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Yearly Archives: 2018

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A new road for Strathcedar and Mooral Creek

PlacesBy Janine RobertsDecember 23, 2018

During the late 1800s, access to Strathcedar and Mooral Creek was along a road carved out by early Mooral Creek settlers, the Fords…

Taree Hospital Christmas Tree

EventsBy Janine RobertsDecember 21, 2018

For over 32 years the pine tree at the Manning Base Hospital was lit up as a Christmas tree for everyone to enjoy…

One of the first trucks and mail run in Strathcedar

ArtefactsBy Janine RobertsDecember 18, 2018

One of the first trucks in Strathcedar was a 1926 Chevrolet with a wooden cab. It was purchased by Royden Robert Newell and wife Florence, and was used to take their cream cans to the Wingham Factory…

A Chevrolet truck, a fence and a way to the Wingham Show

ArtefactsBy Janine RobertsDecember 18, 2018

In the early 1900s the owners of one of the first trucks in Strathcedar, was Royden and Florence Newell. This truck was used for the mail run…

The old red shed and a tornado

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsDecember 18, 2018

One of the few buildings that survived the march of time on the Strathcedar property that had been owned by Royden and Florence Newell in the 1900s was the house and the old red shed…

A sawmiller and beef farmer

PeopleBy Janine RobertsDecember 18, 2018

When Trevor Newell inherited 160 acres in 1974 from his parents Royden and Florence Newell, at Strathcedar on the Mooral Creek Road, it was going back to tea tree scrub and weeds…

Vincenzo Fazio (1865-1962)

PeopleBy Janine RobertsDecember 14, 2018

Driving around Tuncurry, you may notice iconic sites such as The Great Lakes Cinema, the abandoned BI-LO, and the Rockpool. But one lesser known locale is Fazio’s Transport and Bricks…

Young boy mauled by shark at Forster

EventsBy Janine RobertsDecember 12, 2018

A real case of jaws in our very own small town? One Friday afternoon in January 1944, a 14 year old boy named Keith Weir was out with his friends surfing at Main Beach, Forster…

Fire at the Bellevue Hotel, Tuncurry

Buildings, EventsBy Janine RobertsDecember 12, 2018

In the early hours of 13 July 1954, a fire started within the Bellevue Hotel at Tuncurry…

A Tinonee Tragedy

PeopleBy Janine RobertsDecember 4, 2018

On 12 January 1910, George Gollan, son of Captain Hector and Margaret Gollan married Harriett Mary Ann Polley (known as Artie). Making their home in Tinonee, they had three children…

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