King William of Orange – main symbol of Orange Orders
Kiama had a number of Orange lodges, the 5th one formed in Australia after they were no longer illegal in 1845.
List of Kiama District Lodges (not just Orange but Oddfellows, Buffaloes and Freemason )from Dr Bob James of the Fraternal Studies [...]
Archive for the ‘Kiama Mysteries and Questions’ Category
Kiama and the Orange Lodges and Fraternal Societies
Posted in Kiama Mysteries and Questions on June 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Kiama’s Missing Pentrich Plaque, Have you seen it?
Posted in Kiama Mysteries and Questions on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
George Weightman’s plaque unveiled at Kiama
Saturday 6th November 2004 – Kiama, NSW, Australia
Commemorative plaque regarding George Weightman, a ‘Prisoner of conscience’.
Plaque is located on the corner of Terralong Street and Railway Parade, Kiama.
Missing since 2007
http://www.pentrich.org.uk/html/kiama.plaque.html
Update; by December 2008,
the plaque has now returned though I have not yet learnt the full story!
History Detective Program in Development
Posted in History Detective, Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The kiamalocal history blog in co-operation with the Pilot’s Cottage Museum, are developing up a number of history detective programs, using internet clues from this website, roleplay, and physical search for clues using GPS, like at http://geocaching.com.au/cacher/Kiama+Krew with a specific cache here http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gcx2pm
Topics willl include ‘Allen Penny Treasure Hunt’, ‘Headless Ghost Mystery’, The Mystery of the Swedish [...]
The Trials and Eccentricities of Rev Spry-Bailey of Jamberoo
Posted in Kiama Mysteries and Questions, Yarns, Tall Tales, Larrikin Pranks and Ghost Tales of K on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reading through the history of the Anglican Church of Jamberoo, the Church of the Resurrection 1867-1967, one comes across the remarkable story of Reverend Spry-Bailey who took over in January,1868, Unfortunately he had inherited a nasty situation where in May 1866, three crosses which decorated the chancel and the two ends of the nave, inside [...]
Fry’s Trolley found in Kiama!
Posted in Kiama Mysteries and Questions on September 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
An unexpected find has made its way into storage at the Pilot’s Cottage after a woman moving out of home wanted to find a refuge for a treasured heirloom of her father.
It was the museum or the skip
The Museum took it in order to find it a home and it turned out to be an important part of [...]
Whatever happened to Big Ben?
Posted in Kiama Mysteries and Questions on September 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A Very Big Tiger Shark at Shellharbour in 2008 (Music by the legendary Blue Swimmers) Note by author ‘tryhard parrot’ says
“This big fella had the remains of a horse drop out when lifted by the crane.It was caught during the Bass Point Classic game fishing comp held in April 08.”
zane-grey-poses-with-world-record-tiger-shark in [...]
