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1-Iobb}!'S Ov\Tre-Ac-1-1 -1-IOBB}!'S OV\TRE-AC-1-1 BltAe MotAntains -Historical Society inc. PO Box 17 WENTVJORTH FALLS 2782 'HOBBY'S REACH' 99 Blaxland Road WENTVJORTH FALLS Hobby's Reach Phone No. 02 4757 3824 Vol.10 No.6 March/ April 2000 MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE SUB-COMMITTEE CO-ORDINATORS President Coral Ewan 4784 1831 Research Gwen Silvey 4782 1292 Vice President Clyde Francis 4759 1774 Tarella Coral Ewan 4784 1831 Treasurer David Dodd HR Helpers Valerie Craven 4757 3433 Secretary Roberta Johnstone 4757 2024 Hobby's Outreach Susan Warmbath 4757 3402 Members Michael Finlay 4757 1584 Native Garden Noreen Skellam 4757 1845 Josephine Adam 4759 1022 Book Shop Susan Warmbath 4757 3402 John Glass 4757 1821 Joia Thornton 4782 2895 Diary Dates Continued Tues Mar 14 Hobby's Reach Research, on going Fri 17 FOTS 9 am Tues 21 Hobby's Reach Research; Gardening Fri 24 FOTS 9 am Sun 26 Tarella Open 10 am to 4 pm. Tues 28 Hobby's Reach Research, on going Fri 31 FOTS 9 am Sat April 1 10.30 am Meeting - talk by Jim Smith on Kedumba Valley & the Maxwell Family Tues 4 Hobby's Reach Research; Gardening Fri 7 FOTS 9 am Mon 10 Excursion to Megalong Valley 10 am [see details p.2] Tues 11 Hobby's Reach Research, on going. Fri 14 FOTS 9 am. Johnson Falls, Barrallier's probable terminus on Wheengee Tues 18 Hobby's Reach Research; Gardening Whungee Creek[See page 4] Thurs 20 FOTS 9 am. Sun 23 Tarella Open 10 am to 4 pm. Dates for your Diary Mon 24 Tarella Open 10 am to 4 pm Fri 28 FOTS 9 am Sat Mar4 BMHS A.G.M. 10.30 am Tues May 2 Hobby's Reach Research ;Gardening Tues 7 Hobby's Reach Research; Gardening Fri 5 FOTS 9 am 9am Sat 6 10.30 am Meeting - talk by Ron Fri 10 Friends of Tarella, [FOTS] 9 am Woodward on his recollections of Peru Mon 13 Excursion to Lawson 10 am [see Mon 8 History Tour of Parramatta Park meet details p.2.] lOam [full details on p.2] Meetings The Saturday meetings commence promptly at 10.30am but members are welcome to come at 10 am as the Research Room is open with a researcher on hand, the Library is open for members to select and return books, the coffee shop and Cottage Shop are open for business. After the meeting closes at 12 noon a light lunch of soup and rolls is available at a modest price which has to be paid for before the meeting to ensure that sufficient is available. The Cottage Shop is again open. Walks and Talks and other Information Saturday 4 March 10.30 am - Blue Mountains Historical Society AGM, no speaker but lunch will be available as usual after the meeting. Monday 13 March History Walk in the Lawson area with local historian Heather Mollenhauer who is a longtime member of the Society and a resident of Lawson. What we now know as the township of Lawson was first mentioned by the early explorers to the mountains and was known variously as Christmas Swamp, 24 Mile Hollow, and The Blue Mountain. Present day Lawson is rich with historic nooks for us to explore. Meet 10 am prompt at Wilson Park parking area beside the swimming pool, N. Lawson ~ Bring Lunch and wear walking shoes. Tea and coffee are being provided at the lunch stop at Lawson Baptist Church. Afternoon tea will be at the historic private residence Burn Brae. Sunday 26 March Tarella Cottage and Hobby's Reach Research Centre are open from 10 am to 4 pm to the general public, please check the roster on Page 9 to see if you are on duty. Saturday 1 April 10.30 am - Talk by Jim Smith on the Kedumba Valley and the Maxwell family. Jim is a member of the Society and works as a professional historian and the heritage consultant. He has written nine books about the Blue Mountains,several are for sale in the book shop. The Maxwell Family settled in the Kedumba Valley in the 1880's in an area which had been of significance to Aboriginal people. The story of black and white settlement of the area will be told by Jim Smith based on records held in the BMHS and from interviews with surviving members of the Maxwell family. Of particular interest is the difficulty of access to the valley which, over the years, required four different passes. The talk is well illustrated with slides made from albums of the family Monday 10 April Various Excursions in the Megalong Valley '--..