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Andrew Rodrom: Rogue or Simple Carpenter

Posted by Gunning History on December 16, 2017

1911 Andrew Rodrom St Edmunds Church Gunning

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Gunning History in the News with Tim the Yowie Man

Posted by Dr Michael de Percy FRSA FCILT MRSN on December 15, 2017

Berrima Courthouse Canberra Times Dunkley Murder Grave Gunning Gunning Sewerage Works Keith Brown Lucretia Dunkley Martin Beech Tim the Yowie Man

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Alchin Brothers in Arms

Posted by Bob Spiller on December 15, 2017

1865 1870 1893 1896 1917 1920 1940 1944 1954 1960 1968 Edward Alchin Elsie Poll Herbert Alchin Horace Alchin Myra Poll Queanbeyan Scouts Sophia Alchin Violet Waye

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Pigeons Palatable, Pigeons Poisonous and Starlings Mellifluous

Posted by Bob Spiller on December 15, 2017

1879 Brett Young Goulburn Herald and Chronicle Grovenor Gunning Uniting Church Gunning Wesleyan Church Henry Saxby Magpie Shooting Natural History Nina Young Pigeons Rev E J Rodd Reynolds Starlings

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Grovenor Street, Gunning: A New Front Opens in the History Wars

Posted by Bob Spiller on November 03, 2017

1880 A H Line Australian Magpie Bean Easterby Ferguson Frankfield Hotel Grovenor Gunning NSW 2581 Hart J Newman Keith Brown Magpie Shooting Natural History R Rowland Reynolds

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So you want to buy a mobile phone in Gunning? Mike Coley's experience in 1999...

Posted by Dr Michael de Percy FRSA FCILT MRSN on October 19, 2017

1999 Gunning Mike Coley Mobile Phone

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The Alchin Family Property in the 1850s

Posted by Dr Michael de Percy FRSA FCILT MRSN on October 19, 2017

1877 Ambrose Alchin Dalton Emma Alchin Garry Smith Google Maps Oolong Creek Walsh's Road

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Gunning's First Ever Magpie Shooting Competition a Banging Success

Posted by Bob Spiller on October 18, 2017

1880 Australian Magpie Badgery Bean Corvid Cox Easterby English Magpie Ferguson Goulburn Herald and Chronicle Grovenor Gunning Hart Joseph Austin Line Magpie Shooting Natural History Newman Reynolds

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12 October 1917: Map Reading D.21c, ¼ mile N/W of Zonnebeke Village

Posted by Dr Michael de Percy FRSA FCILT MRSN on October 04, 2017

1917 Arthur Montague Alchin Battle of Passchendaele First World War Garry Smith Third Battle of Ypres

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Clayton Book Launch: A few words from author Margaret Smith

Posted by Dr Michael de Percy FRSA FCILT MRSN on October 03, 2017

Anchor Books Baltinglass Bob Spiller Book Launch Brian McCormack Margaret Smith Rosemary Spiller Samuel Clayton

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An Irish Famine Orphan Came to Jerrawa Creek

Posted by Dr Michael de Percy FRSA FCILT MRSN on October 02, 2017

Alchin Earl Grey’s Orphan Famine Scheme Ennis County Clare Workhouse Garry Smith Great Irish Famine Hyde Park Barracks Ireland Ken Rampling Malia Smith O’Brien Roughan Sydney

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Stalked and shot by our forebears, these Japanese visitors are welcome in Gunning today

Posted by Bob Spiller on October 02, 2017

Australian Snipe Australian Town and Country Journal Collector Gary Poile Gunning Japanese Snipe John Poidevin Ladevale Latham Latham's Snipe Old Bushman's Natural History Sketches Recipe Snipe

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Contact Us

Please contact Admin, gunninghistory@gmail.com Facebook

PO Box 3, Gunning NSW 2581.

Gunning & District Historical Society Inc.

Follow @gunninghistory

What's On

AGM - Sunday 18th October 2020 at 2 pm in the Gunning Court House. Due to Covid 19 space restrictions please email us if wanting to attend.

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For details of coming events, order a book or make a donation, please contact Admin.

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Newsletters

3/2017 December Newsletter
2/2017 July Newsletter
1/2017 February Newsletter

Books for Sale

The following books, are available for purchase from the Gunning & District Historical Society, :

Light Along the Lachlan: An Introduction to The Churches of the Upper Lachlan Shire, Past and Present, by Keith L. Brown, 2019.

Byalla, Bialla, Biala,
by Edith Medway, 2014.

Humphrey Thorn 1758-1823 and Rebecca Richards 1771-1826, by Milton Alchin, 2019. Currently Out of stock

This is the Ancestry of John Alchin 1821-1901 and his descendants in NSW, by Milton Alchin, 2019. Only 1 copy left

Dust to Mud: The contribution of a bush community to World War 1, by Pam Kensit, 2018.

The Day that Dunkley Died: Murder and Retribution in Colonial Gunning, by Keith L. Brown, 2014.

Where Once the Wagons Went: An introduction to some inns and innkeepers of early Gunning, from Breadalbane to The Gap on the Old South Road by Keith L. Brown, 2016.

To order, please contact The Secretary, 121 Yass Street, Gunning NSW 2581 or email gunninghistory@gmail.com. Copies are also available for purchase from Creative Gunning,on Yass Street.

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