June 2015

Contents

• President’s column and meeting notices - page 1Recalls Empire Day celebrations and announces forthcoming Society events.
• Mittagong anniversaries and local publications - page 2Reports three 150th anniversaries and introduces publications on Bundanoon photographs and the Unanderra-Moss Vale railway.
• Mittagong Uniting Church’s 150th - page 3Describes the 2015 commemoration of the Wesleyan church foundation stone, the early public school and the Fitz Roy heritage circuit.
• Archives report and research projects - page 4Linda Emery records volunteers’ work on photographs, parish and burial records, street names, land titles and the Poppy Seed Index.
• Museum activities and photographic albums - page 5Describes children’s activities, digitisation of wartime albums and Burradoo hospital photographs, the Berrima river walk and heritage awards.
• A Bowral banking landmark - page 6Philip Morton traces the 1892 ES&A bank building on Bong Bong Street through later owners, banking uses and alterations.
• Fitz Roy Ironworks Heritage Circuit - page 7Reports the 2015 launch and reproduces Ian Jack’s account of the 1948 ironworks cairn and the earlier and later works sites.
• Society information - page 8Contact, opening, membership and committee information printed in June 2015; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• The issue records Mittagong’s church, public school and ironworks anniversaries and the launch of a heritage circuit (pp.2-3, 7).
• The archives report lists research and digitisation projects, including parish records, street names and the Poppy Seed Index (p.4).
• Museum news describes wartime photographic albums, Burradoo hospital images and the Berrima river walk (p.5).
• Philip Morton traces Bowral’s 1892 ES&A bank building and its subsequent banking uses and alterations (p.6).

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