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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 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 . 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 , 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 .. ponder a railway track there.

P "nkling of rain during lunch becomes a downpower towards The Cave Hotel. No let up in sight, umbrellas open and wesquelch up a bank to a wall of rock, passing alongside through dripping foliage, to arrive at the mouth of an overhang in the wall. 'The Cave Hotel by T. Shearwood' engraved in the wall. Sheltered now, Jack takes up the tale once more: 'Thomas Shearwood was born in 1825, one of 13 children to unmarried convict parents. He repaired roads, did droving, built stockyards - hired himself out. Barton employed him in surveying for a train line through the Grose. In 1871, he ran The Cave Hotel as a sly grog shop on what was a stock route." When was Mt. Wilson opened up? "In 1868, the surveyor Wyndham did attempt to sell lots there but the coming of the railway the following year effectively closed Bell's Line, until he got a crossing then a station built. The road was upgraded from Mt. Victoria to Mt. Wilson in 1871. You can thank the Second World War for Bell's Line as we know it today. It was to be an alternative route to the Lithgow small arms factory but as Japan retreated men were taken off the work."

"Before you all move off, just look at the Aboriginal carvings of Emu feet - over there!" Nothing dampens Jack's spirit.

The l.ave Hotel hv TShearwoocl GW Blue Mountains' Explorers - Myths and Realities Talk by Andy Macqueen. 5.2.00

"Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson may not have been the first Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains in 1813 .. certainly they were not the first to follow the ridges." The Blue Mountains lie East of the Great Dividing Range and according to Andy Macqueen, historian, bushwalker and descendant of surveyor D' Arey, exploration begins with a map of 1793. It shows tracks from Prospect in the Sydney basin to the cliffs and ravines of the mountains.

Illustrating each step in the history, he presents a map or location photograph. (Each new route is mapped as a dotted line, becoming a solid line when another new route is mapped).

The first route to penetrate the mountains was Lt. Dawes'; in 1789 he made a bee-line for Mt. Hay. This was followed in 1793 by Cpt. Paterson of the Rum Corps who went up the from Hawkes bury. Thus far exploration was by the military.

In 1795, convict turned farmer Matthew Everingham began a journey which from his letters - uncovered just twenty years ago - appears to have been motivated by curiosity. His terminus was possibly Mt. Tomah but with no bird's eye view and few vantage points, he could not pick out the Bell range and so swung North at Kurrajong Heights. He turned back because he ran out of food.

....___/ Quartermaster of the Sirius Henry Hacking may have reached the King's Tableland in 1794 - a description in Advocate Collins' diary of the colony fits the place . In 17%, Bass went up and down the cliffs with grappling irons .

Now comes Irish convict John Wilson. Emancipated in 1792, soon after he went bush, took an Aboriginal name, was accused of inciting the indigenous people and when a price was put on his head, gave himself up. He said, 'I've been everywhere, man - from the headwaters of the Hawkesbury to the North West.' It was a remark not lost on Governor Hunter who decided Wilson would take convicts on expeditions .. that would teach them freedom was not 'just over the hill'. In 1788 accompanied by the Governor's servant John Price, Wilson set off with a convict team who, disillusioned, soon turned back with their soldier guard. Wilson and Price went on as far as Goulbum. They found salt in the area of Woolondilly and encountered no mountain barrier. The news appears to have been suppressed by Hunter who did not want the expansion, the rule being promulgated: 'No one is to cross the Nepean.'

In 1802, Frenchman Barrallier was sent by Governor King on an embassy to the 'King of the Mountains'. From Nattai across country now beneath Lake Burragorang, he nearly got to Kanangra Walls. The route crosses the grain of the country .. seeing only pyramid shaped hills, he followed Wheengee Whungee Creek and was most likely halted at Johnson Falls. He was living on snakes and lizards and his boots were worn out.

.___/ In 1804, enthusiastic botanist Caley named Mt. Banks after his patron Joseph Banks. Making a bee-line for Fem Tree Hill (Mt. Tomah), he went up and down many spurs, through the Devil's Wilderness, eventually reaching the hill. From there he set out for Mt. Banks which he reached after attempting to negotiate several ravines barring the way. In one spot, which he named Dismal Dingle, his convict team were so depressed by the ambience that they refused to stop there on the way back. Caley did not proceed beyond Mt. Banks as he was confronted by the Grose Valley.

