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Mr Barracluff (Junior) gives Denis a ride, South Head 24 December 1905

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State Library of New South Wales
[a3301044 / PX*D 578. 1567]
(Album 36: Photographs of the Allen family, 15 October 1905 - 1 April 1906) (Mitchell Library)

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Barracluff's Ostrich Farm

In 1889 the enterprising Joseph Barracluff and his wife Jane established an ostrich farm at South Head. Over the years Barracluff's farm became a well-known tourist destination where patrons could select feathers to be cut directly from the flock. The business thrived until the outbreak of World War I, when the demand for ostrich feathers declined.

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Farm in Dover Heights where ostriches were reared to provide feathers for the fashion industry.