A selection of Dorkings from the past, sorted by chronologically and colourings
SILVER GREY
1865 Australia:
Dorking Fowls at Melbourne Poultry Society Show. News clipping The Illustrated Australian news August 25, 1865 (see State Library of Victoria)
1894 Australia:
J. V. Smith’s Dorking cock News clipping The Illustrated Australian news September 1, 1894 (see State Library of Victoria)
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
1893 Australia:
M. Nancarrow’s coloured Dorking News clipping The Illustrated Australian news September 1, 1893 (see State Library of Victoria)