March 2016

Contents

• President’s column and meeting notices - page 1Recalls slide photography and announces a documentary on the Boyd and its connection to the Throsby family.
• Throsby Park objects and walking guides - page 2Describes a donated Throsby Park highchair and introduces guides to Mount Gibraltar and historic Berrima.
• Betsey Broughton and the Boyd - page 3Introduces a documentary on the 1809 Boyd tragedy and Elizabeth Broughton’s later connection to the Throsby family.
• Kurkulla: the Bowral school - page 4Philip Morton traces Kurkulla’s early ownership and J. Lee Pulling’s boys’ school. The issue gives conflicting dates for when the school ceased there.
• Cecil Healy and Kurkulla - page 5Continues the property history through swimmer Cecil Healy’s schooling, Olympic career and wartime death.
• Ben Hall’s gang near Berrima - page 6Reproduces an 1865 Empire newspaper account of reported bushranging at Paddy’s River and nearby settlements.
• McCleery’s coach and buggy factory - page 7Reproduces an 1892 Scrutineer account of the Moss Vale workshop and an 1893 show report; photographs show stamped blacksmith tools.
• Society information - page 8Contact, opening, membership and committee information printed in March 2016; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• The Boyd tragedy and Betsey Broughton’s later Throsby family connection are introduced (p.3).
• Philip Morton traces Kurkulla’s school and swimmer Cecil Healy; the issue gives conflicting closure dates (pp.4-5).
• Early newspaper extracts describe reported bushranging and McCleery’s Moss Vale coachworks (pp.6-7).

Original Society source