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Stories for Villages and Towns

Villages and Towns

A Berry Boy in Africa

Thomas Satchell Knight's Boer War Uniform

A Centenary Covered

St Peter’s, East Maitland Centenary Booklet

A Charming View

Jessie McGeachie’s Wedding Photograph at Craig Royston, Toronto

A Critical Crusade

Maitland’s Register for the Notification of Infectious Diseases

A Fancy Frame

Elsie Campbell’s Ornamental Leather Work

A Good Fit

James Dalton's Top Hat

A Great Social Benefit

A Fundraising Concert in Support of the Dudley School of Arts

A Lifelong Possession

William Stewart Brings His Drafting Set to Berry

A Man For All Seasons

Brett Whiteley's Memories of Bathurst

A Man of Many Parts

Policeman, Horseman and Good Citizen

A Measure of Good Health

Morpeth Baby Health Centre’s Seat Scales

A Measure of Time

Percy Young, Pioneering Business Owner

A Need for Speed

The Hunter River Steam Navigation Company’s Clock

A Night to Remember

Souvenir of the Caves Beach 1973 Surf Club Ball

A Piece of a Promise

The Lead-light at St James’ Church at Morpeth

A Promising Young Life

Morpeth’s Framed Portrait of Private Norman Peacock

A Right to Mine

Earning a Living in the Great Depression

A Role to Play

The Heslop Sisters Collect Maitland’s Stage History

A Seat at the Cinema

Viewing Morpeth’s Golden Age of Film

A Soft Reminder?

An Edwardian Blouse Treasured by Berry’s Ena Slater

A Tribute with a Twist

The Bank Manager's Farewell

A Troublesome Echo

A Canopy and Windlock for Morpeth Courthouse

A Tweed River Life

European Settlement in the Sub-tropics

A Useful Heirloom

An Old English Food Warming Dish In Berry

Advertise Here

Talkie Slide Times

Ride on Beryl

Iluka's Well Remembered Timber Launch

All Strapped Up

Protecting Pit Ponies in the Hunter Collieries

All the Good of the Land

Selling Berry Butter to The World

All the Necessary Points

A Civil Defence Era First Aid Pack

Amy at Veteran’s Flat

How Local Art Makes Local History

An ‘Afghan’ Cameleer’s Life and Times

Shamroze Khan's Colourful Story

detail of gold detailing on collar

An Impossible Proposition

Maitland’s Plan to Relocate to Higher Ground

An Ingenious and Elegant Artist

With a Poet’s Eye and Artist’s Hand

An Instrument of Change

The Surveying Equipment of James C. Wilson

An Interrupted Note

The War Diary of Morpeth’s Harold Maynard

An Outback Lifeline

Tom Urwin’s Civic Duty Shines

Anna Maria’s Legacy

The Eales Family Bible from Morpeth

Apologies to Vermeer and Thanks to Cezanne

Judith Ryrie, Afternoon by the river – Maitland, 2006

Armed to Defend

Maitland’s Citizen Soldiers Sign Up

Art Teacher Nurtured Local Talent

May the Mentor

As Long As Memory Lasts

Herbert Maynard’s Army Portrait

At One With The Universe

A Cosmic Egg

Best Foot Forward

Celebrating Each Step of Maitland's History

Blown Away

Hollywood Brought to Australian Small-Town Cinemas

Blue Skies and Dusty Ground

Anna Culliton’s Real Deal Rodeo

Bountiful Baskets

A Relic of Historic Commercial Fishing at Iluka

Bowling Over Their Critics

Mereah Austen, Women’s Cricket, and ‘The Rockley Game’

Bragging Rights

Moonbi’s Early Cricketing Triumph

Broad Shoulders

Lieutenant Jonathan Warner at Lake Macquarie

Broken Hill’s Kind-hearted Grocer

Trading on Compassion

aged hardcover book

Bucketing Down

Community Spirit During the 1955 Narrabri Flood

Business As Usual

Claire Martin, Riverbank Path - Maitland, 2006

A Different Perspective

Peter Pinson, Selective View of Maitland from the River Bank, 2006

By Laws and Motions

Minuting Maitland’s Early Council Meetings

Capitalism Will Eat Itself

The Feast of Trimalchio, 2009

Capturing the Barrier

James Wooler's Broken Hill

Carved Chronicles

Unveiling the Legacy of Woodblock Printing in Glen Innes

Celebrating the Key To Power

The Tamworth Power Station Museum's Story

Cheque, Please!

