This site was uploaded on September 15th, 2001.

Update: October 12, 2001.One image added to 'Valley Schools' and one image added to 'Local Watering Holes.'
Update: October 30, 2001. Additions to 'Obituaries' page.
Update: November 2, 2001. Additions to 'Obituaries', 'Roads and Transport' and 'Church and Community' pages.
Update: November 7, 2001.Additions to 'Obituaries' page.
Update: November 10, 2001. Additions to 'Obituaries',
Update: November 10, 2001. Images added to 'Roads and Transport', 'Farming and Dairying', 'Balls and Dances', 'War and the Depression', 'Magnet Bits and Pieces' and 'Bridges'.
Update: November 13, 2001. New page 'Early Settlers'.
Update: November 18, 2001. New images added to 'Early Settlers', 'Fire' and 'Obituaries'.
Update: March 9, 2002. New images added to 'War and The Depression', 'Bridges', 'Early Settlers', 'Roads and Transport', 'Historical Articles' and 'Local Watering Holes'.
Update: March 23, 2002. New images to 'Farming and Dairying', 'Bridges', 'Roads and Transport' and 'Early Settlers'.
Update: April 12, 2002. 'Obituaries'
Update: April 14, 2002. 'Sport and Recreation'. (1952 Magnet)
Update: May 15, 2002. New images to 'Farming and Dairying', 'Gold and Mining' and 'Local Watering Holes'.
Update: May 25, 2002. New images to 'Early Settlers', 'Roads and Transport', 'Sport and Recreation' and 'Early Settlers'.
Update: May 25, 2002. Excerpts added to 'Church and Community', Sports and Recreation', 'Obituaries', 'Magnet Bits & Pieces' and 'Bridges'.
Update: June 16, 2002. Excerpts from 1936 'Magnet' added to 'Roads and Transport', 'War and the Depression', 'Farming and Dairying', 'Historical Articles', 'Valley Schools' and 'Land Leases and Electoral Rolls'.
Update: July 8, 2002. Images added to 'Early Settlers', 'War and The Depression', 'Balls and Dances' and 'Roads and Transport'.
Update: July 24, 2002. Text added from 1936 'Magnet' to 'Myths and Legends', 'Bush Nursing and Home Remedies' and 'Balls and Dances'.
Update: July 24, 2002. New section added, 'Towamba Valley Views'.
Update: July 25, 2002. New section added, 'The General Store and Post Office'.
Update: August 20, 2002. New images added to 'Farrell Family' in 'Early Settlers' and 'Valley Schools'.
Update: August 22, 2002. Articles added to 'Church and Community' and 'Historical Articles'. (1934)
Update: August 31, 2002. Images added to 'Towamba Valley Views'.
Update: September 2, 2002. Post Office and Telegraph Office opening dates added to 'General Stores and Post Offices'.
Update: September 6, 2002. Text added to 'Myths & Legends' and 'Early Settlers'.
Update: September 9, 2002. New link added to 'Farming and Dairying' titled 'Yewen's Directory of The Landholders of New South Wales'.
Update: September 28, 2002. Links added to 'Farming and Dairying' titled: 'Wattle Bark' and 'Dairying'.
Update: September 30, 2002. Excerpts added to 'Myths & Legends' and 'Roads and Transport' (1934 and 1930)
Update: October 2, 2002. Images added to 'General Stores and Post Offices', 'Farming and Dairying' and 'Dairying' (link from 'Farming and Dairying').
Update: October 5, 2002. Images and text added to 'Gold and Mining'.
Update: October 23, 2002. Image and text added to 'Dairying' link on 'Farming and Dairying' page.
Update: October 25, 2002. Text from 1930 'Magnet' added to 'Dairying' link on 'Farming and Dairying' page, 'Bridges', 'Myths, Legends & the Unusual', 'Local Watering Holes' and 'Roads and Transport'.
Update: November 11, 2002. Obituary added.
Update: December 9, 2002. Images added to 'Dairying' and 'Wattle Bark' (link from 'Farming and Dairying') and text added to 'War and the Depression'.
Update: January 16, 2003.New pages (2) added: 'Lower Towamba School' (links from 'Valley Schools') and 'Yambulla' (gold fields).
