October 2016

Contents

• President’s column and meeting notices - page 1The President recalls childhood dentistry and announces an archives show-and-tell and the annual meeting.
• Society notices and RAHS conference - page 2Introduces the 2016 historical society conference and its themes of history, innovation and changing audiences.
• Northern villages tour and museum - page 3Outlines a Hill Top and Balmoral tour and describes a model car transporter donated to the museum.
• Nellie Brenan and Arrenkamp, part two - page 4Philip Morton traces Brenan’s Bowral guesthouse, farm and gardens, wartime memories and 1923 land offering.
• Arrankamp gardens and later use - page 5The property history continues through extensions, community activities, Brenan’s 1945 death and the later golf course.
• Colo Vale school in 1911 - page 6Uses a family photograph and a contemporary newspaper report to trace the school’s earlier names, buildings and eventual relocation to present-day Colo Vale.
• From the newspapers: New Sheffield - page 7Reproduces 1865-1867 reports on the Fitzroy Iron Works, construction and social life at the emerging railway settlement.
• Society information - page 8Contact, opening, membership and committee information printed in October 2016; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• Philip Morton continues Nellie Brenan’s Arrenkamp guesthouse, farm and garden history (pp.4-5).
• A photograph and contemporary report illuminate the school later known as Aylmerton Public School (p.6).
• Newspaper extracts describe the emerging New Sheffield settlement and Fitzroy Iron Works (p.7).

Original Society source