Bernadette Mahoney: Sept Spring Walking Tour of Mittagong Speaker Wednesday 15 October 2014
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Founded 1960 BERRIMA DISTRICT HISTORICAL & FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC PO Box 131 M ittagong NSW 2575 Telephone / Fax 0248 722 169 NEWSLETTER Website: w w w .berrimadistricthistoricalsociety.org.au Email: bdhsarchiv [email protected] No 465 September 2014 ABN 29 362 616 937 PA TRON: M ayor of Wingecarribee Shire: Councillor Juliet Arkwright President: M r Bruce M OORE 4872 3762 [email protected] Snr Vice President: M rs Linda EM ERY 4883 4271 [email protected] J nr Vice President: M rs Leonie KNAPMAN 4871 1804 H on Secretary: M r Philip M ORTON 4883 7862 [email protected] H on Treasurer: M rs Patricia DORIS 4872 3313 A rchivist: M rs Linda EM ERY 4883 4271 C urator – Museum: M r Bob WILLIAMS 4889 4405 M embership Secretary: M rs Peg HARVEY 4861 4521 N ew sletter Editor: M s Lav inia FORD 4869 4038 lav [email protected] R esearch Officer: M r M ax ROGERS 4861 3526 [email protected] A RCHIVES: Cnr Old Hume Highw ay and Bow ral Road, MITTAGONG. OPEN: M ondays, Tuesdays 10am -4pm and Saturdays 10am -1pm. Closed Public Holidays. Library collection contains reference books, journals and new s let ters of ot her s oc ieties. MUSEUM: M arket Place, BERRIMA. Tel: 02 4877 1130 Email: [email protected] OPEN: Saturdays, Sundays, NSW Public and School Holidays (except Good Friday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day) 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. M EM BE R S H I P : Any person w anting to join the Society may do so at any stage during the year by completing a form and paying the appropriate fee. Joining Fee $10.00 – Single $20.00 – Family $33.00. A FFILIATIONS: Royal Australian Historical Society, NSW A s sociation of Family History Societies, M useums Australia Inc & Regional Chapter. Inside this month … GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING Diary Dates 2 S EPTEMBER MEETING:Th u rsday 25 September 2014 at 2pm Book – Life Behind the Bar 3 V E NUE: Society Research Centre, Old Council Chambers Building, Bundanoon 150 Years 4 Bowral Road, Mittagong Berrima Bridge Nurseries 5 GUEST SPEAKER: B e rnadette Mahony Ironbark to Concrete Poles 6 Bernadette will be speaking on the history of Kangaloon. Wild’s or Wilde’s Meadow 7 A FTE RNOON TEA: To be served following the speaker - Members – please bring a plate or a donation. And more … OCTOBER MEETING: Th u rsday 23 October 2014 at 2pm V E NUE: Society Research Centre, Old Council Chambers Building, Bowral Road, Mittagong GUEST SPEAKER: D ennis McManus A FTE RNOON TEA: To be served following the speaker - Members – please bring a plate or a donation. “That’s our opening hours, madam” I replied. Diary dates From the President’s Desk SEPTEMBER Bruce Moore Membership details 7 Father’s Day 11 Management Committee Meeting Please note that all membership 20 School holidays commence What a hectic time we’ve had at the Museum and Archives lately. enquiries and changes of address 25 General Monthly Meeting details should be addressed to the There has been a last minute Membership Secretary, c/- the OCTOBER adjustment to a new book, which is Society's postal address or email to Tulip Time about to be published and launched [email protected] 1 MEMBERSHIP FEES DUE next month (see article). A new 6 School holidays conclude compactor is being delivered to make 9 Management Committee Meeting room for yet more storage. Max is 23 General Monthly Meeting running so fast he’s a blur and like any Newsletter specialist, one has to make an NOVEMBER appointment to see him months in advance! Well, almost. Newsletter Deadline is 25th of every Office Bearer Nominations due month. It may be necessary to hold Notices of Motion due Our Museum and Management submissions after this date till the 13 Management Committee Meeting committee meetings are held early following month. 27 AGM & Monthly Meeting each month. The agenda discussed varies greatly from buying archival materials, new computers to how Research fees much it will cost for our Christmas Membership fee lunch. Research fees for non-members: increase The extension is at lock-up stage and getting its final coats, inside and out $20.00 per hour or part thereof for this week. telephone and postal enquiries. The Management Committee has decided that the Society’s annual I did a quick change from Chairman to $5.00 per hour or part thereof for Membership Fee needs to rise. It is to painter as the Museum extension took enquirers who attend the archives increase from $20 to $25 for a single delivery of hundreds of cladding and carry out their own research. membership and from $33 to $35 for a timber boards that needed an family membership and will apply from undercoat to preserve them. Harlan our