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Ghost Town of the Burragorang Valley By Ray Bean An article written by Ray Bean sometime in the 1950s. The language and detail are Ray Bean’s. The photos were taken by Ray at the time he wrote the original article. … Continue reading
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Thanks to Neil Cook, I have recently received a number of photographs taken by Ray Bean in 1947. Ray went for a canoe trip down the Murray River and during his trip he took a number of photographs of Steamboats … Continue reading
Having now gone through the NSW State Library’s catalogue of photos for Walkabout Magazine I now have a fairly good idea of where Ray Bean was when. It seems likely that he sent is first photo into Walkabout Magazine sometime … Continue reading
Ray Bean didn’t just travel in 1948 for Walkabout Magazine. He did some extensive travel in 1947 as well and seems to have still been working with Walkabout Magazine as late as 1951, possibly even later, with some of this … Continue reading
Ray Bean’s 1948 Trip with Arthur Upfield, John K. Ewers, Michael Sharland, H. Tate and George Keen took him to the very top of Western Australia including to the Argyle and Ivanhoe Stations. Patrick and Michael Durack, of Kings in Grass … Continue reading
In 1948 Ray Bean went on a 10 week trip around Western Australia and parts of the Northern Territory. The map below shows some of the places he visited. Meteorite Crater SYDNEY, April 22.-One of the world’s largest meteorite craters had been … Continue reading
After some collaboration my mother and I managed to figure out the name and locate the nephew of my Grandfathers second wife. We were hoping that he would be able to answer some of the questions that we had about … Continue reading
Over the last few days my focus has shifted, for a while, from Edwin Gransden, or the Gransdens in general to my Grandfather, Ray Bean. Ray was a photographer and painter and I used to love staying with him and … Continue reading