Books Tell a Story

We all have some possessions, collected through the years; Some bring happy memories, others bring the tears. Not many from our childhood, we didn’t bother then, We were far too busy learning and counting up to ten. When maturity came through we started to collect. Some we threw away later, the special ones we kept….

All Absolutely Wrong!!! 25. “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.  It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”   – Albert Einstein, 1932 24.  “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”  – Decca Recording Company on declining to…

We recently received a donation of this set of framed photographs of several boats which carried the inscription:  Presented to P. Edwards, Esq., by the boys of the Concord Dinghi Club. We have been unable to find any information of this club or of the gentleman named.   Can you help, please?

Municipality of Concord – Population 1901 – 2,800;   1911 – 4,076;  1921 – 11,013;  1933 – 23,213;   1947 – 29,401;   1954 – 28,326;  1961 – 27,750 From 1947 there is a falling off in the population because the people are growing older, but as young people come to the district the population figures will rise….

Continuing our article in last month’s newsletter: And now we may turn to our first bushranger, and be edified to find that he bore one of the most famous names in all history — that of Caesar. John Caesar was a powerfully built West Indian Negro, who had come to the Colony in the First…

Harrow is a small town situated half-way between Melbourne and Adelaide, and the Johnny Mullagh story is a proud part of its history. The local museum features the history of Mullagh and his first XI cricket team, the first ever Australian sports team to tour the UK, and contains a life-size bronze statue of him….