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    Music Making in the Clare Valley
    ruwoltjon
    • Nov 15, 2021
    • 6 min

    Music Making in the Clare Valley

    The Bishop family - Clare Orchestra - Arthur Bishop, conductor - Clare Brass Band - Guilford Bishop - Richard Bishop - Boconnoc Park -...
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    First woman Mayor of Clare 1970: Barbara J. Long
    ruwoltjon
    • Nov 10, 2021
    • 5 min

    First woman Mayor of Clare 1970: Barbara J. Long

    Barbara Joan Long left a "long" legacy of work and had a profound influence in the township of Clare and district, in local government,...
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    Clare for a Swim?
    Val Tilbrook
    • Oct 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    Clare for a Swim?

    This photo is of our first swimming pool or swimming baths as it was known. The pool was on the site of the present Rural Building...
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    Snowfalls in Clare
    ruwoltjon
    • Sep 25, 2020
    • 4 min

    Snowfalls in Clare

    When did it snow in Clare? One snowfall remembered before 1900; the second occasion was in 1901; again in 1908; on August 21, 1917; once...
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    Bain Rotunda
    Val Tilbrook
    • Sep 19, 2020
    • 1 min

    Bain Rotunda

    The Bain rotunda was built in 1904 in memory of Dr John William Deveraux Bain who had died in 1903. Dr. Bain was known as England’s...
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    Clare Pioneer Dr. Otto Wien-Smith
    Val Tilbrrok
    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 2 min

    Clare Pioneer Dr. Otto Wien-Smith

    Dr Otto, who lived and consulted at 'WindyBrae' in Clare, found that a common disease of that day was caused by hydatids. He operated on...
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    About Mika of Samoa
    Val Tilbrook
    • Aug 24, 2020
    • 1 min

    About Mika of Samoa

    You will find this headstone in the Spring Farm Cemetery on Spring Farm Road, just out of Clare. Mika was a converted native of Samoa. I...
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    10 of the best books on Clare
    Val Tilbrook
    • Aug 16, 2020
    • 2 min

    10 of the best books on Clare

    01 Clare-A District History by Robert. J. Noye This well-illustrated local history of South Australia's Clare district is in two parts -...
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