Update: March 17, 2003. Text added to 'General Stores & Post Offices' and an image to 'War and the Depression'.
Update: March 20, 2003.'WW 1 & WW 11' has replaced 'War and the Depression' and has three new links: 'War Memorial Inscriptions', 'Towamba War Letters' and 'Beasley War Photos'.
Update: April 4, 2003. Text added to 'Myths, Legends and the Unusual'.
Update: October 18, 2003. Two new pages from 'Early Settlers'. Links to 'Alexander Family'
Update: December 2, 2003. Images added to 'Obituaries' and Alexander family (link from 'Early Settlers').
Update: April 2, 2004. Excerpt from an unknown newspaper added to 'Myths, Legends and the Unusual'.
Update: December 4, 2004. 'The Forgotten Corner Interviews' link added to index. All interviews now on the website.
Update: February, 2005. Additional information added to 'Towamba War Letters' link on WW1 & 11 page. Additional information on 'Myths, Legends and the Unusual'.
Update: March, 2005 Addition to 'Obituarys' .
Update: March, 2005 Addition to 'Dairying' page, article and image. Link from 'Farming and Dairying'.
Update: April, 2005 Images added to 'Floods', 'Balls and Dances', 'Valley Schools' and 'WW1 & 11' (War Memorial link).
Update: June, 2005 Don Mills' personal account of teaching in Towamba Public School between 1950 and 1957. Link from 'Valley Schools'
Update: September, 2005 Information added to 'War Memorial' of soldiers killed in France, Belgium, Malaya and Borneo, and where they are buried.
Update: November, 2005 New link 'Cathcart' added to 'Early Settlers' page.
Update: January, 2006 Images added to: 'Yambulla', 'Kiah School', 'Roads and Transport', 'Sport and Recreation' and 'Alexander' page in 'Early Settlers'.
Update: January, 2006 Complete article; "The Unravelling of a long kept secret" included in 'Early Settlers'.
Update: January, 2006 Images added to 'WW1 & 11' and 'Roads & Transport'.
Update: April, 2006 Burial information added to 'Obituaries'.
Update: June, 2006 Love Family History added. Link from 'Early Settlers' on homepage.
Update: December, 2006 Images added to 'Balls and Dances' and 'Bush Nursing and Home Remedies.'
Update: February, 2007 Images added to 'Early Settlers'.
Update: July, 2007, 'Laing Family' page added to 'Early Settlers'. Family history plus images and early memories.
Update: October, 2007 Information added to main image in 'WW1 & WW11'. Images and information added to 'War Memorial' page.
Update: April, 2008 Obituary added to 'Obituaries' page. Image added to 'Valley Schools'. Image and article added to 'Newspaper Bits and Pieces'
Update: January, 2009 Article and image added to 'Dairying' on 'Farming and Dairying' page.
Update: February, 2009. Newspaper articles added to 'Fire'
Update: April, 2009 Images added to 'Yambulla Gold Fields'
Update: May, 2009 New page: 'Nungatta'
Update: June, 2009 New page: 'Aborigines and White Settlement'.
Update: June, 2009 Link added to "Aborigines and White Settlement' to 'Bega Valley Region Old Pathways and Trails'.
Update: July, 2009 Additional information of internments in 'Obituaries' page.
Update: August, 2009 New link on early life on Nungatta Station added to 'Nungatta' page.
Update: August, 2009 Snippets added to: 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces', 'Early Settlers', General Stores & Post Offices', 'Local Watering Holes', 'Pericoe School' and Sport & Recreation'.
Update: August, 2009 Information added to 'Landleases and Electoral Rolls', 'Cathcart', 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces', Farming & Dairying', 'Bridges'.
Update: August, 2009 New page: 'Rockton & Wangrabelle'
Update: August, 2009 New page: "Grand People" A History of the Arnold Family of Pericoe, added to 'Early Settlers'.
Update: September, 2009 Information added to 'Roads and Transport' and 'Rockton and Wangrabell'.
Update: September 2009 Information added to 'Bridges'.
Update: September 2009 New page: 'School and Scandal in Mallacoota' - link from 'Valley Schools'.
