Photograph - Cyril Jerrard, Blackdown Station cave
Production date
1920-1940
Country
Australia
State/Province
Queensland
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A sepia-toned photograph depicting Cyril Jerrard, wearing an Akubra-style felt hat, light coloured open neck shirt and dark trousers, crouched under a rock overhang/cave, surrounded by various wooden objects, boxes, a lantern, two rifles and various timber poles and two long sticks with y-shaped ends with a pole suspended between the two. A stretcher style bed with blanket covering, criss-crossed timber supports at either end, is pictured at right.
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1920-1940
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This photograph is part of a larger collection of material relating to the life and work of Cyril Jerrard as an amateur ornithologist and conservationist.
Born at the residence of the local doctor, Doctor Samuel Pointon, at Taroom, Queensland, on 20 January 1889, Cyril Jerrard was the eldest son of Joseph and Lucy Jerrard of (what was then) Rochedale Station, between Miles and Taroom.
After moving his family to Toowoomba in 1897, Joseph Jerrard eventually purchased a grazing selection, ‘Blackdown’, about 50 kilometres from Gayndah in 1914. Joseph died just four years later, leaving ‘Blackdown’ to his wife, Lucy. His three eldest sons, having already won land ballots in the area, continued to help their mother in the running of ‘Blackdown’.
In 1921, in his early thirties, Cyril Jerrard selected Portion 13 of the Parish of Waringa about twenty miles from ‘Blackdown’. Situated on Kingar Creek, Cyril eventually named the property ‘Kingar Springs’ and initially established living quarters for himself in a cave where he lived for ten years when not working on the family property. In 1931, he built a one-room house about a mile from the cave, adding a dirt-floored bush kitchen a few months later and a bedroom and verandah in 1940.
Born at the residence of the local doctor, Doctor Samuel Pointon, at Taroom, Queensland, on 20 January 1889, Cyril Jerrard was the eldest son of Joseph and Lucy Jerrard of (what was then) Rochedale Station, between Miles and Taroom.
After moving his family to Toowoomba in 1897, Joseph Jerrard eventually purchased a grazing selection, ‘Blackdown’, about 50 kilometres from Gayndah in 1914. Joseph died just four years later, leaving ‘Blackdown’ to his wife, Lucy. His three eldest sons, having already won land ballots in the area, continued to help their mother in the running of ‘Blackdown’.
In 1921, in his early thirties, Cyril Jerrard selected Portion 13 of the Parish of Waringa about twenty miles from ‘Blackdown’. Situated on Kingar Creek, Cyril eventually named the property ‘Kingar Springs’ and initially established living quarters for himself in a cave where he lived for ten years when not working on the family property. In 1931, he built a one-room house about a mile from the cave, adding a dirt-floored bush kitchen a few months later and a bedroom and verandah in 1940.
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