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Aboriginal History, Family History, Local History, Rylstone, Social Life

Dabee Country

April 17, 2020July 5, 2021 Kandos History

They were absentee landowners, colonial gentry, fraternising with their peers, making deals, raising capital and writing letters to public officials and newspapers. They paid an overseer to manage their holding.

Tagged Aboriginal History, Family History, Farming, Local History, pioneers, Rylstone23 Comments
Family History, Sport

Beatrice Hayley Kandos Sporting Hero

January 24, 2020July 6, 2021 Kandos History

On 7th February 1962 Beatrice shared the front cover of the Australian Women's Weekly Teenagers' Weekly with two other sporting heroes from the bush, tennis player Margaret Court from Albury and squash player Heather Blundell from Queanbeyan.

Tagged Farming, pioneers6 Comments
Rural life, Social Life

What’s a Wool Press?

December 27, 2019July 6, 2021 Kandos History

Is it any surprise then that many Australians in the nineteenth century, especially those newly arrived, saw opportunity in sheep farming? Little labour (most of the year) and big returns.

Tagged Farming, pioneers8 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
Family History

A Founding Mother

September 6, 2019July 6, 2021 Kandos History

This is the story of a gutsy, red-headed, seventeen-year-old, Sarah Bellamy

Tagged Family History, pioneers, Rylstone, Social Life8 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, Businesses, Family History, Local History

Mystery Resident

September 21, 2018July 10, 2021 Kandos History

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?

Tagged Architecture, Family History, horse racing, pioneers3 Comments
Family History, Local History, Social Life

Kandos – A Labor Town

August 24, 2018July 8, 2021 Kandos History

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.'

Tagged Family History, featured, Local History, pioneers, Social Life8 Comments
Architecture, Businesses, Local History, Social Life

It’s Official – A Post Office for Kandos

August 10, 2018July 8, 2021 Kandos History

The internet rules our lives today, but just a century ago the latest technology was the telephone.

Tagged Architecture, Local History, pioneers, Social Life3 Comments
Local History, Migrant History, Social Life

Fault-lines in the Aussie Character

July 15, 2018July 8, 2021 Kandos History

We overlook or forget the hostility intolerance suspicion and racism that different migrant groups have revealed in the Australian character.

Tagged pioneers, Social Life6 Comments
Clandulla, Ilford, Local History, Social Life

A Deviation from the Castlereagh Highway

June 15, 2018July 8, 2021 Kandos History

How did that name come about? I guess it is tall and steep like a woman's petticoat, but you might have other theories. It was surely named by a man.

Tagged Ilford, Local History, pioneers, Social Life6 Comments

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