__./ Meet 10 am prompt outside the Hydro Majestic Hotel, Gr Western Highway, Medlow Bath Bring Drinks and food and wear walking shoes for optional easy walking on bush tracks. Sunday/ 23/24 April Tarella Cottage and Hobby's Reach Research Centre are open from 10 am to 4 pm Monday to the general public, please check the roster on Page 9 to see if you are on duty. Saturday 6 May 10.30 am - Speaker Ronald Woodhead on the mystery and challenge of working and wandering in Peru. Ronald Woodhead is Emeritus Professor of UNSW and is now Prof. Honorarice of Universidad de Piura [Peru]. He is now a Chartered Engineer. Monday 8 May Excursion: ''Discovering the Governor's Domain", a leisurely walk in Parramatta Park with John McClymont as guide Meet Entrance Courtyard outside Old Government House. By car: Parking available. By train: depart Wentworth Falls 8.35am then level 20 mins walk. Tour ends 12.30pm. You can tour Old Govt. House after lunch if you wish. Bring BYO lunch and picnic in park or lunch in Lachlan's restaurant. 2 Walking ~n explorers' footsteps, 8.11.99 No sooner are we met at Mount Victoria than Jack Austin's call appears to dispel an overcast sky: "can you all gather round!" We're to go to Bell's Line of Road across Darling Causeway, past Mt. Wilson railway station, today known as Bell - "yes, a long way from Mt. Wilson" - turn right, stop just past Holly Lodge and, opposite, begin a walk along the 1871 deviation which replaced the original Line,going straight over Watertrough Hill. Our second stop, beyond the Mt. Wilson turn off on the right, is to be Pierce's Pass picnic area. From here we're to go for a 2km walk to Walls Lookout. Is it a hard bushwalk? Jack stretched his arms and mused, "it's not flat.. completely flat.. but it's on the top! .. and the wild flowers are magnificent this year." Afterwards we're to drive a little further to Mt. Banks picnic area, and there sharpened appetites can be satisfied. Vigour renewed, we're to carry on to The Cave Hotel: "go half way to Mt. Tomah but stop on the left of the highway.. you didn't know there was a hotel on Bell's Line of Road, did you?" No. Yet we know that you know, and we're coming after you! ''Don't panic if you loose the convoy." The way through the bush to Watertrough Hill is even now quite level and wide enough for wagons. Bell surveyed his way up from the plain in 1823, ten years after Cox pushed his road over the mountains from the opposite side of the Grose Valley. Bell's Line was built by Hoddle to follow high ground and avoid cuttings, as did Cox. It went along Darling Causeway towards Mt. Victoria, dropped down to Hartley Vale and ended at Collit's Inn. A call from Heather Mollenhauer attracts our attention to one side: ''Persoonia charnaepilis - it only grows in the upper Blue Mountains." Lifting ground-hugging green foliage, she reveals the hidden berry clusters which the birds are after. lY. ·:ng on, past a parade of lilac pink Matcheads, "Comesperma erinicum", we cross a stretch of banded sandstone and the¥'s the watertrough beneath a dripping bank. 1894 is chiselled out above"- for horses that could read", quips Roberta Johnstone. Bell's Line came over the hill above us and in 1840 the first bullock wagon, with skids instead of wheels, still broke to pieces. Watertrough Hill is a trig point today. Nearby is Flagstaff Hill because Joe Cope tied his shirt to a summit pole .. when the shirt frayed, a bull's head was put up. "You've got to dip your lid to the people who came out here at first - a very lonely experience", observes Bill Douglass. On the way back, Jack stops, points South. We gaze across the Grose canyon to a distant hill which is Mt. Victoria township. 'The trig on the top is One Tree Hill, which is 1111 metres, so named because Mitchell chopped all the others down so he could use it as a trig point!" A threatening sky accompanies us down to Pierce's Pass, a bridal way into the valley and to the Blue Gum Forest, where Pierce was going to plant walnuts had bushwalkers not intervened. From the picnic area, we walk up a shoulder that at every step holds another delight: masses of delicate four-petalled pink flowers''Boronia floribunda'', Yellow Drumsticks and the curious woody pods like homed heads of the Mountain Devil. Heather flits hither and thither. Vanila Lily"- they like wet feet"; blue Sun Orchid; Xmas Bush; "- it's the smoke that makes the natives grow." A capful of wind warns us the heath is about to end. We step onto rock, look across the void, down a 1000' drop .
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