Girriwa
Author: Tracey WilsonThis is a book about the history of Halliday’s Point and the settlement of Black Head.
Softcover 167 pages with colour photographs
21 x 29.5cm
Printed 2026
Cost: $40
Author: Tracey WilsonTimber on the Manning
Edition 1. Research by Joan Gibson 1986
Edition 2. Revised by Margaret Clark 2026
The Manning Valley is approximately 9,000 square kilometres. The types of trees logged and the manner in which this was done were similar throughout the region. Basically, this is a look at some of the history of the timber industry in the area downstream from Gloucester to the mouth of the Manning River, as well as the area from Wingham to the Bulga and Comboyne Plateaux.
Softcover 36 pages with colour photographs
21 x 29.5 cm
First printed 1986
Revised and reprinted 2026
Cost: $15
When Someone Guides My Hand
Annette Winter
This book is a historical record and a pictorial family history of the ancestors of Annette Winter (formerly Maher, nee Gill) and Trevor William Maher with verse inspired by their forebears. Annette was born in Taree and spent her early years on a dairy farm at Ghinni Ghinni.
The first half of this book centers around Annette’s family history and the Manning areas of Croki, Coopernook, Jones Island and surrounds. Some of the family names are:- Gill; Drury; Shoesmith; Latham; Dennes and others. There are many beautiful photos and lovely verse written by Annette.
The later part of the book centers around the family history of Annette’s first husband, Trevor Maher and the NSW New England district.
Softcover
96 pages with many photographs
21 cm x 30 cm
Printed 2025
Cost: $30.00
Bacon To Beef
by Bill Beach
The Manning Valley’s journey from failed bacon factory to export beef abattoir.
Softcover
87 pages photographs
21 cm x 30 cm
Printed 2024
Cost: $25
Looking Back – Taree and the Lower Manning
Edited by Maurie Garland
This is a photo collection from the archives of Manning Valley Historical Society (MVHS) with more of a story about them. Many of the photos in this collection have not been published before. MVHS always appreciates photos from the public to increase our collection. We have few photos about many sports in their early days and very few photos about Manning Aboriginal stories.
Softcover
68 pages with many photographs
21 cm x 29.5 cm
Printed 2024
Cost: $20
Boomer – A Decade on the Manning
by Robert Milliken
Travel with Robert, no seat belts, as he drives you into an utterly different Australia and brings alive the epic of the Milliken and Cross families. Join the ancestors arriving in Australia from Ireland and England as they settle, pioneer, and prosper in mid northern NSW, people of their times, certain of their ambition, qualm-free of their impact. The focus sharpens at the start of Robert’s childhood when as he says, the tail end of the settler mentality met the start of post – World War Two Australia.
Softcover
206 pages with photographs
15.2cm x 23 cm
Printed 2024
Cost: $20
Wingham Municipal Council’s Housing Scheme 1954 – 1980
by Bill Beach
Home ownership occupies a special place in the Australian psyche providing a strong sense of emotional security and safety. For 26 years Wingham Municipal Council conducted a remarkably successful housing finance scheme that assisted almost 400 local families to own their own home. There is little doubt that the housing scheme differentiated Wingham from many other country towns and is something of which the town can be proud.
26 pages with photographs
14 x 21.5cm
Printed 2019
Cost $14.00
Australian Style
by Margaret A Clark
This is a short history of pottery with particular reference to items in the collection of Wingham Museum.