The History Buff

Welcome to the Campbelltown City Library Local Information Blog

Friday, 19 February 2016

Ingleburn House

›
     Possibly members of the Allen family outside Ingleburn House. Photo is undated. (Tregear Collection) Another of Campbelltown's...
4 comments:
Wednesday, 10 February 2016

A City in Need of a Cinema

›
As a kid growing up in Campbelltown in the seventies I particularly recall Mawson Park with its tube-steel merry-go-round, a toy shop cram...
Wednesday, 3 February 2016

A Father's Love

›
For eleven weeks of the bleak winter of 1864, George Monk kept a vigil at his son's bedside. Six year old John Nimrod Monk, the second o...
Friday, 29 January 2016

Bert "Nippy" Kitt

›
Bert Kitt, known as Nippy or Berty, was born in New Zealand in 1886. He was the son of George and Caroline Kitt who moved from New Zealand t...
Thursday, 21 January 2016

Dating a Photograph

›
 (click on the image for a larger version)  Campbelltown Library recently received a generous donation of photographs by Sue Dredge bel...
2 comments:
Friday, 15 January 2016

An Adventurous Life!

›
Aubrey John Raymond Oates was born in 1922 in Newcastle, to parents Henry and Annie. His sister Dorothy was 10 years his senior. He gai...
8 comments:
Friday, 8 January 2016

Wedderburn Bridge

›
Wedderburn Bridge (photo: Dennis Townend) A bridge over the Georges River at Wedderburn Gorge was first built in 1892. It re...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

Andrew Allen
Local Information Librarian at Campbelltown City Library.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.