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Monthly Archives: April 2019

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Sewing Lessons at Mitchell’s Island Public School

EventsBy Janine RobertsApril 24, 2019

The year was 1973 and on Thursdays, sewing was on the agenda at Mitchell’s Island Public School (for girls only of course!)…

Pindimar Shark Factory

CommerceBy Janine RobertsApril 23, 2019

“Every shark taken by us lessens the chance of your being taken by a shark.” This was the catchcry of Marine Industries Ltd who in 1929…

Former National Australia Bank, Taree

Buildings, CommerceBy Janine RobertsApril 22, 2019

Hardly recognisable today (2019) in its Priceline Pharmacy livery, this building started life in 1935 as a branch of the National Australia Bank…

Former Manning River Times Building, Taree

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsApril 21, 2019

Taree’s local newspaper, the Manning River Times, has a long history dating back to January 1869 when the first issue was published by Charles Boyce and George Buckleton…

“Merton”, 3 Macquarie Street, Taree

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsApril 21, 2019

In November 1903 George Ford, a Taree butcher, paid £50 for land in Macquarie Street, being Lot 17 in Section 15…

The Flag Dress

ArtefactsBy Janine RobertsApril 19, 2019

Amelia Ellis was a gifted needlewoman with her own business in Tinonee at the time of World War 1…

Spanish Flu in the Manning Valley

EventsBy Janine RobertsApril 17, 2019

The pneumonic influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919 had a devastating impact on the world population, leaving more casualties in its wake than the Great War…

James Arthur Winney – music teacher and journalist

PeopleBy Janine RobertsApril 14, 2019

James Arthur Winney was born in London on 18 July 1859. He received a musical education at the Tonic Solfa College in London and as a young man was…

Mrs Maude Scharkie

PeopleBy Janine RobertsApril 8, 2019

In April 1906, Maude Hall married John Edward Scharkie in Newcastle, NSW. The early years of their marriage were marred by the death of their three year old son…

Waukivory School

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsApril 8, 2019

In 1907 The Gloucester Estate Ltd put to auction the first blocks in the so called Waukivory Subdivision. As the land was taken up the community saw the need for a school…

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