March 2015

Contents

• Society information and meetings - page 1Lists 2015 Society details and announces a presentation of photographs from the collection.
• Barber family and Kangaloon road names - page 2Recalls George and Isabella Barber and reprints a 1953 report of proposed changes to Kangaloon lane names.
• New Sheffield tour and museum news - page 3Introduces a Mittagong heritage tour, a museum grant and a Gait family gathering.
• Berrima river walk and internment - page 4Introduces the 2015 interpretive signs and recounts the activities of German and Austrian internees along the Wingecarribee River.
• Remembering and interpreting the internment camp - page 5Philip Morton traces the rediscovery of a canoe, John Simons’s research and the creation of the signed river walk.
• Mittagong’s northern railway bridges - page 6Describes the railway deviation and road bridges, accidents and the early campaign for a safer highway route.
• From the Moss Vale Post - page 7Reprints newspaper stories including Bundanoon postal worker Dulcie Morris, local transport and an 1869 incident involving Wingecarribee settlers.
• Diary and Society information - page 8Meeting dates and postal information printed in March 2015; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• A 1953 newspaper extract records proposed changes to Kangaloon lane names (p.2).
• Philip Morton describes the Berrima river walk, wartime internment and the later research and interpretation of the site (pp.4-5).
• A history of Mittagong’s northern railway bridges traces road accidents and the campaign for a deviation (p.6).
• Historic newspaper extracts include the wartime postal round of Bundanoon’s Dulcie Morris and her horse Peter (p.7).

Original Society source