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Photos for 50 years…REX GILROY
 Rex Gilroy, about 9 months old, being held by his grandmother. At age 4 his mother started his interest in natural history by one morning showing him on the family’s Lansvale NSW farm a trap door spider’s nest in the garden.
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 Villawood Public School, class of ’53. Rex Gilroy, aged 9 [top row far left end of the picture]. As the school’s leading “bug and rock” expert he was already standing out from the rest of the crowd!
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 Rex and Heather on their wedding day Saturday 9th December 1972.
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 Rex and Heather were only married a few months when they discovered these Egyptian rock engravings at Mt. Victoria N.S.W in 1973.
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 Rex with some of the thousands of butterflies, moths, other insects and spiders from throughout the world. His collection of fossils, rocks and minerals is the largest privately owned one of its kind in Australia, now stored at his home.
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 Rex and Heather Gilroy organised a nation-wide life-saving community service project at Uralla [NSW] Lions Club in 1992, which continues today through their Wentworth Falls Lions Club. Rex is a recognised authority on the deadly Blue Mountains Funnel Web Spider.
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 Rex, a life-long movie buff, has built his own private cinema [“The Rex Cinema”]. He has gathered a huge collection of films and movie posters and associated memorabilia.
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 The Gilroys, at Ayers Rock, (Uluru) during their July 1999 Central Australian archaeological expedition.
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 This 2 year exhibition, opened in March 2003, at the National Museum in Canberra, as part of the ‘Eternity’ exhibition, and featured “Yowie Man” Rex Gilroy and his lifetime’s research into these relict hominids.
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 One of Australia’s top UFOlogists, Rex is seen here with eminent fellow UFOlogist and friend, Mike Farrell, on the occasion of Rex’s address on Blue Mountains UFO activity at the August 2002 Sydney Australian National Conference.
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 Rex Gilroy, Australia’s foremost “Yowie Man”. He started Yowie research as well as Australian Cryptozoology, while a science student at Liverpool Boys High School in 1957. He directs the “Australian Yowie Research Centre” at Katoomba NSW.
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 Rex Gilroy, investigating mystery plesiosaur-type “water monsters” in New Zealand’s South Island.
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 Heather , setting up the video camera for the filming a future URU Productions documentary on the ‘extinct’ giant monitor lizard, Megalania prisca Owen, at a remote Blue Mountains location.
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 The Gilroys, during their July 2003 Western Australian lecture tour and field investigation.
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 Heather Gilroy, with 3,000 year old stone heads of the Phoenician Sun-god Baal with phrygian cap, and Earth-Mother Goddess Tanith, found by a Hawkesbury River farmer at Richmond NSW in 1974.
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 Rex Gilroy holds a sketch of the mystery “Blue Mountains Lion”, believed by him to be a surviving ice-age relative of the ‘extinct’ Marsupial Lion, Thylacoleo carnifex. The cast was made from a huge paw print of the creature found by him at Katoomba in recent months.
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 Rex, with his sketch of the “Hawkesbury River Monster”, which he believes to be a population of surviving plesiosaurs that have inhabited the river’s depths and nearby central coast waters north of Sydney since geological times.
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 Rex Gilroy holding the mineralised skull of a Homo erectus, found by him at Mudgee NSW in June 1997. The fossil is about 1 million years old. He has gathered 32 fossil hominid skull-types over the past 31 years, supporting his argument that Australia has a pre-Aboriginal stone-age past.
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 Rex’s wife, Heather, his Number One field assistant.
 The Gilroys researching the Old Kingdom period [2780-2100 BC] Egyptian inscriptions at Gosford NSW.
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 Discovering ancient Uru Rock engravings, Katoomba NSW, October 2003.
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 Rex, with Sarina Queensland fellow researcher, Wayne Freemantle, translating the inscription upon a 3,000 year old Phoenician stone head of “King Gada”, discovered in a Sarina field by Wayne in 2002.
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