ON the corner of Hopetoun Street and the Princes Highway, where Bulli meets Woonona, is a large building that currently trades as a gymnasium exclusively for women. The building originally opened as the Royal Theatre in 1924. The silent film, Lilies of the Field, was screened to a selected audience when the theatre opened in…
By MICK ROBERTS © YOUNG William Walker would have been looked on as a curiosity by his school mates at Bulli in the 1880s. Although William was like most other adolescent boys growing-up in the mining community, he was looked at differently because he belonged to a Salvationist family – a new religious order…
To mark the centenary of Austinmer All Saints Anglican Church in March 2004, Judith Carrick put together the following short history for ‘Looking Back’. Before the church moved into the spacious former Austinmer RSL Club building in Moore Street, the congregation worshipped from a small weatherboard chapel, built in 1904, and which survives to this…
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