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Lowell Tarling

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Contents Bio Bibliography Videos Tarling Tapes References ------------------ 1. Bios Lowell Tarling is primarily known as a writer, and author of biographies of Tiny Tim and Australian artist Martin Sharp. In the absence of any consolidated biography, or the publication of his own autobiography, some biographical notes are presented below. The first is an amalgamation of text from his novels The Secret Gang of OomLau (1988), 1967: This is it! (1990) and other sources: Lowell Tarling was born in London in 1949. There he read Beano and Dandy comics and also became an active member of the Enid Blyton Fan Club. In 1956 he told an aunt that some day he wanted to be an author. When the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) attended his film premiere in London (1959), Lowell actually met him and touched a silver bullet. Lowell came to Australia in 1959 and spent his teenage years in Sydney. Before the Beatles came along and changed everything, Lowell read Phantom comics a...
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Matilda or Lady Nelson @ Jervis Bay 1791?

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Shoalhaven: | Aunty Julie Freeman | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | First Nations research | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Jervis Bay 1791 | Mickey of Ulladulla | Mount Gigenbullen | Byamee's Hands, Shoalhaven River | Ulladulla Mission | Words | Yams | Mathew Whitehead's Matilda off Currambene Creek [Jervis Bay] [July] 1791 . 1. Introduction Early in February 2025 the writer was sent an image (illustrated above) of a modern painting titled Mathew Whitehead's Matilda off Currambene Creek 1791 . The sender [AC] queried whether the image was of the vessel Lady Nelson or the Matilda . This was a reasonable question, as the Lady Nelson is well known in the annals of early colonial period Australian history, as against the Matilda , of which no illustration is extant and its movement less well known. The following article attempts to answer...
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