Tucked away in the University of Wollongong Innovation Campus, is the site of one of Wollongong's…
Formerly known as Bulli Mountain, the village of Sherbrooke existed for only around 30 years, before…
Aboriginal people have been living in the Illawarra region and managing their environment for at…
Life in rural Australia was one of hard work, adapting to the surroundings and making do with what…
Many mines had a boiler plant to supply the steam engines of the mine. A steam powered whistle…
Life down the mine presented miners with all sorts of daily challenges. One of them was how to stop…
Mining for coal by hand and underground is a dirty enough job without doing it in complete darkness.…
At the end of the 19th century, as the popularity of surf bathing increased, by-laws in place since…
The Bellambi Coal Co. Ltd. erected a beacon light on the shoreline at Bellambi Point in 1913. The…
As motor vehicles became more affordable and people began to move further from their homes for…
Motorcylces grew in popularity at the start of the 20th century and many people built their own.…
Since white settlement in 1788, migrants have come from all over the world to populate our island…