A Promise Written in Stone

Cinema By the Sea

Frank Clancy and the Iluka Picture Theatre

Circling the Wagons

Migration, Agriculture and Industry

Clay and Commerce

The Marketing Magic of Western Stores

Close at Hand

A Medicine Chest from Berry

Colonial Medicine at Carcoar

A Chest of Cures

Commerce and Grandeur

James and Mary Taylor’s Fancy Chairs from Morpeth

An Unusual Token of Esteem

A Retirement Gift for Constable Herbert Norman Palmer

A Tragic Paper Trail

WWI Documents Delivered to Private Clouten’s Parents

Cottoning On

Namoi Pastoralists Celebrate a New Crop

Cozzie Chronology

Caves Beach Lifesavers March Past in Style

Crank Calling

The Innovative Ericsson Skeletal Telephone

Credit Crunch?

W.J.A. Bryce’s Closing Gift

Crockery Craze

Doris Hall’s Bone China Souvenirs of Milton

Crowning Glory

An Australian Military Icon

Darkness at Will

Crompton's Drive to Measure Electric Current

device with a circular face with two arms to indicate current level

Deadly Force

How Maitland Gaol Guards Honed Their Gun Skills

Discoverer of Rare Mineral Murdered

The Story Behind the Naming of Raspite

gray/black rock with yellow gemstones poking out in various places

Drink That Which You Like Best!

Albury's Red Shell Lemonade

Echoes of Care

The Enduring Legacy of Glen Innes Hospital

Eighteen Blocks of Gold

Cutting Through Butter

Elemental Tension

Timothy Maguire, Panorama (Fire and Flood) 2018

En Route

Clouten’s Troopship Journey Postcards to Lake Macquarie

Every Cloud Has a Neon Lining

Made In The Light – Happy Cloud, 2011

Fanciful Fossicking

Sapphires and Black Panthers in the Glen Innes Highlands

Fancy Pants

A Scottish Emigrant and her Knickers in Berry

Fanning the Retail Flames

Broken Hill's Novel Advertising Campaign

hand fan with twelve circular, black and white portraits of babies surrouded by floral designs, it has text which reads 'BROKEN HILL'S BONNIE BABIES'

Far Removed

John Salvana’s Dry Billabong

Fast Furniture

Steam-powered Manufacturing at J G White’s, Morpeth

Father Figures

Constable Wallbank’s Ink Stand

Fatty Finn Goes Fishing

An Australian Icon Comes to Iluka

Felt a Little Bit Country

Lucy Culliton’s Fibre Guitar

Fifty Pounds Worth of Silver

A Remnant of Banking in Berry

First Light

Electricity in the Streets of Tamworth

aged hardcover book with 'LETTER BOOK' on the spine

Forged in Faith

A Legacy of Morpeth’s Close Family

From Doorsteps to Skylines

Charles Bayliss and Beaufoy Merlin Create a National Treasure

From Mortar to Monoliths

The Making of Community Legend, John Tregurtha

From Nettleton

Letters Sent From a Ghost Town

From the Inside Out

A Pair of Portraits by Sally Bourke

From White Clay Mountain

A Sandstock Brick Made on the Berry Estate

Chipped, dusty red, sandstone brick

Gateways to Waterways

Emma Lohmann, A view of Maitland (after Vermeer) 2006

Going, Going, Gone!

Intensifying Narrabri’s Agricultural Industry

Handsome Gifts

A Woods’ Ivory Dinner Set from Singleton

Harry’s Crescendo

Eugowra's Town Band Devotee

hexagonal. wooden concertina, it looks similar to a small accordian

Having Faith in the Ridge

Madeleine Lenz's Dogged Spirit

High and Dry

Maitland’s Colourful Carnival to Celebrate Flood Recovery

Hitting the Mark

How the Oxenfords Saved Grafton Rifle Club

Hop, Step, Jump!

