THE skeletal remains of Herbert Halliday were found in the bush by several boys on the escarpment near Coledale in 1929. Halliday, who was 53 at the time, had gone missing on July 29 1925 while staying with his brother, Walter, at The Grove, Austinmer. The day after he left home Halliday was found asleep…
Rain leaks into wards Operation Carried Out In Deluge URGENT CASES TURNED AWAY BULLI, Thursday. THE Bulli Public Hospital has been flooded by rain water since Sunday night. Yesterday a man was operated on urgently while rain poured through the roof of the operating theatre. “It poured on to the doctors, nurses and patient,” said…
THE steam engine and tender of the South Coast Daylight Express a few minutes after they had been derailed near Bulli station on July 28 1954. Picture: The Daily Telegraph Thursday 29 July 1954. Would you like to make a small donation towards the running of the Looking Back and Bulli & Clifton Times websites?…
The lorry was descending the Bulli Pass, and when approaching a sharp bend on a steep grade the brakes failed to act, and the vehicle dashed through a fence, which saved it from a more serious fall. Seven men were riding on the lorry at the time, and two of them sustained broken bones.…
THERE was standing room only when a coroner’s hearing was held over several days in the old Bulli court house in 1927. The court heard how Louis Johnson, motor-car driver, ploughed into a stationary car near Bulli Pass killing young lovers, John Conroy and Veronica Hockley. The two 20 somethings were just getting out of the car…
Raymond Short with his brother Daryl, 15, and schoolmates from Kingsgrove High School. From left: Colin Peak, Ken Tapfield, Alan Moses by his bedside in Coledale Hospital. Coledale Beach Shark Attack SOME simply addressed to “Raymond Short, Australia,” hundreds of letters and cards have found their way to the small hospital at Coledale, N.S.W., where…
COACH HORSES BOLT IN BULLI PASS – COACH OVERTURNED AND SMASHED – INJURIES TO PASSENGERS; Sydney, Monday: An exciting experience to a picnic party in the Bulli Pass happened yesterday afternoon. Five horses with a coachload of 18 passengers got completely out of the driver’s control and bolted madly down the pass. The coach was owned…
By MICK ROBERTS © Updated January 2020 THE late Peter Chamberlain had vivid memories of his dad telling him yarns about working on the Bulli Jetty when I interviewed him for this story. I interviewed Peter, who lived with his wife Bronwen on Bulli Hill, back in the 1990s. He sadly died in 2019. Peter told…
RAILWAY FATALITY. Young Man’s Neck Broken INQUEST AT BULL! At the Court House at Bulli yesterday, the District Coroner, Mr. W. G. Payne, conducted an inquest relating to the death of Henry Lachlan Curteis, 20 years of age, who had resided with his mother at 127 Campbell-street, Woonona, deceased being run over by a train…
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