October 2012

Contents

• Society information and meetings - page 1Society details and meeting notices printed in October 2012.
• President’s report and Society news - page 2Reports work on the image collection, local research and forthcoming activities; a Bundanoon History Group role is corrected in the next issue.
• Guest speaker and Berrima school photographs - page 3Introduces Hugh Mackay and reproduces donated 1950 and 1951 Berrima Public School class photographs.
• Gateway to the healthy south - page 4Philip Morton discusses Mittagong roads, inns, railway and the growth of district tourism.
• Early tourism and Bowral development - page 5Reprints an 1869 account of Rush’s Willows and discusses country residences and estate subdivision around Bowral.
• All Saints and local publications - page 6Introduces Linda Emery’s history of the Sutton Forest churchyard, an ancestry talk and the towns’ sesquicentenary calendar.
• Library acquisitions - page 7Lists donated and acquired books, including Bundanoon guest-house and Moss Vale golf-club histories.
• Diary and Society information - page 8Meeting dates and postal details printed in October 2012; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• Philip Morton traces the roads, railway, inns and guest houses that supported tourism, including an 1869 account of Rush’s Willows near Mittagong (pp.4-5).
• A feature on Linda Emery’s Tales from a Churchyard outlines All Saints, Sutton Forest, and its burial records and memorials (p.6).
• The issue reproduces 1950 and 1951 Berrima Public School class photographs and lists local-history books acquired by the library (pp.3, 7).

Original Society source