Hargrave our pioneer of flight

By Greg Ellis and Michelle Webster
Updated August 14 2015 - 9:57pm, first published August 13 2015 - 6:49pm
Charles, Rachel, Joshua, Robyn and Lawrence John Hargrave on Stanwell Park Beach, on the site where it all happened more than 100 years ago. Picture: GREG ELLIS
Charles, Rachel, Joshua, Robyn and Lawrence John Hargrave on Stanwell Park Beach, on the site where it all happened more than 100 years ago. Picture: GREG ELLIS

A boy running along Stanwell Park beach trying to make a kite fly in little wind might not have seemed significant to onlookers.

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