Architect William Kemp introduced a new style of bush school, the Beehive. It avoided the Gothic, had an enclosed verandah, semi-circular galvanised iron roof and was built with local materials (in the case of Pyangle, timber and stone).
Category: Family History
From Little Things Big Things Grow
Education was pretty raw a hundred and fifty years ago. Imagine a dozen or more kids squashed on a couple of long benches, scraping their feet on the dirt floor of a slab and bark shack, reciting letters of the alphabet, while the untrained teacher pointed with his cane.
Mystery Resident
W B Murphy jumped out of on-line newspapers so many times I finally said, 'OK! I'll do your story.' But how to begin?
Kandos – A Labor Town
In December 1922 the Lithgow Mercury announced, 'although in other centres Labor Day demonstrations seem to be declining, Kandos in the vigor of its youth, put forth its best effort on Saturday.'
Irene Kearins Small Businesswoman
We learn of a woman who discovered that being a wife, mother (two school-age sons Terry and Lance) and home-maker, wasn't going to give her the fulfilment she wanted.
Along the Castlereagh Highway
The highlight of the highway route, but also the part that causes a tinge of anxiety for me, is that sliver of road cut into the side of Blackman's Crown, in early days referred to as the Crown Ridge.
Is There Something Wrong with Anzac Day?
Even in those early years, Australians understood the significance of Anzac Day as more than a commemoration of those who had fought.
Death by Influenza
Strangely, this flu attacked young, healthy, fit adults rather than the very young, old and infirm.
FYI New Zealanders Launched Kandos
Kandosians might find it hard to accept that three New Zealanders contributed more to the foundation of Kandos than three Australians.
Let Me Tell You About the Cordial Factory
You probably think of cordial the same way I did: a coloured syrup (bright red or green in my day) which you poured into a glass, up to about a centimetre, and then topped up with ice cold water.
Sweetheart Souvenirs
Browsing through some old papers the other day, I came across a perspex swan. It's the type of pretty, purposeless object that attracts a child and in fact fits neatly into a child's hand. I remember holding it often as I explored my mother's dressing table and examined her trinkets. However, it was a group… Continue reading Sweetheart Souvenirs
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