The Pick of the Great North Road

"The Pick" is the journal of the Convict Trail Project and provides detailed information about the Great North Road. It is available as printed volumes or as digital downloads which will be provided on this page in PDF format. 

Volume 6

​Scandals, Crime and Corruption along the Great North Road

Volume 5

​Surviving the Great North Road

Volume 4

The Road, the Road builders and its Neighbours

​Volume 2
​Settlements and Villages

​The Pick Volume 2:5 Living on the Great North Road at Sawyers Gully
The Pick Volume 2:4 Great North Road Five Dock
The Pick Volume 2:2 Owen Devine
The Pick Volume 2:1 Establishing Wollombi
The Pick Volume 2:0 Bucketty

​Volume 1
Winners Losers and Also-rans

​The Pick Volume 1:8 Profile Convicts
The Pick Volume 1:7 Daniel Holland
The Pick Volume 1:6 A Bunch of Losers
The Pick Volume 1:5 Cooking Pot
The Pick Volume 1:4 John McDougall
The Pick Volume 1:3 Rising Sun Inn
The Pick Volume 1:2 Patrick Doolan Innkeeper
The Pick Volume 1:0 Long Bridge