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Monthly Archives: June 2021

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Temple Chambers – 138 Victoria Street, Taree

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsJune 29, 2021

Manning born David Cowan had established a legal practice in Taree in 1899. In 1921 a fire threatened his offices which were then located in the Belmore Hall, a timber building in Pulteney Street, Taree…

Pipers Bay, Forster

PlacesBy Janine RobertsJune 29, 2021

William Brisbane Piper born in 1844 at Brisbane Waters trained as a shipwright with his father. The last ship constructed by William’s father called ‘Jonathan’…

Harry Combo: The Valley’s Greatest Showman

PeopleBy Janine RobertsJune 29, 2021

At the age of 42, buck-jumping champion Harry Combo from Dingo Creek, was considered the “old man” as he took centre stage at the 1920 Wingham Show. With the grandstand full to overflowing…

George Garlick Godwin

Artefacts, PeopleBy Janine RobertsJune 18, 2021

George Garlick Godwin was born around 1803 in Wiltshire, England. He was given a life sentence for pig stealing and transported to Australia on the convict ship ‘Burrell’ in 1830…

North Arm Cove – the city that never was

PlacesBy Janine RobertsJune 18, 2021

Most Australians would be familiar with the name of Walter Burley Griffin as the architect of the nation’s capital, Canberra. Lesser known is another scheme designed by him…

Joseph De Lore

PeopleBy Janine RobertsJune 4, 2021

The tattoos of this young romantic, Joseph De Lore (Dolleur), were recorded when he was arrested in Montreal, Canada in 1837 for housebreaking…

Nurse Jane Mayers

People, PlacesBy Janine RobertsJune 4, 2021

At the age of 16 Jane De Lore married Joseph Mayers of Mayer’s Flat, Bungwahl, riding 30 miles on horseback to Maitland to be married…

“Malvern” 120 Manning Street, Taree

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsJune 3, 2021

Ray Hurst has been a long time resident of 120 Manning Street, Taree and was interested in the history of this old house. Here is what we found…

Granny Rennie

People, PlacesBy Janine RobertsJune 3, 2021

In 1852 on the ship “Argyle”, Mary Keleher aged 19 left her native County Clare, Ireland to become one of the first assisted immigrants to arrive directly into Moreton Bay (Brisbane), Qld…

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