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Friday, 21 December 2012

Bravery Award

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In 1935 The Committee of the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society awarded its certificate of merit to a young Campbelltown lad by the n...
Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Keighran's Mill

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Just south of the original Woodbine homestead, and adjacent to the old Sydney Road (since renamed Hollylea Road) there once stood an imposin...
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Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Girl in the Tyre

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Do you recognise the girl in this photograph? It was taken somewhere in the Campbelltown area on a date unknown. If you can help us then ...
Friday, 30 November 2012

Bradbury Park House

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In 1816, Governor Macquarie gave a grant of 140 acres to Joseph Phelps who sold it to William Bradbury the following year. Bradbury Park Hou...
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Saturday, 24 November 2012

The French Pedestrian

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He may not be as well known as other Australian explorers such as Sturt, Flinders and Burke and Wills but Henri Gilbert's achievements w...
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Friday, 16 November 2012

The Oar Factory

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Campbelltown once had an oar factory. The factory, built of sawn timber framework, was founded in 1947 by Thomas William Gonsalves in a larg...
Friday, 9 November 2012

Indecent Exposure

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Readers of the Campbelltown-Ingleburn News would have choked on their corn flakes on the morning of Tuesday January 13, 1970 when they sat d...
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