Lindsay’s Schoolboy Athletics Trophies from Maitland

Hospital Heyday

A Booklet to Celebrate Maitland Hospital’s Centenary

Householders’ Handbook for Nuclear Warfare

A Practical Pamphlet to Survive the H-Bomb

Hurled to Eternity

Tragedy in the Dudley Colliery

Through a New Lens

Innovating Amateur Photography

In Her Own Right

The Legacy of Gundula Holbrook

In Honour of Jack

Canowindra's Rising Star

Industry Connections

Carpentry in the City of Coal

Rectangular tray of rusty, assorted drill bits.

Jobs for the Boys

Maitland’s Town Hall Alterations Created Depression Employment

Johanna Rosler’s Locket

A Symbol of Love, Family and Friendship

Kathleen’s Sterling Bequest

Tamworth's Australian Silverware Collection

ornate ink well with lid removed revealing a gold interior with a small circular opening

Keeping a Steady Rhythm

150 Years of the Milton District Band

Keeping His Cool

Leslie Crawford’s Dairying Cream Cooler from Berry

corrugated metal device with pins used for attaching

Keeping Time

The Old Morpeth Courthouse Clock

Kwong Sing & Co

Tools and Trade From Across the Sea

Land of Milk

A Taiwanese Screen for the Hunter Valley Dairy Company

Legacy in a Bottle

James Herbert Clarke and the Narrabri Ice Co

Like Many Girls Her Age

Minnie Hall’s Autograph Album

Links to the Land

Using Gunter's Chain to Survey Rockley

Literacy is Power

The Hanlon Family Writing Slope

Litres of Lacquer

A Shellac Jar from White’s Factory, Morpeth

Looking Back to Look Forward

Maitland’s Sobering Reminders of the 1955 Flood

Magnificent Memento

A Thank-you Gift for Eugene Coleman

close up of framed written address dated Narrbari, March 7th 1903, it has a floral illustration at the top and the writing is script in green and red.

Maitland’s Golden Age

Alexander McKenzie, Cloud Cover Over Maitland, 2006

Making a Scene

Cooke & Collingridge’s Bird’s Eye View of Bathurst

Making Washing Day A Pleasure

A Laundry Mangle from Morpeth

Marking Memories

Iluka’s Postmistress, Lizzie Hickey

Marking Time

The Cookhouse Chimney at Maitland Gaol

Mental and Moral Improvement

85 years at Maitland’s School of Arts

Miltie’s Mark

Stenciling Crates at Mudge’s Cordial Factory, Milton

Mottoes Maketh The Man

The Dudley Public School Patch

Moulder’s Mason Apron

Belonging to a Brotherhood

simple waist apron that looks like a drawing of an envelope with circular twine attachments

Movement on the Mountain

Motor Racing at Bathurst’s Panorama Circuit

aged souvenir programme with illustrative cover of two motorcyclists named 'THE AUSTRALIAN 150TH CELEBRATIONS T T AT MT. PANORAMA BATHRUST NSW ON EASTER SUNDAY APRIL 16TH 1938'

Moving Parts

The Lives of Rockley Mill

Musical Memories

Kate Campbell-Pope’s Grass Guitar

My Dear Old Frank

The Bray Children's Letters

handwritten letter on simple paper

‘Needled Spires Point the True North…’

Michael Fitzjames, View of Maitland from the Riverbank (With Apologies to Jan Vermeer and View of Delft), 2006

No Dough Needed

Bread tokens from the West Wallsend Co-op

Not Just A Desk Job

Never A Dull Moment For Constable Wallbank

On Tap at Morpeth

Tooths Draught Beer Dispenser

On the Drawing Board

Bunning and Madden Plan Rutherford’s Mall

Architectural drawing, coloured with greens and oranges, depicting a cross-section of the building.

