Full article Painting of the first peat slip, which occurred in 1878, by Emile F Boyer Contemporary photos, each captioned by the photographer. Above left reads: Peat slip - halfway up the hill looking down on town jetty. Above right reads: Peat slips - taken from the remaining bank looking through the gap. Gov Callaghan standing on the left
Penguin News published on the 15 January edition a historic piece on the two peat slips suffered by Stanley in 1878 and 1886, which caused unimaginable destruction and cut the settlement in two.
The peat ridge on the South side of the Bypass road, West of Teaberry Way appears recently to have been given the name ‘Smoky Ridge’. The ridge in question should properly be called ‘Peat Slip Ridge’ if we were to call it anything.