The publication of my January 2018 article for the Lambton and New Lambton marks three years of writing the That was then, This is now column. When I started three years ago I thought I might have enough material for 6 months, but 36 months later there seems to be no end in sight of things to write about.
I’ve made myself a little bit of a tradition in having January as ‘map month’. This January’s article is on Lance Corporal Barrett’s valuable 1910 Map of the Country around Newcastle N.S.W.