Craft Cottage: 77 Pulteney Street, Taree
Following the death of the then owner George De Fraine of Sydney, vacant land having frontages to Pulteney, High and Wynter Streets was sold in 1908…
George De Saxe and Amy Mackay, Dentists
George De Saxe was born in 1856 and worked most of his life as a dentist in Sydney and Parramatta. He often visited smaller towns providing dental services and in September 1900 visited Wingham for this purpose…
Food Fair
Bill Nelson purchased the Blue Flag grocery store in Manning Street, Taree in 1937. It put me in mind of Ronnie Barker’s ‘Open All Hours’…
Redex, The World’s Toughest Car Trials
Redex Trials were novel with 200 amateur and pro drivers circumnavigating Australia in a contest. Bill Nelson was always passionate about cars and talked his mate into…
Hector Holmes Service No. 3555 – POW
In November 1917, in the midst of the Great War, newspapers nationwide carried the heartening news of two Australian escapees from a German prison camp. One of these combatants was Hector Holmes…
Record-breaking cricket partnership
This is the story of two close friends who on the 9th March 1940 made cricket history…
H. Nelson & Sons
Herman Nelson, a carpenter was born in Kempsey. The family left their general store in St. Ives and travelled by horse and cart to Taree in 1923…
How ‘Poitrel’ brought a touch of glamour to Taree
Poitrel was a chestnut stallion, a racehorse, best known as the 1920 winner of the Melbourne Cup…
North Coast Steam Navigation Co Ltd
In August 1891 the North Coast Steam Navigation Company was formed by the merger of the Clarence, Richmond and Macleay Rivers Steam Navigation Company and John See and Company…
Harry Wilfred Webster
Harry Wilfred Webster was born in Essex, England in 1885 and undertook his architectural training there…