Gumahah Station home movies

Home movie footage showing: Bert Penrose assisting a young Mike Gardiner ride the pony 'Twinkle' at Gumahah Station; children riding horses at the Cunnamulla Show; Mike Gardiner with his mother’s, Margaret Gardiner’s, home grown rose; birthday party at Gumahah Station with cousins; Gumahah Station children playing e.g swinging; Guy Fawkes day (November) including footage of a scarecrow dressed as Guy Fawkes; flowering cactus, a once a year phenomena; garden and new homestead at Mooning Station, Eulo, owned by Ron and “Char” Helen Gardiner; bike race at Eulo Sports Day featuring Peter Gardiner; and children playing on the bore drain at Gumahah with the pony 'Twinkle'.

Home movie footage showing: Gold Coast holiday ca. 1950’s with the Gumahah and Mooning families, includes footage at Paradise Waters amusement park, at Gold Coast Main beach, with Topsy the famous counting pony at Tallebudgera (with Peter Gardiner), water skiing on the Nerang River, the holiday home (called Dameny-by-the-Sea, owned by the Speed family), Southport School rowing (river unknown), swimming in the Nerang River, time at the beach; Bowra Station, Cunnamulla, and the new swimming pool; Cunnamulla Rodeo, Jack Gardiner was the commentator/announcer; Lake Kungie duck shooting (Lake Kungie is a fresh water lake on the edge of Challendon Station); and views of the sunset over the shearing shed, Gumahah Station.

Home movie footage showing: Cunnamulla Show including footage of boys horse riding; flower garden at Gumahah Station; aerial views from a plane, possibly over North Queensland; Mike Gardiner ca. late 1950’s; Taronga Zoo, Sydney; scenic views of Bathurst; children playing on tricycles, swings and riding horses at Gumahah Station, Margaret Gardiner trying to get on the horse 'Bo Peep!'; views of Sydney harbour; Taronga zoo, Sydney; Peter Gardiner and his sister Rosemary Gardiner playing in the sand at the Gold Coast; Peter Gardiner off to boarding school, All Hallows, Bathurst, aged 7; Gold Coast scenery, sand dunes, sand crabs; Christmas Day, Gumahah Station, with the cousins, ca. late 1950s; a bushfire, place unknown; Gumahah Station slippery dip with Margaret Gardiner and her children; Gumahah Station mother duck and ducklings; Christmas ca. late 1950s; Ruth Gardiner crawling, children playing in a swimming tub; carting Wool at shearing time, Cunnamulla, in the winter; children playing in a swimming tub; Gold Coast holiday, possibly a  boating/fishing trip; sheep off to the sales; Gold coast holidays including footage of the ocean and children on a merry go round; Ruth in her birthday suit, ca. 1957; christening of Stephen Gardiner with his mother Helen Gardiner; and Gold Coast holidays with family at the beach.

Home movie footage showing: Gumahah Station drought, possibly 1960’s; Jack Gardiner pushing scrub down (mulga) with the front loader, for sheep and cattle food during the drought; Margaret Gardiner with a dead wedge tailed eagle and her children ca. late 1950s; Jack Gardiner with son Rick Gardiner pushing scrub down in the Caterpillar, for sheep and cattle food during the drought; feeding rams sheep nuts during the drought; and Jack Gardiner cutting scrub with an axe.

Home movie footage showing: the Cunnamulla Rodeo.

Home movie footage showing: rowing, at either Gold Coast or Sydney; dust storm approaching over the Gumahah Station’s shearer’s quarters; and Ruth Gardiner and her brother Rick Gardiner in the swimming pool built by their father Jack Gardiner with an unknown young girl ca. mid 1960s.

Home movie footage showing: Jack Gardiner and Arthur building the swimming pool in the backyard at Gumahah Station.  Includes footage of Jack Gardiner driving the Ferguson tractor.

Home movie footage showing: Gardiner cousins playing at Gumahah Station, ca. late 1950s; and Esmeralda cattle Station, North Queensland.

