The Early Years

        These are all of the oldest photos Dad had. the first two probably the oldest of them all, but Dad has written on the backs of a few of the others.


(Dad, Gwen, Grandma, Ray, Grandad, Ralph, 1919)

Jack Ralph Ray Gwen
(l-r Ray, Jack, Ralph, Gwen in front 1919)

Ray & Gwen Edmonds

Jack & Ralph Edmonds

(Looks like Ray)
 
Scrub rolling Eyre Penin 1924
(This is possibly Gandad's own bullock team)

(The original Edmonds home at Pygery, c1918)

(This was the building supplied by the Govt on each
block settled, usually serving as the first home)


Some of the scrub that was on our farm. JHE.

(Sheds and stables were mainly mallee posts
with brush roofs. The termites loved them)

(No idea what this one is, could be Grandad)

(Everything was horse power driven in the beginning)

E. H. Edmonds "Gayway"
(Grandad won quite a few meets on "Gayway".
As a young bloke he was known as "Skeeter",
with quite a reputation as a jockey)