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  A Recitation by Roy Irwin Alchin – Gunning 1907 by Garry Norman Smith The Goulburn Evening Penny Post (Saturday 28 December 1907, 6) reported on the annual Methodist Sunday School service at the Gunning Methodist Church. The newspaper described the church as “nicely decorated with greenery”. Among the names mentioned by the newspaper were Plumb, Wheatley, Alchin, Gazzard, Rudd and Timms. Methodist (Uniting) Church, Gunning   The children’s program on this occasion was well-attended by children and their parents and “afforded a treat to the listener”. Among the children to present an item at the service was Roy Irwin Alchin, grandfather of the author. Eleven-year-old Roy joined his older sister Myra as part of the children’s participation. Myra gave a recitation of an anonymous poem “Papa’s Letter” while Roy recited the lyrics of a song “In the House of Too Much Trouble” (words and music by Will A. Heelan and J. Fred Helf). The words of Roy’s recitation were appropriate...

  Do you know who I am? by Leslie Bush Over ten years ago, Tony Porter owner of Coronation Collectables at Gunning, now located at Grenfell was given a photograph of a stunning young lady that the current owners could not identify. Tony was at the time, the resident Gunning writer for the local newspapers and posted an article about the picture, but sadly she still is unknown. The Donors did not know her identity, only that she was supposedly a local and their names and where they lived in Gunning have also been forgotten now.  The photo is an Opalotype. Unidentified Young Lady - Opalotype Photograph She is wearing a beautiful dress with lots of soft blousy frills on the neckline; maybe she was a Debutante making her first foray into society, or a young bridesmaid at her sister’s wedding, or was she attending a ball? The portrait invokes such romanticism of a bygone era. Item written by Tony Porter for the Goulburn Post Opalotypes or Milk-glass positive The basic Opalotype, or...