The Crowdy-Harrington Railway; Part 1: 1895 to 1900
The history of the railway used in construction of the breakwater at Harrington.
by Ian McNeil
The Reminiscences of Captain Robert Collins
In 1923, the Wingham Chronicle printed a series of articles written by Captain Collins (1850-1927) telling of his life at sea and his settling in the Manning Valley.
by Robert Collins
An Unspeakable Crime
The finding of a teenage girl’s skeleton in remote bush south of Newcastle produced a murder trail that led back to the Manning Valley.
by Maurie Garland
In the Museum
A report from our museum curator
by Terry Tournoff
Isabella the Play: A Pictorial
We look in on the play’s sell-out performance at Tuncurry.
Secondary Public Education at Taree Public High School
Before the establishment of Taree High School in 1925, Taree Public School adopted a number of different names as it also catered for secondary students.
by Katherine Bell
Ken McDonald: Iconic Journalist
Ken arrived in Taree in 1947 as a teacher, but soon joined the staff of the Manning River Times as a news and sports journalist and, later, became the editor.
by Mick McDonald
Rugby Union/League: The Quinlivan Brothers
Tennis: Coral Buttsworth
Racing: Mick Yarrad
Sports stories from the Manning River Times written in 1970 by Ken McDonald.
by “Ken Mac”
Treasure Trove: Sports Reports
Our chief Archivist uses the internet “Treasure Trove” site .
by Kaye Wallace
Cost: $10.00 32 pages A4:21cm x 29cm
The Langley Vale Tramway; Part 2: The Steam Era 1912 to 1933
Ian McNeal continues the story of the Langley Brothers timber company.
by Ian McNeil
The Education of Bishop Ernest Burgmann
This is the story of Ernest Burgmann’s education at Koppin Yarrat (Central Lansdowne) and his thoughts, as an Anglican Bishop, on educating children.
by Katherine Bell
From the Archives: Going to the Movies
We look at the Manning Valley’s dedicated movie theatres.
by Maurie Garland
The Opening of the Mitchells Island Factory: A Pictorial
On November 30th, 1918, the most modern (for 1918) milk factory opened.
by Maurie Garland
Draining Oxley Island
Warwick Murray tells how the Island has been saved from salt and swamp.
by Warwick Murray
F.A. Fitzpatrick and the Wingham Chronicle
The Life of F A Fitzpatrick who spent over 40 years at the Wingham Chronicle.
by Maurie Garland
Why I Became a Journalist
From an article in the Dungog Chronicle in 1932.
by F.A. Fitzpatrick
My Time as a Printer’s Devil
The Wharfdale Printing Press
In The Museum: The Arab Treadle Press
Max Waters served his apprenticeship on the Wingham Chronicle post WW11.
by Max Waters
A Career in Newspapers
Bill Green began his newspaper career as an apprentice at the Wingham Chronicle.
by Bill Green
Revitalising the Museum
Our Museum Curator tells of plans for the Museum.
by Terry Tournoff
Out at Sea and on Fire
The tragic story of the passenger ferry Daphne.
