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Fotheringham’s Hotel, Taree

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsMarch 7, 2019

Fotheringham’s Hotel (affectionately called Fog’s) in Victoria Street, Taree started out as the Commercial Hotel and was owned by John Keats, then Alfred McCartney…

Taree’s Volunteer Air Observers Corps

Events, PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 7, 2019

Tom Dyball was not only science master at Taree High School during World War II, he was Zone Commandant of the Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC) in Taree…

Nigel Kennedy and Fotheringham’s Hotel Taree

Buildings, PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 7, 2019

Nigel Kennedy is an English violinist, famous for bringing classical music to the masses when he sold over two million copies of his above album in 1989. But did you know of his connection to Taree?

Bob Hope in Taree ‘Thanks for the memories’

EventsBy Janine RobertsMarch 7, 2019

On Monday evening 14 August 1944, Chief Observer of the Laurieton Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC), Mrs I M Grierson, was on duty when she saw a Catalina flying boat make a forced landing…

Taree’s Big Oyster, 100 Manning River Drive

ArtefactsBy Janine RobertsMarch 7, 2019

On Friday 30 March 1990, the NSW Premier, Nick Greiner, opened Taree’s newest tourist attraction – the Big Oyster…

John Cassimaty: Café owner

PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 1, 2019

John Cassimaty opened his first cafe in 1911 in Victoria Street known as the ‘Elite Refreshment Rooms’…

Don Athaldo: Taree’s Strongman Connection

PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 1, 2019

In 1935 Lewis Gorton and his brothers played in the Failford Football Club. As there were no gyms at the time, training was difficult, so Gorton wrote to Don Athaldo…

The Great White Train

EventsBy Janine RobertsFebruary 25, 2019

The Great White Train steamed into Taree in the early hours of Thursday 2 September 1926…

Bombardier John Daniel Stevens

PeopleBy Janine RobertsFebruary 25, 2019

John Stevens, known as Jack to all, was the eldest son of George and Eliza Stevens of Dyers Crossing…

Stevens Brothers’ Letters Home WW1

PeopleBy Janine RobertsFebruary 25, 2019

The following extracts are from letters brothers Jack and Jim Stevens wrote home to their family at Dyer’s Crossing during WW1…

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