Update: September 2009 New section 'Eucalyptus Oil' added to 'Wattlebark' page. Information added to 'Balls & Dances'.
Update: March, 2010 Image added to 'WW1 & WW11' page.
Update: March, 2010 Images added to'Rocky Hall School' page.
Update: April, 2010 Link added to 'Early Settlers' page to Bernie Cornell article.
Update: June 2010 Article added to 'Local Watering Holes'.
Update: June 2010 Images added to 'Rabbits' page and 'Local Watering Holes' page.
Update: September 2010 New page 'Wyndham' with images. Whipstick mines article plus images added to 'Gold and Mining' page. Image added to 'Aborigines and White Settlement'.
Update: October 2010 New page 'Wyndham School' linked from 'Valley Schools' page plus images. Images added to 'Wattle Page' and 'Dairy Page'.
Update: December 2010 New Page added to 'WW1&11'. Link: 'WW1 Enlisted Men 1918'.
Updates: January 2011 Images and information added to 'Rabbits'.
Updates: January 2011 Corrections made to names to images of soldiers on 'WW1 & WW11' page.
Updates: February 2011 Articles and news items added to: 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces', 'Fire', 'Yambulla', 'Historical Articles', 'Obituaries', 'Roads & Transport', 'Gold and Mining', 'Floods', 'General Stores & Post Offices' pages.
Updates: February 2011 Police gazette entries and the Towamba connection to the Ned Kelly Gang added to 'Local Constabulary'.
Updates: February 2011 Link to copies of original war letters added to 'WW1&11'.
Updates: February 2011 Link added to 'War Letters' page.
Updates: March 2011 'The Sydney Morning Herald' articles added to 'Myths', 'Gold and Mining', 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces', 'Obituariies', 'WW1 & 11', 'Valley Schools', 'Dairying'.
Updates: March 2011 Images added to 'Floods' and 'Towamba Valley Views'. Newspaper snippets and articles added to: 'Farming and Darying', 'Fire', 'Obituaries', 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces', 'Floods', ' Historical Articles', 'Towamba Valley Views'.
Updates: April 2011 'The Sydney Morning Herald' articles added to 'Historical Articles', 'Myths', 'Yambulla School' and 'Yambulla'.
Updates: April 2011 Brown family, Kilgour and Taylor families added to 'Early Settler Families' page.
Updates: October 2011 Articles added to: "Farming and Dairying', 'Floods', 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces', 'Myths' and 'Roads and Transport'.
Updates: October 2011 Doris Page obituary added to 'Obituaries' page.
Updates: January 2012 New 'Towamba Cemetery Headstones' page added. Link on Homepage.
Updates: January 2012 Second 'Towamba Cemetery Headstones' page added. Link from 'Cemetery Headstones' page.
Updates: February 2012 New links added to 'Early Settlers' page to 'Descendants of John and Maria Stephens and Richards Families' and 'Descendants of Joseph McKee'.
Updates: March 2012 War Memorial Inscriptions added to 'War Memorial' page.
Updates: June 2012 New page "Norm Whitby's Poems" added. Link from Index.
Updates: June 2012 New images added to 'Valley Schools'. Images sent in celebration of Towamba Primary School's 150th anniversary.
Updates: June 2012 Images added to 'Floods' page.
Updates: June 2012 Alexander Family of Pericoe link added to 'Early Settlers' page.
Updates: July 2012 Images added to 'Wattlebark'.
Updates: July 2012 New pages - 'Alexander Family of Pericoe' and 'Parker/Walters Photos' links from 'Early Settlers' page.
Updates: August 2012 New page 'Walters/Parker/Plumb Family' link from 'Early Settlers' page.
Updates: August 2012 Images added to 'Alexander Family of Pericoe'. Link from 'Early settlers' page.
Updates: August 2012 New page added - 'Towamba Public School 150th Celebrations', link from 'Valley Schools'.
Updates: September 2012 New page added - 'Roberts Family Photos'. Link from 'Early Settlers' page.
Updates: September 2012 Images added to Love Family History. Link from 'Early Settlers' - Love Family History - Photos.
Updates: October 2012 'Lucas Brothers of Towamba' page added to 'WW1 & 11'.
