Pauline Conolly

Etched into the memory of Australians is the horrific kidnapping and murder of Sydney boy Graeme Thorne in 1960. It represented such a loss of innocence for our country. However, this was not the first time that the kidnapping of a child accompanied by a ransom demand...

In 1960 a revolving restaurant opened at Scenic World, Katoomba, in the NSW Blue Mountains.  It was the first in Australia and just the second in the entire world.  Katoomba had been pipped at the post by  Florianturm in Germany, which had opened its doors in 1959....

Imagine the excitement of the 19th century gold rushes in Victoria and New South Wales. The shops would have been bursting at the seams with everything required for a stay at the diggings. Note the  clever branding in the clothing  advertisement below; a Hargrave’s gold mine top...

This is the final chapter in the life of Raymon Campbell Miller. When Miller  was seven years old, his mother began a passionate affair with an Italian Count.  She divorced,  abandoned her son, and left Sydney to marry her lover. Three months after the wedding in Rome...