Wellingrove – Glen Innes News

Jun

21

2025

Wellingrove Memorial Hall to Receive Restoration Boost

Local NewsBrendan Moylan, Kirrily Holder, Wellingrove, Wellingrove Memorial Hall

The historic Wellingrove Memorial Hall, a treasured landmark in the small village northwest of Glen Innes, is set to receive a fresh coat of paint and vital preservation work, thanks to funding from the Community War Memorials Fund. The grant will enable the hall’s memorial fence to be stripped and repainted, helping conserve it for future generations. The hall holds deep significance for the local community, both as a site of remembrance and as a hub for social gatherings. Nationals Member for Northern Tablelands, Brendan Moylan, welcomed the funding and acknowledged the hall’s central role in the village. “The hall…

Jun

21

2025

By Annette Bain

In Conversation with Jan Lemon OAM

Local News2CBD FM, Australia Day, Emmaville Central School, Glen Innes High School, Glen Innes Highlands Lioness-Lions Club, Glen Innes Visitor Information Centre, In Conversation, Jan Lemon, Pinkett, Red Range, Wellingrove

Glen Innes is celebrating local legend Jan Lemon receiving an Order of Australia Medal in the King’s Birthday Honours List this month. Jan’s commitment to her community is widely known, but we wanted to find out more, so Glen Innes News invited Jan to have a chat with us about her background and achievements and what makes this passionate communitarian tick. Starting at the very beginning, Jan Lemon was born to Claude and Doris Rusbourne at Dalhousie Maternity Hospital, Glen Innes in 1948. She grew up on the family property ‘Caroona’ in the Reddestone area where her parents ran sheep…

Jun

06

2025

By Eve Chappell

Our Local History – The Courthouse

Local NewsBob Thurling OAM, Glen Innes Courthouse, Our Local History, Wellingrove

Early courthouses were used as venues for church services, polling places, meetings - even it is said, for theatrical performances (although I’ve not been able to find any such performances in Glen Innes unless you count the spirited acting some solicitors could be relied upon to produce.) There have been three buildings where justice has been dispensed in this district. First in a tiny rough wooden slab hut in Wellingrove, then after Glen Innes became the official centre in1859, a basic four-roomed building for Court of Petty Sessions. In 1873 after a citizen ‘grand indignation meeting’ had demanded a new…

Nov

09

2024

By Eve Chappell

Wellingrove Was The First Site For Our Town – Our History

Local NewsOur Local History, Wellingrove

Glen Innes, in the area first known as Beardy Plains, was not the first choice for the town. It was originally intended that Wellingrove 24 kilometres to the northwest should be the first official administrative centre. George Polhill, owner of Wellingrove Station had requested that the town be built on his isolated property. A Court House was built, troopers were stationed there, and a store was opened by Mrs McMaster, etc. However, common-sense prevailed – Wellingrove was just too far away from the main thoroughfare - a north south rough winding track, known as the Great North Road - the…