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The 1964 & 1864 Manilla Flood
On the 14th January 1964, Manilla suffered a devastating flood which caused one third of the population to evacuate. Over 175mm of rain caused the Namoi and Manilla Rivers to rise rapidly. Approaches to the Namoi River Bridge were cut off and the bridge over the Manilla River on the Boggabri Road was washed away. The town was completely isolated on the 14th January 1964.
100 years earlier the Manilla district the 1864 flood descended onto the Manilla District.
This is a comprehensive article with many pictures about these two floods. It includes newspaper reports and even a reproduction of the Manilla Express of the flood in 1964.
The 1864 flood includes the Hall family escape and loss plus Otto Baldwin's report. This page is well worth viewing
Harry & Emily Burrell
Harry Burrell OBE, was a successful and revered Australian naturalist who specialised in the study of monotremes. He set up a small native zoo and became interested in the platypus, which he had been told could not be kept in captivity. He spent much of his time studying on the rivers surrounding the station: the Namoi, Manilla and Macdonald. He was the first person to successfully keep the platypus in captivity and was a lifelong collector of specimens (including the echidna) and contributor of journal articles on monotremes (living mammals that lay eggs).
Susan Emily, was an able naturalist in her own right, helped him in his research and lectured to schools and other groups on monotremes.
She was a charter-member of the American Society of Zoologists, and a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union and of the Linnean and Royal Zoological societies of New South Wales. An active Red Cross worker in World War I, she was later president of the Excelsior branch and was also a councillor of the National Association of New South Wales
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