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Bertha and Henry Lambert in vegetable garden of their home at 34 James Street Teralba
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…Media … Bertha and Henry Lambert in vegetable garden of their home at 34 James Street Teralba … Photo Ref: 25736 … Creators:… Lambert, Mr Con (Constant) … Lambert, Mr Paul … This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License……Related…
Alice Christensen and her daughter Norma in the garden of Lot 485 Ilford Avenue Arcadia Vale during the Depression in 1929.
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…Media … Alice Christensen and her daughter Norma in the garden of Lot 485 Ilford Avenue Arcadia Vale during the Depression in 1929.……Photo Ref: 325 … Creator: Williams, Mrs Elizabeth Bodel … This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs…
Opening of Toronto Hotel
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…Also, there was once a large vegetable garden behind the hotel where Coles car park now exists.…
Alice Christensen and her daughter Norma in the garden of Lot 485 Ilford Avenue Arcadia Vale during the Depression in 1929.
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…Media … Alice Christensen and her daughter Norma in the garden of Lot 485 Ilford Avenue Arcadia Vale during the Depression in 1929.……Photo Ref: 5938 … Creator: Williams, Mrs Elizabeth Bodel … This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs…
The Stone Road in Argenton
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…This possibility is also supported by the fact that a visitor to the area in 1870 reported they found only bushland, with the exception of a small dairy with some vegetable gardens attached to it (8).…
Evelyn Ruth (Lena) Peterson - Early landowner at Munibung, now Macquarie Hills
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…She dug numerous dams on the property to water the acres of garden that she had and she built two dwellings and numerous shed with very little funds and making do with what she could get. ALL BY HAND!!! No machinery just hand tools…. a saw, shovel, mattock, crowbar, hammer, axe etc.……Her garden was…
Eraring
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…After 1910 settlers worked market gardens and planted orchards. … Early Transport By water or horse and dray until the opening of Dora Creek station in 1889. … Second Subdivision and Settlement In 1910 the Excelsior Land Co. resubdivided Eraring into small farm blocks.……The new settlers supported themselves…
Dora Creek
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…In late 1841 two market gardeners, Smith and Carter, arrived and later a man named Vogan and an immigrant, Timothy Ryan. Development was slow during the next two decades (the years of the depression and the gold rush). In 1866 John Douglass opened a store. The Chinese farmed the rich alluvial soil.……There…
Glenrock Lagoon
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…Historically significant, its construction was the first of its kind, and led to the opening up of independent coal mining, which in turn led to the establishment of the Hunter as a coal mining centre. … 1856 Walter Bailey cultivates a 120 acre orchard and market garden, called Mount Pleasant, in the……valley…
Windale
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…In 1932 this land was auctioned and a section was bought by green grocer Thomas Jack whose house on the highway was well known to passers-by on account of the cement gnomes in the garden.……Tarrant sold, and delivered by cart to Merewether and Hamilton, her farm's fruit and vegetable produce. … Early…

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