There was then a pause in exploration, lasting almost ten years, during which Bligh replaced King and no one seems interested in what might lie beyond the mountains. Until 1813 when Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson revived the urge to expand and with four pack horses crossed the on the 11th of May and reached Mt. York on the 28th. After descending to the foot of the mount, they proceeded to Mt. Blaxland and from the top saw 'land enough to supply feedstock to the Colony for thirty years'. They returned home by the route they had come.

Six months later, surveyor Evans got from Mt. Blaxland to the top of the Divide in two days. He wrote an enthusiastic account of the Bathurst plains and of the ease with which a road could be made there.

Remembering that to the Aborigines the Blue Mountains were no barrier - the legend of Gurangatch and Mirragan maps a crossing of the mountains - the problems for Europeans were: unfamiliar terrain, a compass being all but useless; neither suitable clothing nor tents; food had to be carried, they could not live off the land; a shortage of horses, which were worth several years wages in the 1790s.

What was achieved was achieved with the technology of the time. 4 Historic North Katoomba Walk led by Jack Austin and Gwen Silvey, 14 2 00

It''s a typical mountain morning, overcast then bright by turns. We meet outside the Renaissance Centre at Katoomba. "It looks like the sun is following me up the mountains!" announces Jack Austin, plunging straight into the history of North Katoomba. " In 1868 the train came through here, which was not known as any place at all. Lawson had identified Pulpit Hill, that's all. But rock was being quarried in the area - roughly, behind today's Court House - and then crushed for use in the building of the rail line. So a siding and wooden platform was built here in 1874 and it was called The Crushers. Three years later a station had been established and the name Katoomba replaced The Crushers - because when asked 'what's the name of this place?' Aboriginal princess Betsy replied 'Kadoomba' or 'Kadumba' which means falling, tumbling water.

With the discovery of coal, J.B.North soon became active at Orphan Rock. The early 1880s saw black diamond brought up from the valley by cable tram and carried on from near the top of today's Scenic Railway to Shell Corner, North's siding. In both places, a few miners cottages sprung up.

When gold was discovered at Hill End, Englishwoman Mrs Curnow who had opened an inn at Hartley, took one of North's Bathurst Road cottages. She used it as a shop, a cordial factory and a wayside inn which was licensed in 1881. In the same year, Biles Hotel (now Gearin's.) was built at the railway crossing.

'-..../; 1883, the government had decided Sydney's water supply would come from the Nepean; so the mountains ridges could now be built on. Surveyors then planned North Katoomba, Brasfort (Southern Wentworth Falls) and Blackheath, although only Blackheath grew up on the planned site. The Great Western Hotel (The Carrington) opened in 1882, signalling the development of Katoomba South of the railway line. North Katoomba was abandoned to piggeries, dairies, orchards and brickworks - except for Mr Thompson's cottage which was purchased in 1884 by John Fletcher to run a boys' school, Katoomba College. It did not survive the 1890s Depression but for many years was used as a guest house. In 1961 it was demolished and replaced by the BMCC headquarters we see today."

Katoomba College

5 At this point, mountain mist threatening to throw a blanket over us. so we scurried into the open Renaissance Centre. "It was built as St. Mary's College for girls and run by the Sisters of Charity from 1909 until 1974. After a further ten years of use for church conferences and retreats, it was sold, restored and opened as a tourist shopping centre. Sadly. high operating costs resulted in high retailing prices and the venture hardly survived five years." We wander about. The floor looks tongued and grooved .. and the roof lining is a pattern of diagonally intersecting timber boards .. and so much space and light!

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The Renaissance Centre

We hurry across to the warm Court House which was built in 1895-6 by Fahey and Ross of Leichhardt to the design of government architect Mr Vernon. It cost 2350 pounds, ten shillings and three pence - 50 pounds more than estimated. The foundation stone was laid by Acting Governor Sir Frederick Darley.

Then we drive downhill behind the Renaissance Centre to see the site of the Chinese market garden, which today if bowling green, round to Freelander Avenue, once the orchard of Katoomba College, and look across a gully to the sma hut which is the cover of an important spring which supplied water to the mining settlement. The gully was a paddock where stock were held before going to the Katoomba slaughter yards.

But rain has caught up with us, sweeping us together beneath an awning at the Power House.

