History

The Bangalow Progress Association relaunches as the Bangalow Community Association and aims to increase community engagement in 2479, writes Ian Holmes.

Tricia Shantz has lived in Byron Shire for 40 years, 33 of those in Coorabell. Here she explains the genesis of her book Neverland, a social history that documents the arrival of American surfers in the 1960s and how their creative collaboration with locals started the first ripples of alternative culture in Byron Bay.

Showground Committee member and Herald stalwart Neville Maloney puts the square peg into the round hole to explain the quirks of Bangalow Showground’s historic rotunda.

100 years on from the death of Bangalow town founding father, Thomas Robinson, Jenny Bird takes a look at the early sub-division of the former Big Scrub, and checks in with the new owners of the original Robinson homestead.   When Aaron and Louise Grofski bought an old timber house in Charlotte Street Bangalow in 2005 they did not know…

You may wonder what on earth is going on when you look at these pictures above, and check our new masthead. No. We are not going back to (the 1907) beginning of the original newspaper for Bangalow. Rather we are doing something so very typical of this town – combining elements of our past and our future. Creating something new…