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Sunday History Photo / Qld

The Camp Mountain rail accident occurred at approximately 9:48am on 5 May 1947 when a crowded picnic train derailed on a sharp left-hand curve between Ferny Gro

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Sunday History Photo / Tas

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Ross is an historic town in the Midlands of the state of Tasmania in Australia. On the Macquarie River, Ross is located 78 km south of Launceston and 117 km nor

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 133461 Date: 18 Sep 2016 09:53 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 6488

Sunday History Photo / SA

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Cudlee Creek is a small town near Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the Adelaide Hills Council local government area The name Cudlee Creek is probabl

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 133416 Date: 11 Sep 2016 08:25 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 4833

Sunday History Photo / NSW

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Taronga Zoo was officially opened on its current site on October 7th, 1916 but its history dates back to 1884 when the first public Zoo in New South Wales opene

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 133374 Date: 04 Sep 2016 07:43 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 5381

Sunday History Photo / WA

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Robin Miller was a lauded West Australian pilot and Royal Flying Doctor Service flight nurse who brought modern medicine to north-western Australia while breaki

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 133323 Date: 28 Aug 2016 08:28 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 5758

Sunday History Photo / Qld

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USAAF B-24D-53-CO Liberator, #42-40387, "Beautiful Betsy", of the 528th Bomb Squadron of the 380th Bomb Group went missing on 26 February 1945 with the loss of

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 133262 Date: 21 Aug 2016 08:56 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 6380

Sunday History Photo / Au

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George Edwards was born as Harold Parks, 11 March 1886 in Kent Town, South Australia; died 1953) was an Australian actor and producer. Edwards was a pioneer of

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 133214 Date: 14 Aug 2016 06:03 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 4157

Sunday History Photo / SA

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Waikerie is situated on the banks of the beautiful Murray River, a mere 175 kms from Adelaide. Enjoy the winter sunshine or summer tranquility by turning into W

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 133161 Date: 07 Aug 2016 06:20 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 4914

Sunday History Photo / SA

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George McEwin born 29 January 1815 was a gardener and orchardist in the early days of South Australia remembered today as the founder of Glen Ewin jams and pres

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 133124 Date: 31 Jul 2016 11:05 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 5617

Sunday History Photo / SA

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Farina is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia. At the 2006 census, Farina had a population of 55. On the edge of the desert, it sits within t

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 133070 Date: 24 Jul 2016 08:28 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 4225

Sunday History Photo / NSW

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Newcastle gained a reputation as a "hellhole" as it was a place where the most dangerous convicts were sent to dig in the coal mines as harsh punishment for the

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 133024 Date: 17 Jul 2016 08:38 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 6148

Sunday History Photo / Qld

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Springsure, a rural town on the Dawson Highway, is 320 km west of Gladstone. It was named after the Springsure pastoral station, taken up by Sydney investors in

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132966 Date: 10 Jul 2016 08:33 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 4141

Sunday History Photo / NT

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USAAF B-24 Liberator #42-40509 (D-65-CO), "Nothing Sacred", of the 529 Bomb Squadron, 380th Bomb Group, 5th Air Force, crashed into Sugar Loaf Hill, a short dis

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132905 Date: 03 Jul 2016 08:40 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 4550

Sunday History Photo / SA

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Burra is a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia. It lies east of the Clare Valley in the Bald Hills range, part of the

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132856 Date: 26 Jun 2016 08:32 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 4258

Sunday History Photo / Au

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On a crisp, clear May afternoon on May 21st 1945 Australia suffered its worst military training accident. An explosion at the Kapooka Army Base killed 26 men.

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132797 Date: 19 Jun 2016 08:41 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 4781

Sunday History Photo / Au

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Ginger Meggs, Australia's most popular and longest-running comic strip, was created in the early 1920s by Jimmy Bancks. The strip follows the escapades of a red

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132719 Date: 12 Jun 2016 08:18 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 4737

Sunday History Photo / SA

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Sylvia Birdseye was born Sylvia Jessie Catherine Merrill near Port Augusta on 26 January 1902, the daughter of station-hand Charles De Witt Merrill and Elizabet

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132651 Date: 05 Jun 2016 08:11 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 5734

Sunday History Photo / Qld

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Little Eva" was a USAAF Consolidated B-24 Liberator which, returning from a bombing mission, got lost and crashed having exhausted its fuel supply on 2 December

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132557 Date: 29 May 2016 08:55 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 6923

Sunday History Photo / Person

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Jack O'Hagan (OBE) was an Australian singer-songwriter and radio personality He was born as John Francis O'Hagan, in Fitzroy, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne.

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132483 Date: 22 May 2016 08:43 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 4059

Sunday History Photo / WA

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Wyndham is the oldest and northernmost town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, located on the Great Northern Highway, 2,210 kilometres Northeast of P

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132415 Date: 15 May 2016 07:44 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 4512

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Leonard Beadell OAM BEM FIEMS was a surveyor, road builder, bushman, artist and author, responsible for constructing over 6000 km of roads and opening up isolat

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132340 Date: 08 May 2016 09:01 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 5352

Sunday History Photo / NSW

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The Granny Smith is a tip-bearing apple named after Maria Ann Smith, who propagated the cultivar from a chance seedling. The Granny Smith cultivar originated i

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132284 Date: 01 May 2016 08:11 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 2386

Sunday History Photo / Qld

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McCafferty's Coaches was formed in April 1940 when Jack McCafferty began a service from Picnic Point to Rangeville in Toowoomba. In 1955 McCafferty's began oper

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132219 Date: 24 Apr 2016 07:40 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 7828

Sunday History Photo / Au

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Wool presses have greatly influenced the Australian pastoral industry. The development of effective and efficient wool presses saved labour costs, increased the

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132148 Date: 17 Apr 2016 07:49 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 9770

Sunday History Photo / NT

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In 1855 the explorer Augustus Charles Gregory, financially backed by the Colonial Office, sailed from Moreton Bay, around the coast of Queensland and the Northe

Rank: 2048 ThreadID: 132081 Date: 10 Apr 2016 07:58 By: Life Member-Doug T NSW Views: 3931

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