We have detected unusual traffic activity originating from your IP address. Why did this happen? This page appears when online data protection services detect requests coming from your computer network which appear to be in violation of our website's terms of use.NOTE: To order any of the below items please enter the item details into the contact form at the bottom of the page. Thanks for supporting the Yamba Museum! With photographs of over 200 lighthouses, in conjunction with the author’s original book ‘Lighthouses of Australia Images from the End of an Era’ provides a ‘complete’ set of images of Australia’s current lighthouses. It also contains maps, an updated chronological list of over 400 Australian lights and sections on modern lights, buoys and a description of life on a lighthouse/buoy tender. $50.00 plus postage and handling A book for people who love lighthouses. Over 220 Australian lights as they were at the end of the twentieth century in 500 brilliant photographs.
Combined with concise, informative captions, 12 detailed location maps, a history of lighthouses, a chronological list of over 400 Australian lights and a section on lighthouse museums the book provides something for everybody who has an interest in lighthouses or the sea. by Rob Knight, 2013 A ‘then and now’ pictorial history of Yamba township. $25.00 plus postage and handling This 74 page book contains text, maps and photographs gathered from many sources chronicling the history of the town from discovery up to 1885 when it was originally called Woolli Woolli or just Wooli by the residents. $15.00 plus postage and handling An entertaining voyage back in time along the Clarence River to an era when the riverboats were at the centre of people’s lives. The book is richly illustrated with over 100 photographs, most of them never before published. $30.00 plus postage and handling edited by John McNamara and Sue Spence Alex McQueen lived with his family on a farm at Kings Creek, near Lawrence, before enlisting in the First Battalion 1st Brigade of the AIF at the very beginning of the First World War.
$20.00 plus postage and handling Alexander “Sandy” MacFarlane was a riverboat captain for the latter part of the 19th century and in his diary he has given us a picture of a lifestyle that we can now only imagine. by Keith Howland and Stuart Lee A brief history of Yamba including photographs, maps and drawings. Old Yamba Town is an attempt by the author to show how beaches, parks and streets in the old town of Yamba came to be given their now familiar names. $5.00 plus postage and handling by C. E. Smith Freeburn was the first pilot in Yamba. He and his family were also the first white settlers in Yamba. The story of a brave seafaring cat who, in the company of Matthew Flinders, circumnavigated the globe in the years 1799 to 1804. $18.00 plus postage and handling We have a variety of stationery items for you to select from. Please contact us or call in to the Museum. The Port of Yamba Historical Society provides a range of resources and services to help people researching the history of the Yamba area, which includes Angourie and Palmers Island.
Visit our store for books about Yamba’s historic people, buildings, industry and surrounds. You can also support our organisation and our amazing volunteers by becoming a member. See what’s on right now at our multi award winning museum or browse the digital archives to see exhibitions of yesteryear and our current photo galleries.Libraries - Strong bindings, topical subjects, bright, colourful pages and modern layout and design. Curriculum support - Australian Curriculum correlations are added to each title where appropriate. The curriculum information covers Cross Curriculum Priorities, General Capabilities as well as final and draft subjects. You can search our books for any of these correlations, simplifying selection for teacher and classroom support. The pleasure of reading - Fiction, chapter books and fascinating non-fiction make our books a magnet for children looking for something to read. Literacy - Literacy support is a major function of many of our titles which are available.
Contact us if you have any students with special literacy needs and we can suggest series which are both helpful and interesting for young readers. All ages - Our titles are for young people from preschool through to high school, at home and at school. Titles which offer extra activities and suggestions for further reading are a valuable resource for children who would benefit from extension activities. Located in Australia - We are an Australian bookseller and library supplier. We are located in Sydney, so any of your queries will receive prompt attention from customer service people who have a detailed knowledge of local educational requirements.For a better experience on Facebook, switch to our basic site or update your browser. Security Check Can't read the words below? Try different words or an audio CAPTCHA.Enter the text you see above.Why am I seeing this?The drive from Sydney to Yamba offers plenty of diversions, writes Lynne Whiley. He bought the old Nymboida Coaching Station Inn, revived a piece of Australia's past, kept bar and meal prices reasonable, popped a shower and change table in the ladies' bathroom and opened a museum next door.
As the only watering hole on the stretch of road from Armidale to Grafton, the inn is both pit-stop and public service.Children pour from family cars to tumble about the inn's gardens and hunt for geckos under bushes.Adults admire the hand-sawn cedar and mahogany beams and browse old photographs mounted on the inn's walls before settling at a table for shaded outdoor dining overlooking the Nymboida River.Crowe is selling the inn (but keeping the museum).Knowing where and when to stop can make all the difference on a family road trip.If you want your children to see some of their own place and soak up a little cultural heritage among small-town streetscapes en route, you go by road.Driving from Sydney to Yamba on the NSW North Coast, we choose the pretty way - up the guts of the state to the Northern Tablelands, then east to the coast.We take a more direct route home - down the Pacific Highway-Pacific Motorway in a day, with breaks at great spots on the way. With no DVDs or other screen-based distractions allowed in the back seat, the front seat plots routes that take in parks and affordable places to eat.
