Recently we received an almost complete set of the magazine “Inside History”.
Unfortunately, eight of the issues were missing – Issues Nos. 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 18 and 34.
If any of our readers have one of these they no longer want, we would be most happy to accept the donation.
Found in our collection was this stunning outfit. Unfortunately we don’t know anything about it. The only clue we have is an attached piece of paper saying it was an ‘Italian Judge’s Cloak, WWII’. Can you help? Special thanks to our wonderful model, Patricio, who also helps out as our brilliant clever handyman.
Once named “Rolled oat biscuits” or “Soldiers’ biscuits”, the history of Anzac biscuits dates back to a time when wives and mothers’ groups would bake treats to send to troops overseas because the ingredients did not spoil easily and they kept well during naval transportation. They have long been associated with the Australian and New…
An interesting souvenir of the opening of the first railway in New South Wales from Sydney to Parramatta Junction is a miniature bucket. When the railway was opened on September 22nd, 1855 the proprietor of the Vauxhall Hotel, which still stands today, advertised that he would sell rum at a penny a bucket. The buckets,…
Industries of Mortlake – Cabarita Australian Gas Light Company Concord’s most significant industrial complex was also one of its earliest. The Australian Gas Light Company was established in Sydney in 1837, only twenty-five years after the world’s first gas company had been formed in Britain. In the 1830’s the city of Sydney was lit by…
William was not yet five when his mother Ada died in August 1898. His father, John Shipham, died four years later. Now orphaned, William and his younger brother, Concord, were given over to the care of relatives. William went to live with his grandfather, Daniel Zoeller, a prominent local businessman and former mayor of Concord….
Victor Horder was the youngest solder from Concord to enlist in the First World War at 15 years of age. He went on to serve in the Second World War. On 28 March 1917 he enlisted in the Army under the name of William Arthur Coleman and gave his age as 18 years. Although he…
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