" Once upon a time you went to bed when the sun went down. Domestic lighting arrived with candles and kerosene lamps. In 1895 Katoomba bought twenty kerosene lamps to light the town, paying a Mr Tieman one shilling and fourpence ha' penny a week to light and extinguish them. It wasn't too successful - they kept blowing out. Acetylene gas was tried, then incandescent vapour lamps and, finally, in 1906 Katoomba Gas Works was built and gaslight arrived on the scene. Street lighting by electricity was first intrcxluced in at Tamworth. That was in 1883 - just five years after its intrcxluction to the world. About 1913, a small generating set was installed at the Carrington Hotel so that guests could have hot running water at any time of the day. The installation became the Katoomba Electricity Company Ltd. which supplied Katoomba and surrounding villages for some years. The company sold out to the municipality who then built the Power House. This building housed a steam-powered generator supplied by coal delivered from local mines to a chute about twenty feet long, running from Bent St. into bunkers immediately above the boilers. The bunkers were large enough to allow a gocxl reserve of coal to be housed so that possible delivery delays did not affect electricity generation. The Power House ceased operations in 1946, bulk electricity becoming a purchase from NSW Railways until 1980 when Prospect County Council took over as distributors of power in the mountains."

By now the rain was deafening and, by mutual consent, we left further exploration to another day. GW 6 General Notices

Research News

Hobby's Reach Research Centre going forward going back

"Hobby's Reach Research, on going" - we've all read it in Hobby's Outreach under Dates for your Diary. But, what's 'on going'? Five BMHS members are the backbone of our Research Centre: Gwen Silvey, guide, philosopher and friend, heads the Centre. She's currently co-writing The Healing Mountains, a book about how the Blue Mountains helped tuberculosis sufferers. Joan Smith, researcher extraordinaire. Want to know the family's history? Ask Joan. Shirley Jones with Ena Reynolds are keepers of the files, the documents that are your gateways to our history. Heather Mollenhauer retrieves items of historical interest from local newspapers for our files, as well as being our Lawson historian. Graham Warmbath, caretaker of photographs and our books publisher. Kate Thomas, is behind the systematising of our reference and lending libraries. The lending library is open for selection and returns on the Tuesday research days from 10 am to 2 pm as well on the Saturday meetings Future issues of Hobby's Outreach will go deeper into the work of each of the roles mentioned.

We have recently received a letter from Su Oakley and Fiona Mcilwraith of 25, The Greenway, Heathmont, 3135, Tel No. 03 9729 8272, who are genealogists living in Melbourne with particular interest in cemeteries. They are willing to p' "graph and transcribe graves in their area with various costs for the work involved. 1 grave $10; upto 4 $20 and more for-c"ountry areas. Please phone or write to them if they could assist you in your family searches.

The Commonwealth Dept. of Veterans' Affairs are producing a TV documentary series on' Australians at War'. They are very interested to unearth unknown wartime memorabilia that could be in your possession for copying and photography. If you would like to know more please telephone the national inquiry line on 133 254.

Special Opening for those involved in the Tourist Industry.

120 invitations were mailed out including the BM City Council [and 4 of their number arrived], Tourist Information Centres [none attended] and hotels and guest houses. Afternoon tea was provided and many members were on duty. Overall we had 16 visitors which cannot be called an overwhelming success after the great effort to publicise the BMHS by members of the committee.

23rdJanuary Opening

There were 16 visitors to the cottage and we had an approximate profit of $60 for the day. Again not a very good result ~r ·11e amount of effort put in by members, we thank you all most sincerely.

Hobby's Reach Kitchen

The kitchen is a good source of revenue for the Society and last year from the purchase of soup and rolls at the Saturday meetings raised over $600, a marvellous effort and sincere thanks are given to Noreen Skellam and her team.

However ...... Noreen and Valerie Craven are no longer continuing and volunteers are urgently needed to:- 1. Make soup. 2. Prepare for the meetings and 3. Wash up afterwards. If you feel you could help with any or all please contact Valerie Craven, Tel No. 4757 3433, thank you.

Book Shop News

The book shop has had a very successful year and already sales this year are progressing well. The Australian National Geographic's Blue Mountains has been ordered three times and now only 4 books of the last order are left.

Enquiries about the book ' Sydney by Ferry and Foot' have been made, which clearly details particular ferry routes and then an hour to two hours easy circular walk to and from the ferry, describing points of interest or views to see. The book is out of print but is due to be reprinted in July this year. If anyone is interested in ordering a copy please let the bookshop know as members would be able to get the book at a very competitive price.

7 20th February Tarella Opening

On Sunday 20.2.00, 20 members of the The Nepean District Historical Society visited Tarella as a privately arranged visit and made glowing remarks on the facilities of the Society and the beautiful condition that our possessions were kept. They thoroughly enjoyed their visit and purchased several items in the shop. Their visit raised $1"cfor our Society.

