December 2014

Contents

• Society information and meetings - page 1Lists 2014 Society details and the summer meeting schedule.
• President’s report and Christmas notices - page 2Reports the Society luncheon and outlines the holiday closure and museum arrangements.
• Naming the Williams Gallery - page 3Records a gathering thanking builders and volunteers and the naming of the museum gallery for Bob and Gloria Williams.
• Schooling at Sutton Forest - page 4Philip Morton traces early denominational schools, teachers and the establishment of Sutton Forest Public School in 1880.
• Sutton Forest school in the twentieth century - page 5Continues the school history through enrolments, classroom equipment, centenary celebrations and the planned 2014 closure.
• Picton-Mittagong railway deviation - page 6Explains the 1914 approval and 1919 opening of the new line via Bargo and the retention of the old route as the Loop Line.
• From the early newspapers - page 7Carol Nolan selects Moss Vale Post reports from 1929-35, including local transport incidents and a used-car advertisement.
• Diary and Society information - page 8Meeting dates and postal information printed in December 2014; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• The museum names its new Williams Gallery in recognition of Bob and Gloria Williams and thanks the builders and volunteers (p.3).
• Philip Morton traces Sutton Forest’s denominational schools, the public school opened in 1880 and its development through the twentieth century (pp.4-5).
• The issue explains the 1914 approval of the Picton-Mittagong railway deviation and its opening via Bargo in 1919 (p.6).
• Moss Vale Post extracts preserve local transport stories and a 1933 used-car advertisement (p.7).

Original Society source