Springwood Historians

Background (Preamble): In late 2011, the State Records Authority of New South Wales announced the closure of the city reading room effective...

Hodson Allen was  the licensee of the Welcome InnValley Heights from 1858 until 1860. The inn had also been known as the Valley Inn.

Mary Ann & Susan Adams - Mary Ann married Thomas Nosworthy in 1879, and Susan married William Bates in 1888. The sisters were the daught...

Margaret Amelia Aberline was listed on the 1903 electoral roll as a general servant. It is thought she may have worked in one of the large h...

A recent conversation with, long-time resident of Blaxland, Davina Curnow, revealed information that it was her father - Adrian Melvin Donal...

Col. Rowe (first Mayor of Manly) extreme left and Parrott (father of Fighting Parrott's) seated third left The ...

Alfred Farrell, though not a Springwood or Blue Mountains resident, married into the Greentree family who settled in the Hawkesbury district...