Skeleton found on Coledale escarpment

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…

Bulli Pass Tragedy

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…

I’ll Always Love The Surf

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…

Picnic Party’s Exciting Experience

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…

The Chamberlains and the Bulli jetty

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 fatalities

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…