Vale Margaret Olley

These images come from Donald Friend, A collection of Hillendiana: Comprising vast numbers of facts and a considerable amount of fiction concerning the goldfield of Hillend and environs, with the result of many years of intensive and arduous historical research’ (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1956), held in our Special Collections.

Margaret Olley (1923-2011) was friends with Donald Friend (1915-1989) and stayed with him at Hill End in New South Wales in 1948. The sketch at the top is by Margaret Olley of Hill End cottages; the other sketch is by Donald Friend and is of the cottage where Margaret stayed with Donald in Hill End.