1 Bathurst Stamp, Coin, Collectables & Lapidary Club Inc. BATHEX 2015 EXHIBITION & BATHURST BICENTENARY Information e-newsletter BATHEX 2015 Exhibition 26th and 27th September, 2015. Bathurst Bicentenary activities – all year Issue 1 - July – August 2014 FROM THE NEWSLETTER EDITOR visitors will travel back to Bathurst so if you intend to visit Bathurst and need to stay one, or several This is the first of a series of e-newsletters to be nights, it would be advisable to book produced in a series that will promote Bathurst’s accommodation before you arrive. upcoming 200th Anniversary, the BATHEX 2015 Alan McRae, FAIHA, Secretary, Bathurst Stamp, Bicentenary Collectables, Gem and Mineral Coin, Collectables & Lapidary Club Inc. & Exhibition - Bathurst Remembers 200 Years of President, Bathurst District Historical Society History and other various functions and exciting ooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo activities which will take place throughout next BATHURST 200 ACCREDITATION year. The Bathurst Regional Council BATHEX stands for ‘Bathurst Exhibition’ which and other organisations have been has been going in Bathurst every two or three years working on plans for 2015 for since 1988. It follows somewhat along the lines of over three years. Early on Council the historic Bathurst Juvenile Industrial Exhibition put in place a system of which ran from 2nd to the 9th November, 1881, accreditation where local clubs, some 134 years ago next year. schools, organisations and This e-newsletter is to assist in promoting BATHEX individuals could register their 200 and other events taking place during the year- project or event. This enables those accredited to long celebrations next year as Bathurst marks its use the Bathurst 200 logo and be featured in the 200th birthday. official programme. Over the next fifteen months these e-newsletters Already numerous organisations have had their will incorporate assorted articles, snippets, photos events accredited by the Bathurst Regional Council and illustrations that has seen Bathurst develop from with the Bathurst District Historical Society being a Government settlement to the heritage city that the first to apply to have an event approved. Bathurst is today. These will give readers an BATHEX 2015 Bicentenary Collectables, Gem and interesting insight into Bathurst’s rich and diverse Mineral Exhibition - Bathurst Remembers 200 history. Years of History, has its accreditation and plans are There will be articles about in full swing. families, people, places and oooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo everyday life. It will highlight BOOK LOCAL ACCOMMODATION EARLY! certain dates that have been important to Bathurst along with Don't forget to book your accommodation early information on the social history for any Bathurst 200 functions. In the Bathurst of this first inland settlement. Region we have the full assortment of There is now less than six months before the start of accommodation from motels to caravan parks, and 2015 when Bathurst’s 200th anniversary will take quaint bed and breakfasts, serviced apartments and self-catering properties. the form of a year-long celebration with its numerous activities. Obviously a great deal of Why not consider visiting for several days, even a planning and organisation is currently going on to week to take in the many sights and visit the various see that each event will come to fruition. museums such as the Australian Fossil & Mineral As more details, locations and information Museum, Bathurst District Historical Museum, concerning the various events are confirmed the National Motor Racing Museum, Abercrombie information will be included. House, Ben Chifley’s Home, Bathurst Goldfields and numerous others or visit the numerous villages Bathurst is expecting that a considerable number of from a bygone era, many dating from the 2 goldmining era of the 1850s. from the late 1800s up to the 1950s and 60s have been promised with members of the Historical For a list of accommodation or information during Radio Society of Australia - Central West Branch the 2015 celebrations and activities contact the on hand to answer people’s questions or to look at Bathurst Visitor Information Centre Freecall 1800 something they may wish to bring along. 68 1000 or email [email protected] oooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo Two large model train layouts to delight young and old along with railway memorabilia and train model BATHEX 2015 EXHIBITION TO BE HELD making will be on display. Added to the long list of IN displays are Australian Airforce memorabilia, war HISTORIC BATHURST SHOWGROUND campaign medals, American Civil War, antique and The BATHEX 2015 Bicentenary Collectables, Gem vintage purses, colonial women’s artefacts, and Mineral Exhibition – “Bathurst Remembers 200 banknotes through the years, Australian Agricultural Years of History” will be the largest exhibition of medals, old machinery and steam engines, vintage its type to be held in New South Wales during 2015. cars, Cobb and Co Coach and memorabilia, old It will be held in the three jammed packed