Financial Year starting on 1 Hall was our overseer closely advised Archives opening October 2014. by our two volunteer builders. As a team, the four of us worked very hours The increase is due to rising costs and efficiently, when painting like demons it is hoped that members will we were doing about half a mile to the understand that the new fee is gallon. In today’s language that’s moderate in comparison to similar Opening hours are as follows: about one litre per kilometre. Or on community organisations and other the Richter Scale: 4 rollers per historical societies. Monday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm afternoon. Tuesday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm We had a successful talk last Saturday 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Thursday 28th by speleologist and historian John Wylie who gave us an insight on the BERRIMA DISTRICT chronicle and development of the Wombeyan Caves. Thanks, MUSEUM John. Market Place, Berrima Near the bridge Although last month was wet, wild and windy both the Archives and Museum recorded OPENING HOURS above average figures. I 10 am – 4 pm. suggest that was due to the attractive ladies who greet Weekends, Public Holidays and customers with a pleasant NSW Public School Holidays. smile. Closed Good Friday, Christmas Day Harlan Hall accepts from Mark Pepping the One lady complained that she’s and Boxing Day. recent Wingecarribee Shire Community been trying to contact us by Groups also welcome at other times Assistance Grant awarded to the museum phone for days. “I’ve rung and by arrangement. Please telephone rung 0900 1530 and nobody will Bob or Gloria on 4889 4405. answer!” She spoke curtly. Berrima District Historical & Family History Society Inc page 2 Newsletter No. 465 September 2014 Bernadette Mahoney: Sept Spring walking tour of Mittagong speaker Wednesday 15 October 2014 KANGALOON FOOTPRINTS This tour takes a short walk around historic places in At the general meeting on 25 September, Mittagong. We will meet at 9:55am at Leslie Cottage, our speaker will be Bernadette Mahony corner of Queen and Albert Streets. Owner Ms Lisa Delahunt will show us this lovely cottage built in 1879. The subject of her talk is Kangaloon - its settlement in the 1860s after the passing of the Robertson Land Act and the struggle of the pioneers to clear land that until then had been considered impenetrable forest. Because the land was arable a thriving dairy industry eventually became established. Bernadette will also outline the growth of the schools, churches, shops and businesses in Kangaloon, West Kangaloon and the smaller settlements of Mt Murray and Box Vale, as well as share some interesting, sad and amusing tales of life in Kangaloon in the past 150 years. Bernadette and her husband Michael moved 35 years ago to Kangaloon and raised their Following that we will walk next door to the old Public four sons there. She has School (now Mittagong Library). After looking at the always had an interest in Library, we will walk around to the main street to visit history, both family history the Mittagong Hotel and Lion Rampant Hotel where and local history, and since Society member and researcher Shylie Brown will tell retiring from teaching has had us about the history of these fine watering holes. This the time to devote to pursuing will take us up to lunchtime, when we will walk down these interests. to the park at Lake Alexandra Reserve. She had many conversations The Ladies Auxiliary of State Emergency Services in her early Kangaloon years have kindly offered to provide lunch to tour members with neighbour, Jim Brenning, which includes sandwiches, slices, tea & coffee at the whose grandparents had been amongst the first park in the undercover area. settlers at Kangaloon. His stories planted a seed of interest to find our more and over the years she The cost of lunch and tour is $15 per person. Please collected articles, stories and photos of the district. pay and book early at the Archives to ensure a place on this tour. Phone 4872 2169 She also obtained valuable information from Trove and when the opportunity to celebrate Kangaloon's history presented itself in 2013 she accepted the Book launch: Life Behind the Bar invitation of the Kangaloon Hall committee to put together a book using what she had collected over the years. She also interviewed many residents Friday 26 October at Berrima District Museum whose stories add a personal perspective to life in The Society is pleased to announce to members that Kangaloon. Others assisted her with photos and their its latest book “Life Behind the Bar: Inns and Hotels in family histories. The result was Kangaloon Footprints the Southern Highlands, 1824-1924” will be launched a 400-page book launched at the Kangaloon Hall's on Friday 26 October at our museum in Berrima.