CHAPTER 13 | 1900s – Federation
This is credited by the State Library of South Australia as ‘Boys and men at Brookside vineyards, 1900, Tranmere’ [SLSA B-60821] . But many of these workers also helped out with the vintage at Auldana and Penfolds. Front Row (l-r). W Threadgold, I Cosgrove, F Kranz, R Gibbs, J Amos, T Amos, I Clayton, H Walker. Back Row (l-r). J Tipper, J Vial, A Air, F Nichols, N Brooks, J Wickens. Far Back, I Donlon. Norman Walker, Hurtle Walker’s son recalled ‘The wine industry was in its infancy in those years and in Australia the older people battled and did what they could as there was very little labour around then. My father would go through this photograph with me because when the first World War broke out, most of these children were of age to go to War, and I think six or eight of them were killed.’ [ The Valiant Vigneron , Merrily Hallsworth, 2014]
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