Media: BOOK - paperback, 128 pages
Author: S. Rowett
Year: 1999

151 illustrations

From the Preface

We live in an ever changing society with Marrabel and the surrounding district being no exception. Changes from a thriving community when the Blacksmith employed four men; Mrs Prior who had a staff of three shop assistants; the Bakery whose family of three conducted a thriving business; the local Hotel with four on the staff; the School with two teachers; Wrights Store where a family of three were kept busy; two employed at the Garage; a staff of two at the Post Office and the Butcher who employed three whilst six were fully employed at the Flour Mill making a total of thirty two in all.

The last twelve years have seen the Rodeo Club entrusted to a new generation. A group of young men has emerged with new ideas whilst maintaining many old traditions. Major changes have seen the Rodeo now being sponsored by several Business houses, both local and metropolitan which offer substantial prize money which in turn attracts the best riders.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Pioneering Days
• Early Women Settlers
• Early Homes
• Timber Slabs
• Thatching
• Hawkers
• Shearing
• Shepherds
• The Story of the Bullock Teams
• Flour Mill
• Marrabel Community
• Robins’ Lane
• Back to Marrabel
• Marrabel CFS
• Soldiers’ Memorial Park
• Australia Remembers
• Australia Day Awards
• The Marrabel Hotel
• Well, I’ll Be Doggone
• South Australian Film Corporation Comes to Marrabel
• Council Amalgamation
• Marrabel Families
• The Bell Family
• The Boxall Family
• The Dorrington Family
• Wal Duldig—Alias Mr Fixit!
• The Goodfellow Family
• The Hannan Family
• The Hicks Family
• The McDonald Family
• The Life Story of Jack Merten
• The Pritchard Family
• The Robins Family
• The Schnaitmann Family
• The Gordon Wright Family
• Rudolph Zema
• Marrabel Sports
• The Gums—Horse and Pony Club
• Football
• Marrabel Tennis Club
• Marrabel Netball Club
• The Marrabel Basketball Club
• The Marrabel Saddleworth Cricket Club
• Marrabel Table Tennis Club
• Tothill Creek
• School Reunion at Tothill Creek
• Kollyowha Church, School and Cemetery
• Harris and Triplett Families
• Edward (Ned) Williams
• Dead Man’s Comer—Why Was It So Named?
• The Tothill Landcare Group
• Tothill Belt
• Tothill Belt
• Aborigines
• Tothill Belt School
• Tothill Belt Post Office
• Conservation of the Tothill Range
• The Tothill Brigade
• The Life of ‘Nook’ Schultz
• Hamilton
• Closing of the Hamilton Post Office, Mail Run & General Store
• Hamilton Tennis Club
• Hamilton Table Tennis Club
• St Matthew’s Church, Hamilton
• Lyle George Prior
• Scotty’s Grave
• The Rainbird Story
• Reminiscences of Mr Alf Arend
• Tarnma
• Back To Where? Little Plains: Friedrichswalde: Tarnma
• Heritage Scrub
• Other Localities
• The Belvidere Church and Cemetery
• Steelton School
• Apoinga
• The River Light
• Marrabel Rodeo
• Marrabel Rodeo Park
• The Marrabel Rodeo
• The Timber Grandstand
• Toilets
• Oval Mounding at Marrabel
• The St John Ambulance Brigade
• Power in the Park
• The Marrabel Rodeo Horses
• Rodeo Rules
• The Hall of Fame
• Curio's Statue
• Rodeo Queens
• Rodeos102
• West End Beer Advertisement
• Moments in History
• Crowds
• Promotion
• Life Member
• Hall of Fame Inductees
• Men of Marrabel
• Heritage Pegs
• Memoirs of a Senior Citizen
• Index of Names