Four years earlier, George Kempton and his wife Harriet had come to Australia from Ely in Cambridgeshire, England to make a new home for themselves.

Names associated with Red Range in those early days included (in alphabetical order) Austin, Ballard, Butcher, Cameron, Cave, Chapple, Cheney, Cornish, Drew, Edwards, Enrights, Fenn, Goodwin, Hagen, Hall, Hawker, Hollis, Hottes, Kraemer, Johnson, Lane, Lowe, McCabe, McDonald, Madgwick, Mahoney, Mitchell, Morley, Murphy, Penson, Perkins, Peters, Pogson.

Potter, Rainbow, Rogers, Ross, Ruming, Rush, Ryall, Rudd, Scott, Smith, Ted Sargeant, Taylor, Thompson, Tronier, Waimsley, Wells, Whan, Williams, Willis, Wilson, and Winn.

The present take-away counter, although of a more recent genre, typifies the diverse service provision reminiscent of a comment made in the 1920s regarding the store.

In 1992 the store re-opened as a second-hand shop by retired Sociologist, Dr. Lionel D. C. Hartley[3] while restoration commenced on the nearby cottage.

According to one-time shop-keeper at the old Red Range Store, the late Maureen Morgan, the shop originally had a narrow straight-iron verandah which was replaced in (about) 1918 with a bull-nosed frontage.

The carport on the western side of the shop is constructed using timbers from the eastern wall of the School of Arts (which was replaced with bricks in December 1994).

Restoration was completed by Dr Hartley in 1994 and in 2004 The Red Range Store was sold for wholesale removal to Backwater (Guyra Shire) but continues to trade today, online.

For reasons of safety these have been left covered over, although senior residents of the village have recollections of sitting on those very steps "eating a pennyworth of conversation lollies" or "smoking a cadged cigarette".

The Red Range Store boasted two Glass-Bulb manually operated Petrol Pumps which were installed in the period between the wars.

The dance went ahead as planned, and although the night was remembered as being particularly bleak for that time of year, the old brick fireplaces in the hall were put to good use.

The school-of-arts had a post-office built on the North-East corner in a room currently occupied as a Shire Branch (public) Library.

Postal services are now handled by courier from Glen Innes, although the Red Range Store was licensed as a Stamp Vendor.

However, the licence application, although initially provisionally approved, was refused by the Australian Broadcasting Authority because 'a transmitter in such a strategic mountain location would interfere with local television channels in neighbouring Glen Innes and Grafton'.

The equipment has now been re-located and put to use in the production (and post-production) of material for radio and television and for distribution on cassette, CDs, DATs, DVDs, and videos etc.

Older residents recall that earlier this century there were facilities for cricket, tennis, rugby union football, horse sports, racing, and even a rifle range.

Cricket was played against Emmaville, Dundee, Shannonvale, Mount Mitchel and Glencoe (where it was necessary to travel by sulky on Friday night, camp at Lambs Valley, and after the game arrive home in the "wee small hours of Sunday morning").

Two years prior to that the first council-approved carols-by-candlelight was held in the market ground on Christmas Eve, 1992 and presided over by L. Hartley, PhD.

In 1919, when the Great War was in full momentum, Mr William (Bill) Whan built the first bakery at Red Range.

More fortunate was Reverend A. P. Cameron, the Presbyterian minister, who usually arrived in a sulky driven by Mr. Alfred W. Lane from Glen Innes.