pavilions wares, bottles, fumigators, traps, rural implements, and the surrounding showground on Sydney Road farm memorabilia, coins of Alexander the Great, over the weekend of 27th and 28th September, Celtic artefacts and relics, the famous Penny Black 2015. The event first commenced in 1988. stamp, historical banknotes and shipwreck coins and memorabilia. The list simply goes on and on. The public, if they wish, will be asked to select the best display of their choice which will be announced and awarded at 2pm on Sunday afternoon. Up to 15 professional and full time dealers will be attending and includes stamp, coin, banknote, books, militaria, rock and mineral, antiques and collectables etc. with some dealers supporting the event since 1988. Dealers and collectors will be buying, swapping and selling an extremely wide The event is being organised by the Bathurst Stamp, range of goods. A large number of tailgaters selling Coin, Collectables & Lapidary Club with the aim outdoors are also expected. being to promote collecting as a leisure-time activity and to display historical, educational and We are attempting to provide valuations of the interesting items and artefacts, which are rarely seen public’s collectables over the weekend for a gold outside museums as well as celebrating Bathurst’s coin donation. Bicentenary. It could be compared to a Collectables Roadshow with the great variety and quality of the The BATHEX 2015 Bicentenary Collectables, Gem items on show. and Mineral Exhibition will be open to the public on Saturday - 9am to 5pm and on Sunday - 9am to There will be numerous collectors on hand to pass 3.30pm and there will be refreshments available on their knowledge and information to those over the two days. The Official Opening will take attending and the general public. Over 1,000 feet of place at 11.45am on Saturday. various displays are expected with special themes including the centenary of Gallipoli, World War Anyone with a collection which they would like to One, 200 years since Battle of Waterloo and other display or tailgaters wishing to sell their excess appropriate themes. collections can set up from 8am on Friday 26th September, 2015, but be sure you book in early. A large number of displays are being organised with collectors and organisations mounting educational For further information contact: displays – these will be like a museum. All displays Postal Address: Secretary, BATHEX 2015 must have labels so the public can read about items Collectables Exhibition, PO Box 9156, Bathurst that take their interest. Collectors are expected to NSW 2795 travel from Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, General Enquiries: Secretary – Alan McRae, South Australia, A.C.T. and Queensland. All Phone 02 63315404 e-mail [email protected] displays will be in place by 9am Saturday - the first Co-Ordinator: Ernst Holland, PO Box 1351, day of the exhibition. Bathurst NSW 2795 Ph. 02 63373661 e-mail Already a large display of radios and gramophones [email protected] 3 BATHURST CHEMIST TRIED TO ringworm, scarlet fever, toothache, warts, blood QUENCH THE LOCALS’ THIRST disorders and the list would go on. Firstly many people would treat disorders with The photo (right) from the Bathurst home remedies along with items such District Historical Society’s photo as Goanna oil, hops, glycerine, collection shows Mr. J.L. Boar’s (pig) grease, opium, Alexander’s business - “The Bathurst laudanum, ointment of tobacco, cod Pharmacy”. Outside can be seen Mr. liver oil, oil of almonds, Condi’s Alexander and several of his staff. crystals, carbonate of soda, sulphur Mr. Alexander lived above the or cream of tartar, olive oil, nutmeg, business. The building features the copper sulphate, camphor, oil of typical ornate gold leaf signage of aniseed, eucalyptus, kerosene and such businesses during the Victorian more, some of which would be era. One of the Staffordshire potteries purchased from Alexander’s would have supplied his display of Chemist. ornate ceramic containers typical of chemist shops of the time. Chemist shops in the 1860s were very different from today. Almost all James Lyon Alexander, M.P.S., was prescriptions had to be made from born in Scotland and before various ingredients which were emigrating to the Colony of New commonly crushed up in a brass or South Wales he practiced as a pharmacist there. At bronze mortar and pestle. Ingredients for the recipe first this Scotsman became an assistant in Dr. would be painstakingly measured out on a set of Richard Machattie’s surgery. balance scales, often hand-held in the early days. In 1845 he set up his pharmaceutical and druggist Several ceramic tiles would be used for rolling out business along with his surgical and mechanical pill masses before making it into tablets or pills. Mr. dental surgery in William Street, next to the Royal Alexander would have invariably measured out his Hotel. His dental business was registered in London liquids in conical or cylindrical measures made and he was a member of the Pharmaceutical Society from glass which were graduated in minims, ounces of Great Britain and New South Wales.