Albert George Chapman – Champion Rower
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…
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…
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” at 25 David Street is known as the second oldest surviving house in Old Bar…
Edward Cannon was one of many British teenagers assisted to migrate to Australia between 1911 and 1939 under the Dreadnought Scheme…
Among the names inscribed on the Nabiac War Memorial, most of which have connections to local families, one may be unfamiliar – Walter Brunton Brownlee…
Louis Augustus Waterman was born in Balmain in 1877. He came to the Manning with his brother Harry where they became farmers at Tinonee…
The story of “Invermay” is connected to the story of Catherine Thomson. Catherine was a commercial institution in Taree…
“Mimosa” is a beautiful brick home built in 1920 and brings together two of Taree’s most industrious people from the turn of the 20th century…
In 1920 the New Zealand rugby union team, the “All Blacks” undertook a promotional tour of Australia in order to raise the profile of rugby union…
These little amber bottles, discovered in the mudbanks of the Wallamba River, were once found in most Australian households particularly from the late 1890s to 1940s…
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