by Maurie Garland
Cost: $10.00 32 pages A4:21cm x 29cm
History of the Manning Valley Historical Society by John McKenzie
Tarree and Taree
Part 1: William Wynter by Penny Rich and Katherine Bell
Part 2: Henry Flett by Maurie Garland
Justice in the Manning Valley: The Bench of Magistrates by Warren Cross
Rev Thomas Watt versus Henry Flett by Maurie Garland
Tracks and Early Roads by Wilf Connors
The Urbanisation of the Manning Valley by Eric Richardson
A River in Time by David Nutley
Scottish Immigration:
Part 1: Leaving Scotland by Margaret Clark
Part 2: The Manning Valley by Margaret Clark
The Rev Samuel Stewart by Doug Stewart
19th Century Encounters between Blackfella and Whitefella by John Ramsland
The Rise and Fall of the Manning River Steam Navigation Company by Shirley Xanthos, Margaret Clark and Penny Rich
Voyage to the Manning River on SS Diamantina, 1873 by Sydney Morning Herald
Tinonee National School by Maurie Garland
Killawarra Public School by Glenda Smith
From Steam Boat to Steam Train by Jim Revitt
Henry Kendall at Cundletown:
Part 1: Henry Kendall My Father – Frederick Kendall Article
Part 2: My New Home – Henry Kendall Article
Part 3: The Life of Henry Kendall by Maurie Garland
From Horace to Hawkeye: Manning Valley Newspapers by Rod Kirkpatrick
The Birth of Rugby League by Mal Rattray
How to Lose a Premiership by Maurie Garland
Lebanese Settlement in the Manning Valley by Penny Rich
Sunset on the Sunrise – Manning River Times Article
The Light at the Bottom of the Manning River by Maurie Garland
The Chinese on the Manning by Eric Richardson
A Time Walk Around Wingham by Eric Richardson, Arthur Cooper, Penny Rich
A Breach of Promise by Maurie Garland
William Willmett Board and Son by Marion Hosking
The Great Taree Fire, 1905 by Katherine Bell
The Growth of the Early Cattle Industry by Eric Richardson
Brief History of Mapping in NSW for Administrative Purposes by Arthur Wakeman
The Wingham Hotel:
Part 1: From “Lamb Inn” to “Bottom Pub” by Penny Rich
Part 2: End of an Era – News Reports
Part 3: Growing up in the Pub with no Peer by Sue Milliken
A Time Walk Along Pulteney Street by Katherine Bell
Cost: $15.00 120 pages A4:21cm x 29cm
The Langley Vale Tramway; Part 1: 1897 to 1912
Ian McNeal narrates the operations of the Langley Brothers timber company in the virgin forests of the Lansdowne escarpment, and the tramway they built to bring the timber down to the Lansdowne River, to be shipped to markets.
by Ian McNeil
The Diva and the Dentist
When Penny decided to find out why the AA Maloney Memorial Gates were erected at Taree Park in 1939, she uncovered an amazing story.
by Penny Teerman
Coopernook: A Pictorial
The early days of this bustling river port.
by Penny Rich
Medicine on the Manning
In 1963, local Manning doctor, Francis Bayldon gave the Mulvey Address, in which he outlined the history of Manning medicine.
by Maurie Garland
Looking Back: The Wreck of the “Kincumber”
by Maurie Garland
The Rise of the Manning Valley Dairy Industry
An extract from Bill Beach’s forthcoming book.
by Bill Beach
Cost: $10.00 28 pages A4:21cm x 29cm
A Prisoner in Stalag 383
After fighting in North Africa and Greece, Vic Carle was captured in Crete and interned in Stalag 383, Bavaria, Germany.
by Margaret Clark
Robert and Nancy Broomfield on Dingo Creek, 1889
Ruth Woodward looks at the second generation of Broomfields and a visit there by cousin Peter Wallace in 1889.
by Ruth Woodward and Maurie Garland
The Manning Valley’s Railway Centenary
A Pictorial
Various Sources
John Thomson Chambers: Wingham’s Forgotten Architect
Scottish immigrant Chambers (1870-1954) arrived in Wingham in 1917.
by Penny Teerman
White and Black Living Together: Celebrating the Beliefs of Cinderella (Ella) Jane Simon (1902-1981)
What was Ella Simon saying about assimilation?
by Professor John Ramsland
Looking Back: The Manning Valley’s First Car
Dr John Gormley and “Napoleon”
by Maurie Garland
The Oxley Island Punt Tragedies
The drowning tragedies of 1928 and 1956.
by Maurie Garland
Cost: $10.00 28 pages A4:21cm x 29cm
Tom Skinner’s Butcher Shop
[The Wingham butchery 1899 – 2004]
by Kaye Wallace
Life as a Butcher’s Boy
[Several years from Eric’s life after leaving school aged sixteen]
by Eric Richardson
Maud Gyler’s Postcard Collection
[What can we glean from this thirty postcard collection dated 1905-1915?]
