Ivor Jones
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Jun- 2025 -26 June
Pitt Town
One of the five Macquarie Towns, so called as they were established in 1810 on the orders of Governor Lachlan…
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9 June
Sir James Burns & Burnside
At what was once the southern part of the Hills Shire stood “Gowan Brae” the home of Sir James Burns.…
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May- 2025 -28 May
An Industry Born on A Sheeps Back
When the Macarthurs introduced Merino sheep to Australia little did they know that it would lead to a worldwide industry…
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16 May
A Car or A Boat
Way back during the 1960s I saw a news item on the television news that intrigued me. The item featured…
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Mar- 2025 -6 March
The Inattentive Dreamer: Richard (Dick) Ifield
In the previous issue of the “Hills to Hawkesbury” I wrote about FRANK IFIELD, a very popular entertainer who lived…
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Feb- 2025 -19 February
Someone That Many Remember … (Well Frankly I certainly do)
I spent many years on the peripheries of the music industry in operating teenage dances at Fairfield and Cabramatta in…
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7 February
A Shine on Australia
Arriving from Scotland in 1878, John and Margaret Ramsay settled in Melbourne with their four children. Within 10 years, having…
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Jan- 2025 -23 January
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…
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Dec- 2024 -23 December
A 1950s Christmas
Remembering back to my childhood in Britain during the 1940s & 50s after the Second World War, life was hard…
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9 December
What’s in a Name?
I have been asked by some readers to continue to explain how suburbs or localities within the Hills and Hawkesbury…
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