Tragedy Strikes Dumaresq Island
Speedboats from the festival swarmed the island as the plane continued to burn. Eric Henshaw and John Paine were among them. They scrambled up the bank…
Speedboats from the festival swarmed the island as the plane continued to burn. Eric Henshaw and John Paine were among them. They scrambled up the bank…
Wilsie Wilson was always a generous, hardworking woman. Born on Dumaresq Island in 1905…
While Alfred Baker was born into a shipbuilding family, his taste and skills for baking was stronger…
On Monday afternoon, 18 November 1946, while the old residence of the Manning Ambulance Superintendent was being demolished to make way for a more modern building, a letter in a bottle was found…
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