Once Out of View

The Historic Chinese Community at Wagga Revealed

collection of circular coins with square cut-outs in the centre

One for the Road

A Young Boy’s Mechanical Passion

Orange’s Bold Bid

Competing to be the Capital

blue booklet bounded with a single string, it has gold lettering and leaf design which reads 'CANOBOLAS / THE IDEAL SITE FOR THE FEDERAL CAPITAL'

Out of the Woods

Hayes’ Cedar Desk by Morpeth Craftsman J.G. White

Out of the Wreckage

Photographing the 1910 Killingworth Colliery Explosion

Over Troubled Water

Plans for Building and Repairing Maitland’s Long Bridge

Past Ties

Unpicking the Story of Maud’s Childhood Apron

Personal Effects

WWI Portrait and Notebook of Lake Macquarie’s Leslie Clouten

Pick Up A Pint

A Dairy Bottle Sealer From Cochrane’s Bomaderry Grocery

Pieces and Patience

Morpeth’s Important Bridge Modelled in Miniature

Postmarked Wollumben

The Story Behind the Stamp

metal post mark stamp

Predator Falling Prey

The Tasmanian Tiger Found Near Dubbo

Pretty But Practical

Ann Chellew’s Day Dress

Pride of Place

Robin Goodall Puts Sheep in the Picture

Protect, Educate & Aid

A National Emergency Services Armband

Pulling Down to Pick Up

Lightening the Load at the Historic Berry Wharf

Purl One For Climate

Albury’s ‘Knitting Nannas for Renewables’

Putting Pen to Paper

The Diary-Notebook of Maitland Mercury’s John Thompson

Rocky Beginnings

A Record of the Young Wallsend Colliery Closure

Roll Up, Roll Up!

Rotating Entertainments at Broken Hill

antique roller skates, they look like four-wheeled, metal contraptions with leather ankle straps

Room for Improvement

The West Maitland School of Arts and its 1860 Rule Book and Catalogue

Save the Last Dance for Me

Miss Webb’s Persistent Suitor

Saving Life and Property

Maitland’s Boat Brigade for Times of Flood

Sealing the Deal

Marking Narrabri's Evolution from Settlement to Shire

See the Music

Judith Ahern Documents the Tamworth Country Music Festival

Black and white photograpg of a large group of people standing in the street facing towards the camera. People of all ages wear cowboy hats and plaid.

Seeing Herman Rosler

Portrait of a German Pioneer

Seeing Herself

Norma Allen and Newcastle’s Low Show Group

Sending Dots and Dashes

Paper Tape Messaging

Serenity, Now

Painting Mindfulness

She’ll Be Right, Mate

Promoting Cockle Creek Smelter

Sign of Respect

Dr Pierce’s Memorial Plaque from Maitland’s Fountain

Sign of the Times

Maynard’s Bootmaking Business at Morpeth

Signing Up for the Quiet Life

Managing Mollymook’s Golf Club and Guest House

Simply Electric

Edison’s World Significant Tubes

Sixpence a Bag

Souvenir Shells in a Hunter Valley Showcase

Slow to Turn

Switching to Electricity at West Wallsend

antique lightbulb attached to metal light fitting

Small But Perfect For The Job

The Huon Post Office

Solomon’s Lens

The Legacy of Solomon Studios at Tamworth

Something Blue

Gwen Wiley's Handkerchief Sachet

Sprig From the Shores

The Hickey Family in Iluka

Stained Salvage

The (Short-Lived) Narrabri Town Hall

Stars and Stunts

The Nanjing Acrobats Come to Town

Step Inside the Rose Marie

Orange's Greek Cafe Culture

Still Alive

Leaving a Legacy in Bathurst

Still Stainless

Caring for Patients at Narrabri District Hospital

Still Standing

Maitland Promotes its Colonial Heritage

Street Ablaze

Wee Waa's Imperial Hotel

Submarine Town

From Scrap Metal to Monument

Symbols of Service

Morpeth’s Harry Cradick’s World War I medals

Talkies Come to Town

The Diary of a Projectionist

That’s for Spirits

An English Bottle Made for a Morpeth Merchant

The Art of Admiration

Honouring Morpeth’s Popular Postmaster

The Beating Heart of the Marching Band

West Wallsend's Dandy Drum

Silver, reflective top of a black drum with silver fittings.

