The places. The people. The stories.
The archive.
A growing collection from Canberra and its neighbours. Every history links back to its sources.
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Bungendore
Twelve tons of rabbits
A station photograph with a rather unexpected cargo.
Cooma
The people behind the flags
The Snowy Scheme, remembered one flag at a time.
Braidwood
The railway that never came
A Station Street. A Railway Hotel. But no trains.
Collector
A pub, a bootmaker & a bushranger
The building behind a familiar roadside name.
Queanbeyan
A station built to last
Why Queanbeyan got a little more than a platform.
Inner North
Can you see the city yet?
Braddon and Civic, when the streets were easier to see than the buildings.
Inner South
A little shopping in Kingston
Cars at the kerb and the name J. B. Young’s above the shop.
Inner North
The making of Mort Street
A steamroller, a road crew, and a street taking shape.
Queanbeyan · photo comparison
Meet you on the corner
Monaro and Crawford Streets, in the days of these motor cars.
Inner North · photo comparison
The view, and the years between
Mount Ainslie, 1921–1935 and Anzac Day 2011: two real photographs of a changing city.
Canberra
The lake, before the trees filled in
A familiar sweep of water, with a much younger landscape around it.
Canberra
Before the first passenger
Canberra’s city buses, still taking shape on a Melbourne factory floor.
Inner North
Meet you at Monaro Mall
Escalators, shopping bags and a prime minister who could barely hear the speeches.
Inner North
Hotel Ainslie, before the city filled in
A substantial hotel, a road at its door, and room to see right across to the hills.
Woden Valley · area history
Woden Valley: A new town with traces of the farms beneath
Soldier-settler properties, experimental housing and a planned town centre share the Woden landscape.
Weston Creek · area history
Weston Creek: Farm trees, neighbourhoods and the work of recovery
Old homestead sites and the nearby bushfire memorial preserve stories beneath and around Weston Creek's suburbs.
Belconnen · area history
Belconnen: A new town around an older landscape
Lake Ginninderra anchors a planned town whose school sites and naval history reach well beyond the suburbs.
Tuggeranong · area history
Tuggeranong: An older valley, a new town and a rainy beginning
A schoolhouse, a working homestead and the inauguration of Canberra's southern new town reveal Tuggeranong's layers.
Gungahlin · area history
Gungahlin: Older stories inside a growing northern town
Ochre grounds, village buildings and watercourses reveal the layers beneath Gungahlin's modern development.
Molonglo Valley · area history
Molonglo Valley: A growing district beside an older river landscape
Molonglo's recent neighbourhoods belong to a longer story of Country, forestry, fire recovery and city planning.
Inner North · area history
Inner North: Garden suburbs and the city's early neighbours
Shelter trees, public-service cottages and a rural church reveal several beginnings in Canberra's inner north.
Inner South · area history
Inner South: The capital's working and domestic beginnings
Kingston's power station, Forrest's early housing and Manuka's sporting places connect national construction with daily life.
Rural ACT · area history
Rural ACT: Country, river crossings and the mountain country beyond
An archive route through Birrigai, Tharwa, Tidbinbilla, Namadgi and Mount Stromlo.
Braidwood · area history
Braidwood: The railway that never came
A Station Street. A Railway Hotel. But no trains.
Bungendore · area history
Bungendore: Twelve tons of rabbits
A station photograph with a rather unexpected cargo.
Collector · area history
Collector: A pub, a bootmaker & a bushranger
The building behind a familiar roadside name.
Cooma · area history
Cooma: The people behind the flags
The Snowy Scheme, remembered one flag at a time.
Goulburn · area history
Goulburn: Wool, railways and the making of an inland city
An established regional centre whose railway buildings and steam waterworks preserve the machinery of nineteenth-century growth.
Gundaroo · area history
Gundaroo: Two settlements, a reading room and a bridge
Gundaroo's surviving buildings record a village that shifted, grew and kept finding new uses for old places.
Lake Bathurst · area history
Lake Bathurst: A small village beside a much larger landscape
A former railway stop whose school and church buildings preserve traces of nineteenth-century village life near a fluctuating wetland.
Lake George · area history
Lake George: A changing lake with a long human history
An Aboriginal cultural landscape and closed lake basin whose water levels preserve an unusually long record of wet and dry years.
Murrumbateman · area history
Murrumbateman: From a farming village to experimental vineyards
An old school, a community association and the first Clonakilla vines connect Murrumbateman's rural chapters.
Queanbeyan · area history
Queanbeyan: A station built to last
Why Queanbeyan got a little more than a platform.
Sutton · area history
Sutton: A village remembered through its school and families
School photographs, family papers and local memories make Sutton's history tangible.
Tarago · area history
Tarago: A railway village with an industrial afterlife
Tarago's station, goods shed and farming valley connect nineteenth-century transport with the later story of Woodlawn.
Yass · area history
Yass: A river town connected by a little railway
Cooma Cottage, the town tramway and a community archive reveal different sides of Yass's history.
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