The Illawarra Historical Society was formed on 5th December l944. The first issue of the Society’s Bulletin was published in 1945. Feature articles from the Bulletin are reproduced here with the permission of the Society, and are based on descriptions provided in the Wollongong City Library’s Illawarra Index catalogue. Complete issues of the Bulletin will be available online through the Society’s website www.illawarramuseum.com in 2015.
This digitisation has been a joint project between the Illawarra Historical Society, Wollongong City Library and the University of Wollongong Library.
Articles from 1971
Christ Church, Bong Bong, 125 years old, Southern Highland News
Prince's Highway : who was the Prince?, Sydney Morning Herald
Vale - Mr. M. A. Seeger, Author Unknown
The Parish of Narellan, Hilde Shaw
Vale : Miss Isobel Lee, M.B.E. : life patroness : Isabel [sic] Lee bequest, William Alan Bayley
Articles from 1970
Woniora ship's bell, William Alan Bayley
A medical history of the Wollongong district : Port Kembla : Wollongong, the queen city of the south, Harry Herbert Lee
Charley Hooka comes out of the wilderness : a footnote to a footnote, William Graham McDonald
Stanwell Park Railway Station, Cyril Corbet Singleton
The new Dapto ambulance station, William Alan Bayley
A medical history of the Wollongong District : Bulli, Harry Herbert Lee
Photographer of Illawarra and country surrounding Sydney, Correa Frances Broadhurst
A medical history of the Wollongong District : Albion Park : Dapto, Harry Herbert Lee
Illawarra experiments with alpacas, Illawarra Mercury
Pumpkin cottage, Robert Hoddle
Wollongong Harbour marina opposed by our Council, William Alan Bayley
A medical history of the Wollongong District : Kiama, Harry Herbert Lee
Andrew Brown of Cooerwull : Andrew Brown's diary (extracts), Margaret Klam
The Fig Tree at Figtree (picture), Illustrated Sydney News
Time capsule, William Alan Bayley
Cook's Hill 'like a hatt', Edgar Beale
South Beach Rest Park, JE Wakeford
The Royal Hotel at the eastern corner of Keira and Crown Streets, Wollongong, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Bi-centenary Committee of I.H.S., William Alan Bayley
Bulli Heights : how come?, William Alan Bayley
Direction finder inaugurated, William Alan Bayley
Lord Mayor of Wollongong, William Alan Bayley
Royal visit, William Alan Bayley
Sherbrooke school demolished, William Alan Bayley
View of part of the Eastern Coast of New Holland Lat. 35, Sidney Parkinson
Bulli Public School : Cook map and marker, William Alan Bayley
Collins Rock : attempted landing marker, William Alan Bayley
First road down to Illawarra, William Graham McDonald
St Helen's Park friend dies, William Alan Bayley
Wollongong 1837, Norman Spencer King
Y.W.C.A. Jubilee, William Alan Bayley
Illawarra collieries in 1874, James Graham Goodenough
Reminiscences of Helensburgh, Harvey James McDonnell
Articles from 1969
First annual report : foundation, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Kerosene shale : discovery and refining, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Illawarra railway nearly passed Kings Cross, John Biggar
Our Society tunnellized : tunnel became a river : buried alive! A Bulgo tunnel agony : A note on old Otford tunnel (closed 1920), William Alan Bayley
Bulli Public School centenary, William Alan Bayley
Centenary medal, William Alan Bayley
Fort Artillery Society, William Alan Bayley
Otford Tunnel excursion will be something new, William Alan Bayley
Photographers of Illawarra, William Alan Bayley
Beaufoy Merlin, photographer, did not forget Illawarra, William Alan Bayley
The Bulli Pass, William Alan Bayley
Bulli original school and E.S.A. Bank beside it, William Alan Bayley
Our erudite president, Norman Spencer King
Ship from Bulli makes sea mystery, William Alan Bayley
Society's vice-president awarded 'Mother of the Year' : from 'The Express', The Express
Atchison Street, Edgar Beale
Henry VIII was here, Donald Maxwell
Proposed toll bar at Para (Fairy) Creek, North Wollongong, Illawarra Mercury
Sherbrooke school destroyed in bushfires, William Alan Bayley
The International Aboriginal cricketers v. Illawarra, Alexander Patrick Fleming
The Thomas Family's 130th anniversary, William Alan Bayley
Articles from 1968
