Gwydir

Distinguished and Famous people from Gwydir

🎭 Emanuel Aroney, Peter Feros and George Psaltis

Emanuel Aroney, Peter Feros and George Psaltis came to Bingara in 1924 and formed the café partnership Peters & Co. The three men, migrants from Kythera, later commissioned the Roxy complex, combining a picture theatre with a café and other premises. It opened in March 1936, but the business entered bankruptcy later that year. Their ambitious venture nevertheless left Bingara a distinctive building and a substantial Greek-Australian heritage story. Restoration has preserved a legacy that outlasted the founders’ original commercial hopes.

✈️ Charles Grant

Charles Grant worked as overseer and bookkeeper at Keera station, between Bundarra and Bingara, before wartime flying took him to Europe. He piloted bombers with No. 460 Squadron and later joined the Pathfinder Force, whose crews flew ahead to identify and mark targets. Awards included the Distinguished Flying Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross. After the war he returned to rural employment as a station manager and stock and station agent. Keera supplies a particular local job in that life, placing station accounts and livestock work before the demanding navigation, flying and operational responsibilities of his military career.