August 2018

Contents

• Society luncheon and banking history - page 1Ian Mackey reports Kim Eberhard’s talk on the Bank of New South Wales, Westpac and their historical archives.
• Society notices and history conference - page 2Bruce Moore reflects on downsizing; the issue announces the 2018 Royal Australian Historical Society conference.
• Railway anniversaries and Colo Vale station - page 3Reports celebrations of the Moss Vale-Marulan railway’s 150th anniversary and announces a Colo Vale station open day; also introduces author Ros Dale.
• Poppy Seed Project and archive news - page 4Linda Emery reports progress identifying soldiers commemorated by recipients of French poppy seed and describes recent archive and cemetery projects.
• Oral history and Mount Gibraltar stairway - page 5Introduces an oral-history workshop and a volunteer proposal to restore the trachyte stairway on Mount Gibraltar.
• The district’s scenic falls - page 6Philip Morton draws on a 1909 tourism article and begins a history of Fitzroy, Belmore and Carrington Falls and their reserves.
• How Carrington Falls acquired its name - page 7Traces an 1888 proposal to name the falls for Governor Carrington and newspaper evidence that the name was in use by 1891.
• 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

• Ros Dale introduces a children’s story set in Berrima (p.3).
• The archives describe the Poppy Seed from France transcription project (p.4).
• A Mount Gibraltar stairway restoration and early tourist descriptions of the district’s falls lead into the naming of Carrington Falls (pp.5-7).
• The Society marks 150 years of the Moss Vale-Marulan railway, which served the later villages of Exeter, Bundanoon, Penrose, Wingello and Tallong (p.3).

Original Society source