Ganmain Saleyards
This is an easy find for most
The cache container is a small container with note & log & also a few swaps but please note there's no pen to sign the log book due to it's size so please take your own
Please note that Stealth is required with this one due to the local houses in the area
History of this site
In the late 1930s Mellor and Murphy built the Ganmain sale yards situated on the
northern side of the railway line fronting Derry Street. The approximate cost was
£300. 0. 0. Sales started with an average monthly yarding of 4,000 head.
Monthly sales were on Saturday mornings at fi rst but were later changed to a
week day to enable buyers to get home to Sydney for the weekend. Two special
sheep sales were also held each year.
As few trucks were available on the roads, sheep and lambs were all walked to the
sale yards and afterwards loaded on the sheep waggons and transported by train.
It was not unusual to see 30 to 40 sheep rail trucks and at times up to 60 had to
be ordered for a sale. The great majority of lambs then were Border Leicester/
Merino cross and it was not until the 1950s and 1960s that the Dorset/Merino
cross took over as the major breed.
It is interesting to note that in 1950 a pen of lambs sold in Ganmain brought £4.
10. 6, which was then an Australian record price.
Happy Hunting