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24.01.2022 Anzac Avenue Engadine Anzac Avenue Engadine was named by Mr Arthur Walter Bower a returned soldier and wounded Gallipoli veteran who served in the First World War (1914-1918). Arthur and his wife Nora settled at Engadine in 1916 following Arthur’s discharge from the Australian Imperial Forces. The Government of the day subdivided land in the area and encouraged returned soldiers to take up the land for farming. The Bowers took up this opportunity and established a sizeable p...Continue reading

22.01.2022 Susie Burrell suggests some great Super Foods available at Aldi.

21.01.2022 Garrawarra Hospital Waterfall NSW.

20.01.2022 The Lost Village of Sherbrooke. The village of Sherbrooke was originally called Bulli Mountain and existed from early settlement of the Bulli mountain-top around the 1840’s or 50’s. Sherbrooke was given its pretty name when the Bulli Mountain village became a post town to distinguish it from other local Bulli villages. The name was decided upon to honour Robert Lowe, (Lord Sherbrooke,) an English Barrister with a strong community conscience, who had made his home in Austr...Continue reading

19.01.2022 This year 2013 is the two hundred year anniversary of the first European expedition to find a route across that part of the Great Dividing Range, known as the Blue Mountains. The Blue Mountains were originally known as Carmarthen Hills and Landsdowne Hills by Governor Phillip. However, there was soon a name change to Blue Mountains. The mountains are densely filled with oil-bearing eucalyptus trees. The droplets of oil combined with water vapour and dust particles in t...Continue reading

18.01.2022 Mac's History Corner... Campbelltown Robbery... On 6 August 1883 a matter was heard before Sir George Innes, Magistrate, in the Darlinghurst Criminal Court. The Hon. W.B.Daley Attorney General and a Mr Healy prosecuted the case for the Crown. Before the court was two men, William Egan and Dan Scanlan, they had been indicted for Robbery under Arms. The Crown alledged that they had held up a Mr Topham and his groom Henry Johnstone who were driving in their buggy to Cataract Cit...y from Campbelltown with a payroll of more than a Thousand pound in Union bank notes and gold and silver. The robbers had threatened to "blow their brains out" with the revolvers they carried and had attempted to conceal their own identities by wearing masks. They tied Mr Topham and Mr Johnstone to a tree and escaped with the payroll . The men freed themselves and alerted Police. The robbers were caught at Campbelltown with most of the money in their possession. Their defence was that Scanlan had found the money in a pillowcase. After hearing all evidence, a jury returned a verdict of guilty and the pair were sentenced to 12 years of road building in the colony. See more

17.01.2022 Banjo Street, Heathcote Banjo Street was named in honour of Australia’s most loved bush poet; Andrew Barton Banjo Paterson. Paterson was born on Narrambla, a property near Orange, NSW in February 1864. He was the eldest son of a Scottish immigrant from Lanarkshire, Andrew Bogle Paterson and an Australian-born mother, Rose Barton (related to the future Prime Minister Edmund Barton). Although born near Orange, the young Paterson lived on an isolated rural property in the ...Continue reading

17.01.2022 Writing Comic http://www.pinterest.com/pin/279293614365885030/

15.01.2022 Mac's history Corner ... THE BIRTH OF ROYAL NATIONAL PARK The land around the Port Hacking had been mostly unknown to European settlement until that part of the country was surveyed for the Illawarra Rail Line. Sir John Robertson MLC, impressed with the natural beauty of the land ordered a survey to be made respecting the tract of land bordering Port Hacking, a description was then prepared of the boundaries of the area and he set about securing the land for a public recreat...Continue reading

13.01.2022 Captain Robert Marsh Westmacott In 1801, in Sidmouth, County Devon, on the south coast of England, Robert Marsh Westmacott was born. He was the son of the much respected and celebrated English sculptor, Sir Richard Westmacott. Robert Marsh Westmacott’s military education during the early part of the 1820’s gave him skills in draughtsmanship, topographical drawing and surveying....Continue reading

12.01.2022 RECORD BREAKING KOALA JOEY BREEDING The Australian Reptile Park has broken their record for the most koala joeys born in a YEAR with TEN koalas!

10.01.2022 SOUND ON Many Australians have never known war, nor the relief of one ending. This footage shows scenes of pure joy erupting on George St in Sydney on August 15, 1945, after peace was declared following the Japanese surrender. #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay

07.01.2022 Campbelltown Robbery

06.01.2022 Mac's History Corner - Easter Eggs Eggs have long been a symbol of fertility and rebirth, and the giving of painted hard-boiled eggs in the spring, following the dead of winter is thought to pre-date Christianity with its roots in paganism. Early Christianity recognised the parallels to the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the pagan celebration of rebirth and renewal which was celebrated in the northern spring. Logically then, to early Christians the Easter egg became a sy...Continue reading