The honour of naming the original Tamar Yacht Club in Launceston can almost certainly be laid at the feet of William Lushington Goodwin. Ship’s captain, journalist and newspaper owner, it was Goodwin who published the first story on the yacht club and who was on the organising committee of the first Launceston regatta. Goodwin was an enthusiastic promoter of recreational boating and yachting and was involved in the early organisations associated with what was then quaintly de

Peter Bulman, the man who established Waverley Woollen Mills, was the pioneer of Launceston’s textile industry. This article is an extract from my book THE OUTCOME OF ENTERPRISE published in 2009 for the Friends of the Launceston Library . . . Expatriate Scot Peter Bulman left Launceston for Scotland in late January 1872 to buy machinery and recruit staff for his proposed woollen mill on Distillery Creek near Launceston. He joined the steamship Somersetshire in Melbourne on J