- Title
- Jacob Gam with the Wyong Progress Association
- Date
- 1906
- Place
- Australia - New South Wales - Wyong Creek
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- Title
- Wyong Progress Association
- Description
Many pioneers of the town of Wyong were deeply involved in community affairs, and there were numerous organisations that contributed much to civic improvements, among them being the Wyong Progress Assocaition. Here we see the members of that body in 1906.
Back row, standing, l to r: Joseph Bailey (wearing hat, art auctioneer, and manager of the Warner properties), John Pilshie (Wyong's second schoolmaster), F. Marshall, T. C. Lloyd (blacksmith), W. Trevitt (contractor who built the St James Church of England), James Harris, Edwin Woodbury (older of the innkeeper's two sons), W.J. Stafford (postmaster).
Centre row, standing, l to r: H.R. Scott (wearing cap), W.H. Hunt, F. Breakwell (schoolmaster at Wyong Creek), Alfred Ingram Chapman (of Chapman and sons, and later manager of their Gosford store), Albert H. Bailey (butcher), William Bernard Woodbury (younger of the innkeeper's sons), Archibald Wilkinson (of Wilkinson Brothers), J. Gam (of Wyong Creek).
Front row, sitting, l to r: A.H. Fuller, Robert Gascoigne (hotelkeeper), F.J. Fuller (vice president, who was a storekeeper in the old Breckenridge building), William John ("Dah") Chapman (president, and founder of Chapman and Sons), Alexander Wilkinson (of Wilkinson Brothers), E.G. Palmer, Dr Cooper (nursing his dog).
Dr Cooper lived on the river bank opposite the entrance to Porters Creek, and in those pre-motor car days used to do his rounds riding a bicycle. His inseparable companion was his pet dog (shown here) which used to ride on the handle bars.- Date
- 1906
- Type
- Published photograph
- Control
- p.40
- Source
Stinson, Edward, A pictorial history of the Wyong Shire, vol. 1-6, Wyong Shire Council, Wyong, New South Wales, 1979. Details
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Created: 19 August 2008, Last modified: 14 September 2012
