Back to Barrier

ABOUT B2Barrier Back to Barrier was put together with Facebook by retired Broken Hill policeman Ray Gardoll in an effort to contact as many former serving members as possible, to rediscover and validate their service details for inclusion in the Paver Project. With the popularity of FB that seemed the best method to contact all and obtain the data. What is the Paver Project? ……….. With a new police station in the works it was proposed and supported that names and time of service could be recorded on pavers surrounding the new station complex. The idea took hold and the re-connection process with interested former police and public service staff who have worked in the region at one or more of the seven Police stations within the Barrier Police Region, was born. The fallout from the original concept has been the keen interest in the FB page and sharing of interesting anecdotal stories by those who served or interested family and connections. So we need a bit more here Ray ……? Yes/no. Currently under development

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Back to Barrier 2022Saturday 1st October

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Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

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Balranald

Balranald Stories 12.11.2021 Balranald Police Station was established by 7 March, 1852 when a Chief Constable was appointed (1) Initially, the Police District of Balranald was larger in size than the colony of Victoria, and was in the charge of "...a twenty-stone individual who could, with difficulty, ride twelve or fifteen miles a day." (2) On 14 October 1863 the station was proclaimed as one in which the Police Act, 1838 (2 Victoria Act No. 2) as amended was applicable. (3) The Act aimed at preventing certain nuisance behaviours and promoting good order and safety by declaring as offences obstructions in public places, enforcing building standards and aligning the streets. The boundaries of the town were established on 12 February 1870. (4) End Notes: This series consists of Record of occurrences from the Balranald Police Station. Record of occurrences are police station diaries providing a detailed record of all occurrences in the area coming to the attention of the police. Information recorded includes: date, time and location of occurrences police were required to attend; report of the occurrence; names of the police in charge; and action taken. The Record of occurrences also includes reports of those who attended the station for purposes such as providing information relating to crimes committed, suspicious behaviour, lost property, incidents involving police and other information regarding occurrences in the community. The Record of occurrences also provides details of handovers at the end of shifts, police officers on leave, reports of regular inspections of station property and other information relating to the operation of the police station. The entries are chronological and usually have an annual single numbering system. In 1994 this series was superseded by COPS (Computerised Operational Policing System).

Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

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Broken Hill

Broken Hill Stories 12.11.2021 1889 also South Broken Hill station established; 1892 Railway Town station established and 1893 North Broken Hill established; 1908 West Broken Hill established; 1951 Railway Town station closed. As these neighbouring stations closed it appears that the business was absorbed by Broken Hill Police Station. The Police Gaol at Broken Hill, known as Silverton Gaol, was established in 1888 and first prisoner entered on 11 January, 1888. During the calendar year 1888 a total of 121 prisoners entered and 113 were discharged. (1) The proclamation from 12 May 1891 declared that the building called and known as the Watch-house or Lock-up at Broken Hill should be notified as a public gaol, prison and house of correction and the new gaol was established. Interesting snippet - Australia’s gold reserve was stored in Broken Hill Gaol during the 2nd world war -

Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

Real Stories

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Buronga

Buronga Stories 12.11.2021 Here we hope to post some memories and/or collective stories from those people who served in the Buronga area - likewise they may come from relatives, etc. Back to Barrier was put together within Facebook by retired Broken Hill policeman Ray Gardoll ……

Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

Real Stories

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Email : PaulRHorton@ozemail.com.au

Dareton

Dareton Stories 12.11.2021 Back to Barrier was put together within Facebook by retired Broken Hill policeman Ray Gardoll in an effort to to post some memories and/or collective stories from those people who served in the Dareton area - likewise they may come from relatives, etc. Back to Barrier was put together within Facebook by retired Broken Hill policeman Ray Gardoll ……

Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

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Euston Stories 12.11.2021 * The township grew on the site of the Boomiarcool station, established by seventeen-year-old Edmund Morey in 1846 at what was then the western limit of European settlement. * In 1847 John and Mary Grant took up a grant of 20 square miles (5,180 ha) on the Murray. They were able to provide the early paddle steamers with fresh vegetables. The area eventually became the town of Euston. * In 1853 William Randell in the paddle steamer Mary Ann and Captain Francis Cadell in the Lady Augusta reached Euston having travelled from the mouth of the Murray River. * By the 1860s the land was devoted to wool production and the town developed as a river port with a wharf, ferry, courthouse, police station, hotel, a boiling-down works, wool-scouring plant and Eucalyptus factory. * By 1865 Euston had a police station, a courthouse and a whipping post outside the Courthouse. * In 1883 the current Courthouse was built. * Euston was proclaimed a town in 1885. * In 1924 the railway reached Robinvale. * In 1928 a road traffic bridge across the Murray joining Robinvale in Victoria to Euston helped sustain the town.

Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

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Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe Stories 12.11.2021 Ivanhoe Small quiet service centre in Outback New South Wales Ivanhoe is a quiet, unassuming town characterised by a particularly wide main street. Located 826 km west of Sydney via the Great and Mid Western Highways and 90 metres above sea-level it has some 500 residents. The town was originally situated on a well-used route across flat, western New South Wales between Wilcannia and both Balranald and Booligal. George Williamson purchased the first land in the area between 1869 and 1873 and became a central figure in the town's development. He established a branch store with a liquor license in 1870. At that stage the store and a bark hut constituted the town. The Ivanhoe Hotel came into existence by 1872 and a Post Office opened on January 1, 1874.

Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

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Menindee

Menindee Stories 12.11.2021 Menindee. The first Police Station opened in the new town in 1862. Town only established in 1861. This old timber framed building is still the current Police Station. Menindee Lakes. The town is surrounded by around 20 lakes which traditionally only filled with water from the Darling River in good seasons. A water storage system was begun in 1949 and completed in 1960. The storage capacity is three and a half times the capacity of Sydney harbour. Lake Menindee is the largest lake and is 16 kms by 14 kms. A system of weirs maintains water holding capacity and channels divert some water for local irrigation of vines and crops and some is piped to Broken Hill. Seven of the twenty lakes of the region are now controlled by the wirs. Because some lakes are almost permanently flooded many trees on their former edges have now died. The lakes region is a major world water bird breeding area. Irrigation is mainly used for early season table grapes, rock melons, apricots, oranges and tomatoes.

Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

Real Stories

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Robinvale

Robinvale Stories 13.11.2021 VHere we hope to post some memories and/or collective stories from those people who served in the Tibooburra area - likewise they may come from relatives, etc. Back to Barrier was put together within Facebook by retired Broken Hill policeman Ray Gardoll ……

Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

Real Stories

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Tibooburra

Tibooburra Stories 12.11.2021 * By the end of 1881 the government surveyed the townsite and built a post office. * Later in the 1880s a survey team passed through the area trying to map the exact border between New South Wales and Queensland. * After the survey team small numbers of pastoralists, aware that the rainfall was only about 200 mm a year, established large pastoral holdings with very small numbers of animals. * The next decade saw a school (1885), courthouse (1888) and hospital (1890) built in the town. * By 1902 Tibooburra was known as "The Poor Man's Fields" and was yielding very little gold. Most of the miners had departed. * In the 1930s the government moved the local Aboriginal population to Brewarrina.

Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

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Wentworth Stories 12.11.2021 21. Old Wentworth Gaol The National Trust-classified Wentworth Gaol was designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet (famous for Sydney's GPO and Customs House) and built with one million bricks brought from Malmsbury in Victoria and slate brought from Wales as ship's ballast. It is reputedly the first Australian-designed gaol. The result is considered the best example of a small Victorian-era gaol in New South Wales. It was built from 1879-1881 and was subsequently copied by the gaols built at Hay and Dubbo. It was a small prison for serious offenders with 10 male and 2 female cells, massive 45-cm thick walls, lookout towers, a stretching rack, a whipping stool, stocks, and shackles set into a boulder in the unshaded centre of the courtyard. The gaol closed in 1929. The gaol, located in Beverley Street, is open Monday to Wednesday 10.00 am - 4.00 pm and Saturday and Sunday 10.00 am - 2.00 pm. It is closed on Thursdays and Fridays. tel: (03) 5027 3337.

Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

Real Stories

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Wilcannia

Wilcannia Stories 12.11.2021 Court House (1880) Located next door to the Police Station in Reid Street is the impressive courthouse built of locally quarried sandstone and designed by Colonial Architect, James Barnet. On 25 April, 1885 the courthouse was the scene of a very unlikely legal argument over the issue of cruelty to animals. It wasn't the case but the people involved which make the scene so memorable. One of the police magistrates was Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, the son of Charles Dickens, and one of the prosecution witnesses was Frederick James Anthony Trollope, the son of the novelist Anthony Trollope. An unusual meeting of the sons of two of the great literary figures of the day. Police Station (1881) The Wilcannia Police Station in Reid Street is a two storey building designed in the classical manner, the building has a heavy appearance with a two storey colonnaded veranda which looks like it could be an addition. Constructed in locally quarried sandstone with rendered brick columns, it was designed for use as a jail by James Barnet. Given Wilcannia's remote location, the large size of the gaol is probably a comment on the town's administrative importance for the district. This shows for each day the type of duty in which each policeman, and where relevant his horse, was engaged. The special occurrences column records such details as visits from senior police officers; transfers of staff; stores received; reports of crimes committed; warrants and summonses issued. Sep 1873-Sep 1899 (9/6014-20), Apr 1907-Aug 1937 (9/6021-31). 19 vols. Note: This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000. This shows details of licences issued by police and recommendations regarding the issue of licences such as: publicans' licences, billiard and bagatelle licences, tobacco licences, fishing licences, pistol licences, and public halls and theatrical licences. There are also details of issue of arms and equipment to police, records of appointments, and services rendered to State and Commonwealth Departments. This record shows for each crime the name of the person reporting it, where reported, details of crime, action taken and in some cases notes of apprehension of the criminal or other reasons for which the case is closed. Action taken includes notification in the Police Gazette and to nearby stations, arrests made with details of suspects, bail granted and officers sent to search for criminals. Crimes reported at nearby stations were also copied into these volumes when details were forwarded.

Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

Real Stories

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Email : PaulRHorton@ozemail.com.au

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Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

Real Stories

© Paul R Horton ADipJA 2021 Ver 1.03 16112021

Email : PaulRHorton@ozemail.com.au

Topar Pub east of Broken Hill

Little Topar Pub GWHwy

Real Stories 12.11.2021 Back to Barrier was put together within Facebook by retired Broken Hill policeman Ray Gardoll in an effort to contact as many former serving members as possible so their service details could be obtained, verified and recorded for inclusion in the Paver Project in a less formal and much easier format. What is the Paver Project? ……….. With a new police station in the works it was proposed and supported that names and time of service could be recorded on pavers surrounding the new station complex. The idea took hold and the re-connection process with interested former police and public service staff who have worked in the region at one or more of the seven Police stations within the Barrier Police Region, was born. The fallout from the original concept has been the keen interest in the FB page and sharing of interesting anecdotal stories by those who served or interested family and connections.

Real Stories

Balranald
Broken Hill
Buronga
Dareton
Euston
Ivanhoe
Menindee
Robinvale
Tibooburra
Wentworth
Wilcannia

Real Stories