William Hanley

Garie’s ‘gold rush’

By Mick Roberts on May 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

By MICK ROBERTS © A FORMER police officer, and one time host of the Cabbage Tree Hotel at Fairy Meadow, Mick Hanley was quite surprised, while going about his business as a licensing cop in 1990, to find his family name… Read More ›

Debauchery and drink at the Railway Hotel

By Mick Roberts on October 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

THE railway and unemployed camps that sprang up for the workers building the South Coast railway and improvements to the Royal National Park during the mid to late 1880s became notorious around the northern fringes of the Illawarra. They… Read More ›

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William Hanley

Garie’s ‘gold rush’

Debauchery and drink at the Railway Hotel