Kiama blue metal quarry steam engine now in Goulburn museum, Author Unknown
Reminiscences of Scarborough, Harvey James McDonnell
John Simmons : building contractor, William Graham McDonald
Obituary - David Scott and Charles Llewellyn Griffiths, Author Unknown
One hundredth anniversary of the opening of Belmore Basin, Wollongong Harbour : Tudes, 6th October, 1868, William Alan Bayley
The first "Illawarra", Alexander Patrick Fleming
Vale - Mrs A. L. Prosser, Author Unknown
Military history : enquiry, Colin Hornshaw
Ships named "Illawarra", Grizel Gray
When the locomotive came to Wollongong, Illawarra Mercury
Berrima District Society opens museum, Author Unknown
Broughton Creek in the fifties and sixties, George Henry Jaques
Name this mountain, William Alan Bayley
Our working party for Folk Museum, William Alan Bayley
Pioneer architecture, William Alan Bayley
Vale - Mrs. A. L. Prosser, Author Unknown
Death of Captain Charles Waldron : the true story, William Graham McDonald
Minnamurra Falls Reserve colonial hut and museum, William Alan Bayley
Mount St. Thomas : naming of, William Alan Bayley
Vale - Mrs. K. M. (Margaret) Marshall and Dr. M. C. McKinnon, Author Unknown
Illawarra knew Simpson of ANZAC, William Alan Bayley
From Sydney Morning Herald Saturday, October 9, 1847, Sydney Morning Herald
Obituary - Ernest Young, Author Unknown
Vice-Regal visit to museum, 26th March, 1968, Author Unknown
Kingsford Smith Memorial, Gerroa, Phyllis De Jersey
Obituary - Irene Hummerston, Author Unknown
Old Illawarra houses : 44 Campbell Street, Wollongong, Margaret Moncrieffe Evans
Articles from 1967
"Dr Robert Menzies and Margaret Menzies, Edmund Stewart
The story of Sarah Osborne, Margaret Moncrieffe Evans
October meeting : [Old Wollongong Market Place], Alexander Patrick Fleming
Old Illawarra houses : 65 Smith Street, Wollongong, Margaret Moncrieffe Evans
Banjo Paterson on Bill Beach, Author Unknown
Obituary - R.H. Clarke, Author Unknown
Illawarra District rainfall, 1966, William Victor Mintorn
Vale Arthur Rhys Jones, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Identifying Burelli, William Graham McDonald
Obituary - Harry Purcell, Author Unknown
The Arthur Evans memorial library, William Graham McDonald
Wollongong Botanical Gardens : planting of commemorative tree, William Graham McDonald
Charcoal in the sixties, Illawarra Mercury
It must be true : it was in the paper, William Graham McDonald
April meeting, Author Unknown
Henrietta Heathorne's 'Pictures of Australian life, 1843-1844', Henrietta Heathorne
Obituary - William Glen Musgrave, Author Unknown
Old Illawarra houses : Newton, Kembla Grange, Margaret Moncrieffe Evans
Obituary - Mrs. H. E. Lee, Miss E. E. Osborne, Mr. E. H. Fowler, Mr. A. A. Armstrong and Mr. David Owen, Author Unknown
Old Illawarra Houses : Penrose, Margaret Moncrieffe Evans
Articles from 1966
Old Illawarra houses : Horsley, Margaret Moncrieffe Evans
Where it was, William Graham McDonald
The Digger spirit (1834), Alexander Stewart
The story of No. 20 Harbour Street, Margaret Moncrieffe Evans
Obituary - David Owen, Author Unknown
Road gang jottings, William Graham McDonald
September meeting, Author Unknown
Burke's law : precedent for the Will of a widower in favour of named children, Edmund Burke
Wollongong Public Library hours : letter to the editor, William Alan Bayley
A crisis in education (1879), David Galloway Richardson
Trial by ordeal (1828), Alexander Stewart
Hargraviana, William Graham McDonald
July excursion to Calderwood, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Obituary - E.H. Fowler, Author Unknown
Hobbies exhibition : international Mardi Gras : Wollongong Showground, Alexander Patrick Fleming
The Illawarra Historical Museum Fund, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Wollongong District rainfall 1965, William Victor Mintorn
Articles from 1965
From the Illawarra Mercury of April 1858, Illawarra Mercury
From The Morning Chronicle (Sydney) of 27/4/1844, Morning Chronicle
The foundation of the Society : Tuesday, 5th December, 1944, Alexander Patrick Fleming
A visit to 'Woolongong' in the 1840s : (from C Wilkes Narrative of the U.S. exploring expedition during 1838/ 1839/ 1841/ 1842, Charles Wilkes
David Bros. Pty Ltd : The Garden Hill Foundry, Denison Street, Wollongong, 1965 : Apprenticeship Week commemorative token, James Llewellyn David
