Summer 2019-20 Celebratory End to Our 70Th Year

Summer 2019-20 Celebratory End to Our 70Th Year

History alive Orange & District Historical Society newsletter Summer 2019-20 Celebratory end to our 70th year Dalton book launched Major award for ‘All in a Day’s Work’ In this issue Orange & District Historical Society Society, museum win IMAGineE award Orange Heritage Centre Page 4 148 March Street PO Box 1626 Orange NSW 2800. Email: orange.history@yahoo.com.au Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Or- angehistory Website: odhs.org Dalton book launched Patrons: Russell Tym and Marie Page 5 Hammond President: Dave Sykes ph: 6362 1682 Vice-president: Karen Kloosterman Secretary: Liz Edwards ph: 6362 8647 Treasurer: Phil Stevenson Committee: Judy Agland, Ross Changing face of Orange Courthouse Maroney, Fred Brooking, Steve Braken- Page 6 ridge, Annette Neville Publicity officer/newsletter editor: Liz Edwards Honorary historians: Ross Maroney, Liz Edwards, Julie Sykes & Elizabeth Griffin Shopping Centre pays tribute to origins Page 7 Membership fees from January 2020 Family $45; individual $30; single con- cession $20; couple concession $30. Contact secretary or treasurer. Please pay promptly. Cover images Research inquiries: At the launch of ‘Wearing the Green’ were Cousins John Dal- ton (left) and Robert Bruce (right), author Liz Edwards, Orange The Research Officer, Orange & District Mayor Reg Kidd and Member for Orange Phil Donato. Historical Society, P O Box 1626, Photo: Scott Gilbank Orange, NSW 2800 Please supply an A4, stamped, self-ad- Celebrating the IMAGinE award are co-curator Phil Stevenson, dressed envelope. museum public engagement and education officer Sally MacLen- nan, acting museum manager Alli Campbell, photographer Robert Cost: $20 for the initial inquiry (plus ad- Bruce, co-curator Liz Edwards, Orange Regional Museum and ditional charges for more extensive re- Gallery director Brad Hammond and Museum collections officer search). Mike Allen. Please provide your name, address, Photo Allan Reeder. phone number and email address, de- tails of your inquiry, any information you may already have, and the reason for This newsletter is designed to keep members and other interested people your inquiry. informed about the society’s activities as well as matters of interest in the wider field. If anyone would like to contribute to it they should contact editor Liz Edwards. Bank: Our newsletter requires a considerable amount of money to produce each Orange & District Historical Society, quarter with paper, printing and postage all adding to the cost. Orange Credit Union, BSB 802-129, Therefore, wherever possible, we email it to those members and others on A/c No 34252 (please include name our mailing list who have an email address. and reason for payment). If you are However, if anyone with an email address would prefer also to receive a transferring money from your account paper copy, they may do so simply by contacting the secretary. at Orange Credit Union, please add S1 Those who do not have access to email will continue to receive their copies by ordinary mail. to our account number. History Alive 2 Summer 2019-20 A message from the president Christmas is nearly upon us and I am sure our volun- generosity. teers are looking forward to a well-earned break. A number of our mem- I would like to thank the many members who sup- bers enjoy researching port our society and work so hard throughout the year. family history and visiting This year members have been meeting at the cottage historic sites overseas. On carrying out various tasks including photo identification pages 10 and 11 you can of the Email collection, recording data, updating our read about the hunt for catalogue records, and accessioning new items into the one of my ancestors in Ire- collection, as well as dealing with research enquiries on land which I and my wife the local area and residents past and present. Julie embarked on earlier Events we have held during the year have included: this year, and also Jenny * 70th anniversary celebration of the founding of Or- Maher’s visit to an histori- ange and District Historical Society, which included a cal slate mine in north well-supported dinner with past and present members Wales. The scale of the Welsh National Slate Museum is attending. staggering and it is wonderful to know that such an im- * Various History Alive meetings, which continue to portant part of Welsh history is being preserved and en- attract keen interest. joyed by visitors. We are pleased to announce that our society now has * Opening of All in a Day’s Work exhibition in col- its own website. Go to odhs.org to find out all about the laboration with the Orange Regional Museum. This was society and our activities. We would like to thank Hay- a photo display using images from our CWD Negative ley Lavers for her