Our community Manly home for boysBy richardmichellMonday, 12th October NB0 The site of a block of units at 15 Stuart Street, Manly, has an interesting and contrasting history in the...
Our community 40 years of Don Bank MuseumBy noauthorWednesday, 30th September NS0 2021 marked the 40th anniversary of the opening of Don Bank Museum, the oldest wooden house in North Sydney. Its...
Our community Narrabeen street and the first fleetBy noauthorWednesday, 23rd September PW0 A street on the Peninsula was named after a first fleet farmer who was unlucky not to be much, much...
Our community Passion for peddlingBy noauthorWednesday, 16th September NS0 A well-known Cammeray personality pioneered long-distance cycling on the North Shore. Cycling in Sydney is very different from peddling around...
Our community Australia’s first silver screen starBy richardmichell NB0 The Manly Waterworks – famous for its role in the movie BMX Bandits, where a young Nicole Kidman, rode down...
Our community The women behind Hegarty’s FerriesBy noauthor NS0 The 1950s was a tumultuous decade for Sydney’s mass transport. In 1958, the city’s tram system, then the largest in...
Our community Protecting our pine-lined promenadeBy richardmichell NB0 A military move to cut down the Manly beachfront pine trees during World War Two was scuppered at the eleventh...
Our community ‘Stay at home’: creativity and ingenuity of homemakersBy noauthor NS0 Our community is well accustomed to staying at home: working, studying, parenting and caring. Despite living in an era of...
Our community Through the wormholeBy noauthor NB0 Many readers will know of and have perhaps traversed the hand cut tunnel or ‘wormhole’ through the headland at Queenscliff. ...
Our community An old scene through new eyesBy noauthor NS0 Binem ‘Bill’ Grunstein was among the first of the 170,000 ‘displaced persons’ who came to Australia after the upheaval of...