clear a track so the bullocks had an open pathway as they could be injured by being staked on a sharp-cut sapling. A good bullock was a valuable resource and two good leading bullocks were essential for the smooth operation of the team. Almost as important were the two bullocks at the rear known as the “polers”. Mustering and yoking up to 24 bullocks could take up to two hours. Each bullock had a name and recognised it when spoken to. Once the power of bullock teams became available, logs were hauled along tracks for great distances to a waterway or, at times, to “chutes” down which allowed the logs to be launched over the escarpment to slide to the bottom where they were hauled by bullock teams or rafted to a mill or transport hub. Source: www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Council/News-Centre/Backward...