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Jenny Donohoe

Burials hidden for a century

By Helensburgh Historical Society researcher Jenny Donohoe The society has had a field survey with Wollongong City Council’s Cemetery Supervisor, Paul Gooda, regarding the Flame article by Genevieve Swart in the April 2025 edition. Society members...

Jenny Donohoe

May 2025

History

The Helensburgh Historical Society Has Not Forgotten

Anzac Day will be held in the Charles Harper Park on Friday 25 April 2025 Helensburgh’s RSL Sub-branch has never forgotten and they have held Remembrance Services just-about -every year since WWI. The Helensburgh Historical Society produced two...

Jenny Donohoe

April 2025

Clubs & Community

Farewell to Helensburgh VIEW Club

By Jenny Donohoe, a Helensburgh VIEW Club member for 18 years Helensburgh VIEW Club closed on 20 February 2024 after 33 years of fundraising for the Smiths Family’s Children. Over 33 years, this small group raised $54,000 to support disadvantaged...

Jenny Donohoe

February 2024

History

In Remembrance

In 1969, the Helensburgh War Memorial Swimming Pool was opened and dedicated as a War Memorial on the 6 December. The pool was opened as a memorial to the people who sacrificed their lives during World War II. It was reported in The Helensburgh News...

Jenny Donohoe

November 2022

News

A Camellia Showstopper

Local horticulturist Jim Powell (the former captain of 325 Station and current president of Helensburgh and District Historical Society) has been growing camellias for the past 51 years in Helensburgh. Jim’s first plantings were in The Ridge in...

Jenny Donohoe

November 2022

Clubs & Community

Mystery shrine found

The Helensburgh and District Historical Society President, Jim Powell, has been contacted regarding a mysterious shrine in our bushland. The shrine is dedicated to Tom O’Flaherty and comprises stones and branches. It appears that fresh flowers...

Jenny Donohoe

October 2022

News

Murder documentary makers traced family’s history in Helensburgh

At the end of last year (2021) the ABC producers were working on a new series the Family Court Murders. Director Chris Thorburn and author of the book, Family Court Murders, Debi Marshall, had been working on researching and filming for an ABC...

Jenny Donohoe

May 2022

Clubs & Community

Helensburgh Police Station under threat of neglect

The present police station and court house complex was erected in 1902 at a cost of 1600 pounds on the corner of Parkes and Waratah streets. Standing on a reserve proclaimed on 13 February 1892, the building originally contained a courtroom, quarters for the resident police, two cells and an exercise yard. In the paddock at the back was a single staff stable and forage room, later used in part as a motor cycle garage.

Jenny Donohoe

April 2022

History

Lest we forget: Norbert Charles Oliver (1904-1941)

When you go to the Anzac Service at the Stanwell Tops Memorial Park on Anzac Day there are several crosses scattered around with some names unrecognisable and few you can read. The name that sticked up was Norbert Oliver died 1941 HMAS Parramatt...

Jenny Donohoe

March 2022

History

Join the Historical Society

Congratulations to the editors of the new magazine, Flame. Your magazine with all the informative information about local organisations and businesses fills the gap for us to keep in touch, well done to you all. The Helensburgh Historical Society...

Jenny Donohoe

March 2022

History

Mine manager’s son won Victoria Cross

Clarence’s story begins in Helensburgh, where his father was the Metropolitan Mine Manager from 1901, writes Jenny Donohoe of Helensburgh and District Historical Society

Jenny Donohoe

November 2021

History

The man on the $20 note

Lawrence Hargrave Society secretary Jenny Donohoe reports on aeronautical technologist, explorer, mason and astronomer, Lawrence Hargrave. In 1890s a small number of inventive technologists were working to translate infant aviation theory into...

Jenny Donohoe

August 2021

News

Push to name new terminal for Hargrave

By Jenny Donohoe, Lawrence Hargrave Society secretary The Lawrence Hargrave Society Incorporated has been active since 2008, promoting and educating the achievement of our first famous pioneering aviator, Lawrence Hargrave. The society is a not-for-...

Jenny Donohoe

July 2021