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Today I uploaded a piece by my grandmother, about what food was like in the 1920s in the Pilbara.
Later we moved to a station on the edge of the "open country" as the unfenced land was known, and here Mother's problems became legion. We were the last station on the mail run, and how we came to welcome Bob Brooker and his old, battered, hoodless car, bringing us the mails, the butter done up in a billycan sewn in hessian and dipped in water occasionally, and all the gossip of the district. Our stores came by wagon twice a year, a wildly exciting event. Once it was the legendary Treacle Dick with his camel team, but the rest of the time it was in a wagon drawn by donkeys, with the spare animals and the foals trailing after.
She also mentions a few of the ships that were plying the coastal route at that time, including the SS Mindaroo. So I went looking, and uploaded a couple of photos of it to Commons:
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