Contents

• President’s report and Society meetings - page 1Reports the annual meeting and celebrates the museum’s recognition in the 2015 IMAGinE awards.
• Archives projects and Wombeyan photographs - page 2The archives report describes research on Mittagong street names, donated bound newspapers and the scanning of Wombeyan Caves photographs from 1899.
• Museum awards and the Williams Gallery - page 3Describes the Williams Gallery extension, Cloud Stories digital exhibitions and a commendation for volunteer Lyn Hall.
• Museum volunteers and visitors - page 4Continues the account of Lyn Hall’s contribution, illustrates the awards presentation and gives visitor figures for May to July 2015.
• Berrima’s Pugin church: origins - page 5Traces the early Catholic mission and school, Archbishop Polding’s commissioning of designs from Augustus Pugin and the 1849 foundation of St Scholastica.
• St Scholastica and St Francis Xavier - page 6Describes the sandstone church’s construction, later renaming, architectural features, closure and restoration.
• Town clocks in Bowral, Moss Vale and Mittagong - page 7Reproduces newspaper reports about Bowral’s Federation clock, the Alcorn memorial clock and Mittagong’s Soldiers’ Memorial clock.
• Society information - page 8Contact, opening, membership and committee information printed in December 2015; details may have since changed.