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 ...

Travelling along Appin Road has long been a hazardous trip. If you were doing it in 1866 there were even more reasons to be filled with trep...

I recently came across an unusual story that I was unaware of. In the winter of 1901 a local family suffered a traumatic experience at their...

The Bray family were a much respected family of Campbelltown during most of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They lived at ...

On the afternoon of Friday January 22, 1847 a man by the name of James Fitzgerald was walking towards a house on the Campbellfields Estate a...

During the week of the 2 nd to 10 th July 1968, Wally Mellish, a minor criminal and car racketeer, managed to hold the attention of the N...

Sydney in the 1930s was a busy time for criminals and gangsters. It was in the height of the depression that the razor gangs operated throug...

"The Campbelltown Sensation" was one of a number of dramatic headlines that filled both local and national papers in the late Autu...

Campbelltown is famous as the murder scene of Fred Fisher in 1826, however the 1849 murder of three people and the ferocious attack on anoth...

Campbelltown was thrown into a state of panic one day in 1963 when two prisoners escaped from the lock up at the local police station. The C...

As Dr William Redfern of "Campbellfields" at Minto was travelling along Liverpool Road in his cart one evening in 1824 he was bai...

In the small hours of February 8, 1898 four Campbelltown men were charged and gaoled for a heinous crime: eating another man's peaches f...