The NSW Government Gazette : No 32 29/3/1844 page 500: Court of Claims, NSW Government Gazette
From the NSW Government Gazette 1843 : No 27, Tuesday March 28, 1843, NSW Government Gazette
The Figtree at Figtree, Clarence Wilfred Gardiner-Garden
A price war in shipping freights of the 1860s, Kiama Independent
From 'The three colonies of Australia' by Samuel Sidney (1853) pages 273-5, Samuel Sidney
The "E.R. & S. stack", Port Kembla, E.R. & S. Co
An early election : from the Sydney Morning Herald of 12/5/1846, Sydney Morning Herald
"Walkabout" June issue, Walkabout
Brighton Beach, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Marriage - Mr. A.D. Wallace and Miss Yvonne Hay, Author Unknown
Culbirnie, Kiama, Edgar Beale
The Wollongong Court House, Alexander Patrick Fleming
A wet landing at Wollongong (1839), James Gormly
Bulli Methodist Church centenary, William Alan Bayley
Wollongong district rainfall, 1964, William Victor Mintorn
From "The Illawarra Express" of Saturday, April 26th, 1862 : wreck of the Hope Schooner : Subscription baths : Blankets for the blacks, Illawarra Express
The late Mr John Benjamin, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Articles from 1964
Notes from the "Illawarra Mercury" 1862, Illawarra Mercury
Late Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States, David Bertram Ellson
November meeting, Author Unknown
October meeting, Author Unknown
Death of the great sweep promoter Mr George Adams : from Albion Park and Shellharbour Chronicle and Advertiser, September, 1904, Albion Park and Shellharbour Chronicle
The end of an era : The closing of the Savoy Theatre : Monday, 14th September, Alexander Patrick Fleming
A soiree at the Queen's Hotel (1864) : The induction of the Rev. Mr Mitchell, Illawarra Mercury
Ecclesiastical architecture, good, bad and indifferent (1872), Alfred McFarland
Kiama in the sixties, Ferdinand Bailliere
C Series index, 1837, NSW Colonial Secretary
June meeting : a learned and Reverend Judge, JC Brown
No law against Temperance, John Plunkett
Prejudiced testimony, Evening News
The Lord high executioner, 20th February (1788) : The Lord high everything else : Fish Royal, John White
All the facts about Wollongong (1866) : and some impressions (1872), Alfred McFarland
An early "free" district newspaper, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Opening of William (Bill) Beach, Mullet Creek, Dapto : Saturday, 11th April, 1964, William Graham McDonald
The district's rainfall 1963, William Victor Mintorn
The name and district of "Illawarra", James Jervis
Vale Harold Arthur MacLeod Morgan, William Graham McDonald
"Advance Illawarra! A coal mine opened", Illawarra Mercury
Notes from "Illawarra Mercury", 1860, Illawarra Mercury
The Sydney Mail 28/2/1867, Sydney Mail
Articles from 1963
Mr Osborne meets a Bunyip (1871), Illawarra Mercury
Terms at time of sale : genteel residence and cottage, The Australian
Wollongong Show Day, 1849 : (from Colonel Mundy's "Our Antipodes"), Godfrey Charles Mundy
Figtree Farm, Jamberoo, Illawarra, Abraham Lincolne
Spear-fishing at Red Point in 1823, Barron Field
The Sydney Mail 11th November, 1865 : strike amongst the miners, Sydney Mail
To Let, Illawarra Mercury
From the Illawarra Mercury : February 2nd, 1869, Illawarra Mercury
In Memoriam - Mrs. E.E. Fowler, Author Unknown
The Wollongong Centenary of Local Government medallion, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Road transport, Kiama Independent
The late storm : from the Illawarra Mercury of Friday, 29/4/1870, Illawarra Mercury
Late A. J. Weston of "Kiama Independent", William Alan Bayley
The Kiama Pioneer Butter Factory, William Alan Bayley
Millbrook Post Office, Alexander Patrick Fleming
New Post Office at Corrimal, Victor Dennis Kearney
Obituary - James Jervis, Author Unknown
Vale - Joe Greenwood, Author Unknown
Wollongong rainfall, William Victor Mintorn
Australian Numismatic Society (Wollongong Group) : The Woonona Industrial Co-operative Society bread tokens, John Kirkwood Batty
The Wollongong Presbyterian Church token, James Clyde Smith
Articles from 1962
Extracts from "The Freeman's Journal", Freeman's Journal
More Austinmer history : the sub-branch of the R.S.S. & A .I.L.A, Norman Spencer King
