August 2013

Contents

• Society information and meetings - page 1Lists Society information and meetings in August and September 2013.
• Remembering Ron Mumford - page 2Bruce Moore pays tribute to the former Society president and his local-history work.
• Mittagong and cemetery tours - page 3Introduces a Mittagong heritage tour and Bowral and Moss Vale church and cemetery tours.
• Museum news and a quarry trolley - page 4Describes an accessible group visit, conservation of a trolley and a museum acquisition. The trolley’s origin was corrected in the following issue.
• Eridge Park in 1888 - page 5Reprints a Bowral Free Press account of Robert Lucas Tooth’s property, water supply, gardens and homestead.
• Old Hume Highway and builders’ tools - page 6Introduces a highway history guide and the Stephens family’s donated carpenters’ toolbox.
• Ron Mumford and Avoca history - page 7Linda Emery recalls Mumford’s Society work and introduces the revised edition of Echoes through the Mist.
• Diary and Society information - page 8Meeting dates and postal details printed in August 2013; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• Society members describe historical tours of Mittagong and of Bowral and Moss Vale churches and cemeteries (p.3).
• A Bowral Free Press article from 1888 describes Robert Lucas Tooth’s Eridge Park, including its irrigation works and gardens (p.5).
• The issue records the Stephens family’s carpenters’ toolbox, tributes to Ron Mumford and a revised Avoca district history (pp.6-7).
• Museum news includes a trolley subsequently identified in the September issue as a Mount Alexandra coal skip, correcting its attribution here (p.4).

Original Society source