by Judith Jackson
Early Days at Oxley Island Public School
[Teachers and building 1862-1878]
Edited by Maurie Garland from a Department of Education document published in 1963
A Recollection of School Days
[Warwick attended Oxley Island Public School in the late 1940s and later returned as a teacher]
by Warwick Murray
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Ancestors: On Dingo Creek
[The Broomfield and Herkes Families arrive on Dingo Creek in 1852]
by Ruth Woodward and Maurie Garland
The Old Bakery: An Historic Challenge
[Buying a house at Mount George nearly one hundred years old]
by Narelle Smith and Barbara Waters
The McRae Smith Family Papers
[Building the Lighthouse at Crowdy Head]
Edited by Maurie Garland
A Lost Poem by Henry Kendall
[Called perhaps “A Father to a Bride”]
From the McRae Smith Family Papers
Christmas at Old Bar, 1925
[Annual holiday makers]
Extracts by “A Visitor” from the Manning River Times.
Book Review: Of This Watershed The Soldiers of the Wallamba by Stuart Weller
Reviewed by John Ramsland, Emeritus Professor of History The University of Newcastle
Book Release: The Trials of Isabella Mary Kelly
Release of the second edition
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Glenda Smith: MVHS Life Member
[Life membership award]
by Carol Pammer, MVHS Vice President
Ancestor: Humphrey Richardson
[‘Father’ of public school education on the Manning River]
by Eric Richardson OAM, MVHS Vice President
National Schools: The establishment of public schools in NSW
[How public schools came into being]
by Eric Richardson OAM, MVHS Vice President
Tinonee National School
[Early trials and tribulations]
by Maurie Garland, MVHS Member
Accolades for Horace Dean biography
[Press reviews of Maurie Garland’s book]
by Pam Murray, MVHS member
The Dangerous Manning Bar and the wreck of the steamer Gipsy
[First-hand accounts of the disaster]
Edited by Maurie Garland, MVHS member
Captain Jean Benaud: Master Mariner
[Stories of great-grandfather of Australian cricketer, Richie Benaud]
by Maurie Garland, MVHS member
In MVHS museum: The minute gun
[Includes the story of builder, William John Smith, ancestor of donor family]
Edited by Maurie Garland, MVHS member
The Next Generation: Reminiscences of Albert George Smith [1860-1939]
[Writings of son, William John Smith]
Document held in MVHS archives
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Wingham Cenotaph and Remembrance Wall: Design and symbolism
[Story behind new monuments at
Wingham Memorial Town Hall]
by Allen Valentine, MVHS Member
The colourful career of Wingham’s first mayor, Joshua Cochrane
[Life and times of J Cochrane, 1866-1914]
by David Evans, former MVHS Member,
The Pioneer Storekeepers
[Trust between storekeepers and farmer settlers helps prosperity]
from ‘Old Days-Old Ways’ column,
Wingham Chronicle, 16 May 1939
Gateways to Wingham
[Building of Cedar Party and Bight bridges]
by Mal Rattray and Mieke van Werdt,
MVHS Members
From Bridge to Bishop
[Ernest Burgmann’s journey from
Lansdowne to Anglican Bishop of
Goulburn]
by Penny Rich,
MVHS journal editor
Wingham’s first land grant: Bungay Bungay
[Early settlement]
by Penny Rich,
journal editor, from MVHS archives
Essay on Manning River, Australia
[The Manning through the eyes
of a young boy!]
