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Dr Lorraine Jones

Dr Lorraine Jones is the vice president of Helensburgh and District Historical Society

On the road with Helensburgh Probus

On April 29, 33 members of the Helensburgh and District Probus Club set off on a six-day bus holiday to Dorrigo. Native wildlife seen on the trip included a red-bellied black snake, a large water dragon, ducks and waterfowl, a bush turkey and small...

Dr Lorraine Jones

June 2024

Clubs & Community

Helensburgh Probus appoints new Life Member

The Helensburgh and District Probus Club made Barry Mellier a life member of the club on Thursday April 11. Barry was a foundation member of the club and has participated actively in all the club activities. The monthly talk was given by...

Dr Lorraine Jones

May 2024

Clubs & Community

Four founders cut the cake as Helensburgh Probus turns 20

By Pete Dawson and Lorraine Jones of Helensburgh Probus In February Helensburgh Probus Club celebrated its 20th birthday. What an achievement for the founding members who started the club, five of whom are still regular members and four of them...

Dr Lorraine Jones

April 2024

Clubs & Community

Otford students win local history prize

By Dr Lorraine Jones, vice president Helensburgh and District History Society It was a beautiful Thursday on November 15 when two students from Otford School each received a book prize voucher for $50 for their local history school work. They were...

Dr Lorraine Jones

February 2023

History

Finding coal at Coalcliff

Coalcliff once had the most productive underground coal mine in Australia. It was so important for Australia’s defence in 1944 that the Commonwealth Government of Australia took over this mine during a coalminers’ strike. The coal was essential...

Dr Lorraine Jones

November 2021

Cover Story

History in the making

Celebrate History Week by uncovering local tales to treasure, thanks to Wollongong City Libraries and Helensburgh and District Historical Society.

Jo Oliver

August 2021

History

Tribute to ‘the Local’

The general store at Stanwell Park started in 1924, writes Dr Lorraine Jones, Vice President of Helensburgh and District Historical Society The local shop was once a feature of every small settlement. These shops sold everything from toothbrushes to...

Dr Lorraine Jones

August 2021

Clubs & Community

Sand dunes lost and regained

By Dr Lorraine Jones, vice-president of Helensburgh and District Historical Society The sand hills along the coast of Australia developed after the sea ceased rising 3000 to 7000 years ago. The northern sand dune in Stanwell Park was as high as the...

Dr Lorraine Jones

July 2021

Sport & Leisure

Love the Princess Marina Walk

This walk, off Lawrence Hargrave Drive at Kelly’s Falls, near Stanwell Tops, is a rarely explored gem, which you will delight in using. This walk was developed in the 1930s by Henry Halloran. He was developing Stanwell Tops as a pleasure resort...

Dr Lorraine Jones

May 2021

Clubs & Community

How vaccines have changed our lives

Throughout our lives we have taken for granted the immunisation of our children so that they do not die of diphtheria, whooping cough, poliomyelitis or other diseases such as measles, mumps or chickenpox. If you are under 50 you would be unaware of...

Dr Lorraine Jones

April 2021

Clubs & Community

Stanwell Park home to ‘the tallest viaduct in Australia’

By Dr Lorraine Jones, vice-president of Helensburgh and District Historical Society Before Covid-19 my husband and I took a train trip to Fort William in Scotland. There, other passengers got off the train and onto a steam train used as the Hogwarts...

Dr Lorraine Jones

March 2021

Clubs & Community

‘I look back in horror at the disregard for safety’

When I was a child in the late ’40s my father would sit my sister and me on the back of his side-less tabletop truck with a rope strung across the back for us to hold onto. There was only room in the cabin for him, my mother and the dog. We...

Dr Lorraine Jones

February 2021

Sport & Leisure

Walk to Wilsons Creek Dam

When the road up Bald Hill was blocked for residents of Stanwell Park last year, we either took the train to get to Helensburgh (12-minute trip) or had a 40-minute drive through Thirroul and up the Bulli Pass to get there. With our mail being...

Dr Lorraine Jones

December 2020

News

Face masks in fashion through history

Lister, the great surgeon introduced antiseptic techniques into operating theatres in 1867. He did not use face masks. It was a Polish surgeon Johann Mikulic who, on the advice of a bacteriologist, introduced face masks covering the mouth and nose...

Dr Lorraine Jones

December 2020