General History

Inverell Times, Friday, 3 June, 1932. GREEK WEDDING Samios – Psaros A most attractive wedding, which created considerable interest locally, was celebrated in Greek at St. Augustine’s Church of England yesterday by the Gr...

DOUBLE WEDDING AT ARMIDALE St. Peter’s Cathedral, Armidale, was crowded with guests and onlookers, when two sisters were married according to rites of the Greek Orthodox Church at a spectacular double wedding on Wednesda...

Grafton 27 October 1944 Grafton Examiner, page 2 Greek Community Presents Greek Flag to High School The Greek community of Grafton yesterday presented a Greek flag to the Grafton High School to commemorate the liberation...

The Peters Enigma The name Peter has a long association with the naming style of Greek Oyster Saloons and Cafes in eastern Australia. The name Peter and Peters with and without an apostrophe, continued as part of the Gre...

The Australia Café and Jim Boutieris A Touch of Greece in Otho Street The attrition of time has also taken its toll and little remains to mark many café sites of the past in Inverell. Jindabyne House (Williams & Son 1902...

The story of my grandparents, my mothers parents (mother, Helen Fardouly) has been recounted by Inverell local historian, Elizabeth Wiedemann, in the book Holding its own: The Inverell district since 1919 (1998) Publishe...

LIBERATION OF GREECE ------:o:----- Ceremony at Cenotaph A very dignified and solemn ceremony was enacted at the Inverell Cenotaph on Friday morning when the liberation and defence of Greece was celebrated by the Greek c...

North Western NSW – Moree Plains Ashley Too Hard. Boggabilla Too Hard. Boomi Anthony Emmanuel Travassaros tried his first café venture here, and gave the locals their first and only Greek experience, around the mid 1930...

Mid North Coast Bowraville Looks like another rare town whose fortifications managed to hold out the encircling wagons of the Kytherians. Around 1914 a bloke named Arthur Kyriacos appears to have brought the first Greek...