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Living Large

View the exhibition from 10 June to 31 August at Wollongong Library or online anytime at Illawarra Stories.

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P01427 - House being moved along Point Street, Bulli, 1968.

P03609 - "Honeycomb", champion cow of the world. Honeycomb gave 10 gallons of milk daily in 1900.

P22430 - Giant chess set, MacCabe Park. Doug Sawtel, 7 (left) and his brother Barry of Cobargo play with the giant chess set which was put in the park as part of the Festival of Wollongong in 1979.

P24698 - Festival of Wollongong, 1990. TV personality and former 2WL radio announcer George Donikian and his co-star, a giant Clydesdal, at the Festival of Wollongong launch.

P24966 - Justin Min, aged 2, in the stroller makes friends with mascot "Big Rooster" at the Spring Into Corrimal Festival, 1982.

P32989 - Ron Whitford weighing his giant white radish at the Crown Central scales. Senior Constable Andy Johnston was there to validate the weigh in for the Guinness Book of Records, 1985.

P39449 - Ken Smith with a large tiger shark caught off Warilla Beach, 1981.

P44413 - Mrs Brown holding a giant carrot at Campbell Street, Wollongong, in 1967.

P47722 - Mr A Payne operating a movie projector at Lakeline Drive In at Dapto, 1967.
P48099 - Mr Ken Manning with Mrs B N Tolhurst and Mrs M Sloane looking at giant onions, Wollongong, 1968.