assistance in setting up the site. Collection featuring working life in Orange and district We will be in recess from 19 December until the be- from 1955 to 1975. ginning of February but your committee will be having a * Dalton book launch: Member and local author Liz working bee in mid-January as well as a planning meet- Edwards has once again produced a well researched and ing for the year ahead in early February. We hope to quality book on one of Orange’s long-standing families, bring you plenty of interesting events in the coming year. the Daltons. The book is titled Wearing the Green: The Meanwhile, our valued member Phil Stevenson is Daltons and the Irish Cause. taking four months off his volunteer work for the soci- It was released at Duntryleague, the former home of ety to concentrate on catching up on projects at home. James Dalton Junior. Cousins and descendants of James We will miss him but we look forward to seeing him Dalton, Robert Bruce and John Dalton, launched the back at the cottage in May. book. After a busy year the committee and I would like to If anyone would like a copy it can be purchased from wish all members and their families a merry and safe Collins Books in Orange or from the Historical Society. Christmas and we look forward to seeing you in the We were delighted recently to receive a grant of New Year. $2000 towards the considerable costs of printing the Let’s keep local history alive! book. We would like to thank Council sincerely for its - Dave Sykes Two new books for history enthusiasts Two recently published books are sure to interest to try to stop the introduction of wide combs. This is the history buffs. Orange journalist and author Mark first detailed account of an industrial dispute that revo- Filmer’s ‘Three Steel Teeth’ explains the industrial tur- lutionised Australia’s iconic shearing industry. moil resulting from the move to introduce wide combs Journalist Paul Byrnes spoke about his book ‘The for shearing in the 1980s when a small group of rebel Lost Boys’ at an event at Orange Regional Library re- shearers started advocating for a seemingly minor cently. The book details the powerful and moving ac- change. counts of the underage soldiers who fought in the First The rebels, led by gun shearer Robert White, wanted World War. 13-tooth shearing combs legalised. Wide combs had During the war, thousands of boys across Australia been banned from use in Australia for more than 50 and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent’s years. But White and his supporters argued they were signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. more efficient and productive than the standard gauge These previously untold stories of 40 Anzac boys 10-tooth shearing combs and wanted the ban over- who fought in the campaigns, from Gallipoli to the turned. Standing in the way was the powerful Australian Armistice, give a unique perspective of WWI. The Lost Workers’ Union. Boys is military history made deeply personal, a power- The ensuing David and Goliath like clash produced ful homage to youthful bravery and a poignant reminder four years of industrial turmoil, bitterness, intimidation of the sacrifice of war. and some outlandish violence, as the AWU went all out Both books are available at Collins Books in Orange. Summer 2019-20 History Alive 3 Left: Celebrating the IMAGinE award are co-curator Phil Stevenson, museum public engagement and education officer Sally MacLennan, acting museum man- ager Alli Campbell, photographer Robert Bruce, co-curator Liz Edwards, Orange Re- gional Museum and Gallery director Brad Hammond and Mu- seum collections offi- cer Mike Allen. Photo Allan Reeder. Major award for ‘All in a Day’s Work’ Members of our society were thrilled to hear that ern Daily’s Negative Collection which is administered the exhibition All in a Day’s Work, a collaboration with by the society. Orange Regional Museum, took out a major award at “I kept finding wonderfully evocative images of work- the IMAGinE Awards presentation night in Sydney in ing people in Orange and district and I felt they should be late November. shared with as many people as possible,” she said. The exhibition, which comprised photographs of “I took the idea to Brad Hammond and he instantly working people in the Orange district in the 1950s, 60s understood the importance and relevance of the im- and 70s, was pitted against five other museums in NSW ages. It was sheer joy to work with Phil, Robert and in the category for museums with from three to ten staff. museum and council staff to bring this exhibition to the The exhibition was hugely popular with locals and public, and winning the award is the icing on the cake.” visitors, many of whom recognised relations and The exhibition was one of a number of special events friends in the photos.

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