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Cement History, Charbon, Local History, Social Life

Charbon Township – Vision and Reality

December 3, 2019April 30, 2022 Kandos History

Overwhelmingly I felt a sense of sadness for a once-thriving village.

Tagged Education, landscape, Local History, Social Life19 Comments
Aboriginal History, Family History, Rural life

Land, Lots of Land

October 6, 2019July 6, 2021 Kandos History

It was a familiar scene: a rough dirt road, dry creek bed, scrubby bushland. I saw no evidence of cultivation or construction, just shadows, silence, rustlings. But overwhelmingly I felt a sense of connection. I belonged there. I had sprung from this spot.

Tagged Family History, landscape, pioneers8 Comments
Aboriginal History, Local History, Rural life, Social Life

Roaming Around the Long Paddock

July 12, 2019July 6, 2021 Kandos History

It might surprise you to learn that TSRs are part of Kandos history.

Tagged landscape, Local History, pioneers7 Comments
Architecture, Cement History, Local History, Social Life

Sweet Scent of Success

September 7, 2018November 13, 2022 Kandos History

So what does an English Baron have to do with Kandos? It seems the cement company was hanging on Leverhulme's coat-tails to promote its own workplace philosophy

Tagged Architecture, landscape, Local History, Social Life5 Comments
Aboriginal History, Local History, Social Life

Further Along the Castlereagh Highway

June 1, 2018July 8, 2021 Kandos History

It seems to me Capertee, population 145 at the last census, punches above its weight.

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Aboriginal History, Family History, Local History, Social Life

Along the Castlereagh Highway

May 18, 2018July 8, 2021 Kandos History

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.

Tagged Family History, landscape, pioneers8 Comments
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