Notes by Miss M. McDonald, Margaret E. B. McDonald
The Empire games, Alexander Patrick Fleming
The history of Port Kembla, William Victor Mintorn
Australian Numismatic Society Report, January, 1962 Vol. XXVI : The Marcus Clarke medallion : The Bulli Shire coronation medallion, Allan Hugh McMaster
Mr Joseph Hector Carruthers, Kiama Independent
Helensburgh "tokens" : Helensburgh-Lilyvale workers' club token : Helensburgh & Lilyvale co-operative society bread token, Allan Hugh McMaster
Jamberoo Methodist Church, Kiama Independent
June meeting : "The ups and downs of the early roads to Wollongong", K Marshall
Excursion to "Dunmore", the home of Colonel and Mrs P K Parbury, William Alan Bayley
From "Town and Country Journal" 21/1/1914 - p.34, Town and Country Journal
Marshal Mount Wesleyan Church burned down, Illawarra Mercury
Wollongong rainfall, William Victor Mintorn
The first exploration of Illawarra by land, Edgar Beale
Australian Numismatic Society, James Clyde Smith
Illawarra General Stores, Illawarra Mercury
Articles from 1961
Congratulations, Author Unknown
Opening of the Wesleyan Chapel, Bulli : from the Illawarra Mercury 12/5/1865, Illawarra Mercury
The big wet : to 9am each morning, William Victor Mintorn
Vale - Douglas Hayden Bell, Author Unknown
Blue metal at Bombo, Kiama Independent
Bulli Roman Catholic Church, William Alan Bayley
Notes on minerals and mining : from Illawarra Mercury, 1876, Illawarra Mercury
Roman Catholic centenary : Shellharbour, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Blackberrying at Bulli, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Bulli : a tourist centre, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Episcopalian Church, Jamberoo, Illawarra Mercury
"Helensburgh history" : Wollongong Argus, 1899, Wollongong Argus
St Michael's Church of England, Wollongong : Sunday, 16th July, 1961, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Bulli sixty years ago : Bulli Times, 1901, Bulli Times
One hundred years ago : Illawarra Mercury 1861, Illawarra Mercury
Extracts from "The Illawarra Mercury", Illawarra Mercury
The Thetis, Illawarra Mercury
A history of Austinmer, Norman Spencer King
Formation of the militia in Wollongong, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Articles from 1960
Stuart Park and Fairy Creek : Dept. of Mines, Public Parks Branch, Sydney, William Victor Mintorn
The Illawarra Toll Bars [and] : The North Illawarra Toll Bar, Alexander Patrick Fleming
October meeting, Author Unknown
The Housing Commission subdivision at Berkeley, David Bertram Ellson
The suburb of Coniston, Joseph Greenwood
August meeting, Author Unknown
The Society's records, David Bertram Ellson
Ignacy Zlotskowski, William Alan Bayley
Wreck of schooner "Reaper" at Bellambi : From the "Illawarra Mercury" June 14, 1890[*See below]], Illawarra Mercury
22/9/1864 "Gerringong in 1864", Kiama Independent
Clippings from the "Kiama Independent" : 21/6/1864 - "Bulli Jetty collapses", Kiama Independent
Bellambi as a coal port, William Alan Bayley
First Wollongong squatters, William Alan Bayley
Some Bulli history, William Alan Bayley
The first five grantees and their grants in Illawarra, Bernard Thomas Dowd
The naming of Austinmer : editorial role, William Alan Bayley
Fitzroy Falls, James Jervis
Vale - Douglas Hayden Bell, David Bertram Ellson
Articles from 1959
Shellharbour centenary celebrations, William Alan Bayley
Bulli Court house, William Alan Bayley
First Bulli brickworks, William Alan Bayley
Helensburgh commerce and industry, William Alan Bayley
Notes from Land Department of N.S.W., William Alan Bayley
Bulli Methodist Sunday School : first apparent records still extant, William Alan Bayley
First road from Wollongong to Bulli, William Alan Bayley
Illawarra bushranging, Alexander Stewart
Events in the history of Coal Cliff and its colliery, Edgar Beale
Mr Edgar Beale : Dear Sir, Jessie Stead
The Bate family of Hooka Creek, Edgar Beale
Stockmen's Hut plaque : corner Smith and Harbour Streets, Wollongong, Edgar Beale
The Society's second exhibition : Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th march, 1959, Edgar Beale
The Reverend W B Clarke in Illawarra, Edgar Beale
Growth of Wollongong & District since the beginning of this century, William Victor Mintorn
Articles from 1958
