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: $7.50 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
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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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Inheriting Grace in Adversity:
Ella Simon, 1902-1981
by John Ramsland
They Shall Grow Not Old
(Manning’s Vietnam War Losses)
by Eric Richardson
Kimbriki School 1869-1972:
Struggle For Survival
by Glenda Smith
Looking Back:
Manning Schools in the 1850s
by ’Rustic’ (Alexander Lobban), 1910
Legend of the Three Bothers Mountains
Extracted from Chronicle 1982
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A Breach of Promise Case, 1903
by Maurie Garland
Growth begets Growth
(Taree’s Christmas Tree)
by Penny Rich
Photographic Gallery: Taree
by Maurie Garland
A Century of Women’s Fashion:
1900-2000
by Eric Richardson
Recollections of the Manning, 1873
by Rev J A Waddell (written 1924)
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Herbert Guyler: Soldier
Researched by Margaret Clarke
Book Review: The Swiss Swagman
by Penny Rich
From Winchelsea to Kelvin Grove
(The Martin family and Volwing Cottage)
Researched by Merle Martin
Wooden boat building research:
Call for assistence
by Eric Richardson
The Aboriginal school at Purfleet – Part 2
by John Ramsland
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