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Camels, donkeys and mules in harness pulling an array of wagons and a Cobb & Co coach will compete for the prestigious teamster’s trophies in a spectacle rarely seen in modern Australia at The Good Old Days Festival, at Barellan in southern NSW on October 5-6, 2024.

The volunteers behind one of the nation’s most unique pioneering festivals, The Good Old Days, at Barellan, has been named as the Riverina region Volunteer Team of the Year.

Planning is underway for the nation’s largest gathering of harnessed draught animals, The Good Old Days Festival, at Barellan in southern NSW on October 5-6, 2024.

At 16 Joey Reedy is already an accomplished bush poet, blacksmith and bullocky – he reckons he is an old soul and in a young person’s body and may have been born into the wrong century.

A rare British World War I horse drawn water cart restored after five years of diligent research made its debut at the Good Old Days Festival at Barellan.

The red dust at Barellan is a long way from the sparkling water of a pool but former Olympic swimming champion Shane Gould was taking a keen interest in the sound of a single furrow plough slicing through the clay.