Steer riding at the annual Cherbourg Show 1959

Steer riding at the annual Cherbourg Show 1959

Steer riding at the annual Cherbourg Show 1959

Arthur Georgetown and children at Cherbourg 1937

Arthur Georgetown and children at Cherbourg 1937

Arthur Georgetown and children at Cherbourg 1937

Fred Embery at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

Fred Embery at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

Fred Embery at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

Decorated men at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

Decorated men at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

Decorated men at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

Dick Nal'bo Cobbo at Cherbourg c1940

Dick Nal’bo Cobbo at Cherbourg c1940

Dick Nal’bo Cobbo at Cherbourg c1940

Crowe family group at Cherbourg c1940

Crowe family group at Cherbourg c1940

Crowe family group at Cherbourg c1940

Arthur Stanley with family group at Cherbourg c1940

Arthur Stanley with family group at Cherbourg c1940

Arthur Stanley with family group at Cherbourg c1940

Arthur and Cloie Stanley nee Button at Cherbourg c1940

Arthur and Cloie Stanley nee Button at Cherbourg c1940

Arthur and Cloie Stanley nee Button at Cherbourg c1940

Crowe family group at Cherbourg c1940

Crowe family group at Cherbourg c1940

Crowe family group at Cherbourg c1940

Willie Crowe with children at Cherbourg c1940

Willie Crowe with children at Cherbourg c1940

Willie Crowe with children at Cherbourg c1940

Twinkling Stars at the Welfare Hall in Cherbourg c1930

Twinkling Stars at the Welfare Hall in Cherbourg c1930

Twinkling Stars at the Welfare Hall in Cherbourg c1930

Decorated men at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

Decorated men at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

Decorated men at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

Decorated men at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

Decorated men at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

Decorated men at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

Decorated men at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1934

Decorated men at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1934

Decorated men at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1934


The Cherbourg Memory is an initiative of the Rationshed Museum and brings together the photos, videos, oral history recordings, documents and other artifacts of our lives on this settlement. It a website, an archive, an educational resource, a recording project, a research data-base, a store of the people’s stories and an interactive space for comments and engagement. We encourage the people of Cherbourg, the Indigenous communities in Australia and others who have experience of our settlement to help us create a living archive of Barambah-Cherbourg. So find out a little more about the Cherbourg Memory, discover how you can Participate, or find out how you can Contribute to the development of the Cherbourg Memory.