You can also visit the shellharbour city museum in the shellharbour city centre to see amazing artifacts and learn some surprising snippets about early shellharbour. Shellharbour city libraries is a service provided by shellharbour city council. Nsw family history resources over 15,000 pages of online records that can help you trace people who lived and worked in new south wales from 1850 to 1920. It also gives its name to the local government area, city of shellharbour the suburb is centred on the small recreational harbour named shell harbour. In 1856, the illawarra mercury reported that shellharbour was beginning to assume the appearance of a hamlet or little town. Shellharbour marina is just less than a twohour drive and 190 nautical miles from sydney harbour, ideal for a relaxing weekend holiday with family and friends for those that need the relief from a busy lifestyle. Museum featuring changing exhibitions, artefacts, photographs, oral histories. View from the reserve at shellharbour, and seaside, the bursill family home on the left c. Thematic history shellharbour council nsw government. The shellharbour visitors centre stocks historical publications that are available to purchase including land between two rivers, 150 years of shellharbour and voices of a lifetime. Read this entry in the shellharbour local history blog written for naidoc week, 2012.
Our resources include publications, valuation books, cemetery records. Shellharbour beach, which runs to barrack point and shellharbour south beach, which runs. Sic shall convey and promote the universal message of islam for the benefit of all people without discrimination on grounds of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, disability, age and political, religious, or other beliefs 2. Shop 1123, stockland shellharbour shopping centre lake entrance road shellharbour city centre nsw 2529 shellharbour qbd books. Graeme bases animalia takes kids of all ages on fun learning adventures through one of the worlds most beloved and wellknown picture books. Youll discover shellharbour on the picturesque south coast of new south wales, conveniently located just over an hours. Shellharbour city has many attractions for family entertainment and recreation. They had sourced the images from private collections, tongarra museum albion park, shellharbour city libraries, trove, shellharbour images. The aboriginal name for shellhabour has been recorded as both yerrowah meeting place, and wonwin, place where there were big fish. Wollongong coniston lysaghts cringila port kembla north port kembla. Eleven families lived in eleven houses and farmers came and went with drays, horseback or on foot, carrying the produce of the peterborough estate, macquarie river and stoney creek to be shipped to sydney. According to the story, it was this visit that led to the nameboards and maps being amended to read dunmore shellharbour.
Shellharbour qbd books australias premier bookshop. In albion park rail there is a light rail museum and steam trains, historical aircraft restoration society hars museum, and albion oval. Read this entry in the shellharbour local history blog written for naidoc. Entrance to a harbour, with aborigines in a miamia, ca. Visit our museum to discover more about the history of shellharbour through changing. Selected wollongong and shellharbour city libraries are also acting as collection points. Shellharbour images is a fascinating collection of over 4,000 historical photographs dating from 1850, providing insights into the rich history of shellharbour city. View from the reserve at shellharbour, and seaside, the bursill family home on. Sic shall provide teaching and learning programmes for the spiritual and moral and ethical development of all its volunteers so that they may. Go back in time with part one of a historical gallery of photos from throughout the shellharbour region. This book provides a thematic history of the aboriginal people in the illawarra area. Sharing the history of shellharbour from windang bridge to dunmore and shellharbour village to macquarrie pass. Explore our history from indigenous communities dating back many thousands of years to european settlement and rapid growth through land grants and agriculture, shellharbours colourful history is there for you to explore. Aboriginal history of the illawarra history of the illawarra.