Home movie footage showing: polocrosse (possibly at Cunnamulla); and car races, Bathurst, Mt Panorama, ca. 1960’s.

Home movie footage showing: Paroo Pony Club (Cunnamulla), ca. mid 1960’s; Brian Parkinson landing on the Gumahah Station airstrip, with Barb Parkinson (nee Crick), the governess; and opening of the new Catholic Church at Eulo.

Home movie footage showing: children riding the “bucking drum” in the cattle yards, Gumahah Station, ca. early 1960’s; baby Richard Gardiner, born 1960; the Paroo Pony Club; and All Hallows School, Bathurst.

Home movie footage showing: rowing as part of the GPS Head of the River Regatta on the Nepean River, Sydney, 1969, Peter Gardiner was rowing for his school, Saint Ignatius’ College Riverview; and wool bales leaving Gumahah Station for Brisbane.

Home movie footage showing: Ruth Gardiner’s confirmation day, possibly at Eulo, age. ca. 7-8; dam built by Jack Gardiner, Bore Paddock, Gumahah, overflowing after a lot of rain, featuring Harry Crouch the overseer being a dare devil; and the Cunnamulla Show with Barb Parkinson on 'Whistler' the horse.

Home movie footage showing: dingo and traps – a bounty was paid for each scalp; parade down the streets of Cunnamulla; birthday cakes for the Gardiner children Peter, Michael and Ruth, late 1950’s, possibly made by Beena (an employee); and the Gardiner children Peter, Rosemary, Michael and Ruth in the flower garden at Gumahah Station, late 1950’s.

Home movie footage showing: Paroo Pony Club - Barb Parkinson (governess), Michael Gardiner on the horse 'Michelangelo', Ruth on the horse 'Piccolo' and Rosemary on the horse 'Pablito', ca. 1960’s; Cobb & Co. re-enactment, coming from the Charleville Rd, and met by Paroo Pony Club members; dust on the verandahs at Gumahah Station following a dust storm; Jack Gardiner leading Rick on the horse 'Bo-Peep' with Mike on the horse 'Michelangelo'; and a dust storm at Gumahah Station.

Home movie footage showing: learning to swim at the Gold Coast (Brough’s swimming school); Rosemary and Ruth on the horse 'Twinkle', later with baby Rick - also seen climbing the pile of sheep manure (used for fertilizing the vegetable and flower gardens); and Ruth Gardiner and brother Richard (Rick) on the tricycle ca. 1962.

Home movie footage showing: Cunnamulla Show, visited by Sir Henry Abel Smith (Governor of Queensland) and his wife Lady May Abel Smith ca. 1960.

Home movie footage showing: Esmeralda Cattle Station (a gulf property near Croydon); polocrosse, possibly Cunnamulla; and car races, Bathurst, Mt Panorama, 1960’s.

Home movie footage showing: All Hallows School, Bathurst, Peter Gardiner at boarding school, boys playing cricket at school; Ruth Gardiner in her cowboy outfit, early 1960s; 'Dandy' the horse (rider unknown), 'Pablito' the horse with Rosemary Gardiner, Ruth Gardiner and Barb Parkinson (governess); baby Rick, born June 1960; Cunnamulla Show with Barb Parkinson, Peter on 'Pablito' the horse, and Uncle Ed (Ed Sherwin).

Home movie footage showing: water skiing at the Gold Coast, Nerang River, and Main Beach scenes, Surfers Paradise; parrots in the cedar trees at Gumahah Station (possibly the Buln Buln bird, also called the Port Lincoln ringneck); Rosemary Gardiner and cousin Alison Gardiner arriving home for the start of their school holidays from boarding school in Sydney.  The pilot, unknown, would have collected them from the Bourke airport and flown them to the Gumahah airstrip in his light aircraft); and views of Lake Kungie, seen from the Challendon Station side.

Home movie footage showing: car races, Bathurst, Mt. Panorama; and the Blue Mountains, Three Sisters.

Home movie footage showing: aerial shots of station buildings, Queensland, unknown location; dam building, unknown location; and a dust storm, Gumahah Station.