Voice of Byron and KWIMABB regular, John E Wright, found this classic video of surfing in Byron Bay in the early 1960’s…
John says, “Some well known faces in this video – Phil Edwards, Frank Latta, Bob McTavish, Bobby Brown…
BYRON BAY residents and business people are ‘crapped off’ by an ‘invasion’ of vanpackers who they say have set up an unofficial campsite on railway land in the centre of the town.
They say the travellers are taking advantage of a Catch 22 that prevents Byron Council rangers taking action against them in the car park adjacent to the Rails Hotel.
Voice of Byron and KWIMABB regular, Natalie Moffitt, found three terrific old shots of Byron Bay from the reservoir at Byron Bay, so we made them into a mini slide show…
Natalie says, “These photos were taken from the water tank in the 70’s I believe.
Voice of Byron and KWIMABB regular, John E Wright, found this classic video of surfing in Byron Bay in the early 1960’s…
John says, “Some well known faces in this video – Phil Edwards, Frank Latta, Bob McTavish, Bobby Brown…
Voice of Byron and KWIMABB regular,Robyn Bannah, shared her Christmas recollections from life in the Bay, back in the day…
Robyn says, “Thinking of some of the things from the old days and it has just hit me…..Santa was always very very drunk!
VOICE of BYRON regular, Lee Raphael Cass, shared this short video of the new electric train.
Lee says, “Electric/diesel train on its first scheduled trip (10am) from Sunrise to Byron 10.08 am on Mon 18 December 2017.”
VOICE of BYRON regular, Orit Ben-Harush shared Waterlily Playscape’s post about the terrific Bingo being held at Brunswick Heads over the holidays.
Orit says, “Let the fun begin!”
VOICE of BYRON regular, John Luck, describes the absolute horror show he found when he visited the Lismore Recycling Centre.
John says, “I was going to Lismore a few days ago so I decided to try the new recycling facility.
VOICE of BYRON regular, Debby Milgate took a whole bunch of shots that we’ve turned into a slideshow capturing what a great night it was at the Suffolk Park Hotel on Saturday night December 16 .
Voice of Byron and KWIMABB regular, Geoff Bensley, made time over the weekend to photograph every spread of the Byron News Christmas edition 1985/86.
It’s a real treat to look back over past Bay businesses… and check out some of the prices!