Blind Freddy Bushranger Tours

17/05/2025

this will be a hoot, come and join us

28/06/2024

I was out at Croote Cottage just now, setting up for lunch for today’s full day tour. 197 years old and pretty as a picture.

05/05/2023

Lovely shot of the throng of Fubbites gathered by Ben Hall’s “grave” at Forbes cemetery

05/05/2023

A bit of a triumph

05/05/2023

Another addition to my kooked out CV this evening when I take 77 Fubbites (residents of Forbes) on a ghost tour of their own cemetery. No doubt, I shall return to Gooloogong awash with ectoplasm and screams ringing in my ears

17/03/2023

Off to Koorawatha today to tell the tale of the Battle of Bang Bang. How do I pronounce nominative determinism again?

26/07/2022

On this show this evening helping unravel the scandals of Matt Moran's forebears. I'll post a link when there is one.

"Why am I so passionate about where our food comes from? Maybe it made me a better chef, just realising that so many of my ancestors were all bloody farmers!"

06/05/2022

Well, it’s not quite the main stage at Port Fairy Folk Festival (my last festival appearance with the splendid Vandemonian Lags ensemble) but today I will deliver two Mark-Twain-style public lectures on the colourful history of the local district from the Bush Telegraph stage at the Forbes Heritage Festival. 11am and 12.50pm today in the glorious Autumn sunlight of Victoria Park. Come all of you Lachlan men, women and kids.

09/04/2022

There’s a 2 hour walking tour of Canowindra tomorrow at 2pm. No need to book, just join us at the Blind Freddy Bushranger Tours office at 52 Gaskill Street (next door to the GPO), 2pm Sunday 22.04.2022. It’s an easy walk, less than a km, all on the flat, it’d be good to seeya. $40 for adults, $20 for kids.

04/04/2022

Interesting!

ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURE TROVE AT NEW JOINT-USE LIBRARY IN YOUNG ⚒

Over 20,000 artefacts have been found at the site of a library development in Young, shedding light on the region's colonial history.

Archaeologists are in the process of analysing the items found at library development at Young High School.

They've found significant items related to the Lambing Flat riots, as well as others from the region's Aboriginal and colonial history.

Principal archaeologist Dr Bec Parkes says the remains of buildings and items used by police in the 1860s may reveal more of the story of the Lambing Flat riots.

"So we have the story of the riots at a general scale, but we now might have the ability to fill in further detail about what was going on," she said.

Hilltops Council and the state government will be collaborating to erect a display of some of the items in the library, when its complete.

06/03/2022

This is one of my favourite things and now has been digitised properly by the State Library. It's more of a mind map than a topographical map as far as I can figure as it doesn't marry up with the noted locations too well. So glad I (and you) can properly read the annotations: "Good man, Bad woman"!

Scale [ca. 1:100 000] (E 149°09'04"/S 34°04'54"). 1 ms. map ; on sheet 24 x 40 cm.