From the late-1900s the small settler community at Iluka promoted the village as an idyllic spot, to locals and other leisure seekers. The earliest holiday accommodation provided was at John Rush’s North Head Hotel, built in 1874. By 1916 the Hotel underwent an upgrade to meet expanded demand for either the weekend get-away, or a […]
Owned and operated by ‘Bill’ Hickey (William 1886–1973) from the 1910s to 1955, the timber launch known as Beryl was used to transfer people, goods, and the mail, across the Clarence River from Yamba to Iluka. She ran this route in tandem with her sister motor-launch the Phfrane (pronounced Fray-nee), also owned by Bill. Europeam […]
Tess Alfonsi is recorded as Broken Hill’s first woman miner – a designation that is all the weightier given the historic domination of mining by men. She worked the Triple Chance Mine with a hammer-tap drill, hid a pistol in her skirt when she paid the wages and protected her mine from claim jumpers with […]
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