Tenterfield Saddler

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George Woolnough was a saddler in Tenterfield, New South Wales from 1908 until his retirement in 1960.
Woolnough's grandson was Peter Allen, a flamboyant cabaret singer who immortalised the Saddlery with the song Tenterfield Saddler. Woolnough's son Dick Woolnough become a violent alcoholic upon returning from World War II, eventually shooting and killing himself. Woolnough never understood, nor got over this devastating event.

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