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Monthly Archives: August 2020

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“Mr Hockey”: Allan Taylor

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 27, 2020

Allan Taylor had many titles over his life “King of the respirator kids”, “Mr Hockey” and “Tate”. No matter what he put his talents to he led and inspired…

Alfred Baker: Baker of Taree

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 27, 2020

While Alfred Baker was born into a shipbuilding family, his taste and skills for baking was stronger…

George Albert Chapman

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 20, 2020

George Albert Chapman was born in Raymond Terrace and in 1880, aged 23, he walked up the beach to the Wallamba looking for a place to settle…

Mervyn Chapman

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 20, 2020

Mervyn Chapman was born in 1918. His trip from Taree Hospital to his home on Chapman Island in the Wallamba River was a perilous journey on the back of a motorcycle…

Daphne Irene Chapman: A flair for hair

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 19, 2020

Growing up between two world wars Daphne Chapman knew what it was like to go without. Using her flair for hair styling she realised she could…

Maud Mabel Wilkes

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 17, 2020

In June 1917 Maud Mabel Wilkes married the Cape Hawke Regatta Champion Rower Albert George Chapman…

Hobson’s Store – 135 Victoria Street, Taree

Buildings, CommerceBy Janine RobertsAugust 11, 2020

Late in 1922 an imposing two storied commercial building was under construction in Victoria Street, near the intersection with Manning Street…

Albert George Chapman – Champion Rower

Events, PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 11, 2020

In 1886, the Balmain Working Men’s Rowing Club established itself just a few hundred metres from the Balmain Rowing Club. In these early days a working man…

Sauzier’s “Sanitarium House”

Buildings, PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 7, 2020

One of the earliest buildings in Old Bar, apart from the Pavilion, was John Sauzier’s “Sanitarium House”. It was a wooden guesthouse that catered for…

“Rito” 25 David Street, Old Bar

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsAugust 6, 2020

“Rito” at 25 David Street is known as the second oldest surviving house in Old Bar…

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