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The Greenway/Macquarie Wharf, Windsor

Did you know that next to the present bridge (downstream side), beneath the noxious weeds proscribed by the D.P.I. and gabions placed there by the Council in the 1990s, are the remains of what is probably the oldest existing wharf in Australia?  Further, that wharf was commissioned by Lachlan Macquarie, designed by Francis Greenway, built […]

History Cottage Early Settlers Grove

The Society has a busy year planned. Over the ten meetings, held on the second Saturday of each month in History Cottage beside the Cenotaph in Galston, members and visitors will hear nine guest speakers, take part in fascinating tours and present the annual June Roughley Memorial Lecture in the Arcadia Community Hall and access […]

Working Equitation with SWEQ

Have you tried Working Equitation yet? Working Equitation is the fastest growing equine sport in Australia and is a fun way to train your horse and build communication and confidence with your horse. This sport is open to any breed of horse and any style of riding (English, Stock or Western). The best way to […]

Waddell Cottage

In our December story about Horse Troughs, a stray photo was ,by mistake, sent to the Galston Paper. The Dooral Round-up got the right picture, the one of the trough, which is now in the grounds of Galston High School. The “stray”photo is of Denise Rogers with a very rough sign which is hard to […]

Dural and District Historical Society – Horse Troughs

It is hard for us, in this day and age, to realise the importance of horses for hundreds and hundreds of years before the invention of motorised and mechanical transport. When you think of the wars that were fought on horseback, the recent enactment of the last great horse attack at Beersheba a hundred years […]

Dural and District Historical Society – Fragrance and Flavour

Before about the 1950’s Australian cooking, in general, was very bland. If we ever used a herb to flavour a dish, it would have been parsley, and the curly one at that. But with the arrival of migrants from all parts of the world, our food became much more interesting. The early Italian immigrants had […]

The Galston Uniting Church – Our Story Concludes: Part 3

In previous instalments we discussed the origins of the Dural parish and a small number of the cultural and practical contributions that the church made to the local community. This brings us to the present time. In 1977 we became The Uniting Church in Australia, when the Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist churches entered into a […]

Dural and District Historical Society – Another one of Deg’s Stories.

Doctors Peter and Lynette Degotardi were the first residential Doctors to live in Dural. This is one of their stories as told in a book Peter wrote, called” Life was not meant to be serious “ Only 100 copies were published , so it is very hard to find. When Peter and Lynette were at […]

Dural and District Historical Society- Berowra Floods, 1942

From R. Fishburn’s Story in Galston News Sept. 1975 It was during World War 2, when an invasion of the Australian mainland by the Japanese seemed imminent, that Berowra Waters figured in an almost disastrous incident. It was March, 1942. The Naval Control Board set up a plan to combat any possible Japanese amphibious attack […]

The Galston Uniting Church – A Little Bit More of Our Story: Part 2

In the last instalment, we learned about the beginnings of the Dural Uniting parish under the Methodist-Wesleyan church banner. This instalment looks at some of the activities that took place as part of the life of the church community. Anniversaries were a particularly special occasion. The 1889 Anniversary at Dural Church was held on a […]