Frank and Sylvia Manley were out for a spin in their new silvery-green HQ Monaro coupe. Driving across the 1025-metre, four-lane Tasman Bridge was to be a moment forever frozen in time, writes Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL.
The Mint is turning 60 in February. Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL looks back to the day it was opened by Prince Phillip and the controversy of its being built in Deakin.
Aerial culling of brumbies in the Koscziuscko National Park, authorised by the NSW Labor government, has sparked a protest seeing horses and riders descend on the front lawns of Parliament House on Tuesday morning.
"For almost 60 years, the neat, red brick church has remained something of a divine secret in Queanbeyan. Most passers-by barely register its presence, tucked back from the street as it is," writes Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL.
"Heading east from Queanbeyan on the Kings Highway there’s remnants and new additions to the curious practice of teddies attached to trees, a feature for potentially as long as four decades," writes Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL.
It was a “kilt-wearing occasion” 150-years ago today when the unadorned timber doors of the coppery-coloured stone church opened to all comers as a rather rare Presbyterian “kirk” in the Canberra region, writes NICHOLE OVERALL.
In this short history of lawn bowls, Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL pays tribute to the survival of the Queanbeyan Bowling Club, which turns 90 this month.
"Known from its inception as the Queanbeyan and District Soldiers’ Memorial, as country town monuments go, at 11 metres high, it’s an impressive one," writes "Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL.
Social historian and journalist NICHOLE OVERALL shares the story of Queanbeyan's Boer War memorial and its long journey from Monaro Street to the Moore Park Memorial Rose Garden.
"Happy birthday to Queanbeyan, our Cinderella City – less the wicked stepmother, more the unassuming little sister who upstages as the belle of the ball," writes columnist NICHOLE OVERALL, who you'd never guess lives in Queanbeyan.
Meet Ivy Weber, born in Captains Flat and the inaugural president of the Women for Canberra movement, who proved to be a “remarkably effective force for... Australian unity”. NICHOLE OVERALL looks at the life of this forgotten activist.