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Friday 12 April 2024
Keeping in time
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While preparing our files for digitization we recently came across an interview from 1987 with Mr. John Cheeseman on the occasion of him and...
Friday 5 April 2024
More Colourful Characters!
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I recently gave a talk to the Campbelltown and Airds Historical Society on the second part of my Colourful Characters of Campbelltown prese...
Friday 8 March 2024
Remembering a Policeman and a Brave Engineer
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Tomorrow will mark the 100th anniversary of a sad event in our area's history. On 9 March 1924, an arrested man shot and killed two men ...
Wednesday 21 February 2024
The Wesleyan Chapel
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The Wesleyan Church c.1902 You might have driven or walked past this building and wondered about its history. The old Wesleyan Chapel has st...
Monday 12 February 2024
Running the Cinema: the many challenges!
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Many of our older readers would remember Macquarie Cinema on the corner of Browne and Queen Streets. There are many fond memories of the Mac...
Thursday 25 January 2024
Europeans in Eckersley
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Please refer to our earlier post about the Lost Suburb of Eckersley, for some background information. The history of “Grodno”, Isaac Himmelh...
Wednesday 20 December 2023
A Jovial Giant Remembered
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It was not long after 11pm on the night of 24 July 1979. A group of 14 miners were having dinner in a crib room about 600m underground at a ...
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