by T W New,
who resided Bungay Bungay 1841-45
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Pioneers of the Bulga-Homestead Farm No.1919/9
(World War 1 Soldier Settlers)
by Penny Teerman, MVHS Member
Two Letters: 1911 and 1918
(Letters by WW1 Wingham soldier Len Bird {KIA}and his mate, Allen Semple)
by Maurie Garland, MVHS Member
Moving with the times
(Wingham’s Wisely’s bus service ends)
by Penny Rich, MVHS Journal Editor
Last drinks for a vanished time
(Memories of former Wingham Hotel)
by Robert Milliken, journalist and former Wingham resident
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The Rise and Fall of the Manning River
Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.
by Shirley Xanthos, Margaret Clark, Editor
Wingham’s Fighting Ritchie Boys
(Four Brothers in World War I)
by Penny Rich
Chinese on the Manning
(Mid 19th & early 20th Centuries)
Eric Richardson
Life and Times of the Wingham Chronicle
(History of the newspaper)
by Mal Rattray
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Growing Up in the Pub With No Peer
(A childhood in the Wingham Hotel)
by Sue Milliken OA
There Off and Racing …
(Horse Racing on the Manning from 1880)
by Barbara Waters
Krambach: The Village That Never Was
Wingham Chronicle reprint
Notes by Eric Richardson & Penny Rich
Recollections: The Buzz on Burrell Creek
(Interview with Ken Martin, aged 92)
by Glenda Smith
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School of Arts
NSW Birth of S of A by Judith Jackson
Killabakh S of A by Penny Rich
Indigenous Australians at War
by Eric Richardson
Rise and Fall of Sugar on the Manning
by Maurie Garland
Family History and the New School Syllabus
by Alan Richardson
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A Visit to Manning River Catholics in 1900
from Freeman’s Journal 1900
edited by Maurie Garland
Our Debt to Lachlan Macquarie
by Alan Richardson
Book Review: Postcards from the Front
by Penny Rich
The Bonnie Manning
by Mieke van Werdt
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The Searle Connection:
Robert Searle and Mary Cann
by Royce & Janet Byrnes
Who Named Our Town Wingham, and Why?!
by Mieke van Werdt, Eric Richardson
& Penny Rich
Birth of Government Schools
(National Schools)
by Penny Rich
Testing Times for Tinonee Teachers
by Mieke van Werdt & Penny Rich
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’No Geisha Silk, No Cottin, No Nothin’:
Comboyne Plateau 1933-34
by Marion Hosking
Guy Watts Tells His Story:
Recollections of a Local Octogenarian
by Guy Watts
Putting It On Record
by Alexander Lobban
from Manning River Times Mar 26, 1910
The Oxygen Farm, Elands
by Jane Watson
Wingham Racecourse
by Mal Rattray
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Discovering John Newby:
A Remarkable Man
by Mieke van Werdt
William Willmet Board & Son (Peter):
Pioneers in Chosen Fields
by Marion Hosking
Manning Packet:
Exposing a Myth
by Penny Rich
South for Surprises, Young Man
Honest Publicity for Emmigrants
Reprint: Emigrant’s Guide, 1852
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Wingham on Growth:
MVHS Museum History
by John McKenzie
Lease of Life For Old Church:
St Barbabas, Oxley Island
by David Freeman
Elands to Wingham: The Longest Journey
Life of Hilton Rose
by Royce & Janet Byrnes
Youth’s Reflections on Australia Day
Address by Wingham High Captains
by Rowan Kendall & Hannah George
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Neville Reginald Howse, 1863-1930:
Surgeon, soldier & statesman
by John Ramsland
Victoria Cross
by Penny Rich
The Howse Collection
by Penny Rich
Strolling Around Wingham
by Arthur Cooper, et. al.
Educating the Children of Killawarra
by Glenda Smith
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The Fortunes of a Family
(The Wootton Racing Dynasty)
by Royce Byrnes
Gould League of Bird Lovers
(Celebrating 100 years)
by Glenda Smith
Benjamin Joyce:
Second Landowner at Bow Bow Creek
by Glenda Smith
Realities of Convict Transport
by Penny Rich
Floods: Bane of the Manning
Empire newspaper article, 1866
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