By Brent Richards (descendant).
August 2025 marks 200 years since the arrival in the convict colony of Sydney, New South Wales, of George 'Dusty Bob' Smith who later became a much-loved character of Dubbo and the Western Plains in early colonial times.
Dusty, as he liked to be called, was born in 1808 into a London Cockney family of costermongers (a pony-and-cart travelling green-grocer). This was a...
