Ivor Jones
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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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Nov- 2024 -29 November
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…
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Oct- 2024 -31 October
A Moment in Time
Remember in times past, when your mother would possibly take you to have your photo taken in a photographic studio.…
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17 October
The Musical Doctor
As we age, there is no doubt that we need more medical care. Having to attend a medical centre every…
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3 October
The Retailing Horderns
The Hordern family once controlled the largest Department Store in the World. The store Anthony Hordern & Sons built on…
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