Hawkesbury history: Final run of the Comleroy Road cattle drovers

By Les and Anne Dollin, Kurrajong-Comleroy Historical Society
July 12 2021 - 7:00am
Snowy Dubois camp drafting cattle near Putty. From the Snowy Dubois collection, reproduced with permission of the Dubois family.
Snowy Dubois camp drafting cattle near Putty. From the Snowy Dubois collection, reproduced with permission of the Dubois family.

1953 was the end of an era for the drovers of Comleroy Road. For 130 years, they had herded mobs of cattle 150km from the Hunter Valley to Riverstone.