20th January 1949

St. Hilda's Anglican Church in Katoomba were fund raising and on the 20th January 1949 Miss Winifred Davis sold Mrs Florence Scott a recipe card that is reproduced below as the source of fund raising.

Seri pture Cake You need not be religious Before you learn to bake; But you must search the Scriptures Before this cake you make.

11 4 2 Cups, 1 Kings, Chapter 4, verse 22 11 1 2 Cups, Judges, Chapter 5, verse 25 2 Cups, Jeremiah, Chapter 6, verse 20 2 Cups, 1 Samuel, Chapter 30, verse 12 2 Cups, Nahum, Chapter 3, verse 1 2 1I 3 Cup, Judges, Chapter 4, verse 1 9 2 Tablespoons 1 Samuel, Chapter 14, verse 25 3 Tablespoons Amos, Chapter 4, verse 5 3 Jeremiah, Chapter 17 , verse 1 1 Pinch Leviticus, Chapter 2, verse 13 Season to taste, 2 Chronicles, Chapter 9, verse 9 Mix in the usual way and bake in a moderate oven for 3 hours.

New Member Applications

The person(s) whose name(s) appear below has/have applied for membership of the Society. Their membership fee(s) has/have been paid and their application(s) correctly nominated and seconded. Under the terms of Section 5 of the Society's rules of association, any objection to an application for membership must be lodged within 14 days of an applicant's name being circulated to members. If no such objection to a person is received within such period, that person will be deemed to have been accepted as a member of the Society.

Michael & Ann Begg Wentworth Falls Jean Blower-Collison Leura Howard & June Cox Wentworth Falls Ian & Elizabeth Powell Wentworth Falls Pamela Smith Springwood Howard Wheeler Katoomba

Last Date for inclusion in next issue

Please make sure that all copy for the May/ June issue of Hobby's Outreach reaches the editor by Friday 28th April. Copy may be left in the HOR pigeon hole at the Secretary's desk in the Research Room which is open every Tuesday from 1Oam to 2pm, thank you, Ed. 8 ( Duty Roster ( N K It ro~tPrPrt mPmhPr~ r~nnot ~•;-~.... n•~~ ·~~ t1nrt ~ rPOl!:llr~mPnt !:ii~~ l!:ll~rrp1;:or1 nnon ~ 1 or~• on "t""a • ""~,1 , Tn<11nK vnn .. L .. ., Sunday 26th March Sunday 23rd April Monday 24th April

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Signs John Glass John Glass John Ewan John Ewan John Ewan John Ewan Place & John & Coral John & Coral Graham Warmbath Graham Warmbath Bill Gilham Bill Gilham Collect Ewan Ewan

In the Petra Thun Roberta Johnstone Valerie Craven Roberta Johnstone Roberta Johnstone ValeriePaddock Kitchen Joan Ross Marie Glass Dulcie Toseland Valerie Paddock Gwen Loraway Marion Vincent

Admissio Barrie Reynolds Kate Thomas Reg Toseland Reg Toseland Merton Cooke Dorothy Gilham

Outside Susan Warmbath Peter Gunton Susan Warmbath Valerie Craven Laurie Harvey Peter Gunton Cottage John Glass

i/c S.Warmbath i/c Coral Ewan i/c Coral Ewan Tarella Judith Johnson H. Turner-Burns Judith Johnson Marion Vincent Coral Ewan Coral Ewan Margaret Evans Shirley Stimson H.Turner-Bums Dulcie Toseland Marion Vincent Merton Cooke Barbara Milford Joan Ross Margaret Evans Shirley Stimson Clair lbster Gwen Loraway Rae Douglass Susan Warmbath Coral Ewan Coral Ewan Shirley Harvey Kate Thomas

Shop Ena Reynolds Hazel Fletcher Jo Adam Susan Warmbath Shirley Williams Roberta Johnston

Research Will arran!!e own staff 9 Blue Mountains Historical Society Inc.

The Society's objective is to promote community interest in history in general and in the Blue Mountains in particular.

Meetings are held on the first Saturday of each month (except December and January) at its headquarters at Hobby' s Reach. At these meetings a talk by an invited speaker or by a member is followed by general business.

An excursion to a place of historical interest is held on the second Monday of most months and Research Days are held each Tuesday at Hobby's Reach from 10 am to 2 pm under the supervision of the Research Co-ordinator.

The basic yearly membership is $15 and concessions are available.

Details of all activities are published in the newsletter, Hobby's Outreach, and further information may be obtained by phoning the Hobby's Reach Research Centre - on 02 4757 3824.