All newsletters are available in PDF format in the Archive. You can also read some editions (between January 2018 and Aug 2021) online here. Simply browse per topic or select an edition.
Cherry Gardens was first settled in 1838 and in the next 20 years the settlement grew with the church being built in 1849 and the first school in 1860. There is a record of a Post Office being opened in Cherry Gardens as early as 1850 although the first local records of a Postal Service to Cherry Gardens was in 1866 when Robert Broadbent would use a push bike to collect the mail.
Read MoreFor those of you who attend the local ANZAC Day service you may remember the story of Percy Scroop. a Major from the Australian Embassy in Baghdad contacted us after doing a google search looking for information about Percy. He is doing some research on Australian and New Zealand soldiers buried in the Baghdad North Gate War Cemetery and found the headstone for Percy Scroop.
Read MoreWe are lucky to have some documented memories and plan on sharing those in the newsletter over the coming months. We will start with the settlement history timeline covering 175 years, between 1830 and 1984.
Read More
