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It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our beloved member, Hazel King, on 31st August.  She was a dedicated guide on our Open Days at Yaralla and Rivendell and, in 2021, was awarded an OAM for her service to horticulture and to community history. Hazel’s father was employed as the head…

The borough of Five Dock, which includes Burketown, Drummoyne, and Birkenhead, was incorporated on the 25th of July, 1871. It is bounded on the north by the Parramatta River, on the east by Iron Cove Creek and Parramatta-road, on the west by Concord and Hen and Chicken Bay, and on the south by Ashfield. lt…

The fear and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic may feel new to many of us. But it is strangely familiar to those who lived through the polio epidemic of the last century. Polio – the silent killer In the first half of the 20th century, as smallpox began to disappear, polio (infantile paralysis) was the…

REMEMBER WHEN “It all started back in ‘66 when they changed from pounds to dollar – me bloody overdraft doubled. Then they brought in kilograms instead of pounds – now I’m only producing half of what I used to. Then they changed rain to millimeters and we haven’t had an inch of rain since. They bring in Celsius…