The Best Business Sites in Town

A Subdivision Auction Poster from Germanton

The Big Picture

Charles Rasp's Stunning Photographic Portrait

The Blow-in’s Demise

Brian Maloney Tells a Cautionary Tale

The Bunkhouse Orchestra

The Strutt Sisters and Tamworth's Peel Street Buskers

The City of Levees

Joe Frost, View of Maitland, 2006

The Club with No Beer

The Bowlo’s Long Road to Legitimacy

The Cows Are Gone

Frank Watters’ Tribute to Murton’s Dairy

The Cream of The West

The Making of Barrett's Ice Cream Enterprise

The Dress with Two Lives

1840s Ladies and Dressmakers in the Hunter Region

The Flow of Time

Judith White, View of Maitland: River and Sky, 2006

The Gift of a Gallery

John Salvana's Artistic Dream

The Gift of Song

The Babaneek Ladies' Choir

‘The Handsomest Structure of its Kind’

Modelling Bathurst Station

The Heart of the Kitchen

A Cast Iron Stove by Morpeth’s Duncan Sim

The Incorruptible Cashier

Keeping Accurate Accounts at Millthorpe

metal antique cash register on wooden base

The Jangling Envelope

Recompense for Dirty and Dangerous Work

The Painted River

Leo Robba, Between the Trees – The River, 2006

The Painters in The Painting

Euan Macleod, Maitland - John and Leo, 2006

The Paradox of Spontaneity

John R. Walker, On the Bank, 2006

The People’s Painter

The Life and Love of Pro Hart

The Ploughman’s Prize

Cultivating Good Farming Practice

detail of a ploughman using a single furrow plough drawn by two oxen

The PM’s Smoking Plane

A Token of Ben Chifley

The Price We Pay

Reporting on the Hunter’s Floodplain

The Rise of Broken Hill’s Italian Bakeries

The Forner Family's Success

wooden trunk with metal hinges and locks, it has some black lettering which reads Mr. Forner Filomena Griffitt J.N.W. Australia'

The Russian Pedlar

Albert Coppleson’s Dedication to Wee Waa

The Silent Witness

Morpeth’s 1889 Railway Station Sign

The Uiver Incident

The Landing of a Civic Friendship

sepia photograph of figures gathered outside a propeller plane labelled ROYAL DUTCH AIR LINES

The Vicar’s Vision

Building a Church Frame by Frame

grey film reel

The Yellow Brick Road

Suzanne Archer, Levee Hunter 2006

Those Were the Days

Keeping the Personal Archive of Maitland’s Magistrate

Three Green Bottles

Cordial Making in the Central West

four glass bottles with beads held inside the sculpted neck

‘To Orange With Love’

Dupain's Photographic Homage

black and white photograph of somone platform diving into a pool from above

Tools of His Trade

Machinist Leslie Upton of the South Coastal Railway

Top Dog’s Tool

Fisherman Parker’s Pit Saw from Lake Macquarie

Trophy Textile

Making History at National Textiles, Rutherford

Twice Removed

The Lacemakers of Calais and Maitland

United in Song

Cornish Settlement in the Central West

detail of lettering on organ which reads 'Mason & Mamlin'

Unlocking Adulthood

A Night of Celebration in Iluka

Unparalleled Excitement

The Discovery of Tin in Northern NSW

User Pays?

Unwelcome Gas Rates for Lighting Up Maitland

Waiting to Happen

Mining Accidents and Compensation in 1920-30s Maitland

Wally’s West Maitland

A Retired Dentist Promotes His Town

Watching the Dials

Railway Signalling and Saving Lives at Weston Station

Weight Watching

Edmund Webb's Gain from Gold at Bathurst

Well Kept

An Heirloom from Childhood in Nineteenth Century Morpeth

lace baby bonnet on wooden stand

Wetting the Baby’s Head

Beginning a Life of Faith

What Would Molly Think?

A Colourful Take on Maitlands’ Historical Figure

Who, When and Why?

Uncovering Clues About an Early Maitland Plan

William’s Pitiful Plight

A Boy Servant’s Indenture to Mudie of Maitland

Wired for Power

Evidence of a 1930s Ministerial Privilege?

Writing Home

Frank Brown's WWI Letters

handwritten letter

Narelle’s Call

Getting the Phone Connected in 1950s West Wallsend

black rotary telephone with a spiral-corded earpiece