March 2018

Contents

• Society membership and photographic donation - page 1Ian Mackey reports on membership, publications and the donation of Don Moore’s Berrima and cement-works photographs.
• Bowral trachyte and place names - page 2Describes a Mount Gibraltar trachyte boulder for the National Rock Garden and a new Society place-names research group.
• Moss Vale house history and Tallong events - page 3Introduces photographer Tony Sheffield’s Cherry Lea talk and events marking the 1818 expedition through the Tallong district.
• Our Creative Past exhibition - page 4Introduces artwork and objects from the Society’s collections, including images of All Saints Church and SCEGGS Moss Vale.
• Throsby Park and early district families - page 5Describes collection items depicting Throsby Park, builder Alf Stephens, mayor James Murray Christie and Burrawang settler Daniel Mumberson.
• Anzac railway artwork and the research library - page 6Reports the Moss Vale station artwork installation, discusses historic place names and outlines changes to the Max Rogers Research Library.
• The 1886 Bowral railway collision - page 7Philip Morton draws on contemporary newspaper accounts of a tourist train colliding with a goods engine near Bowral station.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in 2018; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Photographer Tony Sheffield introduces Cherry Lea in Moss Vale (p.3).
• An artwork exhibition includes the history of SCEGGS Moss Vale and its school site (p.4).
• The exhibition presents Throsby Park and the work of builder Alf Stephens; a separate article begins an account of the 1886 Bowral railway collision (pp.5-7).

Original Society source