Robert Knopwood The year is 1808, and the people of Clarence Plains would like to get to know our first-ever Chaplain a little better - hello Reverend Robert Knopwood. Thanks for [...]

SHAPING THE PLAINS - Marie's story For our August story (we're a little late!) it is my great pleasure to introduce you to Marie Crick. Despite only living in Clarence Plains [...]

SHAPING THE PLAINS - Deb, Lynne and Dee - Generations of Joy! Today’s local interview is a triple threat! I had the chance to sit with Lynne Sayer, Dee Ayers, and Deb [...]

SHAPING THE PLAINS - The 1967 Blaze Over the course of this series, many stories I have written have touched on the fires that ripped through Clarence Plains in the sixties. Whether [...]

SHAPING THE PLAINS - Tammy's Story Tammy: a lesbian woman living with hate in the community "I've never felt safe here. I don't like being here. If I could leave at any [...]

SHAPING THE PLAINS: Interview with Archer and Gloria - The newer crew New to the Rokeby area, this Taiwanese family of four has faced their fair share of hardship. Archer and Gloria, [...]

SHAPING THE PLAINS - Clarendon Vale and Rokeby’s Radburn Estates In the mid-1970s, during the boom of public housing development in Clarence Plains, architects of the time decided to implement the radical [...]

SHAPING THE PLAINS - From Parsonage to Pub to Community Hub – The Grace Centre There is a plot of land in Rokeby that you have probably passed hundreds of times and [...]

SHAPING THE PLAINS... Interview with Pauline Dare, descendant of Charles Chipman Five generations of Clarence Plains residents This story starts in October 1841, when one Charles Chipman was born – Pauline's great, [...]

SHAPING THE PLAINS - Interview with Jen Dare There’s something so striking about a story of triumph. Whether it be overcoming great odds, or making a comeback from being an underdog; we [...]