Recent research on the history of Kentish

Crossing Kimberley's Ford, Climbing the Stoodley Hill The advertising campaign [...]

Clearing the Bush, Building a Hut, Eking out a Living [...]

The Township’s Birth In 1842, when surveyor Nathaniel Kentish first [...]

The First 20 Years In 1862, the population of our [...]

Clearing the Heavy Forest Unlike the open plains of Kentish, [...]

Migration from Westbury's Wesleyan Church What is quite unique about [...]

The first pioneers on the Kentish Plains settled on both [...]

(Old Wilmot Rd & Roland) In the late 1860s, three [...]

During the 1880s, the first settlers began following the hilltops [...]

In 1858, when Surveyor Dooley set out to carve up [...]

Our Mountainside Pioneers (1) When VDL Co surveyor Henry Hellyer [...]

Our  Mountainside Pioneers (2) The road along the valley of [...]

Mountainside Settlers of Kentish (3) Following the discovery of mineral [...]

Our Mountainside Pioneers (4) The last couple of kilometres before [...]

Our Mountainside Pioneers (5) About 1887, James Reed purchased 100 [...]

The site for the potential township at Railton was first [...]

The much-anticipated Mersey & Deloraine Tramway Co opened for traffic [...]

The opening of the Deloraine-Formby Railway Extension on Sat 30 [...]

Aborigines, early explorers, and first settlers, trekking overland from the [...]

When Surveyor Calder divided the County of Devon into Civil [...]

It took nearly a decade to recover from the Great [...]

In August 1826, when explorers Henry Hellyer and Clement Lorymer [...]

The huge government grant that became Foster’s Estate divided the [...]

When Surveyor James Dooley was appointed to sub-divide the whole [...]

Half-way between Sheffield and Railton, regular road-users travelling down Stoodley [...]

Around the junction of Stoodley Rd with the Railton-Sheffield Rd [...]

For early pioneers, the longest and steepest hill between Railton [...]

Because of our magnificent stands of hardwood forests, Tasmania neglected [...]

Let’s join Kentish’s old Bridle Track at the top of [...]

The discovery of alluvial gold in the Minnow River at [...]

Towards the end of the 1880s, Sheffield had become the [...]

Only residents who have lived in Kentish for more than [...]

When James Hope (53) bought the corner block on Main [...]

The beginning of 1898 was preceded by the longest drought [...]

In the first months of 1898, Tasmanian residents faced the [...]

Like so many Tasmanian hotels, the Sheffield Hotel has an [...]

Following the reorganisation of the NW Licensing Board, on 3 [...]

Having written the history of this store in a book [...]

This prominent heritage-listed building has always been Sheffield’s largest retail [...]

The original business name York, Schmidt & Co was dissolved [...]

There is more local history packed into King George Park [...]

When Surveyor Dooley laid out the streets of Sheffield, he [...]

In May 1912 a very serious fire was narrowly averted [...]

Driving towards Sheffield with my American visitor, we crested a [...]

Last month we recognised that our majestic Mt Roland [...]

The old weather-beaten building at 83 Main St that [...]

Sensational changes occurred in the first decade of the 20th [...]

What a surprise to stumble upon Advocate writer La Donna’s [...]

Early in 1865, several Wesleyan Methodist families moved from Westbury [...]

Last month we traced the life-story of John Coleman, the [...]

The prominent hill situated just east of the Sheffield town [...]