St. Malo and Hunter's Hill excursion : 'Some family history', PJB Osborne
October meeting : The history and development of the inner harbour, Port kembla, Frank Matthews
Cedar-getters on Bulli mountainside, William Alan Bayley
Early roads to Wollongong, Sydney Morning Herald
Fairy Meadow school, William Alan Bayley
Genasis of District newspapers as given in the Centennial History of New South Wales 1888, William Alan Bayley
Jamberoo excursion, William Victor Mintorn
Primitive Methodist Church for Wollongong, William Alan Bayley
St Michael's Anglican Church organ arrives, Illawarra Mercury
From "Illawarra Mercury" of 5/4/1881, Illawarra Mercury
History and birds in Illawarra, Doug Gibson
Illawarra coalfield, William Alan Bayley
Illawarra settled, William Alan Bayley
Excursion conducted on 18th May, 1958, Edgar Beale
Bulli and Woonona in 1871, Town and Country Journal
Bulli in the eighties : Illustrated Sydney News, 1881, Illustrated Sydney News
Bulli notes from Wollongong Argus 1887 : By the Research Officer, William Alan Bayley
Churches of Bulli Methodist circuit / notes by the Research Officer., William Alan Bayley
Pioneer Kerosene Works in 1873, Illawarra Mercury
The hotels of Bulli, Sydney Mail
Early Coalcliff, Town and Country Journal
Opening of new Court House, Wollongong, Illawarra Mercury
Thirroul first called Robbinsville or Newtown, Town and Country Journal
Total wreck of the schooner Tiger at Bulli : three lives lost, Illawarra Mercury
Articles from 1957
The Rev. W B Clarke in Illawarra, Edgar Beale
September meeting, James Clyde Smith
The boundaries of "Illawarra", Author Unknown
The Rev. W. B. Clarke in Illawarra, Edgar Beale
Iron industry proposed for Illawarra, William Alan Bayley
Illustrations screened, William Alan Bayley
Articles from 1956
History of Sherbrooke, William Alan Bayley
William Beach : from the reminiscences of Frank Wilkinson, read by W S Musgrave, Frank Wilkinson
Articles from 1955
The Paulsgrove Diary, Arthur Cousins
Some historical facts about Wollongong parks, Joseph O'Malley
Articles from 1954
Unveiling Stockman's Hut plaque : at corner of Smith and Harbour Streets Wollongong, AR Grenfell
George Bass Naval surgeon, explorer, merchant adventurer, CWT Henderson
Articles from 1953
History of the village of Figtree, Clarence Wilfred Gardiner-Garden
The South Coast railway, EC C. Rowland
Articles from 1952
John Dunmore Lang on Mullet Creek, Archibald Gilchrist
The Church of England in Wollongong, Wilfred Standish Musgrave
The Wingecarribee and Southern Highlands district : its discovery and settlement, James Jervis
Mount Kembla disaster commeration : special bulletin, George Sellers and A. H. Grenfell
Articles from 1951
Excursion to Dapto and district : 18th November, 1951, Alexander Patrick Fleming
The wreck of the Queen of Nations, Edgar Beale
Reminiscences of shipwrecks in Illawarra during the past sixty years (1891-1951), W. V. Mintorn
Settlers and convicts : Read by Mr C W Gardiner-Garden, Clarence Wilfred Gardiner-Garden
The Illawarra Steam-Packet Company, Alexander Patrick Fleming
Articles from 1950
James Meehan, Bernard Thomas Dowd
Articles from 1949
Edmund B. Kennedy, Edgar Beale
Recollections : history of doctors in the Illawarra, H. H. Lee
Articles from 1948
The romance of the road, Joseph P. O'Malley
Royal Australian Historical Society visits Illawarra, Alexander Patrick Fleming
William Lowe - shipbuilder, Harold Lowe
Allan Cunningham and Illawarra, William Charles C. Wentworth
Articles from 1947
Coal seam commemoration, Joseph P. Worland
News and notes, Joseph Worland
The early church and its connection with Illawarra, Joseph J. McGovern
Extract for "Picturesque atlas of Australia / edited by Andrew Garran, 1888, Andrew Garran
The road to Illawarra, William Charles C. Wentworth
Articles from 1946
The romance of Wollongong, Harold Norrie
Wollongong Surf Life Saving Club's Boat "Matthew Flinders", Alexander Patrick Fleming
Balgownie : an old place with a new name, Joseph P. O'Malley
In search of a name - Austinmer, M. A. Green
Lawrence Hargrave, Joseph Worland
The Illawarra Mercury : ninety years of South Coast journalism, Wilfred Standish S. Musgrave
Articles from 1945
Illawarra - a century of history, James Jervis
Hamilton Hume's reward grant, Thomas Davies D. Mutch
