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
“The Eclipse” Wingham, NSW
by Philip Gleeson
This is a history of the “Eclipse Garage” Wingham NSW. An overview of its operations 1926 – 1964/5
80 pages with colour and black and white photographs
A4 (21 x 29.7cm)
Printed 2019
Cost $15.00 CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
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.