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Jan- 2025 -23 JanuaryAll
A Block a Choc of History
Just a week or so before Christmas, Bev Jordan, our senior journalist, told me she had been discussing, with her brother, the nostalgic topic of chocolates of the past. Coincidentally, a few days later, at a Christmas party for The Hills branch of National Seniors, boxes of “Cadbury’s Favourites” were…
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Nov- 2024 -29 NovemberAll
What’s in a Name?
Since I started writing in this publication, many new residents have moved into the areas of the Hills and Hawkesbury districts. In this article I hope to explain the origins of various suburb and locality names. AGNES BANKS, a locality in the Hawkesbury region, was named after Agnes Hilson, the…
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Oct- 2024 -17 OctoberAll
The Musical Doctor
As we age, there is no doubt that we need more medical care. Having to attend a medical centre every two days during recent months my mind has turned to medical centres within the area. When my wife and I moved to the Hills 40 years ago, there was a…
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1 OctoberAll
Art is in the Family
To be an Archibald Art winner is a dream that many a budding artist wishes for. Such a dream has come true for a young resident of Glenhaven. A beautiful portrait of her mother, Jane Blatchford, has seen Leah take out first prize in this year’s Young Archies 16 –…
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Sep- 2024 -19 SeptemberAll
The Seamstress Sisters Stewart
In the Hawkesbury district, travelling west along the Bells Line of Road near Bilpin, a road on the right leads to the very small locality of Mountain Lagoon,14kms away. This small locality was the home of the Stewart sisters, Myra and Ivy. Their father and grandfather were pioneers in the…
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8 SeptemberAll
The Aussie Milk Bar
Recently, a plaque was installed in Martin Place, Sydney where once stood the “Black & White 4d. Milk Bar” which was credited as being the first Milk Bar in Sydney. The Black and White Milk Bar that Mick Adams (Joachim Tavlarides) opened in 1932, sported a sleek bar topped with…
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Jul- 2024 -12 JulyAll
A Landmark Junction
Some of Australia’s oldest roads in early Colonial Australia exist within our area. When main roads meet they form a junction and one of the major junctions in our area is the junction formed where Windsor, Seven Hills and Old Northern Roads all meet. Possibly referred to as the “Bull…
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Jun- 2024 -13 JuneAll
A Tale of Two Migrants (Part 1)
A while back my wife and I joined a bus tour to Jindabyne and one evening during dinner I overheard a conversation where one of our fellow travellers was relating to some others of her time as a child emigrating to Australia back in the 1950s. My ears pricked up…
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3 JuneAll
An Interesting Case
As a schoolboy, arriving in Australia during the late 1950s, I found that school students carried their school books and lunches in a small suitcase. These were so different to the school satchels that I was used to back in the UK. The school cases were made of reinforced fibre…
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May- 2024 -18 MayAll
Hearing About a Little Dog
Most of the “Memories” that I publish in this section of the Hills to Hawkesbury Community News deal with people, events, or products from past decades. Sometimes, someone will mention to me something that is much more recent. In this case, Greg Dunn, who is a poet who can often…
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