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Ian David Redman – a little boy’s handprint

PeopleBy Janine RobertsApril 26, 2020

The story of a little boy’s handprint in the cement of a shed at 101 Bungay Road, Wingham has touched people’s hearts. Thanks to community input the sad ending to this tale has been uncovered…

This too shall pass…tepees and Covid19

Artefacts, EventsBy Janine RobertsApril 24, 2020

In March 2020, Australians joined the rest of the world in practising social distancing techniques to slow the spread of the global pandemic Covid19. It was during this time that a series of driftwood shelters appeared along Old Bar Beach…

The accidental death of John Nicholson, shipbuilder

PeopleBy Janine RobertsApril 15, 2020

The day Nicholson died he was travelling from Raymond Terrace to Port Stephens in a horse and cart (having moved to Karuah). The morning was wet as…

101 Bungay Road, Wingham

Artefacts, PlacesBy Janine RobertsApril 14, 2020

In the back shed of 101 Bungay Road Wingham is a child’s handprint pressed into the concrete slab with the date 17-7-54. After watching episodes of Restoration Home during Covid19 social distancing measures, the hunt was on to work out whose print…

The establishment of Purfleet Mission

PlacesBy Janine RobertsMarch 31, 2020

By 1900 the NSW Aborigines Protection Board had decided that it was better for Aboriginal people to live separately from Europeans. It was to ‘protect them from the worst excesses and corrupting influences of European society’…

Breckenridge Scandal

Events, PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 28, 2020

This painful scandal played out across NSW newspapers in 1899. Thomas Breckenridge was a storekeeper at Forster who worked with his sister Mary. When Thomas’ fiancée Jane Ann Benson became pregnant…

Young Ping

PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 27, 2020

Although Young Ping was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1860, his family were likely of Chinese origin. Ping came to Australia in 1879 aboard an American mail boat…

Breach of Promise of Marriage…

PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 26, 2020

“I could kiss you to death.” “I am going to fill this letter with kisses…” The letters from James Campbell Summerville to his fiancée Margaret Charlotte Challinor were filled with these endearing statements…

The Davey holiday home, Hawks Nest

Buildings, PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 20, 2020

Tea Gardens and Hawks Nest were sleepy little villages when Joyce Davey first ventured there in the 1930s. Hawks Nest was the main area but not much more than a few bush tracks…

Badgers to Boogie Woogie, 31 David Street, Old Bar

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsMarch 17, 2020

For over a century, tourists have frequented the seaside village of Old Bar. The building on the corner of David and Clerke Streets was, and still is, central to the ‘vibe’ of the town…

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