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Stinker’s History: Olly “Swingle Bar” Harris - News Of The Area

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Working boats tied up at ‘Rotten Row’ in 1947, with the Newcastle to Stockton vehicular ferry and Dark’s Ice Works in the background. NICKNAMES are entrenched in Aussie culture and there are none better than fishermen when it comes to handing out odd names for all sorts of reasons. A “swingle bar” is a wooden spreader used to keep trace chains apart behind draft horses. You may well wonder how anyone, particularly a fisherman, could be nicknamed…
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News Of The Area broke the news in on Wednesday, April 2, 2025.
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