Here's how to have all that, including ice-blocks all round for good behaviour.Tucked in the hills of the Hunter where the Avon, Gloucester and Barrington rivers meet, Gloucester has a character main street and riverside park. We turn off the M1-Pacific Motorway-A1 Pacific Highway thingy on to Bucketts Way just north of Raymond Terrace, then drive through grazing and dairy country.At the end of Gloucester's main street, by the river, we let the children loose, then double back, park and choose from a cluster of cafes. Pick up a great holiday novel from the Gloucester Bookshop, opposite the cafes, before you head across the river and on to Thunderbolt's Way, with its stunning views of the Great Divide.The Way's curves and surface make it popular with cyclists; we clock the prime pastures, inventive mail boxes and inviting turn-offs to national parks, but push on to Walcha. Nope, Walcha hadn't featured on my bucket list, either, until now. Tick.Intriguing outdoor timber sculptures? .au) where local, seasonal and home-made is the norm.
It's a one-hour drive from Walcha to Armidale via Uralla and the New England Highway. By the time you reach Uralla's gorgeous heritage streetscapes, the back seat will have heard your thrilling tales about bushranger Captain Thunderbolt, a prison escapee, robber and bold horseman who rode across the land here, chased by the police. Shot dead in 1870.Kapow! Look, there's his grave. Thank you, Uralla.Armidale accommodation is plentiful and affordable (except when University of New England students are graduating)..au) as it has value-for-money family rooms (sleep five), free Wi-Fi, is central but quiet and the front seat promised the back we'd stay somewhere with a pool.Motel reception staff are on the ball: we're tired, fuzzy-brained and can't turn on the airconditioning, despite it being a simple thing. A quick call to the front desk and, less than a minute later, there's a polite knock on the door, the aircon is on and we're happy.There's a playground on Armidale's central Dangar Street opposite St Ursulas and St Mary's (just look for the spires) or keep driving downtown to Dumaresque Creek, where the old flood plain offers a green wealth of running space and swings.
At the Mandarin Restaurant on Beardy Street, of course.) are consumed before we set off for Grafton via Nymboida through grazing and timber country surrounded by a chain of national parks.This is the run to the coast used by generations of Tablelands graziers and workers, so at the Armidale end the road is called Grafton Road and at the Grafton end it's Armidale Road. Swim in the river. Enjoy the warmth of the Nymboida Coaching Station Inn. The bar staff don't laugh when I order a deeply unfashionable middy of shandy. I'm driving, that's my excuse.Crowe's Museum of Interesting Things includes his collection of film memorabilia and a replica Cobb and Co stage coach.The run east takes drivers through lush hinterland. Then we're past Grafton's mighty Clarence River and on the Pacific Highway, heading north for blink-and-you-miss-it Ulmarra, an old river port with heritage main street, B&Bs in side lanes and an excellent pub.The back seat runs, the front seat strolls before settling at the pub's Cafe Clarence, which scored a 15/20 in the Sydney Morning Herald Good Pubs Guide 2011.Between ordering and eating we clock the pub's pressed metal ceilings and old subdivision maps.
From Ulmarra, Yamba's beaches are a 50-kilometre journey, even if you detour through Maclean.The Pacific Highway-A1 is still an undivided road in sections, still dangerous and still the subject of political contention.Segments are progressively being converted to dual carriageway or freeway standard and some interchanges and bypasses are so new looking, there's yet to be a build up of emission-grime on the concrete.We plot a day-long course back to Sydney that takes in local shops and parks.Detours add to the average eight-hour journey south but who's complaining when it includes a splendid brunch and afternoon riverside paddle?Leave the highway, head to the intersection of Beach and Wharf streets, Woolgoolga, park and take your pick of cafes and bakeries.The supermarket is across the road. Load up with lunch. How un-Australian.The volunteers at the Driver Reviver depot by the Pacific Highway near Port Macquarie have it sorted.e winter, the epic on-site fireplace might be roaring too.We take the smooth off-ramp from the Pacific Highway to Bulahdelah's main street, park next to the pub and walk down the grassy slope to the Myall River.Picnic tables, dogs on leashes, geese, families relaxing, passing parade of small boats.
It's a good vibe, ice-blocks all round, as we cool our feet in the river while watching swimmers paddling from the boat ramp on the opposite shore.It's tempting to push on to Sydney. But it's best to assume the A1 Pacific Highway, which becomes the M1 Pacific Motorway, will have heavy traffic and delays around Mount White.Just as well there's Mooney Mooney Point and Deerubbun Reserve.Leave the Pacific Motorway just before the Hawkesbury River Bridge, loop down and on to the old Pacific Highway and across to the point.If the front seat has thoughtfully made an additional - purely medicinal, of course - purchase of chocolate in Bulahdelah without the back seat knowing, and disposed of all evidence of it while the children are at Deerubbun Reserve, the 50 kilometres from the Hawkesbury River to central Sydney should be a smooth drive home.Destination NSW can help travellers plan an itinerary and its online maps service allows drivers to opt to take routes that avoid toll roads and highways.