Updates: November 2012 Images added: 'Church and Community' and 'Bridges'.
Updates: December 2012 Towamba Primary School Register added - link from 'Valley Schools'.
Updates: December 2012 Information on Heritage listing of Bundian Way Project added to 'Aborigines' page.
Updates: January 2013 Image added to 'Sport and Recreation'.
Updates: January 2013 'Towamba Bridge Resurfaced' page added. Link from 'Bridges' page.
Updates: March 2013 Images added to 'Alexander' page. Link from 'Early Settlers' page.
Updates: March 2013 Images added to 'Love Photos'. Link from 'Early Settlers' page.
Updates: April 2013 'Parker Family History' page added, also images. Link from 'Early Settlers' page.
Updates: April 2013 New page added - 'Kiss family History'. Link from 'Early Setters' page.
Updates: October/November 2013 Bega Budget and 'The Bega Gazette & Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser' newspaper items added to: 'Early Settlers', 'Bush Nursing', 'Local Constabulary', 'Pericoe School' , 'Land Leases', 'Roads & Transport', 'Yambulla', 'Farming & Dairying', 'Dairying', 'Depression', 'General Stores & Post Offices', 'Valley Schools', 'Bridges', 'Historical Articles', 'Gold & Mining', 'Wattle', 'Obituaries', 'Lower Towamba School', 'Rabbits', 'Floods', 'Local Watering Holes'. Images added to 'Historical Articles' and 'Land Leases'.
Updates: February 2014 Image added to 'WW1 & 11' and article to 'Myths'
Updates: March 2014. Map of Towamba village (Sturt) added to 'Landleases and Electoral Rolls'.
Updates: April 2014 Images added to: 'Bridges', 'Valley Schools', 'Sport and Recreation'.
Updates: July 2014 Newspaper items added to 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces'
Updates: August 2014 Newspaper articles added to 'Rabbits' and 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces', 'War Memorial', 'Valley Schools', 'Yambulla' and 'Bridges'.
Udates: August 2014 New paged added: 'Valley Communications'. Link from 'General Stores and Post Offices'.
Updates: August 2014 Articles and news items added to: 'Rabbits', 'WW1 & 11', 'Roads & Transport', 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces', 'Church and Community', 'Sport & Recreation', 'Farming & Dairying', 'General Stores & Post Offices', 'Obituaries', 'Yambulla' and 'Bridges'.
Updates: August 2014 New pages added: 'Pericoe News', 'Burragate News' and 'Rocky Hall News'. Links from 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces'.
Updates: September 2014: Articles added to: 'Landleases', 'Wattlebark', 'General Stores & Post Offices', 'Obituaries', 'Balls & Dances' and 'Pericoe School'.
Updates: October 2014 Newspaper articles added to: 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces', 'Yambulla', 'WW1&11', 'Obituaries', 'Valley Schools', 'Sport & Recreation', 'Floods', 'Historical Articles', 'Farming & Dairying', 'General Stores & Post Offices', 'Myths', 'War Memorial', 'Pericoe News', 'Nangutta'.
Updates: October 2014 Image added to 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces, article added to 'Historical Articles', 'Beasley War Photos', 'Bush Nursing', 'Myths', 'Bridges', 'Obituaries', 'Landleases and Electoral rolls' and Local Constabulary'.
Updates: April 2015 Images and information added to 'WW1&11' and 'Beasley War Photos'
Updates: May 2015 Images added to 'WW1&11', 'Sport & Recreation', 'War Beasley' and new page added - 'Dickie Family', link from 'Early Settlers' page. Images added to 'Bridges' and 'Sport and Recreation'.
Updates: May 2015 Images added to 'Beasley Family'. Link from 'Early Settlers' page.
Updates: May 2015 New page added 'Lucas/Tasker Families'. Link from 'Early Settlers' page.
Updates: June 2015 New page added 'Towamba ANZACs' Link from 'WW1&11'. New images added to 'WW1&11', 'Sport & Recreation', 'War Memorial', 'Dickie Family' and 'Beasley Family'.
Updates: July 2015 Images added to 'Sport & Recreation'.
