A selection of Dorkings from the past, sorted by chronologically and colourings

 

SILVER GREY

RyanDorkingsMelbourne

1865 Australia:
Dorking Fowls at Melbourne Poultry Society Show.
News clipping The Illustrated Australian news August 25, 1865 (see State Library of Victoria)

Melbourne1890s

1894 Australia:
J. V. Smith’s Dorking cock News clipping The Illustrated Australian news September 1, 1894 (see State Library of Victoria)

HarkawayDorkings1905ishSLV

1900ish Australia:
Nicholl’s flock, Harakaway
in Sketchbook no. 4, containing watercolours, drawings, photographs and newspaper clippings] [art original] / Charlie Hammond.
Author/Creator: Charlie Hammond 1870-1953, artist. Collection State Library of Victoria [ca. 1890 – ca. 1910] (see State Library of Victoria) [see a ‘funny thing’ I actually went to Harkaway State School, in that very brick building) some decades later!]

 

 

COLOURED

ColouredMelbourne1893

1893 Australia:
M. Nancarrow’s coloured Dorking
News clipping The Illustrated Australian news September 1, 1893  (see State Library of Victoria)