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The Old Leigh Creek Road

(Mick Millikan)

(Donna Read)

En route to Beltana 1967 (David Mussared)

Puttapa 1961 (Jack Comlmer)

1961 (Jack Colmer)

1964 (Jack Colmer)

Hedley Atkinson

1968 (Hedley Atkinson)

1969 (Hedley Atkinson)

(Enid Blieschke Collection)

(Enid Blieschke Collection)

Beltana (Warrioota) Creek (Enid Blieschke Collection)

(Enid Blieschke Collection)

Puttapa Gap, 1949 (Enid Blieschke Collection)

Heading south near Copley (Colin Geve)

Flooded creek crossing, 1972 (Eileen Lewis)

Southern approach to Copley, 1974 (Eileen Lewis)

Bogged, 1962 (Donna Read)

Flinders Ranges and a road well travelled by many, July 1971 (O’Dea family)

Crossing Leigh Creek near Copley circa 1969 (Pam Oates)

Puttapa Gap after the floods, July 1974 (Enid Blieschke Collection)

(Mussared family)

Warrioota Creek (Dean Ransom)

Crossing Windy Creek, 1971 (O’Dea family)

The mail almost always got through (Donna Read)

Wild hops near Puttapa Gap, 1968 (O'Dea family)

Leigh Creek - Hawker road, St Mary peak in background (Dean Ransom)

Hasse’s Creek, 1971 (O’Dea family)

Commodore Swamp (Peter Smith)

Commodore Swamp, 1972 (O'Dea family)

Wild hops near Puttapa Gap, 1968 (O'Dea family)

Approaching Puttapa from Red Hill (Donna Read)

Crossing Windy Creek in the early 1970s (Pam Oates)

(Mick Millikan)

(Mick Millikan)

(Mick Millikan)

Puttapa Gap (O'Dea family)

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1968 Near Parachilna (David Mussared)

1968 Near Parachilna (David Mussared)

Breakfast time Creek 1974 (Shirley Mundy)

Breakfast time Creek 1974 (Shirley Mundy)

Breakfast time Creek 1974 (Shirley Mundy)

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Jean Wedding and Doreen Carmody near Copley (Kevin Wedding)

(Colin Geve)

(Dean Ransom)

1969 (Hedley Atkinson)

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The Bitumen

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Ppreparing for the bitumen, 1981 (photo from “Old Highways Days” Facebook group)

laying the last stretch of bitumen south of Parachilna, 1981 (photo from “Old Highways Days” Facebook group)