Updates: August 2015 Images added to 'Dickie Family', 'Local Watering Holes', 'WW1&11', and 'Parker Ancestry'.
Updates: September 2015 Image and obituary added to 'Obituaries'.
Updates: October 2015 Images added to 'Beasley War Photos', 'Church and Community', Laing Page', 'Love Photos' and 'Local Watering Holes'.
Updates: June 2016 Images of 1971 flood added to 'Floods' page.
Updates: Feb. 2017 Brotherton-Hunt page added to 'Early Settlers'.
Updates: April 2017 Image of Arthur Beasley added to 'Beasley War Photos'. Link from WW1&11.
Updates: June 2017 Images added to 'Bridges', Roads & Transport', 'Rocky Hall News', General Store & Post Offices', 'Wyndham' and 'Valley Communication' pages.
Updates: Sept. 2017 Article added to 'Bridges'. Images added to 'Valley Schools' and 'Roads and Transport'.
Updates: Oct. 2017 Soldiers who were born in Towamba and served in WW1 & WW11 listed in 'Towamba War Memorial Inscriptions' page. Link from WW1&11 page.
Updates: Nov. 2017 Image added to WW1 Beasley page.
Updates: Dec. 2017 Image of Harry Richards added to 'Local Constabulary' and 'Obituaries' pages.
Updates: Dec. 2017 Images added to 'Beasley Family' page.
Updates: Jan. 2018 Image added to 'Sport & Recreation' page.
Updates: Aug. 2018 Article and image about David Gilpin, Towamba School teacher 1884/5.
Updates: Sept. 2018 Article added to 'Wyndham School' page. Link from 'Valley Schools'.
Updates: Jan.2019 Article added to 'Roads and Transport' (sealing of the Towamba road) and two images added to 'Towamba War Memorial'.
Updates: Jan. 2020 Images added to 'Balls and Dances'.
Updates: Oct. 2020 Image added to 'Lower Towamba School' link on 'Valley Schools' page.
Updates: March 2022 Article added to 'Lower Towamba School' page. Articles added to 'Historical Articles', 'Floods' and 'Bridges' pages.
Updates: July 2022 Information added to the introduction of 'Land Leases and Electoral Role' page.
Updates: Aug. 2022 Information added to 'Rabbits' and 'Balls and Dances'
Updates: Sept. 2022 Information on the village of Sturt added to 'Landleases' page.
Updates: Sept. 2022 Images added to 'Land Leases and Electoral Rolls' page.
Updates: Oct. 2022 Image added to 'Landleases' and articles added to 'Historical Articles' page.
Updates: Oct. 2022 Information added to 'Landleases' regarding the Tuamba run.
Updates: May 2023 Updated information on the Kiss Family DNA project.
Updates: Oct. 2023 Information added to 'Bridges', 'WW 1 & 11'. 'Dairying', 'Local Watering Holes', 'Valley Schools', 'Local Constabulary', 'Roads and Transport', 'Balls and Dances', 'Land Leases and Electoral Rolls', 'Sport and Recreational', 'Rocky Hall News', 'Bush Nursing', 'Valley Communications', 'Historical Articles', 'Yambulla', 'Newspaper Bits & Pieces', 'Rockton & Wangrabelle', 'Floods'.
Updates: April 2024 Image added to WW1 & 11
Updates: January 2025 Article added to 'WW1&11' page. 'Unveiling of Towamba War Memorial'
Updates: February 2025 Articles added to 'General Stores and Post Offices', 'Yambulla' and 'Obituaries', 'Bridges' and 'Sport and Recreation'.
Updates: March 2025 Articles added to 'Land Leases and Electoral Roles', 'Historical Articles', 'Bridges' and 'Yambulla'.
Updates: April 2025 Articles added to 'Bridges', 'Local Watering Holes', 'Local Constabulary' and 'Historical Articles'.
Updates: May 2025 Information of Original place names in the Far South Coast added to 'Land Leases and Electoral Rolls'.
Updates: July 2025 Image added to Beasley war photos.
Updates: Dec. 2025 Images of the centenary of the opening of the Towamba War Memorial added to 'WW1 and WW11' Memorial Inscriptions.