This double breasted coat was owned by Drago Radinovic and represents some of the hardest and most…
The Queen of Nations was a clipper ship built in 1861 for the Aberdeen White Star line. With her…
With the coming of the car, Australians were able to travel to their destinations much quicker than…
Since white settlement in 1788, migrants have come from all over the world to populate our island…
Horses and pit ponies were a major part of mining life up to the 1950s and even as far as the 1990s.…
“The road to Mount Kembla is paved with sad memories. It is also a fairy land where green…
On 4 November 1942, a Lockhead Hudson, piloted by Sgt Norman Baxter Clark crashed into Bong Bong…
The Vietnam War is an event experienced by many Wollongong and Illawarra men, women and their…
This sketchbook of drawings from WW1 France, belonged to Frank Henderson Molony. Frank was an…
There were three public inquiries into the cause of the Mt Kembla Mine Disaster. In 1903, a Royal…
The Davy lamp was invented by Sir Humphry Davy in 1816, allowing deep seams to be mined despite the…
This lamp belonged to Thomas Cook who was Manager of the Mt Pleasant Mine in the 1890s.In the hours…
In 1904, two years after the disaster, 51 medals were awarded to rescuers by the Royal Shipwreck…