Our new trains are coming.Ā This could mean that generations of problems are over.Ā š¾š¾š¾š¾ HISTORIC COMMUTER COMPLAINTS The following was takenĀ from The Daily Telegraph in May 1928; The trains of New South Wales are notoriously dirty and slow, and a great deal of the inefficiency
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It is likely that the person who shot two people at Barton Park, Wallerawang, (New South Wales) in 1948 is still alive. I have referred to himĀ here as Bennie Harvey. It’s not his real name, butĀ one his friends used at the time of the murders.
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Some people say there’s not much to love about red wattlebirds. And yes, they are aggressive little blighters, with a rasping call. But the bird is actually quite striking, with a striated chest and pale yellow ‘undercarriage’. Then there are those little ‘wattles’ below the eyes that
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I was a bit disappointed when Blackheath’s Altitude CafĆ© moved last year, even if it was only next door. It had lost some of its ambience I thought. However, when I called in some time later everything had changed. One whole wall was devoted to a series
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In the latter years of WWII it was feared that Australia might be bombed, and because of this all kindergartens were closed. In their place a wonderful institution was born….Kindergarten of the Air. The programme was launched on the ABC in 1943 by Lady Zara Gowrie, wife
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In September 1948, within the space of a few days, two seventeen year old youths committed murder in New South Wales. Stranger still, they had been good friends before their otherwise unrelated crimes. They had played ice hockey together, and were both snappy dressers who enjoyed the
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On SeptemberĀ 26 1948,Ā wealthy pastoralist James Lyon Walker Barton (aged 54)Ā and his unmarried sisterĀ Lue Loveday Barton (45) were shot dead at theirĀ grand home, Barton Park, at Wallerawang (New South Wales).Ā They were buried in the Barton Park private cemetery. The couple’sĀ killerĀ was
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THE CONCLUSION OF THE VERA WATTĀ POISONING CASE. FOR THE FIRST PART, CLICK HERE. When the Coronial Inquest into the death by poisoning of Mrs Vera Watt ended in January 1942. her ex-lover Conald Pagett was committed for trial and remanded in Long Bay Gaol. However, onĀ
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THE A.P.C. OF MURDERĀ ā¦.ā¦ click here for previous episode. The coronial inquest into theĀ death of 36 year oldĀ Mrs Vera DorisĀ Watt on December 1 1941 opened on December 29.Ā She had died from strychnine, placed
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