By Lyn Workman.
Describes the circumstances leading to the building of the North Shore Breakwater and Coal Wharf at Port Macquarie, with tales of the entrance and shipping. 113 pages.
Price is $20 plus postage and handling.
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Compiled by Richard Grimmond.
The history of Port Macquarie in comic strip form. 14 pages.
Price is $2 plus postage and handling.
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By Connie Jones.
The story of the first mansion built in the Port Macquarie area, detailing its rise to a residence fit to entertain a governor, then outlining the reasons for its decline into a ruin. 9 pages.
Price is $5 plus postage and handling.
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A set of six reproductions from original watercolour paintings by Annabella Boswell (nee Innes) 1826-1916, featuring wildflowers in the Port Macquarie area.
Price is $3 per set plus postage and handling.
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Edited by Gwen Griffin.
The niece of Major Archibald Clunes Innes, Annabella chronicles in her journals the life of a young lady born in 1826 at Yarrows near Bathurst, who later came to live with her uncle at Lake Innes House, Port Macquarie in the 1830's and 1840's. 249 pages.
Price is $10 plus postage and handling.
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A set of three reproductions from landscape paintings by Joseph Backler of the early Port Macquarie settlement. Backler arrived in Australia in 1832, aged 18, to serve a life sentence for 'passing forged orders'. By 1834 he was in Port Macquarie as a 'special' ie educated convict. More than 100 of his portraits and landscapes are on show at the Mitchell Library in Sydney.
Price is $2 per set plus postage and handling.
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By Alice Walker.
The history of small schools in the Hastings area, drawing on interviews with past pupils, teachers and local residents. 80 pages.
Price is $10 plus postage and handling.
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By Jean Crawley.
From the introduction of country policing to the penal colony of Port Macquarie in the 1820', with Thomas Kelly, an ex-convict, as the first paid Police Constable, to the current Police Station on the corner of Sunset Parade and Hay Street. 31 pages.
Price is $6 plus postage and handling.
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By Ralph Ferrett.
The story of Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia, and the support he received from the Hastings - Macleay Electorate. 50 pages.
Price is $2 plus postage and handling.
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Part 1
Stories of Convict Women at Port Macquarie.
By Gwen Griffin.
Port Macquarie's first Female factory was completed in March 1825. This book describes some of the convict women who were held there, their day-to-day activities, where they came from and the families they left behind. 52 pages.
Price is $8 plus postage and handling.
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Lists the ships of the First Fleet, and the officers, marines, seamen and convicts who sailed in them.
Price is $5 plus postage and handling.
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The Old Viceroy.
By Elaine Townsend.
A biography of Lachlan Macquarie, fifth governor of New South Wales, 1810-1821. 7 pages.
Price is $5 plus postage and handling.
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Port Macquarie.
By Rae Young.
Grantham House stands on the hilltop at the entrance to Port Macquarie, and is one of the oldest buildings in the Hastings District. This book describes the house, built c1892, and the families who lived in it. 42 pages.
Price is $2 plus postage and handling.
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Colour poster of heritage buildings in Comboyne, Kendall, Kew, Laurieton, Port Macquarie and Wauchope.
Price is $1.50 plus postage and handling.
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Convict built in 1824, St Thomas'is the fifth oldest Anglican church still in use in Australia. This book describes its history, and gives detailed plans of the structure and its interior. 42 pages.
Price is $5 plus postage and handling.
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The Penal Settlement as it existed between 1821 and 1830 shown by firm lines, the town as aligned in 1831 shown by dotted lines.
Price is $1 plus postage and handling.
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By Isobel and Geoff Armstrong.
From the original diaries of John Armstrong, 1839 to 1857, this book traces the efforts of a young, well-educated Irishman to succeed as a family man, teacher and citizen in an era of discrimination and hardship. 222 pages.
Price is $5 plus postage and handling.
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A Challenge For Community Involvement.
By Geoff Armstrong.
A detailed analysis of the environmental and social evolution of Lake Innes, and how the decision to drain it in 1933 came to be made. The implications of reversing that decision are also examined. 109 pages.
Price is $10 plus postage and handling.
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Ian W Symonds.
Letters from men of the Hastings District serving in South Africa. 89 pages.
Price is $10 plus postage and handling.
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Hastings - Camden Haven.
By Hastings Writers.
Interpretations of local experiences compiled by Hastings Regional Writers. In three parts (1) The 19th Century (2) Port Macquarie and the Hastings Catchment in the 20th Century (3) Laurieton and the Camden Haven Catchment in the 20th Century. 206 pages.
Price is $25 plus postage and handling.
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Plan of Port Macquarie showing a new arrangement of streets according to the regulations. April 1831.
Price is $5 plus postage and handling.
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By Telegraph Point Public and Primary Schools.
The 2007 updated reprint of 'Ripples on the River' and 'Stones and Their Stories', aimed at creating a greater awareness of the social history of the Telegraph Point area. 151 pages
Price is $20 plus postage and handling.
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The Port That Was.
A Maritime History.
By I. D. Finkel.
The maritime history of Port Macquarie and of the ships that sailed to and from its harbour. Also of the men who built them, and those who perished in the fickle sea. 40 pages.
Price is $6.50 plus postage and handling.
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from 1910 to 1990.
By Charles Morris Catt.
The first flying machine in Port Macquarie in Port Macquarie was built in 1910 by a local doctor, P De Luca. This book tells the story of aviation in the Hastings since that time, including the forced landing of Bob Hope in Laurieton in 1944, the flying boat service from Rose Bay starting in 1949, and the start of the daily Sydney - Port Macquarie service by East West Airlines in 1955. 79 pages.
Price is $10 plus postage and handling.
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By Gwendoline Griffin and Ronald Howell
A comprehensive list of all those buried in Port Macquarie's Historic Cemetery between 1821 and 1886, with short biographies and accompanying historical text. 401 pages.
Price is $20 plus postage and handling.
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