On August 1st 1979, The dissolution of Shoalhaven Shire Council and Proclamation by the Governor of NSW, Sir Arthur Roden Cutler, of the Municipality of Shoalhaven as the City of Shoalhaven took place.
Councillor, (then Alderman) Gregory H Watson was appointed provisional Mayor until September 1980, when he was elected as Shoalhaven’s first Mayor by popular vote.
On August 14th 1879, the original timber bridge across the river at Kangaroo Valley was opened. At the time it was the highest bridge above water in NSW. It cost ÂŁ3,000 and it was washed away by flood on 24th May 1898, five days after the Hampden Bridge was opened! read more…
On July 5th 1879, work began on the construction of the iron bridge over the Shoalhaven River at Nowra. Amazingly (I’d like to see it happen today), the bridge was opened on the
1st August that same year by Hon John Lackey MLA, Minister for Works, in the presence of 7,000 people.
The bridge was constructed by the Edgemoor Iron Co of Delaware, USA and was the largest in NSW at the time. read more…
I mentioned before in a previous article that I had some more photos taken during the 1988 flooding. Here’s the best of the shots including a couple of ‘panoramic’ ones taken on the beach and a series of very dramatic ones taken from the air. I don’t know who to credit for these photos, if the photographer would like to be credited, please
contact me.
If you are in any of the photos, what about leaving some comments about what you remember of that day?
Here’s the photos - read more…
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Secondly, to encourage more comments on the articles I’ve removed the email and website boxes as it might have put some people off. They were always optional anyway but now you don’t even have to give them a second look - ’cause they ain’t there!
It really means a lot to the article writers to get some feedback on what they write so as well as the comments (if you can spare a few seconds to put something there it would be great), you can also now give an article a ‘thumbs up’ if you like it - just use the click if you like this article link and your vote will be recorded. EDIT July 2nd: Ok changed this to ‘How did this article make you feel?’ as the thumbs up thingie caused a problem. So if you don’t have time to dash off a quick comment - just let us know by clicking your mood! read more…
This month in the Shoalhaven in 1822 was very important as it was the very beginnings of white settlement in the area. On June 21st, the Scotsman Alexander Berry arrived at Coolangatta to become the first white settler in the Shoalhaven District. His vessel was the 15 ton cutter “Blanche”.
On June 23rd he made a note in his diary about “Shoalhaven Hill, Cullingatty” which was later
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I’ve always been intrigued as to the origins of the name ‘Jerry Bailey’, which was of course, the original name of our village. It was officially changed to Shoalhaven Heads in 1955 and so far, I’ve come across a couple of possible sources for the name.
The first one is that it is rumoured to be the name of a sailor who lost his life when his ship ran aground whilst navigating the shallow river mouth. read more…
On this month in the Shoalhaven several intersting events took place. Firstly, on May 24th 1898, the old bridge across Kangaroo River was washed away by flood. Luckily this was five days after the new Hampden Bridge was opened!
On the 1st May 1899 occurred the opening of the lighthouse on Point Perpendicular. Kerosene operated, the light was in a 44 foot tower. The original lighthouse on Cape St. George (built in 1860) was then closed and it was later demolished by the Navy, who used it for gunnery practice.
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On this month in 1842 (April 26th) was the first recording of a flood in the Shoalhaven River. More floods were recorded again in 1852.
The most damaging were recorded in February 1860, May 1860, August 1860 and 1870 finally one more for that year started people thinking of moving from Terara and Numbaa to Nowra. The floods of June 1864, April 1867 and June 1867 caused more crop and livestock loss. read more…
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