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
Usual Departments
Books and publications, Society archive accessions, Society information
Cost: $5.00 28 pages 15cm x 21 cm
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
Usual Departments
From the President, Book Review and launch (Horace Dean: A pocketful of lies'[Author: Maurie Garland], Vale Alan Richardson [3 May 1930-1 July 2011], Society archive accessions, Society information
Cost: $5.00 28 pages 15cm x 21 cm
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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Education: The Handmaiden of Religion
by Eric Richardson
The Aboriginal School at Purfleet – Part 1
by John Ramsland
A Matter of School Discipline, 1866
by Maurie Garland
Photographic Blow-up: Taree 1923
by Maurie Garland
Rev Thomas Watt Versus Henry Flett – Part 2
by Maurie Garland
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Wingham Public School:
A Decade of Change 1978-1988
by Royce Byrnes
The Fight to Save a Heritage Building
by Eric Richardson
Rev Thomas Watt Versus Henry Flett – Part 1
by Maurie Garland
Tales of Reconcilliation:
Kooyong’s Rescue
Researched by Valerie Djenidi
The Manning in 1873
from The Sydney Morning Herald, 1873
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The Bulley – Wingham Connection
by Royce Byrnes
What’s in a Name?
by Eric Richardson
Adventures of an Editor in Search of News
(A Taree A&H Committee Meeting)
by Horace Dean (1866)
Sea Voyage Aboard SS Diamentina
from Sydney Morning Herald, 1873
Be a Historian – Write History Parts 3&4
by Alan Richardson
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Farewell to Scotland; Welcome to the Manning
by Prof. John Ramsland
100th Anniversary of Great Taree Fire
by Katherine Bell
Historic Woodside House, Built circa 1839
by Judy Welch & Therese Archinal
Be a Historian – Write History Parts 1&2
by Alan Richardson
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