Society news and remembrance - page 2Reports on the Berrima Australia Day parade, honours Philip Yeo and announces the death of Society research officer Max Rogers.
Finding treasures using Trove - page 3Introduces Jenny Higgins and Frank Mitchell’s research presentation and reports on the Society’s participation in the Berrima parade.
Aylmerton, fire and the local store - page 5The family history continues with the 1939 bushfires, Aylmerton school and the post office and store run by the Simons and McFarlane families.
Railway cutting worker deaths - page 6Reprints an 1863 Sydney Morning Herald account of fatal blasting at Rocky Waterholes and discusses a later memorial inscription.
Disasters archived for posterity - page 7Describes Leonie Knapman and volunteers’ newspaper-based collection and database of local floods, fires and other severe events.
Society information - page 8Contact, opening, membership and committee information printed in February 2017; details may have since changed.
Issue highlights
The McFarlane family’s Ravensdale property, Aylmerton school and store are traced through family and newspaper sources (pp.4-5).
An 1863 newspaper report recounts fatal railway-cutting work (p.6).
Leonie Knapman’s local natural-disaster newspaper archive and database are described (p.7).
